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January 13, 2008

My Trip to bangalore

Filed under: My Life,Travel/Trips — Suramya @ 11:19 AM

I was in Bangalore right after new years and was there for 5 days. Was there for work and to meet Surabhi and Vinit. It was a fun trip. The traffic was bad, work was ok, meeting friends/relatives was awesome.

In the 5 days I was there, we ate out every day at a different restaurant, it was a filling experience. Especially liked the IndeJoes place. It is the first place in India where I have had good Mexican food. Their portions were big enough that we had to get most of Surabhi & Vinit’s dinner packed (We were full from the appetizers). I loved the music they played which was mostly late 80’s and early 90’s. Don;t really remember the name of the other places but the food there was also very good. I am sad that they don’t have a branch in Delhi πŸ™

On Sunday Me, Vinit and Surabhi went to Wonder La which is an amusement park. Spent all day over there having a blast. Since schools were about to open and everyone was busy finishing their holiday homework the park was pretty empty. The water rides were fun but the best were the remaining rides like “Insanity”, “Twister”, “The mixer”.

On my flight back I was supposed to be on a King Fisher flight but the travel agent couldn’t get me tickets so they put me on an Indian Airlines flight. At first I was pretty mad but then I saw that I was seated next to the emergency exit and had plenty of leg room so I lazed about and enjoyed the flight. Plus the flight was mostly empty so I could have chosen any seat. Got to Delhi pretty late at night and Mom and Dad picked me up from the Airport.

Over all it was a good trip. I had fun.

– Suramya

January 3, 2008

New Year’s Party

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 4:21 PM

Spent my new years with Friends at Yash’s place where he had thrown a party for all us friends. About 25 of us were there and it was a fun night. I got there at 9pm as that was the time he had asked me to show up. As usual I was the first one there, though 5 mins later Rahul and Udit also arrived. A little later the rest of the group started showing up.

We burst some fire-crackers to celebrate the new years and I think we must have woken up every one in the area. One of the guys was trying to be smart and was lighting the crackers in his hand and then throwing them. He kept doing this inspite of being warned against it and sure enough one of them burst in his hand. We had him lie down after giving him first aid and the funny part was that his wife was panicking more than him.

After the new years we decided to try out our singing talents (which sadly don’t exist) playing karaoke. I don’t think I have laughed so hard ever. Some of the songs we sang and the way we sang it were really funny.

Got back home at about 3:30 am. Over all a great night. The cartoon below pretty much sums up how most of us felt the next day πŸ˜‰


Didn’t take that many photos this time as Yash was taking lots of pics. Will post them online once I get them.

– Suramya

December 31, 2007

Happy New Year

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 11:09 AM

Wishing all of you a very Happy New year.

– Suramya

December 30, 2007

Attended Nidhi’s wedding

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 11:50 PM

Attended the last wedding of the year (for me atleast) today. Nidhi (a classmate of mine) got married today. A bunch of us friends got together to attend the wedding. We got there at 8:30pm thanks to my leaving on time and very little traffic. The event was fun.

I got to meet a few classmates that I hadn’t seen for 10 years. Nidhi looked pretty. The food was great but it was freezing and as the wedding was in the open we squatted next to a heater and refused to move for most of the evening. We didn’t stay all the way till the wedding itself as they had delayed it a lot. The barat had come at ~10:30 pm but Nidhi only came out about 11:30 pm. It took her about 1/2 an hour to get to the stage for the Varmala and none of us had the courage to wait till the phere’s as it looked like it would take a lot of time for that to start. So we left at about 12:00 am. Nidhi was the first person I know who cried at their wedding.

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

– Suramya

December 26, 2007

Christmas Celebrations and the day after

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 11:45 PM

Christmas was fun. I spent the day just relaxing and at night I drove to Gurguan. Tarini had thrown a “small” get together at her place just for good friends and had invited me to attend. The drive to Gurguan was ok, even though I had to drop mom off at the mechanics I got there in 45 mins. Then it took me more than an hour to get to her place from there. The traffic was insane. It took me almost 45 mins to drive a 1 km stretch of road.

But when I finally got there it was fun. We had a bonfire on the roof along with a barbecue. A lot of people came and this was the first bonfire I attended where someone actually played the guitar. It was nice. Tarini cooked a bit. The food was surprisingly edible πŸ˜‰

Got done at about 1 am, then crashed at Kangan and Gaurang’s place (Gaurang was also at the party) for the night. The next day we got up at about 10am, had breakfast and chatted with Kangan’s mom till about 12. Then drove to Gopinath market to select pics for Kangan and Gaurang’s wedding album. That took us till 4 pm. Then dropped off Kangan at work and me and Gaurang headed back to my place (with a stopover at Nehru place).

Over all a fun day/evening/day.

– Suramya

December 24, 2007

My niece’s Annual day

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 11:07 PM

Today I attended my niece’s annual day with my cousins. Rakhi didi and Ritika picked me up from home at about 3pm and we drove to Greater Noida to attend the annual day. We were supposed to be there at 5 pm (latest by 5:30) but we got there at 4:10pm. The annual day was ok. I was telling my cousin that I hardly ever attended my own annual day but here I was attending my niece’s annual day. So she told me that that’s what Mama’s do…

The show got done at ~8:00pm and we drove back to Rakhi didi’s place and had pizza for dinner. Then we stayed up till almost 3 am talking. It was a fun visit.

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

– Suramya

December 23, 2007

Pushkin’s Last Poem

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 3:53 PM

Went and watched Pushkin’s Last Poem today with Tarini and Rahul. It is based on the life of a Russian Poet called Aleksandr Pushkin. The play was directed by Bhaskar Ghose and hosted by the Yatrik Theatre.

The play was a bit long(~2 hours 15 mins). If they had cut it by 1/2 an hour it would have been great. The play was interesting and a lot better than what I had expected. I was prepared to fall asleep during the play if it got too boring but it never got to that point. I think it was worth spending the time and effort to go and watch it. Though I don’t think I want to watch it again. It was good but not that good. πŸ˜‰

Cast of PushkinÒ€™s Last Poem
The cast of Pushkin’s Last Poem

– Suramya

December 21, 2007

Buying gifts…

Filed under: Humor — Suramya @ 12:53 PM

This is what usually happens when I go gift shopping πŸ˜‰

Gifts

– Suramya

December 20, 2007

PDF Editing & Creation: Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

Filed under: Computer Software,Interesting Sites,Knowledgebase,Tech Related — Suramya @ 12:43 PM

I personally don’t like using PDF files. They are bulky and need extra software for me to view them. Plus they are a pain to export into html (which I like). But they are a necessary evil especially if you are dealing with the corporate world/goverment where most of the forms etc are in PDF format maybe because they allow the creator to choose the layout/content and make it hard for others to modify without spending a lot of money. Atleast that used to be the case, now there are most than 50 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat that you can try out and use for free. The following site has a listing of all the tools with a brief description of each: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat.

I regularly use Open Office to create PDF’s that look good. I have also tried using the PDF creator but didn’t keep it as Open Office took care of all my PDF creation needs.

Check out the list. You might find the some tool that will save you a lot of money.

– Suramya

December 18, 2007

What I have been upto…

Filed under: Books Related / Reviews,My Life — Suramya @ 5:49 PM

Been watching some old TV shows recently. Found this old British show called Crime Traveller. In it two British detectives solve crimes by traveling back in time to a point before the crime happened. What makes this show interesting is the way they show Time Travel; the travelers go back in time for a random period of time and then they have to be back at the machine at the exact moment at which they left, or they will get stuck in a repeating loop of time.

During the episodes you see some odd happenings and later on when the characters travel back the odd happenings are explained. The detectives can’t just walk to the place of the crime and watch it; they have to work to prevent paradoxes from happening. Over all its a great show. To bad it wasn’t continued. There’s some lobbying going on to bring it back and if its successful then I would be very happy.

The second show I have started watching is Smallville. I know its on its 7th season now but till now I had only seen maybe 15 mins of the show in bits and pieces. Finally decided that I had to see the show so watching it from the first season onwards. So far I have seen the first two episodes and I like it. Will probably watch the entire 7 seasons. I watched the Stargate SG1 series also like this only. I had started watching Stargate Atlantis and liked it so went back and watched the entire SG1 back to back (one season at a time).

Other than TV, I have discovered some new authors I like so doing a lot of reading. Linnea Sinclair has entered my list of authors I like, she writes Science-fiction that could be classified as Space Opera. Some damm good books. Have read six so far with another two to go…

Have started keeping a list of books I have been reading so that I can see how much I read an since the 26th of Nov I have read 21 books and am on my 22nd. πŸ™‚ Thinking of posting this online. What do you think? My books section (on the site) hasn’t been updated in years so this list could come up over there. Lets see…

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

– Suramya

PS: This is my 501st post on the Blog. πŸ˜€

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