Monthly Archives: July 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Varun

Yes, I had prebooked Deathly Hallows.
No, I have not collected the book from the bookstore till now.
No, I have not started reading the book.
Yes, I will be collecting the book in a day or two.
No, I will not be reading the book immediately.
Yes, I will be reading the HP1 to HP6 again and then reading HP7 (have already read HP1-HP3 almost).
No, I don’t know how HP7 ends.
Yes, I hate people who are trying to send me spoilers over email, chat and in conversations.

Happy? Continue reading →

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I want a sister! (Happy Birthday Vineet!)

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Varun

Mom Vineet and Varun and Dads Yezdi 22 years ago on this day my brother Vineet was born. When Mom was carrying Vineet I would talk to her tummy every day. Every day before going to sleep I would kiss it. I wanted a sister (not sure why) and I would always treat my would-be sibling as a “she”.

One fine day he was born. I was at the daycare center; my aunt (Sobha Amaye (Amaye=bua in Mallu)) picked me up and we went to the hospital in the bus. I don’t remember the exact conversation but I have a distinct impression that she was trying to convince me that a brother will also make a very good friend. We reached the hospital, I was still not convinced so I was a bit sad. Mom says I created a scene… but I guess when I saw Vineet lying between 2 tiny pillows beside Mom I fell in love with him, my anger melted away. Mom says it took full 3 days to pacify me totally… but I guess the real hard work was done by Vineet himself :-)

Happy Birthday Vineet! Continue reading →

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L.A.U (Life As Usual)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Varun

It’s life as usual.

Vineet had a less hectic schedule than usual so he came over to my place late in the evening. We went out to this nice restaurant called Cascade in Thakur Village, Kandivali East. Decent ambiance, very good food and excellent service. Then we went to the CCD in the same building as Cascade. And believe it or not I did NOT have coffee. I was too full to have anything else.

It is still hectic at work. Vineet and I are going home this weekend so that should be a nice break from routine. Punit is coming back in another couple of weeks. Murthy might be moving out in a couple of weeks.

Those are the updates from me for now. Over and out. Continue reading →

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Twitter – What I am doing?

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Varun

I stumbled across something interesting yesterday. Twitter.com is service that allows you to shout to the world what you are doing right now. We will leave aside the why-would-I-want-to-do-that part for now but if you wanted to this is probably a nice site to go to.

My personal favourite feature in the service is the ability to simply SMS my status to a particular U.K. based number (costs me 5 bucks/SMS!) and that SMS will appear as an update on my twitter page. I can also use GTalk to send an instant message to a special Twitter buddy and that message will get added as my Twitter status update.

Nice no? Later when I get some time I will integrate Twitter into this blog so that all my status updates appear as posts… this will allow me to blog (at least short posts) from anywhere.

For now check out what I am doing…

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