tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66243502012-02-16T17:10:49.502-05:00Ramblings of my mind. Of here and there...and everything in between.Rohit Wasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07669803884215474699noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6624350.post-30031593603565381022011-08-15T22:32:00.003-04:002011-08-16T07:27:56.880-04:00

Oh, that bitter-sweet experience of "back to school"! It's all in the air now, kids running around in stores with colorful school-supplies packed in their new back-packs. Parents wondering how long it was since they did this last -- seems like...well last year. There must be a pretty good reason behind all this hoopla... I still remember all stages of my back-to-school. The excitement doesn't

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Watched Taare zameen par the other day - amazing story! Thumbs up to Aamir bhai & Co."Every child is special" is the message to all parents. I agree, the story addresses one extreme - where the kid is dyslexic and the school and parents both, instead of identifying the problem, deem the kid as "abnormal"But deep inside, aren't we all made different? Aren't we all gifted in one manner or the other

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I can not singTo sing is to be a flute,your body being the windand flowing with it be your throatOr to be a violin,your chords strung up,giving way to the bow of your mindI lend a sincere ear to a songFor it is as vitalto let the notes play inside youjust as they came out of the chordsWith my ears, I singI sing inwards

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...No really, they are! Spring is peeking through the blue-greyish skies and it's going to be here any day nowFirst of all my apologies to all my readers...yes, all 5 of you (one of them is my wife) for not writing all these days. I was dormant for the winters - in a state of minimal metabolic activityI was sleeping in 'til 11 in the morning and going to work without brushing my hair. And yes, I

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Do you remember when you were younger, and mom used to say 'your dad was once on a 6 months trip from work, and I managed it single-handedly' you thought - 'Oh! poor thing! Six months is a long time. How did she manage?'Yeah...and you never asked dad about his story, did you? Tell you what, I am living dad's side of the story these days. I am living alone for some time - my wife and daughter are

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The rules of this tag:Name the person who tagged youMention 9 things about yourselfAnd, tag 6 people (If you so this in next 24 hours good luck with find you..just kidding)I was tagged by: Archana Bahuguna9 things about me:I think am getting addicted to movies these days: My wife is off to India in a couple of days and she thinks I'll burn my eyes up on my TV screen. God, save me. I have a

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There are so many things we Indians find different when we first come to US. And I am sure this would be true for any other country alike. And I am talking about the cultural experiences more than anything else (like shopping for free stuff, for example)Why Smile, when you can frown?First, these nice people smile at you on an eye contact. When I came here first, I was single and not engaged - and

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I believe the elevators have a magical power that makes people act smart when they're around. I see real smart people everyday..Some real punctual ones, in order to reach somewhere in time, come running to a closing elevator and try to stick a limb in the doors. As if saying "here, could you take half of me to my floor, please? I'll stick the other half in the next elevator"I guess that makes

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I wake up by dawnand see flowers all overand their treestrees, down to earthclose to their soilssee their flowers bloomflowers carrying their seedsseeds, that hold a tree eachand their color, shape and sizethey're still, all flowerswaiting to harvestso, I see a tree each in the flowersthe same colorthe same shapethe same size!

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*After mail-in rebate. Conditions applyOne thing that's hard to miss in shopping in the U.S is the mighty 'mail in rebate'People would buy stuff they don't even know how to use, just beacuse it's free. A bachelor would buy Maybelline lipsticks, much before meeting a girl. Well, who knows "May be she's not born with it?" you see..Or young couples buying kids' toothbrush hoping they'll have a 'use

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It drives me crazy how some people remember the names of their medicinesI mean except for a couple like Aspirin and Tylenol (yes, just a couple), I don't know what use it is for us to remember names like Cyclobenzaprine and Hydrochlorothiazide (which by the way, is the 3,4-dihydro derivative of chlorothiazide!)Now, I know consumer-awareness helps, but there's a difference between telling nylon

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Google is ready with what at first seems like just another pass-time people will play around with for a few days. But SketchUp is cerrtainly more than thatFirstly, it's fabulous as a toy. You draw 3D models of pretty much anything you want (I just put together some quick examples as soon as I downloaded):Clearly, you don't have to be a mechanical-drawing expert to draw the basic stuff, like

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And what good does that "outrage" do anyway? Almost always when it comes to an Indian stuck in a foreign land, the sequence of events seem to be:>concerned>starting to talk>unsuccesful in talks>concerned again>outraged>killed>>sympaties>the family of the killed 'compensated'That's it! With its meek foreign policies being around for years, India is standing at a point that we can never use a word

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How often do you feel like a total stupid?Err..never mind! Lets say, how often are you made to feel like a total stupid? I am made to feel that day in and day out - when I find myself holding a customer-care phone line, listening to those tasteless musical tonesAnd i am ashamed of myself when I know the voice on the other side is a machine and I am having to reply to its 'simple questions', like

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I want to meltMelt, so I won't beSo, I don't see this world as opaque as it looksOnly light!Because Opacity is never all lightright?I don't want to be seen melting, or moltenBy them,Because 'They' is all I want to melt away fromright?For, what is the point in being seen melting?For, what is the point in being seen? For, what is the point in being? For, what is the point? For what?

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I sleep peacefully in nights..Because my India is progressing..a lot of infrastructure, service industries, medical science. So, here's a little quiz on India's progress:This morning, I saw these 4 headlines in a leading Indian newspaper's site:Indian IT takes a stride, tops entry list in IT contestStrapping NRI doc shines in US NavyOffice of profit issue : All parties uniteDoctor jailed for girl

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Have you ever heard people complain about 'having to' wear neck-ties to work. Many don't say it, they just...well, show it...The pain they have gone through each day, trying a knot has given birth to some patterns over several decades. Here are a few inventions we owe to these people:There's one that I call the 'cabbage-knot'. The exact process of tying this knot is not known (I am sure the

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How about a little trip down the memory-lane today? Don't worry I am not going to turn pages from my high-school history book - it is about an incident (somewhat funny incident) of my childhood days.I must have been 6 or 7. And Sharlie (my sister) 4 or 5. We used to play for hours after coming back from school - especially on Saturdays when there was no homework-pressure.It must have been one of

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Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary to Ma and Papa!I wish we were with you right now. Its the moments like this you want to be together - the whole time...And you know what? Pragya is 3 months old today :)

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We came back last night from a dinner, only to find our apartment in a mess. It was the water-heater, throwing out a heavy gush of water.The carpet was all soaked wet - with the brown rusty stains on the edges. You know how it swishes when you walk in a lawn after it has rained all night?It just doesn't go well with the sight of your living room!Our laundry baskets were floating in the closets -

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I never understood the depth of it, when people said their lives changed after they had babies. Until of course Pragya came along.This is specially true with filling forms - with a new baby around, chances are that you're filling forms for her more than anyone else - stuff like: Birth Certificate, Social Security form, Passport et al.I was filling the Social-Security form for her the other day. I

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Why is it that whenever I wash my face in the men's room at work, they're out of paper towels??I mean, here you are in the one of your best office-shirts, dripping wet from the forehead down to your chin. And you turn around for paper...Nada!You look around to see if there're others you could turn to for an answer. But guess what? They seem to take a lesson from you, and don't even wash their

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I clearly remember the day when my grandpa passed away.I was 15 and had just passed my 10th grade. It was the same old cruel summers of Delhi. He was in hospital - admitted following a severe heart-attack. We all used to be in hospital pretty much all the time...grandma, papa, ma, chacha (both), chachi (both), bua (both) and all us kidsI, being the oldest grandson in the family, was somewhat

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Ever wondered what would happen if a vacuum sucked itself? I got this idea while cleaning my vacuum one day with its own hose! It was dirty for some time and I didn't want to wipe that 'stuff' with a paper.So, imagine turning the hose back to one of the ends of the vacuum and turning the 'sucker' on, full blow..after pulling on the dirt on the plastic body, the hose might suck those loose screws

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I for one, am greatly impressed with how Google is breaking into our lives little by little. No, this is not a sarcastic remark by any means. People tend to hate big companies as they grow larger than life - part of which is a because of the monopolistic approach such companies seem to take. But nevertheless, I think as a consumer, we have a lot to benefit from Google before we start fearing

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She's watching TV today! Yes, already!So much for the attention problem. She has an idiot-box that'll attend to her..

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Ever wondered why those 'fabric softeners' are sold separetely? Not as part of your detergents? I think I am starting to find some answers...For starters, they advise to use a full-capful on the bottle of laundry soap - so even if you don't need that much (unless of course, when you've not washed your clothes in a year or your profession generally leaves its marks on your clothes) you still end

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We are learning new tricks everyday to keep up with the changes our little daughter is going through in her life.She is 2 months old now and has started paying attention to our activities around her. She wants us to be around while she's awake...and while she's sleeping too! The first part is not a problem, as that's something we love to do - playing with her, talking to her and taking pictures:.

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Some feelings are so strange they don't have a name. And they can't be described easily - they can be just felt. If you're thinking I am being poetic, step back, and think again. I am talking about real 'strange' feelings. Have a look: Ever had mouthful of fennel seeds after a heavy Indian lunch, or dinner for that matter? And when the last seed of fennel hides behind some far fetched molar as if

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Yes, that's what employers do. Now I know what a 'firewall' means - its a place for management to hide behind. When was the last time you tried to get a serious HR issue resolved? I mean everytime I try that, all I end up communicating to is my mail-box.I only got a "Send" button to talk, and probably a few gestures, like "Important" and "Read Receipt" to use in the communication.I never thought

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Buzz, Buzz...Today, I woke up to a reminder ring on my cell phone that read this line.A line from a famous verse (doha) from Kabir. It means when will you do Bahuri - 'the work'. The 'work' here of course doesn't refer to daily chores that we do day-in and day-out.I added this reminder for daily (5:30 am) to remind me of meditation. But alas! Ever since I added this, I've not been able to

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Be it at work, when you want to show your work to your collegues, your boss. Or when wearing a new shirt, you try to get others approval - just by judging their look, if not by asking themHave you wondered why? Why is it that these little approvals are so important to us? One might wonder if it is because we are not self-sufficient as a person. That there are gaps in the personality - everyone's

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After 7 years of software-engineering experience, I wonder what kinds of problems do we solve. Is it technical problems - like how to write a web-page that can upload a picture to the server? Or, is it the business problem that the client wants his customers to save their searches?If we look at the problems around us - and by this I mean all problems or questions we face in a given day - be it

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