The Blackberry season

It is certainly the time for blackberries. Everyone you see, is carrying blackberries. And By blackberry, I don't mean the fruit. I mean the blackberry fone. Wonder how they come up with names Blackberry, and you have the latest Chocolate by Verizon......whooaaa!!!

 

So as I have to try to live up with the Joneses, I bought myself a Blackberry too. I can't truly say I bought one, coz they are giving it away for free on the Internet. Infact, its not only free, I am getting $75 cash back. How better can it get? Well, I have to say, the Joneses had nothing to do with me getting a new fone. My old fone had lived its life, the charger had given up hope, and out of desperation, I keyed in to look for new fones. And I love it. It's sleek, and sexy and I am handling it like it were made of glass. Its funny how precious things are when newly purchased. And as it loses its "new" charm, its going to be lying around waiting to be picked and tossed by my girl and I won't even bother.

 

I am seriously impressed with the way these Americans run their business. They give away the best fones for free, only to get you hooked to their montly plans. Its an excellent strategy and I would love for India to follow suit. Its best for both, the company as well as the customer. The customer gets the coolest fones for free, the company gets a contract.

 

Anyways, I am gonna go enjoy my fone and sms my new number to "MyCircle". ;)

Fly In Fly Out

Fly In Fly Out has become a pseudo culture for the immigrant consultants (yes, i know, there can be american consultants too) in US of A. Have to stick to the same company for the never to fade desire of a Greencard ( ever wonder why green, and not blue and red that we are so used to seeing here). A consultant, I would describe, is a nomadic, highly skilled IT professional jumping from one client to the other, hopping from one flight to the other, all inorder to reap the dollars/hr.

 

Jignesh is off to California for a short project. Will come home not every weekend, every other weekend. I am bored. Anushka misses him terribly. Poor thing!!! And surprisingly, I miss him too.  With more green, comes more blues, wat can i say??

Twas my birthday

A woman never divulges her age they say, but I completely fail to understand why. Infact I love to throw around my age, coz that just invites compliments (picture me blushing and flattered). The minute I reveal my age, the immediate reaction I get is "Really!!!!!! You don't look that old. You are amazing!" And I bask in my 1-minute glory gleeing with joy.

 

Feb 9th happens to be my birth-day. I turned 29 last Friday. Oops!! So close to 30. Now this really scares me. 30 is the age they start using vanishing creams, and age-defying lotions, etc.  I perhaps need to start collecting info on this product line. I am turning old. I know, I know, age is material, you have to feel young at heart. I do feel young at heart. In fact, I feel like 20, or I should rather say, I want to be 20. The older you grow, the more the responsibilities, more the troubles, more the stress, more the complications. What's the fun in growing old? Perhaps I can console myself with the fact that as I grow old, so do my friends. I don't get left behind...hehehe. And as we all grow wiser together, the blogs keep getting better and better.

My Lord Buddha

I am talking about my little girl. We got her head shaved yday. Although its not customary in our community to get a baby girl's head shaved, but I chose to do it for more practical (read "volumizing") reasons. I call her Lord Buddha and she laughs when I do that. Some customs we Indians have, don't we? Its said that you are supposed to get the head shaved of the baby and offer the hair to God as a gift. But I don't understand why is it mandatory for boys, and not for girls.

 

Anyways, talking about traditions, there are quite a few that have more scientific or medical reasons to support. And those that just don't seem right to me, I would rather not obey. Now am I being too rebellious out here. One of my cousins just had a baby. When I asked him, have you decided on a name, he said he just looked up at the rashi and wants to follow it. Fine, its good to follow the rashi, but what if you don't like any name on the letter that comes up. I feel a name is a very important gift you give your baby. When my girl grows up, I want her to be proud of her name, and not ashamed. Whether she'll be in US or India, I don't know. But when I am here, I do want to make sure she gets a name that is not twisted or butchered by these goras. That doesn't mean I am gonna give her a name like Nancy or Michelle. I do make sure I give her an Indian name, but just which is a little easy for the people here to pronounce. Now am I being "unindian" here?

 

 This doesn't mean I don't follow our customs at all. I do. And some, yes, blindly. But some, I choose not to and I do stand the chance of being branded "too modern," but well, who am I fighting?

Love and hate my GPS

I have this Garmin GPS navigation system in my car. Loved it when I first got it. Took me exactly where I wanted to. Can really be dumb while driving and just follow the voice. But on our last trip to NJ, it took us at roads we have never been to. It took us 5 and 1/2 hours to reach, when according to Mapquest, its just a 3 and 1/2 hour drive. I was so mad. It was so frustrating. Lesson learnt: Never trust the GPS when you are going long.

Two good weekend trips

Trip #1: Fayetteville, NC to attend a baby shower. The only cousins I have in this country is this big family in NC. The baby shower was huge. Around 250 people which is the largest crowd for me in US in any particular family event. Had fun. Just had a teary adieu when I left.

 

Trip #2: Edison, NJ to attend a bday party. My friend Riddhi's daughter Dia turned 3. She is one cutiepie. The amount of bakbak she does. This was a decent small party, around 20 people, like the ones I am used to ;). That went well too. Its always so good to meet up with friends.

 

See, this is the reason I want to stick around in the East coast. Atleast I have friends/family that I can drive down to. Kansas was so depressing. Let me not even start with that.Post Options

Sick start of 2007

2007 didn't start on a good note for us. All three of us are sick. I am better now but I had the most severe cold this new year eve. I was barely audible.  Jignesh caught a ear infection and is still not completely out of it. And my poor little baby is coughing the first time in her life and that too so bad. We adults still manage to cope up; how do these little babies handle sickness? Well, they cling, and cling and cling and cling.

 

Anyways, of lately, I have developed a thing for pretzels. Each time I go to the mall, I want myself an Aunt Annie's pretzel with hot salsa cheese dip. Actually, the first time I ever had a pretzel was at a New York subway station and it was so hard; I never touched it after that. And now, when I had these ones, i can't resist it. They are ever so soft. That reminds me of doughnuts. Nothing can beat the Krispy Kreme's.

 

Leaving this here.....must hurry.