Its bliss at A !!

Chaos, our cult fest starts tomorrow. College is ready for 4 days of fun with Jal, Strings, Indian Ocean, Shivamani etc. Sidin has left consulting to become a full time writer. The last time we met (couple of weeks back) he had hinted it but we never thought it would be so soon !! Am sure he is gonna be a successful writer. So we have now someone along the Rashmi Bansal lines from our college. In another news, another friend of mine got into a software firm for a humungous 16 L per annum salary !! Two incidents at two different levels of spectrum...one leaving a 10+ L job for writing which would be a highly unstable but inspiring profession (which shall keep him "happy"!) and another one taking a high paying job in an industry which I would at best say too stable and boring for my liking !! That also leaves me with a sense of "What is to be done in the next 2 months?" when I too shall have to take a call on my career ! I do have an offer from a consulting firm so that I can take a few risky calls given that my downside is limited ! But at the end of the day I know I dont have the guts of Sidin to take up a job as a wildlife guard or a cricket administrator (two jobs which would closely come to what I would call dream!!). I would mostly take a very conventional job atleast out of campus and see where it takes me. But for sure I want to spend couple of years in forests either in India itself or going back to Africa. The day I left Tanzania & Kenya I had decided that I would go back to spend some time associated with forest conservation and eco tourism. Kerala itself would present me with some opportunities. So all in all I'm inspired enough by Sidin to think of these alternatives but not enough to get into these presently. I'd rather have one more brand in my CV (sic) before I do that !! Life is definitely worth living to its fullest. Thats what we would be doing for the next 4 days atleast !!!