My aberrant thoughts

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Dream come true


Sometimes I feel I am a very lucky person ... I always dream ... I always dream of spending good time with nikhil,ammu,aunty and uncle ... may be sometime in my life I can go to guruvayoor with them ... All five of us traveling to a place in a car ... of late I felt that it will only be a dream of mine ... but last weekend my dream came true ... I enjoyed each and every day ... All 4 days I was like a part of that family .

But I don't know is it a good thing or not .. Now my fear is once if I fail to keep in touch with them, I will feel very sad .. Like what happened with my best friend in IBM, once she went from bangalore,I lost touch with her, I can't help it . She was one of the person who knew me inside out ...

Once one of my best friend send me a sms "never allow a girl to talk too much to u .. Else, later she will make you talk alone " . Here for a change girl is not the concern :) My concern is the the proximity to this family ... once this proximity start to reduce I won't be able to handle it ... I am very much possessive about such relationship ... Hope my worst fear don't turn into reality ... like they say in swashank " Hope is a dangerous thing .. it will make you go insane " .

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Lewis you are just brilliant . .


Walking through the corridors of Hilton Hotel in Montreal, I saw a big picture of a young McLaren driver in the big Wall of Hilton hotel. I was amazed to see a Mclaren driver's picture in Ferrari fort. I soon recognized him, its Lewis Hamilton .. the rookie who made a wonderful start to his F1 career by being in the podium on all the 5 races before Montreal. But little did i think what this guy is gonna provide for the entire McLaren fans.


He made the McLaren fan in me happy by winning the Pole in the first F1 Qualifiers I attended. I will cherish that wonderful moment for years when I punched the air in a sea of Ferrari supporters. I will preserve the picture I took when Lewis was doing the victory lap.

When the McLaren team was going through all the spying saga, he showed his loyalty by staying with the team unlike that traitor Alonso. Towards the end of the season he was awesome. specially in Fuji and China . He deserved to be the champion for his consistent performance over the entire season , but bad luck .... he lost by a point.

Lewis you are just brilliant .. keep going

Sunday, July 22, 2007

sunday ...

i skipped 4 days in my mission ... so i will explain it first ... first of all i had not many memorable experiences on wednesday and thursday, except for the fact that i missed the spanish omellete on wednesday and went for the team breakfast.During the one hour i spend there i felt very much part of the ASIC test team ... cracking jokes with DEs and STSMs ... hey thats memorable .. well i need to cut down my critereas ... over these two days I watched hollywood classic "The Untouchables" and Goal ( Not the bogus malayalam film , our very famous Santiago Munez film ).

Friday there was this Party in Madan's house ... again i felt great about my vegitarian day .. there were lot of non-veg food and Tequila , but i sticked on to my way .. felt lot great about it after that .. then at midnight went to Barnes and NObles to see some Harry Potter freaks , waiting in the cold night for a book ... and for those who hasn't read the novel , the moment i got that book in my hand, I looked at the last few pages , Poor Harry Potter was killed ... sniff..sniff ... he he kidding ....

Saturday was a shopping day for me ... spend around 200-300$ ... went from one part of the town to other with A list of things to buy for friends and relatives.Then in the evening me and Prat went for the Japanese food ... a restaurant by the name Koto .. the fun part is they will make u sit around a table and cook in front of you ... enjoyed every moment of it ....Came back and saw A few good men ... awesome movie .. i missed a lot of classics like this ..

Sunday ... cricket day ... got up and saw Fernando Alonso win European Grand prix and then went to play cricket , though i didn't get batting ... but in the field it was aq good day for me ... took two blinders , specially the second one ... a high skier against the sun ... and the day ended well ... and now while writing this , i am feeling like have some beer and do some IBM work ... so into work mode .. see you later

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Tuesday 17th July

13 to go ... ohh yeah i still can't believe i am gonna leave this beautiful place in another 13 days ... today was an awesome day for me ... couple of interesting things happened ...

After lunch i got a request in the issues database. Normally i buy time by asking for consoles and a testcase . this time for a change i looked up the address of the person and headed to his office to solve it personally ... on the way back i was in a hurry ... then i saw DJ ( those who know her know who she is ) .. and she was near the stairs and i slowed down seeing her ... every time i see her Babs comes in my mind and her comments .. sorry Babs ... can't help ... and then DJ opened the doors and asked ... U r in a hurry go ahead .. I just heard like .. hey Hari go ahead .. i was wondering how the hell she knows my name ... then i got it ... she might have said ur in a hurry .. but should not miss a chance ... I headed saying I thought u called my name ... for the first time i talked to DJ, even though i see her almost everyday for the last five months .


I was all set to go for the football match at 6 pm .. then around 3.30 Dave Litten came storming into my office ... hey u gonna do water skiing after work ? ... mann that sounds cool ... never done that before ... shall i ditch football .. anyway i never found playing football interesting out the HSR league, and in two week i will be back in that league. so i said yes ..went home picked up the camera and went to Lake Iroquois .. it was an awesome boat .. John wittmer ( my teammate ) is into this sport .. he went around the lake to show the skiing course and then asked who gonna go first .. no one raised their hand ... only me , Dave , Patrick ( Dave's son ) and John were there ... i said i will go .. like a dumb guy . Should have waited to see how others do it ... i then put the skies and jumped into water .. it was a nice feeling floating in water ... but u need to know u will not get drowned .. it will take a minute or two for u to digest that .. then john tried to pull me with his boat .. but everytime i will not get out of water , as i launch off i will loose either the the string or the ski ... on the 4th attempt got up a bit ... but didn't go much .. so thought will give a break and do it again .. after seeing other do well , i tried again .. no luck this time also ... so after 8-10 attempts i gave up ... then as a consolation i drove JOhn's high speed boat all over the lake, did donuts in the lake using that .... But it was a kinda nice experience ..

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

countdown

As usual, like everyone who is coming back to India, I should also start the countdown ... but there should be a difference ... half of my mind wants to stay here while the other half wants to go back .... i can write couple of blogs siting the reasons to come back ... so i made this decision to make the remaining 2 weeks memorable .. 14 memorable days ... so today 16th monday i am going to start this series ...here we go

the day started with couple of meetings and i was thinking how in the world I can make this day memorable ... then came lunch time ... i was supposed have lunch with my friends .. but they went with their team , so i have to go with my team , so for the first time since i came here i am having lunch with my team , Dave Litten and Rick Grupp .... after lunch we went for a walk and being lazy guys me and Dave came back after half way through ... then while walking back we were discussing about something and then i told him about Nag leaving IBM for doing MS .. then he said hey can we sit somewhere down and talk .. and we did that

He was telling like nag did a good thing ... he asked whats ur plans about the future .. you should also do MS. then i told him all my reasons why i don't want to do it ... then after hearing everything he said this is one of the reasons y he didn't do his MS ... then we talked about family and all ... at the end of the talk he told me , he will talk again to my manager abt extending my stay, which is an unlikely thing ... but that talk was kinda memorable one for me ..

Monday, May 07, 2007

go aussie go

Couple of days before the Worldcup final while I was browsing through orkut I saw my childhood friend's (Biju) profile ... while going through the profile it took me back to my school days were both of us were hard core Aussie cricket fans ... A kid learning the basics of cricket all of a sudden becoming an Aussie cricket fan !!! sounds weird ... but when I look back now I realise I become an Aussie fan mainly because of my love for my brother, as we used to play cricket against each other and I always allow him to pick India ... Later on I started following Aussie cricket closely .. and In school we ( only me and Biju ) used to tell we are members of Aussie cricket fan club ...

Back to Aussie cricket ... every sports fan would enjoy watching the team they love when there is an air unpredictability in the way they play their game ... everyone loves excitement ... for me Australian cricket team gave plenty of moments like that when I was an Aussie cricket fan till 2000 ... their adventures in carribean (94), in south Africa (97) and two awesome worlcups ( 96 and 99 )... I remember I was hopeful till the last moment in the Edgbaston Semifinal that Aussies will go past South Africa ... but post 2000 they failed to provide the excitement they used to .. they became more and more predicable ... and boring to watch .

While I was an Aussie cricket fan I wanted to play cricket alongside an Aussie .. may be late on now I am able to realise my dream , as I play along side Gerard an Aussie working in Burlington ... A day before the final when I was going to Boston to watch Australia play in the final , I wished him good luck and told him ... "Go Aussie go" ...and I was going back to the childhood days .. "Go Aussie go "

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Kunji .... Sorry mole



I never thought my sister loved me so much ... when she asked me why I didn't call her all these days , I was stuggling for words. infact throughout the phone call I was like that ... and she kept on asking me why you didn't call me ? you called everyone else, this morning also amma told me I call her ... I could feel tears in my eyes .... I tried to put a brave face, by asking what else,how are u .. how is life and all ... sort of escapism , but she was still asking that question throughout the phone call ... all these years I always had a nice feeling after calling my sister but not this time ... she was trying to pass all her sadness to me for not talking to her for weeks , and to a large extent she is right .
what ever difference you have with ur sister, what ever mistake she do , end of the day she is still my little sweet sister ... I should not have hurt her .... sorry kunji