I had been talking to Anjali the whole of yesterday and yet was left with a desire to talk more, "can't have the cake and eat it too syndrome," speaking of which I should have got her birthday cake on her birthday but had decided against it. Her birthday had come and gone, we had fought two months before that and on her birthday I was left with a bittersweet feeling, I wanted to wish her and...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Musings of a Sleepy Head
I had been sleeping for over thirteen hours now, everyday that came for the past one month had been nothing new and yesterday it struck me that since I had the time why not use it to rejuvenate my mind. Sleep told my mind, "sometimes it speaks to me," and for once I agreed with it, I had slept at 6 pm the last evening and got up around 7 am the next morning. For the sleep deprived it...
Sunday, 28 July 2013
One Flew Over
It was a lovely Sunday Morning, just the right shades of clouds and a quiet gentle breeze blowing, it hadn't quite brightened up yet and something was missing. I stared over the parapet wondering what that was and suddenly realized what it was, the cuckoo of course, "damn how did I forget him," this bird that woke me up everyday at 5 am wasn't there, the crows were cawing, running helter skelter,...
Saturday, 27 July 2013
I Can Hear You Talk
"As I moved my three wheeled Cycle Rickshaw Dumpster to the next house, I could see the inhabitants barely up, moving around in slumber, the maid had just arrived and the house was waking up, it was 6 am in the morning, it was my job to get the trash out of their house and dispose it off. I was deaf since birth and because I was deaf I couldn't speak, I had barely managed to get this job through...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
The Blue Jeans Relationship
The morning had blossomed into a classic, the Sun was out, the pigeons were sighing and the myna birds were chattering as usual. Anjali had got up to a great morning, I was still sleeping when she asked me if I wanted to go for a walk, "wish I didn't snore," I wanted to walk, my mind told me, but the body was stone cold, it wouldn't get up. I was peaceful after last night, a culmination...
Monday, 22 July 2013
The Roving Romeo
The noise in the morning was reverberating, there were the milk vans with their noisy inmates, "damn folks talk too much," the cars humming away in the service lane, it was 6 am in the morning, "where were all these people headed," too early for all these noises, "wasn't there a way to dull these noises," my thoughts went back to my engineering classes and the case study of the benefits of installing...
The Age Conundrum
I had met Anjali when she was going through a phase in life, she was 10 years younger, "age be damned or so I thought," but the energy of youth, and the enthusiasm, it was addictive, the verve for life and the need to meet new people, it all came back to me. I was old in the mind more than my body, my moodiness and crankiness were sure signs that of that, "over the hill huh ?" we hit off like...
The Homing Pigeon
I had been waiting in my car for 5 minutes when the phone call came. How I came to be at this Metro Station was a mystery to myself, "like there weren't other mysteries in life," I had driven out about an hour back from my house, it was a Sunday evening about 4 pm when I had left my house, I had driven aimlessly, "as much as a tired hiney without a seat," for about 1/2 hour before I realised...
Friday, 19 July 2013
Watching People - The Sequel
So here I was looking out of my window when suddenly it occurred to me, it was time for rain and though it had rained a bit in the night, the leaves looked sparkling clean, and drops of rain that splashed the leaves glistened in the sunlight, "like it really mattered to me," I was looking out of the window hoping to catch a glimpse of her. I had done this routine, "if I might call it that,"...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Mega Watt Design - IV
In all my previous posts I have laid special emphasis on Site Engineering and how it is accomplished, this post talks of the two methodologies of actual system sizing and the advantages of one over the other that is the Series System and the Parallel System. So your Solar Mega Watt site is ready after you have accomplished site engineering, how did you size the system and design it :
1. Series...
The Ex-Factor
I had been sitting in my room and brooding, "on my hiney, obviously," and there was no lack of imagination therein as well, I was thinking of her, that women who I loved so much and was thinking of making a long distant call to her, "all things in my life are that way," I am a big time procrastinator and after sometime every action seems to be far fetched. So...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Mega Watt Design - III
While I was thinking and dreaming up analysing mega watt projects, I suddenly realised I still hadn't got the pricing of Solar PV module correct, the dollar to rupee differential had changed and while the a dollar traded to some fifty rupees just a month back, it was now trading at Rs 60, everything was very fluid, so I got into the act of calling some suppliers and here's what I came up with, now...
A Fruit Seller's Story
Sardar Satnam Singh was a pioneer, he had come from the erstwhile Pakistan during the partition and settled in a quaint little town called Patiala in India, during those days quaint little towns did not exist in Punjab, "like they do now, huh?," he was city goer and hated small towns. Patiala of those days, "and it still is nowadays," was...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
A Morning to Remember
I woke up to a bright morning today, "and humid too, did I mention that," felt the AC waning a bit as I got into the car for my breakfast, McDonald's was not far, "far or not I would still reach it," about 10 minutes from home, so drove down to it and picked up two Hash Browns and a Coffee. While I waited for me to be served at the counter, in came a lady, with a hint of white in her hair,...
Monday, 15 July 2013
The Translating Service
I had just completed the course, "the recommended one of course," and was looking for a job in my new field of expertise. I was a dreamer they had told me and this was the right line for me, "the doorbells were ringing in my head," despite the fact that I had topped it, "aced it," I wasn't so sure about this, I wanted to bring about a change in my head, to realise that there was nothing this...
Sunday, 14 July 2013
The Double Date
I had been seeing Anjali for over 6 months now, she was smart and vivacious and extremely hard working, on the occasional day she would come up with ideas that rocked my boat, I got the distinct feeling that she was working hard at keeping my mind busy with ideas, "and I often got the Sales block," on some days, my pitch would go awry and leads would fritter away. Today she had had another...
Saturday, 13 July 2013
The Faceless Crusader
I had been waiting at the doorsteps for an hour, when suddenly it happened, the door opened from the inside as someone woke up to let me in. It was 6 am in the morning and it all started with a party invitation that I had accepted, "thoughtfully though," it was a house party that required me to be dressed in a costume. I had chosen Batman as the idol and gone ahead and got myself stitched...
Friday, 12 July 2013
Mega Watt Design - II
As a corollary to my previous post on Mega Watt Design, where I illucidated the 7 steps to designing and implementing a mega watt site, here is the next step in the process, namely, Site Engineering. This is a very critical part of the whole process where the site is engineered according to the survey report and equipment chosen to reflect the basis of the engineering process. Here, listed...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The Wager of Marriage
I was thinking as I waited for her at the bus stop, "like the rest them were here just waiting huh ?," we were all lost in our thoughts thinking of stories to tell back home or just thinking of our life of today, some were even talking to strangers to get over the boredom,"and damn that makes us talk," I was just thinking of Anjali as I waited for her. I had met Anjali some months back and...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The Mega Watt Design
Designing a Mega Watt Solar site will require a host of things to be in place and these typically include a Site Survey, Preliminary Engineering Design, identifying the correct PV Module, Inverter and BOS Equipment, PV system design and specifications, the output of the solar system and a finally a break even analysis. The following tasks listed below provide the basics of the design methodology...
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
The Train To Nowhere
As I got into the second class compartment of this train, I had a sense of doom, "prophecies be damned," I had done this 1500 km trip so many times and yet today, "and this dang thing was always on time," I was unsure, I was weak and trembling, weak in my head, " fear attacks it first." I had just finished a round of talks with my in-laws for eight years and the talks hadn't gone off too well,...
Monday, 8 July 2013
The Perfect Road Trip
The journey began with a thought, Agra, the Taj Mahal, "wasn't it the place love was epitomised", stupid cupid stop hitting on me, love was the last thing on my mind, more like this lack of activity was bothering my "hiney", planted in one place for long it developed these red spots not to mention a few other things. I was eager,"beaver be damned", as they come and decided I was going to make...
Sunday, 7 July 2013
The Wicked Staircase
So here I was lying midway on my staircase, "No, I hadn't sold off my bed," thinking to myself and cursing my old slippers, "Oh, and you thought I was in love with them," these slippers had betrayed me today,"damn why do we fall in love ?" I was in pain and couldn't move, I knew I had to,"after all I had a walk to go to didn't I," and get to a doctor. I had slipped ten steps on the old staircase,...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Like a Shot in the Blue
As I waited for Raina at the Green Park Metro Station, I casually flicked through the morning newspaper, "not that it held any charms," I had picked it up for free at the IIT crossing close by, the Hindustan Times was going to be free for a week, "surprise surprise," it wasn't a newspaper that I read too much though, just that it was free had me with it. I was working as a consultant...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
As Days Go By
So here I was on the 100th day, still here and still waiting, "Damn could this possibly be a weighty problem," for somebody to call, it had been hundred days since I had spoken to her. It was mid October and more than 3 months had gone by since the fight, "didn't somebody say, I am a lover not a fighter," well, I felt like a nobody today. Hundred days and still counting, I somehow had...
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