Good Bye SD

Its the last working day at Qcom , San Diego.. a place I worked for over 6months now .. a city where I stayed in for over 6 months now.
But the memories - are so less..
I would still like to keep  that distant day wd M and A from our one day trip to SD in 2008 .. and thats the SD for me forever.

Why ? Lack of time .. with lot of work , the constant shuttling and moving places after every 2 months to get away from not signing the year long lease - the time just flew.
Yes , as we grow up , thats what we say often :) Time flies.

And work wise  - besides getting the glamour of the word QCom on my resume  -everything else was mundane ..
Yes , I met a lot of new ppl , i did draw inspiration from a couple of them , and yes I did learn.
But the excitement was missing - the first job's first day excitement , the first job's last day emotions are all long gone ..
No no - I am not stuck in a certain time warp or a place .. I did njoy my RA ship first day , co-op last day .. but with every transition - it just becomes a routine - with no strings attached.

I got up today morning - and I felt nothing ! Yes , I did check last night if I actually have the offer that I have , that I already sent out my resignation - did all that.
But this morning was like all others ..only thing I dint have to catch a flight this friday !

I did my yoga - yes I did it too ! It was that normal. I am in my office right now  - the window facing big office room ..and I dont know what to do. Dont feel like taking puctures ..or giving away the good bye goodies !

Have I done it so many times that I have just gotten brutally used to it ? or is it something that happens to everyone after a certain point ?
Whatever , for now I can just say - that I ..have become comfortably numb !!
yeah from the  Pink Floyd. :)

Target

3 Inches
4 Kgs
3 months

Are you with me  ?
I am going to add a link here later  - updating the progress and you can pour in your suggestions and questions :)

Maktub

I just finished reading the Alchemist. The second time. And thank God I gave it another shot. Last time when I read it , it was a long 6 years back – when I thought I am all worldly and wise. Now I know , hardly did I understand the book then.

Back then , I felt it a complete waste of Santiago’s time in search of his treasure which he had finally to find where he started from and in the process mine .. waste of time I mean.

But today I am close to believing in the word “Maktub” … “its written” … You were meant to visit all the places you visited and are about to ..you somewhere already belonged to them …and the people ..you were destined to meet every single person u meet in life.

And that’s what makes the process – it was finding a treasure for Santiago , and leading the life for us… interesting !!

On the side note –Maktub doesn’t mean , you will get everything for free since its meant to be yours – no. It probably means that knowing its written , you should be able to be at peace with self in every moment of pain , fear , uncertainty and darkness. Because then you are aware that it is just a part of the process and well at the end it is all Maktub 

Just the words !!

The dreams. The decisions. The dilemma. The mistakes. The hard work. The past. The fights. The tears. The laughters. The lost time and people. The ifs then and the buts now. The journeys. The places. The frustration. The past. The future. The endless worry. The compromises. The failures. The patience. The rat race. The life.

The hope !!!

Iphoned

Life has changed in many ways .. so much that by the time I think of writing about it , boom – comes the other one. So before this life changing experience gets mundane , let me write about it.

Me and M (M&M) recently gifted each other with iP4 – 32 GB and got a supporting 2 Gig data plan !

Insider – Infact its M whos got it for both of us !!

Yours truly being technologically challenged and M being a gadget freak (may I say so) this was obviously his intiative. I was infact not supportive at all initially with the thought of the impending expenditure. Hardly did I know then that it will have such a huge impact on me !!!

But finally I gave in !

The first thing I noticed was its quite user friendly , since I could use it with no assistance at all from day one. App store has a lot of interesting applications and what made it more interesting was the deal Me n M made between us. The one who finds a new app will get the brownie points …:)  And that got me hooked to it.

The FAcetime is awesome. M knows what I am wearing to office and I know what my sister cooked – handy , fast and interesting.

With the CallsUnltd app, you can configure your Vonage connection on iPhone, so that now I can call my mommie from SD using my landline connection in SF !! Whoopieee !!

Camera – The back side 5MB and the front VGA – makes life cooler and colorful. I can take a shot of what I am eating and whoa- How I am eating it !!! It helps me capture the sunset colors of SD very vividly on the way to airport and look I just emailed it to all.

I have my Bank app which hopefully will make banking easy , a southwest app – which makes me have a snapshot of all the upcoming iteneries, check in and see the flight status too.

Dhingana.com app has a very good Radio – I need not bother about downloading music (lil lazy here). M would vouch for Tandora though.

The other useful apps would be weather , navigator, around me, skype etc.

I have configured my gmail and Office Outlook , so I get easy acces to emails ( I know this isn’t something I need to brag about iPhone –for blackberry would do it much better. ) But I love the look of all that on iPhone.

The resolution in awesome. I like watching photos on it over my HP i5 laptop .. huh !

There are hazaar apps out of which one is a chumtracker – oops , I just said THAT !! Nevermind .. !

Ohh and yes, I already dropped it twice – so done with the stress testing too.

The cons - ? High chances of missing your bus stop because you would be busy exploring your iPhone and then getting down at a wrong bus-stop – but well yaa, nevamind – my iPhone will navigate me !!!

PS : I am on FB all the time now :D :D :D

This post is a proof that this url still belongs to me and I haven’t forgotten its passwd :D

Thanks for visiting …. !!!

M

M is none other than my dear husband. He is an absolute sleep lover. He simply loves to sleep and yes he is a deep sleeper too, hardly taking 2 minutes to sleep off after lying on the bed. I was no different until we got married- and since he actually takes no time to sleep I have begun to feel that I am an insomniac.

Like the other day we saw a bunch of seals lazing around doing nothing on the floating wood planks at pier 39 , SFO , it was then I was wondering “what a pathetic life – doing nothing” to myself is when M exclaimed with complete enthusiasm – “look at them , what a life – doing nothing – I would love to be one of them !!!”

Or like the other time , once while sleeping , I mushily digged my nose onto his face struggling to sleep. M was obviously getting bothered since I was disturbing his much beloved sleep . After bearing that for a minute or two , he said

M : “You know what, if you want to continue sleeping like that, we might have to breathe in sync”

Me : “A what??? “

M : “I meant we need to either exhale at the same time or inhale together at the same time”

Me: “And why is that ?”

M: “If I exhale and you inhale, I don’t wanna you to take in all of the CO2 ….”

Now who would want to do that , I obviously turned around and M went back to sleep HAPPILY !!

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