Knock knock!!

If anyone of you (I mean the two of you who actually read my blog :) !!) has noticed, my "about me" says that I am the God of Procrastination. The God title was meant to be an obvious exaggeration, but the way I postpone things left right and center, I guess, I am soon gonna be the God.

Its been almost 1 month since I wrote anything here!! Well well, I have the usual excuses of being soo tied up in work that I didn't find time to eat, sleep etc etc, but the truth is ... I use a to-do list, and the fun part of having it is ... things written on it are always to-do, they cant be ever done :) !!! I incidentally wrote "write a blog" there, and thats it, once a to-do, always a to-do.

Sorry for the stupid joke, let me go back to sleep ... zzzzzz...

3 years and counting!

In the world of Computers, 3 years is a long time! Just imagine, three years back...

1) I couldnt imagine writing a blog
2) Web 2.0 was not in the picture
3) Google was just a search company
4) I didnt know what is SAP
And the list goes on...

Well well, why am I getting all nostalgic (and misty eyed;) !!) today?? That is because, today (4th August 2006) I complete 3 years of working in my first company. The firm that picked me out of my college as a fresher... Trained me, and put me where I am now :) !!!

Yippee... 3 years gone, nothing achieved, but time to celebrate!!

Time goes so fast, I grow old sooo soon :( !! I have already completed half the life expectancy of an average Indian male :( !!

There goes another month!

How many times in your life do you get up early in the morning just to realize that its the 1st day of a new month, and suddenly you realize that you lost another month of your life? Well, I do!!

Right since the time that my sister taught me how to read the watch ( I mean make sense out of those two arrows that go around on that stupid circular thing and control our life and I ain't talking about digital watches you geek!) when I was approx 24 months old :) ... I have always gotten up on the 1st of every month feeling very low (the pain of losing another month in my life :( !!) (Well, that was just stretched too far, considering that most 2 year olds are not that philosophical :P!).

I still don't understand why people "celebrate" 1) New Years 2) Birthdays. What is there to celebrate in growing old? (Well, on second thoughts they might actually be counting the number of years to retirement!! Or may be, the alien few, might be celebrating the end of another year on this planet (they too must be on missions "onsite" earth!)

Well, this post wasn't exactly thought of before writing. So it might sound incoherent. But the truth is, its 1st August 2006, and I am very sad. The 7th month of the year 2006 is already over, and I have yet not achieved anything on this planet!!

I think its time for me to go back to my planet and do something fruitful ;) !!!

Yellow Stickies!

When I say Post-It Notes, I refer to the ubiquitous yellow stickies that have been made soo famous by the name of the Company that made it first! Just like Pepsi, Xerox or our very own Google!

Well, there is this certain thing about Post-It notes that makes them really fun to use! If you have to give a short casual message to someone, you don't end up typing it up and sending an email. You just walk up to that person to talk. And if he/she isn't in her cubicle, you write it down on a Post-It and there it sits cutely awaiting the intended recipient!

Now the weirdo I am, I love to collect such small personal messages that people leave at my desk. (Well, this single sentence of mine conveys many things .. 1) I am really busy and in meetings all the time so I am not at my place OR 1) I have really no work, and I am never at my place just trying to kill time. 2) I am very important so many people come to talk to me OR 2) I am known to be a guy with no work, and people come to me to kill time :) !!)

I have a big private collection of the very best sticky notes that I have ever got, and just added another one to my prized collection today :) !!

Back to work...

What the heck is "GMUZ"??

For those of you who have gone through the routine of getting a username on a popular website, you understand what exactly I am talking about when I say "I couldn't get an username, like I wanted it to be!".

I mean, the simple guy that I am (hehe!), I was looking for a girish, girishm etc. etc. But, my dear mom and dad never thought about all these problems ( I mean the problem of getting a unique user name) when I was born, and they chose to name me the mundane "Girish". Now Girish I am, and Girish I will be! (Yaa, I was thinking of becoming a puff-diddy, but somehow it didnt go down well with my last name you see ;) !!)

Now gmuz, is that "you-love-it-or-you-hate-it but you-have-to-use-it!" kind of thingie that got stuck to me some two years back. Can't reveal the details of why, where or how, but then, I have been using it as my identification for long now!

So I thought that I will use it as my blogspot domain too. Now let me warn you, I ain't facinated by that id, so please refrain from calling me "gmuz" :) !!

Sunday morning rants!

Being a Software Engineer, Sunday mornings are always bad for me. Bad because, they signify the last morning of your two-day weekend. When you get up you know that its the last day you can get up soo late!

All the same, Sunday mornings are the only time that I get to sit online and do stuff online that I otherwise don't do over the week. (Well before you come up with some real wild guesses ;) ... its just 1) Check my orkut scrapbook 2) Chat on the messenger!)

Well, today doing the second thingie (that's chat!), I ended up chatting with my room-mate (yupp the guy who lives in the same apartment as I do). Yaa, we do chat online too, though it would have been really easy for us to make our vocal chords make noises and reach each other! But thats technology, and we have to use it right??

So, in the course of our discussion, we came across this particular song "Kashmakash" by "Alms for Shanti" that we both kinda liked, and hadn't heard since it was broadcast on TV some 4 years back. The techie that he is, my roomie fetched that song from somewhere online and I am listening to it right now! (On second thoughts, shall I say he googled it. It's an official verb now, and we can use it, can't we? ;) !!)

We are ordering the CD from Amazon, the song is too good. I do not know how many of you have really heard it. So I thought I give it space on my otherwise unused/unread blog..

Here is the link...

http://in.news.yahoo.com/music/a4s.html

Now me goes back to being the sad old soul that I have recently become over the last few years :) !!!

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