July 14, 2004
Hey you
Check out my reinvented website at http://www.personal.psu.edu/vxb142
A little bit of Macromedia Flash (specifically reworded for more clarity) and stuff there now..:-)
A little bit of Macromedia Flash (specifically reworded for more clarity) and stuff there now..:-)
The trip to Chicago
Shopping spree! That is what I will call it. Reached friday evening and the post dinner session was spent at Meijer buying lots of stuff. Then next morning it was time to get the apartment. So we went to the place and saw a nice board "out showing apartments, will be back shortly." So bro called them and they said 30 mins. Then we went to see the place around. Found a board saying garage sale, so we dropped in. Well, an old electrician was retiring and had all his wi?(a)res on sale. Found nothing nice and we decided to come back. The place was open but there was a long line. Saturday would be a busy day for these people, since all the office people would come in to give in their problem on saturday. That said, we waited and finally were seated on a table and were waiting again. I did a walkthrough the model apartments that they had behind. Pretty nice they were, as models always are!
Got the paper work and done and that started the long day ahead. First hauled all the stuff upstairs. Suitcases, Meijer's stuff etal. Next stop. Walmart! Big shop here. From a bathroom shower curtain to soap and salt. Next stop american mattress. Manager-> named Tony. Looked like a short italian with amazing selling power. Forever dropped prices to sell stuff. Somehow managed to get out of there and went to lunch. Forgot the name of the place, but anyway, had a big meal making me sleepy. Next stop,target which yielded just a papertbasket. Now the things that were left were primarirly a table and a chair. Looking for those, we went to Kmart. No luck, there was a nice small table for $50. Went home, unloaded everything. Boy, was it a lot. This guy called Ajay helped my bro to find apartment and all and he came over to help get the stuff up. Settled the place, and then went to this place called Wiches furniture. Damn expensive place, but they did have a lot of nice furniture. It was already 9 by this time. We went back and reached taiji place when it was near 10. I wasn't hungry but bro way. So he had some little to eat and I left him at his hotel. And I slept.
Come sunday and the hunt for the desk and chair led us to a famed new place in woodfield called IKEA. Really a growing brand here, IKEA opened a huge place in woodfield. We heard it was inexpensive and good stuff, but alas, it was not. The full morning yielding two bar stools and an assortment of hangers. Finally we found an office depot. The search of the place was helped by us reading their sale paper that morning and finding a nice deal in there. Finally got a nice desk on sale along with a chair with a mail in rebate. That done, it was home and assembled everything for him. That is where I left him, at 6:30 eastern time and was home at 11:30, 5 hours it took me to get home.
A nice shopping trip. I am slowly evolving into a house settling expert. Moving into a new place. No problemo.
Got the paper work and done and that started the long day ahead. First hauled all the stuff upstairs. Suitcases, Meijer's stuff etal. Next stop. Walmart! Big shop here. From a bathroom shower curtain to soap and salt. Next stop american mattress. Manager-> named Tony. Looked like a short italian with amazing selling power. Forever dropped prices to sell stuff. Somehow managed to get out of there and went to lunch. Forgot the name of the place, but anyway, had a big meal making me sleepy. Next stop,target which yielded just a papertbasket. Now the things that were left were primarirly a table and a chair. Looking for those, we went to Kmart. No luck, there was a nice small table for $50. Went home, unloaded everything. Boy, was it a lot. This guy called Ajay helped my bro to find apartment and all and he came over to help get the stuff up. Settled the place, and then went to this place called Wiches furniture. Damn expensive place, but they did have a lot of nice furniture. It was already 9 by this time. We went back and reached taiji place when it was near 10. I wasn't hungry but bro way. So he had some little to eat and I left him at his hotel. And I slept.
Come sunday and the hunt for the desk and chair led us to a famed new place in woodfield called IKEA. Really a growing brand here, IKEA opened a huge place in woodfield. We heard it was inexpensive and good stuff, but alas, it was not. The full morning yielding two bar stools and an assortment of hangers. Finally we found an office depot. The search of the place was helped by us reading their sale paper that morning and finding a nice deal in there. Finally got a nice desk on sale along with a chair with a mail in rebate. That done, it was home and assembled everything for him. That is where I left him, at 6:30 eastern time and was home at 11:30, 5 hours it took me to get home.
A nice shopping trip. I am slowly evolving into a house settling expert. Moving into a new place. No problemo.
July 11, 2004
My Favourite Photo
My Favourite Photo
Taken somewhere in the year 2000. From Right: Amit, Aparna, Vivek, Charu, Aman and Me (Vittal) :-)
July 08, 2004
My bro is in Chicago
My brother is in Chicago!...and I am going there. I start tomorrow afternoon and would reach in time for an american dinner. Would be picking up bro from wherever he is in Chicago and then go to my Taiji's place. Saturday would be mostly a heavy lifting day with helping move my bro in his new place. Check it out! Apart from all this, life goes on. My car needs new tyres which I plan to get pretty soon. Will put me down about $200. And don't forget to see Vittal's all of three blogs. I guess his company pays him to do all this writing. Good boy Vittal. Carry on!
Wo din kabhi to aayenge.....
July 05, 2004
Jane Kahan Gae Woh Din
Kehte the teri raah mein,
nazron ko hum bichaaenge :-)
Chahe kahin bhi tum raho,
cahenge tumko umr bhar,
tumko na bhool paaenge :-)
nazron ko hum bichaaenge :-)
Chahe kahin bhi tum raho,
cahenge tumko umr bhar,
tumko na bhool paaenge :-)
July 01, 2004
Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
For those who havnt tried it so far, so ahead, blaze the internet. It dsnt make it faster, but its awesome. I have never been so producive surfing the internet ever. A true grad students dream come true. Check it out.
Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
For those who havnt tried the tab feature, its a must. Use a 3 button mouse to inleash the power of this small beast.
More incentives when IE comes with so many bugs in so a little time. The best of the trojan that actually steals your password usign a popup. Microsofts solution, setting the cookie security feature on high, temporarily, but still imagine all those passwords being stolen. A very good reason to switch to this.
Its lightweght! The installation being at a tiny 4.7 MB downloads in a zip. It claims to be just a browser and thats what it is. For the power user all the other features come using pluggins, just download what you want and its there. I compare it akin to wimamps pluggins, just about for everything, no matter how bizzare. The term to use here, if you can dream about it, search and presto it will be there. Two must have pluggins are the google toolbar(oh, how can I live without you?) and the All-In-One-Gestures extension. The latter is a power packed pluggin which will increase your browsing efficiency to just about double.
Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
For those who havnt tried the tab feature, its a must. Use a 3 button mouse to inleash the power of this small beast.
More incentives when IE comes with so many bugs in so a little time. The best of the trojan that actually steals your password usign a popup. Microsofts solution, setting the cookie security feature on high, temporarily, but still imagine all those passwords being stolen. A very good reason to switch to this.
Its lightweght! The installation being at a tiny 4.7 MB downloads in a zip. It claims to be just a browser and thats what it is. For the power user all the other features come using pluggins, just download what you want and its there. I compare it akin to wimamps pluggins, just about for everything, no matter how bizzare. The term to use here, if you can dream about it, search and presto it will be there. Two must have pluggins are the google toolbar(oh, how can I live without you?) and the All-In-One-Gestures extension. The latter is a power packed pluggin which will increase your browsing efficiency to just about double.
