It's been a while!

It's been a while since I updated this thing. Since my last update, I went on a trip to Rajasthan, finished the little bit of soft training we had here, found out where I'm going next in India for work, and I even found out that I could possibly not end up in Reston when I go back to the US.

The trip to Rajasthan was awesome. We rode camels all day in the desert, we saw a gorgeous sunset while sitting on sand dunes and spent the night in a little place right next to the dunes. We also saw the lotus temple in delhi and some old forts built by kinds in towns like Jodhpur. There is a lot more I want to talk about but I'll write that in a later post.

There are a lot of updates actually, but there's one thing in particular that's been on my mind. I'm going to Chennai tomorrow for production. So this is my last night in Mysore. I'm gonna miss this place actually. It seems so weird that I'm moving on to production now. I'm about to leave all the people behind that I came here with and start real actual work. I feel like just the other day I was in DC talking to some of the people that I've built friendships with over our time here.

My project manager in Chennai e-mailed me today asking if going to Denver rather than Reston would be appealing to me. I declined because everyone and everything I know is around the DC area! If there is no project to do by January in Reston they could move us to wherever business needs require us to go though. Initially I was thinking "oh, i'll just quit if they ask me to move somewhere far from the DC area", but then I realized that's not really the right attitude if I want to succeed. I want to be successful and if that's something I really want, I'll have to leave what I'm comfortable with sometime and take on new challenges. Of course, it all has to align with my priorities in life, but I have to be willing to make sacrifices if I want to get truly ahead.

I don't want to move so far away from everyone right when I get back to the US though. It's already hard enough being away from everyone for the 4-5 months i'll be in India. So for now I'm still going to be in Reston, if that needs to be changed in the future then I'll deal with that when the time comes.

I guess there's two ways to view this so called "real world". It can either be brutal and take you away from everything you're comfortable with, or it can be a place where you see new things and have new experiences to add to this thing called life.

ALSO, my parents are in India! I'm still waiting for them to call me and let me know they got here safely. I gotta talk to my project manager when I get to chennai and discuss taking some leave off so I can go visit them in gujurat along with the rest of my relatives. If I can't take off then my parents can always come down to chennai, but i'd rather go up there and see everyone.
Well, I need to start packing now, I need to update this thing more frequently I always have a lot on my mind. I forgot how nice it is to put stuff out on this medium.