It was the longest night of my life or at least in the life I know and remembered. I could hardly sleep. It was the first time I am spending my night in the open. It felt like I was camping minus all the excitement and fun. As the day broke, I woke up and [...]
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It was the best day of my life. I was going to propose to my 3 year girl friend. I was looking forward to this day for almost an year now. I got the loveliest ring for her, picked out the right clothes to wear, right spot to propose – the campanile tower on our [...]
This weekend was awesomely sunny too but we did not get to hike. Instead we had a festival over the weekend and decided to celebrate it the way we would in India with as much grandeur. So what was the festival you ask. Its the great Ganesha festival – Ganesha Chaturthi also called as Vinayaka [...]
Recently I was required to preside over a meeting for a committee I was chairing. I was supposed to introduce all the members of the committee and give a little pep talk to boost their morale. I was to recognize all the active members and also encourage the not so active members to start taking [...]
This morning I was listening to BBC world and guess what ? Two of my most favorite sports were being featured – Cricket and American Football. Hearing about cricket in USA was muchly cool !!!! There was a time (until Sachin beat Desmond Haynes’ record for the highest number of test centuries) when I could [...]
I have always heard my friends and sometimes myself end conversations with these three words “Keep in touch”. What does this keep in touch really mean. What do we really mean when we ask them to keep in touch. I always wondered how often should you call or talk to your friend to make sure [...]
Here is another one in the guys vs gals wars. Got this in a mail forwarded to me. Seems this is an open letter from all guys to their gals. The Guys’ Rules Please note that all the rules are numbered “1″ ON PURPOSE! 1. Men are not mind readers. 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. [...]
Now is that something really smart or utterly dumb. I would go with the latter. I would not expect a normal person with a normal or higher degree of intellectuality to read that and go ” hey, hello to u too”. BTW, just for the record, that for .. whatever it was, meant a simple [...]
Not so long ago, I went on a shopping spree – for cars. Now how is buying a car considered shopping spree? It is especially when you end up buying two cars in a span of 3 days. I got a new Acura TSX “Arctic Blue” with all the bells and whistles of a high [...]
The shh in the name is highlighted for a reason. In the movie, almost everybody sitting around me tried to ‘shh’ me whenever i made an attempt to understand the movie or smile at the supposed to be funny moments in the movie. Hindi movie industry, well what can one say. A billion dollar industry [...]