(June 25, 10:25pm)

It had been too, too hot off late... and I was without ac for the first time in five years..

That's why couldn't blog really.. I hadn't been reading either... which I usually do irrespective of circumstances..

And then this job is really taxing.. It doesn't leave me with any time at all.. the shifts are strange... I report to office at 1.. and by the time work is over, it's 9:30..

You would imagine that returning home, eating dinner, preparing for sleep... it must be 11:30-12... and then, there's no energy to write...

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If I were to return home at 7pm, I'd be so happy... I would spend the evening reading and writing.. and reflecting my own thoughts over this blog here..

I don't mind getting early to work in the morning... but I must return home early... and then this job is such that I am drained on holidays, too..

Or, may be, it's the excessive heat..

But, I'm a believer and I am an optimist.. I'm sure the good, old days would be back.. I'd blog more often... and just as candidly...

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(June 5, 2:15am)

It's too much of a neglect to the blog... But work is occupying me like never before..

My beat has been shifted from Congress to BJP.. and though that is refreshing in the sense that the ruling party is the meatier beat, I am having to begin from the scratch..

And in this heat!!

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In the Congress, everybody knew me.. My e-mail and mobile phone were synced with their communication department...

But now I have to get all of that done in BJP headquarters too.. It's very tiring and unnerving to go out in the sun.. 43 degrees and it is expected to go only worse..

Besides they have given me one more ministry... The ministry of minority affairs.. I sms-ed Nazma Heptullah the other day... she acknowledged..

But there's no clue of an appointment yet... And the company is demanding I get her interview..

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So, you see... To say I have been ignoring the blog wouldn't be fair.. I love the blog as much as I always did..

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