So after a record hiatus, the Trouble maker is BACK!!!! been 5 years, Life has taken such big turns... Here's a small account of it just to keep you going
1. I graduated from college and went through the 2008-09 recession joblessness for a while!
2. Remember my post on life of and IT person? well I lived it for a year when I got into SAP and my experience was not much different.
3. Wondering if life was indeed taking me nowhere, I quit my job and took up MBA in Singapore
4. Lived!! Yes Singapore was amazing, not from the start tho... At first I hated living there, a hot and humid country full of rains,People who didn't smile, running around trying to find an affordable accommodation, then dealing with a un-adjustable roommate! It almost got to me, I ran home at the very first vacation I got. So if I hated that place, how come I say it was amazing? If you happen to meet me now, I have nothing but good words for Singapore. Well, for the start, It changed when I got back again. My roommate left, I was on my own till my next roomie came along. People were not so unfriendly as I thought, with a bit of familiar faces in my second term, I became very close friends with some Asian guys/gals in my class partly due to Mr Roger Low, my leadership lecturer who in my first term had made us work together(specifying that no team should have more than 2 people from the same country) So the exchange of cultures, ideas, trying out new food( read Frog :P ) cuisines such as chinese, vietnamese, Thai( the real thai , not our fake indian thai) Japanese,Indonesian, giggling gang of girls, shopping, studying long hrs( 11 hrs a day ) in the library, running to catch the best seat, short trips to Indonesia and Malaysia with my pals.The nervousness of results of assignments, the Halloween costumes, Late night discount Cinemas... As it all happened, Singapore and me not only warmed out to each other, i started loving the place and receiving love back! Singapore was where I experienced life on my own, away from family and I had already found a new one in my friends. All of us bonding in this tiny country which none of us was a native of! That's the power of Singapore, you can't but help having fond memories of the sunny island.
5.Backtrack India! - As my tryst with Singapore came to a pause( I wouldn't call it an end, as I left Singapore, I promised to come back some day) I came back to India. To my family, however it took me quite a while to feel truly home here. The mud, dust, the unclean roads yet the familiar language, the horrible traffic jams, No MRTs crowded buses, Rash drivers, un-hygienic street food, the allergies I gained from my now weakened immune system, friends who left because I had become too foreign for them. the job hunt, some other major life changing stuff, health issues.. All of it took time to get used to, while traces of hangover exist in the slightest, I am very sure, India is home for now. I am convinced because the last time I drenched in rain, my skin didn't get rashes as it used to when I had just arrived.
6. My new Job- Yes!! I am working at an amazing place with amazing people, I currently love what I do and am enjoying life to the max..
This is my story summarized in short!!! I hope to be more regular with my writing from now on!!
Over and out
P.S :Above are some pics for your from Singapore, I am too lazy to sort my own so I borrowed from my friend Hu Xiaodan! She is a sweetheart!!
--- TroubleMaker
