When you come to think of it, time doesn’t flow very smoothly — it gushes out in fits and spurts like a leaking pipe that you try to keep under control even as you call the plumber with your free hand. It’s been a while — a long while — since my last post. Heck, it was so annoying to see the same front-page everyday that I stopped visiting my own website beyond a point.

I guess I have excuses. Many things have changed since November last year, and yet, life is the same as before. Most changes in life are like re-arrangements of pieces on a chess board. You move some here, you move some there, but overall things remain in balance except for the occasional loss of a piece. It’s only towards the end of the game that things become exciting, but ironi­cally, that’s the time when you have the least control over the board. Life is God playing chess with you; I suppose He likes to win.

The New Year came and went with a small burst of hope (purely my imagi­na­tion, I am sure) that ebbed quickly and receded into oblivion. But February was a month of many changes, with January franti­cally getting ready for it. I have seldom seen a month packed with so many punches, but the punches were super­fi­cial, almost playful to an extent. There was a wedding to navigate through, a vacation to deal with, castles to look at, a workplace to be moved, an apart­ment to get out of , an apart­ment to move into and impos­sible things to be taken care of at impos­sible schedules.

But the truth is, life isn’t a game of chess — you shouldn’t stop to think after every move, you just power through, no matter what. Never stop, never give up, just keep going. Just keep going, that’s all…

I’m still in the last decade, depending on where you are. The current day in Seattle, WA, USA is the 31^st of December 2009. In most other places of the world, year 2010 has arrived already.

A lot of people are celebrating the arrival of the New Year. But with all that has gone by and all that is to come, I don’t really see the point in making a fuss about a single point in time, or even an hour or a day for that matter. It means nothing, nothing at all.

Another day goes by — another brick in the wall of eternity.