Please check out my first blog on Greenpeace site-> http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/. Scroll down to see the article titled-> Learn all about the Energy [R]evolution on the go.

Writing is one of my interests and one of my tasks here is to write blogs sometimes.

Feels like a celebrity already! ;)

There are only two numbers 0s and 1s and sometimes get to see it, like this! When I tried to view one of the documents online, it showed up like this!

It wasn't long ago when the Emergency Procedures on the walls of the buildings listed precautions related to fire hazard. Look at the list of emergency situations we might come across!This colorful panel on the wall of San Jose library caught my attention just a day before attempted bomb plot at Times Square, NY. My cellphone had run out of charge and hence couldn't take the pic that day.
I tell you, we are living in the tough times.

Ok, your dog could be human-friendly but I am not friendly to dogs(at least for now).

I used to have a dog once upon a time. Loved it, played with it, fed it etc etc. I was a kid back then. We had to giveaway the dog for some reason. After that I never encountered a pet dog. Something inside me changed towards dogs in the meantime and I kept distance from them.Now my friend G has a dog. Last year around this time she called me up and said that they have got a puppy. Oh, Btw, even now she calls it a puppy. I was expecting a really small dog(puppy) when I went to her place. Instead, the dog looked complete opposite to the picture I had in mind. Anyway, with my little knowledge about the dog, I was pretty surprised to see it and made a quick exit from her house. I was around her dog for few hours next couple of times.

First time was when she stayed almost whole day at my place as there was some plumbing work going on at her place. Olive (dog/puppy), sniff... sniff... sniffed me and went on exploring the place and kept herself occupied. Whenever my friend made bathroom visits, I went and stood in kitchen because Olive has been taught never to enter kitchen.I felt pretty comfy around her as she never bothered me after awhile.

Second time was when I went to pick up some stuff at her place. Olive sniffed me and joined us in conversation sitting under the table.I was hardly bothered by her presence. It was good to make peace with friend's dog.

Couple of days ago, I made a bold attempt to sit in the car with Olive and join them on their daily park routine. Olive was such a darling. She was happy to be in park, playing and all.Olive's friend say, H, also happened to come to the park with his Master and it was fun to see Olive and H play. H's master went on insisting me to touch his dog. I politely told him that I am somehow not yet ready to touch and play with the dogs and I even explained him that I had a dog and all. He was so persistent. No doubt he loved his dog and no doubt the dog looked great with all the white and brown hairs. My friend was just so understanding and explained to him how I am slowly getting used to being with dog and etc. But the man, definitely appeared offended.At least for now, I would not want to meet him if I accompany my friend and Olive to the park.

I am sick enough to be just sleeping right now. But I had to write this to take it out from my system and feel a bit better at least. So, here I am with a strong cup of coffee after a super hot shower.

Like many people out there, I generally get excited by anything that Google does. But, not this time. No Buzz for me. So on one busy morning last week, on login (or before?) Gmail perkily prompted me with- Gmail is now Gmail+Buzz and a (scary) blue check out Buzz button. Already being wary of Google’s and FB’s such efforts, I politely denied the new thingy and went onto my usual inbox. Seeing Buzz link there already and with many status updates showing up from friends/people, I went into a …Wwwhhhaaat? I am no longer appreciative of Google’s efforts in selecting my “Friends”, “Followers” etc. So, on what basis does Google selects them? Yeah, I know your algorithms and all. Bet you, nobody knows my friends than me. It was pretty annoying when any random person I sent email to appeared on my Gtalk chat list. I like the fact that all email addresses are automatically stored in my address book but please don’t do anything more that. Oh, yeah, why would you do that if you didn’t have any idea to use them this way before? Sigh.

Not just Google, Yahoo has turned out pretty annoying or nosy I must say. What’s up with the Updates next to anyone’s name on Messenger? Recently, someone I know wrote an angry review on some store and the next thing you know is it appeared on his/her Messenger “Update Status”. It doesn’t just stop there. Anytime I sent an email to that person along with message sent confirmation, the status was displayed for next few weeks. Poor guy didn’t even know that this was on his status update. It came to his notice only after the colleagues, friends and in-laws pointed out. Thanks, Yahoo, so much for using your Yahoo Review service. Wonder what my friend, who is extremely cautious giving out any kind of her personal data online would feel when I tell her about the recent updates I have seen on her Yahoo messenger. I recently turned off all updates that Yahoo had so sweetly turned on for me.

Where is all this going? There are many things that I don’t want to share. Will you please turn off those special features and innovations that you come up with and let me enable them when I am ready… and please do not impose them on me on a busy day when all I want to do is just CHECK MY EMAIL. You can start doing it by making the Big Blue Button read “Go to My inbox” and the tiny link saying “Try out Buzz”! Thank You.

What about those social networking sites? OK So, the good things first. For the most part I like it. I get to read interesting articles, stories, updates, pictures and more. I dived into many social networks initially. A little later it became difficult to stay updated with all of them and I had to make a choice. I don’t usually like lot of options. I get overwhelmed easily. No doubt, I am always hungry after a buffet. Same thing goes here I guess. It took time to decide and find a place. Though, my interactions on Orkut and FB are minimal, yeah, I have finally embraced both of them. Facebook though, I feel is still information overload and my FB skills are pretty bad. With my Flickr Pro account expiring soon, I am considering FB to share all my pictures. The bad part of FB…. yeah all those Privacy issues one has to always watch out for and I don’t care about your Farm/Mafia wars…apparently, there is a group on FB for people like me. I hate FB for killing LiveJournal especially. Not that I am blaming it entirely. Kudos to my friends who have found the perfect place on the social networking bandwagon. Few are active on every place I know, few are active on one site but actively visit and comment on other ones. I am especially happy about those who haven’t abandoned LJ and totally in awe of those who have stayed completely out of this mania and send out emails and invitations to view their pictures.

On this day, I declare that I am embracing Orkut- for its simplicity, FB- for friends, LJ- for the love of writing and reading and Flickr- for visual delight. Anyone knows how to turn off those farm/mafia wars updates on FB? And, people, I am not buzzing. In fact, I finally found out how to turn off Buzz. Buzz Off.

This post started off as something and went in a different direction. Heck who cares?! I wrote a post after such a long time.

I am so in love with this Korean serial - http://www.mysoju.com/boys-before-flowers/. I have a thing for subtitles now.:D

I wasn't a TV or Movie person until few years back. Had never come across the Subtitles option in the CDs/DVDs that we would rent in my town. Most of them looked pirated ones anyway. I got hooked to Subtitles after I watched a Korean movie on a air journey. So much so that I turn on Subtitles even for Hindi/English/Kannada movies now:p

At the Art Exhibition in Library when I was staring at asimilar picture , a Chinese woman asked me if I know what the picture is all about. I did explain her a bit about the picture. I don't know if I left her all confused or she jumped at the explanation of how many Gods and Goddess we have.I find Chinese Mythology and their beliefs(Blind-beliefs?) quite interesting. Theirs is as complicated and interesting as ours. I think I read those books of Amy Tan just to get more of Chinese culture and belief than anything else.

I always knew how little I know about Hindu Mythology, deities and epics. It would be interesting to know in detail about the picture and the Gods and Goddess in the picture.

PS: Thanks to all those who wished me on Birthday. I had an awesome Birthday. :)

Came across this song on YouTube and have been listening to it non-stop.

It is so soothing, so melodious.

Googled to find out about the singer as the voice didn't sound familiar. No doubt it is sung by someone less known (at least to me) called Hemalata.

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I had only watched and listened to the above version of the song. I had no idea it was a Remix( wonder why?). Came across the original song and the video yesterday. Oh! look at the beauty and simplicity of the original one.

Observation- I get really obsessed with certain colors for few months.

Currently, the favorite is RED. If want to pep up myself, I pick Red.

I remember, for some part of last year it was GREEN.

The year before it was WHITE and PARROT GREEN.

Before that it was BLUE.

Way Before that it was YELLOW.

Way, Way before that it was BLACK.

..has kept changing every 2 weeks.

The first pic was taken sometime in Feb. Little did we know how the bare tree will turn into a beauty in two weeks!



The Bare Tree


I have woken up to this beautiful sight for 2-3 weeks. I could sit and just gaze outside.

( ..and it bloomed! )

The little white petals are falling all over now. It is a beautiful, beautiful sight. Feels just like snow. The green leaves are showing up in the tree.

I will have to wait another year to see all these changes again.