Wings

A few random thoughts that occurred to me when the word “wings” came to my mind:

- The wings of change… I should say is quite apt with the way my life is going on right now. And I’m not talking about the minuscule changes or differences in my current lifestyle. These are copious changes both in my personal and as well as professional life. I’ll just leave it at that.

- Soaring to the heavens…What must it feel like to watch our dear earth from up there?

- From high up there I can see small boats bobbing away on the high waves sailing quietly on the far river below.

- To be able to get over the fear of height (yes, I’m scared of heights)

- Wings of freedom…moving out of our home and living by myself in a different city; of a little freedom and a little flight :) Although only for a brief period, but it did let my clipped wings grow and explore the unseen, unheard, and unsought. It’s a wholly different thing that I had to go through some terrible lonely moments, but I guess it was part of the deal!

- Angels!

- I want to take my parents on a vacation someplace outside the country (and actually let them use their passports before it expires or before I renew it for another useless period).

- I myself want to visit Rome, Egypt, and Paris (very soon, although I don’t know how soon or haven’t planned anything yet). I’ve read and seen sooo many many things enchanting about those places that my need to visit them is growing deeper and deeper by the day! Perhaps I'll use those wings someday!?! ;)

- This amazing song by Roxette!

- Chasing butterflies, or rather butterflies chasing me. When I was much younger I was quite scared of butterflies and moths; I was even bitten by a scorpion once, and my little finger grew as big as my big toe and went pink in a matter of seconds. :| Phew! I still am scared of some creepy insects; I hate how unpredictable they can be!

This post is in response to the prompt at Sunday Scribblings. Not my greatest scribble, but I guess this should suffice for now, since I seem to be sharing this illness with CM.

PS: Congratulations to Liani @ SS on her book release!

A lil humour

I just couldn't help but share these...

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A 3-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother that there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens.

"How did you know?" his mother asked.

"Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."

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For weeks, a 6-year old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The 6-year old was obviously impressed, but he made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event. The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, "Tommy,
whatever became of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?"

Tommy burst into tears and confessed, "I think Mommy ate it!"

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A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's artwork. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "but no one knows what God looks like."

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

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and this...

A hilarious way to separate whites and yolks!


Just break an egg into the separator, tilt it 45 degrees, and watch as the egg white drip out of his nose, leaving a perfect yolk inside the dish!

Source: Internet

They're officially engaged!

I'm back!!! :D Not to mention that my back isn't back in action yet! Monday last, my sis and BIL-to-be were officially engaged. Amidst a tonne of chaos (of which my sister doesn't know a thing) the ceremony went on smoothly. I didn't in the least expect that an engagement or nichyadhartham (in Tamizh) would be done in such a tremendous fashion. I expected the presents to be exchanged, the deed to be read and ta daaa its over, we go back home! But no, this was such an expansive thingy. Go here for pictures and you'll know what I'm talking about (at least the TamBrahms would)!

Alrite, I may (or may not) be back with more on the engagement ceremony itself, but it all depends on how much I want to rant about it, but thats it for now. Go on and view the pictures and read the captions under each to understand the flow better. :D

For memory, there is no hiding place…

Been feeling kinda lost these past few days; I’m not even sure if “lost” is the right word, what about “helpless”??!?!

a lot like this or this!


Numb… disoriented… delirious... almost like a volcano ready to erupt, or a storm ready to break out; of applications and rejections (obviously not in the strict sense). Lately, things aren’t just happening the way I want it to.; I may sound selfish here, but I don’t think I care anymore.

I’ve been tearing myself away from people; friends, family, home… I even feel scared to keep the windows down while driving, or answer an email to a dear friend, or make a call to someone for that matter, lest they might judge my mood. I have this dirty habit of answering emails that have a tone of my current emotion (one of the reasons I couldn’t bring myself to post anything sensible); and end up writing something with brutal sarcasm. :-/ I know it’s not right, but what the hell!?!

I think it’s easier this way, shutting myself away. What do you know what’s happening inside the cocoon or what’s happening beneath the lake when the duck is paddling frantically, for that matter?

Been having an awful lot of differences of opinions with people at home; mum, dad, sis, and everybody else that call themselves ‘home’. I’m telling myself that maybe it’s just a passing phase, maybe I’ll try and comprehend their actions, or better yet, as time moves along, maybe they won’t be all this passé (and hopefully understand my way of perceiving things), or not!

With all the madness I’m still grateful for my mother, who surprisingly understands every little thing I do or say (or don’t say)… Mothers… what will we do without them!?!

Maybe I should break away, away from this rat race! Gonna have to quit this madness sooner or later, why not now?

Anyway, I’ll be back to being my chirpy self again… sooooon; although I might not be posting anything until after Tuesday next! Hopefully, I’ll be all perky by then! :) ta ta for now.

Picture Courtesy: Google

Quote

for what shall i wield a dagger, o lord?
what can i pluck it out of
or plunge it into
when you are all the world?

- devara dasimayya
10th century Indian poet - saint

It's hard to argue ...

Every time I read a new C&H strip (or re-read one that I've already read for that matter) I can't help but awe at the brilliance of Bill Watterson.

AND to think he can do all this through a 6-year old and a stuffed tiger toy is splendid!!!



And oh, Its "song of the week" time! This time, its an amazing track by Def Leppard called Long Long way to go!

Stay happy, have lotsa fun, and cheers from me and Hobbes! :D

Offices I’ve been with

Three reasons why this post is here:

1. One, I wanted to start posting a few pictures online and while I was browsing through the little collection I had, it appeared I wanted to post all of them [grin]. Didn’t want to post all of them here, and so I thought that maybe I’ll post a couple of pictures from each office I’ve been with. Six years, five offices; so that’s a LOT of pictures.

2. Two, I received this via email from one of my blog friends “PS: PPPPP HHHHHH OOOOO TTTTTTT OOOOO please = )”. I MUST begin to understand English! :-/

3. and three, I haven’t learned to use flickr yet! I know…that’s a lame excuse. My sister is a computer goon and she uses it herself. I’ll learn it from her soon. Its not as if I don’t want to use flickr, it’s just that it needs two things that I lack; time and patience. :-/. Until then bear with me and please don’t curse me if these images take a long time to load.

Sooo, on public demand, here are a few. These are in the order of my employment starting from being a fresher. You might have to click on each of pics to view it in a better resolution. Also, most of these pictures date back to 2002 or earlier so they may not be of very great quality.

This one is at the Tidel parking lot. Don’t ask me whose bike it is; it was parked in an unauthorized space and both of just decided to get a little silly. :-P

Tidel parking lot. I’m the one in blue; which blue?

This one's from my first company again. And no, I don’t look anything like this anymore. Gone are the days when I was pencil thin.

Bum pals. Aj and I. I’m the one in pink :D

Now you get what I’m saying? This one is from my second employment. The best birthday I’ve ever had. Thanks to all of them that made my day! :)

Pantry - 2004 Birthday

Again, my second office. This is how the inside of the office looks like.

At my desk

Office number three. I was here for a brief five months and don’t have many pictures from here.

2005 Birthday

My previous employment. This was taken moments before we left on one of the office trips. Sorry I just couldn’t find a pic of me here.

Doesn’t look like office space? Well, what can I say!

View from my desk

This one is from my current office. We’re sitting right next to the Director of the Company (the man that runs the show) and mostly fool around right under his nose. :|


Aaah! I hope these images didn't sit on your bandwidth. I promise I'll post all subsequent pictures on flickr or whatever other image hosting site.

Sunday Scribblings: #54 - In the news

This may not directly relate to Sunday Scribbling, but the prompt for this week is “In the news” and its in perfect timing! ‘Cos I've news, AND its BIG, at least compared to the ones from the recent past.

My sister’s wedding is officially fixed!!! :) and I’m soooo happy for her. As of now, only the engagement date is fixed, and right now I know nothing more than that.

However, I might use this space for more ramblings on wedding preparations and details of the actual wedding. Since this is the first big thingy in our family, I might muse, wonder, ponder, awe, etc etc right here! So for those of you interested in this thread, you may follow the Wedding Bells label. :)

Google pulls off April Fool’s again!

Can you believe this?



Or this?

Click here to fool your friends too! :)



You might want to check out other refreshingly novel April Fool’s ideas by Google here, here, here, and here.

It figures!

I love playing around with numbers. But it is one thing to be creating a 3000 hour project plan (in the middle of what you could call a million other insignificant things) and a totally different thing to be fooling around with the one of the zillion cool tools from Google.

About a month ago, a friend sent me this email (verbatim).

“I’m doing it again! Yes, marketing Google technology… now get your butt here right now and paste the 4 line code in your blog and watch magic happen.

The tool is amazing, belongs to Google and is free… need I say more? :-)”

From that email, as you can see, I understood absolutely nothing! But after reading those words “… watch magic happen…” you’re not left with much choice, are you? I cursed him under my breath for being his usual inexplicit self and tried to focus my peanut-sized brain on what exactly Analytics really was!

In simple words, it’s a site tracking tool! But oh, GoOgLe can’t ever be explained that simply can it?

But when I drilled into the tool, I found that it wasn’t any different from my project schedule, really! Try and average out the number of days to completion, resources, completion percentage, milestones, and a loads of other project-related tasks … to … the number of visitors per day, who visited your site, from where, how long did their visit last, most popular posts, goals (if you’ve set any) and a million other important stuff about your site as opposed to the load of totally trivial data that goes into my project plan (Phew! I pray my boss isn’t reading this!)

Anyway, here’s the summary page (you’re gonna have to click on each of those images to see it a bit more legibly)



With only a little more than 5% of my visitors returning to my page, it appears, my visitor loyalty is pretty low. :-/



See those top three references below? Thanks to Supernova, Mush, and Sunday Scribblings in that order. :)



This one’s interesting: Google actually gives you a list of search terms that led to your site. Apparently, the schnappi song has been the most popular search term. Check out the one highlighted in red. No seriously, what were they looking for? :-/



As you can see, I’m absolutely in love with this number crunching tool, simply because I keep finding newer and newer things about it everyday!

I’m not gonna tell you anymore about what Analytics can do for you on a click of the mouse. Like my friend said, you may want to get your butt there yourself! ;)

'appy birthdayyyy!!!!

Your whole life is in front of you, you've only just begun
So Happy Birthday
The best is yet to come

The good things I could say about you are infinite
But I will only take a minute
To say the world is a better place with you in it

Happy Birthday!!!

Muuuuuuuuuaaaah! >:D<

PS: sorry honey, didn't have the patience to write a poem :D stole the lyrics from here, but believe me, every syllable holds good for you. Phew! Had to search high and low to find some words that describe you near perfectly!