Arrived in one piece in the US.
Details on my trip when I am not so tired/sleepy.
– Suramya
September 3, 2006
Arrived in one Piece
August 31, 2006
Desperate people on Orkut
Well this is just one of those things that I find funny. I mean how desperate can a person get to have a female friend? Apparently a lot from what I have heard…
A couple of days ago I was talking to Tarini and she was telling me that she is sick of ‘weird’ people scraping her/mailing her asking to be friends with them. Then she told me that due to a mistake another friends of ours posted a list of phone numbers on Orkut with her phone number in it and she got flooded with calls from weirdos (her words) wanting to be friends… It got so bad that she stopped answering her phone if she didn’t recognize the number.. So I agree that there are a lot of desperate people on Orkut..
But the Desperate person of the year award goes to Prafull from Dehradun. He left a message on Surabhi’s Scrapbook asking to be friends and this is what their conversation went like: (My comments are in ()’s)
prafull: u dont know me but i want to introduce me and also want to know you….i wanna be ur friend
(Ok, Decent enough approach. Should have told more about himself, why he wanted to be friends etc)
Surabhi: why?
(Good Question)
prafull: bcoz i know u can make my good friend
(Stupid answer)
Surabhi: How do you know that?
(Exactly what I was going to ask, and the question he should have answered earlier)
prafull: bcoz my heart says that u r true…..why u don’t want to be friend like me dr whats the problem am i not good………
(This is where I started laughing… Can’t this guy take a hint?)
Surabhi: Why does your heart say that I am true?
prafull: dr plz dont be quessioning be my friend.. if u think u r really true.
Surabhi: I dont know what true means- You said I am true. Why does your heart say I am true?
(I guess Surabhi was having Fun… I would have ignored him a long time ago…)
prafull: hey what happend
prafull: true means u can make a good friend means never be false.. it means u can say trust worthy bcoz dr friendship depends on only trust and understandability. and i think u have both quality even i know you ..
(Now the desperation shows)
prafull: now plz tell me we r friends naaaaaa
(Ok… Here’s a suggestion for you.. When a girl says no she doesn’t want to be friends she usually means it. Posting messages like the one above after being told no, will only make you look like a fool and then people like me will make fun of you)
I am sure there are others worse than this but this is the most recent example I could find… If you have other stories do tell…
– Suramya
August 29, 2006
Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart
Don’t remember who exactly said this but its true. Friends are always close to a persons heart no matter how far apart you might be at the time. These past few weekends have been really awesome because I got the chance to meet some old friends some of whom I didn’t meet for over 8 years.
On the 19th we had a get together at Yash’s place for AFBBS (Air Force Bal Bharati School) 12C 1998 batch. This get together was planned at the last meet we had where seven of us met at TGIF for lunch. This time 12 of us showed up (Plus +1 for Nora) which was a big achievement as it was the biggest get-together for our batch ever. We spent the whole time talking, catching up with each other’s lives and generally having fun. We were up talking till I think about 1:30 am thats when every one left as they had to drive back home…
The pics from that party are at: http://photos.suramya.com/GetTogether_19thAug2006/, I will be putting them up in the photogallery sometime soon. (No really I will)..
Since this party was so much fun and there were a couple of people who couldn’t make it to Noida we decided to have another one at Ankur’s place in GK-I on the 26th. This party was even better as a lot more people showed up: Ankur, Arundhati, Aditya, Gautam, Gaurang, Kashif, Kunal, Praveen, Samarth, Tarini, Me, Vivek and Yash along with Rahul (Tarini’s fiance) and Parul (Vivek’s fiance). So it was a lot more fun. This time we managed to convince Samarth to sing for us (Which he did and was pretty good at it), Vivek and Parul to dance for us. Once they danced all of us also decided to join in, and it was surprising that Ankur’s neighbors didn’t come knocking asking us to turn the music down.
The pics from this party are at: http://photos.suramya.com/GetTogether_26thAug2006
Apart from school friends I have also gotten in touch with friends I had in 8th standard (~1994) and hadn’t seen/spoken to since. Ricki and Saurabh are two such people I have gotten in touch with on Orkut after having no interaction at all with them since 1994. Thats over 12 years!
Lets see if we can meet up some time…
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
August 9, 2006
12-C from Air Force Bal Bharati School 8 years down the line
This past sunday we had a small get together with my class mates from high school (12th) who were in Delhi. Seven of us from class showed up: Kunal, Navneet, Samarth, Suramya, Tarini, Udit and Yash. Rahul was also there to give us company.
We met in TGIF in the Priya Cinema complex, Vasant Vihar at 1:00 pm and were in there for a couple of hours.. I think the people over there were getting ready to throw us out when we left 😉
It was great meeting friends after such a long time. I was meeting Navneet and Samarth after almost 8 years. It was fun catching up with each other’s lives. Got in touch with a few other classmates so we will probably be having another get together next weekend.
Below are some pics we took during the meet:
Udit, Kunal, Samarth, Yash and Navneet
Navneet, Kunal, Samarth and Yash
Udit, Kunal, Rahul, Tarini, Samarth, Yash and Navneet
Tarini, Samarth and Yash
Me, Udit and Kunal
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
July 16, 2006
My Weekend
This weekend was interesting and fun.
Friday Night:
Was working till almost 2 am to meet a project deadline. Then read a book and watched TV.
Saturday:
Woke up at around 1 pm after going to bed at 6am. Then drove to Priya Cinema Complex in Delhi to meet Gaurang and Kangan. It was a lot of fun, another friend Anuj also joined us and we spent a couple of hours just hanging out drinking coffee and talking. Then we drove to Gudgaon to Kangan’s place to pick up Kunal and Kangan’s mom to go out to dinner.
While we were driving my car started giving me trouble. It was shaking like we had a flat but when we checked the tires all of the tires looked ok, then we decied to leave the car in delhi and take Anuj’s car instead because we weren’t sure of what was wrong with the car and we were planning to be out really late so it didn’t seem safe to drive it.
We arrived safely at Kangan’s house and waited for Kunal to get back home and then we went to eat dinner at this Chineese place. The food was really good but the service was horrible. We waited for over 45 mins for the food to arrive after we placed the order and we were about to walk out when the food arrived. But it was good food.
Then Aunty went home and we (Me, Gaurang, Kunal, Anuj and Kangan) drove to this club called ‘Buzz’. It was ok, the DJ was bad. All she played for the first 1 1/2 hours was pure punjabi music. One or two panjabi songs are ok but 1 1/2 hours of it is a bit too much. Thankfully later she started playing some decent music. Another problem with the place was the smoke. Clubs in india don’t have a no smoking rule so the place was really smoky and it gave me a headache. But it was still a lot of fun.
Once we got out Anuj dropped me in Delhi and I drove to Noida. Surprisingly the car gave me no trouble when driving home. 🙂 I got home at about 2:30 am and then couldn’t sleep, so I watched the season premiere of Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG1. They were good.
Also watched a movie called Arlington Road. It is a really interesting move about a college professor who starts suspecting that his neighbour is a terrorist. I can’t tell you more about the movie without giving spoilers but I can tell you that its really interesting and you wont expect the ending.
Spent most of Sunday sleeping. At night I finished reading this book called Altered Carbon which was ok. Its a techno thriller that I sort of liked. Meaning it was worth reading once but not over and over.
Then I saw part of this old hindi movie called Namak Halal that I really liked. Its a really funny movie. Yes I do watch hindi movies sometimes but the ones I like are mostly old hindi movies. e.g. Namak Halal, Satte Pe Saata, Judwaa, Andaz Apna Apna etc. Most of the new ones I have seen are really crap.
Wanted to watch Pirates of the Carrebian II but its not out in India yet 🙁
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
July 12, 2006
Just some rambling
Ok, havn’t posted on the blog for the past few days as life suddenly got really busy. Deadlines suck. We have a project due on Friday now I have to do crazy hours to finish testing… Haven’t slept for a while so if this post doesn’t make sense you know why.
Finished reading a couple of good books and found some new authors I really liked: Kelley Armstrong: Women of Otherworld Series, C.E Murphy: Urban Shaman Series, Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Series, Kim Harrison: Hollows Series, Laura Anne Gilman: Retriver Series, Patricia Briggs: All her books, Rachel Caine: Weather Warden Series. Yes, thats more than a couple. 🙂
You know Amazon.com’s recomendation system is really good, I especially like the system where people post lists of books they like. Found some really good books that way.
I have given up on Anita Blake novels, they read more like porn novels than actual Fantasy novels… I mean whatever happened to having an actual story? It looks like the author knows that sex sells so her novels are sex with a small side of a story.
Watched the season finalle of the New Dr Who series. It was really good, love they way they ended it. Unfortunately I have to wait till Christmas for the continuation. 🙁 Why do they only have 13 episodes per season? Another new series I have started watching is Blade the Series. So far only two episodes have been broadcast and they were decent, nothing great but not bad either.
The house we are building is nearing completion. It looks great.
Well this is all for now. I think I will go sleep now.
– Suramya
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July 2, 2006
4th of July weekend
My Sister Surabhi, Vinit and a couple of other friends are spending the 4th July weekend in California… and I spent it at home.
They went bungie jumping, I went to visit relatives.
They have to eat out, I get to eat home made food.
They are enjoying the sun, I am hiding from it (its boiling hot here).
Yes. I am a little bit jealous. 🙁
– Suramya
June 4, 2006
Got a new phone
Hey Everyone,
Its time for me to make everyone jealous as hell. 🙂 I got a new phone on saturday: The Nokia 6270.
I love the phone, it has a 2 Megapixel camera (My favorite part), FM Radio (Which I prob wont use at all) and a mp3 player. I also got a bluetooth headset for it and both work really well together. 🙂
Will take some pics using it and post them online.
– Suramya
May 29, 2006
Got an uninvited visitor after my Ooty Trip
Had an uninvited vistor after my Ooty Trip last week. Two days after the trip I woke up with a high fever, nausea and a severely upset stomach. When I went to the doctor he diagnosed it with a stomach infection and gave me this mile long list of medicines to take…
Now the fun part was that I couldn’t eat anything without throwing up and the anti-biotics were making me feel buzzed. So all I could do was sleep and watch movies when I was awake. I watched ‘The Pink Panther’ which is an awesome movie. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Also saw ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’ Which was really pathetic. I mean it felt like they decided to release a half made movie in which none of the stories were scary or even interesting (Well… one or two of the stories were mildly interesting).
The stomach infection was why I havn’t been posting anything on the blog. Its hard to think coherently when you feel like you have taken one too many shots..
Now thankfully my stomach is better. Can actually eat normal food once again and not hospital food (Boiled stuff)…
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
Cya,
Suramya
May 22, 2006
Gaurang’s Engagement and my trip to Ooty
I spent the last week in Ooty, Well it was in Wellington and Pykara lake but both are near ooty. I had gone there to attend Gaurang and Kangan’s engagement. It was a really fun trip. It started off with me leaving home at ~4:15 am on the 17th to catch the 6:30am flight to Bangalore. This was after I had been working till about 3:30 am so I was a bit tired but nothing major. The flight was uneventful and I arrived in Banglore on time where Lloyd picked me up and drove me to the Bus Stop where I was supposed to catch the 10am bus to Ooty. This is where the fun started…
The bus was supposed to leave at 10am (There was another bus at 9:15am) while waiting for the bus I found out that the 9:15 am bus never showed up and the 10am bus is the last bus leaving in the morning, the next bus was at 8 pm. So we waited and waited and waited… The 10am bus finally showed up and while boarding we were told that the 9:15 am bus was on the way also and would be arriving shortly. We finally left Blore at 11:00am and about two hours later we stopped for lunch. At this time I realized that my phone battery was low but I had called Gaurang and told him that my ETA was ~6pm. Then I went off to sleep (Cause I had to work again at night) the bus took forever to get to Ooty. He stopped a lot and drove really really slow. I finally reached Ooty at ~9:45 pm. Both Gaurang and Kangan had come to pick me up and they were royally bored. Plus since my phone was low on battery life I didn’t get a regular signal so I couldn’t tell them where I was. The best part was that all the road signs were in Tamil which I don’t read so even when I got through to Gaurang I had no idea where I was so I couldn’t give them an ETA.
The engagement was fun, I had about 3 hours of sleep before the ceremony but I managed. Gaurang had to wear a Dhoti which was funny (See picture below). I recorded the entire thing on video plus took some still photos. The funniest part of the entire thing was that the pundit told us that if the girl and guy exchanged rings that meant they were married so Kunal (Kangan’s brother) put the ring on Guarang’s finger. 🙂 It was funny as hell, I got a video of Kunal saying “Don’t anybody dare take any photos” (Or something to that effect. I don’t remember the exact words). Will post it when I get a copy. Then we went for lunch where a lot of people showed up. Then Gaurang and Kangan went to get his car fixed and I went home to sleep. Below are some photos I took.
Gaurang in a Dhoti
Aunty, Kangan, Gurang and Uncle
Kangan and Gaurang
I worked again at night then the next day we went to Pykara lake. That was the best part of the trip. This is a series of 7 interconnected lakes which is restriced access for defence personal only. There are four rooms over there so Gurunathan uncle had booked them all for a 3 day stay. We went paddle boating, canoeing, on a row boat and this one boat that looked like a round bath-tub. (Don’t remember what its called.) Maitreyi, Kunal, Kangan, Gaurang and me went on the different boats in various combinations. The bath-tub and canoeing was the most fun and the paddle boat the most boring. At night we played Pictonary and dumbcharads where my team won 🙂
Next day me, gaurang and Kangan went to drop Kunal at the bus-stop and the rest of the group went to pick up Mini and then went for a walk. The second day was also spent enjoying the lake. We went for a ride on the motor-boat where we spotted a bison. Then in the evening it started raining and we watched the clouds move in over the lake which was really nice.
The next day (Sunday) I left at 6am to catch the 8:30 bus and arrived in Bangalore at about 6:10 pm and went straight to the airport where I found my flight was delayed till 9:30pm. The flight back was uneventful and I slept most of the way. Mom and dad picked me from the airport and I went to sleep after a long talk with them.
This was a brief summary of my trip to Ooty. Will post more later.
Cya,
Suramya