Lost in a rush

I went to Florida for thanksgiving vacation. It was much needed break. 4days of pure fun. I met Prad (my school buddy) and his 2 friends - Narayanan and Dinakar. Dinakar was reserved and Narayanan was talkative. And for Prad, he is as usual - getting worried if things are not in line. Only change I can see is geesh..he is losing hair. We went to end of USA - yep- Keywest and the gl-amorous Miami .  We were running behind everything - girls, time and even at one time - gas too. We are about to run out of gas while returning back and never I have imagined shell gas station as pit stop to heaven. Pradeepan had planned good and he and his roomie Nara took the pain of driving us all the way. Thanks buds.

I am doing thanksgiving shopping now. That time of the year where you are supposedly get big discounts/sales. My wardrobe was shouting about lack of attention. We were shopping in Macys. As usual we split up  and failed to re-group at predetermined point. I went to hunt for my roomie when I accidently entered womens section. I was wondering why the heck all eyes were upon me. Only then I realised I was in lingerie section.  My eyes were wide open capturing  like a multi-shot camera! Here is a funny comparision with mens innerwear section.

• Mens section would be few racks. But the womens innerwear section was a mile long. Seems the shorter the womens garment, longer the display section.
• Mens garments would be three-four standard colors. Womens section would cover the entire rainbow and its million combination.
• Men size just has either numbers or letters. S,M or L or 32,33,34. But for women you need both due to the million variations. 32B, 34DD
• Proverb for Men section: Behind every man’s behind there is a brief. Women section: Many will flip between the cup and the hip

The festival season has started…Durga Pooja last day celebrations are here. So i had to pay a visit with my Baangali friends. This whole thing is new to me. It was pretty different.

All Baangalis were there. (O yeah what should I expect in Durga poojo ..thats how they say). We already started going rounds before we could enter the temple. Bcos of parking problem all cards were forced to park in bike lane. It seems its customary to donate some money to gods hundi and SJC PDs coffer. You have to get 2 tickets - one poojo ticket and another parking fine ticket.

Then we said hello to god, chanted some slokas in Baangali  and had prashad and preet bhoj (i would call full meals). Atmosphere was like family reunion rather than the usual pray-to-god-fearfully-and-get-out feeling in south india.

p: Hi
Mr X: Can I take a Minute
p: sure
Mr X: How can I read a XMLFile
p: u can open in IE
p: or in notepad
Mr X: Its coming with Tags
p: ohh

What else you can expect from reading XML file?. Poor guy “p” (considered the XML guy here) had a heart attack.

Joke is based in hindi. One of our team guys was explaining to another poor chap over phone. That poor chap was having issues in becoming root user in server. “Arey yaar, switch user..su karlo..i am telling you na…su ..su ..susukarlo”. The entire team overheard and stood up!