My latest infatuation

I'm in 'love' with the Apple. Not the fruit, the computer. My history with Apple started when V gifted me an i-Pod 3 years ago, the cool kind (then) which could play videos and all. i-Pods have come a long way from then, but I still love mine. Last year, before our trip to India, a cousin of mine requested me to bring her an i-Phone, remember the craze? There was so much demand and no phones in the store. I never really understood what the whole fuss was about. It's a phone after all...the oh-my-god-you-want-to-spend-so-much-for-a-phone phone!

(At this point, if you are wondering why I didn't just order it online?
Answer: You don't know me very well. Yeah, there's never enough time. I was in the store 2 days before my trip)

Anyway, that's besides the point. So, it was for the i-Phone that I stepped in to the Apple Store for the first time and that's when I saw it... the i-Mac. My heart skipped a beat, ofcourse that's an exaggeration, but I still like to think of my reaction that way. It was the sleekest looking thing I've ever seen! That's when I realised that I had met my next computer. I usually don't have strong desires, especially not for electronic goods... but this one was different, I knew I had to have it. It wasn't really difficult to convince V about the i-Mac, however, it wasn't as easy as I expected it to be. I had to present a solid case for choosing a desktop over a laptop. Finally, V gave in... let's say he had no other choice! All I had to do next was wait, wait for our old laptop to die. It was a long hard wait... and I think its fair to say that I played somewhat of a crucial role in the death of our old computer.

Then it happened, two weeks ago, we brought my cool gadget home! Our first few 'dates' have gone pretty well. I've realised that I have to make some adjustments, like I miss having MS Office... I know I can't have it all. With some patience and a CD with Office Products for Mac, I think we'll get there. For now, we are getting to know each other and I have a feeling that we are headed in the right direction and that we are going to have a long lasting relationship.

Who knew...

... that not taking pains to groom yourself can get you a record?

I say its a book of Weird Records or may be even eeewwwww Records!

¡Hola! ¿Cómo está ustedes?

YES! I am proud to announce that V & I are “estudiantes de español”. We’ve been trying to learn Spanish for a while now, mainly because it makes 'comunicacion' a lot easier with a lot of people around this area. Almost all the people who cook and serve food in both our office cafeterias are from Latin America. Agreed most of them speak and understand decent enough English, but there are some folks who… let’s say struggle with the language. Sometimes the whole conversation would just be vigorous head nods and lots of Yes and No.

Things started to change after our trip to Spain; we picked up some basic sentences from our handbook. Even with his broken Spanish V manages to get preferential treatment at his canteen (translation: more food). See, there’s a benefit right there. As for me, I wanted to learn Spanish for the love of learning a new language * cough *.

So we tried borrowing books from the library, checked some online resources, and even considered buying the famous Rosetta Stone – Nothing worked! Then one day we got a booklet from our county about their Adult Education Program. They had a pretty impressive (and some times eyebrow raising) line up of classes: Various ethnic cuisines * cool *, lessons in finance * ugh *, parenting * ignore *, pet training * ignore *, applying make up * laugh out loud *, international languages * YESSSSSSS *

Need I say more?

Our classes are on Wednesdays. It started mid-Jan and goes on till April. Honestly, after four weeks, our over all progress has been pretty slow, but it’s definitely better than not knowing anything. We are certainly enjoying the classes, our teacher is an elderly gentleman and he is really a lot of fun! These days we look forward to Wednesday evenings! And for me personally it comes with added benefits such as bunking gym and not having to think of what’s for dinner * smiles happily *

Now what?

When I started this blog, I was all excited about the inaugural events. Now that’s done with, I am not sure how I should proceed.

Well, there are lots of people maintaining blogs and I feel that all of them have some reason to keep a log. The ones that I read regularly, mostly fall under some of these categories:

1. People that love to cook and share their recipes (also post amazing pictures of the delicious end product)

2. Some love to travel and write about that and put up pictures too, so people like me can daydream about a vacation to exotic locations.

3. Others have their pregnancy stories, which later turn in to baby progress blogs.

4. Then some who I will call – writers - those that have a way with words… they can make anything as mundane as brushing their teeth sound really interesting.

Where do I belong? Let me see…

Category 4 – Ruled out. Who am I kidding, there’s no way I belong here!

Category 3 - May be I can write about all the times I freaked out when I thought I was pregnant! mmmYah, I don’t think so! Ruled out.

Category 2 – Barely belong. I don’t have too many travel adventures under my hat, but I definitely can write about the few places that I’ve visited in my adult life. Okay, so that’s about 6 to 7 posts.

Category 1 – I don’t think so! I cook, just so I can eat and survive. And, I can never write about it because I have no clear measurements… and honestly, I never use the same recipe twice, even if the dish is same I end up changing something or the other. However, if any one wants to use me as a guinea pig for tasting their treats, I can eat and write about that!

So what should I write about? Worst case, I can come up with a list of things that I can’t write about and write about it… that might work!

Now, I am going to try to take the rust of my brains and hope to come up with some interesting things to write about.