Birthday Blast!!

Four words : Had a great day :)

My wide smile stretches a mile !! ( Linguistically only. Don't let you imagination run berserk)

To start with, yesterday night my dad wished me at 12 in the night, which is a rare occasion in itself. Got up around 7.45 and started helping out Mom, who conjured up an amazing meal for my party within a couple of grueling hours. I rushed off to get my birthday cake. When I returned home, helmet still on, bags clutched in both hands, my friends were already there !!
And then began a fiesta of fun and entertainment. And gifts !!

Padma gave me a cute glass painting of Calvin and Hobbes she made. Though she didn't sign it, it will remind me of her forever. Thanks Paddy :) I also got a Zodiac mug with most of my piscean traits mentioned.

Even I had surprises planned, which included a Chinese menu, a yummmy chocolate cake and a Treasure Hunt!! It was fun to make ppl run around for a treasure of chocolates which was finally distributed amongst all :D

The biggest surprise was yet to come. This was a CD called Tarane, which has a superb video about our college days AND some songs sung by my talented friends themselves.
They are songs with the murder of music in some places and excellence of melody in others. They are songs full of goof-ups, fun and lots of love . They are songs which I will treasure for life. :)

Later in the day, my parents arrived home with a beautiful gold chain and pendant which again was a big surprise. Because my mom doesn't believe in surprises and always tells me what my b'day gift is going to be !!

All in all : Had a great day :)

Kite Flying

Something interesting I found. There is something called "Kite aerial photography".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography

Really fascinating.

Cleartype !!

Learnt a very simple thing from "Gadget Guru" today.

There is an option called "Cleartype" in the Display properties of your desktop. Once you enable this option the display becomes clearer, the edges sharper. Really nice !! They said that this change is more visible in Flat screen/LCD monitors. I will check the truth of this, once I get back to office.

Philosophy to Reality !!

Very intense lines from a song in Guru

Jaage hain der tak hamein, kuch aur sone do.
Thodi si raat aur hai, subah to hone do !!

I realized that this is almost the same mantra which I chant every morning when my Mom tries to wake me up !! :D

From philosophy to reality.. Not much difference :D

Nothing but problems

One day I was walking down the street, when I saw my friend George approaching. It was evident from his downtrodden look that he wasn't overflowing with the ecstasy and exuberance of human existence, which is a high-class way of saying George was dragging bottom.

Naturally I asked him, "How are you, George?" While that was meant to be a routine inquiry, George took me very seriously and for 15 minutes he enlightened me on how bad he felt. And the more he talked, the worse I felt.

Finally I said to him,"Well George, I'm sorry to see you in such a depressed state. How did you get this way?" That really set him off.

"Its my problems", he said. "Problems-nothing but problems. I'm fed up with problems. If you could get rid of all my problems, i would contribute $5000 to your favorite charity.

Well now, I am never one to turn a deaf ear to such an offer, and so I meditated, ruminated and cogitated on the proposition and came up with an answer that i thought was pretty good.

I said, "yesterday i went to a place where thousands of people reside. As far as i could determine, not one of them has any problems. Would you like to go there?"

"When can we leave? Thats sounds like my kind of place," answered George.

"If that's the the case George," I said, "I'll be happy to take you tomorrow to Woodlawn Cemetery because the only people i know who don't have any problems are dead!!"