Cheer up!

Why do some days seem so unpassable?
Why am I feeling so low today?
Why do I think I have to please everyone?
Why should I be upset about something that can be fixed up?
Why do I brood about the not-so-good things, when I can happy about the many good things in my life?

Cheer up, life's short and shortcomings do happen! It lies in how smart you are to overcome them and sail through them.

(This one was meant to cheer myself up!)

Off Gmail for sometime

This afternoon, Gmail didn't work for quite a few users, and my chat list on Google Talk looked empty with the usual always-online people not around in the Virtual world.

And as one of my friends puts it - 'Everyone needs to take an off sometime!' :)

At last - Gold at Olympics!!!

Congratulations to Abhinav Bindra on winning the first individual gold at the Olympics. It is indeed a great achievement from the Indian point of view, and we hope to get more medals in the next few days...

Way to go - Abhinav Bindra!

Not for me!

Sadly, even though I found the Dark Knight interesting, it was definitely not meant for me. One line - 'you can't trust anybody these days, you have to do it all by yourself' was so funny, yet true!

The Dark Knight on its way to become the top grossers this year didn't find a fan in me.

One more...

It will be three years of my stay in the US, in a couple more days. I had a post about Two years and later, last year. I think things haven’t changed much since then. A link to that post

Are you Italian?

Sometime last week, when I was walking down the road from the bus stop to my apartment, I was stopped by a lady in a car. She asked me ‘Are you Italian?’. I am like, ‘In what angle do I look so?’, but trying to be modest, I said, ‘No, I am Indian.’ She said her second guess would have been that.

Coincidentally, India’s pseudo-head is an Italian. But does that make me look Italian?

Peace!

The Dark Room

Just finished reading this novel ‘The Dark Room’ by R. K. Narayan. A simple story it is, however captures the different aspects of a housewife, right from being a good daughter, loving wife, responsible mother, and above all a self-esteemed woman. Unbelievably set in pre-independence era, the essence of the novel makes sense even to this day.

I need to look if any part of this novel was picturized for the TV series ‘Malgudi Days’.

It’s otherwise been a weak day for me, with me feeling not-so-healthy in the morning, but better off now though!

Cuil - Not so cool!

A Google-search of my name itself retrieves quite a few links pointing to me and my web-homes :) . But the new search engine cuil.com didn't as many though.

It is not so consistent yet, but user privacy is protected, with no cookies stored to tag the user or IP address with the search.

But, it is surely going to be sometime before Google loyalists like me will trust Cuil for web-searches...