Happy Birthday Maa !! :)

Hi !!
First of all, Happy B'day to my Maa :) .. She won't be reading this, still: Maa, no words would be enough for me to convey how much u mean to me, so I would just say, Love u lots Ma !! :) .. Have a wonderful b'day... EnJoI !! I'll miss being there :( .. [am very cross with my bro - he went to Amarnath during this week - so both of us aren't there to celebrate her b'day :( ]

so, how's life been? me am fine, the initial excitement of "US visa stamping" has worn out - so much so that, I felt the title of my last post was tooo ajeeb - have sobered it up slightly. And then, we came to know that the project [for which we were supposed to go ] got scrapped due to some political problems between our clients and their clients !! so, no going to US now... so much for the visa for 3 months !! huh ....

umm, ever since I started blogging, I've been on the lookout for topics all around to write about.. everytime I feel I can write about something, I type it down in my cell - msg outbox !! :) :P !!

The list thus gathered is pretty much haphazard, as much as it is diverse... :) .. so, here's a sample of what I might be writing about in some coming posts of mine... [there is no time frame set for these, but I *hope* whatever I am able to write will make atleast a decent, interesting read :) ]

• Mothers :) 
• Staying away from home.
• books n authors - PG woodhouse.. Paulo Coelho.. Khushwant Singh [specifically "The Company of Women", coz that's what I finished yesterday] .. life of a Giesha .. LOTR..  basically whatever I've managed to read these days..
• friends.
• pune ki mastiyaan :)..
• College days, n some really funny anecdotes.
• chinese food - in B'lore...
  

and whatever else would come into my mind !! :)


Of course, I could do with some help from u guys to help me prioritize the order of posting these :) ..

am listening to a fundu Kishore song - 'Phir wohi raat hai' .. just love this guy.. and the GOD of indian music, RD .. :) ..


ciao for now,
have fun,
god bless n happiness always....
~sumu...

I'm back :) ..

Hi all !! :)
 
well, the news is, I've got a B1 visa - validity yet unknown - so that we can fly over to the US for some consultation work that I'm supposed to be helping the client with..
 
umm, okay, let's talk of something other than that :)
 
the company applied for the visa, but somehow, me and a few other people, were called for personal interview - and our travel desk was totally unable to understand the reason for the same :) ... so were we, of course [ reasons for me, I mused to myself, could range from the long-hair, pony-tail look I'm sporting these days, to the extremely paltry salary I get, to maybe the mood of the consular officer ;) :P]... whateva ...
 
and when I heard that we'll have to go to Chennai, I just leapt with joy - wanted to go there ASAP to see the baby boy of one of my best friends, AP..
guess what, when I reached there, I found that her hubby dear, P, has taken 1 month off as paternity leave !! I thought that to be a wonderful gesture on his part.. got my instructions from AP to do the same when 'my baby is born' ... :) :P .. my reply was, IF I happen to get married.. :)) :P .. but really, kudos to him !! :) ... [sometime later, will write a post on this issue.. ]
 
In the US consulate, I think it was the result of too many Robert Ludlum's that I tend to read on train journeys that every other consular officer seemed to me to be a US Marine, under cover :)) .. but 1 or 2 of them would probably be - 1 was speaking in Tamil to the elderly people  !!! and another was sooo knowledgeable, that he was asking specific questions to all on subjects as varied as Aeronautical engg, to mech CAD CAM, to embedded sys.. !! was truly amazed to see this !! Only very few people I know of seem to have a comparable knowledge base to me - one such person is ZenC
 
talked to su over fone, who was still in office at 11 :) - usual in our kinda field...  hmmm ...
 
returned back today morning, and was planning to feign illness to watch the indo-pak match when I came to know that it is to be there tomorrow ... so, here I am, posting on the blog, while trying to troubleshoot a problem the PM gave me ... :) :P
 
hmm, bahut bore kar liya, chalta hun abhi,
 
cya junta, take carez,
ChillaX !!

me off for a day...

Hi All !!
 
It is a great feeling to see so many comments on my very first post... :) thanks to all u guys !! :)
 
me am off to Chennai for some official business - for 1 day, going tonight, back on thursday morning... oh gosh, how I hate the chennai summer... :( .. but gotta go...
 
cya all on thursday, with lot more comments.. :) - and now that I've tried to start posting on the net, will try n find out something interesting to write about.. wateva happens in life in general - and around me ... :) ...
 
take care,
god bless,
~sumu....... 
 
  

Hey Blog world !!!

Hi all !!

 

Its been a lllonng time since I've thought of having a blog of my own. So, here I am :)..

 

Why This Blog

 

Well, I've been an avid reader of blogs - sooo many of them I have really liked, and so many of them have influenced how I look at life :) .. just to name a few - Tan, Meera, SurYa, CC, KJ, Rachs, ZenC, smilingricha, Medha, zannah, Smita - the list is practically endless. I too wanted to be a part, a member of this community - to learn, to share, to contribute, to connect... and that is what I'll do :).

 

So, I started with reading these blogs and putting down my comments - mostly stupid or repetitive ones - there. Quite a few asked me why I don't have a blog, and when I'll have one, and my answer remained same - 'No Time :( '..

 

Had been thinking of creating my own blog for quite a long while, but just couldn't find time for doing so - specially because I didn't know how much time n effort it'll take, and whether I'll be able to spare that much time. For I thought, no point in just having a URL in my name, having almost nothing posted.. I am sure most of u would relate with the disappointment on visiting a blog with a jazzy or interesting name, but no or sparse content ! [ I don't promise being a regular writer, but atleast the realization is there ;) :P ]

 

Immediate Cause

 

One of my college friends, Sunayana, is a wonderful writer. After a bit of coaxing, she finally started her blog - and as I wanted to be the first one to comment on it, accessed it, but found only members can post comments... and it claimed 'ur own blog in under 3 minutes'.. I must say I was enticed :) :P .. so, here I Am [ to borrow from Shuchi ;) ]..

 

 

kya bakwaas first post hai na? but I don't have a talent for writing yaar :(... would just pen down what I think, feel, experience, analyse ...

 

So long frens, gotta go for now... hope that I'll have a few comments from u people too :)..

 

take care n EnJoI !!

~SS

 

Disclaimer:
 
The title in no way suggests anything about me, or my state of mind, or the happenings in my life - its just probably one of the best poems I've liked from the bollywood.
 
Although 'mujhse ek kavita ka waada hai...' from 'Anand' is probably the best I like, but since 'kavita' is also the name of girls around, and in that light the phrase takes an entirely new meaning, I didn't want u guys to feel as if I am [/was?] betrothed to a girl named 'Kavita' :) :P ....