Gold and Beautiful

.... remixes!!!!! Seriously, why mend something that's not broken???? The one remix that I really hated was "neele neele ambar par" by Ruby Bhatia's husband (don't even remember his name...). I mean.. come on... how dare you sing a Kishore Kumar song???? Well, so as usual out of curiosity I wiki ed the origin of remixes and found out that Jamaicans are guilty of starting the trend... There are only 2 remixes that I like: Bali Brahambhatt's Gabbar remix, mainly because it is a combination of many songs (a very good combination at that) and he made brilliant use of Gabbar's laughter!!! Bheegi Bheegi Raaton mein by Leslie Lewis, mainly because I love Leslie Lewis :-)

Today's comic strip by Phdcomics brought tears to my eyes... dunno why.... just did. check it out here .

I was reading the Marathi translation of Atharvasheersha and found an explanation of why the mouse is Lord Ganesha's vehicle.... It's interesting. (I am trying my best to translate it in English here !!! ). This book says that time, kaal is like a mouse, it nibbles away at us without our knowledge and keeps running. But in front of Lord Ganesha kaal is tiny and Lord Ganesha rides kaal and controls/commands it. Basically Lord Ganesha is really riding kaal . Of course, this is just one of the explanations.... After googling this query I found a few other explanations: This is a story of how Lord Kroncha became a mouse because of a muni's anger and then as they usually do, the muni tried to make it easier for him and made him Ganesha's vehicle. This website says that since rats always gnaw through everything, it is a symbol of the Lord's power to destruct obstacles. This website says that the mouse represents our ego, pride and desire. So the Lord is it's ma...

Take a close look at this picture. This building is in the "historic" city of San Antonio in Texas. In this country, you cannot make even a small change to a place that is declared historic. Take this building for example. There used to be an elementary school here. When the school closed though, they could not remove the name of the school from this building (of course, since it's historic!!!!)... That's why they struck the name out..... Interesting, isn't it???

One of my pet peeves.... So the story goes like this..... I met someone fresh off the boat for the first time and this person makes this comment: "Doing XYZ job in India is much harder than here... My boss is giving me such a hard time....." This is how it translated in my mind: "My job is hard" === "I am incompetent" (I mean, come on.... everybody's job is hard.... They are not going to ask you textbook definitions at work!!!) "My boss is giving me a hard time" === "Check your social skills...." That was sarcastic me!!!! But really what I wanted to say (and of course I did not say...) I know your job is hard and I empathize with you (seriously, we work in the same field... so I know...), but how does your job being hard translate into my job being easy???? (You don't know me, you haven't done that job here, so how are you deciding?? hearsay???) Most important: Why this competition of my blah blah blah being harder than you...

Three things (tell 'ems) to remember when organizing your speech: Tell 'em what you will tell 'em (Intro) Tell 'em (Body) Tell 'em what you told 'em (Conclusion) I suck at table topics (where you are called upon and you are sooooo not prepared!!!).... groan :-(

I just thought of these things... I have no clue why.... First: I am the only female in my Info Systems class... All of my students are guys.... I have been in classes where I was the only gal, but then I was a student... that's different.... wonder what my evaluations will say at the end ???? Second: The first thing I do after coming to school is to check my email, orkut, facebook, etc.... in a particular order..... Guess what?? My work email is the last on that list!!!! Does that apply to everyone?

I started reading this book to understand how one man could bring together a nation like he did, to do the most horrific thing possible. I am halfway through the book and more confused !!!! Just being me, I guess.... But seriously the more I read about what a loser he was (drifter, homeless, disorganized, never made a decision, could never implement anything....) I just find it more surprising that he was able to lead all these people, based only on his oratory...... Seriously, he had no vision and no ability to implement anything.... Of course, the social, political and economic circumstances at that time played a major role, but I still don't have a clear picture of how this is possible....... I can understand why millions of Indians followed Gandhiji (it was hard to follow him......practicing non-violence is not so easy, I am sure you all agree !!!). Apart from the circumstances, he was really a great leader. Moreover he practiced what he preached.... Or maybe I just understand...

Two summers back when I was hanging out with Mon, she used to ask me "what do you want to do when you start earning more". At that time I hadn't really thought of anything and anyways I am not really a money person.... So I never thought what I wanted to do once I got a full time job... But now that I have a job that I wanted and that I love I did make a list of few ways in which I want to spend my summer vacation. I have decided that this is the only summer I am going to work... After this summers are only for vacation :-) So anyways, here's the list in order of importance for each summer: Rent a condo in a high rise in Buckhead, Atlanta and enjoy city life (hate to live further away from school when working !!!) South and Central America tour Europe tour Rent a lovely beach house in Savannah, GA Visit India to eat lots of haapoos mango I have no idea how many of these things will I actually do, but hey, this is a start and a nice 5 year plan at that!!!!

... to work until the day I die lest I become an old, bitter nag!!!

.... there was a volume control knob on my throat that Arun could control !!!