This Side of Paradise

now, why is that we run out of things to say, to talk about? It has been almost a month and a half, but somehow, I’ve never felt like logging in and posting something…really no idea why…!! Anyways…things are going on like they have been. There have been a few interesting developments at work; unfortunately, they cannot be revealed here now…btw, don’t let your mind wander ;-), its just work that’s all!!

My hi-def LCD TV arrived over the weekend. I’ve been waiting for over a year to get this one. Got it at quite a bargain and a good installment scheme to boot. 50 inches of sheer splendor - DVD’s look awesome on this beauty ;-) …now just waiting for a HD-DVD player and an xbox 360…LOL :)

…lots and lots and lots ……of laughter… I’ve never seen anyone with such a wacky sense of humor…you’ve gotta give it to these guys… check them out for some amazing laughs ;-) EDIT: the site no longer exists - the only blog by the author now resides here!

it just can’t get more apt than that. I had meant to post this more than a week back, when the latest avtar of the CBZ - the CBZ cough Xtreme was launched. A week later, the 2007 Honda hornet was unveiled. Without much ado - here’s the side by side comparison. The really funny thing about this is that both Honda had its involvement with both of the bikes. I really wonder what came over Honda when they were thinking of the CBZ. In fact, the old CBZ with alloys, a more powerful engine and FI would have sold a much larger number.

-meister: One who is renowned for, has expertise in, or is a connoisseur of: schlockmeister; spinmeister. I have been getting irresistably attracted towards owning a maruti swift these days…it’s a pretty normal car in stock condition, but I’ve always believed it had a very great potential for performance mods… My beliefs were confirmed after I chanced upon this article… Read on..!! Swift Turbo - Boost Meister It is mid-afternoon, and Amit and I are on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, driving along in the fast lane. We’ve been following a Camry for some time, and I’ve been gently trying to persuade the Toyota driver to move over. A polite honk and one or two flashes of the headlamp have not worked. He is doing a steady 180km/h or so, and maybe because he doesn’t really believe the car behind him can actually overtake his Camry, he’s hogging the fast lane. Right, time to get to work then. I take my foot off the throttle momentarily - there’s a loud ‘wwhooosshhhh!!’ from the turbo’s wastegate - and downshift to fourth. We move left to the centre lane, and with the throttle floored, our car leaps ahead in one ferocious lunge. There’s a look of utter and complete disbelief on the Camry driver’s face as our car snarls past. Within seconds, the Toyota is already receding fast in our rear view mirror. We’re driving a Maruti Suzuki Swift, and we’ve just overtaken a 2.4-litre, 142PS Camry that’s being driven flat out.

… I have been getting really lazy of late…! one month has passed and no posts yet…! few reasons I can give ;-) Appraisals Chennai trip work ;-( I still haven’t got the chennai tip pics up…so it will be a while before getting that post done. However, the Jan trip’s posting is definitely pending…it was fun and it definitely warrants a complete post. I’ll start working on that shortly…;-)

added this li’l guy to my timepass section… click on the pic there to browse for more…;-)

You can trust a client visit to throw things out of gear for a while. Nevertheless, things have gone on pretty well…except my vacation got totally messed up. I have done many changes to the blog page now. RSS links are available for your personalized google or yahoo home pages, so you will get the new posts delivered straight to your home page. Of course, you can subscribe to these feeds with a stand alone reader. further below are two really funny quizzes - “Are you a true nerd?” which gives you your nerd score and the next one is your “Computer savviness index”. try out these quizzess - you’ll find it fun.

Exactly three months back, we set out to achieve the impossible…completing a seven month project in three months…! we made it at last…!! agreed…the three months were nothing less than hell….I’ve lost track of the number of weekends I’ve sat at the office from the morning to the night; I’ve lost track of the late hours I’ve been awake; I’ve lost track of how many times I got called when there was nothing else on my mind other than getting a few hours of sleep. But, in the end what matters is that we’ve kept our end of the bargain. We delievered what we promised. It’s a month of chill-out now, before getting on to the next project.

So, I took off for a whole day on Friday; the price I paid for it? a complete weekend of….no, not rest, but a front row seat in front of my computer. …yeah…I was working…!! but the most important thing is that I kept up my end of the bargain. I delivered what was expected of me. to me that’s what matters the most. two months back I had posted thatwe were taking up something impossible. Things are at a striking distance now. Friday is the big day, let see what happens…!!