Archive for January, 2007
Bill Gates on The Daily Show
Link. Very Funny… 
My Home
A couple of days back, I posted pics of a place I would never want to step into. And this is why…
I have been staying here now for over two months and still managed to keep it neat and clean
Also, I must mention, I am sharing the apartment with a roomie, who has a bed-bath of his own… so it’s a pretty neat and big place. I like to believe that we are living like kings !!
Dirty House
These three pics are of a house that someone I know is renting. Now, this is a kind of house, I would never want to step in, let alone live in. During my Master’s I shared a two bedroom apartment with 3 other roomies, but It never got this dirty. I mean, this is the limit as far as I am concerned. I just can’t understand why people can’t find 5 minutes in a day to just tidy up the place and spend 30 minutes over the weekend to clean it up better.
appalling… x-(
200
I came to know yesterday that a new weighing scale had been placed in the men’s restroom in one of our office buildings. It had been a while since I had been trying to step on to one, so last evening after workout, I went ahead and weighed myself…
And…. I weigh 200 lbs… well… the scale showed 200.5 once and then 201 when I had a can of Gatorade in my hand
So, 200 lbs is approximately 91 kgs. I had never imagined that I would reach such a weight. All my life I have been thin as a stick. In my two years during my Master’s I did put on weight and that was largely expected. Last time when I weight myself at the guy, the figure was 187 lbs. That was about 8 months back.
I attribute all this weight to just sitting in office and working all the time. And, also to owning a car now. I have hardly walked, let alone exercise. I might have walked in two months here in Sunnyvale, what I might in 2 days in Chicago.
ok… having made a big deal about this 200 figure, I must say that it’s not all that bad. It’s the upper limit of weight range that I fall under. I just have to make sure that I work out and convert all this excess fat that i have added on, into muscles… I have been going to my company’s fitness boot camp for about 3 weeks now… it’s been fun and I am sure it’s going to help in the long run.
tc…
I cooked !
Weekends can be sooo boring… that they can drive one to cook !
Finally… after a gap of 8 months, I cooked today. It wasn’t that I was forced or anything. Just that I got bored of eating out all the time and it was a weekend and I had nothing better to do. Went to the nearest shop to pick up some frozen parathas and dishes, and in the process also picked up pulses.
Cooked rice and lobiya (Black-eyed beans), and everything came out well. I have always cooked for 3-4 people, so deciding on the quantities of salt and spices was a little difficult…
Anyways, I cooked !! It’s an important day for Makar-kind… It’s the start of a new beginning !!! I thought of taking pics, but I that would have been a bit too much
Google Suggest
Posted by Nalin in Applications, WWW on January 18th, 2007
It’s no big deal… and I am sure many out there wont even know what Google Suggest is ! For the noobs… Google Suggest is a service which assists users in searching by incorporating AJAX. As you type your query, it suggest what most other people are searching for; basically the most probable matches to what you might want to query.
I use Firefox all the time and there is an add-on Customize Google, that makes all Google search boxes work like Google Suggest. It helps me save a lot of time by helping form my queries better.
Anyways, I wrote this post to tell that now if you type the string “nalin ma” in Google Suggest, it shows my name as the probable words that you might be looking to search for.
Why is everyone getting married ?
I have finally reached that age when everyone around me is
1. Married,
2. Getting married, or
3. Is planning on getting married soon.
I go to office and most of my team members are married (and even have kids). It sometimes just gets difficult relating to them. I have friends who are in serious relationships and have started thinking about it. There are also many in my small circle who are actually getting married. I am happy for them because they are happy, but other than that nothing makes me happy about the whole situation. Nowadays, the question, "So… when are you getting married ?", with a wicked smile, has become a very common question that I end up asking my friends.
It’s just weird being 24… my folks haven’t been pressing me much as of now, ’cause they do realize that I am still a kid… but I think I remember my dad mentioning that 26 is a good age !! 
I have been trying to make it clear to them (and to the world, thru this post, I guess) that as of now, to me, 28-29 seems like a perfect age… If this changes, only time will tell… There’s so much more to life than settling down…
And, what is the point of this post ?? well, like most of my other posts, this one too is pointless… just some thoughts in my head that I want to get out…
peace…
Telemarketer Nightmare
Have had this link stored for a long time. Picked it off Digg.com. It’s an audio tape of a guy scaring the shit out of a telemarketer. very funny…
Welcome back Nalin !
Just like the title of my last post, I departed from the blogosphere. Just don’t know why but haven’t been able to sit down and write anything for the last couple of months. Even today, I wrote the first line of this entry and then wasted 45 mins doing something or the other before I made myself sit down again.
Anyway, a lot has happened at my end in the last couple of months. I had two offers of job and I made the obvious choice and moved to Sunnyvale, CA. Have been working for VMware as a QA Engineer II and been learning a lot of new things. It’s just (almost) the kind of work I would have liked to get into. Lots of coding amongst other things. And everything related to Java.
Sunnyvale is a nice place to stay. A lot of Indian Restaurants here… which means I almost always eat out… which in turn means I have put on a lot of weight… have to start working it off soon before things get from bad to worse.
Also, I have rented a lovely 2 Bed 2 Bath apartment with a roomie that I did my Master’s with. Furnished my room just the way I wanted. Bought a TV and a couch for the drawing room…. just what’s needed… will post the pics sometime soon…
And bought my first car… a new 2007 Toyota Camry, that I love to drive… Nice to have my very own car…
I am pretty much settled here now. The weekdays are way too busy and the weekends get boring at times… but life is good… Get by the weekends by watching movies and sleeping… the last two weekends were really nice. Went to Las Vegas and Chicago…
ok… will go get some sleep now… take care peeps…
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