Back home. Feels good to be back but at the same time I feel melancholy about the whirlwind of a trip I had. 8 days or so and traveling across 20 time zones and back.
I now know what it feels like to be a road warrior. Travel in flights, stay in motels, order in, have the airline misplace some luggage, buy some gifts, the works. I think I can handle it.
Cheers for all the good times.
Currently listening to:- Shpongle & Chicane.
Monday, 23 April 2007
Saturday, 21 April 2007
Quote of the Day
This just in from an Esquire article abt the 60 things worth shortening your life for.
Number 42 is Secondhand Smoking:-
The smoker has the best stories, tells the best jokes, and laughs the hearty, hacking laugh of someone wise beyond his dwindling years. If black lung by proxy is the price we must pay for staying close to this dying breed, so be it.
Awesome.
Number 42 is Secondhand Smoking:-
The smoker has the best stories, tells the best jokes, and laughs the hearty, hacking laugh of someone wise beyond his dwindling years. If black lung by proxy is the price we must pay for staying close to this dying breed, so be it.
Awesome.
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Back in the East
Well that was a whole lotta fun. Cali is awesome. I miss it already.
Played tennis like an addict. I'm gonna try and do this some more in Bombay. Ate, drank & chilled out a lot as well. And that was just last weekend. Monday, T & W was the web 2.o expo which was an amazing thing to behold. So many uber-geeks in 30,000 sq feet was like tech nirvana. I hope to do this next year as well.
Sights see in and around sf included the famous 'Crooked' Lombard street, the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz prison, Pier 69, Fisherman's wharf & a whole bunch of Sea Lions. A nice city. Riding the BART was a fun experience as well.
The flight last night to nyc was uneventful (not that I need a constant state of adrenaline on airline flights) where I basically slept the whole flight for prob the first time in my life. Got to a clients office around 30 mins ago. Just catching up on emails and pending to-do's.
I'm booked in Secaucus, NJ till Sat so I'll be heading over there in couple of hrs. I plan to meet up with some old friends tomorrow & hopefully I can even goto the AC on Sat for a few hrs. Lets see how everything goes.
Played tennis like an addict. I'm gonna try and do this some more in Bombay. Ate, drank & chilled out a lot as well. And that was just last weekend. Monday, T & W was the web 2.o expo which was an amazing thing to behold. So many uber-geeks in 30,000 sq feet was like tech nirvana. I hope to do this next year as well.
Sights see in and around sf included the famous 'Crooked' Lombard street, the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz prison, Pier 69, Fisherman's wharf & a whole bunch of Sea Lions. A nice city. Riding the BART was a fun experience as well.
The flight last night to nyc was uneventful (not that I need a constant state of adrenaline on airline flights) where I basically slept the whole flight for prob the first time in my life. Got to a clients office around 30 mins ago. Just catching up on emails and pending to-do's.
I'm booked in Secaucus, NJ till Sat so I'll be heading over there in couple of hrs. I plan to meet up with some old friends tomorrow & hopefully I can even goto the AC on Sat for a few hrs. Lets see how everything goes.
Thursday, 12 April 2007
San Fran thank you ma'am
A historic day for the blog - obviously with 4 years being completed today.
Today I'm also leaving for the US for a quickie in San Fran. That sounded better in my head.
A pitstop in NYC and then back home in time for drinks and work a couple Mondays away. I hope to post some pics and some actual updates from a tech conf. Woo-hoo.
Today I'm also leaving for the US for a quickie in San Fran. That sounded better in my head.
A pitstop in NYC and then back home in time for drinks and work a couple Mondays away. I hope to post some pics and some actual updates from a tech conf. Woo-hoo.
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
4 years down
Time flies.
Enough of the cliches but man is it true.
Just last April I was posting on the 3 year bday of the blog and today its 4 years.
I feel good...
Enough of the cliches but man is it true.
Just last April I was posting on the 3 year bday of the blog and today its 4 years.
I feel good...
Friday, 30 March 2007
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Quote for the Day
Quote of the Day:-
"We all have grown up seeing Tendulkar thrashing every bowling attack in the world. We have lived on chases and never-say-die attitude of Ganguly. And we are the ones who have witnessed the strength of the great Indian Wall all our life. It's really been a great entertainment from these three. There will be better players but, there are heroes for every generation. My dad's time there was Gavaskar and mine were these three. It's bad that these three will leave the cricket field without having a single world cup on their name. I don't feel angry, I just feel sad. Really really sad."
- Some other Indian fan echoing my sentiments. Post of the year.
"We all have grown up seeing Tendulkar thrashing every bowling attack in the world. We have lived on chases and never-say-die attitude of Ganguly. And we are the ones who have witnessed the strength of the great Indian Wall all our life. It's really been a great entertainment from these three. There will be better players but, there are heroes for every generation. My dad's time there was Gavaskar and mine were these three. It's bad that these three will leave the cricket field without having a single world cup on their name. I don't feel angry, I just feel sad. Really really sad."
- Some other Indian fan echoing my sentiments. Post of the year.
WTF?
Hope and faith can only go this far.
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
Time will tell...
Shameful shattering of a billion hearts, caused by an embarrassment of riches.
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
Time will tell...
Shameful shattering of a billion hearts, caused by an embarrassment of riches.
Friday, 16 March 2007
666 twice
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
Watching wc 2k7 here and in Stick Cricket style Gibbs of South Africa blasted 6 sixes in an over.
Becoming the first to do in in ODI cricket
Watching wc 2k7 here and in Stick Cricket style Gibbs of South Africa blasted 6 sixes in an over.
Becoming the first to do in in ODI cricket
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The World and a few cups
An excellent post to get things going. Makes you think, really...
My religious festival starts today.. it comes once every 4 years and I celebrate it as much as I can.
It's the cricket world cup 2007 and this year its in the West Indies. Cricket has finally come to the Caribbean
My religious festival starts today.. it comes once every 4 years and I celebrate it as much as I can.
It's the cricket world cup 2007 and this year its in the West Indies. Cricket has finally come to the Caribbean
Thursday, 22 February 2007
WoW rules for life
A good read.
Gathering some lessons learned in the popular online game World of Warcraft and then applying them to real life.
Gathering some lessons learned in the popular online game World of Warcraft and then applying them to real life.
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
College Riot
A laugh riot that is. Awesome pic of a paper a student in some high level mech class got back after grading.
I wish some of my teachers had such a sense of humor
I wish some of my teachers had such a sense of humor
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Straight from the Heart
I'm not really a subscriber of the whole Valentine thingie... it's just not a part of who I am.
But I will use this occasion to wax poetic abt some awesome quotes related to today's theme. I'm tired of the day already with tons of people wishing me Happy Valentines... I mean I've been hearing it since I was driving home at 5 in the morning from work.
Some people were starting their days, I was ending mine. It was just not the time.
Thanks qoTd once again.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
- Irving Stone
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
- Anita Brookner
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
- Elinor Glyn, 1864 - 1943
But I will use this occasion to wax poetic abt some awesome quotes related to today's theme. I'm tired of the day already with tons of people wishing me Happy Valentines... I mean I've been hearing it since I was driving home at 5 in the morning from work.
Some people were starting their days, I was ending mine. It was just not the time.
Thanks qoTd once again.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
- Irving Stone
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
- Anita Brookner
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
- Elinor Glyn, 1864 - 1943
Monday, 12 February 2007
Headstrong
Whoa, crazy weekend. First off, sat morning I answered a call on my cell phone around 8 in the morning - to do this I moved to the far end of my bed and went back to sleep there.
In a couple of mins, there was a loud crash and I looked to my left and lo and behold, my ceiling fan had come crashing down next to me. If not for that phone call, one of the blades would certainly have struck me.
To quote Ross from Friends, "I have a new-found zest for life."
In a couple of mins, there was a loud crash and I looked to my left and lo and behold, my ceiling fan had come crashing down next to me. If not for that phone call, one of the blades would certainly have struck me.
To quote Ross from Friends, "I have a new-found zest for life."
Friday, 2 February 2007
TGIF
Thank GOD its friday. Another hellish week.
Good way to unwind.. i feel like I'm in nyc again. Its 4:20 in the afternoon on a Friday and I'm abt to.... well upper management is abt to head out for a weekend getaway.
Drinkin, poker, music, food, cricket and debates - not in any particular order.
Out of here....
Good way to unwind.. i feel like I'm in nyc again. Its 4:20 in the afternoon on a Friday and I'm abt to.... well upper management is abt to head out for a weekend getaway.
Drinkin, poker, music, food, cricket and debates - not in any particular order.
Out of here....
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