Lost and found (not)...

Seems like something remarkable ALWAYS happens in my life. I was working late on friday and wanted to take a break after hours of brain-hurricaning(i just made that word up. Brain storming is old-school. Hurricanes are "in".)

So decided to blog. It was a pretty big post. I enjoyed writing each and every word of it.

It was around 10.30pm that my friend called. And i got out of the office to let her in. And that's when it dawned upon me that "Wow..you are locked out Mr.Girish Gangadharan!"

Remember...i haven't clicked on the "Publish post" button yet.

So...anyways, i and my friend were standing outside my office door staring at the door knob, wondering if i should be happy that i wasn't locked out of the building.

But guess what? Didn't matter at that point if i was inside the building or outside. Cuz, God dang it. I had all my stuff on my office desk including my wallet, keys and the most important of all, my CELL PHONE.

What would a man do if he were in such a situation?

What were my options at that point?

All offices in the building were closed.

Yeah...you know what? Screw it. I'll just go home.

Ohh...that's right. I can't. Cuz my car keys are on my desk. So i have to walk to my apartment.

Fabulous!

"It's less than 2 miles, Girish. Just walk. It's ok. This place is not that bad.

Even if someone were to mug you, you have nothing to lose other than your Walmart $5 shirt and $20 jeans (Not sure where i got it). Your wallet is on your desk.

They would just kick your cheap ass and cuss their fate that they picked an idiot to rob."

Fortunately didn't have to go through all that since my friend had a car. We drove back home.

Brilliant!

Ok...What next?

After you go to your apartment, drink some water. Play with Mia. Tell her what happened. If she sadly walks away into her crate, just understand that she is thinking in her mind "Why? Why God, Why Girish? So many beautiful families out there. Why let this idiot adopt me?"

Things just keep on getting better.

Alright...Now what?

Call someone from your office and let them know what happened and see if they can help you.

"Uh-Oh!"

What?

I don't have any of my colleagues numbers.

Why?

It's all on my cell phone and the phone is on my office desk.

When i screwed my car, the same day Mia tripped over my laptop and broke it's screen, i thought that was THE worst day EVER in my life. Well, apparently not.

Ohh...wait...wait...

I called Russ the other day to get Garret's number and wrote it down on a piece of paper before i saved it to my cell phone.

Hope!

Look for that piece of paper.

Drawers, Kitchen counters, bathroom, pantry, closet, Mia's mouth...

Nope...

Heyy...i just cleaned the drawers last night.

Tore the unwanted papers into pieces before i put them in the trash.

TRASH!

Now i have to go through the trash to find pieces of a paper that could possibly carry Garret's number.

Let's get to work.

Damn...that STINKS.

This is a nightmare. i just found atleast 500 pieces of paper of different size and colors.

Gotta fix the jigsaw puzzle to get his number.

Man...do i really have to do this? Is there anyway out?

Can i wait?

Can this wait?

Let me re-think my options here....

So..just when i'm staring at the trash can, wondering why i was blessed so much to experience all this, something fell from my shirt's pocket into the trash can.

WHOA!

What was that?

HOLY CRAP. That's my Samsung YP-T7 mp3 player.

Oh Lord! I just got it from Circuit City 2 hours back when i was taking a dinner break.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????????????/

So i have officially run out of choices now. I have to go in.

And boy...did i go in.

Took the whole garbage apart.

Found my playa! Unhurt. Un-scratched.

Now for the paper that had the number.

Ok...gathered all the pieces. Let's try to solve the puzzle.

20 mins later....

Solved the puzzle.

YEAH!

Got the number.

Here's the fun part. That was not Garrett's number.

It was a customer service number of some company.

I love my life.

Turned around to see what Mia was doing.

She was sitting there just watching me.

Awwww......

Yeah...no time for that!

Did i look under that laptop bag there?

Heyy...what's this?

WOW...This is the paper that has his number...

So..i never actually trashed it. Excellent.

Ok..lets call him.

Wait...what's the time man?

11.00 pm.

Not a good time to call a 26 yr old single American guy on a Friday night.

Desperate time calls for desperate measures.

Call him.

He's not answering.

Let's think here.

Who would answer their calls at this time of the night?

Umm..i would.

Yeah..But unfortunately you can't help yourself here.

Who else can I call now? I don't have anyones' number...everything is on my cell.

OK ok think Girish. Ah yes...my company's website. Contact information! YES!

Simple enough.

So I went online and I could feel the numbers at my fingertips. The music is playing of celebration! I'm almost there... SILENCE!

Login: xxxxxx

Password: OH Sh*$(#*$). I don't remember the password.

Never had to remember any password because my browser did that for me.

You know sometimes you it's very difficult to appreciate the concept of "remember password" option especially when you are in situations like this.

SIGH!

So I'm trying all the different passwords I've ever used in my life. Nope, not working!

Alright, alright. I will do the forget password thing and have it email me the password.

Ok, email sent.

Login to webmail.infoquest.com. User ID: XXXXXXXXXX Password: Holy Sh*$#(. Not again?!!

Well thanks to outlook I never had to login to the web interface to read my emails.

Now, I don't remember the password to my email login.

Fantastic!

Now what?

Alright, trial and error. Keep trying, keep trying, keep trying...

What tha? It worked!

Here's your password.

Alright. Finally access to every employees' phone numbers.

Ok. Who to call now?

Parag, first choice.

He answers...cool!

But he is in Bedford.

Wow...my luck.

Ok. Luis.

Location: Downtown Dallas.

Can't make it, sorry.

Damn it!

I hate to bother him but...Russ. Final option for the night.

Nope. Doesn't answer the call.

Alright, I give up.

I'm going to bed now. Wake up tomorrow morning and start all over again.

Next morning. 8:00 a.m.

Now trying to figure out who is up this early to call.

Tried a couple of numbers.

Finally! Mike's wife comes to the rescue.

Thanks Susan.

Problem solved. I'm back in business!

Back at my desk...ahh!!

Ok, remember I did not hit the "publish post" button to my blog.

I click and guess what...session timed out!

Lost my hundred line post. Vanished into thin air.

I love my life!

Until next time...

Happy living.

My first MP3 player...

I spent hours and hours of research online and onfoot at Fry's, Best Buy, Circuit City and heck, even walmart!

Who could pass up the NEW Nano?

Well actually...after much consideration. I did!

Yes...the slim design mixed in with it's siblings popularity was certain to draw even the most skeptical (me) to the Nano world.

But c'mon! There is bound to be 'ALTERNATIVES' to the Apple world!

Sure the Nano is small but I want smaller, with a COLOR screen.

So my relentless quest landed me in the world of Samsung.

The YP-T7 Samsung MP3 player may have only 1GB for this size (for 5 GB the size resembles the mini iPod) and Nano offers up to 4GB, I feel it offers all the "technical savvy" that Apple markets in their products.

Is it smaller than a Nano? Yes.

It is thinner than a Nano? No.

It is lighter than a Nano? Yes (Nano - 1.5 ounces, YP-T7 - 1.269 ounces.)

Does it download music with ease as the Nano is said to do? Yes. (As easy as drag and drop!)

Picture viewer, text viewer...You name it! This bad boy's got it!

Oh and did I mention that the SamsungYP-T7 has a recorder & an FM tuner as well.

Does Nano? No.

The price comparison? Approximately $50 less than the 4GB Nano.

So are you buying for the Hype (Popularity)? Or for what works best for your music world?

For more comparisons click here

Is YP-T7 better than the Nano? I have never owned a Nano so can't honestly answer that.

But I can say the SamsungYP-T7 works best for me!

View my player.

Until next time...

Happy living...

92% of Indians say family comes first..

According to a BBC poll, 92% of Indians say family comes first.

That's what i'm talking about...

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Whining??

A very good friend of mine, Madhu has posted a nice comment for my previous post. It was kind of funny actually. Here we go...

" Hey Girish,
Whats this whining all about? I've been following your blog posts for a couple of weeks now and thought you were a guy with a positive outlook.
Anyways, did you lose your job or something more important than that? Do give me a call if you find time. I don't have your number with me : ("

No Madhu...i did not lose my job. I did not lose anything. Infact you have no idea how much fun i'm having at work. Technology has never got me this excited before. Learning so much every day, that sometimes it hard to keep everything in my tiny memory. :) Yeah...there's an excuse...right there! Something bothered me recently. And i had to talk about it without being too obvious. If you actually read my post, you will notice that i have been positive.

" I never take things to heart. Because there are very few things in this world that are so important to me to lose my peace of mind over. This is certainly not one of them. Not even close. I thought it was. Well...apparently not. Anyways...that's one reason why i never had any troubles moving on....

And move on, this time i will, just as always."

The above lines are from my previous post. See??...i AM positive!

Moving on...is a good thing.

To be honest, i'm happy to know that there are people reading my blog. And the number of comments in there doesn't actually reflect the true statistics of the number of readers.

Hmm....Interesting!

Madhu...Thanks dude...My number is 412-9062.

Hope everything is fine with you man...Will talk to you soon...

Sometimes....some people...

You know....sometimes....some people just act crazy for some reason . But then, there are some people that act crazy ALL THE TIME for no sensible reason. It's very hard to understand why things have to be so difficult. Reminds me of this beautiful line i read somewhere;

"Life, as such, is simple. It's the people that make it complicated".

There's a limit to everything. Especially a man's patience.

Nothing in August.....Nothing in September....Everything got over by the end of July. If only i had the patience and motivation to say that to whomever it concerns. Fortunately, I don't.

Anyways...no point trying to even think about it. Enough is enough. No need to prove anything to anyone.

Never had to.

You know...there's one thing i've always loved about myself. I never take things to heart. Because there are very few things in this world that are so important to me to lose my peace of mind over. This is certainly not one of them. Not even close. I thought it was. Well...apparently not. Anyways...that's one reason why i never had any troubles moving on....

And move on, this time i will, just as always.

It's amazing how certain things happen just at the right time.

My dad used to tell me "Every grain of rice you eat has your name written on it".

That's what destiny and fate is all about, my dear friend.

If it has to happen, it will.

And it will, for a good reason.

Anyways...i will now officially have more time on my hands. And this space will have more thoughts and ideas and i can imagine a few code snippets sneaking in here as well.

Gotta upload a lotta pics and videos of Mia...

She's like a little pony now.

Let's see.

Moving on....

Katrina Vs Mumbai monsoon

July 26, 2005. Heavy rains slashed Mumbai and most of Maharashtra, in India. People did expect heavy rains. But this was huge. Almost wiped out an entire city. All in a matter of 3 hrs on that fateful tuesday. The official toll of people killed in this calamity is more than 1000. Mumbai is the financial capital of the India. Seems familiar??

Yeah...Hurricane Katrina has done to New Orleans what the heavy rains did to Mumbai. (Wish we had a fancy name for the rains too...like....say for example....Monster Monsoons??) So what's the difference? Oh...there's so much to say dear....

First of all, media coverage.

I watch Fox news twice everyday. Morning and night. Not a single word was mentioned abt the Mumbai calamity. They covered the Brazilian guy that was shot dead by the British cops because he refused to stop when they ordered him to and killed him mistaking him for a terrorist. Heck....Fox and NBC covered the guy's funeral in Brazil as well. That drama continued for 3-4 days. Same time back in Mumbai, 1000's were dying and starving. They needed help. Government said they were doing their best. People were tired, hungry and angry. Army was deployed to help rescue operations. So much was going on...Not a single word mentioned even in their websites.

That's US media for you....right there.

But i bet Indian media is covering Hurricane Katrina with as much importance as one would give to a humongous tragedy like this. Yeah....that's how we are.

Second of all, seems like people are ruthlessly looting the stores in New Orleans. Cops are given orders to shoot looters in extreme situations and what are these people looting? Bread, Milk, Chips??? If they did, that's a different thing. It is acceptable in a way. Cuz, there are no stores open. There are no people behind the counters trying to run a business there. Even if that's the way things are, then who has the money to go buy stuff there? And people are dying of hunger. They need to feed their kids. And the food is going to rot anyways since everything comes with an expiration date.

But there are people looting televisions, DVRs, electronic goods etc. No...seriously....govt says it's gonna take atleast a month to restore power. What are these guys gonna do with the stolen electronic stuff till then? They have no place to go. Their houses are in water. How are they gonna explain when the cops ask them abt the stuff they have in their car trunk?

Stupid and ridiculous.

I'm watching the news as i'm typing this. Rapes and murders were just reported in New Orleans. I see a dead body floating in the streets. Geez....rapes and murders?? Not sure if i even want to say anything about it...

See, people were helping each other in Mumbai. There were no cases of looting, raping or murders. Yes...relief efforts were a bit slow from the govt side. But people didn't act barbaric.

Man...i don't think i can even write anymore .....this is DISTURBING!