Birthday Analysis (Yeah!)

Turned 24 today. And just like every year, I sat down to think about who I actually am/have become. Results were something like this...

Electrical engineer, daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, friend, woman, dancer, photographer, thinker, talker, writer/blogger, dreamer, doer, problem solver, shopping addict, music addict, food addict, beach addict, future billionaire, Indian, North Indian, Delhite, liberal, traveler, carefree, idealist, fighter, lover, survivor, flirt, volunteer, fun, free spirit, adventurer, explorer, chameleon, celebrity-in-making, goofball, troublemaker, city-girl, optimist, partner-in-crime, extraordinary, funny, rebel, not just-another-girlie girl!

Feel free to add/comment :-)

Not a rant!

I am posting after a break and y'all know the reason - being busy hunting for a job, studying, traveling, maintaining two blogs... Basically just trying to survive each day. But I will NOT rant about it. And I will also NOT rant about my laptop acting funky. I will just mention it. Simply, plainly, casually just mention it...

So my dear laptop (read it with great sarcasm) decided to throw a message on me every time I try to open any program. Be it a word document, or a website, or a picture, or anything else. To get that most annoying "Disk out of memory" message, all I have to do is to click on something. It won't let me log into any websites either. What I don't understand is that what on earth happened to ALL the disk space? No, I am pretty sure I didn't use all of it. Has someone secretly been storing their stuff on my disk? Grrrr...

What's even more annoying is that I feel paralysed without this piece of technology. I have mixed feelings about technology. Well yeah, I am an engineer, but can we not ignore it for a moment? Good. So as I was saying... I have this mixed feeling about technology. As much as I love it and am fascinated by the new gadgets that keep adding to the already flooded electronic market, it makes me think about the days without the blackberries and the laptops. I totally appreciate the development and I promise that I am totally not from the old school. But I do miss the days when a computer was just a computer, and a phone was just a phone. And we had our personal lives, not dependent on or addicted to these super products encapsulated in tiny bodies.

I miss the days when we used to go out and spend more time with our friends and not just poke them on facebook while doing million other things side by side. (Puhleez... don't bring out the point of distance, time etc here). Those old days when the kids used to go out more often and not just play video games at home. When there were no facebook/orkut stalkers. When we actually used to call our parents more often and not just send them an e-mail. When we used to send real flowers and greeting cards on birthdays instead of the e-cards. For some reason we were not this busy. People who came up with the electronics claimed to ease our lives by doing everything for us, faster than us.. But don't you think we have become busier than ever before?

Eeeeesssshhhhhhh... So I just read above, and yes I agree I sounded like a grandma :-P But you can totally blame it on my laptop that is acting up on me. I get SICK keeping it under control... or at least trying to keep it under control.

P.S. I stick to the grandma statements I made. But I also admit that I am addicted to technology and I can NOT imagine a life without my electronic friends - laptop, ipod and their other cousins.

Excuse!

With so much going on with me off late, I have not had time to update this blog in a while. With more stuff to keep me busy – my birthday, long weekend trip and more, I think I won’t be able to update till next week. I do have some things in mind that I want to write about. So check back next week for more :)

xoxo

Introducing... GPS - a Girl, a Phone, and a Suitcase!

Yes! that's the travel blog I mentioned in my last post. I wanted it to be out on my birthday (yeah I am one self obsessed idiot :P), but then realized that'd be too late. And also it didn't seem to be a great idea to start a blog in past tense. So here it is - GPS - Officially public now. Currently I am writing about San Diego. Why? Duh! Cz I am in San Diego right now :)

Read and tell me what you think of it :)

I have a plan! What do you think?

May 24th, 2009: San Diego, CA

May 9th, 2009: Orlando/Miami, FL

February 1st, 2009: Norman, OK

January 30th, 2009: Newark, NJ/New York, NY

December 18th, 2008: Delhi/Mumbai/Pune, India

November 27th, 2008: Boston, MA

November 6th, 2008: Baltimore, MD/Washington DC

September 26th, 2008: New Jersey, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, Atlanta, GA

September 15th, 2008: Tucson, AZ

August 23rd, 2008: Peoria/Chicago, IL

July 7th, 2008: New York, NY/Atlantic City, NJ

May, 2008: Tulsa, OK

That’s the list of places I have traveled to (for work or leisure) in last one year: May, 2008 to May, 2009. Come to think of it, if I had maintained a travel blog, it would be a bomb by now!!

So better late than never! I am planning on starting a travel blog. I have just started working on it. Right now I am trying to dig out snippets from my not-so-well kept travel journal and other sources. I hope to put everything together soon and make the blog public. I will keep you guys posted on that.

Meanwhile, do you mind suggesting me a nice name for my blog? Post a comment here or just shoot me an e-mail at bhardwaj.sowmyatta@gmail.com. I would also love to hear from you: your honest comments/advice/suggestions - About look, feel, content, pictures or anything else – Like you have always done :)

Thanks in advance! You know I love you *wink*