General

• For some reason facebook thinks I am in netherlands; must be the corporate vpn again! #
• Back from a dinner cruise under golden gate bridge for my bday; as expected g-gate was all covered in fog, though the cruise was rocking fun #
• All Indian government websites are slow as hell. #
• 30 is a ugly feeling. #

• Instead of writing long winded posts about Barkha,why don’t these desi bloggers simply jam her facebook group page and give her a kick? #
• @patrix U really think I care about page views, eh? 😀 in reply to patrix #
• Har har! desi blogdom is up in arms against NDTV, even if Chetan may or may not want. Nice way to get some page hits while at it LOL. #
• How can India ask Pakistan to make their probe report public, when we ourselves haven’t done so? #

I turn 30, this 30th.

All through the day I made plans of writing a big thoughtful post about the last decade of my life; I thought about ruminating about the last decade, most of which I’ve spent in United States and how it has changed me as a person. How I was when I was 20 versus how am I now. The different changes in my life where I went from being a boy to a man. And then I gave up on the idea. Somehow I felt I could never finish that post if I went on that train; there’s so much that happened in the last decade.

Well then I thought, why not recollect the past year. But again, as I thought more about it, except for my marriage, I can’t think of any other highlight in my life. Yeah we traveled a bit, explored the area and did our thing, but there’s nothing that sticks on. Had it not been for the love and support of my other half, I would have driven myself crazy in this place; I left a perfectly wonderful life back in DC to move here for a varied number of personal reasons, most of which, as time passes by seem pointless. Hence I decided, there would be no post on that either; there simply not enough to write about.

Maybe I could do a post on my future I thought. There is so much think of for future – my life, family, settling down, career, my health etc. All those things I’d care two hoots about 5 years ago now seemed something I would need to address in that post. Somehow, I was not ready. Yet. The feeling of 30 hasn’t sunk in yet.

So I decided, this 30, I will let it just be.

30 it is. I am officially uncool.

• How can India “demolish” Sri Lanka with 11 balls to spare. That’s a close victory, not a demolishing act. Shheeeeeeeeeeeesh Rediff! #
• http://tinyurl.com/bkbdfu Jagjit Sing’s outburst againt Rahman’s achievement stinks of Jealous Jalebis. #
• Ah, finally found the lyrics to “Mann Chandre” and translation as well. Very heppy pheelings heppened. #
• Booked a dinner cruise under golden gate bridge for my budday; Hopefully its a clear night on Friday night. Then some clubbing should ensue. #
• 2 days to 30. 30 on 30. Sigh, I am officially uncool in 2 days. #
• Eh. Barkha Dutt is facing the wrath of bloggers. Good. I hope she give up her pathetic journalism crap forever and becomes a sanyasi! #
• Though I would liked it if I could get the option to selectively download only certain messages with a label instead of the entire inbox. #
• Trying out gmail offline. i for one want a local copy for sure, given google’s ability to lock my gmail account when I need it most! #
• http://tinyurl.com/2el6g3 Interesting Civic Policy Quiz. I scored a great 60% given my limited civic policies knowledge. #
• Muaa got some brand new plates. Registered my car finally; there was tinge of sadness losing my old plates. I liked my license plate a lot. #

• Looks like India-Pak tu tu main main has died down. So its safe to assume everyone happy and forgotten about 11/26 until it happens again? #
• Bday post 2006: http://tinyurl.com/dfjjwm 2007: http://tinyurl.com/crcasv 2008: http://tinyurl.com/cyo5c2 Damn, I’m getting old. #
• Today, its been a year I’ve moved to California and San Jose. More than a year, I still hate this place. When can I go back? #
• Mailed my tax accountant my W2s – oh this is going to be fun this year! #
• Though I’ll just wait for GDrive… #
• https://mozy.com/home seems like a good solution to offline backups. 5$ @ 12 month = 60$. That’s less than what I’d pay for smugmug vault. #
• @patrix Actually you might to hang on to your card to keep your FICO score in good standing; closing older cards/not using it affects score. in reply to patrix #

• Doctors in California are stunned that 8 babies were born prematurely to a woman instead of umm… 7. 7 isn’t stunning enough? #
• Listening to Mann Chandre again…. #
• suddenly my outlook is all spiffy and fast thanks to cutting down xobni’s indexing… I almost un-installed xobni. Will keep it now … #
• Ahh! Just configured Xobni to stop scanning nearly 80% of my mails; now outlook is much zippier! Xobni just drains Outlook! #

• What an emotional moment must be for those women who gathered ashok chakras for their husband / sons. Truly touching moment. #
• Watching R-Day live on NDTV. Pratibha Patil looks like she wants to head home and sleep, while NDTV and Mark Tully are blabbering nonsense. #
• Watched Raaz 2. B-grade doable horror flick, totally dependent on sound effects to give you the shrills rather than horror itself. #
• If I store 60Gb worth of RAW image files on Smugmug Vault, how much would it cost me per month? Smugmug? #
• Seriously, how is ICC still tolerating Symonds! #

• Just googled and I am so glad I am not alone who hates bay area and San Fran. And I precisely agree with so many people on why they hate sfo #
• Must’ve heard Mann Chandre close to 10th time in span of few hours. I am quite haunted. #
• Retweet from Padmasree: Saw a poster “Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our children can fly” #
• @Padmasree Awesome wordings… in reply to Padmasree #
• OK, Mann Chandare is really getting into my system; this is just heartfelt music written all over it. #
• Mann Chandare from A R Rahman’s Connections is mesmerizing. Now that’s the kind of Rahman I like :). #
• Big B says: “I write a blog. But the opinions expressed in my blog were not my own.” As absurd as it gets. #
• I think i am desperate to get back to DC now. San Jose is not just doing it for both of us…and we both need our social life. #

• Bored…. can the day get over already… #
• Any alternative to Xobni? Its really making my outlook doggone slow! #

• Damn, relooking at Maldives pictures, I want to be there again, NOW. That place haunts me. Sorta like LOST. We have to go back!! #
• I’m still LOST :D. I need to rewatch the premiere again. What a mind bend. #
• Man, I haven’t had a proper full fledged blog post in years. How to renew my enthusiasm post twitters? #
• Microsoft laying off 5000. Now thats’ scary. Its akin to government firing people. Unheard off! #
• @patrix I think Slumdog has lived past its hype. It really is not an extraordinary film as its being projected. in reply to patrix #
• Dropped for her first class as a Masters Student at SJSU. Walking about the university brought back some fond memories of 2001 and UMBC. #
• @JonasBrick You are absolutely right abt Oscars. They are bunch of jokes. in reply to JonasBrick #
• Yet again, Oscar nominations comes up with a list wherein half the movies are unknown, and probably boring as well. #
• Have I ever seen an actor / actress / director or movie in Comedy genre win Oscars? #