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Yankee candle company

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:20:36 GMT

Never really wondered that u cld make a huge business by just selling candles....
had never even thought that candles cld have so many fragrances.....mango to lemonade to licorice to mist to ocean to cool breeze and god knows how many more.....

all this and more at the Yankee candle company.....http://www.yankeecandle.com/cgi-bin/ycbvp/retail.jsp
initially i thot it was some kind of an educational tour to visit a candle factory but i was wrong....more than education it was fun....the store is huge with so many themes around.

you clds literally spend a whole day at this place. they have demos on making candles of different shapes with and without moulds. u can also create your own coloured candles....worth a visit this place...

then went to a beach....2nd beach in as many weeks. the beaches didnt have a big shore....u cld swim right from the start of the sea.....bbqs around the place, though beaches are not my favourites i seemed tp like them here....

Another hectic week

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:13:54 GMT

this week was another hectic week for me in terms of work. i was in office till 1am, 1am, 4am, 3am, 8pm on the 5 days resp....a display of our commitment to the client. global delivery model triumphs once again.

also talked to prithu, mekin, tushar, arun and chauhan....was great to hear their voices after such a long time.....
the weather is getting cooler day by day....an awesome one. grey clouds cover sans rain and chill breeze....only a romantic walk missing....

waiting for the long weekend....hope to get together with old pals and some adventure....
waiting for priyatam, kaddargi and chauhan to come over....wld get to meet these guys also after a long time.

Tequila shots

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:07:54 GMT

After yet another return from New York, I had 2 tequila shots....
just to try it out....well nothing happened.....not that i was hoping to get on a high....
met Sai this weekend after almost 2 years......was nice to catch up with him, Ankita Prasad(she had come over for the weekend from Austin), Poothia and Shwetha. Sai doesnt seem to have changed except for the physical appearance.....he has lost more hair than me!!!!
Sai got us to good thai restaurant and then amazing dessert('dizzert' as he wld like me to pronounce it)...
we then thought of watching a concert at central park but it wasnt so good. so after spending some time there we went for a movie....'Must Love Dogs'- a romantic comedy....Ankita's choice and a good one too.
I still need to find out why she is scared of me.....

Anyways....
hoping to catch up with a few more people in the coming weekends....

My new phone.....

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 03:34:10 GMT

I got a new cell phone thanks to her.....
this one looks really sleek.....its a motorola razr V3 model....
the best part here is that it comes free with the plan that u take....and u got a wide range to choose from also....
i thought since i have used Nokia a lot lemme try something new this time.....i was overawed by its looks...very very thin.....
have a look....
http://direct.motorola.com/ens/web_producthome.asp?Country=USA&language=ENS&productid=29302

saw Dus over the weekend....worth watching once....u take one ticket and enter the multipflex.....and then go and watch as many movies as u can, though not legally......
since we had missed the title song of the movie we watched the title song in the next show and then left the multiplex.....the theatres are never full here anyways.....

Walmart

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:28:20 GMT

Had been wanting to visit this place ever since I read 'Made in America'.....
I was overwhelmed by Sam Walton's(he started Walmart) strategies. and indeed it pays to implement those....
Its a huge huge store with almost everything that you need.....and prices are comparatively lower than its other competitor stores. Cheap but Bulk selling makes money i guess.....

Amazing hospitality they have.....u are just tempted to buy from them....

At Last......

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:55:38 GMT

Phew......its been tough 3 weeks for me here at Hartford....
havent been frequent with my mails to friends, havent been frequent with the calls back home....
never thought that onsite could be this hectic.....
well its not that bad as i might make it sound....cos i had seen others working that way back home....
but onsite was supposed to be delegation of work to people at offshore....wonder where GDM(Global Delivery Model) vanishes.....
Anyways....

I had good weekends though.....first week we had gone to Boston...MIT has an awesome campus....right next to the Charles river....pretty sight.....was a good reunion too....meeting Poothia and Poorva after ages....No one seemed to have changed a lot....we guys had a good time there.....it was the long weekend(4th July).....watched the fireworks at NYC on the banks of East river....havent seen better fireworks than these yet....

Last weekend met up with Vinay....caught a Broadway also....this was my first full musical....was pretty good.....these broadways are costly though....but i hope to catch quite a few of them.....NYC from my place is just a 2 hr drive by bus.....

caught up with some movies finally....watched Sarkar....but i beg to differ from priyatam.....I loved the movie....I agree that the story was simple but splendid performances....the cast was just too good....one of the specialities of RGV....he has an amazing cast selection.....

liked Mekin's honeymoon photos a lot....though i need to get a few more secrets out of him.....wonder where Prithu and Tushar have dissappeared.....havent heard from them for long now.....

hope to be frequent at my blogs......

Heat...

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:07:25 GMT

After the records being broken, there was a sigh of relief on sunday evening. The temp was just arnd 30-32 degrees.
The temps here in bbsr reached to arnd 47 degrees. Purulia in WB recorded the max temp at 51 degrees.
Each year the temps are just climbing and more and more people die.

In Orissa, people die of heat waves in summer, of floods in monsoon, and sometimes of the extreme cold in winters. Strange ways of mother nature.

Antakshari..

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:22:06 GMT

We had antakshari in office(Infosys, bhubaneshwar) yday. It was like getting back to old college days. With a lot of support for each team and the common cheering and booing, it was fun to be there.
Seemed like one of the college fests with a vociferous crowd. Although i had attended events at office earlier in other places, never saw anything like this.
Guess, the smaller offices have a closer bonding among people.
But then the big ones have their own charm.

Phewww.....

Tue, 24 May 2005 10:41:48 GMT

These marriages take more energy out of u than a cross country race would....
Poor mekin.....he was almost dead after 2 days of hectic schedule....
so many rituals, so many formalities, so much of money being spent...so much of confusion all around.....but at the end of the day each one enjoys it....

the function was major fun....staying together at the resort....working together....mixing with his relatives...was a nice experience....

finally, am bak home trying to evade the topic of my marriage....
its very very hot out here.....dry heat....would be meeting a few friends and relatives over the week and then am bak to work.....

25 years down.....2 days to go....

Thu, 19 May 2005 04:48:58 GMT

and another of my good pals......mekin would be a happily married man....

marriage is an occasion when you would get to meet so many others who for some reason seemed non existent.....but quite a lot wont be able to make it.....thanks to Uncle Sam....seems like a mini PESIT in US.

hopefully would get to meet quite a few new people......an amazing networking chance.....
prithu would agree....

am excited also....2nd couple of my college batch starting their new life together....wish them all the best.....

Mr Funnyman

Thu, 12 May 2005 05:28:36 GMT

was at this play yday at Rangashankara......an awesome theatre....has a cafe also which is open irrespective of whether the play happens or not....a nice decent place....

the theatre is just awesome....and mind u...they are really strict abt the timings as well....the doors close at 7.30 if it says 7.30 on the tickets.....

abt the play.....it was a stand up comedy.....something catching up in India but definitely nowhere compared to the foreign standards......the one liners were mostly the ones which keep repeating in the never ending chain mails......some of the jokes were 'horribly' perverted.....didnt like the play at all....

but considering that these guys do theatre as a passtime they were ok......they have a long way to catch up with the veterans....Jameel Khan for example.....one of the best solo comedy performers i have seen on stage.....(watch 'manto ismat haazir hai', play directed by Naseerudin shah)....

black friday

Tue, 10 May 2005 05:22:39 GMT

Happened to watch this movie on the CD, thanks to the people who dont want it to be released in the theatres.
Tells the story of the Bombay bomb blasts through 2 characters, the investigating police inspector and one of the accused men.

A good narration and a good screenplay. Apparently, the script for this movie took longer than those of Satya and Shool.

Has an amazing soundtrack......Indian Ocean once again at their best.
Ruk ja re bandhe.....a must listen...
also the 'pre bomb blast' is a good jugalbandhi....

Hille le

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:25:13 GMT

Hille le jhakjhor duniya
hille le jhakjhor
janta ki chale paltaniya....
hille le jhakjhor duniya
hille le asia wa
hille le amricawa....
just happened to hear this song in the morning. This is by Indian Ocean.
This song is just awesome. This band has a lot of lyrics in sanskrit, MP native language and kashmiri but they sound amazing.
After the Bryan Adams show yday hearing this in the morning was so diffferent.
People pls listen to this song for sure.

Bak from hols....

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:30:53 GMT

Hi all
i am finally back from my hols. I had been home for around 3 weeks for a much needed break from this place. Home sweet home, didnt feel like coming back here but then kya karen....
At home it was just lazing around or roaming around the town(no its too big a town)
Met with some old friends and was happy to see that none of them have changed at all.
Not even a bit, so what if he is an IIT topper, graduated from MIT, currently doing research in Harvard. And another one working in Mckinsey after graduating from IIT. This was just to show that i have been in an elite company. Someone had to balance them out and I am always there to do such work along with a few more.
We had a great time there during new years, reliving the old school days. Sai, Ruchi had also come.....:)
Being treated at home like a king is a different experience. And now i am bak here leading a normal life.
hmmmm......nice vacation it was.....am already looking forward to the next trip home.

Wanna own land on moon??

Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:34:16 GMT

http://www.planetaryinvestments.com/
surprised....but this is not a joke. U can actually buy land on the moon.
and there are over 1,125,000 lunar land owners from 176 countries around the world.
The sale of lunar property has been ongoing for 22 years by the Lunar Embassy, which is THE ONLY COMPANY in the world to possess a legal basis and copyright for the sale of lunar, and other extraterrestrial property within the confines of our solar system. Lunar Embassy has authorized PlanetaryInvestments.com to sell Lunar Property exclusively. No other website is authorized to sell lunar property!
When some people cannot afford to buy a roof on earth we have so many of them buying land on the moon. Man is the most amazing species.....

home sweet home

Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:59:37 GMT

finally, me going home...:)
the last time i had gone home was in feb, 2002. its been a long time since then
that was after the 7th sem in college. Soon after college i had to join work thus cldnt go. Am hoping to meet up with old frnds and have a good time there....This is a much needed break for me...yayayyay

Just when you think..

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:23:06 GMT

that everything was under your control..
You get to know that you were never the driver.....

kal ho na ho.....

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:50:34 GMT

brilliance.....this one word sums it all.....srk is 'back' with a bang....
His liveliness is equally matched with the pain he is undergoing........ He is a master of emotions......a 'candyfloss' image, as the media terms it.....
Naina Catherina Kapur played by Preity Zinta was also beyond expectation. She plays the character to pure perfection. Saif Ali Khan, who can forget him after DCH, and once again he proves that his comic timing is the best among the ones in business.
The movie makes you laugh and cry at the same time, much expected from a srk-karan johar movie....
As Sai would have said, it re-establishes ur faith in the institution of love.....
The songs are good and the dances to the music.....an excellent entertainer.
But, the best part of the whole 3.5 hr movie is the 5 sec glimpse of KAJOL.....
wow...she is a goddess....no one can beat her....enjoy the movie folks

they say...

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:02:32 GMT

Always refuse the advice that passion gives
but do we?

Kahlil Gibran is so right when he says.....

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:18:20 GMT

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation

CAT SCAM

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:25:22 GMT

CAT came and went....didnt know what happened....lucky for me....i might get another chance to bell the cat....
But there are so many others who wldnt be sharing the same view...they say they cldnt have done better....but luck, as they say, had other plans for them....
so now we again get back to the same arena to try it all over again....
First it were the IIts and now the IIMs...CBSE, medical....and so many more...
why cant these exams be spared?

Love is......

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:41:07 GMT

A feeling you feel you're going to feel when you have a feeling you feel you haven't felt before

Loney Tunes

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:53:46 GMT

Wonder why one feels alone when there are so many people around.
'Manzilen apni jagah hain, raaste apni jagah
jab kadam hi saath na den to musafir phir kya kare'

8 din 192 ghante

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:26:10 GMT

Another 8 days to go and i will know where my future lies..
i think i shld have applied for ms also but now its too late
by the way, guys in the usa...how are the firang babes,
gals in the usa, i am sure the guys wont be as good as us here
cant u ppl send us 2-3 dollars each....cheapos...

ps..
All of u, please, start praying for us(a bit more for me) for CAT.
Please, treat this matter as urgent. Really need all prayers....

who? when? where?

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:20:18 GMT

just wondering when u people are getting married....
i want to be invited to a marriage party...:-pppp
lets check it out....
tushar tyagi.....mebbe another 2-3 years....but very tough to look for bride for him
sai ......am sure he wld be ready now...:-ppp
prithu .....no scope....girls want him but this guy has other preferences
mekin.....another 2 yrs....waiting for her to finish her engg..:-pp
sweta mogra.....looking for a rich dude...any volunteers
shwetha nagaraj.....ummmm......realllly dunno....dont want to also
bonniee.....in the process...arent u bonniee
trupti....hmmm....dont know...
yogesh.....his mom is looking for him...any ideas ppls....
praveen+anu.....sometime soon....pls pls.....i want party
poothia....doesnt admit that he has the girl....some ppl na....
yathin.....never...i am sure....
someone pls marry now.....wanna party.....marriage parties are fun....