Come to think about it, Chai Ki Dukaan is a random blog !!! Not many posts are in order of being connected to each other, however there is a certain order that got built in between all this randomness over the last few years !

and here is a free flow of some randomness about myself…

1. I face Southwest in my office and at days when I reach early (like 7ish) and the day is sunny, there is sunlight on my desk… I love it

2. I like to give and get credit for things both at work and in personal life! If I am using something that someone else has worked on, I do try to ensure that the audience knows about that effort ! I absolutely hated it when a friend once used a picture that I clicked and put it on her page without a mention of me anywhere and without asking me… and all of this when she knew that the picture was very close to my heart… to top it all she comes back and tells me that she did justice to the picture by doing that !!! phew !

3. I don’t work for money.. I love what I do at work, and that’s why I work ! IT Services Consulting… love it! and money most of the time is the least of my worries… Surprisingly whenever it has been a cause of concern, it was taken care of… as if someone was ensuring it does not bother me! and at multiple times!

4. Mostly my life is driven by needs and not wants… if I want something too much then I try to figure out how it qualifies to be a need and then get it!

5. I want to get married next year… how to go about it is another story and will need a post a blog a diary an year to write about ! I am hoping I will find someone really nice who my parents would like too sometime!

6. I forget about drinking water and having food at times when I am too much into work!

7. I take my time (now) before I decide on what kind of a person someone is… earlier it used to be a quick(er) judgment !

8. There has been a phase in my life when I totally hated women and that went on for a year or so… no points for guessing that it was because of a relationship that ended at a very very bad note.. I have never cried that much in my life…

9. My behavior (mostly) is driven by how I would like to be treated in a similar situation… that has helped me a lot over the past few years !!!

10. I don’t have an excuse for not working out regularly ! and thankfully for the past two days I am regular with exercise… 😉 two needs to be 20 and 20 needs to be 200 !

11. I love tea and not all tea… tea is with tea leaves and not really anything and everything that you can dry and crush to a powder and put in a bag! Though I have to admit that I like some of them, but not many!

12. I am an extremely lucky person. There are times when I feel frustrated, but when I look back at things I realize that most of it did fall into place… and Uncle God has been around most of the time either in the form of my parents, or my friends or in forms that I did not realize then but I do now!

13. I can act strangely crazy, closed, stupid at times, and all of this while knowing that I should not be doing it… I guess I cannot lie to myself !

14. I think flowers good great in B/W photographs ! For that matter, I think most of the things look great in B/W… even life ! 🙂

15. I had a 3 gb collection of porn which I deleted last year! ok 3.4 GB!

16. I enjoy walking

17. Alone on the hills

18. and I feel the need of a company at times on the beaches

19. But I have sat down and looked at the sea for hours alone as well, and I loved all of those experiences !

20. I broke down the beach/hill/alone/company points above so that I finish 25 random points quicker !!

21. My interest in anything stops when learning from it stops!

22. But I also feel that I am growing up to be a more patient person than I have been all through these years ! So I tend to find ways to get some learning or make things interesting when they are too conveyor belt-ish.

23. I want to go back to London and stay there for at least 6 months during spring and fall.

24. I like open windows and fresh air… Even when the temperature was in negatives outside, I would open the window an inch or so that fresh air can circulate inside my apartment…

25. I like heights… I could jump from a plane 14500 ft above ground (Sky diving, Chicago last year) but I find it difficult to jump from a 22ft cliff into the water (River Rafting, Rishikesh every year, well almost every year).

26… So I finished 25 but I think I can write a few more

27. I like to be in love… Its a very complete feeling… and I am not really talking about the relationship love, it can be the love for someone without being in a relationship as well, and the willingness to do things to make them happy… I do not like an overuse of the word “love”… its a precious word for me!

28. I don’t understand football but I love Tennis (Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf are my favorites, but I don’t know everything about them like most fans do; watching them play was a visual delight like nothing else; I liked watching Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as well) and Basketball( Lakers happens to be my favorite team and Kobe Bryant the favorite player)… I cannot watch cricket alone…

29. This number and my age have a certain resemblance that is both comforting and challenging at the same time

30. I am going to be 30 soon.. I wanted to take a month long break travel throughout India when that happens, but looks like I would be spending it here in the US.. the month long break has been deferred and the three must go places for me are Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Mumbai

31. I have learned how to play a keyboard and a guitar and have spent most of my college life either on the stage or in greenrooms or writing/directing/doing street plays… I really miss those times ! Really!

32. This is a very very long post ! tell me if you did manage to read it !!! Chandan, you specially 🙂