This is my first post on my new laptop - well, not mine actually. It's a client laptop - loaded with Windows Vista. It works great, whatever time it's up. I've to save this post every minute in the hope that it won't crash before then. Seriously, I've had the blue screen of death more often than my wallpaper. Maybe I should just make it my wallpaper.
Speaking of my wallpaper, my new wallpaper has a great pic from my last trip to Chicago. In the 'olden days', this trip would have been on my blog the moment I got back from it. These days, I'm writing it so late that two of the five folks that met for the reunion are already back in India.
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| (From L to R) Sheetal, Pradeep, Apy, Vivek and Me |
And how can I forget the cooking? Sheetal and Apy made some wonderful dishes that I miss even now. We responded in kind by making some makeshift egg curry. Everybody ate it... so I assume that no comment is good comment.
Pics from the Chicago trip here, for folks who're jobless enough to take a gander.
The next trip was during the Labor Day long weekend - the first of September, to the sin city of Las Vegas. Maybe it was the fun of the Chicago trip, or my work took its toll, but I really didn't enjoy this trip as much as I should have. Felt like sleeping away the whole day... and I pretty much did. Of course, that could be 'coz we were roaming around the whole night, coming back to the hotel in time for breakfast. Anyway, we did the usual things - gambling (and losing of course), a show and a lot of sight seeing.
Moving further, a five-hour drive on Monday found us at the Grand Canyon, which is, as everybody puts it, awe-inspiring. How a big hole in the ground can be so much of a tourist attraction is beyond me. And Tuesday saw us at Antelope Canyon in Page, nearby. This was a hole in the wall, literally. Barring jokes, both the canyons were amazing. I don't have pictures yet though. Have been just too lazy to get it from others.
Other than that, there's nothing much to speak of, but there's been a lot happening back home, I see. There's already the done-to-death Indian World Cup victory, for instance. And as usual, there are the jokes surfacing again and again - Kalam's vision of India becoming a superpower in 2020, Misbah ul Haq's not knowing there is a Malayalee in every corner etc etc. If you get these jokes, please do not forward them to me.
Anyway, I guess that's about it for September. I don't think I'll be going on too many trips. I'm currently on a saving mode, for a trip to India next year. Dharmu has threatened me with severe bodily harm if I don't make it to her marriage. And this time, she's serious.
