Trick O' Treat

Halloween's just around the corner and its time to scare, get scared and worship the holy spirit! In true spirit of Halloween, instead of partying, we carved a few pumpikins.

China and Parag, the enthu souls brought the pumpkins. Harry and I drew on 'em and Parag, Anagha and China did a great job of carving. Dont they look awesome with the lights turned off?
After carving, we had a long session of spooky ghost stories. With ghosts on the train to ghosts in open grounds, we narrated 'em all! A nice start to Halloween ..
Now I want the good part..the tons of candy!

Trick O' Treat! Have a spooky and Happy Halloween..

Arresting Spam Comments

Every time I visit my blog, I see an increased number of comments left by my readers. This used to excite me earlier, but nowadays I know its just another spam comment. So starting today, I've enabled the word type in my blog to ensure I get comments from real people and not some freaky computer code written by an advertizer.

Keep commenting real people!

Blogger Power!

Recently a friend of mine published a post on his blog related to some Indian management school's false advertisements. Unfortunately, the legal advisor of the school slapped him with a suit worth 125 crores! Apart from fighting the law suit, he also had to resign from IBM, since he didn't want to tarnish their image. Everyone from the blogosphere has been supporting him in his fight for his freedom of expression! This has made him a celebrity as NDTV and Indian Express have been reporting the story!

Kudos to Gaurav for standing by his convictions and having the courage to fight a suit worth 125 crores!
:p

Flowers make me happy :o)

The fuller they bloom, the broader my smile!

Experiencing Ann Arbor

A friend from Cincinnati was in town for just over two hours and wanted to meet me and experience 'Ann Arbor'. It was my chance to show him around the lovely town and make sure he loved it by the time he left. Thankfully the beautiful weather and the fall colours made it a super day. We started out from Willowtree apartments, which looked lovely in the weather.

Driving down Plymouth we reached Zingermans. This place is located in the historic part of Ann Arbor called Kerrytown. Zingermans is known for its traditional Jewish dishes and is one of America's best known Delis. The sandwiches are too yummy and too filling. I strongly recommend the chicken barbecue sandwich and the potato au gratin. Too good to miss!

After Zingermann's we headed out to the central campus, where I showed my friend the Law school and the campus full of fall colours.

Ashley's is one bar you cannot skip when you are in Ann Arbor. Right on State street , in central campus is this bar which serves about 70 beers on draught and boasts of a global beer collection. They serve Belgian, English, Scottish and tons of other beers. We had a wheat beer sampler, which had four very sweet and light ales. I think Ashleys is the only place where I actually enjoy beer!

All in all, a day that ended unexpectedly well!

Araktini Prasad!
Cheers!

Fab birthday bash!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! had a fabulous day! here is a pic of the night out with my friends...

Unwinding......

The last month has been crazy. Yes, crazy by all means. Major emotional upheavals, recruiting presentations and events, assignments galore and a sudden weather change are hard to handle at the same time. It was a bit baffling at first, but now I'm back on track and kicking!
Some people might call me a control freak! I'm no "Monica", but yes, I admit I love it when things fall in place. I like to be in control of my stuff, organized, planned, tidy and timely. It unnerves me when all the things you've planned start diverting in unknown directions and you have no control on the outcomes. These unpredictable outcomes have upset me for a while now, and that's why I've decided to handle them differently now on.

I'm planning to let life take its own course and sit back for a while. Literally. I've decided to stop analyzing events and people for a change and live for the moment. Live on the spur of the moment. Experience the weather rather than crib about it, catch a movie or a good exhibition, paint, enjoy some great music and treat myself to a nice ice cream without worrying about the fat! Hope this new attitude teaches me something that I didn't learn from my earlier ways!