A few Interesting One-Liners!

I was randomly browsing (something which I do pretty often) and came across some very funny and interesting one-liners

• Regular naps prevent old age... especially if you take them while driving.
• Take my advice... I don't use it anyway
• Men are like Government Bonds, they take a long time to mature
• Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!
• Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.

Are we missing out on something??

I have been wanting to write about this on my blog for a long time.. But I guess I had better thoughts to engrave..

I am sure that most of us use GMail. By far they provide the largest Inbox Size...

But everytime we use Gmail, we are allowing Google to read our messages. What they do is mine messages from our Inbox and display appropriate adds on the right hand side...I am sure that most of us would have noticed this but wouldn't have bothered... I sure din't bother.

They are not posting these adds based on the Subject Line alone... I sent a mail with irrelevant subject and body. But I got adds only based on the body of the mail. This definetly means that they are prying on our privacy. They are doing this because we are allowing them to do it as long as we get what we want... Larger Inboxes!!

A day in grad school !

8.00 AM: Alarm rings, look at the clock and decide you will get up after 1 hour and make it a point to switch off the alarm!

11.30 AM: Wake up and realize it is almost noon and you have a class at 12.20. Have a half-bath wishing you could sleep for 2 more hours and cursing yourself.

Noon: Catch the bus and start chatting with fellow desies. Discussions range from cricket to revolutionize the American Government

12.18 PM: Enter the class along with the professor

1.20 PM: Wake up after a very strong dosage of “λγβδφ”. You had no clue as to what the professor was talking about coz you didn’t attend the previous lecture (Had other important work to do – was in the middle of an interesting chat conversation with friends in India)

1.30 PM: Go to the lab and start browsing the Internet. By luck you land up on the course website and find out that you have an assignment due that night (some 10 problems). Very confident that you can finish it on time, you carry on with other stuff…

1.40 PM: Log on to Yahoo / MSN Messenger and wait for friends to come online.

2.15 PM: Your friends have logged off and you have nothing to do.

2.30 PM: Grab something to eat in Subway/ TacoBell (Too lazy to cook or carry food from home)

2.45 PM: Go to work and speak to your supervisor about something that you should have completed a week back… Tell him you had some technical difficulties and troubleshooting which had to be handled.

3.00 PM: Sit in your cubicle and stare at the computer screen wondering what to do. Then remember that your parents had sent you a mail two days back and you still hadn’t replied. After sending mails start working!!

6.15 PM: Go home. On the way home, talk to some 3 people on phone and tell them how busy you are ;)

6.30 PM: Start off promising yourself that you will watch TV for only 30mins. End up watching TV for 2 hours.

8.30 PM: Realize it is your cooking turn and cook some random dish (Poor roommates)

9.30 PM: Finish dinner and suddenly remember that an assignment is due that night!!

11.00 PM: You are stuck with a problem. Call up Tanya and ask her if she knows how to do it.. She is in no better position than you. Crib to her for 10 min about how difficult this course is and how the professor is not considerate at all and gives assignments every week.

11.15 PM: Call up Vikram (a total stud and would have already submitted the assignment for sure). He tells you what you have to do (use β reduction instead of δ)

11.50 PM: You are finally done with the assignment and submit it. Sigh!!

12.00 AM: Your friend comes home and asks you if you want to watch a movie… You have nothing to do anyways!!

2.30 AM: Get back home after watching a totally stupid movie… You promise yourself that you are going to become disciplined and will start getting up at 7.00 AM everyday and will not procrastinate things anymore.

Next day you completely forget the promise!!

Didn't believe it until today!

When people told me that Indians try to insult fellow Indians in interviews, I didn’t believe it.. Today it happened to me.

I had an interview with Microsoft and guess what? I got a desi interviewer! That (#$%^&) guy was trying to contradict me in everything I said. I guess his sole aim was to make me feel like I know nothing and he was Bill Gates's guide! I wanted to give him a piece of my mind as soon as the interview got over but then thought that I would be creating a scene. But I am going to write a very strong mail to Microsoft about what happened today.

I was surprised when the interviewer started of by saying that the position I had applied for was not defined right in the website and that I should think about it.. Then he goes directly to the questioning sessions! No warming up whatsoever.

He was very impatient and was trying to hurry me up! I guess he forgot the meaning of the word friendliness and smile. Then he asked me some design questions. To most of my answers he said that it is not going to work out... The question was about designing an elevator...

May be I shouldn't expect the interviewers to know how to smile and be friendly!

I guess today has by far been one of the worst days of my life for more than one reason :(

Fresh from the farm

I have never been into Organic Food before but all that changed when I started doing my groceries at this Supermarket called Wards here in Gainesville.

This poor man's "Whole Foods" has amazing variety when it comes to vegetables and fruits and has a well stocked collection of lentils,wine,juices from all parts of the world.Infact they even have a really good collection of our own Indian pulses.

And the price? Much cheaper than Albertsons and Winn-Dixie and even Wal-Mart!! I got a 5 lb atta bag from the Indian Store for $4.50 two weeks ago.The same atta (fresh and better quality) just costs $3 at Wards!

It is just an amazing place to shop at especially if you are a graduate student since its price and quality is hard to beat! Although from the outside it doesnt look very impressive, its definitely the place to do your groceries here in Gainesville!!