Category: Chronicles

Whoa!! what a day!!! and I thought today I will be able to rest a while in the day…

I told Aasim, “you got to skate a little faster, Son” and he replies, “One day I will show you mom” – I like the attitude, quite like mine

Visit to CA in the morning was fruitful. ULIP money has still not come in. Unit Trust of India is not to be trusted… .. every investor I have spoken to is skeptical about this company and every investor had bought a few of Unit 64’s. This is what keeps me from investing in long term LIC plans for aasim as well Who knows what will happen 20 years from now…

This
movie I definetly want to watch. I read Saratbabu’s Devdas when I was a teenager
– read a hindi translation of the novel and  wished I could read bengali.

I am an ardent fan of Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai so watching these
two perform on the script which moved me immensely as a teenager would be
a definite treat!!
The only hitch is I havent been to a movie theater
in past 8 years and I wonder if I can sit at one place for three hours and
come out without a headache

Mozilla
has come a long way since I left it almost an year back great to be working
on linux again and this time I am pretty pleased. I havent booted into windows
at all. Now all I need is webcam working on yahoo….

A lot of things happened since i last updated my journal. Most important being I got in touch with an old friend (my uncle actually who was one of my closest friends when I was growing up) after almost 10 years!! Love you Ashu mama hope to meet soon.

My home machine got its due finally -Thanks to an hour of linux install and 12 hours of windows install on the other partition and VM ware (Tarique was tearing his hair by the end of it) The machine now is dual booting with VM ware and Cross Over Office up and running. Finally the Linux desktop is usable I can depend on it to run my must use M$ products (thats the funniest part CXO calls it fake_windows so its good bye M$ Windows for good.
The question some of you may ask is then why the windows partition at all (Like Atul asked me the other day – why bother?) – well, bother I have to because Aasim plays his CD’s on the same machine and Reader Rabbit Series and Jump Start Series dont run on Linux

Life suddenly is so organised – it seems strange to sleep at sane hours and wake up early, to have a decent maid to take care of things that bogged me down earlier, to devote more time to work and to go for walks without worrying about another late night to complete pending work…
I hope the state of things last… most of all I hope that this time the maid lasts she better I am paying her a big packet.

Reading this post and this one I got thinking and am pretty tickled by the fact that men are forever obsessed with female breasts – something absoloutely useless for their pleasure

Around 6 PM today I felt it wont rain anymore and decided to go for a walk – not exercising daily was proving harmful – threatening to show at wrong places – good day to feel motivated!!!

So I changed into my jogging overalls, caught hold of hubby dear and off we went power walking. 15 minutes away from home – it started pouring. We decided to enjoy the rains and continue our walk instead of turning back and that was a good decision indeed I haven’t felt so nice in ages. The feel of raindrops on my face water soaking through the clothes and the cool breeze was indeed very very refreshing. We were the only souls outdoors and people standing in “safe places” were giving us queer looks – wonder why? We were just enjoying ourselves!!

The only nag is Tarique had mobile in his pocket and it doesn’t work anymore after being soaked completely

Thankfully, he left the palm back as it needed charging.

Just finished reading the complete script of the movie. Aasim has been asking us so many questions about the Episode II – now I will be able to answer him correctly ( he has seen several trailers of the movie on TV) I can not tell him anything that hasn’t been shown in the move – he will catch me later and question His typical line “mom you don’t know star wars” Like hell I do – I sat and watched all the movies again with him. For him Star Wars and Lego are Dad things and not Mom things

Aasim got interested in “Liril Cool Mint” after seeing its TV commercial and made me buy the soap.Today morning he very excitedly took the soap for his bath and started screaming when I soaped him – the soap has so much mint that it burns on skin specially his soft baby skin. Not just that it burns on sensitive portions of adult skin too

The least manufacturers would have done is put a caution on the wrapper. One doesn’t expect such a thing from a reputed company like HLL.

Don’t buy this soap ever !!!