Zodiac, predictions and me

For the past 2 weeks, I have been observing my sun sign horoscope prediction every day. I of all who doesn't believe in horoscope have been having a eery feeling for the past few days observing what they r predicting for me. Almost 3 or 4 times its been so true. It was as if someone was following me and knew what exactly might happen to me that day. Though I think it might be a mere coincidence coz most of time the prediction dint make any sense, I thought lemme browse more and c what sun signs tell for me. So I found this 2 posters for Aries ( March 21st - April 20th) - the good and the bad one. This means they give you the good and the bad characteristics for Ariens. Yeah, though I don't believe in horoscope I was always proud I was an Arien. Don't ask me why, but I am. So here I am analyzing the two posters and finding what are the characteristics that match me.

Good Characteristics:
Energetic - Oh yeah, I am totally on for it. Any time, any place I am called for, I am there all bubbling with energy. Something I am really proud of and touch wood, be there for me forever.

Enthusiatic - So when I said I have enuf energy, I think enthusiasm goes along with it. So yep, I am enthusiastic.

Inspiring - Hmm, I donno what exactly means here. If it means that I am inspiring to people around me, then I am the wrong person to say if its right. Though I did have couple of them tell me that I have inspired them to do stuff, I exactly donno if I am inspiring. But I do know for a fact that I get inspired by people a lot and there have been lots of inspiration from people in my life.

Curious - Oh yes, I am always eager to learn more and I keep asking so many questions. So yeah let it be knowledge or let it be crap I am always curious to learn new things.

Spontaneous - I think I am one coz most of time I do things without thinking twice. I think I do stuff out of some impulse and without any thought. May be I am spontaneous.

Good-Leader - Hmm, interesting. Other than being a sport secretary at school and a cultural secretary in college, I haven't really been a leader. But I think I did justice to my post while being one in both these cases. Life ahead would tell me if I am a good-leader indeed.

Direct - Now this can mean many things. But what matches to me is that I am frank and straightforward. So if they mean this, then yes I am one.

Selfless - True, most of the time. I do think for others first and then about myself. But I think human nature is that at some point of time in life we tend to be a bit selfish.

Helpful - Others should say this, but I try my best to be one.

Risk-taker - Hmm, may not be so much true. Yeah I do take lots of challenges and strive to get them happen, but I am not one who seek risks. I just take the risks which I think is necessary for my life and which when taken will give me fulfillment.

Frank - Like I said earlier, I am frank and straightforward.

Strong-willed - Determined Mind set. May be or may be not.

Optimistic - I cannot vouch more on this. I mean I am sometimes but I don't think I am optimistic in everything in life. I get scared a bit sometimes whether stuff would happen until someone optimistic comes to me and says I can do it.

Courageous - Naaah, I need someone giving me an initial push for most courageous things. But after the initial push, I can tell u for sure, I can finish the task.

Stimulating - May be or may be not.

Confidant - Until I make a decision I donno whether I am so much confidant on it. But once I have taken one, I can say I am confidant about that and never regret about it.

Perseverance - This is totally me. Given a job or a task or whatsoever, I do not give up until I get what I want satisfying me.

Independent - I try to be one lately after coming to US and like it.

Extraordinarily Exciting - Yeah that can be said seeing me all the time energetic and enthusiastic to do something.


So yeah I have covered the good parts...so far so good..everything kinda matched i guess. Let me now concentrate on my bad traits.
Bad Characteristics:

Brash - Oh yeah I think sometimes I can be hasty and unthinking.

Restless - Yep I'm so impatient to wait for nething. If I come to know about anything, I am restless till I know it or do it.

Lustful - No comments for now ;-)

Foolhardy - Donno if i am so rash, but cld be hasty sometimes.

Head-strong - Naah, I am not one.

Jealous - Oh yeh, I can become jealous very easily. But unlike many, if I do become I tell it out immediately than let it be in my heart.

Quirky - I donno whether I could be tricky..hmm..to be thought about!

Self-centered - This is something I cant understand. In my good traits they call me selfless and now here self-centered..hmm..bad bad bad

Hot-headed - Oh yeah, I can get angry very easily without even thinking. But something good about this is, even if I get angry, it would not and cannot last for long :- )

Bossy - I can be one. I donno if I really mean to be one, but without my knowledge I become one I guess. Like for example, when I went to eat lunch with Brian, I did not even realize I was ordering stuff and taking charge without even asking him what he was interested in..but again as and when I was done I remembered what I was doing and felt bad about it. May be something I should work on.

Blunt - Nopes, I can't be one.

Argumentative - Guess I can do this for hours.

Impulsive, Impetuous - I do act on an impulse rather than thought, true..something to work on I guess.

Brazen - Try not to be, but I can be sometimes.

Impatient - To core. I cannot wait for anything anytime. I get so impatient all the time. I guess my guy should have lots of patience to handle me :-D


So yeah I did realize I have quite a bit of bad traits I should work on and many more I guess which they have not mentioned. But on the other hand feels good to know about my good traits too. Now the moral, did i start believing in horoscopes..no not yet...i still cannot believe in it..may be some day i will like the rest of my family. Lets wait and c.

Pineapple Express

Yep, this is a name of a movie I just came from. Totally hilarious. The movie was for 111 minutes, but trust me, you would not realize how long the movie was. Everytime a weekend comes, I wonder what the heck I was going to do, but then today after having an relaxing morning and afternoon, I wasn't feeling like staying at home. Enuf is enuf, I need to get up and go somewhere and forget that I am alone. I wanted to do something fun. Okee fine, I know I wont do nethign fun alone, so I thought okee atleats lets go for a movie. Now the last movie I saw was WALLE. I just adored tht movie. I luv Pixar movies. I think they do a great job. Anyways, I had a looooooooooong queue of movies to watch and I could not decide which I to go for. Then I thought okee.. I want fun and I dint wanna go to a serious or a chick flick so what else was remaining, a comedy movie I suppose and yep I immediately choose Pineapple express. I liked Seth Rogen in Knocked up. He was so natural. Ofcourse I have always luved James Franco's smile. It's so cute. I mean the best was the spidey 3 where he gets memory loss and he gives this innocent cute smile all the time. Yeh, he was cute. Anyways, so I thought lemme go and watch this movie and I was sure it was gonna be some fun. Trust me it was sooper fun.

The movie had several laugh out loud moments. Many a times, I did realize I was laughing out so loud, but who cares...there were lots of ladies next to me giving me company in laughing out loud. James Franco just steals the show. He was really good in his acting. Yeah it seemed to me I was watching a typical goofy indian movie where even if the hero is shot thrice he stays alive till the end. But again, we go for the movie for entertainment and as long as it makes us laugh I dont care if its silly. So yeh watching James being hilarious in every scene hes acted is worth the penny for me. The basic plot for the movie is that a stoner(Seth) and his drug dealer(James) are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder. Seth runs for his life and he chooses his drug dealer for rescue and the whole movie is how they two escape from the murderers. Seth is very good and entertaining. Overall I had good fun and so goes the Saturday evening. Atleast I did not sleep the whole day.

Office Office!

Sorry I wans't able to update my blog for few days now. With a release coming up, I feel I am working more than I have ever worked in my whole life. I mean 8 hrs continuously (of course I dint work every minute I do take breaks and bug ppl. Can i change that quality of mine???). Its a different but great feeling. Earlier at school I never used to work more than 3 or 4 hrs. It was a great deal for me to sit at one place and work. But now, its got a habit for me. I have started enjoying coming to office and start working. There are days when you work on something the whole day and you cannot figure out whats wrong in the code and there has been amazing days that the code just gets fixed with some magic I did. I mean just think about it. I am actually coding something which is gonna be used by people very soon. My god I always wanted to do such jobs, but I am already doing it. While I was doing my thesis project in my Masters, I was always so proud and happy that I was doing something which has a practical value. I was working on a s/w for visually impaired. Some day or the other its gonna be used for real. Right now my best friend is working on it and finishing it, but either ways I was and am happy that there was some part in it. But now, its another great feeling. I am making a whole new feature from scratch. I have seen such a feature in a nuvi before, but never ever thought how easy or difficult was to code that. It was a black box then, I provide destination and it gives me results. But now, I am actually doing that page, it feels great. I donno what kind of bugs would turn up tomorrow. Let me be optimistic about it, may be there would be really minor ones. Common, I have to accept that humans tends to do mistakes and I am no less. But I am been testing my s/w for few days now and it turned out to be really useful. May be I am biased coz i created it. Very much possible. But then I dont care, its useful for anyone whoz new to the city and wanna see the whole list of turn they are gonna make instead of looking at the map one turn at a time.

Yep I know I am just writing too much about myself. But, I just could not control my happiness. I knew I would work for a company one day, but actually working for one is exciting. I love my job. Its new, good learning experience and more than anything I have awesome team mates. Everyone at Garmin (as far as I've met) are so kind to me. I got areally good friend : Sangita. These 2 ppl just adore me and are so nice to me. Thank you guys! I have got an excellent lunch gang : Sangi, Lizee, Kandy, Radhika, Sarah and Dilusha. It is always so much fun at lunch to make different conversations. I like the way Kandy and Radhika tease me every day. One day they dont turn up, I feel so bad there is no 1 to tease me. Thats how close we all have become. With all this plus amazing work, why would I not be happier any more. Okee guys, this is a short yet sweet description of my life at Garmin which I just love! Would update some more soon!

Life - A Mystery

It was an eventful day yesterday! Finally for the first time in my life I had a girl's day out. It was exactly like how I imagined it alwayz to be. Sangita (intern in Garmin) was leaving back to Florida as her intern was getting over and so I decided to spend a day with her. We watched a movie and then went to the mall and got some dresses for me. Felt really good since the dresses were perfect fit for me. After that we met two more gals and we had a pool party where I gave the other three gals some tips on swimming as I was the only one who knew swimming. It was a fun night. During the whole day I spent with them I had lots of calls from my friends and seeing this Sangita popped up a single question which I dint know at that time would make me think so much for the rest of the night and today.

Seeing me being friends with so many guys, she asked me what would I do after wedding? I asked her what does she mean and she said with so many guys as friends whether I would be friends with them after wedding? At that time I casually replied her, thats a problem I should be facing after wedding and why should I think about it now. But later during the night and today I kept thinking about and thought what could happen. Do I really have to leave my friends behind for a new person in my life. Is that new person going to take so much priority in my life that I would forget all my friends? Will I accept to do anything for that guy? Is it fair enough? I really like my friends and will I have to leave them behind? All these were the questions which came as a flash in front of my eyes.

I thought a lot about it. I even discussed about it with my friends and got few views from them. One of them said that, when the time comes that I am married I would start giving higher priority to him. It kinda made sense, I would spend a lot of time with him that maybe I won't spend much time with my friends. But again what if he restricts me to talk. I then thought, I am capable enuf to either make him understand that I could manage both him as well as my friends at the same time and maybe he would agree to it. But again what if he gives me a choice and I had to choose. Even for this question, I thought even if I choose him, my dearest of my dearest friends would understand the reason as to why I am not being in touch with them. While thinking about this, I was wondering what would happen to me if before me one of my friend gets committed and what if I would have to restrict my friendship with him. Yes very well could happen in reality. But this is life right. It just keep changing. New people continue to enter our lives every now and then and we would need to change few stuff for them.

Thinking about this, it reminded me that while I left college 3 years back I felt really bad I was leaving my friends behind and coming to a new land where I did not have any friends, but slowly I made new friends here and life moved on. So I assume that life would move on similarly even after wedding. But really the thought scared me for a while, but thinking practically everyone does adapt themselves to situations. So I am sure I should be adapting myself to that new life when I really have to. After all, I have managed it pretty well all these days and won't I be able to continue to adapt it. But truly, thinking about it life is really a mystery and I don't know how it would turn out for me.

When Harry met Sally

"Can men and women ever just be friends?" is what the film questions. When Harry met Sally is a 1989 romantic comedy movie. Harry thinks " Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way " and Sally disagrees, claiming that men and women can be strictly friends without sex. This argument becomes an underlying theme to the movie. So the whole movie, though both of them like each other really well, they don't tell that to each other coz their ego comes between and they didn't wanna negate each other. But in the end they do make love to each other and realize tht they love each other.

Now, why did I take this topic. Very simple, I could not agree with Harry. I don't know about the culture here or how it was in 1989 period, but I have been having only guys as friends right from my childhood and I was always comfortable having them as a friend. The movie says at some point if the girl is attractive, then the guy would wanna have sex with the gal and there goes the friendship. Yes true, if the guy think like that. But I don't agree all guys to think like that. I have had really great friendships and still have those. I really really doubt not 1 among them would have thought this even in their dreams. With the part, loving your friend and making love to her, could be agreed if she was the only girl you think you found for your life, then I think there is nothing wrong in loving your friend. I totally believe that only a good friend knows u better than anyone and could adjust with you and live happily with you. So if both the friends have the same feelings for each other, there is nothing wrong is marrying each other. But this would work only if both the gal and guy have same thoughts and thinkings and doesn't care what the society feels. If atleast one of them thinks about it, then it wont happen.

Last but now least, the movie was good with wonderful dialogs between them but again I felt I should write a blog on the theme as 80% of my friends are guys and how I contradict from the movie.