Losses

This is the first time ever I have lost something so valuable, on my own.

I have lost my Timex Indiglo, my Ray Ban & my iPod at different times but all have been stolen in some or the other form. BTW my bag contained my iPod too, so there goes my 2nd iPod.

Honesty & Decency are long dead and buried and you only hear rare cases of things returned by sincere people. So I had no hope of getting my bag back. But what amazes me is that the generation before us never loses hope and sincerely believes in some divine intervention which will return any lost good.

There have been numerous prayers offered by loved ones, all of them for my lost bag and for a moment I really thought that it may work. But GOD has different plans.

Thankfully I have been at peace ever since I was told that insurance will cover most of the losses. The rest will be funded by some of my stock market gains.

So as the adage goes..paisa aata hai..paisa jata hai..Money comes...Money goes.

Come Monday, I will be busy trying to get my material world back on track.

Holiday Woes

The week long break to Kumta started on a bad (disastrous) note. I forgot my laptop in the train while getting down at Kumta at 4 in the morning. I realised only after I woke up at 9 in the morning.

All efforts to get it back were in vain. My cousin even went to Mangalore station to see if anything could be done. And the loss was not only of the laptop. My haversack had my wallet with my driving licence, my credit cards and cash and my digital camera too.

Though I was a bit nervous initially but I cooled down after a while since there was nothing much we could do. Fortunately my office folks should be able to claim the insurance since we managed to file a FIR at the local police station.

My brother managed to block all my cards. So next week is going to be co-ordination & getting back to normalcy week.

Till then I am going to relax and try and make the best of the holiday. Thanks to my new phone and a blazing GPRS connection I am connected!

More later