Addendum

In the first blog, I mentioned that I want to write the blog since I wanted to put down my thoughts on piece of paper/blog!

After that, I wrote a couple of blogs. It seems that there is more to just putting thoughts on paper by writing blog. By writing blog, I want to share interesting things that occur in my day to day life with my friends/family. I also want to record some of the most interesting/memorable events that happen in my life. After some time, its too difficult to remember all these things. So why not, write it in the blog ! This way, I'll be able to look back and enjoy these memorable moments in my life!

Many times, one does not get time to be in contact with each and every friend/family via telephone. But in this 'Internet' world, we can be in contact via so many mediums. The Social Networking is the latest example of how we can connect with each other. Via Orkut, I have been able to get in touch with my old buddies whom I was not in touch since last 10 years. :))
Again, reiterating my point of the blog writing, this can be another medium by which your friends/family can be in your touch.

Adios..

A R Blog

Came across this blog of A R Rahman...Good collection of information about the legend "Alla Rakha Rahman"

People who are big fans of A R should definitely check this site:

http://rahmaniac.wordpress.com/

"Encounter with word GPS"

One interesting thing happened at Mini Golf Place that I went near Glen State Park. There was an old lady who was sitting at the reception whom we met. She was between the age of 60-70..

We were talking to her and in the conversation, we mentioned something about GPS. And she was like, " hummmmm :-) You have a GPS! "

She was so surprised to hear about the GPS :)

So what does this mean to me??

There are people in the world who are away from this technological advancements and they are happy in their own world. They are satisfied with whatever they are doing. I admire these people very much. Sometimes I even envy these people that they are so happy and satisfied !

These people are on the opposite end of the line. On one side, its people like us who thrive on technological advancements and other end is lady like the one I encountered!!

Such is the life!

UnPlanned Trip!

Sometimes, I want to do trips without planning. I have done so many road trips in US (and most of them planned), these days I feel like just going to a new place and not plan anything and explore the place.

So this time for Labor Day long weekend, till Friday night - I did not plan anything. I just said to myself "not to plan". People who know me, would say that this is totally opposite to my nature where I plan most of the things so meticulously.

So what did I do? Only thing that I had done till Friday night was to make sure that I have a car rental which is what I need if I have to go any where outside and second thing was to pick a place!!

One of my colleague had gone to this place "Glen State Park" before couple of weeks and he said that its really beautiful. So as per his suggestion, I had decided on this place on Friday.

That's it....On Saturday, we just put the address of one hotel in the GPS and there we go! We started our journey without knowing what to do at our destination. Isn't that a different feeling?
Almost all of the time, you know what you are going to do or you somewhat know what to do at your destination when you are going on a trip. Believe me, you are so much free on your mind when you have no thoughts running in your mind of "things to do". This is a very nice feeling to have.

We got a room in one of the hotels in a small town of "Geneva". Geneva was nice little town with a big "Seneca Lake". Next day, we started our drive towards actual State Park. After reaching there, we explored the small town of "Watkins Glen" and gathered some information from the visitor's center about the activities to do. Later we visited the state park. It was a small hike of 1.5 miles. There was a beautiful gorge in the park with lots of small water falls.

In the evening, we headed to another small town where we played "Mini Golf". This is a fun sport. I enjoyed it even more since the place was in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing in the 10-20 miles radius of this place. It was a small ice cream parlor and the mini golf !! What an amazing feeling!

After that we had dinner at another small town (Corning) at "Thali of India". The girl who was serving us was very innocent and cute. :-)

After that we headed back home!!

All in all "UnPlanned Trip" turned out very nice!

First Blog!

Its been a long time since I have been thinking of writing a blog. I tried to take some time out but never got the time to write anything. It happens in many things, that you want to do something, but you never take time out for that. Its simply because you donot prioritize things correctly.

You always have "time". Many people say that "24 hours is too less to do everything". I have myself made such a statement so many times. To an extent, this fact is true. But I still think that, there is always room for doing things if you successfully prioritize them.

So what makes me think that I should write a blog??

Mind is such a constructive piece that it keeps on chewing ideas continuously. You need to sometimes put these thoughts on paper/somewhere else. Sometimes, putting these ideas on paper can lead to new interesting things/solutions. So, writing a blog is one way of achieving this.

This was my first short and simple post. I ll try to post some more soon!