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Archive for July, 2005

Anger!

It was Friday and so time to talk to base, home. Mom knows my call before she picks up the phone. Maybe it I because I call exactly around the same time. I think that is the reason. Talked about this and that. Mostly the Mumbai rains. Nothing much happened in Borivali (that’s where I [...]

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Main Pass Ho Gaya!

I passed. I cleared my Dutch Exams. Its not over yet. Many classes to go. However, I cleared the first one. Not with flying colours but yes I passed.
I remembered most of the words in Dutch. I also passed the conversation test with Anil. Although the teacher did say that folding your hands and talking [...]

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Dutch Exams Today

I have been attending a Dutch language-speaking course for more than a month now. I had always wanted to learn another language. I tried learning Malayalam once. But gave up when my friend did not agree to teach me.
Now, partly because of my project requirement and also because my company offers me to teach Dutch [...]

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I was watching the news on Mumbai yesterday on NDTV. Yes! We do get NDTV in Netherlands and also SET Max and Sony Entertainment Television too. Courtesy, of course Vijay. The major news stories were of course the Mumbai Rain and the Mumbai High Fire.
The whole of Mumbai was flooded in water and an oil [...]

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It is still raining in Mumbai. The news of the rains is now coming in. Yesterday surprisingly even the internet was short about news about the Mumbai rain. It has been a record rainfall in Mumbai. It has been even the highest in India’s history. The rain was measured at 94.4 centimeters (37.1 [...]

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As I write this, its raining heavily in Mumbai. Rains are lashing Mumbai and it seems that Mumbai has really become an island. Its cut of from the rest of the country literally. Long distant trains have stopped coming in. The Airport is closed. The local Trains have stopped and BEST busses are very few [...]

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There are days when you remember a particular song and want to hear it really badly. Those are the moods to listen. It may not have to do with anything currently happening in my life. But just for the sake of it. So today morning I wanted to hear this Lucky Ali song “Kitni Haseen [...]

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Microsoft has renamed the new Windows Operating System as Windows Vista. Earlier it was codenamed Longhorn. I really do not understand or know what Longhorn means but what impact will Vista have on the consumers, only time will tell.
I have been using Windows since I started using computers. I started with Windows 95 and now [...]

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I talked to my mother twice a week. We talk about normal things like what is happening back home and what is happening at my end. She is currently undergoing treatment for her knees joints pain.
While talking to her this Friday, I asked how was the pain was and how was the treatment going? Our [...]

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Belling the Cat

Finally belled the cat. I mean, talked to ‘A’ about the problem he had. Bad move, because I got to hear some unpleasant things from him about me. Not directly but indirectly. Maybe I am becoming like him and interpreting things in a wrong way. But somewhere I felt that he just stopped of [...]

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