Helium Effect

Found this pretty funny.. Try inhaling helium and then speak - your voice comes out very different.

Sleep, The

I thought I should stop making a fool of myself especially after my previous post.. But just couldn’t resist

Here is my lame attempt at poetry!! (Have a nice laugh)

The Sleep

The night so dark and scary
I wished I could see a fairy
To make all my dreams come true
Little did I know I didn’t have a clue

I was singing and dancing
Everybody around me was laughing
Suddenly I heard a monstrous thunder
And thought someone had committed a blunder

I got scared and woke up
In sweat I was soaked up
I searched for the noise that made me weep
And found my dad snoring in his sleep

I wonder why

There are so many things about me which I don’t understand.. I am almost a quarter century old [Yes, I am Very Young :)] and I just don’t seem to get answers to the way I feel about things and the way I react.. Has this ever happened to you?

Of late I have been questioning myself a lot and haven’t got convincing answers.. Simple things like I cannot go to bed until 12 - 12.30 am every night.. Like yesterday, I was very tired due to lack of sleep the previous night, yet couldn’t get some peaceful sleep.. So I called up my friend in the west coast and started talking to him.. I dint let the poor guy go to bed until 1 am (his time, ofcourse)... I am sure he must have been thinking like what the *^&# is wrong with this girl, acting like a nocturnal creature!

I seem to get worked up on simple issues and then immediately feel stupid about getting worked up.. Like the other day, my mom brought up the topic of "settling" down and I started talking to her about how life is not just about marriage and stuff.. Then I realized that my mom asked me a simple question and I could have just told her that I need time!

I have been saying things to freak out people close to me and have been too conscious not to let people get close to me.. I told a very close friend of mine that I don’t trust him all that much!! Can u believe it? He has been a great friend and I actually told this to him on his face.. Thankfully he understood what I meant and dint get worked up like me ;)

So I started thinking of a work around for this idiosyncrasy phase of my life and came up with these options: write poems, go on a euro trip, join martial arts, go to Las Vegas and gamble or just shut up!! None of them make sense except for the last one..

After reading all this, don’t you feel like I am loosing it? I was flabbergasted by my post that I almost deleted it.. But hey, may be 6 months from now I will have a hearty laugh reading it!

Hungry kya?

My parents took me to this restaurant Cholayil in Nugambakkam, Chennai. It was very nice healthy food. We were served around 7 juices and were asked to drink them in a particular order. These juices are supposed to induce generation of the digestive enzymes. Then we were served raw vegetables followed by semi-cooked vegetables and then fully cooked ones.

Source: cholayilsanjeevanam.com

Then we had brown rice with dhal and then white rice with the usual sambhar, rasam and buttermilk. The interesting thing is that none of the items had tamarind or any masala in them. Only pepper and salt was used in the preparation. Then came desert, you heard me desert! two payasams, one with sugar and the other with jaggery.

They have some branches in Chennai and are doing good business.. Not very expensive. Btw, if you are like me who drinks more water than eating food, you might find it a little difficult eating at Cholayil.. They don't serve water until the very end :)

I'm in love

Addiction is very hard to get over. Being in love is something you don't want to get over.. You want the initial sweetness to remain for eternity!

Little did I know that it would happen at the very first sight and would last this long.. I cannot go one day without listening to his voice.. All I can think about is him, even at work and while I am asleep. I wake up thinking about him and feel so delightful. There is distance in this relationship, but I know this love is going to be consistent.

And this is him :) - Tom Higgenson's "Hey There Delilah"

Simple yet inspirational

Cincy and nasal allergy?

It is going to be almost 3 years since I made the brave move of taking the longgggg longggg hour flight from Anna Airport to the US, withstanding the pathetic food they serve on flights.. And in all these years, I have fallen sick twice.. Any guesses where/when?

When I was in Florida I never fell sick; be it cold, sore throat, fever, insect bites.. nothing. But after moving to Cincinnati I have already been sick twice... once in Jan and now. I don't know if this has got anything to do with Cincy being a sinus valley.. I wonder!!!

During both the times Nyquil has worked wonders for me. The first time was very bad.. sore throat, fever and running nose! I tried everything - Indian medicine, vicks, tylenol, zycam.. Now thinking about it.. may be this was the reason I was sick for 2 weeks!!

It is beautiful spring weather outside and I am just too tired to go.. May be I will pull myself together and go for a stroll..

US Airways - No Way!

I went to India in March for a 3 week vacation. This is my story with US Airways on my way to India.

I was supposed to catch my connecting flight at Philadelphia to Frankfurt. I did the mistake of taking US Airways. There was a ground strike in Frankfurt and the US Airways people asked all the passengers without a German visa to rebook their flight. The staff was totally discourteous. They were not prepared to even answer out questions. So I got my flight re-booked for the next day. I was asked to go to "US Airways Special Services".. The female at the counter told me that she cannot check for the availability on other airlines and asked me to go to the International Ticket counter. So I went and found out that the US Airways staff there was more rude. She asked me to collect my baggage at a different terminal and go to DOMESTIC to check it in.. All she wanted to do was GET RID of me. When I went to Terminal B to pick up my baggage, I was informed that they did not pull my baggage out of the flight to Frankfurt. What a mess!!

I came back to the International Ticketing counter and went to the same lady who asked me to go to the Domestic Counter. She literally yelled at me and told me that she cannot do anything about my situation and that they will not provide me accommodation as well. I got totally frustrated. She told me that it was no big deal if I spend that night at the airport and that things like this happen! Can customer service get any worse? I wish I had the presence of mind and made note of her name. I for sure would have taken it up with US Airways corporate office.

There was a Lufthansa counter next to the US Airways counter. I went to the representative there to find out about the strike since I was flying Lufthansa from Frankfurt to Chennai. I could see a marked difference in how they treated their customers. I asked the floor manager if there was anyway I could take their flight that evening to Frankfurt. He took my passport, went inside and came back with my boarding pass. He told me that there was only a ground strike and that all flights to India were operating. It was 5.35 pm and the flight was scheduled to leave at 5.45 pm. I rushed to the gate and was almost the last person to board the flight. My sincere thanks to the Lufthansa people for helping me get to India as scheduled.

Although I was flying US Airways to Frankfurt, they refused to even help me out! US Airways could never offer the same customer service as Lufthansa. I can bet my money on that.

Bottom line, if you are flying international - DO NOT fly US Airways unless you are ok with a pathetic service and a don't care attitude. At least that has been my experience. Probably I am not lucky enough to get better basic service from them!

Aloha

After a long hiatus, I am back! Had been on a 3 week vacation to India.. That is a whole different story to write about. Yesterday at work we had a Hawaiian day.. It was a lot of fun. I learned the Hula dance.. It is not very different from the normal hip movement. With a little bit of hand movements, it was a very slow dance. One thing which I didn't know is that the dance tells a story like the happiness of the people in the islands, a girl trying to woe a guy, elements of nature, etc.

Me in the blue skirt - trying Hula

Hula Hoops - Big No No

Although I sucked at at the Hula Hoop contest, I had a good time! Bottom line, I had a 2 hour lunch break ;)