While you are with me...

What would you say, if people said that, hey my friend is so hot that even the cookie man likes him? I guess its okay if you are a girl. But if you are a guy and a cookie man likes you.... Not good man.... Me and some of my friends were at this place called crockdero, an entertainment arcade kinda place, near Picadilly and in there we passed a milles cookie shop...

Nothing unusual, but we were kinda lost there and needed to find some directions. So I go up to the shop guy and ask for directions to some casino type of a place. This dude comes out, all swingy swongy and you know the wrists attached loosely to his hands types... and.. is like, Hi.. I'm like.. Hi.. could you tell me how may I get to blah blah.. and he's like giving me all the directions and stuff but I'm like totally feeling weird there !! And I just did not know what to do ! Suddenly he is done telling me directions and then steps forward, sorta pushes his waist out and swings forth and asks me... Is there anything I can do for you, while you are With Me...

WTF ! I was like.. while I am with him.. Im like No thanks, and I ran for my life.. well.. I ran to save me ass... Quite literally... I mean....

Anyhow, we roamed around.. and a lill later the girls felt like cookies !! And you know women right !!! They drag me to that shop and once again I had to face that guy. This time we ordered the cookies and none of us had any change.. this guy.. was like.. thats allright you dont have to pay for it.. and he gives me back my 20 pound note in my hand but like holds my hand with his hands and places it in between in such a weird way, like eeewwwwwww... Once again I ran.. to save me.. everything...

Since then, Im being teased with weird people, and.. apparently it is very amusing, that the cookie man likes me.. Whatever !! I mean cmon.. why do my friends have to step forward, swish and swosh and ask me, Is there anything that I can do for you, WHILE YOU ARE WITH ME..

You know what.. when these girls say it.. I really feel like telling them... ;) ;) Yea yea.. theres a lot you can do for me ;) hehehe ;) Muah.

- Me at Zizi's In London... Pretty Classy Place.. Nice Food, Nice Wines !

Have some water, Cheers !

So my trip is going great, and Im having fun. I am at a bowling alley. Kinda thirsty, so I go to the other end where these people are selling some stuff and I ask for a bottle of water. She hands it over to me and goes.. Cheers !!

I was like.. damnnn... I know that this is a drunk country and that people drink a lot more here than, elsewhere. Also, the drinking age is 18 and not 21 like in India or the US. So I'm thinking... damn it... God knows whats there in this water.. Looks ike regular Evian water.. but.. You never know.. with this country.. May be alcoholic version ? May be something else ?

Eventually I figured out, that just like we say, thanks or welcome, or thanks man, or allright bud, or something of that sort, the people here say cheers. You buy tickets at a theatre and say thanks, he says cheers. You show your pass to the bus driver while getting on, you say cheers.. well.. if you dont.. doesnt matter... he will... :)

- Me playin pool at the same bowling alley.. uuhhmm.. Cheerss !!!

The Blah-dee Other Side - London

Im gonna use my technique for teaching gora people hindi, to start off my new entry. Say O.. as in seven O clock.. Yep.. Now, have you heard of Aishwarya Rai ? Bet you have. So, take the rai from there.. Now combine the two... O-Rai... Say it at once.. Faster... Ahhh... See... There you are... What you are saying is... Allright.... Thats the English people... speaking........ aaammmmmmm...... English..

Things were so different here. Well, not really different since I have faced some of the stuff in India and some in America.. but then.. some stuff... you know..? Anyhow... Drive & walk the other side. Talk weirdly. Even the keyboards have a " mark sign instead of the @ sign above number 2, and number 3 has a £ sign instead of the # sign above it. But nevertheless, it was fun. Overall, its just been a day, but London seems to be getting more and more exiciting by the hour. This is so awesome.

Overall, this experience should be sooo gooooooooddd.. It turns out that my friends have major plans. Looks like my photo album will shine with the pictures really soon. I have loads of pictures already. Some are crappy but some look awesome. Anyway... Time to ROCK.. :D

- Me at a friend's place in my new, ENGLAND Tshirt :)

Happy Birthday Amit !!!

Who let the dogs out ??? Who?? Whoo??
I simply had to start this entry with that line up there. Happy birthday Kkkkkkkkkkkkk !!! For those who don't know what KK means, or don't know Hindi at all, KK means Kutta Kamina. Now kutta=dog, and kamina i cant explain in hindi, means, asshole, no not really.. but like an idot.. very irritating.. and pakao.. Dont ask me what pakao is.. Just meet KK once... Anyways.. Today I am going to write an essay on kk..

Once upon a time long long, but not too long ago used to live a boy called KK. Well he was not really a boy, he was a doggie. Well, not really a doggie. He was simply a KK. No body knows who he was or what he was, but he did a lot of KK-giri. Anything you ask him, he will give you KK-replies. He passed his Bsc in Comp Sci, but doesnt know anything. He is doing graphics, but name sake, actually he clicks his own foto and sticks it there, he doesnt really make cartoons. Basically, I think he should start a TV serial with all PJs in it, only Pjs, and call it KK No.1 ... Will be way more famous than Garfield or any other cartoon show.. (Damn You KK.. don't start off now.. about how you have done great work on garfield n stuff.. )

Anyhow, Was Kks birthday, apparently he took 3 huge cakes to give "friends" in his office, more than 80 people.. but mere ko kuch nahi... Pure KK he is..

KK kutte... i hope u had fun.. and I know you did finally visit pune. Lets hope your coming to the US works out for next year, and also lets hope that we meet up and party soon again. Allright KK, take care, cyaaa !!!!!

- The Two KK's at DKK's Old House... Appy Budday KK !!!

Genius or Madness ?

"I am a computer programmer, I am supposed to be arrogant." Can you believe that? Ya, computer genius guys or computer whizs and such people are believed to be very moody, do what they want types, arrogant, weird or other things of that nature. One of my computer programer friend says, "Computer programmers won't dress for anyone, not even if its the president coming to your office". In my experiences studying different courses, I have seen that we as computer engineers, computer scientists or programmers, always make fun of the business students, most women too, and various other people who can undertand basic calculus and stuff. A friend of mine was once asked in his psych class by a friend for some help on probability and matricies, and he looked at her like, "WHAT?", you can't do that?

He couldn't believe that she dint know how to do basic math. And he did eventually help her, but while doing so if she would take 10 minutes to think something, or a long time to reply, he would get so frustrated that he dint know what to do, simply because according to him it is just impossible to not understand some stuff. Such programmers / engineers / scientists etc. do stuff that no one else can probaly do. Some really cool, genius work, can understand math which seems weird to most people, very easily and other such stuff. However, remember that there is a fine line between genius and madness. What I am worried about is, if you are in a lab doing that same thing forever, would you cross this line ?

- Saw How Cool I am? See The Stuff On The Board, I DID IT!! LOL!!

Its not just about the madness or extreemse stress, but there are so many traits. Arrogance is the biggest. Probably because they think they can do such great stuff so quick, that if some other major had to do it, it would probably take them forever. Another is madness. Craziness, which I'm not going to get into. Amongst the various other traits, another common one is weirdness. Some people think that these guys are weird. Which may be true because, they may not understand some of the stuff these guys talk about, ever.

However on the other hand, there is stuff thats kinda different. In that, they are weird. Period. Not just that they sound weird coz of their tech jargon or something. They just respond weirdly to certain situations and stuff. Today I came to another research lab to meet some people for security related discussions over lunch. Great people. Fun mood around. Awesomee, simply genius work was being discussed across the table. Really high tech stuff, that would easily intrigue and even stun some of the most intelligent of the "genius" geeks. However, toward the end I noticed something that drove me crazy.

There was a bunch of really awesome people doing something weird. The discussion started of by talking about how to join two round tables. People gave all sorts of theories and some people are like, there is no perfect way to join to rount tables.. you can make aquares out of them and join those to get a perfect table, but blah blah .. !!! I got so pissed off, I got up, dragged the other table close to ours and there was an 8 like shape, and we were sitting and talking happily after that. Not that it looked great or anything, but it was just an hour of lunch for God's sake !!!!!!

After that over the course of converstaion there were like more than 3 people playing with thermecol cups. One person was like biting chips off it with his nails.. another cut out a ring that slid over the rest of the cup and was so proud of it.. and all sorts of weird stuff... Yaahhh.. WEIRD..

Anyhow, this blog entry had gotten deleted and in place of this there was some weird text.. dunno how it got there.. so.. I had to rewrite the second half.. but doesnt matter.. Iv given a briefing on it..

- My Office @ IBM Research, in NY, last year...!

Happy Birthday Goodyyyyyyyy !!

Well, at first it should not be goody, it should be guddie. But I wrote it as goody, for those who won't be able to pronounce guddie the right way. It is almost like goody, as in "miss goody two shoes"... Damnnn... I dunno where i got that from... Anyway, secondly I my baby is gonna be pissed because I called her Guddie, and not Devkey.. I'm sorry yaar.. but on the other hand, its weird when kids grow up.. I know I sound like an old man or something, but thats not what I mean at all, its just weird, when you know your lill sis comes up to you and tells you she finds a guy hot, and specially someone who you have been treating like a kid.

Anyhow, so yesterday was her 10th birthday. Oh Nooo.. like 15th or something.. oh God no !! I just calculated.. apparently she is 17.. How in the world did she grow up so much ? What is happening ? I'm not like 200 years old, then how can she become 17 ? She is supposed to be 10 years old, every year.. I mean.. atleast every other year.. Or whatever...

Anyhow, for those who still din't figure our, it is my little sister, Devkey's birthday. Apparently she is 17 now. Yeaaahhhhh 17 years oldddd... Well.. like 2 days ago, in the rains she hurt her foot, coz she fell down due to the very strong current in the water.. Damnn these kids.. can't be careful.. can they ? Had to get that injection, nah ? Hope shes better now.

Aaaah.. I bet she loved the dutch chocolate cake from Brownie Point... mmmm... I miss Bombay so much. Some of the very best food in the world is in Bombay.. Just wait for my amazingly unique, and dynamic restaurant to start.. I'v been discussing my plans with some people, and apparently some think I should be able to start it in 5 years, and others think like 50..

Anyhow, hope you have a nice nice birthday, Devkey.. happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy birthday.. (I hope I got 17 happy's).. Hope you have a blast.. and.. I will talk to you soon.. Actually I'm about to call you gudiya, go get your phone..

- A True Ice-cream Lover.. Hai Na Meri Behen ???

Wrong stuff at the right place!

So another boring day. I dunno what to do. I'm singing, "Gaddi jaani yeh chullanga maar dee", as I do sometimes. Its from a movie. It means almost nothing. I mean I think I know what it means, but yea whatever, doesn't matter. Its just a line this dude keeps singing in a really funny film, and I liked it, so just kept going. Anyhow, so Jason called and we remembered about something that we spoke about quite a while ago....

There is an IBM lab at Hawthorne. About 25 mins drive from our office, and about 20 mins from home. They have a ping pong room, a decent gym and several other recreational things in the building for the employees. However, one of the several times that we had gone there, we saw this amazing TV room. It has several screens, but the best of them is one huge 50 inch or so screen connected to a PSP and another huge, God knows how many meters screen which had is connected to a few things. So we decided that someday we will come in late with pizza and beer, and some DVDs and watch them in this room. Oh yea, the icing on the cake is that this room has amazing bean bags and several cozy couches.

So today that Jason called, he had an action movie and a British comedy. And co-incidently, him and me both had ordered 5,5,5. Oh, its a deal by Dominos, 3 medium pizzas for 5 bucks each. So we were almost certain that this day was meant to watch these DVDs on those amazing couches in that room. We decide to go there, and in 10 mins we are on our way. On the way we are making fun of several managers, and specially our director. [Hope hes not reading this].

We reach there, and guess what ? Everything seems perfect. There is barbeque sauce in the drawers. The place is clean. Nice and cool. Very cozy. We try to open the DVD case and guess what, it comes in our hand. Its just a flat cover. There is no DVD player. Damned ! The PSP, we put in the DVD and it starts up and everything. But guess what ? There is no way to play it, because we cannot trace the controller !! Nothing is available. No way to play anything. We were really sad and pissed off. I mean we here had our own private theatre, and.... [Well almost had...]

I even got a brilliant idea of using one of the conference rooms as our mini theatre. And Jas suggested a great idea of putting the bean bags on the huge conf tables and watching the movies in there. Damned that would be something. But obviously we din't try that. Dunno why though. We did get stuck in the library though.. Well.. again.. almost..

Overall it was a partially adventurous night. Well not really, but yeah, you do have an idea what it was though. Basically in one line; what happened to us ? Here it is, a line from one of the movies I love, "Gaye thae toh Zanjeer ke Amitabh jaise.. Aaur aayee hai toh Sholay ke Asrani jaise.... Aaah .. Haah...... "

- Perfectly Chilled Out Relaxed Mood To Watch TV...