I did a course - required for all new hires - at work just a while back. In the quiz at the end of the course I got almost all the answers right. The course was about Money laundering and terrorism financing. I didn't know I knew so much about these topics. I am so l33t maybe even, dare I say it, rad.
I got an email from the folks at VerveEarth about adding my blog to Verve. It's a combination of Maps and Blogs it looks cool and the idea does seem good especially if you are tired of looking at your browser's "normal" interface every single time you blog. Give it a try and add me as a favorite I want to try out the social network thingies on the site.
This is the link to my VerveEarth blog
http://verveearth.com/dest/user/14681
Cool as it is I don't know if it has the "killer" feature which will make bloggers use it at as a prime interface or will this be one of the casual flings you forget about after a couple of days ?
Well guess what I survived Powerpoint poisoning (see earlier post) - I must be made of tough stuff or maybe the exercise is paying off.
My new workplace ( decided to make use of my extraordinary talents and unmatched intelligence by starting me off on work right away. Not much idle time here. I am not complaining they do pay me for work not for gulping down the free coffee and cakes in the break room.
The title of the post is due to the fact I am using my brother's laptop right now... har har. (Am I not clever!). I am going through inquisition induction programs at work. This the period when a bunch of people are made to sit through innummerable presentations and trainings for hours on end risking death through Powerpoint poisoning. After this I will get to work and have a computer and email and internat access...meanwhile I am still researching laptops for my own self. I think I will go with Dell. I am also thinking of a MacBook but not sure if I am quite ready to plonk that much money and then realize I want Windows after all... Anyway see y'all soonish.
An enforced break this time. I will be without access or with limited access to this wonderful invention we all know as the computer for a while. I had cheaped out and used my work laptop for years for personal stuff too now that I'll be returning it.
Stay tuned or don't I'll make sure you know when I am back.
1. I have recovered enough from the surgery to have stopped using crutches. I walk with a limp but am getting better all the time. I have started cycling at a nearby gym to strengthen my leg - doctor's advice.
2. I am moving back to my hometown and with my parents on longer term basis now At least till I am agile and mobile enough to be on my own again this will go on.
3. I have resigned from my current job and will be moving to the new one from May. The new work is of course in my hometown so I can actually go to work instead of working from home. I was getting sick of the work from home thing.
4. I am now in Gurgaon to complete my resignation process in person. My company said I could get it done without being there in person but I decided to. Plus had to sell off most of the furniture I had left at my friends' houses and take the stuff I wanted back with me. More importantly I can meet my friends and say good bye to them.
So many changes in the last month I am someday going to look back and be amazed.
I recently scanned a few old photos from the family album. This is one of the few I will be posting.
I guess this must have been the 1980 or 1981 when I was four or five. I am standing near the fox cage in Chennai's Children's Park (why they don't they just call it a zoo?). For some now unfathomable reason I loved foxes (in a cage of course) then. I think they had all gone mad from being locked up and the heat and they would be panting and running inside the small cage like mad - insanity can be so attractive you know. I was with me father as always when the kids got cranky at home he would take them out somewhere - anywhere (I believe we were just an excuse for HIM to go out). We didn't have a camera , some guy who made money taking photos offered to take one of me. If memory serves right it was dad who decided to go with it with no pestering or tantrum-ing from me. He paid a HUGE sum of Rupees 10 for which the photographer not only made a print but also mailed it our address. Rs 10 went a long way 28 years ago I guess.
Edit: People in the Sun (can't you have a name?) just coz I don't have a baby doesn't mean I can't post cute pictures - Take That!!!
