best buddies 

up up and away! 

Flying High

I just love air trips, one for the sheer experience of flying high up above and second for the short travel time. The most exhilarating feeling is when the huge man-made winged beast takes-off to the blue skies. It’s just amazing that such a huge machine can climb so gracefully. I just love the feeling when the plane is airborne. The powerful whirring of engines when it is taxing generates varied emotions and racing thoughts. At one moment the beast is just calmly prowling on the ground waiting for the pilot to take it high up above and the next moment the adrenalin pumping acceleration pushes you back into your seat. One realizes the power of the plane as it just leaves the pull of the earth defying gravity and keeps climbing. The majestic bird takes to the skies as effortlessly as the soaring eagle. There aren’t exact words or emotions to describe the feeling one gets. Fly and you know how it is.

Terrible Hairsperience

On a lazy Friday afternoon, coming back from a marathon shopping session, before leaving for my vacation, I decided to have a hair cut to look presentable to my buddies and my bro. Took an appointment for five in the evening. Here is where, I realized later was the biggest mistake I made, but who knew a simple haircutting would turn into a disaster. I sat in the barberÂ’s chair at 5:00pm and intuitively thought something was wrong. A new looking chinkoo female hairdresser was getting down to business. I asked her to trim my hair and there began the ordeal. She was fumbling with the scissors and after trying out four she finally selected one, then she tried on five combs before she chose one. After cutting four and a half hairs, she suddenly stopped and reached for an unwieldy electric shaver. I am not kidding, but after 15 minutes she had cut just nine and a half hairs using as many instruments. Then she got the hang of it and increased her speed to two hairs a minute. She was nowhere close to finishing after 30 mins. I was feeling increasingly frustrated sitting in the chair wrapped in a stuffy cover with my hair nowhere close to trim. After suffering another 15 minutes I just gave up and resigned to fate with the hope that she would finish in another hour. I actually dozed off midway and was awoken by the now hysterical hairdresser who was screaming after she accidently nipped my ear. That was the last straw, I was the one who was hurt and instead of being helped had to turn to helper and calm down the hairdresser. She collected her wits and managed to finish off the remaining ordeal. I was maybe her first customer, but definitely her last. Phew! Atleast I managed to come back with my entire ear intact and patched up with a band aid. This is what I would call a hairsplitting hair-sperience.

Book Tag

Total number of books I own: About 500. (counting all the engineering books used in all the 4 years. Some of them have been gifts, some I brought at the local papermart, some of them I have forgotten to return to the lender and some I forgot to return to the library). I have been fond of reading from a small age. If I have nothing to do I would be found curled up in my favorite spot with a book in hand and nothing apart from the end of the world would make me stop reading ;) Most books I have read come in the category "referred by others". If someone says that its an amazing book I just have to lay my hands on it and wont rest until I finish it :)

Last Book I brought: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

Last Book I read: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Five books that mean a lot to me: (why they mean a lot to me, well click on the links!)

Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling(currently on the 5th book and eagerly awaiting the sixth)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Da' Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Partner by John Grisham


I tag

Arun

Sushanth

Rohini

Book Tagged

Well this seems to be a new idea. I have been book tagged(blog book tagged) by Nupur. I was just reading about book tagging. You read a particular book. Register on a site which deals with taggging. After you finish reading, leave the book at some place, like library, cafeteria, bus station etc and mention online where you left the book. Somebody else would pick up the book and the book travels. If you get back the book you read, guess the book compyeted a full cycle. Nice aint it. But I for some reason wouldnt like to part with a book I liked. Ya Ya, i know knowledge increases by sharing...blah! blah!....I would hate to part with my collection of harry potter. Currently I am reading the 5th harry potter book.....rest of the details in a new post

Awesome! 

Glorious! Aint it? 

Weather and weekends

whether weather will work on weekends? A pressing question indeed. Another weekend where the weatherman predicts the opening of skies. Seems like the wather has taken a break yet again and it so happens that its a weekend. I wonder sometimes, does the sun work according to the american lifestyle? slog from monday to friday and relax on weekends! I am yet to see a bright, hot and sunny weekend here in Philadelphia. Plan someting for the weekend, and be sure to have rains or gloomy skies for company. The weather is a real spoilsport, sticking out like a sore thumb, and smirking to glory. All your getaway plans go kaput! Best bet is to go on a weekday and work on weekends.
Will the weather wither you away?wait for the weekend and you'll know