When I was on the bus yesterday on my pursuit of the elusive Winchester Mystery house, I could not help hearing a funny conversation between an American Dad and his little girl. They were sitting too close to me to avoid hearing :P
Girl:Dad! Isn't that the hospital where I was born?
Dad: Huh?... No it isn't.
Girl: That's the hospital where I'll have my baby.
Dad : No, you're not allowed to date.
Girl: But I have a boyfriend.
Dad: No no no no. You're not dating until you're eighteen! Thats another eleven years! You don't have a boyfriend.
Girl: I already have a boyfriend.
It went on in this way. I had great difficulty controlling my laugh.
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On my way back, while I was looking for my bus back from the mall. I saw an old woman in a black veil. She was asking a very unhelpful,weird-looking guy on the bus stop in very unintelligible english,whether her bus would come on this stop.
She saw me and asked me the same question. After I'd answered her,she asked me if I was Indian. She told me she was an Indian from Kozhikode and was trying to find her way home to Cupertino. I didn't even know where that place was. She had bus numbers written on a piece of paper though I think she couldn't read very well.Feel rather bad seeing old people abandoned in a foreign country where they don't know the language nor how to get around.
I wonder how she ever came here....and what idiot thought it smart to leave her like that with a paper full of instructions which she didn't seem able to follow.
Apr 25, 2010
Apr 24, 2010
Mission Failed : I could not see Winchester Mystery House today. I lost my way :(
All the blame goes to Google Maps!:P
On the other hand,I did finally find a very easy way to reach Valley Fair Shopping Mall. It was awesome inside it.The VS store there was amazing!
I think Winchester Mystery House was very close to the shopping mall. Atleast, going by the maps on google it looked liked it was only a 9 minute walk. I know I was very close to it but I just couldn't find the right road towards the last bit of the journey. I ended the day at the shopping mall. I do know now that I'll definitely find my way to the mystery house next weekend.
I just don't get the street directions.
All the blame goes to Google Maps!:P
On the other hand,I did finally find a very easy way to reach Valley Fair Shopping Mall. It was awesome inside it.The VS store there was amazing!
I think Winchester Mystery House was very close to the shopping mall. Atleast, going by the maps on google it looked liked it was only a 9 minute walk. I know I was very close to it but I just couldn't find the right road towards the last bit of the journey. I ended the day at the shopping mall. I do know now that I'll definitely find my way to the mystery house next weekend.
I just don't get the street directions.
I'm listening to an audio book - Pride and Prejudice. Everyone but me thinks its a very boring book. I have loved it from the very first time that I read it in Class VIII.I keep going back to it again and again. I wish I had my granfather's old copy of Great Expectations and Around the world in eighty days.
I have resolved,determined,firmly decided to get out of the house this weekend. I have learnt the map and directions to Winchester Mystery house by heart. Lets hope I don't lose my way today. Looks like Macy's is close too, will probably drop in.
If I don't dig myself out of the house today, I'll really need to be excavated later.
I have resolved,determined,firmly decided to get out of the house this weekend. I have learnt the map and directions to Winchester Mystery house by heart. Lets hope I don't lose my way today. Looks like Macy's is close too, will probably drop in.
If I don't dig myself out of the house today, I'll really need to be excavated later.
Apr 22, 2010
Apr 17, 2010
I saw something interesting on the streets of San Jose on April 15. People were celebrating TAX DAY! April 15 is a tax filing date. I saw some really funny placards and people were cheering on the roads.
There was a lady carrying a chart which showed Obama strangling a long necked swan by its neck and saying "its for your own good".
There were also a lot of kids in white shirts that screamed the word "Exemption!". Lol!
I forget all the other witty one-liners I saw. When I was back in India, I remember how everybody admired Obama. I don't know if I see it wrong or if people here really don't like Obama..
There was a lady carrying a chart which showed Obama strangling a long necked swan by its neck and saying "its for your own good".
There were also a lot of kids in white shirts that screamed the word "Exemption!". Lol!
I forget all the other witty one-liners I saw. When I was back in India, I remember how everybody admired Obama. I don't know if I see it wrong or if people here really don't like Obama..
My Fad Diet!
Its incredible how all the samosas, pakoras and chaat that you ever ate can come back and haunt you.
I have actually been imagining fried food sitting on every flat surface around me. The curious thing is that all that deliciousness never seemed like such a big deal when it wasn't restricted.
The last couple of months were tough on mind and body. Its Detox time!
Its really difficult to turn my face away from the Tandoor place on Santa Clara Street. It doesn't help that I need to pass it everyday!
Its all in the mind!
I have actually been imagining fried food sitting on every flat surface around me. The curious thing is that all that deliciousness never seemed like such a big deal when it wasn't restricted.
The last couple of months were tough on mind and body. Its Detox time!
Its really difficult to turn my face away from the Tandoor place on Santa Clara Street. It doesn't help that I need to pass it everyday!
Its all in the mind!
Apr 15, 2010
Make Hay While The Sun Shines!!
The craziest thing happened today! I won a lottery! Nah I'm not kidding! I did! Ok, I'm not a millionaire yet but its the most amazing feeling winning something this way! I was at a little wine party today and they were pulling chits with people's names. Your's truly won the top prize! Yay!!
Let The Shopping Spree Begin!!
Let The Shopping Spree Begin!!
Apr 10, 2010
Apr 8, 2010
What's this phenomena?
You go backward when you should be moving forward, keeping quiet works better than talking..
Compromise?
..when you feel like its your business when it isn't..
when you continue to do things that could never do you any good,anyway..
when you feel tired all through the day,every single minute..not having done a thing.
Viral Fever? :P
Nah..not a funny joke, I know.. wanted to fill in something drastic..
You go backward when you should be moving forward, keeping quiet works better than talking..
Compromise?
..when you feel like its your business when it isn't..
when you continue to do things that could never do you any good,anyway..
when you feel tired all through the day,every single minute..not having done a thing.
Viral Fever? :P
Nah..not a funny joke, I know.. wanted to fill in something drastic..
Apr 3, 2010
Apr 2, 2010
There's no such much as too much!
Overboard's on board today!
I wanted to have a really productive day at work. Red Bull has helped me on a few occasions since I've been here. I've actually felt that I concentrate better with a Red Bull in me. Well, I went to the cafe downstairs at my office and bought a couple of cans.
The manager who I'm friendly with, told me smiling at my purchase " Its not a very healthy breakfast,etee!" Yeah, thats how she spells my name on the receipts :D
On the way up, I passed a senior who saw the cans and asked "You wanna fly,etie?" :p
I wanted to say "Yeah! See what you're pushing me to!" I don't always say everything thats on my mind :D Maybe next time..
I got another, "Woah! That kinda day huh?" comment. Seriously, what's with people? Its just two measely cans of Red Bull.
I downed two whole cans one after the other without actually realizing it. I've never overdosed on Red Bull before.
The outside of a Red Bull can says "Vitalizes mind and body". They mean it, one can does vitalize blah blah.. the second,can excite your system like hell and make you rather restless..I couldn't sit in my chair.It suddenly felt like a good day for rappelling! I think they jinxed it with their comments!
Don't tell me its a mental thing! Its not! My brain didn't fool me into getting me excited after the drink! I give the manufacturers all credit!
And thats the end of that story!
I have another one.
Today I made grand plans of dining at an Indian place close to office. My system had been craving for some salt and spice in my food. Well,this plan got washed away in a downpour that never happened!
Around sevenish my dinner partner came and told me that the plan was cancelled cause it looked like it was raining heavily outside. My senior even came and told me that I could get a drop in his car if I could leave rightaway. So I packed my things with my new found Bullish energy! When we got out of the parking lot, I was annoyed to see that there was not a single drop of water falling from even a blade of grass! It was very windy though.
I reached home fuming and stubbornly decided to go all the way back in a train to the Biryani place. I think even a real Bull must have better sense of direction than me!
Yeah! I freakin' lost my way! I've been to that place once before and seen it so many other times and yet I couldn't find it! Think I'll get a map tatooed on me,ghajini style!
Well, Not to be put down, I went around doing some therapeutical shopping and have some new clothes now :P err.. Did I say some NICE,new clothes? :P
P.S. I made a new word!! Stubbullish! Go figure!
I wanted to have a really productive day at work. Red Bull has helped me on a few occasions since I've been here. I've actually felt that I concentrate better with a Red Bull in me. Well, I went to the cafe downstairs at my office and bought a couple of cans.
The manager who I'm friendly with, told me smiling at my purchase " Its not a very healthy breakfast,etee!" Yeah, thats how she spells my name on the receipts :D
On the way up, I passed a senior who saw the cans and asked "You wanna fly,etie?" :p
I wanted to say "Yeah! See what you're pushing me to!" I don't always say everything thats on my mind :D Maybe next time..
I got another, "Woah! That kinda day huh?" comment. Seriously, what's with people? Its just two measely cans of Red Bull.
I downed two whole cans one after the other without actually realizing it. I've never overdosed on Red Bull before.
The outside of a Red Bull can says "Vitalizes mind and body". They mean it, one can does vitalize blah blah.. the second,can excite your system like hell and make you rather restless..I couldn't sit in my chair.It suddenly felt like a good day for rappelling! I think they jinxed it with their comments!
Don't tell me its a mental thing! Its not! My brain didn't fool me into getting me excited after the drink! I give the manufacturers all credit!
And thats the end of that story!
I have another one.
Today I made grand plans of dining at an Indian place close to office. My system had been craving for some salt and spice in my food. Well,this plan got washed away in a downpour that never happened!
Around sevenish my dinner partner came and told me that the plan was cancelled cause it looked like it was raining heavily outside. My senior even came and told me that I could get a drop in his car if I could leave rightaway. So I packed my things with my new found Bullish energy! When we got out of the parking lot, I was annoyed to see that there was not a single drop of water falling from even a blade of grass! It was very windy though.
I reached home fuming and stubbornly decided to go all the way back in a train to the Biryani place. I think even a real Bull must have better sense of direction than me!
Yeah! I freakin' lost my way! I've been to that place once before and seen it so many other times and yet I couldn't find it! Think I'll get a map tatooed on me,ghajini style!
Well, Not to be put down, I went around doing some therapeutical shopping and have some new clothes now :P err.. Did I say some NICE,new clothes? :P
P.S. I made a new word!! Stubbullish! Go figure!
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