in da house

some of us, would be glad to see some furniture in my apartment...finally! :-)

all roads lead to dilli

on Jan 9 '07, it would have been exactly 2years of me being away from India. I got the chance to not let that happen. Will be in Dilli on 28th Dec until 26Jan.

lets start planning!!! waha pahuch ke kya kya karna hai ab!

had been really busy for a while. the busYness ends this Fri/Sat hopefully. And then I take on the next biggie.

lolz, called up customer service of ADP benefit desk today. This guy says - "Hi, I am Adam, how can I help you?".
I was thinking, you freaking ABCD main tyada country mate bol raha hun. Whats your real name? Ramnarayan?
So much for thinking, these call center people don't have the thinking gadgets if you knwo what i mean. They can only say or do what was taught to them.
Hey! common sense is a thing of the past!
Oh, and most of the amroos are even worse at that.

have bought the ipod nano 4G black. groovy huh!

NJ main dhamaal

It's such a notable difference. 10minutes earlier i was in the heart of the big apple. the 'sex and the city' city. crossed the Hudson, and drove stright into what felt like flat wastelands. the sign-board said NJ.

Sandy drove over to my place Friday night. I came out to meet him at the Berlin road Junction to avoid him getting lost. Then while his car was following mine to my home, i crossed the traffic light while it was yellow. the safe (, but unfortunate) driver got left behind and the point of me coming out was somewhat lost :D. Anyways, we got home without much trouble and left for dinner in the next 5minutes. did a lot of catching up during dinner...din't realise it was 11:15 and as we realised that the Haveli guys were getting ready to pack-up. We left in a jiffy.

Raat ko 2 baje tak gappe maare, subah 10:30baje Milu ka phone aaya. chal diye kya? hmmm....we were no the way at that time. I meant Sandy had just started the car and i was looking at the map :)
Toh NJ main gujju aur Milu mile. thode gappe maare, lunch at a S.Indian place, lot of food, aur phir kaafi soch vichar ke baad hum we went to watch 'snakes on the plane'. It had got 8.3 on imdb (jerks!) and so risk was less. but the final impact was amazing. it sucks! don't watch it!

had never spend so much time in a theatre parking lot. it was fun, the four of us spend about an hour just chatting in the parking lot. duh! it was so long that even the theatre security van came and checked upon us :p

went to Chilis to have margarritas before the final plunge at the bowling alley! i had the classic margarita. was a bit sour to taste...but only in the beginning!
Sakuri aur Sujar bhi wahi mil gaye! nice!
never realised bowling alleys could be so packed. we got a lane#80 something after waiting for more than an hour! wow!

no 'bowling alley Dayton' records were broken during the weekend. But i live to try again tomorrow.

peace.

beatles - can't buy me love....

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.


Beatles - Money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love

Is i_have_tickets_com such a bad idea? do i have the time?

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uncertainties

Since i've joined my company, it has shrunk from 15 employees to 13. One of them was let go today. And with that news today morning i got a shrinking feeling as well. I thought whether the company is in such a bad state that the ceo had to take that harsh decision? or was it that startups just tend to drop off their weakest links when times are bad. And then in the evening, I was explained how the later of the two was the rationality.
I like the way Rick conducts his business. Involves everyone, what harm could 'everyone' possible do...?...if you can control them!

just one of the uncertainties in life.

i noticed

I noticed and want to shout out loud -

1. This is my 25th year of liife. A silver anniversary! cheers to me! hurray!
...and i was born on the 25th of some month. this numerical incident won't repeat ever again :)

2. Besides the usual holiday mood of 15th Aug, i noticed many of 'us' to be proud of being Indians. Love the feeling.

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self motivation is the best weapon i have against myself.

got quite a bit of work done this past Sunday. Got the sofa. Met Ardey. Worked on the GMCR stuff for office.
Had more progress today in office.
The forecaste looks good for this week :) sun is expected to shine to glory until atleast the white flakes take over.

Will meet Gujju, Milu, Sandy and Sal over the weekend. should be fun.

ufff...India ka ticket mil jaye...i really wanna go.

these happy days... (pun intended)

uhhh...what the dull week this has been.

I haven't felt like working at all, couldn't get my mind into anything. A truck load of trash colleccted. no food in the house...things just lying around. twas a mess. Watched tv for most of the free time.

think i need to get out and meet a few souls i like to be around with.

meanwhile the bad run of luck (or in other words 'run out of luck') continues. The couch is lying in the 1st floor since yesterday. I haven't checked if it is still there or someone took it in the dark of the night (so dark the con of man :p). Lerner corporation sent me a bill of $1700 for 'i dunno what'. have a lot of pending work on hands now.

life goes on.

fighters

All winners are fighters. But, all fighters are not winners.
Ofcourse you know what i mean by fighters!

What about the people who won without fighting. They din't necessairly use the wrong means..Are they just plain lucky?
Or is their winning is their limited by their definition of success.

A bit of everything huh?


Got the bed today. phew...tough job getting it up the 3rd floor. The seller, a 78 year old man, was kind enough (or in other words, brave enough!) to help me drag the stuff upstairs.
He said he could do that for a nice boy like me. Kudos to me! :p

a heat wave

in the good ol country i come from...the heat wave boils the atmosphere to 48degrees (118F).
Here a 105F boils the country to, unfortunately, death.
The people are not accustommed, nor prepared.

Is the widespread power shortage and the hype a sign of things to come.
Personally, i don't understand the Bush administration's stand on global warming. Its undeniable as far as i'm concerned. The congress is full of morons! and sometimems laloo in Bihar doesn't look so bad :p he is perhaps only half as wicked as many here.

hmm...am watching 'Kingdom Of Heaven'...watching the brave knight committing suicide. Whatever happened to tratgey and logic.