Life of an adventuress

I don't know if there is a word called adventuress but I'm gonna run with it cause thats the only thing to describe my friend Stacey.

I met her through a cousin of mine who gave her my info just in case she needed some help in the other city that never sleeps (Mumbai) and oddly enough, she's never really needed it.

Anyway, I will be hard pressed to find anyone having more or as much fun anywhere as she does. From running marathons to hanging out with tigers to learning the sitar, she does it all. But today she topped it all in a crazy conversation.

Here is the gist:-

me: so, take part in any new marathons or learning any new instruments?

Stacey: hehe nope

nothing like that recently

me: what? nothing? not the answer I expected... I would have thought you would have been running around in Tibet playing with tigers right now

Stacey: well, next month i'm climbing everest

so i'm planning that now

this weekend i'm in delhi, tuesday i'm in bangalore, next friday i'm in goa

no time for instruments

Just insane. You rock. Cheers to more insane fun.

Scar tissue

Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl
Autumns sweet we call it fall
Ill make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
With the birds Ill share
This lonely view...



RHCP

That time of the year

I'm 24 today.

Back from the dead

I'm back from a much needed r&r break. I went extreme, going all the way to a little island called Jamaica by some people and then to an obscure little place in western new york called Buffalo.

All in all a good trip. I did take lot of pics and so did lot of my fam. I will be posting links later.

I also saw the iphone first hand and I have to say it was a fantastic experience. I will def be getting one once it launches in India. I also caught up on the movie scene with The Transformers by Michael Bay ( a very well made movie ) and then 1408 ( a truly scary movie with quite a few moments ) and I came so close to making a second trip to Atlantic City in 48 hrs. Phew... a wild 2 weeks they certainly were.

2007 - Year of the Fan

What a horrible year this has been for me as a sports fan. I love sports and follow any and every sport I can think of but this year took the cake.

Observe the teams I follow:-

in Cricket: India, poor year capped by losing in first round of the Cricket world cup

in the NBA: Dallas Mavs, best regular season record. End result, first round elimination

in the NHL: Buffalo Sabres, best regular season record. Out of the playoffs before the finals

in the EPL: Newcastle United, who? Exactly

in the Spanish Primera: Real Madrid, lost in the Champions League but can redeem something for this season in 2 weeks

in the NFL: Buffalo Bills, nuff said

And finally in the MLB: The New York Yankees, horrible start to the season led to a miracle needed to salvage this season. Forget that the yanks haven't won a WS ring since 2000, they have a realistic chance this year of NOT winning the division they play in for the first time since 1996 and even worse miss playoffs entirely for first time since '95.

What can possibly redeem the year?

Real Madrid win the Primera in 2 weeks and Yanks mount an insane comeback to make October. Oh and India winning a few games in England and Australia won't be too bad either.

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Walking a fine line between optimism and losing touch with reality since 2004.

Home Sweet Home

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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

Update Complete

Finally, the long overdue move to Blogger Beta is complete.

I love the new look blogger. Better flexibility with template editing and awesome archive structuring on the tab on the right. I would have preferred some sort of twin tab thingie but I'll look into it during the week.

Changed the hell out of all the colors and fonts.

Only thing I will miss is my dear old web stats hit counter.

Edit: I got my counter running again so hurrah!!!!