Friday, August 22, 2008

Sound Sleep

Today, my laptop was crashing repeatedly while booting. I had to POR (Power On Reset) four time to get it to normal. Mine is a Dell latitude 650 model with XP SP2. Compared to available models today, it's reasonably older with 40 GB HDD and 512M RAM. I did not look for a replacement as I have tons of official and personal data stored on it and also I have developed a comfort with the keyboard and other accessories attached to this Lapu. Most importantly I have seen a strange telepathic link between the lapu and my mood (partially this is also the case with my mobile phone). Whenever I feel little down, I have seen, my laptop also gets into troubles. The more gloomy I am, more is the frequency of crash. If one checks the event manager logs in my system (in the administrative tools), he/she can easily get a measure of my mood for that particular date.
I was feeling sad today - for no particular reason as such. Got up very early while it was still dark outside (though last night I slept after midnight). After having a glass of water I tried to sleep again but could not. The mobile alarm started beeping at 5 AM. No, I am not an early raiser ( I hate getting up early), I intended to set the alarm at 7 but by mistake I set it @5.00am. Partly the blame should go to the dilapidated keypad where the digits can not be seen. Anyway I set the alarm @730 and tried to sleep again. Alas, my domestic help came @6:10am while normally she does not turn up before the time I am ready for office:) I thought I would force her to take an off by not answering the calling bell but that was not to be. She kept on pressing the door bell and at the same time was knocking the door and with every passing minutes the intensity just started raising exponentially. So before whole housing society members come to examine the situation, I had to get up and let her in. I told her to clean other rooms, leaving my bedroom - I went to bed again and tried to sleep. Half an hour passed, the doorbell ringing again and it was just like before except this time the visitor was not knocking the door. I got up to see my domestic help again. This time she rang the bell not to get in...just to tell me that she was leaving :)). This time I didn't try sleeping again - had a shower and started preparing for office.

Literally, I had a "sound sleep" today.

Indian achievement??

Today, there was a news article in the net, hailing Bobby Jindal who has been given a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention- Per the website he's the first "Indian American" to have that "honour". The news article is a manifestation of Indian -third world- slave- mentality. This 'Indian American ' stuff is going too far.e.g. during NASA mission which included Sunita William, the media went crazy as if she is residing next door!! Oh..our silly media sucks!!!
While I do not have any problem with their achievements (or whatever you call it), I think it's not only stupid but also criminal to highlight such stuff as an Indian achievement. Our media should find something more newsworthy.

Friday, August 8, 2008

A lesson from Jodie Foster

"... There is nothing in this world I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in."
-Jodie Foster

Friday, August 1, 2008

Smoking.........


Coming home.....

It has been 3 months since I came for a project in Lex. Everything seems to be same since my last visit in 06. Yet this time, I am in a totally different area with different chain of management. I really liked the manager's area meetings where everything is so informal - yet very open, transparent and professional.
Found that some of the Americans are very fond of Indian food. Used to have lunch in various Indian restaurents every other day. Despite work pressure, it was fun and I enjoyed the pressure....wait a minute...I enjoyed the office time only but after returning from office, the things turns out to be nightmare to me. Was feeling so bad for my parent, siblings, nephew and niece. Tomorow I am going home....I am in a ocean of joy....I can not wait seeing my near and dear ones in my place. ...
".........I’ll be home tonight,I’m coming back home.............................".

Yahooo!!!!