Special Week End...

Wow..I never had so much planned for any week end. This week end, we have so much things to do or events happening around.

Randolph Air Show 2009

I have been here in San Antonio, every year somehow managed successfully to miss the Air Show...Hope I make it this time...

http://www.randolph.af.mil/library/2009-randolphairshow/index.asp

WurstFest 2009

Last year, we had really big gang of guys to hang out and desginated drivers to enjoy this Beer Fest.

Food, Beer and hang out where you can supposedly taste or drink all brands of Beer. I don't think I will be going this year.

http://www.wurstfest.com/

Malic Gem Show 2009

This is more of Gem, Mineral and Jewelry show...I am not interested in this but some of my friends would be...

http://malicjewels.com/show-information

And we are all planning to hit the Mexican restaurant for the Karaoke, could celebrate Antoneita's Birthday.

And we do have Selva's Birthday Bash midnight.

And I am going to play morning cricket which I missed for last couple of weeks.

I will update what I did actually but I am excited to have this much to-do list other than my work. :)

Diwali Celebrations...

We had a great Deepavali celebrations in our customer office, huge one. It is rather Indian Cultural celebrations, projected India's North, South, East and West regions, folk dances from different parts, regular mehendi stalls and Bindis, bangles are give aways.

People who attended are so excited and always wonder about India. I was involved in putting the North Region stall displaying the places to visit, monuments, food, dress, dance, music and wedding. Why am I picked North, because South had more volunteers. And I wanted to learn about North and I learnt a lot.

We all felt like exams are over because too much of craft work, chart, banners, decorations and finally we felt nothing to do.

Another interesting thing for Deepavali celebrations, Tamil, Kannanda, Telugu and Indian Association had separate celebrations. And on top, City of San Antonio bursted fireworks for the first time and Mayor did a speech for Deepavali.

I always waited for the 2 days to come so that I could do fireworks. But, this time I felt too much celebrations without parents, sweets, new dress, fireworks. Then what the heck was this for...

Which one is best...

The below video from SNL beats the President's video message. And most of you would agree to it...SNL rocks..

SNL Video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM

Obama's Diwali Message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRb9lGjeFY

Naren

Sleepy..Not Totally Weird..

I could say that I am blessed when it comes to sleep. I can sleep where ever or whenever I want to but I cannot sleep for more than 6 - 7 hours. Ok!! they are few exceptions 8 - 10 hour sleep if I didn't rest myself for more than 20 hours. My Gene DEC2 problem nothing I can do.

I can be dead like for hours on the couch. I cannot sleep with my eyes open, I tried during my work hours but couldn't succeed. Believe me..

Which part could be the weird one? I keep my laptop beside me, on my lap or alongside and rest myself. This had happened more than once, You would see a happy man with full enthusiasm chatting with you from other part of the world and suddenly black out like power failure. I can go from Sleep Stage N1 to Stage N3.

My room mates had made fun of me, taken pictures in different weirdo positions and me lying around different parts of the apartment. Definitely not Drunk...I don't drink.

Sorry to all if I geared up fully and all of a sudden shut down, it will be because of my sleep cells.

New Bet...

Murali and I have got a bet which everyone would have sometime. Weight Loss and the D-Day would be November 15th and we decided to transact with money.

We have already formed alliances to bring down each other's efforts though not constructive but some serious plans are going on.

I am cautious on food, dammnit ok I am really food lover, I love to cook, eat and taste different cuisines... It's gonna be tough if we don't control the food.

I have heard three of friends with no connections have taken marathon to bring back to shape. I think I am in need of partner...Will update on November 15th...

Reason to Acknowledge

Does Men always wanted to justify their actions? Always trying to hide their emotions and show off their analytical calculations in arriving a decision.

Professional side, We always try this to way beyond extent. We want to get it right any time.

Do you think, this will sell when it comes to personal life? Nah, personalities around us will know it, we are fooling around... Men to Men is okay, both are egoists avoiding each other pride falling down. But when it come to Women, it just take a Sorry to put all your things back in track.

Be careful when you use it, Women knows when you really mean it.

Kick Start...

Something rare needed for me to update my blog and I believe waking up 5 am is really rare sign. And also made me to realise how my blog was updated for a while.

So many things are happening, I went back to India for 2 months, started watching TV shows, playing cricket and Tennis, reorgs in the work. If we need to list out, we find so many reasons for not updating, let me kick start again...

And I am thinking to blog lot about my travel experience in US but when it comes to Finances credit-debit calculations, damn why I like Geography.

Time Management in Car - Women are the best...

What can be done during a 2 mins signal stop light?



Guys would,



possibly gaze around,

peek through the next door cars,

pull around the person seated inside the car,

change the CD or tune to different radios,

discuss different car models,

Complain the stoplight delay..



She can,



do a quick coat with her powder

do the eye shade

quick on eye lashes

layer of lip stick

check the lights and the mirror...



This is from real experiences, definitely I was gazing over the car beside me..

Airports visited in US...

I have put the Airports visited on the Google Maps...curiosity to mark all the Airports made me to add even the stopovers...I should be lucky enough to visit these much...

29 Airports 18 States in 3 years...

This was only the Airports, many more cities visited by road...Yes, will create another Maps mentioning the road trips taken...


View Airports Visited in a larger map

From HCL's Community Service Council...Tips..

First Post...this Year 2009...My Parents trip...Vote of Thanks...

#1 My parents visiting me and was roaming around different places in 3 months. I was constantly hooked into travel websites, travel deals, ticket deals, hotels and car rentals. I can still bet I can find better deals when it comes to travel in US.  

Guys, I would say the road trip with my parents from New Jersey to Washington DC and Phoenix to Las Vegas via Grand Canyon ;) were the best. You won't realise you have so much to talk for long hours with your parents. It's quite a different feeling. I would ask anyone to take this trip anywhere.

I should thank my friends who have accomodated my parents and I for those three months.

Maheshwer ( Yengal Anna Vijayakanth)

Gulam ( Vanathai pola Livingston)

Suresh 

Gopi 

Rajkumar 

Selva 

Murali

Karthik

Rajesh 

Vivek Krishna 

Special thanks for Shriram Kannan (the best in my all time fame), Shyam (travelling with me to Niagara), Bharath & Bhargavi (for taking them as their parents), Newton ( for arranging Rockford beach house), Raj Prabhu (for travelling with me to Vegas, he owe me a lot for showing the bite of Vegas), Gulam (travelling with me to Orlando), Chandra & Kalpana for helping out in Houston and Rajeshnath (my understanding boss)

San Antonio,TX

Corpus Christi,TX

Rockford,TX

Houston,TX

St.Louis,MI

Orlando,FL

New York,NY

Washington DC

Niagara Falls, NY

Grand Canyon,AZ

Las Vegas,NV 

Enjoyed this scene...Vaaranam Aayiram...

Watched Vaaranam Aayiram this week end....love scenes and songs are good..nothing much in the movie. I would not advice anyone to waste money...all the gud scenes are in youtube..

One of the best scene atleast for me...

Heroine asks lot of questions about him before she accepts him....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQTl-gg_yQ

She herself answers all her questions after understanding him....my best...
Both performed...Surya scores and the shot where he plays guitar in the air...gud one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyC9vUSzSAc

Pain...

Last week, I was little shake up last week when three friends and my parents went to India. I made two trips to Airport to drop my friends and evening started to Houston along with my parents. My parents return flight is from Houston. The Airport crew were kind enough to give me the Gate Pass to go along with my parents. My parents cried...I was okay..When I came back to San Antonio Airport, I really don't know whom to call or where to go. I suddenly felt this is not the right place for me and I don't belong here. Leaving behind my parents was not new to me, the current trip is my third one and I really couldn't understand.

Monday I wasn't able to work and one of my American friend, lady with wisdom, figured out the reason. She told even though you have been away from home. This should be the first time some one left you. Made sense and absolutely true. Believe me, you have to feel the difference...

The difference between you leave someone and someone leaves you....

Earth Hour US...

I wouldn't be aware of this Earth Hour US if I am not using Google. Earth Hour explained why Google home page had black background. The initiative was kicked off in Sydney and spread around to different cities. This would be small thing we can do by switching off our lights for an hour from 8 - 9 pm.

The video in below link shows how much energy saved during this hour. First time, something was so easy to get a great satisfaction. Just switch off the lights...nothing much..

http://www6.earthhourus.org/

HandBag Matters...

Today, end of work, I saw a lady going out with a big bag, carry bag and a hand bag. I was fascinated and thought what she would have carried to stay maximum of 9 hours in one place.
I am pretty sure she was not marooned in an island. Then, I realized not only her but every other women carried minimum of two bags with them if you ignore the purse. What for??

I know many men carry same purse from the time he started to have let it be for sentimental or lucky reasons.

I remember this one incident happened in my school days. Our French madam went out in middle of the class and she is famous for her make-up kit. My friends wanted to confirm the rumors and open her handbag. One person, Balaji, successfully opened and end up with thrashing from her. It was quite funny to relive.

World Richest Billionaires

In Top ten richest people, four people are Indians. Just thinking what it really does good to the country as a whole or for the people. If Mukesh and Anil assets are together (85 billion), Ambani group would be the number one in world. Forget one guy, who resides in UK, the rest of the guys accumulate to 115 billion dollars.

What can be done by these three guys money?

1. Can donate 11 dollar to every person in India? Making it the biggest and largest public distribution, 400 rupees to everyone is great achievement considering the fact that only 1/4 of the people can spent Rs.12.

2. Can spend twice the amount, the Indian government planned to spend in this Budget 2008.

3. The golden quadrilateral road project cost only 13 billion dollars so we could construct one circle, square and an octagon.

4. Cost of New Chennai International Airport is 25 billion so 4 world-class airport with 115 billion :-)

5. Basic medical Aids also needs its share.

To see in another side...

1. Can buy 460 Boeing 777 bus

2. Can buy out many of the Top IT companies.

3 Can buy more Bugatti Veyron cars to open new Taxi service.

Will keep adding it...

Naren

Day Light Savings..

Saturday night, we went out for movie. We had ready made parotta with Murali's kozhambu.. Suddenly we figured its 2:00 pm everywhere, no way this movie could be more than 4 hours. Then, we realised we lost one hour due to day light savings. God !! My one hour of sleep was lost and now I couldn't sleep. My body cannot accept its 1:00 pm, it would be 12:00 two days back.

The most significant thing, researchers figured out, energy consumption was more during the savings time rather reduced usage. So, then for what this is followed??

Meeting...

I missed a get-together for first time, happened in Hartford, Connecticut. I have to stay for a while in San Antonio because Mahesh (room mate) arriving here from Chennai. Courtesy calls :)

I think around 10 guys are meeting and its birthday for Rajendra Kumar :(

Happy Birthday dude..enjoy..

10000 BC

Went to theater after a long time, we went as planned to "10,000 BC" even after some strong recommendations from few friends. We expected the worse but it was not bad...sentimental story

Corridor Life..

Pillars give entirely different dimension of the building…one of the reasons for me to admire my college (SSN College) structures. I could promise we weren't pillars of SSN when we studied there. Symmetric white buildings with huge pillars and open corridor give you a great feeling when you walk around. But, the best part is the corridors.

Advantage in SSN no attendance for the first hour. So, we could stretch our legs right after our breakfast or after tiresome cricket play on the Basketball court, we would relax on the corridor. Lying on each other gives warning for the trespassers. We would not trouble anybody because they would ample space to crawl around us.

The best part was the Staff…awesome human beings understanding the student's mind boggling troubles and pain would walk around us and never tried to disturb us. Some would even occasionally pass on "rich comments" but we were open to critics. Every person should be positive for the critics to correct himself, we were lucky those critics as our staff.

Years moved on but still the corridors remain. Don't know if any past or future students as we used it... :)