Its been a while since I updated my blog ... just wanted to pen down my good moments of this year before the New Year dawns! .. my achievements , good times, bad times yada yada yada....

This year 2005 has been promising & challenging to me in a lot ways!

To start off ...we moved from Michigan to Callifornia in April .. Initially I neva liked the idea of moving to cali... 'coz I spent 2 years in michigan .... the memories with that place is still fresh in my mind...

.... I used to tell uday.. 'let's move to cali' ..n the next min i would say .. ' nah! let's stay in MI ' .. It was cofusing though.. but finally made a decision to move to cali.... " If you dont travel now , then when would you? " - that's our policy! ... The road trip to cali was memorable one! That was our first road trip from coast to coast ...say roughly around 2,450 miles .. wow!

On the education front.. The first time they rejected my application ...I got depressed .. and that continued for almost 2 months. Uday coouldn't see me getting depressed and he decided to get a job for me ... IT no way! I used to fight with him ' Who would give me a job in that field'..
But he would console me and say " its going to be fine! " .. which makes me feel so comfortable and forget about worrying!

To my surprise I applied for Marketing Assistant to 40 companies, out of which only 20 companies liked my resume and responded to it. You neva fair well in your first interview.. n so was I. After a good 3-4 interviews I became confident and knew how to answer confidently.. I nailed the rest 16 interviews and even got a job as a Sales Representative at a company called San Francisco Marketing(SFO Marketing)!!! ...
The remarks from everyone interviewer was... "
#I had a lot of confidence in my voice
#The way I present myself
#A firm hand shake! ...
#My eye contact with the interviewer is simply great!!! "

wow!! That's the best remarks I ever got!
Wondering what happened to the rest 15 ? well... all of them were ready to appoint me ..but none of them were willing to sponsor my H-1 visa .. even the SFO company initially said .. they would sponsor my H-1 ... but for that I have to work as a volunteer form 4-5 months... if they really like my work then they would file for a H-1.. That was the smoothest way to say .. ' NO we don't!' ..

I was never dissappointed .. 'coz I knew that I would get another job somewhere else and that no company in the marketing field for a 'Sales Rep' would sponsor H-1 .... so I decided to join the community college n finish the bridge courses!

That was quite an achievement in the job front though !

Later in june... I started blogging.. started out with some simple poems ..daily musings.. and me and uday started a blog Word of the Worlds . With some publicity and word of 'email' :), it soon grew to become a collaborative blog of 80 registered users...thanks to orkut :) !!

It all started when I received an e-mail from my school buddy.. an invitation to join Orkut [an online friend network] Boom! that's it! I started to spend more time on the net, talking to different people .. Now every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is check my orkut account n see if there are nE new scraps!! ... but must say.. I really made some great friends through orkut ..Recently I added a new person ... his reply was.. "what's the reason for adding me??? do you want to be the orkutian with highest # of friends? " well i don't know... all i know is I want to make new friends and keep in contact with everyone of them!!! ... that dosen't mean that i would forget my old friends!... forgetting is not a world in my world![ not a movie dialogue .... its my own ;) ]


On the fun side , comparing to last year, we travelled to [ & through :) ] a lot of places this year..
Indiana ....
.... Illinois ....
.... Iowa ....
.... Nebraska ....
.... Wyoming ....
.... Utah ....
.... Nevada ....
.... all the above 7 states was part of our road trip excluding MI n CA

St. Louis for my cousin's marriage ....

Los Angeles ....

Seattle ....
.... Vancouver , B.C [ Canada] for our visa interviews {part business part pleasure}

Virginia , to meet my aunts ....
.... Washington , D.C {merry-go-around in my aunt's car lolz !! }

Phew! that's a big enough list ;) ..

On the whole .. it's been a great year for me and I am hoping that the coming year would be much more challenging and fun!

And If you ask me what's my New Year Resolution : I would say... Neva make Resolutions unless you really stick to it!





Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy n Prosperous New Year!!

Its the 5th day..n i'm still suffering with this throat infection.. Initially I thought its just a common cold..(its the flu season.. so be careful) what really made it worst was on the 1st day i had 2 ice-creams! didn't know that it would create sleepless nights and disturbing uday n my neighbours with my horrible cough! And guess what ..the phone kept ringing all day when i really didn't wanna scare ppl with my husky voice.

But I made someone laugh with my sexy voice!! yea it was uday... man! he was making fun of my sexy voice.. repeating to what i've said.. lolz! he even mis-understood the words! damn it was fun! I got really annoyed, but even i started making fun of my voice.. making funny sounds, coughing like an old lady! blah blah blah. It was around 10:00 in the morning and it was time for my meds.. yakk! i hate meds.. but i had no other choice! After a while everyting looked double. 2 tables, 2 laptops, lolz! even 2 udays! I got confused ... did i take the drowsy tablets? .. nah! I took the right meds.. non-drowsy tablets for sinus! Thanks to uday! he knows the reason! since i took the sinus tablets.. it was soothing the sinus area(the eyes) ! and thus making me feel dizzy, floating!

how would you feel before fainting? everything looks dark, dizzy..right? yep n it was just the same feeling!

Funny part was ..i was walking n talking like a drunker!.. hit myself a couple of times to the wall, bed! *argh* and finally reached my destination! .. the bed! lolz! I slept like a baby for 6 straight hrs..uday couldn't stop looking and laughin at me! It seems that I was making funny faces.. talking something to myself!! lolz!!!

It was a funny day though!! oops! guys... the meds started working.. and everything is looking double.. gotta go n crash.. aka sleep! ciao!

Same blue skies, the same sun, same city, same people around you, then why does everything look different and new to my eyes? I don't know why.. but today i felt so different... nah nah! not 'coz it's friday! ... It was just another working day.. Today at 11:00 a.m, I had to drop my car at the service center for a 30,000 mile service... Later after finishing the paper work, we got a ride back to our home.. had lunch and uday was off to work.

I cleaned up my room.. and was back to my laptop checking mails and was reading my friends blog. after reading a couple of other blogs, I decided to watch a movie..a hindi movie - Deewane Huye Paagal..the comedy is fine.. you can watch it once. Time passed by and I got a call at 4:30 p.m from the service center that my car is ready and that the shuttle is on its way to pick me up. So i rushed, got ready and was waiting outside. I was walking around.. suddenly my attention drew to the trees. Must be wondering what's with the trees.. you see them daily...big deal! ... [...]

was going through an interesting piece of research work on coding guidelines by an avid slashdoter here when I bumped into the original pictures of the “Thatcher effect” (he used this as an illustration to build his argument on software coding guidelines).

The ever rolling wagon that I was, my curiosity turned to optical illusions and I came across some interesting compilation work by Michael Bach, who has done a fabulous job in putting together around 60 of the popular illusions, along with their origins in some cases.

I began developing an interest in illusions that are simple and drive the point home easily, without requiring that the viewer break his head to decode it.

Here are my favorites. :

The Dvd was out last week...
Fabulous Film! Is all I can say. I watched a lot of animation movies and there are times when I really got bored while watching the movie. I thought this movie too would be the same but to my surprise it was very funny right from the begining till the end with witty scripts.

At the begining of the movie where Marty is running in an open field jumping around, birds chripping and suddenly Alex comes in front of him and says 'Surprise!' Marty falls back and says :' Alex don't you ever disturb me when I'm day dreaming!' That line just cracked me up[...]