Suramya's Blog : Welcome to my crazy life…

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If I am ever going to have a Christmas Tree at home its going to be this one:

Source: Mountain Dew Christmas tree

Update: (11th Dec 2009): Courtney mentioned in the comments that the tree was Originally created by people at the following site: mdewtree.com. Thanks for the heads up. The tree really is pretty impressive.

Me, Vinit and Surabhi were talking about Samsung phones. During this conversation Vinit said that “They have a kernel developer for the phone available” and Surabhi responded “We should ask the ‘Kernel’ to talk to Sam”.

By this time me and Vinit had already started cracking up. For those of you who are not computer science majors (which Surabhi is BTW) the kernel is the core base of the system on top of which everything else is built upon. So when programmers/comp sci people talk about the kernel they are talking about the core software not a ‘Colonel’ in the army.

– Suramya

Today (actually yesterday if you want to be technical about it) Vinit, me and Surabhi drove over to the Airport so that they could change their Air India flight from Friday(25th) to Today(22nd). The plan was that they would change their tickets and then we would grab dinner.

The reason they had to go to the counter was because this was a non-refundable ticket and they were told that they should come to the reservation counter at the Airport and get the tickets rescheduled for today. We thought that it would take them a few mins to do this and then we would be free.

It took them almost 1 1/2 hours. Actually it might be a bit more also… They were first told that they have to go to the reservation office in Safderjung to get it changed and Vinit very politely pointed out that the counter they were standing at had reservation written on it in Big blue letters. So then they told them that the flight cost was Rs. 5000 and not Rs 3,000 something that they had checked and which was what their original tickets had costed. So they used my Phone to go online and show them the price for a ticket on their own website.

Still they wouldn’t believe them and continued to argue with them. While this was going on I was sitting in the car waiting because we hadn’t put the car in parking thinking that it wouldn’t take long. Finally the cops asked me to move the car because I had been standing there for half an hour. When I told them I was waiting for someone, they asked me to move to a different corner of the airport and I waited there for another 1/2 hour. Finally the cops asked me to move along. So I got a phone from Vinit and drove off to wait.

Because Vinit and Surabhi had my phone I didn’t have anything to read or do. Luckily, a little while later I found a Dr Who book that Surabhi had left in the car so I had something to read. By the time the call from them came to pick them up I was almost half way through the book.

Funny thing is that they still couldn’t convince them to move the tickets to the new date because apparently the Internet sales department is completely isolated from the rest of the departments and they couldn’t see the lower price on their systems. Finally they (Vinit and Surabhi) ended up buying the tickets online using my Phone. (Yay me) On a side note: Opera Mini is the best browser for the mobile phones. I use it on my N95 and they had absolutely no problems buying tickets even with all the redirects/javascripts etc on the site.

They are going to go yell at the reservation department again today with their tickets and ask for a refund. Good luck to them.

Me.. I am waiting for them to get up so that I can drop them off to the airport and will then go to sleep.

Well, this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

Went over to visit Gaurang and Kangan over the weekend and it was a lot of fun. I left here at 3pm in the afternoon and as it was raining I thought I should take a different way to their place because the ring road and the outer ring road are usually jammed with traffic when it rains. Plus Gaurang had called to tell me to expect lots of traffic.

So I took a different route via India Gate. It was relatively free of traffic but when I got to Dhaula Kuan I got stuck there for about 1 1/2 hours. 🙁 Then once I got out of there the road was relatively empty till I got off the express way then I got stuck in traffic for another 1/2 hour. In total the trip took me 3 1/2 hours instead of 1 – 1 1/2 hours like usual.

When I got there we (Me and Gaurang) went to pick up Kangan from her office and went to dinner at Pind Baluchi. Dinner was nice. I like this restaurant as the food is cheap and good. After dinner we just talked for a while then Gaurang and me worked on fixing his computer and getting Linux installed on it.

The next day we went to watch Final Destination and the movie was bad. I didn’t like it at all and am sorry that I spent money to go watch it… I hope they never make another movie in the series. It was that bad. Although it could have been that I thought it was bad because the movie looked like it was censored a lot.

In the evening we visited Tarini where we had home cooked food that her and her mom had made. The food was food and the company was great. We were up pretty late talking so it was fun.

The next day I helped Gaurang water proof their house. Some of their doors were not fixed correctly so there was a lot of space at the bottom where dust and water would come in even when the doors were closed. So we put a rubber strip under each door to keep the water and dust out.

The trip was a lot of fun and a welcome break from the daily routine. I think I should do this kind of thing more often. 🙂

Well this is all for now. Will write more later.

– Suramya

Yeah, Yeah… I know I have said it before. But I do hate colds.
Its not the sneezing that bothers me that much. Its the watery eyes and the blurry vision that irritates me. Having a cold means that I can’t do any of the stuff I like: Reading, working on the computer, writing etc. Only thing I can do is listen to music and sleep.

Slept a lot these past few days. Now just when I thought I was over the cold I woke up a lot of coughing. Gargling seems to have helped. Plus soup also helps. I have had more soup in the past week than in the past 5 years (or maybe more)

So whats new? Nothing much is new on my side thanks to the cough. Planning on going to watch the Final Destination soon. How come all my friends are such scardy-cats? No one wants to go for this movie…

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya