Ritesh tagged me and because I had nothing else to post, here goes. Okay okay, yes yes I do have the dirty details on B’s arrival here but that will have to wait! Meanwhile checkout our new site Bollywoodgyaan.com that Ritesh and I cofounded! Continue Reading »
Shamelessly picked out from various sources. (Google Zindabad!)
1. Clean your hard drive to make more space.
2. Clean out the Internet history and cookies folders in the windows directory. Do it one file at a time with an Internet connection open so you can see where each goes and make sure you don’t delete any shortcuts you might want to use again.
3. Erase the passwords you stored in the logon preferences in your Outlook software. Don’t give up until you remember the password without calling customer support.
4. Clean out the windows directory temp file one file at a time. Open them all in notepad to be sure there’s nothing you want to save.
5. Install a hard drive.
6. Install a printer and try to get it to print envelopes and labels correctly.
7. Install a network.
8. Help your best friend fix her word processing program so it will print envelopes and labels correctly just like you made yours do (after 10 hours of trial and error).
9. Call customer support (any big company) for help on any matter.
10. Try to untangle the phone cords for your computer, telephone and answering machine and fax and then make all devices work again.
11. Clean off your desk (so you can find the floppy disk you need).
12. Clean out your filing cabinets in preparation for cleaning off your desk.
13. Clean out your CD ROM and floppy disk storage drawers.
14. Look for the manual that came with your computer.
15. Call customer support to find out IF a manual came with your computer.
16. Get and read your email.
17. Read JesseBerst. Follow all the links in all the side stories… then try to find your way back to the first page.
18. Check your favorite message board.
19. Create a home page.
20. Make changes in your web site.
21. Call your grandfather and try to explain what a home page is. Get in the car and run over to his house for help after he tells you about his new business venture: designing web sites for business.
22. Search the web for anything that comes to mind.
23. Shop for airline tickets online.
24. Compare the features of the new computer you bought two weeks ago to the new, improved model touted in the computer catalog that arrived yesterday.
25. Try to find a single file on your backup tape.
26. Completely back up your 10 gigabyte hard drive - onto zip disks or floppy disks.
27. Clean out the gook that’s accumulated between the keys on the keyboard.
28. Start working on the novel you always wanted to write.
29. Start working on that big project for work you’ve been putting off.
30. Set up Quicken or Quickbooks and add a year’s worth of accounting data.
31. Read your email again. There’s likely to be more mail.
32. Google something
33. Poke somebody on Facebook
34. Post something on a blog (like right here )
35. Read somebody else’s blog
36. Starbucks just feels absolutely inviting and you HAVE to have that tall Caramel Frappaccino
37. Decide the laundry just can’t wait.
38. Laugh at the computer screen in the library and then stealthily check to see if anyone is watching you amused.
39. Look at your vacation planner
40. Go out shopping, only to remember you have no money ..
41. Google “Ways to Procrastinate” and compile a list on your blog just so you could be productive.
Okay thats it. Stop with the eye rolling, tsk tsking. Back to being productive now. Really 
This is my absolutely lousy attempt at procrastinating ( even more ). Pssst, I hope B doesn’t read this or he is going to call me and advice me to study instead of wandering in the web gardens wasting my time, but still couldn’t resist posting some thoughts noted a while ago.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Another one:
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
- Simone Weil
And a better one:
“Sometimes I tend to have an out of money experience”
- Anonymous
The last I can relate too, thanks to a wonderful thing called student loans!
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Now, apna Hero and Heroine always make the last entry, so Neeraj and Poonam - our star couple for the party made a shaandaar last entry. Everyone was seated and the show started. First up was Suraj who introduced both sets of parents and thanked Neeraj for taking Poonam and her pranks away from him :p. And then guess what? This guy came out of nowhere and said something in Suraj’s ears. Suraj had a weird expression on his face and said that there was his certain Hyundai Sonata with a certain license number whose lights were. Oh wait! Was that Neeraj and Poonam’s car? Both Neeraj and Poonam looked at each other puzzled. huh? us? did we forget? nooooo! I think they were about to get up and pass their keys so that someone could turn the lights off when Suraj saved the day! Twas a joke guys!!!! But he really got both of them on this one!
Then came two wonderful segments. First, one of their friends who had gone to India for their wedding shared some of her experiences from India. It was clear that they had ALL enjoyed India and had come back with memories that were to stay forever! Next up were the other five friends who had gone to India with them. Theirs was the best piece of the night! They had prepared this absolutely hilarious song based on a track from Lion King! Its hard to describe how hilarious it was, but it was definitely from the heart! The song reflected on what a great time they had in India. One thing I remember from their song was that the Bhatias love to party! In that case, I was SOOO in the right place that night
Next up was a wonderful speech from Neeraj that he had written when he had first moved from India. Continue Reading »
Song of the day: Its the time to disco….Kal Ho Naa Ho
Alas, that day 7 am was early! I don’t know, maybe because of the one hour difference,or maybe because I had fallen asleep in the car, I did not sleep well. I kept waking up and going to bed all night. So in the morning, when Punnidear’s alarm went off, I was awake. She first woke Neeraj up and then when she shook me, I retorted with a “main already jaag gayi hoon”( I am already awake). It was supposed to come out nicely but I think it came out in the grumpy early morning voice I must have scared her because she said okay and went to get ready. So I was supposed to have been awake right? I still lay there forEVER before I got up and went upstairs to the living room from the basement.
We had morning nashta and at the table were four people. Two with an extremely desi breakfast, and the other two with a very American breakfast! Continue Reading »
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