In Pursuit of Wisdom

This April has been full of events for me already. Let's see how I can put those together in words in a simpler manner than the way it happened. The first thing was the hype of Apple iPad finally got me. Apple released it in a Friday and as the nearest shop from where I could buy was 17/18 miles aways from my home, I decided to wait for the first weekday. Hence Monday April 5th I purchased it from San Francisco near my office during lunch break. It's almost the same size as my Kindle DX (a little shorter in height, a little wider). It simply looks fabulous! I purchased the lowest priced version with Wi-fi only that costed $554 with tax and when I bought the cool cover for it the total came to $600. It's okay as my Kindle DX costed me $539 almost 9 months back anyway. I didn't buy the higher storage and didn't wait for the 3G version to come out next month as I didn't want to add another monthly data plan fee and couple of hundred bucks for the device. The most ...

I was quite relaxed for this President's day long weekend as we have finished a major project development work recently in office. So last Friday night I, Shusmita, Ahyan and Amin went to watch the late night to show of Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan in Big Cinema of Fremont (formerly Naz8). Once we came back to the car parking after the show at 2 AM and saw my front passenger's window are broken into pieces. Ah well, our car luck is not going good! Although I have insurance and I took care of the police report, ultimately the out of pocket $500 is an unnecessary cost on top of the recent parking tickets we got. We were planning for a long drive to Napa or highway one this Sunday but we had to skip it as we can't drive the car with the broken glasses. Hence I made the glass replacement done and also did a comprehensive interior wash of the car to get rid of all the small glass pieces out of it. I still have to follow up with insruance for the rest of the damange of the ...