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3月31日 Road Map, Salem OR to Little Rock ARSo much happened in so little time! I resigned from Saber/EDS and 4th April is going to be my last day. I am joining a new project with the State of Arkansas IT department. Yes, I am moving to Arkansas to a place called Little Rock. The reason for the move is money and position and as of now I am happy with both. I am reading and getting to know more about Arkansas, it’s going to be hot and humid like Chennai, India. This place is close by Texas with sizable Indian community and lot of corporate opportunities. Not many people prefer Arkansas as a place to move but I think as long as the work and offer is good I really don’t care about the place. Coming from India I believe I can live in any place and in any living conditions as long as it is not really extreme. So here is the plan, My join date in Little Rock is on 14th April. So 5th April I am packing everything in my car and I am going to start driving to Santa Barbara, California to meet Ale. It is 900 miles from Salem OR so it will take me about 14 to 16 hours to reach there. I am going to stay in SB for 3 days and on 8th morning I will be leaving to Dallas, Texas that will be 1500 miles say about 22 to 24 hours, I will reach there on 9th afternoon. I will be meeting Sreekar who has come down from India and probably spend a day or two with him. I will also get to meet Neeru and Satish in Dallas. On 11th morning I will be leaving to Little Rock, Arkansas which is about 300 miles from Dallas. So In total it is going to be 2800 miles of drive from Salem OR to Little Rock AR. It is going to be first of its kind for me and I will be driving alone. My big road trip after the 54 hour trip from Syracuse-Boston-Maine coast line-Syracuse. I am excited to see all the people on my way and to experience the longest drive ever. 3月11日 Passport StorySomething Very funny I heard from Vishnu yesterday. One of his colleagues wanted to visit India, so she went to the Indian Consulate to apply for a visitor’s visa. So here is the funny part, she was very smart and she planned on not taking the Passport with her but a copy of the passport. Obviously, she was sent back home. The reason is even funnier she thought someone would steal her visa in the consulate. I wonder, when you travel internationally your passport is checked when the ticket is being issued then at the security then before you board the plane then at the immigration and all this check also include with an original visa stamp or a visa paper. You aren’t even allowed to enter your own country without your passport. How on earth will the Indian consulate trust copies of the passport and not the original. In fact making a fake passport to so easier these days how difficult would it be to make a copy of any passport and stick your name. I think she needs Photoshop lessons after that she will not even believe looking at her own picture taken by herself. Anyways I guess everyone has their own little sweet moments to look back and smile at, this will be hers. Another funny thing is that vishnu is going to attempt sky diving but a little hitch is that he has to reduce 5 lbs before he takes the jump as the sky diving institute suggested and wouldn’t allow anyone who is more than 250lbs. Man!!! Vishnu, you said you have no savings but you have a treasure of fat on you fat ass. LOL!!! Another suggestion, if you want to visit India, do not apply for a work visa. Why? There are 1.2 billion people living there, ocean of talent, cheap labor, unemployment, poverty and its developing nation. Why would you get a work permit when people in India don’t have work and they go out to other countries to looking for work? Ok my sweetheart is on TV. GTG 3月4日 "Second" or 2ndI was introduced to Second Life again by Mitcheal, I created an avatar, went shopping with her, bought some free cloths, tried looking cool but it was a mess to come up with a perfect face or body. You meet different people who are not what they are in the second life just like me. In second life I can be a handsome guy from France with long hair, romantic and sloppy soft English which women find very attractive or I can own a Ferrari. Anyways the reason it’s a hit may be not technology or animation but it is more to do with our personality, what we could have been if things were perfectly right for you to be a man of your own dreams. The most catching thing for me about second life is the word "second". Second or number 2 has always been associated with me in more than many ways. May be I am biased with the number and I can logically come up with reasoning of associating to number 2 in anything I see or think of. For example my birthday is May 2nd, I am working on 2 projects, I have always been a second choice to any girl I have ever met, or my parents have 2 kids or I have 2 degrees or I specialize in 2 applications etc. I can come up with number of ways to relate myself to the number 2. I remember login on to second life a year back and I found that I can do anything I want and all I needed was programming skills and since they were promoting the site it wasn’t expensive to have L$. Anyways the change I saw is how it has been commercialized and how everything is L$ like in real world. There are a lot of goodies but who needs goodies anyways. You always want to be unique and popular. May be Second is so different because it is Second not Third or Fourth or any other number. It fails being first and it is not as bad or the Third or the Last. I think the number 2 is more about reach ability, “I can be number one but I missed out on something so I am number 2” for numbers like 3, 4 or 100 it is more like I am not as good may be I have to put more effort in to it but with 2 the room for speculation and re-evaluation brings in a lot of thought and sadness because you almost made it.
PS: do not mix this up with mathematics. It has nothing to do with it. |
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