Finally Back to blogging.

After a long gap, felt like writing something on my blog website. Actually my friend Sandeep started his and that gave me some push to start mine back.

During this gap(2 years) lots of things have happened, most importantly marriages of my sister (feb 2007) and myself (feb 2008). Yes I got married in feb of this year to a sweet beautiful lady.

Anyways so during this 2 years I have again have been travelling to different places both in India(Delhi, Chandigrah, chennai, tirupathi) and USA(Raleigh, st.louis, Atlanta, Hunt valley, Baltimore, Reston, Mountain view) and now finally in Jackonville FL and have been put up here for the longest duration in a city after my Masters at Starkville.

And during these two years I had different hairdos too. Long hair to bald to long hair to normal hair(for my marriage on the insistence of my father and fiance at tht time) to long hair to pony and finally to Bald today. yes just got a bald look back today.

Already its time to sleep but I am glad that I have finally hit the blog world back....n thnx to sandeep for staring his blog...

Project in St.Louis.

After a break of 8 days I got my next project at St.Louis. It all happened very quick as the requirement was urgent. The interview happened on Tuesday (10th oct 2006) evening and the decision was conveyed to me on wednesday morning and I was to report on Thursday morning. I had to travel 10.5 hrs from Atlanta, GA to St.Louis, MO on wed afternoon. It was all in all good fun to see the things change so fast as I was wondering to go to India until wednesday morning as I was not positive of how things were going. I suppose the patience paid me off. Once again learnt that perseverance is the key here in consultancy world.

And coming to st.louis I was shocked at the cold weather unlike in Atlanta and I fear if I have enough winter clothing with me(I still have left a lot of stuff in ATL). Lets c. And I was made to work like a dog on thursday and fri no wonder why I was recruited so fast(there was an urgent deliverable on Monday). The work is almost complete except for 2 tasks. Hope to get it done by monday evening.

And I had good fun meeting my old pal from my university over here. We had some drinks and shared the sweet old memories.

Guys, one other shocking thing is I am going to end up being a room-mate to my functional lead. I donno how I would take tht(seeing the same man throughout the day, hope he is kewl, which he looks till now:-)) ).

I shall keep updated u ppl with the happenings in my life. I know I almost stopped blogginguntil my last blog.

OK guys c ya!!!

Atlanta Downtown.

My first week on bench after the project at IBM. Was a good one to say. The week days were fine but the weekend was really something. Went to CNN center and the Centennial olympic park opposite the CNN center, followed by a great lunch at Ted's Montana Grill across the street of CNN. Had a stroll on the lanes of Atlanta and went to the Westin's Sun-dial bar and view. It is rotating one and had a great view of Atlanta from the 75 storeyed building.

Some great quotes from the movies I have seen!!!

Forrest Gump: I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both, maybe both happening at the same time.

Forrest Gump:
"Mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

The Gladiator:
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

"I knew a man who once said, 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.'"

Marcus: "When was the last time you were home?"
Maximus: "Two years, two hundred and sixty-four days and this morning."

The Godfather:
"Good! Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man" - Vito Corleone

The Godfather Part II:
"My father taught me many things ... keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - Michael Corleone

Gandhi:
Nehru: Bapuji, the whole country is moving.
Gandhi: Yes. but in what direction?

Vince Walker: You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi.
Gandhi: I hope not.

21 Grams:
Paul Rivers:
How many lives do we live?
How many times do we die?
They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death.
Everyone.
And how much fits into 21 grams?
How much is lost?
When do we lose 21 grams?
How much goes with them?
How much is gained?
How much is gained?
Twenty-one grams.
The weight of a stack of five nickels.
The weight of a hummingbird.
A chocolate bar.
How much did 21 grams weigh?

A Beautiful Mind:
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

Devil's advocate:
John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off. He's a tight-ass. He's a sadist. He's an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never.

dreams reflect our thoughts

1)I read a novel before sleeping the other day. In that novel a character in a instance sees a snake and shivers.
To my surprise I had real horrible dreams of snakes tht night.
2)I played tennis for 3 hrs one evening. And once again I saw the dreams of myself serving again and again and winning the games tht night.
3)I was going to office and my car escaped a wreak. On tht night I again got dreams of my car getting damaged.

I used to get such wierd dreams before too, but the frequency with which they r coming these days is alarming for me. I need to google out on whts the reason for tht....
does anyone have such experiences at alarming regularity???

gasless night

went to New orleans(NO) some 3 weeks back....yeah couldnt make it to mardigras by the way:-((
we just went as my frnd wanted to see the condition of his 2nd hand car. we first went to his University in a small town called "Hammond", from there we reached to NO and ate at an Indian restaurant called "Nirvana", and on my insistence we went to "Rang de basanti", but lill did I know tht my insistence would make the nite tooooo chilly for 3 of us...as we couldnt find a single gas station open on our way back....yes Ms.katrina's effect(gas stations were closed by 9:00 on tht belt). And our car ran out of gas and we had to stay in our car with engine off in extremely chilly night....the gas stations were again open by 6:00 in the mor....all in all a very chillllly night.

Movies' Marathon

Movies I saw last 2 weeks….

Ring=>It was like a very creepy movie and by the end of the movie we experience kind of a fear if wht was happening there on TV might happen to us. It was a good variety movie but at some times not tht captivating as it could be.

Hide and Seek(Robert De Niro)=>It was a very gud thriller. It has a feel of sixth sense where we get to know at the very end of the movie abt a basic fact on which the movie revolves. Rober de niro and the lill girl (I beg ur pardon I donno her name) did a gr8 job indeed.

Final Destination2=> After seeing its prequel I thought this would be too, as thrilling….but asides the thrilling aspect of the movie the sequel turned out to be real gross. May be one can stop with its prequel.

De Lovely=>It’s a musical(jazzish) love story with sensitivity….it was a gud movie and I felt like I was watching too many movies of these types (I saw “The English Patient” a few days back and it has similar sensitivity with more higher intensity though). But the Jazz songs, I felt were really brilliant. It’s a gud watch but I felt the story could have a better punch to offer.

The quite American(Brendon Fraser)=> I thought it was waste of time to see that. I just don’t like movies of such type. It was again a love story where the story I felt really lacked a direction.

Devil’s Advocate(Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves)=> It was a gud one with variety. Keanu reeves with his innocence and Al Pacino with his usual panache for delivering punch-ful dialogues steal the show. It has a very strong message to convey.

Don Juan De Marco(, Marlon Brando)=>hmmm...do watch this movie if u wanna see something of different genre which u might not have seen till date….may be thts an exxageration. But how the mind can act and influence others has been shown quite well.

One Hour Photo(Robin Williams)=>I felt It was a very controlled performance by Robin Williams. It was very painful to see such an ending for such a small wish of the protagonist. I had expected a much more effective climax. But the director may have wanted to drive the point in a very straight way.

Fahrenhype(anti to Michael Moore's Farenheit)=>I went to movie gallery to pick Fahrenheit 9/11 but picked this one mistakenly. As I haven’t seen Fahrenheit 9/11 I couldn’t judge the film in a way I could have. But the narration was lucid.

Farenheit 9/11=>yep i brought it just after seeing Farenhype so not to miss the formers's point.It had many discomforting facts like the way Mr.Bush won in 2000, and his links with Bin Laden family. And especially the coverage of how Iraq war was a whim of Bush for oil was very very convincing.

Bowling for Columbine=>It was a classic by Michael Moore, the one who directed “Farenheit-9/11”. To be frank this documentary was more engrossing than “Farenheit-9/11” for me. It dealt with the guns, how they were freely used in US and how US stands number one in count for murders through guns. It mainly focused on the Columbine school shootings.

Memento(Guy Pearce)=>I had seen “Ghazini” the remake of this film in Tamil and Telugu. So as such I know the story b4 hand. But I really liked the way the direction was done. I am sure if the same movie was released in India not many could get to know wht was going in movie….the intelligent directors….but do they need to be so convoluted to make a movie, which is supposed to un-nerve the people in their leisure than to strain the audience for even understanding the movie???

The Constant Gardener(Ralph Feiness, Rachel Weiz)=> It was again about a conspiracy at highest levels of adminstartion by bigwig companies who treated the African people as guinea pigs for their dangerous medicine just for money. How insensitive ppl can be???hmmm

dudes there are real gud movies out there...in english....but now i will take a break and try to shift to reading ....enough of movies....