Back after a longggg time

Alright, been thinking of getting back here for a long time, and just took the option when I visited my cousin's blog.

Now, I am expecting myself to keep blogging more often. Let me see if I can keep my hopes up on doing that.

Game on buddy!

Struck me hard!

"Why don't you let me live the rest of my life in peace" - it was a very strong one from my Dad. Well, don't let your thought processes image as if I was torturing my Dad. I will never do that ever! What instead happened was, I was asking if he could help manage a small office if I start one in India while I am here in the US. That's when he said the first liner. And I realized how selfish of me to ask that, as he said, he has been working throughout his life ever since my Grandpa passed away and he has been tired mentally and physically. The last few years of battle with the previous partners trying to get the assets and accounts settled has really taken away all his energy. He is no longer the way he used to be. I need to figure out a way to take over and give him complete rest. I need to do a lot of things in life. Topmost priority will be to take care of them.

I am sorry Dad!

Resolutions

It is really interesting how mind plays games with you when you take resolutions. Usually when we take resolutions on doing this or not doing that, it just so happens that we will be tempted to do that and just try to look for some resolution to relax the original one. Well, atleast it was the case with me. But, this time, when I took some resolution, I have kept it well, well, atleast part of it. I am really surprised myself. I think it depends on what you are having the resolution on. In my case, since it depended on my future, guess it was only natural I strived to keep it up. It has gone more than what I had thought of actually and am very glad.

Patting my own back

What's going on?

Either a complete succumb or a Historic Win! Our Men in Blue can do only either extremes. There is nothing like doing good, could have done better situations apparently. Well, I guess I am being the normal mob either condemning or celebrating the team, but when the team performs this way, it is only natural to feel this way.

If Ganguly could be dropped and re-called, I guess the same should apply for Sehwag or even Sachin too. There shouldn't be a place in the team for repeated inconsistency. Let's wait for the test series results. But, if they do not buckle up soon, we are going to have nightmares on the Carribean islands early next year.

All the same, Best of Luck guys!

Third on the Trot!

Man!!! This is just crazy! What am I to do? Three phones in three years...Two in 4 months.. This is too much for me to handle. Yeah.. I have lost my third mobile now. This time it was Chicago Downtown and I am thinking it should have been either on the bus or outside the Adler Planetarium where I sat down to enjoy the view of the city, and also enjoying a couple spending a romantic evening beside the water.

Anyway, I have been without a mobile for almost a month now and it is really depressing sometimes. I have rightly quoted one of the things I wouldn't be able to live without is my mobile. I really loved this one, the snaps from it were simply superb. Anyway, I am on search for another one and though my intuition is against it, I think I am going to get one online. Probably the Sony Ericsson W810i. This one seems to be cool...

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A gift for myself for the New Year!

Things do change!

It is interesting how our perspective changes when we meet a person directly. I had lot of different views about the team in India who I had interacted by Yahoo IM and VOIP. I had a few notions abt the people and their work culture. But, lot of it changed after meeting them directly. The bond has been created and now, I might not think it to be work, if there was some question or clarification from them.

It does help a lot for the company, if not for me, to make people who interact meet face-to-face.

Do not like this

Nope, I did not like it. Why should it be this way? I am (was) not able to re-charge / top-up my pre-paid mobile while I am (was) in roaming. This has driven me crazy. Not knowing this, I have wasted a lot of money trying to do that. The only way that it is possible is doing with an easy recharge. This was not clearly informed when I got the phone. It made me very angry when I was not able to re-charge even from my home town, since the number I have is a Chennai number, and Chennai and Tamil Nadu are different circles!


Crazy!

Vacation in India

People come and go for vacations from US to India. I have started to wonder what they really do on vacations, especially people whose native place is far into some remote city which has no idea about the latest entertainment & technologies. (Well, my place is not really too remote, but it is...kind of....boring!)

Just one day (less than one day actually) into my "vacation" and I already did not know what I was going to do for the rest of my vacation. Thank God, next week I have plans for some trips near Bangalore, and also will be meeting a lot of guys there, so hopefully that would just zoom past me.

Maybe I need to relocate my parents to either some city or some place where it would be more serene and calm for more relaxation, and be not in a place which is neither serene nor hyperactive.

Comeon, I am not complaining; it was just a thought. I still love my Sivakasi!

Missed calls

This is a unique feature in India. No cost for giving missed calls! People conveniently using the technology, but not really getting charged for it. It is used, but not really used. Maybe that is why we get some maintenance charge or service charge deducted every day? In the US, if the call goes through or not, if it was just one ring or 10 rings, if you talk for one min or 1 sec, it's always considered a call.

But, it did help me flirt with someone by just to keep giving missed calls at un-earthly hours, at un-predictable times, from un-planned places... ;)

I love India!!!

SQ Jinx

Oh Man! Singapore Airlines (SQ 15) from SFO is a jinx for me I guess. Last time around, it took away my Motorola Flip type phone, which was the craze at that time. And this time it is worse, it took a cool slider phone from me. I wanted to use that to show off...both times. I guess I shouldn't be thinking of showing off...I am really sad this time more than last time. Last time it was just an inconvenience, but this time, I simply loved the phone.

Why should I take the phone out in the restroom, admire it, think about how I can impress people with the phone, and then leave the phone near the wash basin, that too in the corner, and then, forget about it, so that someone can easily take it? I certainly would like to see the bright glow in the face of the person who saw and snatched away the phone from its cozy (??) basin rest.

I am (was I???) a firm believer of the prophecy... Everything happens for good! So, can someone tell me what was good in losing the phone.. both times? There is a superstition of "Kannu padurathu", so was God making sure I didn't get that?

Anyway, need to be more careful with my things, that's all to it, I believe. Will keep me thinking until I catch my transit flight at Singapore here. My first job on landing at Chennai might be get a new phone.

Maybe it hapenned 'cos it was time to get a cooler phone!

Jealous?

Hmm..

I am being jealous now! I saw one of my old classmates writing. One side of me says Wow! and the other side feels Nooooooooo! Hmm.. interesting feeling this. I am enjoying his writing as well as feeling jealous that I do not write like him. I haven't started writing much, or spent a lof of time writing, but still, not sure if I will write about different interesting things or different things interestingly like him. I sure would like to do that, but need to spend more time trying to do that. Hmm.. I surely need to manage my time better, and try not to waste this precious life.

How do I change myself? First things first. Cut TV - the real (and the only) culprit. If that is stopped, everyhting else will come to order.



Let's see...