Category: personal

New week begins tomorrow, I have 5 things  in my Master Task list to do this week in office.

And last weekend, I was involved in Apartment hunting, my office colleague with his family (He and his 2 kids along with his wife ) joined in as they too  in search for an apartment and to be frank, I hate apartment hunting. we were roaming for apartments in my car and sad thing they learnt is they ought to take an 2 Bedroom Apartment in this part of the world, they have a 6 month baby and the Apartment people are so strict, they are saying 4 in family goes in 2 BDR. He is left with no other option here. One funny thing happened when we entered an Luxury Apartment, we were looking for an Manager there, and an senior guy helped us find the manager, I was stunned seeing the Manager, she is a blonde girl, her outfit made my jaws open and she gave her hands introducing her, I was so happy to lend mine and then we followed her into her office, there my colleague’s kid was playing arnd tht window, and she was so worried, she asked my colleague to take the kid out from there, my colleague’s wife got irritated and took the kid out and my colleague too went out, I should have left but to be frank I was so interested in talking to her then checking the apartment, I started asking lot of questions on the apartment and she was happily answering all the questions and then she took me to the vacant apartment to show up, she was worried abt the new carpet and asked me not to walk on it as it is new, and she too didnt walk on it, I started flattering her after that and she started blushing, and half an hour went in there, my colleague outside got irritated gave me a call in my mobile, asking "Are you taking up the apartment?" , I said "No, will be there in 5 mins".  Told her will get back next week, she said "Jag, it was nice talking to you, hope to c you around here next week".

Also spoke to my uncle’s family back in Mumbai, after a long time, happy feeling around that. They asked me to take help of his Doctor friend who is around here, just delaying up calling his friend,  just want to do on my course.

Today afternoon quake measuring 5.5 Richter scale hitted, felt it  for milliseconds, shake shake, pc’s shaking, glasses shaking, things moving, terrible experience…

This CNN News gives all the ford’s owners a deep fear for sure. In India, I remember similar problem occured with another company and they called back, some years ago Toyoto recalled thousands of its vehicles and now Ford’s turn, real bad news for the declining auto major company.

The Hindu has mentioned that after Blogger’s meet, Karthik married the other blogger who turned up to the meet, I wanted to make sure whether the news is right and posted in his blog’s comment section and today got the reply from him, he replied yes. How sweet it was, still wondering how it all happened, need to ask a seperate blog from him.

Today my colleague came to office walking slightly different with a pain in his legs, we asked him what happened, he replied, his neighbours dog chased him and he falled down, we got shocked, I immediately asked him " you could have sued him", then he said, no the dog owner asked me not to run, he said it wont do anything, I got afraid and ran and falled down. We definitely couldnt stop laughing, but poor guy.

Here Again Google comes back with its mobile version after its Dodgeball acquisition, check this out Mobile Google.

Traffic is so high in this part of the world, 10 miles drive to office takes 45 mins, again cutting the lanes all the way to the left and then to take exit cutting  all the way down to right all in this 7 miles freeway traffic, and they easily violate the traffic rules, big trucks literally scares us, by entering into the carpool lane.

Today found an interesting site, Dulance a simple RSS search engine, that even has an option to filter out the advertisement in searches that hardly other search engines do. You want to sell your product, pay us and we will make it a hit is the mantra of other popular engines, as we all know.

Skype again hits back with Vskype its way cool.

Work has been going great.  I still can’t talk about what I’m working on but I really feel like I’ve made it over the hump of moving to a new client and I’m starting to be really productive.

Got a chance to interact with yahoo folks today during lunch session, marketing seems to be the buzz word for them. Thats the way the whole business goes. I donno whether MS and yahoo folks are listening to Google’s 20% time policy? The intrapersonal environment at Google is very energizing and both MS and yahoo losing lot of talented people to its competitors.

Today went to buy parking space pass for my car and was talking to the manager filling out the forms, he said my pass will be effective from today but I already had a visitor pass and he said you can use your new pass badge from tomorrow, but for today just show up to the cashier this bill and your visitor pass, I got worried, as I have been using my visitor pass and creditcard to get my car out as I come out of the building at real weird timings, I told him my concerns, he said " Sir, if my cashier is not there, just come back to me, I will fire him and get your car out of the building". Am speechless.