so, what's happening

nothing much! as far as my writing goes...

again its been 2 years and close to 2 quarters before I could peek back here; shame. the only good thing is I matched the pattern perfectly as the previous gap was about the same.

Let's see ... by late 2009 I was more or less Londonised and was working hard towards my driver's license!

I have since obtained my license and moved to yet another house, also in west London where I am still living. My younger kid is also going to school now and the elder one has grown so much in the last few months, she constantly reminds me I should sort out where I will be based sooner than later...

So, apart from going thru the routine grind of mid-life both at work and home, I did get the opportunity to be exposed to various charity orgs ranging from spirituality, healthy living to community service and its been a great experience meeting people....

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ok, am not giving up yet! for the nth time am going to give this another try! its already an year since I tried last :) it seems I was so lazy or hesitant or whatever that I didn't even publish the last post... I can promise I will at least publish this time!

OK quick status update then to continue on that tradition ... while I am still living in the same 'new mansion' in west London I got the formal permanent resident status and for once need not worry about the expiry dates in my and my family members' passports... ironically with the little one now on UK passport we still have one status bit to sort out and hope to close the loop on that by applying for his Indian PIO / OCI card...

A routine India trip for the family during the July-Sep school vacation may happen and whether I would join them or not depends on my work situation and another key development which I will come to next...

And that is sort of the re-incorporation of my business! I birthed Nischala Inc. in Q2 2011 which was mostly used for facilitating my contracting roles at work - and with the final answer to my move back home resolving to June 2014 I started reviewing my plans for entrepreneurship (PravanaEET progressed but I lost out as the decision was only who could dedicate 100% of their time would get a share in the partnership) and regrouping with a couple of friends from UK and one from the US.. and potentially 1 other friend in the UK who might collaborate either directly as part of one combined venture or compliment each other's business model... its a very humble start up effort which is in the initial discussions / strategy development stage as I type this... to help mature the ideas am starting a wordpress.com blog (id: byreeka) to engage both my core team and some of my other long time buddies in US/India and help with the basic comms...

Having said that I hope to provide updates in this blog on how the start-up effort is progressing and probably lot of India news around what/where/how related to the move and then that all important kids' schooling

I will end this post with a thought that I foresee some change to my tactical / day-to-day routine finally in the next year relative to the past 11+ years of my married life... even though there have been slight changes in the last year or so like my efforts to go back to the gym, play some tennis, learn/practise bit of swimming... on those lines I want to see if I can add 'cycling to work' in the future...

take2

So, that first post was an absolute disaster and some nth degree of debacle as far as reviving my writing skills is concerned. but then the good news is I did get the news, albeit 2.5 years late, and the immediate response is this 'take2' at reviving the art.... interestingly, just around the time I wrote that last message, I was actively contemplating exploring opportunities in the UK and the direct result of that effort is my move to London in fall 2007. My daughter got a baby boy to deal with soon after and as I write this, the bro-sis combo have just returned from a vacation back home in India along with their lucky mom. I gather the little one has honed his naughty skills in just 2 months, so much so none of his cousins and other kids of his ilk dare to join hands with him on any activity. I am just hoping he would sober down once he is forced to live within the 4 walls of the London mansion I rent. Also, he will not be lucky enough to fight with his sis all day as she herself tries to balance her time between a 2-session school and grown up buddies. Other than the change in my geography and the family size, nothing much has changed in my life from the daily routine perspective, compared to the last time I recorded my life. I did manage to explore the new places in the immediate vicinity and some across the channel and a bit up north too... along with the added satisfaction that my father and sister were able to join my family in the tours. Somewhere along the way, I've re-connected with my old mates who were all going thru their own metamorphosis in their lives ... family and career included. And we squeezed out enough space for a long cherished idea of entrepreneurship to emerge and incarnate as PranavaEET; this is still a work in progress and a lot of time will be spent in the coming weeks and months to define its goals and methods, hopefully :) I want to pat myself now for successfully exhausting my thought pool for the day err night. See you soon...

Welcome aboard!

Thank you for visiting my blog. This is my first post here; Testing my 'posting' skills after a long time.... I am afraid I almost lost this special skill of mine--- the 'write-out' of my thoughts.... and want to revive it.... so may be just may be I have a chance.... Here is what I think.... I think I am a good teacher, writer (travelogue, life anectodes etc) and have tons of patience in general and love nature and children I also think, I am a thinker!!! not necessarily in the mold of a speciality philosopher but more in the generic sense where I tend to get into non-physical world and not exactly spiritual.... I am married to my exact opposite (in every sense of the word) and were blessed with a lovely girl who has been figuring us out for the last 2 years and a bit.  I had been earning my bread mostly spending time with a machine dubbed as close cousin of the idiot box coupled with some people interaction and management to get some job done for my employers.  Travelled a bit in India, Bangkok, USA.... mostly on job and some for recreation.  With that I guess I will wrap up my first post leaving placeholders for my general thought interests .... India, Indians, Animals/Birds, Kids, Human History, Immigrants in USA, USA, Cricket, my parents/family, my native place/language, Hyderabad/Telugu, my villages, my dreams, my 'ideal world', Indian movies, I.T., internet, friends, money, knowledge, T.V., work, sleep, fight, eat, thinking...... Please do write back your thoughts.... not necessarily reply to my post... thanks and welcome aboard again! Cheers! MrZeal