Diving

Yesterday for the first time in my life, I dived into a 10 ft pool. The most scariest thing ever for me. It was fun though. I thought i need help coming up to surface, but that was the easy part. I'm comfortable with treading. This is great. Still scared of jumping from the springboard. Swimming is the only thing that keeps me going these days, otherwise work is hetic because of the new website release.

Our first anniversary [pic] 2

After we came back from the temple.
Anniversary Photo

Our first anniversary [pic]

Me and arvind at home!:)
Anniversary Photo

Ordering from Amazon

is apparently not always the most pleasant shopping experience. Of course, I would only realize this when I'm waiting on a replacement wireless router for the home network. Not only are they taking their time in shipping available items but my Warcraft 3 disc which was supposed to arrive today, hasn't! And why, do you ask? Because the tracking number that was given to me was not mine! So here I've been sitting tracking this package shipped to Pleasanton, CA only to realize that it was delivered today to someone else. I call UPS and they tell me it wasn't addressed to me. I call Amazon (*much* better than communicating by email) only to be told 'Oh! Then we will just ship it again to you'. No apologies or even an apologetic tone! They cannot even trace that tracking number to see if it was indeed another order or whatever. In any case, I ordered these 4 items last week and am yet to see even one of them. I don't even know if I will get anything by next week!

In contrast, I ordered some books, CD and a T-shirt from Overstock and the order arrived in pieces yesterday and today. This order was placed a whole 2 days after my Amazon order! Is Amazon.com slacking? I hope not!

New iPod around the corner

Well, after a year of resisting I think I will finally give in and purchase an iPod sometime after the new one comes out in August. The Net MD player just isn't cutting it and Hi-MD doesn't seem to be the right solution either. I don't use my MD as a recording device and the iPod definitely beats carrying ATRAC discs. Besides, I already have an iTunes library.

Gizmodo shows you how the ipod might look.

In other updates, the home network is still down. That is the only explanation I have for the lack of new posts from me. Of course, all the time at work is taken up by getting used to C# and .NET so it has been busy. Ranju should have gotten engaged today, congrats to him (I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know this site exists). Waiting for him before I check out Spiderman 2!

App is going to be away in Las Vegas for the next 2 days, FYI.

wonderful anniversary weekend!

Thanks for all your wishes. We had a wonderful anniversary !:) It was great. We went to temple, came home and then went to a nice restaurant. Ate lot of good food, very good wine , discussed all the issues we ever had. Felt good. Came home, called arjun , then arvind's mom & dad and then my dad. Got everyone's best wishes and blessings. Whole of saturday we spent so lazily :) just ate left overs from fridays and then went for swimming. Came home and saw "The missing". SOOOOOOO BORING. Mr.Ganesh made me see it. Just wanted to spend some time with him cuddling up so i didnt mind that.



Apporom, today I was so tired so i ended seeing more movies, the medallion and then "White Oleander". White oleander is such a sad but a moving story. I heard the most of the book on cd. Its so depressing that i decided to see it as a movie and return the cds back to the library. It most definitely made me think a lot about orphan children and their horrible life at foster home.

Arvind was very happy with me today, I let him play starcraft for 4 hours. can you believe it?

We grilled some vegiees today and ate it. Such a hot hot day. So we went for a long walk late in the night and came home.



O yeah, our router went kaput on friday due to electricity failure. :( so we are trying to find a soln for that. Other than that, what a wonderful weekend.

Fun evening at the pool...

Yesterday's class was great. I've learnt to tread now. Getting better with it. I'm so excited abt it. Then the instructor taught me to flip. Well, i couldnt do it properly. So i'm going to practice tonight at the pool.



Today i tried a recipe from woman's day. Great eggplant sandwich.. arvind & me loveeeed it. We got mom, dad and arjun's card for our anniversary. It was awesome. I loved that picture they sent us. I already framed it. =)

Thanks so much!:)



apporom, i got the big 19" LCD monitor at home. It's so huge.

We're back!

Hello folks, we are back from our last minute visit to Avalon, Santa Catalina Island. Things turned out mostly for the better and it was a great vacation. Photos are online, check them out.

We were back on sunday and I spent yesterday trying to clean up some of the clutter in the garage. In other news, we might have finally resolved the situation with the monitor at home. If all goes well, we should have a new 19" monitor soon. Nothing much else to post right now, later!

Finally catalina islands

well, arvind decided to go to catalina islands. So we packed late tonight and leaving early morning. We have not booked anything yet!:) hopefully we will get accomodations there soon.



I went to see a dermatologist today. I wanted to see a lady doctor to see if she would give me different medication for my acne problem. She gave the anti-biotics again. :( o well, she seems nice, i dont mind trying something to reduce acne. i wish there was a natural cure for this acne.



then, i went to swimming class (its tue & thursdays from 7- 7:45). I saw a guy, just like arvind trying to learn swimming. I learnt breast stroke today. Its tough, it needs lot of strength in arms and legs to move. Arvind & me then sat down to decide on which LCD monitor to buy. Then packed.. busy evening i should say. this will be our mini anniversary celebration. Australia trip will be big one!:-) Oh yeah, i tried brown rice today and loved the taste! It has much more flavor than regular jasmine rice. yummm...