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Thursday, November 16, 2006
After nearly three months of hibernation...
I am back...it has been a really really long time...I will blame it on non-availability of time, location change from india to US, project work, but I can't deny that I sometimes redefine laziness. But now I am back and here goes my random thoughts from the last three months...
* I cant describe how relieved i was to come here and see s~ at the airport. The gruelling flight journey and the security checks dint matter much at that point of time.
* I can never forget that I had to pay 900 bucks to come to bombay international airport from the domestic airport!!!! After all this, that guy asked me 100 bucks to take the luggage out of the car. With my little hindi speaking skills I managed to escape that but coudnt do anything at all about the 900 bucks. I somehow had to get there, and I was running late.
* Assembling furniture is fun only for the first few minutes. After that it becomes - Oh my god! when will complete this. I remembered this 'friends' serial where ross is assembling a furniture and joey and chandler are doing another. In the end joey finds that they have an extra piece which he does not know what to do with and puts in the trash. Then we see Ross searching for a piece that is shown in the drawing but he is not able to find it :-))) It is fun to watch people struggle but it is not so much fun when you are the one who is struggling.
* All the movies which I have seen in AMC have been crappy. I would have seen atleast 7-8 movies till now and it has been a total waste. But we did find a nice little theater -Mann theatre where we can see the same movie for 3$. The movies get released here after they are screened in AMC. But am I complaining???
* Thalai Diwali - I had started with ambitious plans of making 'therattupal'. But it requires so much patience plus the quantity kept reducing, I had to convert it into my tried and tested carrot halwa :-)
*My first experience with the slot machines...we made 200 bucks and then we lost all of them too:-(
*BTW, is it normal to receive thank you cards from pharmacy? We just got a medicated moisturizing cream and we got a thank you card sighned by all the employees. It said the entire staff would like to thank us for choosing them as the pharmacy and that they hoped the first visit to pharmacy was enjoyable...atleast it did not say, hope you come back again:-)
*And now to the best and latest update - we are going to vegas & grand canyon during thanks giving. I have already started the coutdown :-)
¶ 10:50 AM 3 comments
I am back...it has been a really really long time...I will blame it on non-availability of time, location change from india to US, project work, but I can't deny that I sometimes redefine laziness. But now I am back and here goes my random thoughts from the last three months...
* I cant describe how relieved i was to come here and see s~ at the airport. The gruelling flight journey and the security checks dint matter much at that point of time.
* I can never forget that I had to pay 900 bucks to come to bombay international airport from the domestic airport!!!! After all this, that guy asked me 100 bucks to take the luggage out of the car. With my little hindi speaking skills I managed to escape that but coudnt do anything at all about the 900 bucks. I somehow had to get there, and I was running late.
* Assembling furniture is fun only for the first few minutes. After that it becomes - Oh my god! when will complete this. I remembered this 'friends' serial where ross is assembling a furniture and joey and chandler are doing another. In the end joey finds that they have an extra piece which he does not know what to do with and puts in the trash. Then we see Ross searching for a piece that is shown in the drawing but he is not able to find it :-))) It is fun to watch people struggle but it is not so much fun when you are the one who is struggling.
* All the movies which I have seen in AMC have been crappy. I would have seen atleast 7-8 movies till now and it has been a total waste. But we did find a nice little theater -Mann theatre where we can see the same movie for 3$. The movies get released here after they are screened in AMC. But am I complaining???
* Thalai Diwali - I had started with ambitious plans of making 'therattupal'. But it requires so much patience plus the quantity kept reducing, I had to convert it into my tried and tested carrot halwa :-)
*My first experience with the slot machines...we made 200 bucks and then we lost all of them too:-(
*BTW, is it normal to receive thank you cards from pharmacy? We just got a medicated moisturizing cream and we got a thank you card sighned by all the employees. It said the entire staff would like to thank us for choosing them as the pharmacy and that they hoped the first visit to pharmacy was enjoyable...atleast it did not say, hope you come back again:-)
*And now to the best and latest update - we are going to vegas & grand canyon during thanks giving. I have already started the coutdown :-)
¶ 10:50 AM 3 comments
Monday, August 21, 2006
Krishna Jayanthi, PS and Opal Mehta...
Made seedai for Krishna Jayanthi. The salt was slightly on the higher side but came out well especially for a first attempt.
Finished reading all the six books of Ponniyin Selvan. Great story amazingly written, but not without a few disappointments. When I read a book, I expect an end to all the characters - lot of characters just vanish suddenly. I guess I commented just too soon on VV. The liking died off pretty fast. I mean, who would like a guy who does not even have the courage to propose to a girl even after knowing she likes him????
After some heavy reading, thought I needed something breezy and light - caught hold of How Opal Mehta got wild....liked it! ¶ 1:44 PM 2 comments
Made seedai for Krishna Jayanthi. The salt was slightly on the higher side but came out well especially for a first attempt.
Finished reading all the six books of Ponniyin Selvan. Great story amazingly written, but not without a few disappointments. When I read a book, I expect an end to all the characters - lot of characters just vanish suddenly. I guess I commented just too soon on VV. The liking died off pretty fast. I mean, who would like a guy who does not even have the courage to propose to a girl even after knowing she likes him????
After some heavy reading, thought I needed something breezy and light - caught hold of How Opal Mehta got wild....liked it! ¶ 1:44 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Can someone invent a "thing" finder???
where i can substitute "thing" with anything i want...
Losing something is irritating...but most irritating is you can rememebr where you could have lost it..
I went to my perimma's place...i can swear i had my id card with me...i placed it on
the bed there...talked to them about my amma's eye operation...later my amma also came...
after some chit-chatting we left...now rewind a lil, i did keep my id card back in my bag
as i was talking...we took an auto and came home...the next day morning my id card disappears
Now, did i keep it in my bag or not...i know for sure it was on the bed...it is not there
at my perimaa's house now...so it has to be with me...but it is not...how many times have
i played this sequence of events!
Next, the ipod charger, i took the ipod to UK, and brought it back. I remember the charger was attached to the ipod. s~ and myself took ipod to bangalore...but was the charger along
with it or not(dont remember)...we did not listen because there was no charge...i had the charger with me when i was in UK, after that we went to bangalore...it is not there in bangalore...not in chennai...no way i can check if it is in UK.
Again struck!
luckily i found the watch which S~ gave for my bday...before even i told him i had misplaced it
I am no monica but i usually find things from my own mess...and importantly i have not lost many things (unlike S~ who has lost 2 mobile phones till now!) ¶ 10:36 AM 2 comments
where i can substitute "thing" with anything i want...
Losing something is irritating...but most irritating is you can rememebr where you could have lost it..
I went to my perimma's place...i can swear i had my id card with me...i placed it on
the bed there...talked to them about my amma's eye operation...later my amma also came...
after some chit-chatting we left...now rewind a lil, i did keep my id card back in my bag
as i was talking...we took an auto and came home...the next day morning my id card disappears
Now, did i keep it in my bag or not...i know for sure it was on the bed...it is not there
at my perimaa's house now...so it has to be with me...but it is not...how many times have
i played this sequence of events!
Next, the ipod charger, i took the ipod to UK, and brought it back. I remember the charger was attached to the ipod. s~ and myself took ipod to bangalore...but was the charger along
with it or not(dont remember)...we did not listen because there was no charge...i had the charger with me when i was in UK, after that we went to bangalore...it is not there in bangalore...not in chennai...no way i can check if it is in UK.
Again struck!
luckily i found the watch which S~ gave for my bday...before even i told him i had misplaced it
I am no monica but i usually find things from my own mess...and importantly i have not lost many things (unlike S~ who has lost 2 mobile phones till now!) ¶ 10:36 AM 2 comments
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
My Lil Sis Blogs...
and I came to know of it only a few days back...Well, to me she is a kutti girl...even now i remember the day when she joined lkg...she was holding the hands of my mom and dad, standing inbetween, posing for a pic :-)...This blog tells me that she has grown up...to have opinions of her own!! Good luck archa..keep blogging.
She has written a really nice post Story of Little Prince . I did not watch that in the television...but it only shows how emotional people we are and the media knows that. For what other event did they show minute by minute detail of what was happening???
Every time i see the departure area in our airport, I think of this. It is probably 5 minutes we get to see our friends and relatives before they go to the security check, but people stand across the railing, waving to their loved ones as they get the boarding pass, hoping they would come back to them to have a few words before they proceed to the security check.
Last time I went to UK, and S~ was standing on the other side, I felt like why the hell did I accept this assignment. Similarly when S~ left to the US few weeks back, it was soon after the bombay blast and visitors were not allowed inside the airport, I felt a little sad. I just got out of the cab, and he had to leave. Probably if I had gone in, I would have got 5-10 minutes with him. But it still matters. That is the way I am! ¶ 4:18 PM 2 comments
and I came to know of it only a few days back...Well, to me she is a kutti girl...even now i remember the day when she joined lkg...she was holding the hands of my mom and dad, standing inbetween, posing for a pic :-)...This blog tells me that she has grown up...to have opinions of her own!! Good luck archa..keep blogging.
She has written a really nice post Story of Little Prince . I did not watch that in the television...but it only shows how emotional people we are and the media knows that. For what other event did they show minute by minute detail of what was happening???
Every time i see the departure area in our airport, I think of this. It is probably 5 minutes we get to see our friends and relatives before they go to the security check, but people stand across the railing, waving to their loved ones as they get the boarding pass, hoping they would come back to them to have a few words before they proceed to the security check.
Last time I went to UK, and S~ was standing on the other side, I felt like why the hell did I accept this assignment. Similarly when S~ left to the US few weeks back, it was soon after the bombay blast and visitors were not allowed inside the airport, I felt a little sad. I just got out of the cab, and he had to leave. Probably if I had gone in, I would have got 5-10 minutes with him. But it still matters. That is the way I am! ¶ 4:18 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Rewind...
It seems like i have know S~ for ages...it seems like the event just happened...but it is already six months:-) Time does fly very fast....
¶ 4:21 PM 6 comments
It seems like i have know S~ for ages...it seems like the event just happened...but it is already six months:-) Time does fly very fast....
¶ 4:21 PM 6 comments
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Back 2 Base
Been to Hyd and then Bangalore and now back to good old chennai. Had been to Hyd for project work. As a rule, I will not dwelve into work related stuff in this blog.
Whereever I go, I seem to have this habit of comparing the place with chennai. In Hyd the roads are real good (if you are from chennai, roads will seem good whereever you go:-)). Bur seriously, the roads are good. But people drive recklessly. The last time I went, I witnessed bikes sprawling on the ground and sparks coming...It was scary! That way, I think chennai is better. Since the roads are bad, you cannot drive beyond a certain speed. And in Hyd, the auto meters work!!!!!
Bangalore is full of parks. Chennai might not have 10% of the greenery that is there in bangalore. But whereever I go, my heart is always in chennai - bad roads, stagnant water, hot and dry - whatever be it, chennai is close to my heart.
Had been to Bangalore to take my amma to Eye doctor. She has a macular hole in her left eye and has been advised surgery. The entire thing sounds scary. If any of you have info on this macular hole surgery do let me know.
Sometimes I wonder how nice it would be if parents dint get older. I wish my mom had the same energy as she had when I was young - when we played hide and seek together, came with me to all those hindi and pattu classes i went! When I used to come back from pilani at the end of every semester, when I saw my parents in the station I used to think - my appa looks lil bit older than what he was when I went. Now I feel that every month :-( ¶ 5:17 PM 0 comments
Been to Hyd and then Bangalore and now back to good old chennai. Had been to Hyd for project work. As a rule, I will not dwelve into work related stuff in this blog.
Whereever I go, I seem to have this habit of comparing the place with chennai. In Hyd the roads are real good (if you are from chennai, roads will seem good whereever you go:-)). Bur seriously, the roads are good. But people drive recklessly. The last time I went, I witnessed bikes sprawling on the ground and sparks coming...It was scary! That way, I think chennai is better. Since the roads are bad, you cannot drive beyond a certain speed. And in Hyd, the auto meters work!!!!!
Bangalore is full of parks. Chennai might not have 10% of the greenery that is there in bangalore. But whereever I go, my heart is always in chennai - bad roads, stagnant water, hot and dry - whatever be it, chennai is close to my heart.
Had been to Bangalore to take my amma to Eye doctor. She has a macular hole in her left eye and has been advised surgery. The entire thing sounds scary. If any of you have info on this macular hole surgery do let me know.
Sometimes I wonder how nice it would be if parents dint get older. I wish my mom had the same energy as she had when I was young - when we played hide and seek together, came with me to all those hindi and pattu classes i went! When I used to come back from pilani at the end of every semester, when I saw my parents in the station I used to think - my appa looks lil bit older than what he was when I went. Now I feel that every month :-( ¶ 5:17 PM 0 comments
Thursday, July 20, 2006
I have been travelling a lot...
Really! looking at my blog..i see only travelogues. Anyway, we had been to Swamimalai few weeks back. This has been a long pending visit - should have gone after our marriage. But better late than never. It is a nice temple, but after being a regular at kapaleeshwarar temple, I feel for the crowd Swamimalai is pulling, the temple could have been better maintained.
We also stopped over at Kumbeshwarar temple in kumbakonam.
There is an interesting story associated with kumbeshwarar temple - http://www.eprarthana.com/temples/thanjavur/tn1571aadi.asp?tid=1571
But the most impressive temple during the visit was the Ram temple in kumabakonam. The deity was so majestic - I could just keep looking at the diety for a long time. Entire ramayana was depcited as paintings in the walls. There are so many short stories with in Ramayana, I realized, I dint know many of them on seeing those paintings. The temple also has lot of beautiful intricate stone carvings.
Over all a very satisfying trip ( if we forget the goof up the abirami travels did - we had to wait in the bus stand for 3-4 hours with all our luggage and stuff- Irritating!)
Had also been to Hyd for couple of days - project work. Any day, any time, it is really nice meeting old college friends. Had been to the one of the eat-outs near Husain Sagar lake. The lake is beautiful. Pity, I could not visit the birla mandir (kept reminding me of the saraswati temple in BITS). Is that lake really man made!!!!
What am I up to now?? - S~ in US, me keeping fingers crossed - waiting for my visa.
(P.S- I did not click those pics. Got it through Google. Thank You to whoever clicked them) ¶ 7:34 PM 0 comments
Really! looking at my blog..i see only travelogues. Anyway, we had been to Swamimalai few weeks back. This has been a long pending visit - should have gone after our marriage. But better late than never. It is a nice temple, but after being a regular at kapaleeshwarar temple, I feel for the crowd Swamimalai is pulling, the temple could have been better maintained.
We also stopped over at Kumbeshwarar temple in kumbakonam.
There is an interesting story associated with kumbeshwarar temple - http://www.eprarthana.com/temples/thanjavur/tn1571aadi.asp?tid=1571
But the most impressive temple during the visit was the Ram temple in kumabakonam. The deity was so majestic - I could just keep looking at the diety for a long time. Entire ramayana was depcited as paintings in the walls. There are so many short stories with in Ramayana, I realized, I dint know many of them on seeing those paintings. The temple also has lot of beautiful intricate stone carvings.
Over all a very satisfying trip ( if we forget the goof up the abirami travels did - we had to wait in the bus stand for 3-4 hours with all our luggage and stuff- Irritating!)
Had also been to Hyd for couple of days - project work. Any day, any time, it is really nice meeting old college friends. Had been to the one of the eat-outs near Husain Sagar lake. The lake is beautiful. Pity, I could not visit the birla mandir (kept reminding me of the saraswati temple in BITS). Is that lake really man made!!!!
What am I up to now?? - S~ in US, me keeping fingers crossed - waiting for my visa.
(P.S- I did not click those pics. Got it through Google. Thank You to whoever clicked them) ¶ 7:34 PM 0 comments
