My way on the highway

Another week rolls by and I'm amazed at the people I meet. It's official- The highpoint of my life now is kickboxing. Turbo Kickboxing is simply superb. It gives you a power surge. I mean you can pump all that frustration down with those punches and crunches. I'm really unsure about the calories I'm loosing but all I know is "I'M HAVING FUN". There are these amazingly thin and superly energetic women, who come for the class. I wonder why? Don't they know that they give us a complex. I have to be the fattest person in the class. I never thought I was so overweight but you go in to the class and you realize that your fat is so becoming.....if you know what I mean. It's like another person. Jokes apart I love it because I would prefer this anyday to the boring treadmill and cycle. This week I attended a class called the intro to RDM. The training course is a must for people in our company. The course content wasn't very applicable to me but I love...

June has lit my up my life. I love her!

I absolutely love the radio station 93.7. It's houston's classic rock station and it's called the aero. If anyone from houston, has not listened to it, I recommend it. Unlike other stations like 104.1 KRBE which repeats the same songs, this one picks a special artist each night and plays hits from them. It is a rock education. On saturday they had cream classics. I was introduced to this band a couple of months back but 93.7 goes on to give a history. Sunday was led zeppelin. Monday was aerosmith. Today it's a mixture of eric clapton and crosby stills. This group is really fantastic. I like the music. It's got an older feel to it. The lead guitars are amazing. In fact most of the times unless one has an ear for the lead guitar, you can never hear it. Somehow maybe it's sign of growing old but I like more earthy music. Gone are the days of "chemical brothers" and "prodigy"! In fact I'm a little ashamed that I listened to that group with t...

This has to be an experience which has to go down in my experience book. I could actually give Lord Alfred Tennyson, a run for his money:) Well so this friend of mine A said we should go out somewhere in jersey city. I should see the sights and sounds there. A was like "We should go to this gay bar. My friend has been asking me and I'm curious to go". I :"Babe I have a flight to catch and the final straw for me would be to go to place where not a single man would be interested in me!!!" A: "Come on..what are you worried about...someone hitting on you...HE HE..WONT HAPPEN". Well curiosity got the better of me and I decided to check out this experience. I was a little worried. I did not want to see men making out. I was really freaking out but of course, I am so used to putting on the fake, really cool demeanor. And A and me actually dressed up to go to this place. Why even bother(I think now)?? Well so we finally arrived at THE PLACE. I was really surp...

That describes my current state of my mind. I am happy and content. I thought I should blog when I'm like this because I don't want to seem like a whiny blog. I had a beautiful weekend just doing nothing after my hectic new york trip. New york and manhattan is amazing. I wish I could be there. Would have probably been there if I was working for one of those financial firms:) He he man is never ever satisfied. But the pulse of that city is simply superb. One has to be there to feel it. It truly is beautiful. I bought myself a CD player and radio and am quite kicked about it. It's in my loo and I love hanging out there now. It's super duper cool. It's such a destresser. I have aroma therapy candles and music and my shower gel! Bliss is all that comes to my mind. I can go on and on and on. I think the happiness is having a directly propotional effect on my weight. Yes it's increasing and I don't like it. It's quite scary. I hopefully should enroll in a gym ...

This weekend confirmed what I always knew. There is nothing like girlfriends hanging out. I've always had the most fun with my girl friends. This weekend was no better. I met SU after 5 years and we just reconnected. No ackwardness and we just took off from where we left off. It's so amazing to have such a comfort level with people. It's great to be yourself and su you really are the best! I also had something significant happen to me this week. It was my sign to move ahead in life. I thank that special person. That person is really a decent soul. May you find happiness and remain like this forever:) I wish you all the very best in life. You deserve it. Life goes on in it's hectic pace. There is so much to do. I've found a tennis buddy and we've been playing now for three days in a row. I hope this continues ...It's the best form of exercise. Especially for me with so much food around!!!

It pains me to see this subtle discrimination. I have not seen it maybe because I was transparent to it before. Coming from India one does not really see racism because everyone is the same color. It's not like I've faced anything but I hate the way people behave. I mean educated people questioning their safety because they are surrounded by black people. I mean I travelled half way across the world to see how it would be to work in multicultural teams and tp socialize with people from different backgrounds. Ofcourse nothing happens at work but to see people talking like this hurts me. Strip away the color and everyone is the same. Everyone is bothered about their families, loved ones, salaries, work, love life etc etc - So why think that you're some gifted race??? It also pains me to see Indians making such comments. Your brown for godsakes and you talk about hispanics and blacks!!! This is all a little strange to me. I remember hearing my little niece from england referri...

I am quite fed up of the amount of work that one has to do here. I mean one has to be so alert otherwise, one would get cheated. I am so fed up of being so alert. I've already lost so much in so many stupid deals. I'm unsure whether I will learn from all this. I've had a raw deal in many many things that I've bought over the past few years. I get hurt by my stupidness but I guess one should just go on. I spent 24$ on a local call in india using my credit card. Can you imagine how stupid I was? Anyway now looks like cingular might cream my ass with another deal! I'm the only moron who has paid 50 bucks for a time warner installation. Only idiot who paid 50$ every month with an old phone! Only one to pay a non refundable deposit on my apartment!PHEW!PHEW!PHEW! On a brighter note other things seem okay. I went to the museum of natural sciences with a colleague from work. It was nice. I think one can only really enjoy a museum if you go with another lady. Gosh last week...

I find it increasingly difficult to blog about my life. I don't know why maybe because whatever said and done this is a public blog and people seem to quote from it. So I've been seriously having doubts whether I want to blog anymore. It was nice initially but as I move into a new phase in life, I feel like I would like to open up more but people talk of spies and all that jazz. Woes of people losing their jobs because of blogging. So call me chicken or whatever but I'm going to be more careful and therefore curb the freedom to blurt out. Work is going on well. However I seem to already have some minor conflicts or difference of opinions with some people. They are unwilling to take me seriously because of me being fresh out of college and most people here have tons of experience. Anyway it's going to be a great learning experience. As the days pass I feel that I'm learning more about people. I am dying to write about it but unfortunately I'm sure atleast one of ...

That's the only word that comes to my mind. It's my third week at H and I am getting used to everything. There is a new office, a new boss, new friends, new home, new bedsheets, new utensils, new laptop(at work)...PHEW!! The list goes on and on. I almost had a mild heart attack last week as I could not find my way back from walmart. Well anyway finally managed to call a cab and come back home. I was wallowing in self-pity and felt quite bad for myself. But once I came back home and made myself mango juice in my new blender:), I was back to normal. All it takes to cheer me up is food! I guess I'm really an easy girl to please.Pretty low- maintenance! Anyway so I've joined a non profit organization here which does some social work with NGOs back in India. I figured I'd be happy and will get to meet some like minded people. I've met a couple of nice people thru this organization. I've played tennis over two weekends with one of the guys I met thru this. This wi...

It's my first week in Houston and what can I say?? IS it hotting up? Yes it is and I really am looking forward to the action. My mood swings every day. I am really brave in the morning then things go haywire. I get all worked up and scared and wonder whether I can manage on my own. Then my inner voice gives me a little shout and tells me "this is why you came here to take a job. To be independent remember???". Then I am back to being tough. It really does not make it easy to know that my two best friends in texas are moving out of this state. Indie leaves by the end of the month and sri will move soon. Man!!! Why does GOD do this? My training starts first thing on Tuesday. I am reporting to work on Monday. I have fixed up a studio apartment for the time being. This is fully furnished and a girl from office lives there. She also takes the bus and is Indian. That will help in the beginning till I get my bearings. Houston is a place that is really huge and everyone drives. T...

The fag end of my holiday is being spent doing all good things like watching movies and FIFA world cup with friends. There is so much of bonding when one does this in groups. I watched a cheesy, cheap and gross tamil movie called pudupettai. Actually it wasn't as bad as I expected. The sad part was the way they objectified women. They are the "play things". My blood boils everytime that happens. It's quite sad but hey it's also the reality. Dhanush looked quite sick but hey what can you do about a guy like that. The good thing is he does not act like a hero. And there are people making references to his stature throughout the movie. He is the butt of all the jokes. Sneha looked nice but the other lady Sonia Aggarwal looked plastic. Yesterday I watched a visually pleasing film "fanaa". Kajol looks gorgeous. Aamir Khan does not. Manish Malhotra does really know how to make his women look hot. I did not see why the movie had such bad reviews. It was quite ...

She was sure of herself. She thought she was. She wasn't actually. She's always been dilly dallying. She never really knows. Atleast now she's sure. She tried. It did not work. At the end she is liberated. She is like a free bird. Yet she thinks that maybe things would have been different...NAh...no point thinking..she's never been one of those really analytical types. Of course she is a little hurt. The message was loud and clear. She would have been stupid not to read the signs. She was expecting it. In fact this is how she wanted it to end. Still "hope" was one thing pandora locked up when she closed the box. So she hopes! I've told her it's no use. She knows it's of no use but she still hopes. I want to squash all her hopes. Tell her it won't happen. But she is a dreamer and she dreams. I don't want to be the spoke on her wheel. Let her dream. Sadly for her this dream will definitely not come true.......

I had this opportunity to go on a war ship cruise into the bay of bengal the other day. I seized the opportunity. Who wouldn't? It was simply out of the world. The Indian Navy chief at madras is known to my dad and he had some space on his ship and the jobless one was sent to see the splendour of the ocean. So one friday morning I set out to the navy docks at INS adyar and set aboard sukanya. She was beautiful. Gigantic but very well poised. She was truly a class apart. I could imagine her if she were a person wearing a crisp cotton saree, a beautiful handbag, lovely sandals and neatly dressed. I imagined that she would be one of those ladies who would carry out intelligent conversations. Anyway so we boarded sukanya and travelled her length and breadth. I checked out her quater deck. A helicopter was there resting but ready to take off. The navy crew showed us many operation. Take off and landing of helicopters aboard sukanya. Firing from HMG shooting a rocket target. That was rea...

That just had to be my blog title. I have been having such a blast here that I am seriously rethinking on my plans of going back to the US of A. I guess it is always nice to be on holiday:) From day one I have been not only visting temples and relatives but also actively partying. I've just come back from a bangalore darshan and that city never ceases to amaze me. It is definitely a paradoxical city. On one side you have these beautiful IT offices and clubs and discos and investment banking firms and shopping malls..you get the picture right? The roads and the traffic on the other hand suck! I wonder why all that money cannot be pumped into the roads? Madras is definitely better in those terms. Anyway apart from all that India still does rock. I mean I am only reminded of the line in Shantaram(a good read by the way) "In india people know how to love". I really will miss all the love and affection. I am sure that's what is going to make me come back. Anyway this stin...

I have just finished packing my whole house and will be leaving to India tomorrow. I just realized that my whole life I've been riding on pure luck. I am so bloody irresponsible. Can you believe it that I packed all my important documents in my check in luggage???? Thank God I had this saviour in the form of aunty K. She just wanted to look at my stuff before I left. She was shocked. She was really sweet about the whole thing. She was like "You actually packed your originals in that??". Me:"YEs aunty the degree is too big to fit in my hand luggage" K aunty: "What happens if you loose your luggage?" ME:"Um..huh? That can happen(YEAH DUMB ASS)?" So now I'm in this deep introspective mood. I've done this many times before but I've not really learnt from these lessons. I hope I can change over a new leaf and become more responsible. If that does not happen I wish I have someone like K aunty, amma or someone else. This is all I can blo...

I've just finished watching "pretty woman" for the zillionth time. I realized something after watching it, we're all the same at the base of everything. I mean women will always get all dewy eyed and want to have that perfect guy at the end of the day. Guys will never answer well when they're watching a match. Any guy! I mean just have a phone conversation with my dad when west indies and india play and it can be quite frustrating. I had similar experience when I was speaking to this other friend the other day. He said okay to everything I said. So my conclusion at the end of all this is that one just needs to look at the critical signs to find out about the person. I've graduated and things seem to be slowly falling into place. I will be going home. I cannot wait to hug my mom and sing along with my dad. Then of course I can't wait to see my sister. I can imagine us talking all night. Such fun! Gymkhana club, tennis, barista, driving down mount road, beac...

I seem to be having a blast for the last couple of weeks and it just seems very surreal! One more weekend to add to the list of great weekends I've been having. This week I was at charlotte for my friend's graduation and boy did we have fun! Yesterday after the graduation ceremony we went to this real upmarket place for dinner. It was called "blue". I mean it was like "The Patio" of charlotte. For lack of better comparisons. Though I still think Patio is a shade better:) They had a jazz quartet which was playing along. I really loved it and they played some really nice songs. IT was nice to hear "killing me softly" after ages. I think there is some raw charm in good old strumming. It is so very mood uplifting. So anyway we had ordered Don perignon (250 $- OH HOLY MOTHER OF GOD). Then there were all sort of great starters and the head steward there obviously loved the sound of his own voice, so he was droning away to glory! The vegeterian food was q...

  We sure have come a long from the time that was taken. We're almost like soul sisters. If there was one great thing about going to PSG it was meeting friends like you. Now that you're going to graduate and moving to the next phase of life I hope I'll be there to share your joys and sorrows. My dear "123" hope you get all that you deserve! Hope we'll be able to talk about all this to our kids and grandkids:) 

I have not really read any of the reviews. But I decided to have a girls day out out. So on the cards was shopping and a movie. My room mate agreed as her boy friend was out. Phew! Thank god for small mercies. One needs a good saturday especially after a depressing friday! So the movie was quite nice. It was a really racy movie. I love these action packed dhishum dhisum and sleek pictures. Tom cruise was just right. Even his girliness did not put me off. Those eyes looked just lovely this time. The gadgets and the guns were just okay and I don't think they were as good as the previous movies. STill there was some charm in the movie. I liked the execution. Especially the last scene at the shanghai towers. So fast and so good. Precision is the word that comes to my mind when I think of this movie. It all timed:) Plus Jonathan Rhys Meyers is hot. I loved his cute australian accent. Can't there be more indian men like this. Makes it so much easier for us girls:) I've seen him i...