Life Update

  It’s 2am, Saturday night, and I’m situated at my parent’s home here in Cupertino, California listening to vocal-backed drum and bass on Dark Wax Radio. Life is comforting with the awareness that Manisha rests in her warm bed taking a Sunday nap . Myself, I can’t recall the last time I was awake this late sipping green tea and chilling out to lush dreamy afterhours music such as the likes of Bally Sagoo: Tum Bin Jaya (Grooverider Remix).

  Currently I’m wearing a teal colored tshirt and grey shorts with white stripes. It’s as if I iron my cotton tshirts just so that I am fashionable for bedtime. Yes.

  I’m working at Enterprise, and I really enjoy the job. My entire team is wicked: Kenny Lim, Mitchell Wong, Matt O’Malley and Ryan Taylor. My area manager Kunal Sinha and regional manager Greg Jackson are also both well respected. I enjoy making business deals, keeping it professional and having fun with my team. Our branch manager Kenny is pure hustler and I’m learning a lot from his management style and game play. Ryan, our assistant manager reminds me of myself in ways with his mellow yet professional disposition. Mitch Wong is a fun and effective communicator who knows how to make you feel good. Matt is just charismatic making deals as I roll up into our parking lot in yet another car. Overall, everyone is trying to make things happen everyday at work and I’m happy to be where I am.

  My winter intrigue is foresoughtthrough my return to India in January of the new year. I want to travel and share experiences in the Himalayas, Delhi cityscapes and Goa beachsides exclusively with Manisha Ji. I’m look forward to this slight-epic that we will be sharing with one another: she is the solar system of the universe in human form. In her presence I dream to seek out seek mystic junglistic landscapes which are lit by the white full moon as we sleep under the galaxial stars upon mountain peaks of Rudra. Clearly, I never stop dreaming and making those dreams come true as a dreammaster. 

  Here I am. October 4th.

Professional Life

  I just finished shining my leather shoes from Italy. I remember when I first met Sayan and Twisham, I really admired their professionalism. The dress pants, the collared shirt, and the tie. I remember visiting Twisham and Sayan at their office and the professionalism appealed to me.  I also remember my first week in Pittsburgh, and that weekend I flew to Atlanta, Georgia to visit yet another Indian friend of mine. And there I was arriving at the Atlanta airport in dress pants, a blue collared shirt, and a pair of New Balance shoes which simply didn’t match. Days later it was typical to find Twisham coming home after a long day, and he he would simply spend the majority of the weekends talking with his family over the computer.

  I admired it all really. I looked up to those guys. And here I am fresh out of college as a young Silicon Valley professional. My days at the office mainly consist of making phone calls with senior software managers and engineering manager’s from the world’s largest technology companies. I think back to my business management class with Krishnamurty at the International Center for Management and India Studies in Bangalore. Krishnamurty would always praise me, everyday he thought up something to make me smile. He would say things like, “Rory’s going to have the greatest tea business in the world”, emphasizing world with a a sincere, slow and exaggerated tone. I also think back to our international business class with Vinay Kumar and all those discussions with Sunny, Areli, and that Indian girl whose names alludes me.

  Then, there was always Takatoshi Iwashita and my first company Beat Generation. I would watch Taka spending entire nights studying for his master of business administration at Point Park University. He’s still one of my greatest inspirations. And now, here I am taking the bus to the office in the morning reading the business and technology section of the morning newspaper. I leave for work at 6:25am and return home at about 7pm, tired, and simply wanting to chill out. Chilling out, this is my balance. And then Draden wakes me form my rest calling me to let me know that he’s been researching suppliers for our clothing business. And it just continues on as I glare out at Silicon Valley from the balcony of our office, high in the sky, never forgetting where I came from.

New Job

  New job. Faith worked, well semi-faith. I’m working at a small Middle Eastern restaurant.