Your mouse has moved. Windows has to reboot for changes to take effect.

Okay… For all those who didn’t comprehend the topic… it simply means that I formatted my comp again… yes… this must be the third time this month… any particular reasons one might ask… well not really, I just love formatting my comp ( Lots of sarcasm intended )… well for those who are technically sound with windows, I had to format cause that stupid thing( Microsoft Windows) simply doesn’t work… I downloaded this file … and it says requires Win98 and above to run… and I was most definitely running Win98…
Hasn’t anyone noticed? It took the computing power of a P5, 16 MB ram and a 1 GB harddisk to run Win95, while it took the computing power of 3 commodore 64 to fly to the Moon. Something is wrong here, and it wasn't the Apollo. Never heard this one before… don’t work neither had I, that is until I received this FWD from one of my friends…Some windows users are simply too funny, one of my close friends runs two copies of windows… when asked why? I am faced with the question why not? Last I heard, that friend wanted Win-2000 too... better networking apparently…
So Coming back to my formatting skills … hey I am actually getting pretty good at this thing… from old Win to new Win in less that 40 min… together with all the drivers… impressive eh!! Hope Microsoft recognizes my talents… they need more people like me into their staff…The worst part about formatting is not the “handling another Windows setup”, but ya know what really bugs me… it’s the fact that all stored Passwords aren’t stored anymore( so much for the computer whiz)… so much so that I couldn’t log on to blogger.com for a long long time…
Hey Today was a Grand Festival in India… called HOLI… it’s a season of colors… for more details go to google.com and search for Holi … you might get more information…
Anyway Back to Windows… it really isn’t a joke that there are more we-make-fun-of-windows websites/forums then the number of Windows CD sold… but hey not taking too much credit away from Microsoft, piracy is also a major factor… I would really point and laugh at someone who pays 200$ for a windows license… Recollecting the major disasters of the last century my FWDed mail quoted “Hiroshima '45 - Tschernobyl '86 - Windows '95”… Some may ask why not shift to some other OS… god no .. I am happy with windows… its actually really good… it does make my P3 seem like a P2 but then … beggars cant be choosers…
The same Friend of mine was pretty confused one day…called her computer savvy friend and said that something was wrong with the floppy drive… apparently the floppies weren’t going in… It said "Insert Disk #3", but only two will fit!... heh heh… kidding people, not that dumb my friend was. Is! So as I leave you all today, I just have one small query… If Old McDonald had a comp, would it Eee-aye-eee I/O? ( Sorry for the lack of humor in this post… am too tired after re-installing Windows )
Oh yeah about this friend ...Honestly to be fair… they really should put “This side in” stickers on all floppies…

I don't care who you are, Fatso. Get the reindeer off my roof !

Today, after a spell of about a fortnight, I finally mustered the courage to do something I’ve been putting off for a really long time now…So I removed my shoes and my heavy clothing…and took that final step… here I was…all alone…standing on my weighing scale… after a lot of circulations of the analog scale, in a span of time which seemed like eternity… it finally came to rest…I slowly opened my eyes… a chill ran down my spine… No today wasn’t that day… it wasn’t the day when I cross the 200 pound mark! No not today…
So in my glory of happiness I stepped down…as though I was stepping down from the top step of the podium when my F1 car finishes first… the same feeling a Toyota Car Feels lapping a Ferrari…As you would have figured I watched the race this weekend… being a Ferrari fan myself it was pretty bad I must say... but on the brighter side, hey some new faces on the podium, some different names up on the top list… I already love this season…
So I got down from my moment frozen in time… for the first time gravity didn’t dampen my spirits… and here I was wondering how to celebrate… when the call came “Dinner is ready”… I knew what had to be done…”No. I am not hungry”… I think all the cells in my stomach which require energy for existence screamed in unison… cause I could hear this loud sound… have u ever heard a volcano erupt? After a lot of convincing myself that food wasn’t that necessary for life ( hey!! compare it to oxygen )… and about a gallon of water…the brain had spoken… it will help me in the long run…After an eternity of dieting ( 24 hours to be exact ) … I hadn’t lost anything… I heard that would happen…but still…
So around two in the morning I went to my kitchen … got me some biscuits…kept them in front of me… Still debating … the pro’s and cons…
The pro’s of loosing a ton of weight are plentiful… think about it… have u seen an overweight dude, get a model as a wife?? Well unless you’re rich..really rich.. Trump’s lucky that way… Since I am not rich! Well that leaves me with no choice, now, does it…
Another advantage is that fat people are hard to kidnap… haven’t u noticed??
The con’s of loosing weight aren’t much… unless there’s a time when fat is beautiful… there might be a time soon… but before that I am sure we will have the ‘bald is beautiful’ stage… that should be fun don’t ya think?
So after long hungry hours… sitting and staring at my stomach…wondering if it had gone in by an inch or so… I knew something had to be done…So here’s my advice to all you people out there… if you’re on a diet and can’t keep your mind off grub… then I suggest blogging is the best remedy… I haven’t thought about food for the entire duration I’ve been writing this post…( hey G.W!! Isn't the post about food )
So here I was all done with the post just about to publish it, sitting in front of an empty packet of biscuits… god!! I wonder who ate them …

Life is 5% what you make it and 95% how you take it.

Have you ever thought that life was unfair? Like the way that you never get what you want … or the way that you can’t seem to figure out where you’re heading in life… and everyone around you has their future laid out for them… Did it ever happen to you that everyone around you were discussing their 50th birthday party plans, or deciding which continent to go for a vacation, and you were still trying to figure what to wear the next day...or where you’ll eat ( Food is very important you see, and it wont hurt if u went fully dressed to a restaurant , research shows that the service improves by 36.8% if you are wearing clothes )

How many of you stay up all night long thinking what or where you’ll be 5 years from now… will u be with someone, or will u be facing the cruel world all alone… Does loneliness scare you so much so, that you pick up the phone at 3 in the morning to call your better half just to say ‘I love you’…

Its been said that you make your own future…someone please tell me, how do I go about it? How do I start? Is there a magazine, a book or something…”The Dummies guide to making your own future” someone write it.. its gonna be a best seller, take my word for it. Hey maybe I’ll write it one day… yeah I can be a writer… great.. that was easy!! Or maybe I’ll be a astronaut… they pay you really well ya know… but I don’t get it.. why would anyone leave everything behind and go somewhere .. don’t know when you’ll be back, or if you will..
Many of my friends and colleagues plan to go abroad, study and settle there.. I still don’t know why people have to though?? I mean… I really don’t think I can leave 2 decades of my life behind and start all over again… Probably never see the friends you grew up with again… never see your first crush again…never see your loved one… cant even look at the moon and think “miles apart and yet we gaze at the same thing”… Wait a minute!!! Sorry the moon thing you still can do I guess…
But after all that. Then what?? After all life’s a terminal disease…Wish I could live like I was 18..maybe 20 for the rest of my life.. I really don’t want to 60 thinking… if…only if!!

So here’s me… yet another 3 am… still thinking, guess I’m going to wear jeans tomorrow… and yes, I am eating Italian for sure… there Decided!! .. Yeah… think I’ll be a fighter pilot…astronaut still sounds good…maybe join the FBI… hey I can be a captain of a ship…yeah a captain of my ship!!!

Everything inspires. But some things more than others.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.

If You Lived in your car, You'd Be Home by now

It took me about 1:21 hours (81 minutes) to get from college to home today! And it never used to take more than 30 min about a year back.. The traffic situation is maddening, the number of traffic lights seem to have quadrupled.. the number of one-ways doubled..where is this heading??They say, this city wasn't built for such expansion (Fact-700 new vehicles are added each day to our roads).. I mean fine..it wasn’t build for that..but still comeon.. is a pothole free road too much to ask for? With the temperature scorching and the waits at the signals nearing the 5 minute maximum limit, set by the “I-will-go-insane-if-I-don’t-get-out-of-here” confederation, people’s blood pressure is rising.. road rage is escalating.. I could see that today.. but I learned a few techniques to keep me smiling all through the trip, and I think it would be helpful to you all.. If u develop the right attitude.. u can find humor everywhere.. Riders screaming on their cell phones, after finding out that their spouse is cheating on them, while this poor soul is stuck in traffic.. Someone picking their nose is always a delight to watch aint it?? To entertain your traffic mates.. u can scream loudly, point at that person and laugh.. HEY what’s the worst that can happen?? You can always blame the heat if you end up in a mental asylum, now cant u??
If your hearing is awesome u can almost listen that constant prayer emanating from the crowd (God, Please let me reach office on time, if you cant do that, make sure my boss reaches after me.).. or was it the constant abuse directed towards the traffic cop, who cant seem to do anything right..but the day u forget to take your license with you, they emerge, slapping you with a 100 Re (that’s around 2.2$ for my Friends in U.S and as for my European friends, sorry, I dont know the current conversion rates) fine.. But if aren’t so gutsy enough, and stuck in yet another jam, look around.. you might find a familiar face. Look at your neighboring vehicle, Catch up on what that person’s up to (makeup, cell, music, talking to themselves… is all I got today), if your eyes meet, drop in a smile.. and if he/she ‘s very cute, drop in a bigger smile, they surely would smile back, sighing at the helplessness of the situation… and try your best to get the phone number of the cell sitting on the dashboard… and if you tried and failed hey the cell’s all yours (the flick and run offer)… if love cant keep you happy, a new cell surely would…

If you getting really really bored... I mean REALLY bored, then come up with witty, funny, weird, stupid, dumb excuses as to why you are late, or why you didn’t complete the assignment…and NO, my dog ran away with it, is no longer an excuse… But “This guy came home, he asked for my brother, when I said he wasn’t home… he got so disappointed that he banged his head on the wall several times, before collapsing… when he did wake up he’d lost his memory… then I spend whole afternoon trying to revive it to no avail… then I hooked him up to the parallel port of my pc, wrote a complex c program to send high frequency sinusoidal waves with specified magnitude and phase to his brains… after the first shock... he asked... “is your brother there” so I knew it was working.. after 3 hours of extensive sine-wave treatment...he was fully functional again, at which time I became aware of the fact that the chip for power control of my parallel port had burned out… so I couldn’t take print outs of the assignment” definitely qualifies as one …
Singing also really helps... a good song can take off about half the time at a jam...If you dont have a voice box of a canary...then i suggest keeping the visors and windows rolled down… if you are blessed with a I-will-make-it-big-one-day voice then hey, sing !! you never know which music director is at the same signal??Waiting for the next singing sensation! Another fun thing to do is translate songs... if you know two or more languages pretty well, then translate a song in one language to another keeping the same tune, try it, its sooo much fun. I use English-Hindi and vice-versa… think Beethoven turned in his grave once!!
Thinking of good bumper stickers is also a good idea.. stuff like "There are only three types of people in this world, those who can count and those who cant" "Rehab is for quitters" " Despite the cost of living, have u noticed how popular it is" really put a smile on my face...

So my fellow sufferers, head my advice, if you aren’t that lucky enough to see a upturned truck in the middle of the road… or catch up on a good fist fight… then do give a try at the humor thing. Lots of energy saved, and hey its better than honking at the guy in front of you, and definitely better than the questions you ask yourself “If only I left a little earlier...i woudnt be stuck here..” trust me… I was there before you,, and the situation was much worse!!!


Fact :- 3 weeks of your life is how long you will be waiting for the light to turn green.

P.S And hey do reply with things you do or end up doing when stuck in traffic… or things you think are vital for traffic improvement!

Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!

Doesn't it bother you that people keep confusing u with their advice,when u actually dont need it? As one of my favorite 'Get-your-acts-together-and-start-thinking-about-your-future' songs "The Sunscreen Speech" correctly asserts,be carefull with whose advice you buy...but be patient with those who supply it.. so u can generally catch me in a crowd..nodding my head , but dont mistake it for head banging or any metal related thing for that matter.. it would be just that i would be taking in some advice..this thing varies, from the best possible route you can take to college...or when you should get married and sometimes why.. and everything in between..and when i say everything i really do mean it!!! I am yet to meet someone who says ' Take my advice, I don't use it anyway '!...They say 'your choices are half chances' ... now what's that supposed to mean??, what choices? what chances? i really wont understand..
Then they say Money cant buy you happiness.. i wish i could reply.. Happiness can't buy you money either pal!.. and who really believes in this shit anyway?? if i have money,i am happy, Period.
This thing someone told me during one of my nodding sessions 'No matter how much trouble you'r in..no matter how dark the tunnel is, you always have to see the light at the end of the tunnel..and work ..work your way..the light will shine brighter.' i assure you, he ended.. this time i couldnt take it.. i whispered to my friend,"he couldnt figure out it was a railway tunnel... the train is comming..PEOPLE RUN for your lifes"
And sometimes when i retire for the night.. i actually wonder..was today really necessary?? and as i say goodbye i will leave you with another piece of advice.... "Remember",he says,"Everything U've ever done your entire life has prepared you for this moment" oohhh i wasnt scared enough!!! {Song on my comp "From this moment on" Shania Twain}