Al Italia

Italian national carrier Al Italia is up for sale and nobody is ready to buy it. Why would I care? I got tempted to write about this, because I had a really bad experience with Al Italia. Here are few of them -

• The air-hostesses had a sense of attitude all over their face. Not one, but all of them!


• They woke up me up just to say that they have the vegetarian food for me and brought it after almost half n hour.


• The senior air-hostesses started scolding juniors in front of passengers.


• A lady requested milk powder for her kid and air hostesses asked her to help herself.

To be honest, I won't ever fly with Al Italia again and would not recommend to anybody either. Lets see if somebody agrees to buy it!!!

Wonderful time of the year

Winter-Cold-Ice-Snow-Cold Winds-Cold Rain-Sweaters-Leather jackets-Thermals-Woolen coats


And they call it wonderful time of the year...!

Merry Christmas-Light up the city-Holiday mood-Warm cozy comforters-Flurries-Snowman-Year End Sale...

Yeah its wonderful time of the year... :))

Silicon Valley Job

I came across this really nice article about getting job in Silicon Valley. Here is the link:

http://snipurl.com/siliconvalleyjob

BTW you learn a lot just by reading Guy Kawasaki's blog.

Lesson to be learned...

Last week I applied for 'Discover's Open Road credit card which gives 5% cash back on gas and auto maintenance. They rejected application saying I have too many open revolving accounts. I was confused as I use very few credit cards and I always pay on time.

Somehow I thought of checking my credit report and downloaded a free credit online. And guess what I had fine on my old Sam's club card! Here is the story... I was using Sam's club card for a year now and then they offered me Discover Credit Card. When I signed up for it, they took my existing Sam's card and gave me a temporary card which I can use until my new Discover card arrives. When the new card arrived, I returned the temporary card and they transferred the balance to my new card. But somehow for unknown reasons (maybe a defect!) they kept charging my temporary card and they never told me about it.

It just took one call to fix the whole issue. If I hadn't check my credit report, I wouldn't have known about it. Though I knew that one needs to monitor his credit report, I was lazy for not doing it. I think I learned a lesson!

Cats in the cradle....

My child arrived just the other day;
Came to the world in the usually way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay.
He learned to walk while I was away.
He was talkin' 'fore I knew it.
And as he grew he said,
"I'm gonna be like you, Dad.
You know I'm gonna be like you."

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man on the moon.
"When you comin' home ?"
"Son, I don't know when.
We'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

Well, my son turned ten just the other day.
He said , "Thanks for the ball, Dad. Come on, let's play.
Could you teach me to throw ?" I said, "Not today.
I got a lot to do." He said, "That's okay."
And he walked away and he smiled and he said,
"You know,
I'm gonna be like him, yeah.
You know I'm gonna be like him."

Well, he came from college just the other day,
So much like a man I just had to say,
"I'm proud of you. Could you sit for a while ?"
He shook his head and he said with a smile,
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.
See you later. Can I have them please ?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man on the moon.
"When you comin home, Son ?"
"I don't know when.
We'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

I've long since retired, my son's moved away.
I called him up just the other day.
"I'd like to see you, if you dont mind."
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I could find the time.
You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu,
But it's sure nice talkin' to you, Dad.
It's been sure nice talkin' to you."

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me,
He'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.

--Ugle Kid Joe

Chak De India

Would you believe it? India won the Nehru Cup!.........If you still don't know yet, I am talking about Indian Football Team. Never before in Nehru Cup history India has reached the final. I am so happy to today. No other sport is as close to my heart as football is. But only thing that always bothers me is India's low ranking in world football. I hope things will be better for Indian football in future. I hope this is start of a new era for Indian football. Go India Go!

Dilbert on Telecommuting

St. Patrick's Day

My usual saturday morning would be waking up at 11, going to Temple for Idly-vada which is my brunch and then probably going back to sleep or watching movies. But last week for a change we decided to go for St. Patrick's day parade in St.Louis downtown. I had never been to a parade in US before. Also Bela was enthu to attend the Irish celebration. All I knew about St. Patrick's Day was its an Irish festival where everything is green - decorations, clothes and even beer.

We had a nice half n hour ride to downtime St.Louis in metro. The parade started with clowns, jugglers etc and then the school bands started coming in playing sync music. There were military people, huge ballons, para-jumpers and all kind of advertisers you could think of. My favorite were the Irish dancers, little girls with curly pony tails dancing in perfect sync to the Irish music. After 2 hours of parade it was getting little boring as you wait for the next band to come in!

We didn't wait for the full parade to end, coz it was getting colder by the minute and our enthu was dying. Well it was nice experience for the first time. But I have to think twice if I have to go again!

Some of the pics from the Green Parade:

St.Patrick's Day

Good Timepass

Nice addictive ping pong game for your rescue on boring days or meetings or anywhere!

Ping Pong 3D