Growing Older...

mmm...this is a constraint / limitation of life one has to face and inevitably at that!! This is more so getting evident in multiple walks of life...

Family: kids I have seen running around the house my knee-cap height when I was in college are in college now, which invariably means I am no more a college goer...:)

Family 1: Rewind Raagam, a show on Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, chennai version is a show for retro songs which fit into those good old days!! songs from movies like Amarkalam, Alaipayuthe, Yuva get played in those making me feel that we are part of a legacy now....!! Definetely makes me feel OLD....

Net-life: My blog, this one, is in itself close to 8 years old...and if I read my first few posts, that bangalore boy who started his career in Slash Support flashes by and I am reminded I am OLD....

Professional: When people you recruit and mentor and train as part of their out-of-college life at work grow up and start going to onsite as coordinator, you cannot deny the fact that you are OLD....

Public Places: Going into Malls and Multiplexes in Chennai, definetely makes me feel out of place now, purely because, my visits to a mall will be for picking up a dress for my wife, or to Odyssey / Landmark to collect stationery / CD collectible rather than for *just the heck of it*...all I mean is, I visit a mall / store only for a purpose, which is a far cry from the days I used to visit The Forum, in Koramangala, Bangalore, every weekend (both days included) without a purpose!..I am definetely OLD now...

Technology: Motorola as a smartphone maker came to prominence with its Linux powered devices like A780, A1200 and ruled the roost with Q9 and other mobiles and BIT the dust as a smart phone maker, stopped production of smartphones, have resurrected them selves via Andriod mobiles and are back in the business as a leader...almost like a fresh generation of motorola and pity is I have see all of this as a grown-up, which says I AM OLD now...:)

Confirmations for getting OLDER:

a) I used to roll-over my mobile phones in less than 18 months since my first mobile in 2004. I have been religiously doing this, but the last 2 mobiles have been more than 24 months and the current one, a Nokia E63 is more than 26 months and still in my possession, simply for the reason that it doesnt have any problem to be replaced. Same was the case with all my previous mobiles, but all of them saw change...Change in mindsets is a key attributer...and also lessons of value for moeny from Wife...I am OLD now...:)

b) I have a few strands of grey hair in my temple and 1 also cropped up in my moustache sometime back...oof...enough of my brooding, LOCK kardiya jaaye...I AM OLD...

but OLD isnt that bad...!!! see tthe following,

a)I get to advice people based on my experience...which is a really cool thing!
b) I am sought advice by people for my experience in life and professional career...again cool....
c) I get to enjoy life as a Family...a loving wife...a lovely boy...really COOL...
d) I get to prioritize my day at work, because of the accountability i have at work, rather than being set tasks for the day!
e) I can boast of movies from the 1990-2000's as ones the younger kids couldnt get to see
f) I can get to bloat abouot how Gentleman, Kadhalan and Roja created waves when they were released in 1990's...!!!
g) I get to talk about Jim Courier and Pete Sampras to newer kids..:)...

so...MORAL of the story is.....OLD IS BAD...but OLD IS ALSO GOLD...and we know how much 1 gram of gold costed then and how much it costs now...;)

Godspeed...Shabba Khair...

truly a rage! - twitter...by an old-skool guy

initially I was all cynicism about twitter for it microblogging purely because I was an old skool guy and a blogger since 2004!

I thought *why wouldn't I blog 20 times a day but choose twitter to do the same?*

yeah. there is a difference! nobody has the time in the world to compose a blog post and tell a storyline! all they have time is to impress their feelings in some social web 2.0 medium..

and blogging even when integrated in god-knows-where applications/widegts isnt followed that efficiently as you would have expected....

but stuff ala twitter are designed with minute-made tracking at the unit level. Why twitter has become popular is parallel to why orkut became more popular than something like Hi5. Because more people are on Orkut, its easy to network. Same is the case with tweeter.

plus one more point i have observed is that there are a lot more credible celeb accounts in Twitter than in orkut, dont catch me saying I am reviewing twitter with orkut, just a similar line note...thats it....

i think more credible accounts is mainly due to the nature of usage that people envisage out of twitter!

I just read through Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Shashi Tharoor, Rasmus Lerdorf and a hand full of opensource geeks around the world!!! its real and you feel you are in striking distance of getting a peek at the lives of these people!!

i am actually getting engrossed into twitter much like how i spent 6 hours a day in orkut back in 2005!!!

at the same time, I dont think blogging the old-skool way (through blogger, live journal, word press) would lose its sheen. a proof is I can express so much of what I think about twitter, only in my blog and not through a tweet....hahaha... i like the way I put this!!!

twitter to its credit is also doing a lot of simplification to make tweet-ing much like a *sipping a glass of water*....and mobile technologies and mobile versions of twitter make life-infiltration more prominent!!...

web 2.0 is right here for our grabs! lets enjoy!

Godspeed.