my new toy

Well finally I bought myself a toy. It feels like I'm a kid again. my wife always tells me, that you're like a kid, playing around with your iphone. Well the thing is, its addictive. Once you start using it, you cannot get your hands off it. Its like good old days, when dad use to get us a toy and we use to play with it whole day, and for first 2-3 days, we just don't want to sleep even. I remember, i was in high school, and we got a 6 CD changer 'Sansui' system. My brother and I went crazy and were not ready to sleep that night. So i guess same is happening to me again with this iPhone. I keep on downloading some games and try playing around with it, until I realise that its too late and i should sleep, unless I wanna get late for office next day :)

The best i like about this phone is the interface it has, and the easy of using it. It was surprising to see, my son got hold of this phone and less than a minute he knew how to use it. 

Random Thoughts

Just sitting in office gave me a random thought on how we indians celebrate festivals here and how tough is it for our kids to cope with two very different cultures. Last friday was 'karwachauth', so in the evening there is a pooja ceremony, so my wife was getting ready and she put 'sindoor', so my 3 year old kid ask her "What's that?". So it took her quite a time to explain, why she's putting this and what all it means. I'm sure, he doesn't care right now, but was just curious to know. Same happens when we have diwali or something else, we make sure that sameer wears traditional indian dress. atleast he should be aware of what our culture is. 

I'm pretty sure when he grows up, he's gonna ask million questions, on why we do certain things. Like why don't we eat meat on tuesday. Or why cannot I eat beef? I don't know how I'm gonna make him understand these things, but I'm sure, he will understand :) {at least i can hope for right now}

Fun filled weekend

Well my last weekend was horrible as well as very exciting. You guys might be thinking how's that possible. Well it can be because, according to me, weekend starts at Friday 5:00 p.m. But because i had to stay back till 8:00 in the evening, that's why it was shitty. Don't wanna explain why i was here till 8 because then I'll be all agitated again.

Anyway, the best part was that it was KC's [one of my friend] b'day. So we guys met to celebrate his b'day. The evening started with 3 vodka shots within a span of 5 minutes. [that's crazy...RIGHT!!!!]. well as soon as we finished that, we went to a bar at Metuchun. That's one place where we guys like it, because the guy there makes one of the best Irish Car bomb*. So finally had 2 shots of it. believe me, i was totally high by that time. But then someone [i know who, but will not name it :)] said, "lets try a patron shot". Pheeeew... i was NOT in for that, but then i was told, "COME ON .... PUNJABI...!!!". Now you guys know, why punjabi's are like heavy drinkers (but c'mon you also know they are the ones who ROCK the party). anyways we had one more drink, and finally planned to play pool. The intensity of these drinks can be weighed on the fact that KC started his game by picking up a broom rather than stick for pool. that made us crack a lot. Anyway, as we were about to come back, someone said, "KC is to be surprised at home, so we cannot leave for another 1/2 hr." So what guys had a chance for another drink :). All were again inside the bar and we had couple of Irish Car Bomb again. I don't think, anyone was in a condition to drive back, but somehow Tarun (the brave soul) volunteered himself, and took us to Quick check for coffee, because we were in no condition to face girls at home and spl. to KC's parents and in-laws. Anyhow, we got little bit sober, and finally went home. It was a great experience where KC was greeted with everyone dancing and all.

After cake cutting and all, we finally went upstairs to play poker. not to mention, i lost badly and still have to pay to Sahil and Munshi (which i plan to pay them in next game). So this was on friday night, came back around 5:00 in the morning. But was real fun. 

It was more fun on Saturday as well as Sunday, but will write about that later.

*Recipe of Irish Car Bomb

3/4 pint Guinness® stout
1/2 shot Bailey's® Irish cream
1/2 shot Jameson® Irish whiskey

Add the Bailey's and Jameson to a shot glass, layering the Bailey's on the bottom. Pour the Guinness into a pint glass or beer mug 3/4 of the way full and let settle. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness and chug. If you don't drink it fast enough it will curdle and increasingly taste worse.