Saturday, February 27, 2010

Life in Jan 11 - Feb 27

Do not let Feb end. Do not let Feb go away. It just started and now its the end. Lets immortalize this month, this year, this day.

A very slow month for blogging so far, but today i am going to make it up.

My last two blog posts were book reviews. I have written many back to back movie reviews, songs, trips etc but back to back books - i am proud of it.

This post is not going to follow any chronological order of events - I will write things as they come to my mind.

A hiking day trip with Nikesh to Skyline trail - sometime in Jan. This is the link - http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/sanborn.html. But soon, we were on a different trail - under my signature directions but still managed to hike for 5 hrs. Good fun day under the trees. Went to ate lungar at Gurdwara after the hike :) Healthy food!

A trip to Muir beach last weekend. sat on the cold beach and saw waves, wrote couple of things and then went for a 1 mile hike. Alone! Then drove in my car for 3 hrs to find a spot to sit and read Half the sky. Couldn't find a peaceful spot but eventually sat in the hill next to Golden Gate. Read book for 3 hrs and then came back.

Started to make a hat for myself as my next knitting project. 1 inch done. Hoping that it will be done by winter :) - This is what Obama meant by - The audacity of hope.

Tried going to Tuten Khamen exhibition last weekend but ticket got sold out.

Visited Stanford, computer history museum with Deepti didi and family.

Finished two books - Snow and Half the sky. Reviews posted before.

Meetup - Joined a poker meetup, went to one of their events Lost 20$. Had not gone again. Too much to loose.

Meetup - Attended a film club meetup. They screen a movie once a month and no one in audience has any clue about the movie that they are going to see before the movie. It is a surprise. They also call someone from the movie to have a discussion kind of thing going. Last month, the movie was a documentary - The most dangerous man in America . They had also got the director. Brilliant movie. Must have to watch again. This is also nominated for oscar this year. I was looking at a red carpet celebrity there :) This movie deserves its own blog post.

Joined many other meetups but have not attended them.


Officially gave up my piano classes. Sad! Soul searching required.

Worklogue -
1. Jan was very hectic - was doing too many things.
2. Feb was month of disillusionment - need to diversify.
3. Learnt lot of systems :)
4. Went to Stanford career fair - The first career fair where i was on the opposite side of booth - instead of giving my resume, i was giving them. And explaining to everyone with a smile - what we do, why we do, challenges etc. It was quite tiring. But it was only for 2 hrs. Interesting experience.

Movielogue -
Hurt locker - Ok. Not great. The only scene that i liked was when he comes back to US and is buying cereals in a grocery store.

Man on wire - Review posted earlier.

Latest addiction - Law and Order - SVU.

New York, I love you - Not as good as Paris, I love you. Ok. Paris one was excellent.

The class - Foreign language oscar nominee for last year. Interesting, heavy, real, somewhat disturbing. A much appreciated change from Hollywood trash that comes out.

Bad ones - The book of ELI, Sherlock holmes.

Posted before - The Baader Meinhof Complex, Boondock saints.

Rewatched - Head on, ab tak 56.

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