So, my previous post a little too cynical...!
You can never undo what you've already done. You can only make the best of what you have. So, here's my attempt to better it - some good things that happened this past week - !
1. No one got hurt in the car-based-ice-skating incident
2. My car got damaged when I was *not* in it
3. Got some nice thanksgiving deals
4. Had thanksgiving lunch with Richard's family. Turkey mmm...
5. Had dinner with Ruchi moti
6. Done with the new dashboard for my company
this one requires a special mention since it means much to me :-)
-- My new Nokia N95 is in the mail --
Well, this post certainly outweighs my previous post. I am at peace.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
You finally got me.
update 11/24 11:30am: The fire alarm went off in my building, and the fire engine was here. Fortunately there was nothing for concern. Still half of Saturday and Sunday to go before the week ends!
update 11/23 7:30pm: ICICI just called. They said, I'm a NRI so am not allowed to hold the resident savings a/c or transact my DMAT as per RBI regulations. I need to close down my accounts in India.
original post --
God, if you are reading this, are you happy now?
The past week has been eventful, but not for happy reasons.
This past Tuesday it was the first snow of the season. The roads were slippery again. And while Richard and me were driving through the West Lake Dr, I recalled the bad memory of that traffic light. When i allegedly touched (not even sure if i touched!) the car of this Russian female who sued me for $450 later. Snowy days in CT has spelled trouble for me, and history was soon to repeat itself. 10 minutes later, at a speed of about 70+mph, our car skid on the snow and took a 450 degree turn (yes 1 full round and more) and finally stopped after hitting the side barrier. Thankfully there was no car behind us or on our sides, otherwise things would have become bad.
As you could have guessed from the size of this post, things didn't end there (wink!). After making sure that we were alright and the car was drivable, we decided to drive the same car to office. As soon as we reached a speed of about 50mph, the car spun again. This time about 180 degrees and we end up facing incoming traffic behind us. Richard, quickly drove us off road before things got uglier.
Those that drive in US know how embarrassing it is when you get honked. Nobody honked on us on Tuesday since there was no one behind us when we skid. Come Thursday, I was forced to honk not once but twice, on two different occasions, and that too on the freeway driving at 70mph. Why? Because the drivers on my right lane decided to overtake the car in front of them by shifting to the left side. And yes, I was right next to them on their left lane. I am sure they didn't mean to push me off road, but God, twice in a single day?? They changed lanes half-way and then when i honked loud and hard they realized they were on collission course. At such high speeds, a slight touch can spell disaster.
Hmm...a cat has 9 lives, I figured I only have 4. This morning, i was all upbeat and ready to shop for thanksgiving! I was in Circuit city, where I found this really cool 22" widescreen LCD monitor for only $160. Great! Its bigger and better than my T.V ;-)
But, when i came out of Circuit City I finally gave up. God - you win.
My car was hit by someone in the parking lot, and they did not even leave a note (I prolly got one of those junkies that America is full of). They just ran away. Circuit City has no video cameras in the parking lot, so we can't catch them now.
Hmm....Shuchi's camera got stolen and was later found broken in not-working condition - it was my first gift to her. I skipped MIT and Tuck application deadlines, as I haven't been able to cope up with office and the applications.
I don't want to know what else can go wrong. I just hope they don't happen.
update 11/23 7:30pm: ICICI just called. They said, I'm a NRI so am not allowed to hold the resident savings a/c or transact my DMAT as per RBI regulations. I need to close down my accounts in India.
original post --
God, if you are reading this, are you happy now?
The past week has been eventful, but not for happy reasons.
This past Tuesday it was the first snow of the season. The roads were slippery again. And while Richard and me were driving through the West Lake Dr, I recalled the bad memory of that traffic light. When i allegedly touched (not even sure if i touched!) the car of this Russian female who sued me for $450 later. Snowy days in CT has spelled trouble for me, and history was soon to repeat itself. 10 minutes later, at a speed of about 70+mph, our car skid on the snow and took a 450 degree turn (yes 1 full round and more) and finally stopped after hitting the side barrier. Thankfully there was no car behind us or on our sides, otherwise things would have become bad.
As you could have guessed from the size of this post, things didn't end there (wink!). After making sure that we were alright and the car was drivable, we decided to drive the same car to office. As soon as we reached a speed of about 50mph, the car spun again. This time about 180 degrees and we end up facing incoming traffic behind us. Richard, quickly drove us off road before things got uglier.
Those that drive in US know how embarrassing it is when you get honked. Nobody honked on us on Tuesday since there was no one behind us when we skid. Come Thursday, I was forced to honk not once but twice, on two different occasions, and that too on the freeway driving at 70mph. Why? Because the drivers on my right lane decided to overtake the car in front of them by shifting to the left side. And yes, I was right next to them on their left lane. I am sure they didn't mean to push me off road, but God, twice in a single day?? They changed lanes half-way and then when i honked loud and hard they realized they were on collission course. At such high speeds, a slight touch can spell disaster.
Hmm...a cat has 9 lives, I figured I only have 4. This morning, i was all upbeat and ready to shop for thanksgiving! I was in Circuit city, where I found this really cool 22" widescreen LCD monitor for only $160. Great! Its bigger and better than my T.V ;-)
But, when i came out of Circuit City I finally gave up. God - you win.
My car was hit by someone in the parking lot, and they did not even leave a note (I prolly got one of those junkies that America is full of). They just ran away. Circuit City has no video cameras in the parking lot, so we can't catch them now.
Hmm....Shuchi's camera got stolen and was later found broken in not-working condition - it was my first gift to her. I skipped MIT and Tuck application deadlines, as I haven't been able to cope up with office and the applications.
I don't want to know what else can go wrong. I just hope they don't happen.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Some of the things i've been buyin
Radioshack - $19.95 Nokia Bluetooth headset
Go to RadioShack. Search for "BH-600"
CircuitCity - $7.99 2GB USB Drive
Circuit City product link
Circuit City - $9.99 Logitech Web Cam
Circuit City product link
Circuit City - $79.95 Seagate USB harddrive 500GB
Circuit City product link
Buy.com - $4.99 Creative Web Cam
Go to buy.com. Then search for 'creative webcam bonus'
.. keep checkin'
Go to RadioShack. Search for "BH-600"
CircuitCity - $7.99 2GB USB Drive
Circuit City product link
Circuit City - $9.99 Logitech Web Cam
Circuit City product link
Circuit City - $79.95 Seagate USB harddrive 500GB
Circuit City product link
Buy.com - $4.99 Creative Web Cam
Go to buy.com. Then search for 'creative webcam bonus'
.. keep checkin'
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Free car service and almost free Nintendo Wii!
Yay! Got free Oil servicing done on my car :-)
(Actually paid $10 which will get donated to a Children's home and makes my service free)
Was just looking at Amazon...they've been really pushing the site to a new interface and everything. The Amazon webservices are also nice and will catch-up with the public soon.
Check out the Amazon holiday season votes...great chance to get great deals on many cool gadgets. example: $799 for a new Samsung 46" LCD HDTV!! me going for the Nintendo wii and the GPS too!
Click here for Amazon Customer Votes
(Actually paid $10 which will get donated to a Children's home and makes my service free)
Was just looking at Amazon...they've been really pushing the site to a new interface and everything. The Amazon webservices are also nice and will catch-up with the public soon.
Check out the Amazon holiday season votes...great chance to get great deals on many cool gadgets. example: $799 for a new Samsung 46" LCD HDTV!! me going for the Nintendo wii and the GPS too!
Click here for Amazon Customer Votes
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
How I survived my childhood
The actors in this post are non-fictional and do bear resemblance to people we know. These are all witness accounts as I have little memory of these terrifying experiences.
My first out of body experience was on a balcony. I was only about a month old, and had decided that I wanted to be superman after I grew up. Destiny could not hold my aspirations much longer and when I was at Ruchi waali nani's place, I took my first shot. The balcony railing were wide enough for a month old baby like me to slip through. And we were on the 1st floor, so jumping from the balcony would have given me enough time to find out if I could actually fulfill my destiny. So, when nani and I were sitting outside, and nani was reading her magazine, I took my shot. I slid through the railings and got my feet and hands off the ground and was about to find out the truth, when one hand grabbed my frock (yes, babies wear frocks. shocking isn't it?!). For a few seconds I was hanging mid-air on the first floor balcony looking straight down at my destiny.
A few years later I came to know about this phenomenon called 'gravity'. They told me, I never could have flown...well now i will never find out!
My second tryst with near death experience was at Nalini aunty's place. I was standing behind the 12 inch gap between the sofa and the wall. And Akshia was jumping up over the sofa. Even though we were only 1 and 3 year olds, no heavyweights, the sofa gave in to Akshia's enthusiastic leapfrogging and broke two of its legs. Akshia was still on it, wondering what had happened. Oh and me? I was in action too! I was right underneath the broken sofa!!
I am told I cried like a baby! Well!!! There is not much a 1 year old can do anyway (there's peeing around too, but that probably does not count).
The third time, I was playing around with unidentified military equipment. Akshia, as a veteran 5 year old toddler, was in lead supportive role this time too. We were at a neighbours house where there were humongous wooden boxes to pack heavy equipment. As soon as there were no adults around, we decided to check out everything in sight. I decided to peek into one of the open boxes and crawled half way into them - legs in the air and head inside :-) The boxes were made of wood that is used in the sleeper class cabins in India railways. Trust me they were big, hard and heavy. At about the same time, Akshia decided to close the box and as heavy as they were, he managed to push the cover, so it slowly started to slide down - you guessed right...on to me.
24 years after that incident, papa's friend (name un-disclosed; err...actually i don't remember the name), told papa what had happened, how he could not forget the incident in so many years, and what he would have done if something had happened to me. After 24 years, he told mom & dad that such a thing had happened. How he shouted my name when he saw the box cover sliding down, and how i was lucky to have jump off the box just in time without hurting a hair on my body.
My first out of body experience was on a balcony. I was only about a month old, and had decided that I wanted to be superman after I grew up. Destiny could not hold my aspirations much longer and when I was at Ruchi waali nani's place, I took my first shot. The balcony railing were wide enough for a month old baby like me to slip through. And we were on the 1st floor, so jumping from the balcony would have given me enough time to find out if I could actually fulfill my destiny. So, when nani and I were sitting outside, and nani was reading her magazine, I took my shot. I slid through the railings and got my feet and hands off the ground and was about to find out the truth, when one hand grabbed my frock (yes, babies wear frocks. shocking isn't it?!). For a few seconds I was hanging mid-air on the first floor balcony looking straight down at my destiny.
A few years later I came to know about this phenomenon called 'gravity'. They told me, I never could have flown...well now i will never find out!
My second tryst with near death experience was at Nalini aunty's place. I was standing behind the 12 inch gap between the sofa and the wall. And Akshia was jumping up over the sofa. Even though we were only 1 and 3 year olds, no heavyweights, the sofa gave in to Akshia's enthusiastic leapfrogging and broke two of its legs. Akshia was still on it, wondering what had happened. Oh and me? I was in action too! I was right underneath the broken sofa!!
I am told I cried like a baby! Well!!! There is not much a 1 year old can do anyway (there's peeing around too, but that probably does not count).
The third time, I was playing around with unidentified military equipment. Akshia, as a veteran 5 year old toddler, was in lead supportive role this time too. We were at a neighbours house where there were humongous wooden boxes to pack heavy equipment. As soon as there were no adults around, we decided to check out everything in sight. I decided to peek into one of the open boxes and crawled half way into them - legs in the air and head inside :-) The boxes were made of wood that is used in the sleeper class cabins in India railways. Trust me they were big, hard and heavy. At about the same time, Akshia decided to close the box and as heavy as they were, he managed to push the cover, so it slowly started to slide down - you guessed right...on to me.
24 years after that incident, papa's friend (name un-disclosed; err...actually i don't remember the name), told papa what had happened, how he could not forget the incident in so many years, and what he would have done if something had happened to me. After 24 years, he told mom & dad that such a thing had happened. How he shouted my name when he saw the box cover sliding down, and how i was lucky to have jump off the box just in time without hurting a hair on my body.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
1098 for a helping hand
If you have a function/party at your home/office and if there is excess food available at the end, please don't hesitate to call 1098 (only in India) - child helpline. They will come and collect the food. Please circulate this message which can help feed many children.
"Helping hands are better than Praying Lips"
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Gmail Paper?!
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
maybe only for Google employees!
or maybe print based advertising...watermarks on your emails...hah! possibilities endless!
maybe only for Google employees!
or maybe print based advertising...watermarks on your emails...hah! possibilities endless!
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Tuck and crawling like a baby
The Tuck visit was good. The Decision Strategy class by Prof.Powell was awesome. Fun and learning in a b-school :-)
Since this is not one of those MBA blogs, I can take the liberty of not going into too much details :-D, unless asked.
Oh, and about the crawling part - I twisted my ankle while playing Basketball with Akshia in the Cornell gym. In case you are wondering...yes, its painful to walk now. I drained so much energy in just trying to pick up my phone from the table in front of me, that i had to crawl on my knees just to get to the kitchen in the house. Crawled like a baby.
Since this is not one of those MBA blogs, I can take the liberty of not going into too much details :-D, unless asked.
Oh, and about the crawling part - I twisted my ankle while playing Basketball with Akshia in the Cornell gym. In case you are wondering...yes, its painful to walk now. I drained so much energy in just trying to pick up my phone from the table in front of me, that i had to crawl on my knees just to get to the kitchen in the house. Crawled like a baby.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Happy bday ma!
Happy bday to my bestest ma in the world!!!
It was great to have called ma, and have Shuchi, Akshia and papa also on the line. Can't wait for us to be all together in one room!
Hey there blog :-)
My head is spinning due to information overload as I sit down thinking about my class visit to Tuck tomorrow. If Sloan is my top choice till now, it's going to get some really stiff competition after tomorrow. We'll find out.
Essays aren't going anywhere. Reccos are pending. I'm getting nervous now!
Will be heading for Ithaca after the Tuck visit. Hoping that a stay with Akshia will inspire me to work harder and more than that, more focused.
It was great to have called ma, and have Shuchi, Akshia and papa also on the line. Can't wait for us to be all together in one room!
Hey there blog :-)
My head is spinning due to information overload as I sit down thinking about my class visit to Tuck tomorrow. If Sloan is my top choice till now, it's going to get some really stiff competition after tomorrow. We'll find out.
Essays aren't going anywhere. Reccos are pending. I'm getting nervous now!
Will be heading for Ithaca after the Tuck visit. Hoping that a stay with Akshia will inspire me to work harder and more than that, more focused.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Happy birthday to me!
no thats not a blot on the camera lens. Its a piece of cake on my forehead...remnant of the facial cake massage :-DThis year, i did not get a chance to go out and spend money - yes that is what all bdays are for - to go wild and treat yourself! Life's tough...but i think i like it to be tough. Don't want to be a 65 yr old thinking where did all the years went by.
On the brighter side, i did get to cut 3 cakes. yes 3! yuppee!
The first one was from my darling Ms.Shuchi.
The second one from my office gang, and the third from Sal and co. (in pic)
Hello 27! Let make it a memorable one. Well actually, I have no doubts about that :-)
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