A Cold Tuesday

It was a cold Tuesday today… not as cold as yesterday, but as I have heard many places in the US are freezing right now….. Finally it seems like it is winter; otherwise among the so many worries in life, one would have to worry about global warming….

Work was as usual; government jobs are boring after all, doesn’t matter whether it is the Indian government or the US government…. Sometimes, I don’t understand why people don’t want to work….. and why can’t a government be more efficient than what it is?

The worst part is that the US economy is not doing that great either…. job addition is slow, companies are cutting on their work force and of course not to mention the subprime mortgage crisis which has crippled the entire world economy….

Liberty Mountain

Hahaha! that was a wonderful experience going to Liberty Mountain….

As usual, we started off at our Indian Standard Time (IST): 11.30 AM Saturday, instead of the time me and Piyush had decided earlier (10.00 AM). Not that this wasn’t expected After driving for an hour and a half we drove to the muddy and marshy grounds of the parking lot of Liberty Mountains resort. Considering the fact that we were so late, we had to park towards the end of the parking lot in one parking spot which was perhaps one of the worse among all, the most marshy and watery. Forget about the car getting dirty, we were worried that out sneakers, shoes and clothes don’t get soiled.

From the parking lot, we had to walk for about 10 min to the ticket counter where we bought the tickets for 77 bucks for the beginner package which included boots, skiis, beginner lesson and of course skiing for as much as we wanted to the rest of the day….

After buying the tickets, we headed towards a small room where boots, skiiks and other equipments could be rented. At first, everyone was scared to see the big, behemoth boots given to us by the nice girls (they were cute). We couldn’t even figure out how to put our feet in them and how to tie them. After some playing around with them, I managed to put them on and also help others to put them.

We headed out into the wild cold and as soon as I attached my skis to my boots, I could barely control myself and started skiing wildly…. Oh well… that was exhilarating as well as scary…

We waited for a while to find out our instructor…. Our class began in a strange way and ended rather weirdly…. As usual, our class consisted of 100 % Indians and Chinese (an issue which has been arising rather frequently in my life these days; more of this topic some other time) Other than me, Tina, Piyush and Deepthi there was another Indian couple and a Chinese couple. In the beginning we learned a few nuisances of skiing and following that we boarded the “lift” which took us to the top of a small “mountain”. We didn’t know how to disembark off from the lift and all of us literally fell on the top of each other as we got off. At this point, our instructor had formally asked us to start sliding, taking right and left turns, stopping and starting off again… And this was the real bad part… We used to get up after falling and then fall again.. and again…. The other Indian couple had a real bad time as the girl could barely do anything except falling and wasting time getting up…. But it was all fun…. hahaha… we managed to do a few rounds of going up the hill and sliding…. after about 4 rounds all of us were tired as hell (I am not sure if Piyush was also tired, but he did complain about his infamous “Ligament” problem).

We decided to go to the restaurant and eat something as none of us had the energy to go back to the car and eat the stuff which we bought with us… We ate a veggie burger, pizza , chips and drank hot cappuccino.

Oh well, all that was a lot of fun…. we will definitely do that again… perhaps in some other ski resort and not anytime soon….

Going to Liberty

Tina and me and our close friends, Piyush and Deepthi are going together to Liberty mountain resort for skiing…. that should be a lot of fun…. almost all of us are first-timers… so don’t laugh if we break our bones and do something stupid! hehe… will keep you guys posted…

Google Apps

This is really cool! Now I can manage my custom domain email and a lot of stuff using google…. Now, one can get “Gmail”, “Docs”, “Chats”, “Calendar” and a bunch of other stuff which used to be available to google users for one’s own custom domain… how cool is that

You know what the sad part is: this is one of the thousand ways google is enveloping your life… The day is not far away when most tech savvy people will be managing most aspects of their life using google one way or another….

But instead of being a doomsday predictor let me come to the bright side of it… Google is making out life increasingly simple to manage….

So don’t be surprised when you are surfing the internet tomorrow (of course searching using google and checking email using gmail and so-on and so-forth) and you come across a new service which helps you in……. well…… something interesting…… like……

…To be continued…

The start….

Well, well, well, here is a blog from somebody claiming to be a “javatarian”. My first blog! Sounds exciting. Not sure what this freaky word “javatarian” means? Neither am I. This word definitely does not exist in a dictionary (at least not that I am aware of). Hopefully my blogs over the years justify it!