Bye Bye

We're selling off car #1 tomorrow. Am sad.

I wanted to go for one last drive in the car. It is special to me, you see. I had noticed the car before I noticed the man. We met at work, you see. One day, I drove in to work, and saw this shiny blue car that I had never seen before. I saw it the next day, and the next. Hmm..some new person in the office then. Eventually I found out who it was, eventually we went on our first date in this very car. Eventually, we took quite a few road trips. Created quite a few memories...

This didn't last too long though. We got car #2, my Dhanno, and #1 was used infrequently. #3 arrived a couple weeks ago. She doesn't have a name yet.

Anyway, where was I...yes, I wanted to go for one last drive.
Had a crazy day today. Work starts at 0830am everyday. Got out of office at 5:50 to attend the Area Level contest for Toastmasters which started at 6:00 and went on till 9:00. I got home after 930pm and work started again at 10:30pm.

We managed to get out only after midnight. Brought back a lot of life lived in the last 7-8 years. Ups and downs, good stuff, bad stuff, fun stuff, sad stuff.

Bye bye, dear, will miss you. You were fun and we loved you a lot! Hope we are sending you to a good home!

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2:50AM, work is still not done, oh well...such is life! Up and down, good and bad, fun and sad!

Mean boyzzz

The boyz are being mean to me :(

The hubby took the neighbour out for a ride in his new M3, and then the neighbour took the hubby out for a ride in his Corvette.

Mean boyzzz...not taking me along :(

Ever noticed how...

...as you get to know and like a person, their smile seems prettier, their voice happier, their whole being just perfect? Even though it is an average person with their long list of flaws and idiosyncrasies?

And how when you get to know and NOT like a person, even their good qualities some how seem tarnished?

Its ALL in our heads :-)

Moral is a very cliched one: Be who you want to be, be someone you will like. Because everyone else, every single person you meet, will have different perspectives and opinions about you. Keep yourself happy, baaki duniya jaaye jhakh maarne (ask any gujju friend of yours what this last phrase means :)

Strange things happening today...

This is just for me to look back at in the future and laugh my guts out, like everyone who I shared this with did...

Code that ran perfectly fine, that I was happy with, stops working.
Says, your stack is out of shape (something like that...)
Now, I don't know of what exercises I can recommend for the stack to get back in shape.

I tried a few more things, and get this, I get java.lang.Object not found!
No, really!

Back to chasing the Object...

Happy Birthday!

Apun ka blog ka happy birthday tha kal.

God wants you to know...

There's this app on FB..."On this day, God wants you to know"...

Here's what I had today:

On this day, God wants you to know...

... that all is well. All is going according to plan. Trust that there is a bigger picture. Trust that life is unfolding as it should.

I know its just a stupid Facebook app, but it still feels great :) Good message, no?

And on second thoughts, I feel this is written by an Indian...truly impressed by the 3 Idiots, and hence the line...."all is well" :D

Will we ever get there?

A few weeks ago, a friend and I were talking about my Facebook profile picture... I had put up a wedding picture since it was Wedding Picture week on FB. I ended up going to my picasa site where I have all the pictures, and he was awed by all the work that must have gone into dressing me up like that. I mentioned the lady who had helped me with it, how efficient she was and all.

He then shared something about his own wedding. He is Brazilian and his wife is American. The wedding was in Brazil, so they went there about 3 months before the date to make arrangements. So the lady who was going to do his wife's hair...and then he laughed, saying, well, he was a big gay guy, really. Dressed up as a lady, didn't fool anyone though... and he continued with his story. The lady had come alone, without assistants, and didn't have enough time to do the bride's hair. Everyone who did manage to get it done, were delighted with what she had done for them.

He had many other interesting things he said about his wedding, but I could not get this one out of my mind.
Can we ever imagine this happening in India? Transvestites being accepted, getting respectable jobs, and being appreciated for their work, instead of ridiculed or feared for who they are?

I admit, even I turn away when I see them on traffic signals in India. I think its out of fear. Probably because I didn't understand anything about them, didn't know much about them. I live in the San Francisco Bay area. SF has a huge gay population, and I don't treat them the way I do in India.

I for one, am a changed person after this conversation with my friend. I promise, I will at least give a friendly smile when I encounter a transvestite in India.

As for when will the mentality of others change, when we will see acceptance? I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. So what if the courts have accepted them, the people have not! Sad, ain't it?