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dorky harstyles and brazilian restaurants

Its 4 pm on the friday prior to the christmas weekend. I took the whole next week off because I seriously need some time for self. We are planning to go skiing and visit charlotte and raleigh. Im sure its going to be fun. :)

This week I had to attend an important meeting in Mexico and I desperately needed a haircut. So I go to 'Great Clips'. Great clips maintains a log of the the hairstyle that one prefers and everytime I go there I get the usual. This time I am asked "Are you busy with work?" I have been really busy with work which explains why I didn't get time to get a haircut. I said yes. She smiles and uses a number 2 attachment which gets me a cropcut on the sides. I tell her that she cut it too small. She says "But you said you were busy so this way you wouldn't have to get a haircut for quite sometime". Now I really am pissed. There are few things in life that I hate and a bad haircut certainly ranks high in that list. The damage has been done and its irrevesible. I fly to mexico and try to convince some really smart people with good haircuts that what I speak really makes sense.

Jonathan and me go to a Brazilian restaurant in Mexicali. Jonathan is a new kid on the block. Just graduated from school, spikey hair, torn jeans and the swagger. Its a buffet and the food looked very good. We invariably overate so much that our stomach ached really bad. Jonathan told me that the only way to help digest the food is to drink some whiskey. I seldom drink but these were dire circumstances. My stomach hurt really bad. So we order some whiskey (I absolutely hate it) and after drinking it we wait for a while. It dosent help the pain but now we are drunk too.

Thats the last time I take medical advise from a 22 year old.

Jinxed

Sometime in past 2 weeks I was promoted. It meant a lot of more responsibilities but as usual not too much more money. This week I spent more time on meetings deciding what to do and delegating work rather that working. This is something I never wanted to do...

Sometimes one wonders if pseodobeliefs are really true...

This week I was supposed to be in Atlanta. On Tuesday I came back from work. While I was walking back to my apartment a black cat crossed my path. It stared at me as it walked across. I swear it gave me a wicked smile ;) I usually am not superstitious but I hoped that my this doesn't bode trouble. I went to the gym and while I was working out I get a call... I shouldn't have picked it up in the first place... One project falling apart in Mexico - can I be there on Wednesday morning to set things right... Damnnnn

I flew to Mexico and everythings fine now..

Tonight we are going to a shooting range and tomorrow I am going hiking in Dahloonega.
Hopefully will go skiing on Christmas weekend with bulli.

I still believe that stupid cat had something to do with me going to Mexico..

Takamine tunes

Strummed the guitar from 7:30 to 12:30... took just 3 breaks to attend calls. Learnt another Dylan and a Travis... Both sound beautiful :) Tried acoustic slow version of Brown eyed girl... have to work on that..

Feels great to strum again... after such a long long time

Here are the chords

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/b/bob_dylan/blowing_in_the_wind_ver2_crd.htm
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/travis/sing_crd.htm
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/v/van_morrison/brown_eyed_girl_ver2_crd.htm

Hola

Was in Juarez for a weeks training. Have been to many mexican cities now. heres the list -> Mexico City, Cuautla, Guadalajara, Mexicali, Tijuana, Juarez.

At work things have been very busy with Jesper leaving. Been travelling nearly 100% with important projects coming up. Have realised that if one works harder, one gets more responsibility. If you do that sucessfully, you get still more responsibility and more work. It never ends. The dream to making enough money to retire by 35 is still on.

My spanish has improved quite a lot. I have even been complimented by mexicans that my accent is perfect. :) I think I will settle down in Mexico after I retire. :)

Have been following up on football recently. Clemson is on a roll after the heartbreaking loss to BC. With the next 2 easy games the top 25 ranking is assured. Yesterday they beat LTech 51-0. Wake Forest is next. Falcons had a good game today and they beat the Cardinals 32-10. Vick still is the most dangerous QB due to his rushing game.

We had a cookout yesterday with Korade and Niara. BBQ'd tofu for the vegans and chicken and sausages for the rest. Was a lot fun :)

Have been reading the 'The code book' by Simon Singh which explains the evolution of cryptology over the years. I am very impressed by Singh's ability to explain even the most difficult ciphering principles so simply. It is amazing to read stories of how the cracking of the 'Enigma' was instrumental in Allies winning WWII. Have always liked solving codes since I was a kid. I loved Sherlock Holmes' 'The mystery of the dancing men'

I have been neglecting blogging for quite a while. Will write in more often.

lenses, theatre and wine

Experimenting with contact lenses right now. Am tired of glasses so last week I went to the optometrist. He gave me a pair and asked me to try it out for a week which I did. They were pretty comfortable but I still could see far off objects a bit blurry so had a follow up yesterday. We decided that the right eye lens was perfect and were trying out different lenses for the left eye. I did make him get me 4 brands. Some of them made me see letters on the screen better than the rest but it still was blurry. When I told him so he was like damn you are picky. Now If it seems blurry to me, I will say so. Why would I lie and say otherwise. The whole point of this excercise is to get me the right lenses.

Even my boss says I pay a lot of attention to detail which is good but sometimes I can be quite a pain in the a$#. Me thinks there is always a right way to do things and one should do it right. I know that I won't be going to this optometrist next year.

We watched an experimental impov at Decatur theatre yesterday. It was called "The gorgeous ladies of comedy". They were pretty good. Need to watch more plays. Ate at Zyka and went to Sampada's friends birthday party.

Tried quite a few wines last week. In Atlantic city I decided to use my GPS to locate a vineyard in the area for some winetasting. They has some good wines and I picked up a bottle of Bordeaux for my cousin. I also had some Chanti while I was in Philli last week and I decided to pick up a bottle at the local winery (The Grape) in Atlanta. They didn't have that so I decided to get myself a bottle of Beaujolais.

I am cooking right now for Avin's send off party tonight.

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Just checking if blogger has classified my blog as a spam blog.

UNited

I have never seen anything like this before.

Waiting at MSP for my flight to Denver. It is delayed by 45 minutes. There are about 100 people anxiously waiting to board and hoping to make their connections and the flight attendant tells us that the flight crew decided to get something to eat and the flight will be delayed further.

Will never fly United again

SF

Have been in San Francisco for Semicon for a week now. Land of the free and homeless... I have been put up in Holiday Inn on Market Street and I hate this street. Its San Francisco downtown and because of leniency shown by this city to the homeless who harass pedestrians who walk on this street, things are really bad. The county encourages homeless from all over US to stay in SF. I think this is so wrong... Many of them need to be institutionalized or should be encouraged to earn a honest living rather than being fed for free. Things are so bad that peeing on the streets is legal and the city hall spent 1 whole week considering if they should prosecute ppl for defecating in public. This city is eternally smogged and seldom can one get a clear view of the golden gate. Besides this we had a lot of fun.

Jeff and Ed are here with their wives. We dined on the top floor restaurant of Hilton on Sunday and that was great. 46th floor dining has a charm of its own. On Monday we decided to get a quick drink at Mark Hopkins' 18th floor bar (This bar had a really good ambiance and is the most famous bar in SF) and headed off to Les Joulin for dinner. It serves french cuisine and live Jazz. On wednesday we decided to try Kan Zaman which is a highly rated Hookah bar and restaurant serving mediterranean food. Ed and I were really excited about smoking the hookah. :) We were in for a surprise when suddenly out of the blue a belly dancer started gyrating to the tunes of some arabic music. Shish Kebabs, Mojitos, Hookahs and belly dancers... now thats a great combination :) . Kan Zaman(means "in older times" in arabic) is located in the Ashbury-Haight section of the town where the hippie(free love) movement first started in the 60's which made SF the city we see today. Tommorrow is my last day in SF and we might do something nice.

I spent the weekend with Ankur and Sumera. They did really treat me well. We went to a sports bar to catch the WC semifinals and Ankur treated me to an authentic Bengali fish dinner which I really liked. Things have finally worked well for them personally after a long struggle and I wish them all the luck for their future.

Adios

close ups

just realised this while surfing through orkut... ppl make it a point to put close up pics on their profile... thats basically because when one is surfing through a friends list then they only see the thumbnails and to attract ppl to check one's profile a close up of one's face is necessary...