Last week, we finally had our long pending discussion on new games development and the challenge put forth was to come up with 50 new games in 1 year time. It sounded really ridiculous at that time. I mean how can you come up with a new game in 1 week time? But we started with our first game and I soon realized that it is really a very trivial task. As long as games are simple, the target can be achieved. So we are done with our first game. But now we have run into a huge roadblock. How do we keep on coming with ideas for new games? As of now, I am just stuck. Let us see if the team comes up with some good ideas.
I am still in the doldrums. Do I want to maintain the status quo or do I want to move on? The moment I thought of moving on, I started dreaming of lost baggages and of catching trains. My mind is really fertile :-)
I had been having a lot of dreams these days and even had one huge nightmare. In this frenzied dream, I was jumped upon by a ghost (a mummy, can't be anything else) and it was more than enough to wake me up :-) Are dreams really portenders of future events? Do I really want to know about my future? What if I learn the secret of what ever is going on around me and this knowledge cripples my decision making ability because I would be agonizing over the rippled effects of my action? I guess that is why the mind is so ignorant of all those things that have already happened or of things that are going to happen? Very interesting train of thought :-)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
things get hectic once again
Ever since I have shifted to Pune, things have been very very hectic. In the initial weeks, it was all about finding that perfect rental house and then once we shifted, it was about finding a good school for Kush. We drove all the way to Pune from Panjim. The distance was only about 500 kms but it took us good 8 hours with all the breaks and bad roads and some traffic jam. In any case, it was a good drive.
The workplace environment has been made doubly difficult, now that the new HR VP has joined hands with early perpetrators of crime against employees. Now I can't carry a mobile phone, can't make any kind of call from my desk phone, can't receive any call on the phone, can't chat with friends, can't surf internet. The list of can'ts is growing daily. Some of the hilarious additions are can't come to office without good deo, can't go to loo without asking permission for it and that too under supervision only, can't talk with other team members, can't discuss anything but work at workplace. Of course, this list is only applicable to the 2nd class citizens. The privileged class gets to do all this and much more. George Orwell's "all are equal but some are more equal than others" saying keeps on doing its rounds in my head :-0
In any case, I was helped a lot by people around me so I shouldn't really complain. And I intend to change my perspective towards life in general. I have been looking at life from a tinted shade, that of despair and gloominess and hopelessness. But life is not only about setbacks. it is about achievement too. It is about counting blessings too. So I have started practicing the mantra of staying positive, not only at workplace but also in general. As of today, i am very happy that Kush has joined a good school here and so far he loves this school. Next month, there will be a test and the class has covered a lot of ground on some subjects, so Kush has to do a lot of catching up to do.
Last month, I read Issac Asimov's collection of short stories. Some of those stories were amazing, like that of Hostess. I loved that story, loved Asimov's insinuation that humans carry a parasitic intelligence which takes over the bodies and minds of humans during sleep time, which lets humans grow only till a limit and later feeds on the humans thoughts or whatever. And then I read about Sri Aurobindo's conjectures on various dream states and how he maintained that there are different worlds out there, not only the one in which we participate but also those that are accessible only through dreams. Sort of like the Tibetan's Shangri La concept, a place where you go only through your dreams. i will do some more research on this, it is fascinating stuff.
The workplace environment has been made doubly difficult, now that the new HR VP has joined hands with early perpetrators of crime against employees. Now I can't carry a mobile phone, can't make any kind of call from my desk phone, can't receive any call on the phone, can't chat with friends, can't surf internet. The list of can'ts is growing daily. Some of the hilarious additions are can't come to office without good deo, can't go to loo without asking permission for it and that too under supervision only, can't talk with other team members, can't discuss anything but work at workplace. Of course, this list is only applicable to the 2nd class citizens. The privileged class gets to do all this and much more. George Orwell's "all are equal but some are more equal than others" saying keeps on doing its rounds in my head :-0
In any case, I was helped a lot by people around me so I shouldn't really complain. And I intend to change my perspective towards life in general. I have been looking at life from a tinted shade, that of despair and gloominess and hopelessness. But life is not only about setbacks. it is about achievement too. It is about counting blessings too. So I have started practicing the mantra of staying positive, not only at workplace but also in general. As of today, i am very happy that Kush has joined a good school here and so far he loves this school. Next month, there will be a test and the class has covered a lot of ground on some subjects, so Kush has to do a lot of catching up to do.
Last month, I read Issac Asimov's collection of short stories. Some of those stories were amazing, like that of Hostess. I loved that story, loved Asimov's insinuation that humans carry a parasitic intelligence which takes over the bodies and minds of humans during sleep time, which lets humans grow only till a limit and later feeds on the humans thoughts or whatever. And then I read about Sri Aurobindo's conjectures on various dream states and how he maintained that there are different worlds out there, not only the one in which we participate but also those that are accessible only through dreams. Sort of like the Tibetan's Shangri La concept, a place where you go only through your dreams. i will do some more research on this, it is fascinating stuff.
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