Monday 16th Aug 2010
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Woke up with weird dreams, was hard to get out of bed, @ 5:55am pushed myself out and about thinking about the Knowledge transfer I need to do to Swetha.
Got to work by 7 and after the conf, started the KT. upto 9am EST, which was like 6:30pm IST.
then got busy with vaughan home
looks like a great way to get to spain and spend time with the local population. applied for Sep 5th but its full. next one after
August 29 - September 3
and September 26 - October 1
dammm I wish I could just go there in Aug 29.
Maybe will try latter for Sep 26 to Oct 1. Get to know the culture a bit more.
Evening called up Malini to ask her if she was interested in going for salsa at the Vango.
got her voice mesg, left a msg telling her about my plan.
Later got a call back from her. she sounded low. Turns out her best friends mom passed away in Boston and she just got out of the Durga temple near her house.
She wanted to go Wednesday, so not sure how I will feel on Wednesday as I am leaving on Friday to Dallas to meet Anil.
Had a heartly dinner around 8:30pm with rice, beef curry and ginger pickle from Andhra pradesh.
After that even I started feeling lazy and rather decided to stay home and read the book. The skies seem dark and as the evening progressed, the skies lit up with continous lightening followed by roaring thunder. So it turned out to be a good decision to stay put at home.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Aug 15 Sunday ,, Indian Independence day
Sunday Aug 15 2010
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wake up around 9:30 trying to prioritize the day,,,,, checked the sand dunes hike,,, too late they were meeting up around 7:45am and at ocean city around 9:45am.
Called up home, there still seems to be issues with phone and the disturbance.
Made ginger tea. hmmm and called up Anoy to see if he would be interested in going to down town philly for the Festival of India. He got invited for lunch by his bong friend.
That is one thing I am getting to notice, non of the guys at work invited me or were out going in terms of wanting to invite me to their house, except for Aji and Ajay, but seemed to be interested in trying to have party at MY place. yea right, like I am going to allow that.
Well I can understand most or all of them wanting to spend more time with their families and we are all so ethnically different indians. Guess if it was a malu, it would have been a different thing.
Well Atleast I got Raj D to my house and entertained him with boody marys before he left to India. And neither did he invite me to his house. Even thou I used to drop him off at his house a few time (did not want to say many times). But never invited me into his house ;)
So I guess I was not very way off in making it a priority to go for his farewell party. And I was not going to give up the commitment I made before they decided on the time and date of the party. I am glad I did not go, more so confirmed by the way they were talking about it after the party..... sickeningly cheap.
okay,,, back to prioritizing ,, maybe a good time to go down town. cheers and maybe visit the independence hall of Philly. ;)
At the train station, it was raining, got call from AV, decided not to go in the rain as it was already too late to go. With one hour of train ride into the city.
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wake up around 9:30 trying to prioritize the day,,,,, checked the sand dunes hike,,, too late they were meeting up around 7:45am and at ocean city around 9:45am.
Called up home, there still seems to be issues with phone and the disturbance.
Made ginger tea. hmmm and called up Anoy to see if he would be interested in going to down town philly for the Festival of India. He got invited for lunch by his bong friend.
That is one thing I am getting to notice, non of the guys at work invited me or were out going in terms of wanting to invite me to their house, except for Aji and Ajay, but seemed to be interested in trying to have party at MY place. yea right, like I am going to allow that.
Well I can understand most or all of them wanting to spend more time with their families and we are all so ethnically different indians. Guess if it was a malu, it would have been a different thing.
Well Atleast I got Raj D to my house and entertained him with boody marys before he left to India. And neither did he invite me to his house. Even thou I used to drop him off at his house a few time (did not want to say many times). But never invited me into his house ;)
So I guess I was not very way off in making it a priority to go for his farewell party. And I was not going to give up the commitment I made before they decided on the time and date of the party. I am glad I did not go, more so confirmed by the way they were talking about it after the party..... sickeningly cheap.
okay,,, back to prioritizing ,, maybe a good time to go down town. cheers and maybe visit the independence hall of Philly. ;)
At the train station, it was raining, got call from AV, decided not to go in the rain as it was already too late to go. With one hour of train ride into the city.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Aug 14 Sat something special today but dont remember
Saturday Aug 14 2010
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Woke up and was debating to go for the "Wildflower and Butterflies" hike or go to peace valley.
Send Malin a msg asking her if she wanted to go to peace valley. got reply back that her parents are leaving this evening and will call me latter to coordinate tonites salsa.
Everything in life comes with a Expiry date. . .
Like it or not, its a fact of life:). . .
Acceptance is the best approach !
That was something that occurred to me while driving back today morning.
So Wildflowers and butterflies it is. ahhh have to drive all the way to the neighboring state of Delaware. :)(
Todays forecast :
The Moon moves into Scorpio this evening and forms a harmonious sextile aspect to this sign's ruling planet of Pluto. Sexy and full of passion, this combination creates the perfect opportunity to connect more deeply with someone special, bringing your relationship to a whole new level.
wooooooo ;)
Reached Willimington Delaware sate by 11:30 and found the place. Great hike, met a couple form Spain on a English learning vacation. Got to know about Vaughan town work.
Got to check it out for my European trip :) Volunteer English conversation
Later went to Stanleys traven and had a home made Salmon burger with beer ;) And it was great to know from a couple of beautiful ladies about the tubing meet up group. One lady seemed like my type coleen, she likes kai better.
6:30pm As I was getting out of the pub and wondering should I go downtown Philly, directly or to Landsdale and back which would mean 2 hrs of driving back and forth not knowing the traffic, and wondering if I should call up Malini to know what time she is going to make it, get a call from Malini... wowow talk about ESP and connection.
I decided to just go to down town as it would not matter much since we are going out salsa dancing. Malini seemed to be a bit bothered about the hygiene point of view of mine and did not seem to buy my argument of hey, in 5 mins I will be sweating like crazy and it will be worse than the hiking sweat. So might as well finish off the dancing and then get showered. hehehe.
Well we ended up meeting at penns landing, 2nd time again she gets a great place to park. good parking karma for her.
We head towards the penns landing walk the dock/shore feeling the breeze and listening to the rock band playing and many of the parties that were happening in the ships and boats that were docked.
IT FELT VERY ROMANTIC and touching.
Around 8:30 we go to Continental as she wanted to eat something before the dancing. I end up having my sampler of 5 different beers. Only liked one that tasted like Kalu. the fermented fresh alcohol from Coconut trees of kerala. Did not like the flowerly taste of the other Brews.
At salsa on a merengue, a lady came and asked me to dance and wooo hooo, had my first best merengue in Philly, rather a good merengue.
Malaine was all impressed by the merengue, just that she is struggling with letting go and be able to dance freely. Well thats understandable given the fact that she grew up in a very conservative way and not like other gals who just don't seem to have boundaries with respect to physical intimacy with men they meet or are fascinated by.
Then danced the cha-cha with the gal who looks likes a bit like obama. And with a very great smile much photogenic.
Was dancing with one of new girls who had a very vibrant smile, she had open toe shoes and pointed nails. she stepped off beat and ended up injuring her nails. Was feeling really bad about it. Gave her 3 pieces of band-aid to put on it. She was bravely smiling and telling me its okay, but I could see and feel the pain in her eyes.
We got talking and she asked me if Malini was my wife.... wooo nooo thats a very strange thought. Could not make out if she was happy or dis appointed by that information.
Her open heart smile even thru the physical pain and hurt will always remain in my memory. Even told her that she was one very brave girl. She made a come back joke about her hurt, I was too sad and do not remember what exactly she said.
Around 12:30am got out and we tried to enter Cuba-libere but was not allowed as I had sneakers, so we decided to go home.
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Woke up and was debating to go for the "Wildflower and Butterflies" hike or go to peace valley.
Send Malin a msg asking her if she wanted to go to peace valley. got reply back that her parents are leaving this evening and will call me latter to coordinate tonites salsa.
Everything in life comes with a Expiry date. . .
Like it or not, its a fact of life:). . .
Acceptance is the best approach !
That was something that occurred to me while driving back today morning.
So Wildflowers and butterflies it is. ahhh have to drive all the way to the neighboring state of Delaware. :)(
Todays forecast :
The Moon moves into Scorpio this evening and forms a harmonious sextile aspect to this sign's ruling planet of Pluto. Sexy and full of passion, this combination creates the perfect opportunity to connect more deeply with someone special, bringing your relationship to a whole new level.
wooooooo ;)
Reached Willimington Delaware sate by 11:30 and found the place. Great hike, met a couple form Spain on a English learning vacation. Got to know about Vaughan town work.
Got to check it out for my European trip :) Volunteer English conversation
Later went to Stanleys traven and had a home made Salmon burger with beer ;) And it was great to know from a couple of beautiful ladies about the tubing meet up group. One lady seemed like my type coleen, she likes kai better.
6:30pm As I was getting out of the pub and wondering should I go downtown Philly, directly or to Landsdale and back which would mean 2 hrs of driving back and forth not knowing the traffic, and wondering if I should call up Malini to know what time she is going to make it, get a call from Malini... wowow talk about ESP and connection.
I decided to just go to down town as it would not matter much since we are going out salsa dancing. Malini seemed to be a bit bothered about the hygiene point of view of mine and did not seem to buy my argument of hey, in 5 mins I will be sweating like crazy and it will be worse than the hiking sweat. So might as well finish off the dancing and then get showered. hehehe.
Well we ended up meeting at penns landing, 2nd time again she gets a great place to park. good parking karma for her.
We head towards the penns landing walk the dock/shore feeling the breeze and listening to the rock band playing and many of the parties that were happening in the ships and boats that were docked.
IT FELT VERY ROMANTIC and touching.
Around 8:30 we go to Continental as she wanted to eat something before the dancing. I end up having my sampler of 5 different beers. Only liked one that tasted like Kalu. the fermented fresh alcohol from Coconut trees of kerala. Did not like the flowerly taste of the other Brews.
At salsa on a merengue, a lady came and asked me to dance and wooo hooo, had my first best merengue in Philly, rather a good merengue.
Malaine was all impressed by the merengue, just that she is struggling with letting go and be able to dance freely. Well thats understandable given the fact that she grew up in a very conservative way and not like other gals who just don't seem to have boundaries with respect to physical intimacy with men they meet or are fascinated by.
Then danced the cha-cha with the gal who looks likes a bit like obama. And with a very great smile much photogenic.
Was dancing with one of new girls who had a very vibrant smile, she had open toe shoes and pointed nails. she stepped off beat and ended up injuring her nails. Was feeling really bad about it. Gave her 3 pieces of band-aid to put on it. She was bravely smiling and telling me its okay, but I could see and feel the pain in her eyes.
We got talking and she asked me if Malini was my wife.... wooo nooo thats a very strange thought. Could not make out if she was happy or dis appointed by that information.
Her open heart smile even thru the physical pain and hurt will always remain in my memory. Even told her that she was one very brave girl. She made a come back joke about her hurt, I was too sad and do not remember what exactly she said.
Around 12:30am got out and we tried to enter Cuba-libere but was not allowed as I had sneakers, so we decided to go home.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Aug 13 Friiidaaayyy
Friday Aug 13 2010
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Reached work by 7:05 was on the call with off shore Shwet showing her all about the application via the net meeting. upto about 9am.
Funny how I had to go out of the room to make the call from my cell phone.
tried callin up Eva and got no response to the calls. hopefully she is well, last time she picked was when she was near to guntakal.
well tried calling her a few more times around 12 and then at 1pm
Either she is deliberately not picking up or something is wrong.
Wanted to talk with her about my leave approval for the Euro trip......
And also the Salsa Congresso thats going on from Aug 13 to Aug 15 in Bangalore.
Have go out salsa dancing tonite...
Todays forecast says :
The Moon in Libra conjuncts both Venus and Mars today, making this a great time to engage with members of the opposite sex. Romance is in the air now, as the planet of love makes a powerful union with the planet of lust. It's a great night for a date or other special meeting.
Went out salsa dancing, ended up dancing with Sara few songs back to back, who seemed like a intermediate dancer, She seemed to want to keep on dancing as she seemed to enjoy it.
When leaving she specifically ask me if I will be coming back again, it felt nice and she looks very cute and pretty. ;)
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Reached work by 7:05 was on the call with off shore Shwet showing her all about the application via the net meeting. upto about 9am.
Funny how I had to go out of the room to make the call from my cell phone.
tried callin up Eva and got no response to the calls. hopefully she is well, last time she picked was when she was near to guntakal.
well tried calling her a few more times around 12 and then at 1pm
Either she is deliberately not picking up or something is wrong.
Wanted to talk with her about my leave approval for the Euro trip......
And also the Salsa Congresso thats going on from Aug 13 to Aug 15 in Bangalore.
Have go out salsa dancing tonite...
Todays forecast says :
The Moon in Libra conjuncts both Venus and Mars today, making this a great time to engage with members of the opposite sex. Romance is in the air now, as the planet of love makes a powerful union with the planet of lust. It's a great night for a date or other special meeting.
Went out salsa dancing, ended up dancing with Sara few songs back to back, who seemed like a intermediate dancer, She seemed to want to keep on dancing as she seemed to enjoy it.
When leaving she specifically ask me if I will be coming back again, it felt nice and she looks very cute and pretty. ;)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Aug 12 Thru,, renjis call
Thursday Aug 12 2010
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1:30am got call from India, called back and it was Renji, my bench mate and friend in 8th grade to 10th. We talked after such a long time.
Good god, this year is becoming a year where I am meeting people and friends from the past and reconnecting. talked till 2am and was not able to sleep after that for sometime.
Woke up again at 5am and then out of bed by 5:45am, rushed thru to reach work around 6:55am
8 to 9 Knowledge transfer to Sweta. Pleasent and Intelligent gal. A welcome change to be talking to a smart gal.
10 go to war room to try test out the new data in avay that mat put in. dev3 down so not able to.
Aji sends msg to meet, so we decide to meet after 2pm
11:30 go home try to call Eva, phone seems to be switched off. She must have reached Bangalore today morning 4:30 IST.
Avala koriya villikan try cheddhu.
kanii amayi phone laepata ledhu. Full ga Wadi thoni enjoy chesthu unnadhi eyamoo?
Was imagining the worst case scenario about the talk with Aji. But turns out he wants to create the list of tasks I am working on to present to Sangee..... Told him about the "not having much to do and the honeymoon". but he wanted to put together something to show her that we are doing something and keeping busy.
Then asked him about the leave for 2 weeks to go to Czech. He said okay and as per the HR policy , I will be loosing about 10 working days of pay. that is half my salary of working for 20 business days per month.
All for the sake of love......
Am I doing the right thing, or a foolish thing?
Told Aji that this is going to be my attempt to try to see if my love is true. Going to give it my all and best shot, even thou I will be loosing a lot of my scare income and money for travelling. Well relationship comes first and then comes the other things. Especially since I am seeing her and her parents as my family.
Has she got different plans, is she not revealing to me her true intentions? I do not know. Or is she just playing a game with me and others?
around 12 when was home for lunch, saw Aparna on skpye with her new born baby and chatted with them for some time. She now looks chubby , like a real mom. hehehe..... she used to be so skinny. hmm guess mother hood changes women physically.
3 to 4 defect status meeting,,,,
Get back home around 6, then go to costco to get a few stuff.
But Ice-cream as it was at almost 30% discount. :)
Alphonsoe Mango juice ,,,
Now need to buy a gift for Anil and his family when I am visiting them next week.
Went around, macys, and the mall but nothing seems to appeal.
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1:30am got call from India, called back and it was Renji, my bench mate and friend in 8th grade to 10th. We talked after such a long time.
Good god, this year is becoming a year where I am meeting people and friends from the past and reconnecting. talked till 2am and was not able to sleep after that for sometime.
Woke up again at 5am and then out of bed by 5:45am, rushed thru to reach work around 6:55am
8 to 9 Knowledge transfer to Sweta. Pleasent and Intelligent gal. A welcome change to be talking to a smart gal.
10 go to war room to try test out the new data in avay that mat put in. dev3 down so not able to.
Aji sends msg to meet, so we decide to meet after 2pm
11:30 go home try to call Eva, phone seems to be switched off. She must have reached Bangalore today morning 4:30 IST.
Avala koriya villikan try cheddhu.
kanii amayi phone laepata ledhu. Full ga Wadi thoni enjoy chesthu unnadhi eyamoo?
Was imagining the worst case scenario about the talk with Aji. But turns out he wants to create the list of tasks I am working on to present to Sangee..... Told him about the "not having much to do and the honeymoon". but he wanted to put together something to show her that we are doing something and keeping busy.
Then asked him about the leave for 2 weeks to go to Czech. He said okay and as per the HR policy , I will be loosing about 10 working days of pay. that is half my salary of working for 20 business days per month.
All for the sake of love......
Am I doing the right thing, or a foolish thing?
Told Aji that this is going to be my attempt to try to see if my love is true. Going to give it my all and best shot, even thou I will be loosing a lot of my scare income and money for travelling. Well relationship comes first and then comes the other things. Especially since I am seeing her and her parents as my family.
Has she got different plans, is she not revealing to me her true intentions? I do not know. Or is she just playing a game with me and others?
around 12 when was home for lunch, saw Aparna on skpye with her new born baby and chatted with them for some time. She now looks chubby , like a real mom. hehehe..... she used to be so skinny. hmm guess mother hood changes women physically.
3 to 4 defect status meeting,,,,
Get back home around 6, then go to costco to get a few stuff.
But Ice-cream as it was at almost 30% discount. :)
Alphonsoe Mango juice ,,,
Now need to buy a gift for Anil and his family when I am visiting them next week.
Went around, macys, and the mall but nothing seems to appeal.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Aug 11 2010, farewel party
Wednesday Aug 11 2010
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Woke up early by 5 and was ready to go by 6:45am. It was good running briefly yesterday night. Should try to do that consistently.
Got to the conf meeting, tried to understand what was requ for the off shore connectivity.
Raised Help desk tickets to create new account and access for her.
Got a mail back from Aji saying that it will be 2 days before the details of remote desk would be known.
10 to 11 status meeting.
Got msg from Dept of Labor regarding my case, by Agnes. She is so nice, such a heart warmer. Guess I am going to feel like that every time some gal talks nicely to me.
Was supposed to have a farewel party for Dharmesh,, got put off again. So back to home for lunch, had puli-hara (tamarind rice) from the temple. yummm and simple with yogurt.
Then called up Evi , she was some where near to Guntakal. hmmm was not able to hear properly with the guy sitting besides her yelling.
Was able to connect with Agnes around 2pm and talk with her. Said she entered the complaint and things should move from there. Fingers crossed.
Did the Brain Bench on Testing and passed that too.. cheers
Thinking on doing PMP just like Anil
Talked to him towards the evening trying to figure out the best credit card to apply for.
3 to 4 defect meeting
out of work by 5:45pm
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Woke up early by 5 and was ready to go by 6:45am. It was good running briefly yesterday night. Should try to do that consistently.
Got to the conf meeting, tried to understand what was requ for the off shore connectivity.
Raised Help desk tickets to create new account and access for her.
Got a mail back from Aji saying that it will be 2 days before the details of remote desk would be known.
10 to 11 status meeting.
Got msg from Dept of Labor regarding my case, by Agnes. She is so nice, such a heart warmer. Guess I am going to feel like that every time some gal talks nicely to me.
Was supposed to have a farewel party for Dharmesh,, got put off again. So back to home for lunch, had puli-hara (tamarind rice) from the temple. yummm and simple with yogurt.
Then called up Evi , she was some where near to Guntakal. hmmm was not able to hear properly with the guy sitting besides her yelling.
Was able to connect with Agnes around 2pm and talk with her. Said she entered the complaint and things should move from there. Fingers crossed.
Did the Brain Bench on Testing and passed that too.. cheers
Thinking on doing PMP just like Anil
Talked to him towards the evening trying to figure out the best credit card to apply for.
3 to 4 defect meeting
out of work by 5:45pm
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Aug 10 Tuesday, Thinking of Dallas trip
Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010
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Woke up around 4am and lay there trying to think of future plan.
Have to be at work much before 7 am conf call as now I have someone else on my team. got to work by 6:55am and was the 1st on the call.
Its almost 10 years since Anil came to see me off at the Mumbai Airport. After that hes been to UK and Europe and then settled down in Dallas with wife and kids. Thinking of going and visiting him during the 20th weekend.
around 10am drove Anoy to the SSN office. Called up and talked with Narayan and Anil.
then dove Anoy to the Merck medical/id center to get his Id.
Dropped him off at work and went home for lunch that I got on Sunday from the Temple. Had it and called up Eva, she was already on the train to Bangalore.
Talked to her for a few mins.
Status meeting @4 to 5 then got back to try and help Ashi with the status report.
REached home after 7, dropped off Anoy on the way to his apartment.
Got reading the John grisham book and munching the potato chips. Did not feel hungry after that, had the last of the grapes.
Forwarded the details of my Dallas trip to Anil.woooo will be meeting exaclty after 10 years,, last time we saw each other was at the Mumbai airport.. Aug-20-2000. and now it will be Aug-20-2010....
Went for a run around 9pm.... sun seems to set early now.
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Woke up around 4am and lay there trying to think of future plan.
Have to be at work much before 7 am conf call as now I have someone else on my team. got to work by 6:55am and was the 1st on the call.
Its almost 10 years since Anil came to see me off at the Mumbai Airport. After that hes been to UK and Europe and then settled down in Dallas with wife and kids. Thinking of going and visiting him during the 20th weekend.
around 10am drove Anoy to the SSN office. Called up and talked with Narayan and Anil.
then dove Anoy to the Merck medical/id center to get his Id.
Dropped him off at work and went home for lunch that I got on Sunday from the Temple. Had it and called up Eva, she was already on the train to Bangalore.
Talked to her for a few mins.
Status meeting @4 to 5 then got back to try and help Ashi with the status report.
REached home after 7, dropped off Anoy on the way to his apartment.
Got reading the John grisham book and munching the potato chips. Did not feel hungry after that, had the last of the grapes.
Forwarded the details of my Dallas trip to Anil.woooo will be meeting exaclty after 10 years,, last time we saw each other was at the Mumbai airport.. Aug-20-2000. and now it will be Aug-20-2010....
Went for a run around 9pm.... sun seems to set early now.
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