New year resolutions for 2009

Here I am yet again making my resolution wishlish

1. Travel more
2. Blog on what I travel.
3. Avoid getting married.

This list will be closed at the end of the year.

5 fabulous things that happened in 2008

Life has been good to me this year, as usual, getting better with age I guess. Let me summarise the 5 best things that have happened in the year 2008

1. Now @ AOL - managed to get out of a great company, Honeywell and get into even greater company AOL. The workplace and the environment is a drastic change from Honeywell. This place is much more fun and people are much more friendlier. Wonderful team and a manager and I got myself a great window desk :)
2. Found out what love means - Pain in one word. Not that I am against love, its the thought of being/being out of it that causes the pain.
   
3. Hero Honda Hunk - after a lot heartbreak sold my Bullet and got a new bike.
   
4. New house.
   
5. Avioded getting married - yet again.
   

Things I can die without

I have seen a lot of lists detailing things people cannot live without, here I am with a list of things I can die without

1. Homosexual relationship - not that I have anything against gay people, but I am not cut out for it. I do however support gay rights and even advocate same rights and recognition as people of heterogeneous orientation.
   
2. Drugs and cigarettes - these two are a strict no. I only do alcohol and passive smoking, cant help that, can I?
   
3. Sleep with my best friends wife/girlfriend- :) seriously no
4. Vijay super scooter - caused too much grief
   
5. Learn non-linear control theory,abstract algebra or Calculus
   
6. Ditch a girl
   
7. Goa university MCA entrance exam
   
8. Sleep with the author - didnt know I was that bad :(
9. Cheat somebody badly and see the suffer for food. - well software engineers are already doing this to some Americans..
10. Get involved in terrorist activities.
11. Eat live cockroaches or worms
    
12. Be a quintessential Indian bahu
13. Spread negative energy.
    

more to come....

Thanks to Ramesh V.B, Alreich Nachu, Divya and anonymous for contributing to this list.

Team at AOL

Here is my team at AOL. From left to right is Ravi, Niranjan, Sunil, and moi, ya I am looking like a chinki :(..i should hit the gym again, just waiting for my damn finger to fix. Ya I could run, but I am getting lazy. New year resolution - beat John Abraham. Yup wishful thinking. :) Here's to the new year. Cheers.

Changes to this blog

I had originally intended on limiting this blog only to my travels, but now I am going to update it with lot of other things ranging from wandering to my wandering mind. Anything and everything I like will be in here. Lets see how far I get on to blogging.

Obama

I received an humorous forward on the US president elect, Barak Obama on his family moving to Washington post his victory. The title of the mail was Obama's Family Moving To Washington

Colorfull faces

I was on a trip to Wayanad, Kerela with my colleagues and their families. I took this as an opportunity to try my hand at photography. Though I have been dabbling with the camera for long, I dont think I have ever clicked better snaps before. I decided on a theme this time and stuck to it, occasionally wavering to click other themes. The theme I choose was Colorful Faces. I have clicked my friends in their various colourful moods. Here is the link. I used a Sony DSC H7 for all the shots.