i was home…. and still this has been a pretty hectic day @ work… sometimes things have to go wrong…only when you are not around to take care of them quickly….

and thats precisely what has happened today… the tool that i support and maintain in the office went berserk… and that made sure that i could not rest the entire day… the only difference being that i did not have to drive to work today…

good that i have a nice team with me in the office.. which meant that the issues could be resolved even when i was only on phone and chat…

so nice hectic day today… need to go out to get some photocopies… and then the day is over…

ta da….

a couple of good news… and a bad one…

ok.. the bad one first… so that we can forget it quickly as soon as we read the good ones…

i am sick… headache… stomach infection.. body ache fever… had to skip office today because of this … but am still working… kisi tarah… can’t help it…

and the good ones… here they go…

i completed 10000 visits on my blog… very nice feeling… had no clue this is where i was heading towards when i started with this page in September’04… some stupids posts that i wrote then.. and things for sure have changed… thanks blogspot…

and the other good news… i am finally joining IBM tomorrow as a regular employee… for ppl who did not know.. i was a contractor so far… a third party consultant for them.. and now i would be a full time regular IBMer… a Tools and Technology Lead for the IT Services Arm of IGSI… nice…

life is good.. working to make it better….

and my happy budday is coming… just a few days to go.. and i will be officially older… huh !!! this is not good…
anyway.. i have this looooong list of goodies that ppl can buy for me… and if not anything else.. i think i will be content with some spring flowers.. but then wishing and getting me something have to be together… and i know what most of you are going to say.. thank you and a treat have to be together too.. hehehe… we shall see 🙂 this is sayantani’s favorite line.. and i am sure she wants to kill me for using this…

too long a post… and i am tired… will rest for a while.. and then get back to some work….

Managing marriages is a tough deal…

starting from when to get married to, how many people to invite, to booking of a band, to finding a place to host the wedding, to arranging for music and so on a so forth…

these days you get some package deals which include the decoration, food, place and music, however I am not sure if there are consultants who work with the middle class families on any wedding reception ideas. I think this kinda consultancy is long awaiting and there are more then enough people who would like to engage such firms and enjoy the celebrations…

what next after wedding… a honeymoon… and a few years later… may be another if the spark stays.. or on a more not so romantic note… looking around for a some options where you could just go and relax… one of such things is vacation home Orlando where you could actually have a home when you are on a vacation… this happens in India too.. where you can actually get complete cottages or houses where you can stay during vacation…

nice… I am not sure if I am looking forward to a wedding or not.. but… vacation… game anytime for it

😀

explain this…

when i slept last night the sky had more clouds then HOLI needed…

and when i got up today…

nothing.. none.. zilch… bright blue sky with lovely sun outside…

and just the day to celebrate holi…

Ankur always visits on Holi so i was ready to catch up with him after applying the mustard oil to myself wearing a nice white shirt 🙂

and then rounds of gulal followed with me and Ankur first visiting Neelam, and then Tushar… who was looking quite handsome with a black and green face… and shining white teeth… we just added soem colour with red gulal…

and this where i could not stay away from the pakka rang… so my face all blank and blue… and i did not know this was only round one…

round two @ ankur’s place.. where kanisha ( his sister) made me look like a horrible ghost with some blue, green, yello and ORANGE colour… phew.. and they did not seem satisfied enough with this achievement.. and to get some more pleasure out of the simple me… they poured buckets of water on me …

phew.. what a holi… and my shirt now… was no longer white…

nice day till afternoon so far… thank you God for this festival… so many colours.. so many smiles… so much of laughters…

won-duh-phull !!!

I know that there are a lot of very serious bloggers, who write and read a lot… and i always used to wonder where exactly they get the time to do this from?

I find it tough to manage my time after i am done with my office and the everyday photoshop playing around…

and then i found out that i could make money blogging…. well i do not not see it as a problem… if things work out fine..i might just earn enough money to take care of my fotography expenses every month !!!

Oh, and how i mentioned about buying those silver bricks and coins and stuff.. i found out that there is something different that you could buy as well… Buy Silver Bullion… for those who do not know what a bullion is.. click here to find out…

Laadiss… and Gentel-Mans… Pliss… Welkomes…

MEEEEE

The Guitar Players…

oh manh !!!

i SUCK @ playing Guitar…

hehehe…

bigg time..

lets see what these classes can do…

And my guru @ guitar.. Ashish… plays really really well.. God Bless him 🙂

Oh.. and Tushar is learning Salsa these days…

once both of us are purrfect… i play the guitar.. and then he dances 😀

hehehe..

and you can be the audience.. and throw money at us.. just make sure that you do not throw coins 😀

some of my friends are thinking what has happened to me.. and why the last two posts do not seem to be written from heart…

well.. they are generating some money for me.. thats why… am increasing the page ranking of a few sites and get paid for it… while they go ahead and enjoy the high backlinks…

for the benefit of ppl who come here to read about me… i will mark such commercial posts with a {C} like Tushar does…

and now about the weekend…
saturday… umm.. no no.. friday night.. the plan for rishikesh got cancelled.. and i was in no mood to go back home…

where else could i go..

Gurgaon.. yess.. Arobindo… called him up.. he was home.. so i went there… and enroute.. had a roll at tha Kathis in Saket… and met up with Ashi… her office has a LandRover to take them around.. what the heck !!!

Ok.. Aro’s place.. and then to Hughes… met up with Narang… he is a big man now… and checked out his new babe.. the new City… lovely.. i feel so glad when i see him moving ahead..

dinner at the pizza hut followed… got a pizza packed for narang too.. and then met him again… and slept peacefully at Aro’s…

saturday morning came back home… was tired… sleepy.. and still went out to sector-18.. don’t even remember why… but i remember meeting naveeen… and having coffeee @ costa… and buying a book…

sunday…

went out with mom dad…

saw Iqbal.. and loved the movie.. i think i will get all the movies by Nagesh.. he is a wonderful director…

evening.. did some shopping in Lajpat Nagar.. bought two new pairs of shoes… nice.. eh 🙂 one kaala joota… and one casual joota… ekdum masta…

and i realised… that the jeans that i love to love… is giving up on me… this holi might be the last time that i wear it…

and monday comes a li’il too fast… ugh !!!

waiting for next friday again…

rishikesh jaana hai 🙂

why am i doing this…

first i thought i have some money and a few coins should be good enough for me…

and now i found out that i could actually buy silver bars… hehehe imagine…

like in the old movies i have that tijori with a huge door…

with a lot of money inside it..

and these gold and silver bars and all… but then doesn’t that make me kinda prone to attacks… some peope might want to just lootofy me…

and then i need protection… and what if i am not able to do that for myself…

i would need to hire some guards or something… if this was the US then these new york personal injury advisors would have been of help for sure.. but is something of that sort available in india? i am not sure…

would you know of anything?

My birthday is near….

April…

The financial year starts… money comes to pockets and then is spent…

i am thinking of buying silver coins for myself… well… why is that surprising… i am actually expecting my friends to buy me things like the lens i need, the leh trip i have been waiting for… or if not anything else.. then how about just a few gift baskets full of goodies…

anyone game ?

🙂

😀

tushar says my thinking and photography is limited by my philosophy….

i agree..

i have not thought or even made a slight effort (sorry about that tushar) to get technically sound with photography… although i have like a million questions on how to do this and how to do that… and the answer is going to come from?

READING…

uh… brings me back to something that i am not good at… reading… but i guess i will have to leave that mind-block aside to grow… thanks tushar for being a pain and making me think this…

coming back to photography…

i have thought of a theme.. a message… a story… a moment with all my fotos… and not of the ISO, or the Shutter Speed or the Aperture so far… i want to graduate to a DSLR and do all this… that is when i will also have data to analyse.. today a film based SLR does not let me remember the F-value or the Shutter Speed for every one of those 36 shots… anyway… this is not an excuse but a realisation of whats not being done…

and reading… i have promised tushar that i will read “A train to Pakistan” in two days as required by him… so be it…

and we went to Costa to have Coffee today…. the Primo, the Medio and something else is the cup size there… oops… the Coffee cup size i meant…

and then we did not really a lot of good gurls in the sector18 today…. so we came back sooner then usual…

oh and i want to read “Spouse” by Shoba De… hudd hai… now i want to read books that talk about a happy married life.. huh !!! and i bought the “Malgudi Landscapes – The best of R.K. Narayan” ab padunga…

and i uploaded a foto of the Howrah Bridge on my photo-blog…

and i want to rest now…

but i do not want to…

abhi chalta hoon…
phir milta hooon…

🙂

yesterday was one of the nicer drives back home…

forget about the traffic jam… thats ok… especially after I have seen the situation in Banglore and Mumbai… i have stopped complaining about the roads or the situation on the roads in delhi… its atleast a 1000 times better if not more..

so moved our of the usual traffic jams and reached the toll breeze… oops.. its the toll bridge… and i was enjoying the breeze…

awesome… driving at a comfortable 50 kmph… with the windows rolled down.. and some of my favorite numbers playing… its time like these when i do not mind the cars overtaking me like crazy at all…

and reached home…

and got a wonderful news from a friend… happy women’s day ho gaya ekdum mera bhi uska bhi… God bless her !!!

and the morning drive to office was good too…

i could see the blue sky and the white clouds in my rear view mirror.. and i hated myself for not carrying a camera with me today… aaargh !!!

moments moments moments.. they do not get repeated…

and i have managed to survive 9 days in this month without my salary… and i am going for rafting tomorrow…

and tushar has written in his blog that he has not gone outta delhi this year so far… i thought i will also write about where all i have been to in 2006…

• 2005 wished me good luck and went away when i was in chennai at deepak’s place…
• moved to banglore from there…
• and then had that wonderful one day trip to Mysore…
• Kolkata followed…

thats all for Jan’06

and Feb saw me going to

• Bharatpur
• Mussoorie
• and my village… not too far away but it was a drive and a wonderful experience… so three trips in feb…

march is here…
first trip to rishikesh… Rafting… i am addicted to this sport… and i plan to do it at least twice every year till i can…

whats planned for the rest of the year…

• Rishikesh again in april…
• Singapore ( thought of it a few days back.. might want to buy my camera from there.. instead of india)
• Dharamshaala and McLeodganj ( Drive for 4 days) can’t forget the funn when i went to uttranchal last year on a drive.. love you radha…
• Rajasthan ( Drive again.. in winters 2006… a week this time)

all of these look doable as of now… unless things take a turn.. and i take up a project outside india.. which i would love to… lets see…

wish me luck.. while i pray for the wellbeing of human kind 😀 …oh.. and you ofcourse…

have not written about whats been happening for a while now…

dunno why…

was just too tired to write i guess…

anyway…

i think the last weekend was something i really would like to write about.. not because it had something special associated with it.. but because i would like to write.. and not be my usual lazy self…

saturday… spent in searching for a lense for my camera… and ending up in more confusion because of the variation in price with multiple dealers… actually i think that happened for good.. because the camera that i am going to buy might just be different then wat i was thinking… so not reaching any conclusion as of now.. i am going to spend some more time in researching to reach a mature decision…

the other highlight of the day was…
meeting Rohit and Richa.. and Richa… kinda excited on seeing Rohit for the first time.. and screaming.. “he is sooo cute”… saturday also saw her being in love with some vocalist of her college band… its so easy to be in love i think… everyone should be in love.. with a lot of people…

and saturday also saw me and tushar thinking about the age difference we had with rohit and richa… who suddenly looked kids for some reason… and we thought about us reaching a certain level of maturity with age.. which they will too… in due course of time…

and saturday also saw us travelling in the public transport of delhi… not really willing to keep standing… waiting on the bus stand for an empty bus and so on.. with the ending with a refreshing litchi ice tea @ my favorite tea shop… this is where an interesting conversation started.. and it was continued on sunday too…

some of the words and sentences that i remember of the conversation i had in the last two days with tushar…

kids, age, maturity, i cannot read, i need to look for the right book to read to start with, my willingness towards conversations then reading books, the marriage proposals reaching my home… the conversations at home about them… my total 100% cluelessness about how to take them anywhere… my total confusion about how someone can figure out if they really want to spend rather can spend the REST OF THEIR LIVES TOGETHER… one of my uncles talking to my mom about a girl.. and stressing the fact that she has done her education in english medium… me thinking and realising that somewhere around my city itself… studying in english medium makes you better then others… me and tushar talking about how the priorities change when it comes to getting married…how we did not talk about if the gurl had any affairs in the past.. but we only talking about how she could mix up with the existing set of friends one has… and how she would be able to cope up with different kinds of societies the guy is a part of.. his family, his friends, and his office… how being beautiful is not the biggest reason why i would marry someone… and in between… oogling at the hotties around in sector-18… and not really talking about marriage and girls and only about how hott the girls looked in what they were wearing.. and how they would look with lesser clothes.. and talking about how we would like to record all our conversations and then post them on the blogs… and that we would make a questionaire for women which they could and would fill up and give to the men.. and how we would like to do this as a business… and so on and so forth…

i am sure i have not been able to write even 30% of what me and tushar talked about.. but then the crux of the matter is… that life is totally not solved and confusing when it comes to getting married…

so enjoy folks while i continue to write about the state of mind i would be in on every proposal that comes to my place…

and how life takes different turns while the days pass by….

and also we talked about why i could not get into a relationship right now.. because if i am having an affair.. big or small… i would loose the freedom of looking for a life partner for me.. unless the girl also in the state of mind which allows her to let me do this.. which is kinda a toughie…

and also.. how the girls also were keen on making out with their boyfriends… but they still waiting for a good while before they let their guy touch them… and tushar wondering about why that permit cannot be given in 6 hours instead of 6 months or 6 weeks.. or whatever…

am i forgetting something…

i guess i am..

and the more i try to think about what it is.. the more blank my mind is feeling right now…

so good night… have fun.. be safe…

these personalities tests are funn…

something that can cheer you up kinda quickly.. well they say so many good things about you… and all the other times they are pretty accurate as well… here is what i did first thing in the morning today… to make sure that i have a good day…

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You’re not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your “down time.” Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. But you borderline on being a total perfectionist. Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You’re generally a friendly and trusting person. But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair. Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You’re generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth, but there’s a few emotional bumps you’d like to get rid of. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You’ll try almost anything interesting, and you’re constantly pushing your own limits. A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

Your Birthdate: April 10

Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations. You’re very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you. Mundane tasks tend to drain you – you prefer to be making great plans. You are quite original. When people don’t “get” you, it bothers you a lot. Your strength: Your ability to gain respect Your weakness: Caring too much what others think (hmm) Your power color: Orange-red (and i m in love with this colour too) Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October

Your Seduction Style: The Charismatic

You’re beyond seductive, you’re downright magnetic! You life live and approach seduction on a grand scale. You have an inner self confidence and energy that most people lack It’s these talents that make you seem extraordinary – and you truly are!