So I write

The other day my mom found a piece of paper from the yonder years... A time when we didn't have blogs...a time when a wall meant that... A wall. And a time when you wrote your thoughts with a pen on a piece of paper and didn't have 140 characters limit.

So she found my notes on the very first concert I attended. A Michael Jackson concert. As a teenager that was by far the coolest thing I had ever done. And I had lots of fun doing it. As an adult I'm now embarrassed at the thought of my mom reading the words of a squealing  teenage boy.

So I mentioned this to s, and that i used to write a lot like this as a kid and now I'm concerned what else my mom could find. Knowing me, the only concern s had was, why wasn't I writing more frequently now.

It's not like i write award winning essays, this is really just a diary, and I don't really know why I do get this urge to write stuff. I can still get super excited with new stationery. 

So anyways, maybe this is my wake up call, and I might start blogging more.

Currently humming the songs of yjhd in my head. Gnight!

And so we live

Its a Sunday night againAnd I find myself listening to some music and just whiling time on the internet. So I decided to Post something. And as my typical posts have been, it's about the weekend, it's about life and it's about music. Been a year since s and I are living a long distance relationship, not a small long distance nut a rather long long one . East coast west coast , one red eye flight apart! And all this while I just have learnt to appreciate S more n more for all that she is in my life! Met up some old friends today and while just catching up we came to the conclusion that we both would just dread getting back to the game! Lol! Not that we stand a chance, not that we would even think of it, but if faced with that situation we wouldnt last a bit! Life has its bit of irony saved for me always. We are getting some really great news for people so dear to us, and here we are stuck between a soup and curry! But this too shall pass! With patience and perseverance! Lol somewhere in my school anthem were those two words, now I know the meaning of em. Food... I have been thankful to god to bring me to such a city where there's just an abundance of variety of cuisines. Not to mention the money to be able to buy that food :) so thank you god. For that vada pav restaurant between my work and home and thank you god for that late night Pakistani restaurant that serves a great Biryani and achari chicken! Today I was so stuffed I couldn't even have dinner.... But the afternoon was really special! With friends and food and wine and desserts! And coffees! Music... So lately I'm listening to a motley crew of music bands, the killers, Mumford and sons, band of horses, Paulo nutini, kings of Leon, Coldplay, onerepublic and Jason mraz. And then there's skrillex, the glitch mob and ukf. So yeah pretty bizarre spectrum but overall entertaining. Took a hike and went to a very beautiful place. Took tonnes of pictures, except my memory card was corrupted. Lost all my pics :( cest la vie... End of a very relaxing weekend. Back to the grind

Ramblings.

Its been a year since S and I have been in a long distance relationship. This is the 3rd time we are in an LDR again.  Every new one seems harder than the last one. God, I dont want any more long distance relationships. One thing the LDR does is gives me time to watch a lot of online videos and listen to any music at any time I want.

My music taste is all over the board. I started off last year listening to Coke Studios Pakistan (Way better than the piece of crap they put up in India). Current playlist is a bunch of Dido hits, eminems stan and landing in london. Talk about variety eh?

Talking about videos, I saw this presentation by Bret Victor, an ex Apple UI designer, a brilliant person. And I think his presentation was brilliant! more about Bret at www.worrydream.com

http://vimeo.com/36579366

Btw: Last year I got to see Coldplay up close. This year I get to attend their concert.

and The IRON MAIDEN! hell yeah! 30+ but finally seeing my dream materialize.

End of the weekend. Back to the grind.

Yalo

So... Its been a crazy long time since I had any updates. Rather since I wrote something. Well abot a month and a half ago, I had my in-laws visiting me for about 2 months. I guess I wrote something about them. And if not, A-town, take note, you are officially on my not-so-cool-cities list. I had a break in.. my poor baby of a car had a break-in...:(. Right I cant let go off it that easily.

Then right after this was done, we started looking out for used cars for S. That was a horrible experience. Cash for Clunkers.. schmunkers... all those lucky dogs on the streets with horrible cars were able to get the governments cash for new cars. What that did to the industry was a catastrophic nightmare. The sharks at the dealers were eying those lucky dogs. People like me n S who were out there trying to get a great deal on a used car, which on a normal business platform was not a big deal, were left high and dry.. literally .. dry.. (at this one dealer were all --can you believe it... ALL salesmen were busy dealing with customers for new cars!! .. no one could even offer us water after we checked out cars out in their lot under scorching heat of the oh so pretty sun). Boy do I digress. But seriously, any person, who had the fortune of visiting that car dealer on that day, would've left the place thinking: "uh .. what recession?".

Anyways, back to the reason why I've been so busy, now as if the car wasnt such a big issue, our stupid apartment community had to hike the rate on us. Her words "This place is oh-so-effing charming that you will have to cough up the additional amount I say or else leave!". So then the second mission we had was to find an apartment that we like, and that fits our budget. So, car and Apartment, no big deal. We kinda nailed it on the last weekend that we had available. But it was a harrowing experience.

So now finally after a long long time I have some free time in front of a pc and actually got the willpower to post something. I mean there are countless posts that are saved as drafts... occasionally I have the urge to write about something and then when I do start to write, the passion just fizzles. The point looks moot. The effort seems wasted. The post looks ... just that... a post. And it is, rightfully so, meant to be just that, a post. Its not that the world cares about what I feel about the shenanigans of the INC and Mr. Tharoor. Or for that matter, Obama's health care plan. Boy a couple of sentences back that was a whole load of commas for nothing.

So here goes... my list of what Ive been upto:

Movies watched: District 9, Inglorious Basterds, The "umpteenth" final destination, Julie and Julia, He's just not that into you, Sunshine Cleaning, Fast and Furious 4th, GI Joe, Transformers 2, Haunting in Connecticut, Kaminey and some more that I dont even remember.

Books read: Zilch... although I have bought "The Hobbit" I plan to start off with this one and then move on to the LOTR series, that will definitely buy me some time.

Drinks Had: Miller Lite, Guinness on the Draft, Blue Mojito, Awesome Mango and Berry Flavored Iced Tea at the Ruby Tuesday, Tequila, Jack and Coke, Baileys, Heineken.

Life pretty much goes on. Had some great weekends with some friends.

Oh btw, Id be fulfilling one of my dreams. Im going to U2's concert!!! Looking fwd to Oct 3rd.

Listening to U2- Stuck in a Moment.

And followed by John Mayer - Waiting on the world to change.

Beautiful saturday afternoon this is, cool breeze on me and the comfort of my couch and some nice music. Getting some good rest on the weekend.

Changes

And I was able to make some changes to my new blog as well. One the label cloud, thanks phydeaux3 the other the blockquote. I liked the blockquote that I had in my old blog template

this is how my new blockquote looks like. see its Likable.

At least I like it. Good things.
Time to sleep. Weekend over.

Seinfeld

So what do you do when you get your hour back? So I dig up my collection of Seinfeld and watch a couple of episodes. Its always a great way to relax. soothing .. relaxing .. sleeping .. yah .. nothing like the weekend.

Time flies

S was here for 4 days. Ok, for those not in the loop, S is currently studying, so she has to stay away from home. Thankfully this is'nt as bad as our previous days, when I was studying and S chakki pissoing in UK as an IT professional. Its just 90 miles but it takes a whole 2 hours (I drive very safely ... lol S this is for you), actually the roads leading to Boone are not a freeway but an internal state highway type cos the place she stays at is holed up in the mountains and the closest "freeway"-ish road is the "Blue Ridge Parkway".

So S was here for 4 days, and time just flew. We "shopped" at P.F. Chang's ... so we had leftovers and S wanted a carry bag and not the P.F. Chang's version of a Dog-Bag. And the waiter comes back with the carry bag and says "Thank you for shopping at P.F. Chang's" that did tickle my bone all the way back home. Then I came home earlier the next day to work from home, and ironically, after S's nice beauty trip, when we got stuck in traffic, I took a shortcut through my Office at 5:40 in the evening...  Then we met our friends played a couple of rounds of carrom the one game where S and I are almost cut throat competing against each other almost every time. Saturday saw me running errands, laundry ,car wash, eating fried fish and fish curry, eating more fish, watching movies, etc, you know the usual errands.

Btw I got X-men and X-men 2 for a steal deal, it was fun to watch the movie in the surround sound on my cool TV which btw is begging for a PS-3.  Just for the Blu-ray feature. Honestly. God-Promise. 

Sunday was funny cos I chopped all the vegetables, S cooked em we ate it. Sat down and then something funny happened, a spyware somehow managed to get into my system and scare the shit out me n S. Then it was an amazing race kinda thing where I had to reinstall the OS on the machine before S had to leave. We checked the clock and kept on loading drivers after drivers. Finally S had to install Office and the anti virus on her ride back to the mountains. Yup there are people kind of the computer scientists type that live in the mountains.

The whole point of this exercise was to identify how 96 hours flew so fast.

Whats music got to do with all this? I was able to develop a likening to the music of Yuvraaj.  Cant help it, theres not much out there to listen to, so I am now listening to my favorite song, "Tu Meri Dost Hain" my second favorite song is "Tu Muskura" but theres a couple of notes there that I wish didnt not change their pitch and kinda went in the tempo, but I dont even know if this sentance that I just wrote makes any sense. So what the heck, beggers cant be chosers. Dying to find some good music. Thats it. 

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind

This weekend I had some time to watch a movie and I thought I should watch this movie that was so much in the news when it was released. Jim Carrey has always been my favorite hero, but after some time, his theatrics were just so similar to me that my loyalty to him was wearing. And then I just didnt watch some of his great movies, I havent yet watched "The Cable Guy" as well and I think my next movie might as well be that. But this movie isnt about Jim Carrey at all. Yeah he's acted well in it, but this movie is about it's story and love.

Many have written reviews where they say that this movie brought back their belief in love. Its so cool to see that they erased themselves from their lives, yet they got back. And this time around, they decided to change what they did wrong.

I loved the character of Clementine played by Kate Winslet the most. Random, intellectual, impulsive... Just complements the boring character of Joel...The Director also introduced the other characters in such a nice manner so as to reason out the ending. None in the cast was wasted, or redundant, all just made so much sense.

Its a must watch. But again, some may like the movie, some may feel that the concpets used are too weird to get across the point that they are trying to make. But hey its a movie, a story.

Change

I had been trying to do this for long... and its finally been done. I was so out of touch with the blog template I had in place... I thought I had to get it fixed and now I was bored of working out the css n the whole stuff that I somehow had time to play with while working on my Masters projects. huh.. 

Anyways... so i *upgraded*? my template and now am using the in house template tools.....

keeping it easy for me ... 

oh btw ..I been listening to whole load of oasis today...

Hmm

What it's Like - Everlast.

Then you really might know what its like.

Love the guitar strumming in this song.

On the other hand. Had Chicken Biryani, Aloo Paratha, Mutton Kheema, Ragda Pattice and Chicken Curry, Kheema Pattice and all this in a matter of 2 meals and a Breakfast and oh all this was cooked at home !!!! Also not to forget the Home made Nankathai biscuits that I had with Tea. I love my friends here.... Any doubt about that??? :) (read as evil grin)

I think the evening of tennis at the court justifies the sinful meals...

But then again we also went out in the evening to eat Gobi Manchurian, Chicken Kadhai, Seek Kabob and Chicken Kurma.... now gotta find some chores that would justify this.

Beautiful weekend. All my prayers to the one person I know who has a doctors appointment.

And now a Coke n Scotch (yeah i know but I dont care) in my hand while I watch a Movie..(Race)

Later