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It’s a Beautiful Day!

January13

The best thing to hear on the radio before you start the day is “..and its going to be a sunny day with temperatures warmer than yesterday..”. So up and ready to get Kitty to the pet hospital for his yearly dental & comprehensive done, I was out around 7:30 am this morning.

I was cold after scraping the thin frozen sheet of ice off my car and Kitty was meowing as loud as his tiny lungs would let him. I was thinking to myself: the next 20 minutes is going to be all about him making it a point that he hates driving out!

And then, what happened next, wasn’t surprising at all. Considering the morning traffic, where everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere at the same time, not surprising at all! If anything, it was more so annoying because of its expected-ness.

Anyway, I caught my mind shift focus from the cold shivers to the little flickers of warmth that seem to spread out of anger, as I watch a moron shift lanes in front of me. He gave no indication of his intent to change lanes and just steered a sharp right within a split second. He would have bumped into the car in front and I would have run into him making a car-sandwich of a wreck. All that was just off by a split second, thank God! Wait a minute – WHAT A MORON!

But then, right through the Patchen Wilkies Drive, the early morning Sun rise was ready to steal the show. My thoughts were derailed to a completely different place.

Barely above the vast grass plains covered in slushy snow, the Sun was playing peek-a-boo with trees standing tall that revealed patches of green where the snow melted as one drives across the side road.

Up above these tress was the pale orange sky with a pinch of pink, blue and white, getting ready for the daily morning routine. A routine that happens every single day, but today, the sky was painting a beautiful canvas setting up the stage for the blazing Sun. There were at least half a dozen Aircraft  leaving white smoky trails behind them on this clear sky. These trails were randomly spaced but perfectly framed the lonely  star that was still bright.

The lonely star will have its share of glory just until Sun will over-shine it in minutes…

The traffic sounds went muffled. Kitty for some reason was quiet. The moron on the road didn’t matter. The cold weather actually made the early rays from the morning Sun feel warm like melting caramel on a hot coffee. What a beautiful Sun Rise!!!

A deep sigh escapes from me and all it took was something as simple this scene that made me realize, how easy it is to let some #people# and their actions dictate our “Mood for the Day”!

All the melodramatic details aside, <whatever  relaxing music/thoughts you associated with the description above is now coming to a screeching halt (just like the sound I heard when the moron shifted lanes)>, I here by dedicate this post to all the #people# who need to learn how to use indicators on their vehicles.

#people# \subsetneq {people who lack common sense,  people who throw their common sense away when its pouring freezing rain/snowing, who am I kidding->most of what we call “human race”!!!}

X0X0

Yoshi is back in New Super Mario Bros. Wii !

November30

Yoshi is back in the New Super Mario Bros. Wii game [Nostalgic Sigh!] & remains to be the beloved green dinosaur reeking of awesomeness on your course to victory. If only they appear more than ever so rarely so I can yell out “YOSHIiii” like a kid again!

Speaking of the game itself, I like that it’s based off of the original 2D Mario platform. It makes this game endearing and fun to play. Also what I like is the ridiculous fun when playing as multi player.

Why so? Apart from the fact that, I think, this is what makes it stand out against past Mario games, it is so much more fun because when there’s more than one player on the screen, Murphy steps in to lend a hand[or not! its like a !not at times., go figure!].

In spite of craziness of bumping into each other, randomly bouncing on top of each others heads, hoard things without knowing that you indeed are unraveling items, replaying the same level [insert your sucki-ness at playing a video game here] times, I bet players can still manage to have loads of fun with this game!

On this note, its time to head back home and play more :D

NOTE:

This is in no way a New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review! [Umm,. had to throw this in here!]

For more details on the worlds  ->http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/New_Super_Mario_Bros._Wii

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(MS Windows Update vs Google Chrome)Here we go again!

September21

Every now and then when a windows auto-updates kick in, the immediate thing to follow, most often than not, is Google Chrome failing to start!!

I know I should probably turn off the auto-updates on the OS but hey, if its Windows OS, if it is from Microsoft and if it has the words ‘update’/'patch’/'hot-fix’ in it, Ill take em! Who am I kidding – I’ll have to take em!
So, here I am(that reminds of Bryan Adams and the soundtrack of ‘Spirit’ – which now makes me want to watch the movie for the 29304283 time!! Oh you gotta love collaboration of Bryan Adams and Hans Zimmer !! ….and now back to the topic ->), on a rainy & humid Monday morning, as soon as I log-in, I see a balloon in my task-bar saying this PC is fresh off a Windows update!!
The first thing that comes to my mind you ask? “Oh crap! I hope Chrome works!!”
Not its not much of a surprise that I see Chrome just doing nothing when I click on the icon! Its as if Monday blues are spreading its powers onto my desktop too .. Oh well, here we go again:
  1. Browse to Chrome application directory at:
    %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome
  2. Renamed the Application folder
  3. Reinstalled Chrome again.

As expected, its bunnies and sunshine and rainbows again! Well..not really..its still Monday; and its still raining!! How I wish I was snuggled up warm in a blanket!

Its 2010!!!

August31

Its probably a sometime in the last decade or so when writers of futuristic novels/movies/comic con and that sort of thing would base stories off of 2010 or 2020 etc,. Isn’t it amazing how we are so close, by just 4 months, to 2010?

And now that we are so close to it, I feel maybe all that was dreamed of in terms of advancements in technology isn’t really here yet!!

If it IS 2010, then I should probably be having a floating gizmo of 100 mega pixel resolution capability to shoot pictures of my cute kitty and me sleeping at 300 amazing pics per min!!! I guess now these futuristic minority-report-ish tech fantasies will be deferred to 2050? Well, that is still in my life-time ! Do I think we will advance to that extent? Maybe – Maybe not!

Don’t get me wrong, we have come a long way from thinking any microchip based computer will end the world and melt down on year 2000!(Ah you know all that ruccus about Y2K !!)  But are we close to the futuristic-ness of how saying out loud 2010 sounds? Not really..But who knows? Computers & Technology are one field where development and advancement has been so rapid compared to other fields. Maybe it is possible to wake up one day in my life-time where there are flying utility gizmos making us lazy and we have air traffic with cars that fly?

WE SHALL SEE :)

If one was LOST on a mysterious Island?

August21

Somehow I dodged watching LOST all my life until recently and it was just one of those things…

LOST is something you know because either everyone knows about it because they watched it or just because everyone else watched it and talked so much about it! Ah the % of population that gets sucked into the annoying depths of sociology and psychology that explains behavioral instincts of  being stranded on a island with mysterious powers!

So all this started when I needed something to kill my time on the weekends and after I return from work after 8 hours of hard work! Thanks to HULU I finished entire season 1 in just a matter of few weeks! Yikes!  Not to mention I realized that all the time that I wanted to spend on making an iPhone app was shoved far down the never to be reached dark bottomless pit that funnels hours that tick tock away in your life :(

That said, I probably do need this down time doing something like (watching LOST? ) for a few more weeks. I wish I had more things to fill up my free time but somehow things in my life right now are going out of routine these days. How so? Well lets see –  My personal trainer at the gym decided to get married to her longtime sweetheart and took 3 weeks off starting 2 weeks ago (what a timing right?). To replace my Tuesday and Friday Gym hours, I called my local YMCA for private swimming lessons (to save my own life in case I am stranded on an island ?? or get picked on  Amazing Race??  :) ) but no response from them in 2 weeks. . so enough said I am stuck to watching LOST.

Anyway ., now that I am watching Season 2, I was wondering after few seasons if I would feel cheated if the writers end up showcasing a really stupid concept. But from what I hear from fans of LOST, that is not the case. So I hope it keeps my not so gullible mind occupied with possibilities and theories – which so far was a success !!

Just to name a few, I am very intrigued by possibilities of why things happen the way they happen in Season 1. What a relief and surprise to see the other half of the survivors add another dimension to this setup! What is Dharma Productions ? Sounds like a naming convention stolen from India but does this have anything to do with the storyline? Who knows ?

For now, its time to watch the next episode!

No more for the keyboard :)

XOXOXO

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