Suramya's Blog : Welcome to my crazy life…

Well I am still alive here. Met up with Karishma and Priya over the weekend. We were supposed to meet for lunch and Priya picked up Karishma and then came to pick me up from the hotel but managed to get lost about a mile from the hotel. Since they were so close to the hotel I went to the lobby to see if the attendant over there knew how to get to the hotel from where they were.

That lady had no clue of what she was doing, she managed to confuse all of us even more so we decided that it would be easier if I walked up to the road they were on and hope that they will see me while driving by. Thankfully though, Karishma noticed that one of the streets they were crossing was a street I had mentioned. This gave me an idea of where they were and I walked to the car .

After finally meeting up we all were very hungry so we went to the mall nearby to get lunch/dinner (It was ~3:30 by then). We got to the place at 4 pm, had some really good Pizza and Pasta and we talked a lot.

After lunch we decided to go for a movie. I wanted to watch either the transporter 2 or The Brother’s Grimm. Priya was undecided, Karishma wanted to watch either The 40 year old virgin or An unfinished life. To make things interesting, Nitin wanted to watch the Constant Gardener and P wanted to see ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ or An unfinished life. To make a long story short we finally ended up watching ‘An Unfinished life’ which was not a movie I would usually watch but it was ok. A lot better than the last movie I saw with Karishma (Devil’s Rejects)

After the movie we talked a little more and then they dropped me home without getting into any problems.

Overall a fun day but I could have done without the silly movie. The problem with going to a movie with girls is that if they outnumber you, you tend to get outvoted. In this case we were outvoted 3-2 (Girls/Boys) so we saw ‘An Unfinished life’.

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

– Suramya

Like some of you might know, I am currently in California working on a project. Life here is cool,
the weather is awesome, the people a lot nicer and the commute a lot shorter (I am staying across the parking lot from work. No, I am not staying in the cardboard box… Someone else was already using that. 🙁 )

The only downside to staying at this place is the lack of Highspeed internet in the room. I can always goto work and get online from there but thats a pain. So I spend my time watching TV, exploring the area around the hotel and generally relaxing.

Since I don’t have anything major taking up my time I have started going through my email and replying to all the mail’s I haven’t replied to. I am all the way up to May now so hopefully I will be done in the near future.

Since I don’t have net access, work on gWifi is frozen till futher notice. Sorry. 🙁 Have a couple of other projects on the works (IM2Email and the Yahoo Search Collage) so have plenty to kill time with. Will also probably be updating the website backend to make it more efficient, but lets see.

Well this is all for now. Will keep you posted.

Cya,
Suramya

Met up with Sachin and Karishma again yesterday night for dinner. Since Karishma is moving to California today it was the last time all of us could meet up so we decided to meet for Thai food.

We met at this place called Jaiya at 7 pm. I was the first one to get there and when I asked for a table for 3 I was told that the place was closing down for the night as they were having some problems with the cash register (The computer was down). Since Karishma and Sachin wern’t there yet I decided to walk up and down the street trying to pass time. Soon Karishma got there and while we were trying to decide where to go the Cash register at Jaiya magically fixed it self and we were told that we were welcome to come in for dinner if we were still interested. We did and the food was great. A bit on the pricey side but very good. 🙂 Will go there again soon. (If I can afford it 😉 )

After dinner we went to a bar called ‘barroom’ on 52nd and 3rd. Talked a lot over there had a couple of drinks. Then Sachin’s friend who was driving over from DC arrived and they both split after a few mins and then Karishma and myself also decided that it was late and we should head home.

Came home, fell asleep.

Finally got enough time to upload the pics I took using my camera phone during my recent gettogether with Aditi, Karishma and Sachin in New York.

If I had paid any regard to the so called feedback I got on these pics and the requests to remove specific pics I wouldn’t have been able to post any pics…. I wonder why girls are so picky about their pics. Its not like I am posting these on a marrige site. I did remove a really bad pic I had taken of someone who I will not name here. That photo has been saved in my future ‘blackmail’ material folder 🙂

The photos are not the greatest but something is better than nothing so here goes…

Karishma, Self and Aditi at Times Square .	Karishma, Sachin and Aditi at Times Square .
Adit, Self and Sachin at Times Square .	Aditi, Sachin and Karishma at Times Square .

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

Cya,
Suramya

This week has been interesting. It passed by way too fast. Not that I am complaining though.
Weekends are a lot more fun. I get to relax, read and generally catch up with life. This is the first weekend in while that I got to spend at home (Spent the last few meeting friends, having fun etc) so all I did all day was read books and watch old Dr Who episodes.

I think I have been working too hard lately. A few of you might know that I work in a company that creates software for phone networks and deals with call switching. My current project involves playing with phone switches and figuring out why calls failed by reading the logs generated and then fixing them. So any time a test call fails I get to read some long and boring log files…

A few days ago I was calling the 1and1 tech support line as I had a few questions for them and in the middle of the call I got disconnected and heard a SIT tone (Special Information Tone) (The one that goes something like tu-tuu-to) and my first reaction was to check the logs to see what happened and why I got disconnected. That was scary. My boss’s response when I told him about this was: “welcome to the club”, his wife on the other had said: “You need a vacation” and I agree…

Hate Javascript. Rewrote gWiFi from scratch for the 3rd time, so far it seems to be working ok. Hopefully I will release a fixed version by the end of the weekend.

Got some good feedback on IM2Email. Will be incorporating the changes suggested into the next version of IM2Email. Maybe this week or next week. Depends on how fast I can get gWifi to work.

Well this is all for now. Going back to my book…

– Suramya

Met up with Aditi, Karishma and Sachin in New York today. I had met Karishma a few months ago but it was the first time I was meeting Sachin and Aditi after high school so it was a lot of fun. We had decided to meetup in Union Square at 2 pm but by the time everyone got there it was 3 pm and we all were starving. So we went to this cafe and had a really late lunch and caught up with each other’s lives. We all talked a lot. Basically caughtup with each other’s lives, relived old memories etc.

After lunch we decided to go watch Devils Rejects as there were no other movies that we all could agree on. After the movie was done I was wishing that I had gone for Stealth instead inspite of the bad review’s it got. This movie was just plain bad. Do yourself a favor if you have to goto a movie goto any movie but this one. After the movie was done we all went to starbucks for a coffee and had a very interesting discussion there about how Indian culture is changing and how teens are adapting to the new culture.

Overall a fun day. Will definetly want to do it again. Didn’t have a camera so took photos with my camera phone. May post the pics here later.

This is all for now will post more later.

– Suramya

This past week was interesting. Did a couple of interesting things:

1. Watched the Fantastic Four. It was a good movie. A lot of people didn’t like it but I loved it. People expected it to be serious like the x-men and with more action but even in the comics the 4 are never serious. If you read the new MarvelKnights 4 or the Ultimate Fantastic Four you will see that the movie is pretty faithful to the comics.

2. Worked on gWifi. I am officially starting to hate Javascript. For some reason the global variables in my script refuse to become global. I can’t access them from any other function unless I declare it in the function. (Yes I declared the variable outside all functions, in the begining of the script). So now my script works but it refuses to change the the boundry variables so everytime I refresh the map populates the hotspots in the same area. Once I fix this I will launch the new version with a lot more hotspots.

3. Waiting for Harry Potter. Surabhi has pre-ordered it online so it should be here in the next couple of days. Then I will have to wait till she finishes reading it before I will get it.

4. Missed the season premier of StarGate Atlantis. 🙁

5. Working on a new article. (Won’t tell you whats its about until I am done)

6. My article on Jabber Installation is being translated to Italian and will be published in a hardcopy magazine in Oct 2005

7. Got a new blackberry from work. Cool toy to play with. Have a few app idea’s for it. Lets see how much time I get to work on them.

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

– Suramya