Saw ''Cabaret'' yesterday......have heard so much abt it, so had to watch it.....now I can understand where Chicago got its inspiration from......Its a real nice movie......its the kind of movie at the end of which you feel fulfilled....:-)))...since it has melodrama, dances, songs etc etc....maybe this is coming from my appreciation of Indian movies...:-))).....
Liza Minelli was damn goood.........the most striking feature of this woman are her eyes.....they are like large and twinkling......and thats all that u remember of her face.....her depiction of a young starlet who dreams of making it big on screen some day.......makes you want to hug her and say ''cho chweeet''......and to think that this movie was made 30 years ago......When I read the abstract of the movie there was this one line which talked abt the decadence of the period during the 2nd world war.......it was only when I saw the movie that I realised what they meant by the divine decadence......

Yesterday.....was just sitting at home and listening to some 1960's Lata Mangeshkar music.......and my thoughts went to my job and the changes that it has undergone in the last few years......This company has given me so many opportunities to perform different activities and however much I do not like working onsite......come to think of it, its actually helped me to realise all the hidden desires that I have had through my working life..wanted to work onsite ....always wanted to have a place of my own....in an alien place......and here I am living in London of all places....

Now that I am onsite, I finally know that what I want is to work in India......and I will be fully satisfied only when I work in India.......so now am looking fwd to completeing my stint here and then moving back ......ofcourse this experience has been very beneficial as it got me out of the complacence that I was getting in to in Pune and has got me back on to my feet......so this is good......Change is always good...however much I feel that chnage is irritating......

Had a very nice weekend and so am in a mood to blog today after long.....actually there ain't too much work to be done and this is a good method to pretend as though you are working......:-))) little does anyone know what I am doing especially since now my monitor faces the window....

HMV sale was on and as usual I needed to visit it to check whether I cd buy any discounted DVDs.....Bought AfricanQueen.....stars Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.....Ms Hepburn really looks old in the movie and Humphrey Bogart anways always looked old.... Mr. Bogart got an oscar for this role....its an adventure film....in which Katherine H plays a prim missionary in Zaire with her brother......Humphrey is an unkempt mail man who travels on his boat on the Amazon delivering mail......the movie is based during the First world war and Germans are all over the world asfar as Africa and they are on a wild spree capturing Africans and using them as soldiers.....They raid the village where the missionaries teach and raze it to the ground capturing all the locals.......Rosy(Katherine)'s brother dies from teh shock and Rosy has no alternative but to get out of the place and for this she takes the help of Humphrey ......the movie takes you through the travails they face as they move along the amazon across Africa.

Some scenes are pretty sweet .....one which comes to my mind is teh one where Rosy realises that she is falling for our hero......and how after one night of passion, the next morning ...instead of addressing him as Mr.....she addresses him as Dear.......it was so hilarious......but endearing.....
In all a nice adventure movie.......

On Saturday had been to the library and on an impulse checked the theatre at the Clocktower and found that it was playing ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' ...a movie which I was waiting to watch.....so decided to watch it on saturday evening.....

Its based on the diaries of Che Guevara which he maintained during his travels around South America before he became the revoloutionary of Cuba......The main hero of this film is South America and its landscapes......its a very greeen film...i.e takes you through lush Argentina, Chile, Cuba etc etc......Some of teh scenes are particularly beautiful and show some of the reasons why Guevara later in life decided to fight for Cuba's poor.....There is this one scene where on their travel they meet this couple who are travelling to a mine to find work......the wife asks our guys as to why they were travelling and these guys didnt have an answer...they said they were travelling just because they want to travel......and the wife looks at them and says''Bless you....Bless your travels''.....its so touching....cd make you cry......

another scene where they volunteer to work in a leper colony........the relationship that Che develops with some of the inmates of the colony is depicted extremely beautifully.....inall a nice watch......

On Sunday watched Hero.....a movie which I was waiting to watch......Its a beautifullllll movie......It stars one of my favourite Chinese actresses...Zhang Ziyi......the young girl in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon...... The movie is based on the times of the First emperor of China.....of the Qin dynasty......The emperor is trying to unite all the 7 provinces of the then China.....there isn't much story to the movie.......but its a would be tourist to China's delight......the locales are awesome......just awesome........the whole movie has been shot in China......people compare it to Crouchin tiger....but Crouchin Tiger hada strong storyline.....and the characterisation was strong and the martial arts and visual effects did not shadow the characters......however in this movie more stress is given to the visual effects and they are stunnning......the fight scenes are beautiful......the characters do not stand out......some of teh scenes are so awesome that its some time before you realise that you realise that u are watching teh movie with your jaws dropped......
The movie is extremely colourful...and teh director really knows how to create beauty using contrasting colours.......he has used all the primary colours of red, green and yellow.....but the effect is brilliant......

Its a must watch for anyone who liked Crouching tiger......

Today, atlast I cd get myself to update this space....
well its not like too many things have taken place ...my life is pretty routinised...watched ''The Apartment'' last week.....its a cutesy kind of film....which gives u a nice feeling watching it....stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine...It is a black and white movie ....and the story is about this bachelor guy who works in a large Insurance firm....his flat is used by his top management members for their extra marital relnships.....the funny part of this movie was how extra marital relnships were treated as a part of life....each of the managers had one....Ofcourse offering his flat was a method of climbing the corporate ladder....the movie has a lot of hilarious moments when our man Baxter decides to go home early one evening since he wasnt feeling too well....and his nice dreams about getting in to bed witha cup of hot tea was disrupted when he receievesa call from one of his ''Flat Loaners'' who had made a booking that evening.....and how he is forced to move out and spend teh night in a park....
Incidentally our man has a soft corner for one of the lift attendants(Shirley M)...but does not have the courage to ask her out...One day he receives a call from the top boss of the orgn...and he feels that he is in for trouble....but to his surprise the boss wants his apartment....:-)))...little does he know that the boss is having an affair with the light of his life.....
The story moves on to how he discovers this and his feelings which are portrayed so sweetly that your heart goes out to Lemmon...finally ofcourse everything is settled...Shirley realises the love of our hero..and they live happily ever after.....in all a nice watch....

Over the weekend saw a couple of films…infact added 2 movies again to my collection…(that reminds me…I need to enter my collection here)….added ‘’Memento’’ and ‘’Jamon Jamon’’ this weekend.
Have not yet watched Memento…but it seems to be a good movie…..watched Jamon Jamon…..it’s a spanish film and its outrageously hilarious…..now u must be wondering as to why am I watching so many spanish movies…..well…no I ain’t moving to Spain….just that I like that language and sometime…I want to learn to speak it……
Jamon Jamon
It’s the story of a woman whose mother is a prostitute (because her husband leaves her)….is in love with the son of her employer…..infact she is carrying his child….but the son’s mom doesn’t want a prostitute as her relative….so she takes the help of an aspiring bullfighter (who fights bulls in the nude)…she goes to meet this guy to put forth her proposal……unfortunately she finds him too irresistible…..so she sleeps with him….immediately after she finishes her act…she realises she is in love with him…..she buys hima mobike……infact bcos she promises to buy hima mobike…he sleeps with her……he starts his assignment…and goes and meets the dame…..and keeps meeting her…..and like a hindi movie…falls in love with her…..now initially our heroine doesn’t reciprocate…since she thinks she is in love with her man…..however slowly she realises that all her man wants is sex…and when he doesn’t get it….he goes to get it from his lover’s mom (who is a prostitute…so she doesn’t feel anything to sleep with our guy for money).and so she starts drifting towards our bullfighter…..finally she succumbs and sleeps with our man……the bullfighter……well……that’s not the end…..coincidentally her bf witnesses the amorous meeting between his girl and the bullfighter…and goes and tells his mom abt it…….but obvious mom feels J abt it……and so she goes to meet bullfighter…..there she witnesses the act between bullfighter and son’s girl……however here is the twist…..she doesn’t realise that son is following her and he too reaches there….and he wants to go inside and kill bullfighter….but mom drags him away sayin that she will take care of it…..
Well…..she goes and meets girl and tells her to marry her son…however our girl is tired of waiting for son…..so she refuses and tells mom that she no longer loves her son……so mom ina fit of revenge tells her that she has paid bullfighter to sleep with our girl…and that bullfighter loves mom…..she goes and meets bullfighter and tells her that he shdnt meet the girl….however bullfighter says that he wid meet…..so mom declares her love to him………and then promises him a mercedes and takes him to bed…..while they are in bed…..son comes to fight bullfighter and sees mom…….trying to put on her clothes……a fight ensues…..and bullfighter (who is actually a ham seller) picks up one of the pig’s thighs and batters son…..and both batter each other while mom is dressing up…….in the meantime…..our heroine rushes to meet her bf’s father asking for his help……and believe it or not……bf’s father nurses secret desires for our woman……so he starts making his advances…..towards her…….
Finally its such a funny movie…with everyone sleeping with just abt everyone……bf sleeps with gf who sleeps with villain…..who sleeps with bf’s mom…..who doesn’t like her hubby…who wanst to sleep with gf….its so hilarious……..Its tragic in the end….but its tragically hilarious…

As usual its been so long since I wrote something.........not that my life has been boring......infact its just the opposite......life has been so hectic...that I just have not had the time to sit down and blog.....work has been really busy and I hv hardly had time to do anything other than work (for a change)...but I like it thatw ay.....u enter the office at 9......log in to teh comp.....work till 12...have lunch...go for a walk....back to work and before you realise it its 5 and its time to go home....(yeah I go home at 5) ....now isnt that nice......:-)))

now let me try to recall what has happened over the last few weeks......saw some good movies.....the latest one which I saw was ''Amelie''....I know its an old movie...but I had not watched it and I found it on the sale...so I snapped the DVD along with ''All about my mother'' by Pedro Almodovar......Amelie was sucha beautiful movie......the colors were amazing...it gives sucha happy feeling to watch the movie as it takes u thro' the life of Amelie....played brilliantly by Audrey Tatou.....its such a simple story but trated brilliantly.....and makes u laugh and sometimes cry when u look at teh simplicity.....Audrey is brilliant......the most striking feature of her face is her eyes....which sparkle like stars.....the mischievious look that she has when she tries out stunts is so endearing......I loved it.....

On Sunday I watched Bad Education by Pedro Almodovar......my first Almodovar movie....but I reallly liked it.....the cinematography was amazing.....there were colours in abundance......and even though the subject of the movie was disturbing......just watching it and soaking in the colours gives one a happy feeling......it proves that colours can be classified in to 2 categories.....Happy and Depressing......so if u wanna feel happy .....just have the right colours around u....

The movie was about 2 friends who study in a catholic school......and touches upon hostel life .....abuse by a paedophile priest.....the blooming of a relationship between the 2 main protagonists of the film.......the movie keeps shuttling between the present and the past...Sometimes u are at school....and sometimes u are transported in to the adult lives of both these men.......its beautifully captured...and explores the beautiful Spanish countryside ina few scenes.....Its shocking and along the middle.....one gets a real shock.....its one of those movies which u keep pondering about even after 2 days of watching it which is what I liked....I was still trying to figure out some scenes and what they actually meant.... Now when I think of it....I realise that the whole film didnt have any female characters.....its a total male oriented film....where there are no mix of female-male characters......a very typical Almodovar theme.....eg....''Talk to her''(which I have not watched as yet)....is supposed to have 2 strong female characters.....also '' All about my mother'' is supposed to be very strong female character dominated.....

This weekend was hectic......actuallly all 3 days starting from Friday evening was hectic...we had this Latin American farewell party at Blackfriars which was just amazing.....they had these Samba and Salsa dancers who put in sucha terrific performance...and Brazilian music...well.....I dont think I need to say anything more abt that music......its a kind of music which doesnt allow one to sit .....u just have to be on ur feet and move ur body.....it was fun.....we danced for something like 5 hours nonstop.....and it felt good.....

On Saturday.....was to meet Garry for a day in London which was fun though tiring....we met at the Tate Modern and then moved towards Hyde Park where we spent most of the day just relaxing under some huge trees and chatting.....Later in teh evening we went to Covent Garden....and listened to some open air music which was nice but not the kind which I really like....

Yesterday watched ''When Harry met Sally''.......was an amazing film....just kept laughing thro the film.....I anyways luv Meg Ryan....though she looks ghastly here...I like the Meg Ryan with teh messed up hair....here she is all prim and proper.....but the dialogues were soooo good.......the orgasm scene was so funnny.....

Have bought so many DVDs now.......HMV shd be sued for coming out with a sale and that too a sale which lasts for so many weeks...that I am forved to buy the DVDs when they sell them so cheap.......

will put up a list here soon.......I myself cannot remember all the ones that I have now......

Had been to Heathrow to pickup Kaushik on Saturday......this was the first time I was at the airport picking up someone in the evening (cos' all the BA flights arrive in the morning)....and it was teh first time I was at Terminal 3......it was fun standing at Arrivals and watching people...I anwyyas like doing that......just move in to a crowded place...like a shopping mall...pick a nice cosy corner from where u are inconspicuous .....buy a cup of coffee and then watch people....its a nice passtime...:-)).....and there are times when I have bursted in to peals of laughter looking at people's antics.....and what better place to indulge in this idiosyncracy than the airport.....

Most of the East Asian flights arrive in the evenings....so it was funny watching hordes of Japanese, Koreans, Chinese etc etc.......thronging the arrival area.....U can recognise the Japanese bcos of the amount of 'back bending' they do....they keep bowing...and Did U know that the angle of the japanese bend is directly proportional to the respect you want to give to the other person.Lower the bend.....more is the respect.....interesting ain't it?
Now I can identify among these nationalities...atleast I feel I can.....and the Japanese are the prettiest....of the lot....

The amazing thing about the asian community and I am talking abt East Asians...is the skin and hair......they are all like dolls......fragile dolls...with exquisite skin and hair....

Myself and Kaushik decided to visit Leicester Square on Saturday night.....it was an experience....was like the whole of London was at Leicester square.....One of these days I plan to go there on a Sat night and spend the night there......hv to find sumone who will accompany me ...:-)) ...will be boring alone....loitering about in the night....

Smell.......
The human brain is such an amazing organ.....have u ever noticed how we can relate certain smells with certain people...or places....its like when u smell a new smell...it gets captured as small molecules somewhere in your nasal passage......and years later....when u smell the same smell.......it all comes flooding back...amazing aint it......now my machine is being transported to a diff site......so will stop now....

While commuting to work today.....just had this thought cross my mind....'' Every moment is so unilque. Once it passes off it never comes back....U can never have the same moment with the same emotions ever again.....every moment in our lives is so precious.....all u have is a memory.....so I must cherish each moment like it will never come back ever again''......I know its a cliched thought....but till now.....till this time when I saw the landscape whiz past me.....I have never realised the importance of time.....Is there any point in being unhappy or sad....its sucha  waste of the moment.....so I just wanna be as happy as possible and wanna enjoy my life as much as possible....cos' I am never gonna have a second chance.......
 
Philosophy.......but this is what I wanna do.......

Am feeling so much better today.......yesterday was a case of a reallllly bad Monday......I try to smile to everyone on Monday.....to make Mondays a bit better...but everyone's in the foulest of moods on Monday......Jackie especially(she is one of the managers here)...I keep telling her to smile.....and she just refuses to....and yesterday she comes down and screams looking at my haircut...she tells me that hopefully I hadn't paid teh barber for that haircut...hahahahahahaha...she says with that haircut...I better go off to Pune....and I am no longer her 'boy'....hahahhahahahahaha....so she says that even Tony(my boss) is better than me.....hahhahahahahahahahah........
 
Well.....poor old me.......all I wanted was a haircut.......and the barber just shorn me off all my hair...now i am looking like a shorn sheep.....anyways......whats done is done...now ill have to wait till it grows back.....aaah the travails of getting a decent haircut.....

I seriously have not written for so long now......now what may be the reason for this..I wonder..well...yeah.....Have been working...cannot believe that myself....I actually ahve been so busy that I have not had time to update my blog.....:-))) which is sucha  nice thing to think....:-)))
 
well......now let me try to capture all the happenings over the last few days....I know I will not be able to capture everything....so let me just put down the highlights....:-)
 
Lat Friday on the Tube...was on my way home.....from Blackfriars...just visualise the scene..ok.....I enter teh platform....the train chugs in(its electric...so I guess it glides in).....I push a  button...the doors open......I enter the compartment as the lone passenger...since it was pretty late by British standards (9 PM.....had a party that night.....so was late)....and settled down on my seat....the train moved on to London Bridge station....which atleast had a  fair no of passengers .......the commuters settled down....and the train moves on....suddenly a guy asks another guy abt the book that he was reading( OH....btw.....ina  British train...everyone reads.....books.....ok....noone looks at anyone...they all enter the train....and immediately get out books like mafia pulling out their guns....)......the book turns out to be ''The DaVinci code''....and suddenly believe it or not...there are 3 -4 guys all talking at the same time......regarding this book....this book has become  a craze here in teh UK....and Dan Brown (i guess thats the author) is reallly famous.......reading his books is the ''In'' thing...
it was nice just listening to the conversations .....so many ppl discussing the same book at the same time.....so I decided I must get this book and read it....
 
The funny thing was that ina  British train...ppl were actually talking......else.....u only hear rustles of newspapers.....thats all.....noone talks.......all prim and proper...:-)))
 
Had a French market at teh Whitgift centre this weekend.......all French stuff.....didnt buy anything though......since I had gone berserk at teh HMV sale......I bought loads of DVDs.....will put in teh list tomorrow...as I cannot remember all the ones I have......
 
Saw Sound of Music again on sunday........can never tire of that movie.......saw it an sang the songs.......:-)))).....was fun....

''An author must take risks. I cannot know what millions of readers over the world will think about what they are reading. I write for the one person whom I know reasonably well - myself. Every creative undertaking is an adventure which is at once painful and fascinating: on the one hand, there is the fear of discovering our own ghosts; on the other, the excitement of knowing we are more interesting than we thought we were. ''

Paul Coelho


AAAh.....today is Friday again......weekend again...yahoooo...ain't it surprising that inspite of me having very little to do.....I still look forward to the weekend...I wonder why....guess its because that's the time when I get maximum time with myself at home....just read a book, or listen to music, or cook......or maybe shop....life falls in to sucha routine and I am such a ''routinised person''. I love routines.....that doesn't mena that I do not like changes....when I am undergoing change...I like the change....when I am in a routine...I like the routine.....its not that I miss a routine in times of change or something like that.....I guess thats the best thing that I like about myself....I am adaptable....well...now thats one new strong point which I can quote in my next interview...:-)))

MK.....all this must be jargon for u....its just a piece of introspection.....which I am doing over a cup of tea....

Murphy's laws on Business

· If anything can go wrong, it will, and. .

1. It will go wrong at the worst possible time
2. Anything you plan will cost more and take longer
3. To fix anything requires a tool that you don’t have

· Nothing is as easy as it looks.
· Everything takes longer than you think
· If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

· If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
· If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
· It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
· Every solution breeds new problems.
· Complex problems have simple, easy-to understand wrong answers.
· All vacations and holidays create problems, except for one's own.
· A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
· After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before
· Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget
· All's well that ends

Have been reading some blogs and one of them was so depressing. He has written about life and life's idiosyncracies....the way he has expressed his feelings is truly commendable...i mean words just flow and so smoothly.....but when u actually ponder on those thoughts....u do feel low....

Now u may ask...why read it when its so depressing.....well...no particular reason...just that its so sadistically compulsive to read abt depression.....such a human tendency to read abt depression and then crib that its depressing...ironical isnt it....but then Life itself is full of ironies.....ain't it?

Some beautiful lines :

''Facades are easy to do, but the old shadows still fall over it and when they overlap, they serve to only intensify the darkness.''

Have had no work today...and have been busy browsing the net.....and reading blog sites...was reading this blog named Vantage point....by a dude named Gaurav ...is from Pune....just completed his MBA from IIML and is working with IBM....he writes groovily....(hope thats the right word)....its witty and humorous which is so difficult to find nowadays.....reading some of his entries got me rofl and Pushpa (my neighbour from the next cubicle).....was so interested in knowing what was making me laugh....

am gonna snitch some sentences from his site.... one quote from Dilbert which goes "You have to pretend to be someone else till the other person loves you for what you are". :-))))

Jeremy just asked me whether Kulkarni is a common name in Maharashtra......I told him yes....he says'' Is it something like the ''Smith'' in England''....and I said yes....and I told him that you also have loads of ''Joshis'' and he says they are something like teh ''Jones''......hahhahahhahahah.......that was so funny....Kulkarnis=Smiths and Joshis=Jones......:-)))

MK have put in ur name , so that u will receive a notification that I have updated this site.....I dunno whether this will work......but do let me know whether u receive any notification.....

Am currently reading ''Rebecca's tale''.....its a continuation of the Daphne Du Maurier's ''Rebecca''....I reallly fail to understand why wd anyone other than Daphne Du Maurier need to write a sequel.....to Rebecca.....still just wanted to read whats there in it...so picked it up.....have read around 25%....it just cannot be compared to the original.....

Well.....what have I been doing all these days......just a bit caught up with work...and basically lazy....to write ...this week is gonna be a slow week...as Tony is in India....and I really do not ahve much work heaped up...so decided to write today...

Last weekend was good.....on Sat morning as usual rushed to the library and then on my way to Savemore(grocery store) saw the street book sale....so decided to stop over....and surprise surprise...I actually saw recent bestsellers there selling for a pound each...which was so good.....but since I had already reda them from teh library...didnt buy them....saw Schindler's list which I was hunting for in India....so bought it.....then browsed thro' and saw this old 3 volumes of '' World's Greatest paintings'' and just cdnt resist picking it up.....the interesting thing is that the book is a 1930's copy....so has that old English binding...Its beautiful.....has prints of the famous paintings like Mona lisa, Madonna in teh garden...etc etc.....and also description abt each painting...not the technical descriptions which noone wd be interested in...but a page abt each artist and his famous works....which is pretty interesting....its Collectors item....and guess teh price.....got all three volumes for 15 pounds.....:-))))
was so thrilled....Contd browsing and saw a biography of Greta Garbo which I picked for satish....and also picked a hardbound of Ernest Hemingway....and it has around 6 of his boks in it...got these for a pound each....so cdnt resist....the seller was so amused that she gave me a whole lot of bags to carry the books in.....:-)))

Sorabh,his wife and Prem were in Croydon househunting.....so met them and decided to go to Pizza hut for lunch....had lunch....shopped for vegetables and returned home to admire my purchases....:-)))

In teh evening Sibs was visiting ....so had tea with him....and he moved out at 8 for dinner witha friend....then I cooked some dinner and called it a day......

On Sunday had decided to visit the Neasden temple.....it seems its like the Birla temple.....and very beautiful....Recahed Neasden station with Sibs at 4.....went out and looked around and cd see a temple far off.....since neither of us knew the way, we decided to walk in its direction.....still to be on the safe side decided to ask sumone the way....saw this Indian Gujju lady on the bustop and asked her.....she cdnt talk Hindi...beat that...she started talking in Gujarati....and obviously I cdnt understand Gujarathi...neither cd Sibs....somehow I told her that we wanted to visit the Swaminarayan temple...She told us we were in the wrong direction.....so we asked her the right direction.....she tried explaining to us...and finally she decided to take us there...:-))
we started walking....and walking and walking......for 20 mins....and finally she showed us teh temple.....which ofcourse wasnt the one which we set out for......she stays very closeby...so she invited us for tea....but we very graciously declined sayin that we wanted to visit the temple.....so she bid us goodbye.....and went off......sweeet lady......she actually walked all the way with us...instead of taking the bus......we entered the temple.....had prasad....prayed and left....neither of us had the strength to go searching for the right temple....so we decided to leave that search for another day.....

Today we realised that we went in the opposite direction.......:-)))

its been since a week since i wrote......MK just reminded me....that I have not updated u (dear journal)..:-)))
so here I am....after a week's gap....actually did not find the time.....so cd not write....last week was pretty busy...and this week too has been till now....

Ganesh was down last Sat.....went shopping with him to Totenham Court Road(the street where u can get just abt any electronic gadget....)he wanted to buy a camcorder.....loitered around a few shops and compared prices.....finally got a good deal for a sony...424 pounds which was real good.....so he bought it....

Monday was terrible......was raining thro the day...and so was at home....just went to teh station to drop Ganesh and came back.....had finished all my grocery shopping on sat itself...so just relaxed on Monday.....got some cool books from teh library....currently am reading ''Nowhere to hide''....its written by a British woman who married an Iraqi and was staying in Iraq during the Gulf war...and the Kurds war....hv just recahed halfway through.....is pretty nice....reading such memoirs gets u to think as to how lucky one is to live in a democracy.....where u wdnt get shot for talking against teh govt.

Divya ...finally is coming over on teh 15th....she just got her visa approved.....so am looking fwd to that.....last i saw her was in October......hv taken a week's off when she is here.....so can loiter around london...which will be fun....hope the weather is good....
work is on fine......it gets interesting in peaks and troughs....certain days are good..certain are terrible....due to lack of work....

On sunday there was Hungarian festival in Croydon...was nice.....things to eat....handicrafts etc etc.....there was live folk music.....hungarians dancing in their traditional attire.....it was great fun.....there was this one stall which was selling candles..the candles are real unique....its like the candles are embedded with thin slices of cherry wood, and real fruits and flowers....the candle burns only in teh centre....and the light shines thro the flowers and fruits...its beautiful......and to it u can add scented oils.....got one for 10 pounds......with 2 bottles of oil....cinnamon and lemon.....it smells divine....teh guy selling it was so friendly.....and he gave us a real good deal.....on teh whole teh experience was fun....

Have registered to 2 sites ....one is a discussion about the German Language....its is nice....u can post your doubts in teh site and anyone can correct the post...and point out ur mistakes......helps in furthering my knowledge abt German.....

the second was a site which is carrying out a service like a penpal service.....U can say which language you want to learn.....and what ur language proficiency is.....and they try to match it to sumone else whose proficiency is teh language you are trying to learn.....very interesting....They matched me with this German...who wants to lean Hindi......Have started exchanging mails.....its fun actually......learning a language from someone whose mothertongue is German.....:-)))

I just finished reading ''Aquariums of Pyongyang''....Just last week we had this news about the collision of the 2 trains in North Korea and hordes of people died. A thought just struck me.....the number of people who died in North Korea was the same as the number who died in teh Sept 11 attacks. Still there was so much of talk in teh news about Sept 11...even today we talk about it. In comparison to that N Korea is hardly talked about.Is it because the N Koreans who died aint human beings and the right to live was only a prerogative of the Americans.....makes u feel sick at times that so much undue importance is given to America when so much worse is happening in these developing countries....

On Saturday was looking thro' the Biography section in the library and saw this book. The title attracted me....I really have never thought abt reading abt N Korea .....I dunno why....but have always been restricted to stupid self help books and fiction...After coming here to London.....my reading has really improved...atleast now I pick up books which are to do with what is happening in our world today.....So when I saw ''Pyongyang''I picked it up....reading this book was unbelievable.....its a memoir of a guy who escaped from NKorea in teh 1990s and has seeked asylum in S Korea. He has described the travails of life in NKOrea under the realm of Kim Il Sung and Kim JongIL....was a revelation...and I had thought that the Nazis were the worst.....u know we consider the Holocaust as something which happened a years back.....something which should be forgotten....we dont know that we have almost something like Nazism happening in N Korea. They still have concentration camps there.......I cd not belive it....that in the 21st century we have concentration camps where people are incarcerated for teh slightest political misconduct.....there is nuthing called as democracy there....the life in the camps has been described in graphical details....and its nuthing less than an animal existence and we say that human beings are different as compared to animals....well in conditions like this.....human beings can be worse than animals....during the course of my reading......at times I went ''aaaahhhh''' and ''whaaaaat'''''...it was so horrible.....

the author lives in Seoul and works for a newspaper there.....and he is trying to attract attention to the life of the common man in N Korea......

Well....have not been here since ages now.....was looking thro the other sites and finally thought.....that I should update my blog site as well.....

nuthing of too much consequence has happened since I last wrote.....too much consequence means I ahve not been visiting too many places like art galleries and museums......not that I dont like to...but getting past boredom is one of the most difficult things to do ....:-)))

well...last weekend was fun.....had been on a cycling trip to New Forest....its a nice place...however it will be beautiful in summer....the trees are still barren...and the leaves are just sprouting heralding the arrival of spring....we wnt by train to Brockenhurst and then took cycles all across teh forest....it was fun.....and for me....it was like cycling after 15 yrs....but i didnt feel a thing....cycling was fun...and the legs didnt ache one bit...infact i was one of the few who actually cycled the whole way...which was good.....there is a quaint village which is a typical english village....houses by the side of brooks....it was nice...the other 3 days were spent with the most precious company I have ...i.e good old me...myself...and my company:-))) sounds like me myself and Irene that sick Jim Carey movie....

On Monday had been to IKEA with Sourabh......wow..whata place....incase u wanna know what is IKEA...its a swedish household item giant....they have just about everything that can possibly be there.....and teh good thing is that they hv arranged everything in sucha way that u exactly know how ur living room or bedroom wd look like.....One thing which struck me here is that everything is designed in sucha modular manner...like there are modular kitchens, modular bedrooms etc etc.....so u just buy various stuff and assemble it to make ur bedroom.....cool aint it....I cdnt resist buying a few scented candles.....vanilla and melon flavour......ummmmmmmmmmm...they smell so nice....
I light a candle when i am about to sleep...and the smell just spreads across teh room and teh whole room smells good enuf to eat....

Ganesh is coming over this weekend......he will stay over till sunday....hv to pick him up at 7 from Kings Cross.So that takes care of the weekend....well thats it for now....

Jackie just came down and now she calls me ''sweetie''....hahahhahahhaha.....today she comes and I go to talk to her...and jeremy pulls my shirt as I am wearing a tucked in shirt over jeans....on friday....so he says that its not done...and Jackie tells me to turn ...and then she says...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....nice butt....hahhahahahhah...then she tells pushpa that ''why do we need these men for...if not for their butts....thats teh only appealing thing they have...''.......hahhahahahahha...was so funny........was in splits....

Am on the verge of completing Nureyev....was pretty good....got introduced to what exactly is Ballet....till now had just heard abt ballet...and the famous names like Pavlova, Vaganova, Nureyev, Erik Bruhn etc....

Through this book...learnt abt the origin of ballet in Russia.....how important is the leap...the famous ballets of all times like Romeo and Juliet, Swan lake etc....The book also gave a lot of details from the KGB records about life under Stalin...the power that the government had over the people....

have been preparing a management report since the day before....I hate working with excel....but now had no alternative but to work and learn.....actually learnt to plot graphs....which was an achievement.....can't believe that I have been creating reports since ages and have never learned to use excel properly.....anyways...now I know....

hope teh figures are correct.....was a nightmare collecting all the figures and entering them......and am keeping my fingers, arms, legs all crossed....prayin that the nos are correct since its a question of thousands of pounds and euros.....if anything goes wrong....I am gonna have it bad.....

Well....nothing much to write abt yesterday......just that since teh days have started getting longer actually saw a bright sun yesterday evening at 7:00 pm....which was good.....feels weird to reach home in broad daylight...and its just gonna keep feeling weirder...as in June, the sun sets around 10 PM......:-)))

had a number of meetings today...so hv been caught up since morning....
hv some scheduled meetings for the afternoon as well......so that takes care of the whole day.....

spoke to mom and dad yesterday....mom had prepared fish....wooooooowwwww....how I am dying to eat mom ka bana hua fish......mouth is watering even writing abt it...:-)))
mom was telling abt aai.....sad state....but chonu told me today that she is better....
Kunj has booked a Indigo....some opulence....wish i was there to hv seen all these happenings....looks liek Kunj is planning to give competetion to Tata and Birla.....lookin at the amt she wd be spending......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....o the fortune of hvg money at ur disposal......

Have spent a lot of time.....thinking abt everything...happens consciously and subconsciously.....and there has been a lot of introspection....which is helping me a lot...I am so happy that I actually got this time without anyone being around and me getting all this time by myself.....This reiterates my belief that whatever happens happens for the best....If I wd hv been in Pune.....I wd never have got this time..
cd actually think abt my entire life like a series of pictures flashing before my mind......relations with mom, dad, sis....s, divs, everyone.....decison abt gettin married, marriage, first few months.....now when I am away from everyone that I care about, I can actually look at my feelings for everyone individually.....the importance for each person in my life.....

Have had this beautiful realisation before me...that teh best situation anyone can find oneself in is a ''helpless'' situation....cos thats when new emotions start materialising.....

Being away from Divs has made me realise that she is such an important part of my life....in Pune....when we were together I used to take her for granted....now when I am away....and from all the mails we share with each other everyday we have got to know so much abt each other which just wdnt hv been possible if we were together.....writing abt things tells u so much abt a person's line of thought, emotions etc etc......now when we get back together will see to it that I do not take her for granted..... writing to each other is so helpful at times.....

Weekend was good......this weekend was ''daylight saving weeken''....what taht means is in teh last weekend of March at 1 am on Sunday morning the Bigben time is chnaged to 2 am....so that means the 1 hr between 1 and 2 is nonexistent......dont ask me why they do teh tings they do...they just do it....so when u wake up on sunday at 7...it is actually 8..:-)))

well......nowonder the trains werea bit empty today....as people must hv fogotten abt this....:-))) anwyyas was good for me....cos' I got a place to perch myself and read my Metro....naaaaah nuthing grt in it today again......

ayesterday evening wasnt in teh mood......so didnt talk much when was at Saurabh's place....after a lot of discussion we finally decided tahtw e would be going to New Forest on 9th......will be just a one day trip...This is what its all about :

The "New Forest" is an English medieval deer hunting area created in 1079 by William the Conqueror - his "Nova Foresta". It is still largely in the possession of the Crown.

It is a nationally important environment of woodland pasture, heaths, bogs and the remains of 17th, 18th & 19th century coppices and timber plantations;

grazed by the ponies, cattle and pigs of the local "Commoners" - one of the "Rights" extracted from the Crown by the locals centuries ago, and guarded vigorously to this day;

the vestiges of the ancient Forest Law courts that controlled the local population and their animals (to ensure they did not interfere with the deer and its food) still administer the Forest.


We plan to take cycles once we reach there and take teh cycling path across the forest.....will be fun...though have not cycled in 15 yrs now...:-)))...so I dunno how thats gonna be.,....but still will try that....Have cancelled Wales as of now as the weather seems unpredictable....

hv picked up some good stuff from teh library....2 biographies...one Nureyev (one of teh greatest ballet dancers of our times)....and one abt a Chinese survivor.....Nureyev is very interesting.....his rise from a peasant family to become one of teh most renowned russian ballet dancers is something which fairy tales are made of.....

Forgot to write yesterday....anyways....it was not a very good day......had an argument with Vaishali.....abt the resource......was dreading telling Jean abt it.....but when I actually told him today....it was OK....also got 3 resumes today...so it was ok....now am prayin that one gets selected so that my troubles end ...:-)))

its friday...and the week just zipped off at top speed.Am planning to go to Wales on the 9th and 10th.....some hiking and stuff.....will be 6 of us...so will be fun....its a 4 day brk....so 2 days will be there and 2 days here....am looking fwd to ot...

nuthing significant happening ......work is on fine.....atleast on a day to day basis I have work for teh whole day...some meeting, some plans etc etc...but there is work...so I am ok....weather is changing for teh better.....
and as summer is approaching people are getting summery...and warmer.....everyone seems to be lighter...seriously the climatic conditions play such an important role in ur moods...right...

Today is Sanjeev's last day...so he has invited all of us for a drink.....so at 5:15 will go there....
hvnt made any plans for the weekend.....since it came so soon....:-)))most probably will see a movie......and if teh weather gods bless me.....will go to central london.....generally to loiter.....dunno as of now.....

Its already wednesday....wow......can get set for another weekend...:-)))

Have a lot of work today...so its good....will keep me occupied....just recd a mail from Gayatri and have replied.....and I cd actually write the whole mail in German and I looked in to the dictionary just twice.....now thats an achievement....my sentence construction has surely improved and the practice is really helping me....by the time I go back...I want to be fluent in German....

was a bit frustrated yesterday...as none of these guys have a habit of replying to teh mails.....so ultimately, I just made a decision and informed them.....and now they do not have an option but to abide......serves them right...next time they won't take me for granted....:-)))...at times hv to be assertive even if it means irritating them...including their managers.....they hv got too used to a lackadaisical attitude.....and now hv to change that.....quiet an effort but will do it....:-)))

I have got hooked to yoga now.....its 45 mins in the morning and 45 mins in the evening....and my aches hv all disappeared......feeel so energetic......and the flexibility is also improving......so hv to continue.....and its a fact....that as and when u continue u keep improving...

now hv to rush for a meeting with Tony......so ciao later....

Today has been busy till now......went to the NHS and got the registration done....so now I can visit the doctor free of charge....some things are good in Europe....free medical advice is one of them....she did ask a few qs like do i smoke, drink etc etc.....and registered me....

have been in and out of meetings since morning....just got time to breathe...so thot of putting ina few lines.....I like busy days.....u dont realise....how the time just flies off and b4 u know it ur day is over.....

have to go to the bank in the afternoon.....they still require some copy of my work permit before they open an account....so hv to get that done....

Remember I was talking abt redaing other people's blogs.....I generally send across a mail when I like something...so had written to 2 of them....and they replied back saying that they didnt know someone was reading their lines....:-)))) u know these are the times when I can feel the power of the web......u read something.....u write a mail...send it to sumone whom u dont know sitting somewhere in the world....and u actually get a reply back....and teh communication begins...and u know another person in the world....coool aint it....

Ok now lunch time.....

Just came back from lunch....had Lamb rogan Josh today.....with rice and Cheesecake and custard.....

the weather has changed for teh better....was bright and sunny at 6:30 in the morning....next week we have to adjust our watches and make it 1 hour faster.....the days are gonna be longer.....by June the it will be twilight till 10 pm.....now tahts fabulous....isnt it.....

another monday.....weekend was good...saturday was spent in shopping for grocery, vegetables, milk etc.....then went to the library and spent a lot of time there....picked up some real nice books....am currently reading Ardashir Vakil's One day.....had heard a lot abt it....good and bad reviews....so when I saw it...just picked it up....

also picked up a good book on yoga.....explains all the details of the asanas.....seriously...when u practice it daily it reallly benefits u in various ways.....for one....ur pains and aches dissapear...ur posture improves.....and u feel energetic....and when all these things happen.....u feel grt and euphoric....now am talking like a yoga geek.....but seriously....hv planned to do it regularly for 45 mins.....hv been persisting for 2 weeks now....initilayy all muscles pain.....but then u know that thats cos none of them hv been stretched for years....its like 31 yrs...they lie dormant..and suddenly they are stretched......my muscles also resist change.....:-)))) hv started reading teh book ...its bya disciple of Krishnamurthy and Iyengar.....so has a combo of both...just realsied that Krishnamurthy is the more spiritual kind and Iyengar is more for Hatha Yoga....and he was the one who started yoga using props...like ropes, chairs etc....interesting read....

I am so happy I decided that I dont want the television.....else i wd hv been stuck to it...

yesterday went to teh National Gallery.....o my gawddddd.....it was an experience.....I actually say the paintings that I have read so much about....and that too standing 2 feet away.....I saw the Sunflowers-Van Gogh,Long Grass with butterflies - Van Gogh,Water Lily pond-Monet, Madonna of the Pinks--Raphael, The virgin of the rocks- Leonardo......o wow...it was an experience......I spent 5 hrs...but cd just see a few......there are hundreds more which I will see in the next coming weeks.....

Now, I do not hv too much knowledge abt paintings....however I was trying to understand why these paintings are so popular and heavily priced.....especially the Sunflowers......I just cannot understand.,......its a bright painting....but...somehow something was missing....there wre so many others which were exquisite.....The virgin of the Rocks was excellent.....the Lily pond also was beautiful......

whatever ......it was an experience.....and I enjoyed it thoroughly...

There is an El Greco week which will exhibit all his paintings...I saw a sample......believe me he was amazing......amazing doesnt come 1/10th of what he was....and it seems he was the inspiration for the later painters like Monet etc etc.....

the gallery was sellinga book...which contained all the paintings with their history...will be buying that soon....its a must hv.....

I cd just go on and on.....but now i hv to get back to work.....so will get back to u later....ok....

Looks like am getting an accent…..and looks like its only when I am talking to someone British…so I guess its ok….with our guys its the same…..wow…..I knew I was adaptable……but just realised I am so adaptable….now that’s enuf of self appreciation…..but I am impressed…..with myself…..

Have made a resolution that however bored I am.....will tell myself I ain't bored.....am planning to be positive as next week's resolution....i can already see it working.....

I have really got stuck to the blog sites......have been surfing the web for bolg sites and have found some realllly hilarious ones.......and they keep me in splits.....i keep hunting for them like as if there is gonna be a BLOG Removal law gonna be passed tomorrow......:-))))....yeah redaing abt other people's lives is reallly interesting actuallly......u can relate to normal people.....so u identify......and then u start looking at ur own life as a series of anecdotes.....:-)))

nowadays.....exercising has become sucha part of my life(not that it was not, but getting myself up at 5:30 am in the morning was a mammoth task and a lot of times had to tell myself that sleep is good for me.....so ended up in bed sleeping till 7)....but here I actually sleep off at 10:30....get up at 6:30.....do yoga for 30 mins.....and believe me that helps me get rid of all the pains that I groan abt.....my neck used to pain...and my back...and now.....its all just gone......tahts motivation to continue....

and bang at 5:30 am in teh gym(hvg it in the office helps alot)....again not hvg a social life helps a bit more....cos then i do not hv to keep looking athe watch.....so its 1 hr of exercising.....and hv also started using teh traed mill.....which is really good to get these tyres off.....then twice a week its steam and sauna.......oh...whata life....pure indulgence...:-))))but yeah at teh end of the day I am still so much alive.....and this helps me maitain my head....and be cheerful...now aint that nice.....hvga smilin face....in between british grimaces...:-)))))

just came back from a 1 hour lunch......went to Trevi today ....its teh bar that we have at Unilever where everyone goes to chill out on Fridays.....so after 2 weeks went there today....had 2 glasses of Australian wine....u know thats the first thing I do when I get a wine bottle....look at the make.....actually I have still not got used to the bitter taste of wine.....have not yet tried white wine.....only the red wines....I still prefer Port wine..since its sweet......maybe the taste will grow on me....

so had wine and chicken(it was deep fried........which i do not like) but came with salads...so was good.....after hvg the wine started feeling tipsy....so had to have a strong Latte....and now me feels in no mood to work.....:-)))))

wow.....am happpy today.,......just looked at my appraisal comments and boy was I thrilled......10 projects all rated excellent.....now I better get a goooooood raise else I am gonna throw a fit......

Both Anita and Vaishali have given me excellent feedback......feeel like ''singin in teh rain''......:-)))))...and my face (if u cd see it) looks like the cat who has just swallowed the canary...:-)))))

Today the weather was terrible....terrible wd be an understatement....it was actually stormy.....and the gale was horrible.....cd actually pick me up and throw me away if I wd hv persisted on the street. I actually ran to the station.....on one occasion, I was pushed back so strongly by teh wind that I had to sit down for a few seconds.....

Myself and few passersby looked at each other and gave each other comforting smiles.......as each one of us was feeling the same.....

reached the station and completed my daily routine...picked up Metro....and boarded my train....today am feeling very comfy in my jeans and tshirt...first time that i wore this attire to work.....normally i am in crisp formals.....though everyone here is in casuals...still i prefer formals during the week......today since it is a friday and i had expected the weather to be good......decided to wear....this....

looks liek the weekend is gonna be wet......still will go to teh gallery on sunday...tomorrow will visit Whitgift (now u will ask what is Whitgift.....its a huge shopping mall.....and its beautiful on the weekends.....its got sale of old books...its got singers singing outside for teh whole day....basically a very festive atmosphere which gets u in teh mood)....will go to Boots and get Chonu some creams and stuff.....

Was browsing thro' the blog sites and found some nice and interesting reads.....not that I read each one meticulously.....however there is one belonging to a bengali dame living in France, which I liked....so am reading it.....she writes pretty well...will leave hera note at the end saying that I liked her blog....

Had work today....so did not realise how the day just passed off and its already the end of the day....

Unfortunately the work that was supposed to have occupied me for days has been completed in a day.....so again will have to get in the nagging mode and nag Tony for more work.....but will do that on Monday....

Just came back from my walk.....had sir fried chicken and vegetables with Cantonese sweet and sour sauce.....and a raisin pie and custard.....the pie was so sweet that had to leave it halfway.....

was slightly chilly again today....the area is flooded with tourists....season has begun....the trains will also start getting crowded now.....when u walk u can hear a cacophony of sounds.....actually its a number of different languages being talked at the the same time....just name the language and u can hear it.....

met Jackie at lunch again.....and I have promised to invite her home for dinner....she likes Indian food......now u must be wondering who is Jackie....she is this huge Afro-British woman.....who is fun....great at her job..but always smiling....very unlike the brits...

Already Thursday....just a week for the weekend....had organic milk in the morning....pretty good....fat content a wee bit higher....but thats ok....

asked Tony to give me some work as I have finished what I had been assigned....as usual...he gave me some vague possibilities of work.....so looks liek I have to find work for myself...tahts teh only alternative....
got myself a meeting with Jackie.....she picks up teh phone.....and says ''I will not talk to u...as u are too young.....and i will talk to people who are older....''......hahhahahhahahahhah.....she is always flirting and joking....a real nice lady.....she saw me yesterday and commented on my haircut....saying ''You are looking like a lad....now''hahahhahahahhahah......

had another meeting at 10....however if I wd not have accepted Jackie's meeting she would not have met at all.....so will skip that one.....and attend this one......
after that it iwll be nagging time again with Tony...he is gonna bet so frustrated with me....that for all u know he will send me back....:-)))

its 5:20.....everyones already on their way out....the exodus begins around 4:30 pm....
will now visit the gym and then take a shower and take the 6:49 to Croydon....

yesterday had my weekly telephone call home.....hada great time chatting with mom and basically gossipping about all the happening in Pune.....its so funny...when i was in Pune, never used to have the time to talk with mom and dad...and now I can actually hv a non stop conversation with them.....mom was telling abt the impending wedding in April...which will put the Tatas and Birlas to shame...:-))))....atleast in terms of Gold...laughed a lot...
mom is really missing us.....yeah...they are so used to me and chonu being at home....and now suddenly its empty....thnak god she is working else...she wd hv been real depressed....consoled her that its just a qs of a couple of years (i.e if the client likes me here , else will go back soon....u never know....)....

felt nice after the conversation.....

Just heard yesterday, that we will be moving to a new location from Blackfriars to Walton on Thames......came as a surprise ...and I cannot say yet whether it is a pleasant one or an unpleasant one.....since i do not know anything about Walton.

It seems its a good place.....except that it is situated on teh outskirts of London....so travelling may be a bit of a problem. However it has all the facilities which we have here...like canteen and most important gym.....so its ok...else I wd hv to look out for a gym outside the office and that wd hv been really expensive....

time for lunch now......basically not lunch...feast.,...:-)))

Went for my daily walk after the satisfying daily lunch.....looking at the spread that we have everyday I realise that its not a wonder that half the British population are obese :-)

have taken an oath that 2 days will only have salads....but cannot resist the desserts.....today had a sinful piece of cheesecake and like that was not enuf calories...also hada gallon of custard...:-)))...wow now thats what i call dessert....

after having satiated myself....have to take some precautions to avoid growing tyres ...so teh brisk walk along the Thames....normally i take all precautions to cover myself up due the chilly winds that keep blowing and today was pleasantly surprised when I went out...we actually had a clear blue sky....and the sun was out...woooooooooooowwwww.....now thats a reason for celebration in London..where it is generally all gloomy....is it a surprise that maximum numbers of anti depressants are sold in England....

today it was fun walking ...crossed the river using the millenieum bridge (one of the tons of bridges across the thames...built to usher in the new millenieum)....and walked in front of the Tate modern hall (have to visit this gallery sometime....maybe when Divya comes to visit)
was really pleasant and I really hope that this heralds the arrival of spring......its only after coming here that I realise the improtance of simple things like sunlight.....i actually used to curse sunlight in pune.....cos it was scorching...and here I pray for a sunny day.....serves me right to take things for granted....

I am so bored.....work here is sucha drag...especially since I am not used to just sitting in one place....the brits are so slow and lackadaisical....gawddddddddddd...i cd actually scream .....things which can be done in 1 hr....they will take 1 month to do.....its terrible..

had one meeting in the morning...that was cancelled....now hv another one in teh afternoon...hopefully that happens...else i am gonna shout blue murder......

Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.........workwise Pune is so fulfilling.....but if u look at quality of life...yeah london is better....cos u can spend more time....in doing things other than work....

another Tuesday.....got up at 6:30....did some yoga...took a bath...had some breakfast(2 slices of whole meal bread(something different as compared to the normal brown bread I keep having), 1 glass milk a banana and an orange.....must start buying organic stuff ...the normal stuff that u get in these supermarkets are so tasteless....yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.....

took the 7:53 to Bedford today....its direct to Blackfriars...so no changing at Victoria....didnt get a Metro to read today..so had to stick to Tennessee williams....

nuthing much happened as yet....will know as the day progresses....

Atlast I have accomplished my desire of becoming a blogger......aaah...what a heady feeling....have heard so much abt blogging and now I too am a part of it....

I created this to record all my ''mixperiences''(mixed experiences) in the Queens land.Well....where do I start from? Ok....yesterday went to Greenwich...had studied abt teh Greenwich mean line in geography in school....but had never thot then that I wd be actually standing on that line one day.Greenwich is a quaint town(actually was a village in the pre war days, however now has got converted in to a town). It still has a victorian feel to it which I really liked.Took the Docklands Light Rail from Lewisham to Greenwich Cutty Sark. Now u must be wondering what is Docklands Light Rail...well...its another train service which is operated by remote control....believe that...we sit ina train which doesnt hv a driver....wow....only teh brits cd think of something like that....there are these miniature cameras which show the exact location to some central station which locates the control centre.Well I wonder what wd happen if the train suddenly develops a mind of its own and travels off to France....:-))))...Well it didnt travel to France unfortunately....so got down at Cutty Sark station.I began nagging Sourabh as to what is Cutty Sark and he didnt say anything.....and as soon as we came out of teh station....Lo...in front of my eyes was this huge ship...yeah the ship was Cutty Sark...pretty nicely preserved.

Checked out teh ship and then went in to the Greenwich market....wow....the smell of freshly ground VanillaCoffee.....ooooooooooooooo...whata smell man.....was out of this world....unfortunately the guy was only selling beans and not coffee....moved to the next stall...which had yummmy olives in all weird combinations of oils.....moved ahead....a woman selling chopsticks.....a man selling head caps....supposedly hand knitted in the Himalayas...why wd anyone wanna sit and handknit caps in teh himalays...well....looked thro all the stalls and then moved out to the obervatory which has the Mean line.....the place is beautifu......was windy and wet....and i didnt hva cap (which i regretted) as the cold wind targetted my ear and now i hv a earache....
anyways....went up the hill and saw the eman line.....naaaah...the line wasnt very mean....:-))) silly joke eh....
was beautiful view from up there.....spent some time there.....and then decided that I wd come there in summer...as the place wd be beautiful in summer....

came down.....the hill...and as usual felt hungry...saurabh suggested a Noodle joint ...yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyy...Chinese after long....and this place...was cooooooooooooooooool......such cheap food...and still good quality..and boy was it crowded....settled down there...and ordered...carrot juice and rice and duck......ummmmmmmmmmmmm......duck was good....but kept getting visions of a live duck.....the texture was slightly chewy....chicken is much softer.....but good.....after lunch time for a coffee.....so went to starbucks and had LATTE....
After that caught teh train and back home.....was agood day except that if I hada cap it wd hv been better......wd hv avoided the earache,......

my first post......yahooooooooooooooo....my blog is ready....i am a blogger.....:-)))