Living the dream. One day at a time.

It’s been a very busy week for me, achieved substancial progress in the code though. Wish I could have VPN access so that I could work from home, travelling drains me out in the current hot and humid Boston. Initially remote debugging literally freaked me out as I had to struggle to get the settings and versioning right even to see a small change but now I appreciate the ease with which it allows me to get an insight of all the calls and variables and what goes in the memory at any instance, it has made life simpler. Got a code review coming week, once again cross your fingers for me :-|.

Weekends are always colorful here, we always manage to do new fun things. Friday night we treated ourselves with Malasiyan food followed by my favorite fried icecream at Tiger lily, (I guess Tarang aka baby is obsessed with thai & malaysian food) We managed to have a round to Jillians and played bowling, better dont ask how I performed!!! It was a total disaster :-(. On sunday afternoon I could also catch Monster house 3D film at loews. Too much to handle for a week..

I am kinda late in writing this post because the main reason to write this one is its my daddy’s birthday today,so this one dedicated to him. My dad believes in birthday celebration and he gets one each year too (though it’s generally very difficult to choose a gift for him, nothing seems to please him ) . This year my mom would be making her special chicken biryani and chicken lollipop, so it’s going to be a super treat. I feel she makes the best biryani in the world and I have a tremendous apetite for this dish, when I go back in december I am going to ask her to make biryani every sunday ;). Till then back to work, So here I end my birthday special blog wishing him a very happy birthday!!

I have been grown up believing the ultimate truth in my life that god maintains a log of everyone’s behaviour in his huge book. He analyzes our each move in life, every small thing we do; right from giving a seat to a lady with kids in a crowded train and winking at an innocent child who is smiling at us to cheating someone for selfish motives. And what you call luck, depends on his result of the analysis. He is always fair about what he keeps in store for each one of us. This belief always helped me get on a better path when I had to choose between the right and the wrong, but today I wonder whether my log is getting updated !!

Last weekend we discovered a yet new restaurant in downtown, called Rock Bottom. I was a bit apprehensive initially as the look of the restaurant did not give me a friendly impression at first glance, we preferred sitting in the lounge section rather than waiting for a table. But after eating their special chicken fajita with saute rice, tortillas and cream cheese, I had no room for complaints.

With Scrumptous food and lots of televisions placed at perfect angles, Rock Bottom is a perfect place to spend a cozy friday evening.

Watched two movies over the weekend Revolution OS and The devil wears Prada. Revolution OS is a story about hackers who
created GNU/Linux and open source movement. It was great watching interviews of high tech big shots like Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman whose books we have cherished like bibles.

The exciting part is narration of Bill Gates’ “Open letter to hobbyists” , the sarcasm used in the letter accompanied by the horror music in the background makes it more interesting. That reminds me Shreyas’ introduction section on one of my course’ home page CSG111 which says “I believe in open source except for the homework”

I simply freaked on “The devil wears prada” a very fashionable yet sensible movie, the amusing part is even though the movie is marketed towards women, even my guy friends enjoyed the movie equally.

The story is about a not so fashion freak young girl, recently graduated journalism major, working as an assistant to the editor of the most influential fashion magazine in New York. Throughout the movie there is an exclusive show of fashion, luxury and power still somewhere it makes you think what you really want to become in life and at the cost of how many compromises.
The lead actress Anne Hathaway has done a great job, the only ironic thing is she is considered not so slender girl in the movie :).
Geez is’nt she slim enough?????

Doesn’t Anne resemble Julia Roberts?