I am back

Movie that me and my friends are screening on our own.... soon it will be on youtube...

This january hits the screen...
"I am back"
you can lie, run and hide... but cannot escape

A story based on passion, love, desire, lust, deceit, betrayal and revenge.

Scene 1 -
characters - nichole and steve
outdoor shooting
steve driving car ... morning time

forest
gloomy
steve talking to nichole... nichole looking outside the window....

sometime we see someone on her seat ... sometime not
Actually nichole is dead...

Scene keeps switching between this scene and a sceen at backgroud.
Edie is steve's friend and works in nichole's office... he is attracted to nichole
... edie made a visit to nichole... nichole expained that steve is out on a business trip...
cold night... drink... edie couldn't resist... nichole resisted (these should be in black&white)...
nichole stabbed by Edie

Suddenly steve brakes.... he hits a tree....

Scene 2:
characters - steve and edie
indoor shooting

Evening - steve wakes up

and drives to edie's house
Edie consoles and acts to express his grief on death of Nichole .

He starts preparing dinner for steve...
Edie received a phone call... he asked steve to look after vegetables

Edie on phone heard Nichole's voice "I am back".... edie is sweating and drops the phone...

He returns to kitchen.... sees that steve is cutting vegetable very fast.... there is blood on cutting pad....
he called steve...

when steve turned back ... he saw Nichole in steve....

Scene 3 -
he started running...
went outside the house ...took a car started driving.... car is not starting.... fanatically he managed to start the car...

He met with an accident.... he went unconscious...
When he woke up he drove back to his house...

There was some gathering outside his house...
he asked some people what had happened ... but nobody was responding to him... he even asked steve... but no reponse...

Finally ambulence people took out a body out of the house....
covered in white...

The police removed the cloth for a while .... the face was of edie...

Setting up Laptop Desk

I went to Walmart yesterday...

For those who don't know... Walmart is a chain store in US having everthing you need to buy.

A nice Laptop desk caught my eyes...

I had got tired of working on bed with Laptop on Lap or a Box and had been looking for a desk for long...

On the first sight I was convinced that I had reached the end of my search.

Yet it was not a one go decision... $ dear

Atleast for 10 min I went arguing with self... 'Should I?' or 'Should I not?'

and finally I gave up $...

It cost me $37.

Today morning I decided to set it up.

By looking at the sagregated pieces it was hard to visualize the snap above.

I normally prefer peaceful life and avoid getting into skill jobs... Even hardly remember the last time I went creative...

Though I love some fine arts... drawing, singing, acting... I am not expert at any

Sometime I feel how rare do we try to feel and do something we really want.

Soon we even forget our inner self and merge into the stream of commons.

As per manual it was an hour job. That's Cool!
Though normally I don't do much on Sundays... I thought maybe one hour I can easily spare

It was the first furniture I was to setup all on my own...

Never done anything similar... In India you don't have to essemble any furniture as labor is cheap ...

It took me back to my Workshop days while pursuing my engineering...

I had to go in three sessions to have it done...

work... sleep... work... sleep... work

I gave a good try ...

Still I wasn't able to set it up in the best of the ways... the left part got a bit damaged. Still it looks pretty Good.

Isn't it?

It took me nearly 5 hours to get it setup.

However at the end it gives me some satisfaction writing a blog for you all using the desk I setup.

Travel - Richmond to Newark, DE

Almost 3 months in US... it was my second visit to Richmond... my brother's place
my brother dropped me 45 min ahead of bus departure at Greyhound bus station...

month of June... the day there was a bomb alarm in London; there were subsequent reactions in US; security at railway, bus stations getting more stringent... I came to know of this news while standing in the queue for Bus...

The queue for bus on that day was too long... later I came to know that buses were running late and people for the last bus were still waiting in the queue...

It was easy to see frustation on faces of people.

There was not much to do standing in the queue... enough time for me to observe people around...
people from different nations... queue mainly had African american and mexican ...
some ladies were laughing a lot; I don't know on what for last 1 hour...

Just in front of me was a mexican family ... around 5 people... later came to know that four had come to just bid farewell to their mother... there was good family talking teasing going on... took me back to the days I used to travel with my brothers and sisters...

Finally my bus arrived ... around 2 hours late... but I was too back in the queue to make it... I missed it by 2... everyone was going by bus next to the one booked by them...
So now I had to leave by 6:30 bus when I had booked bus for 4:15... didn't had any option other than waiting for it; had to attend office next day

That was the last bus for the day as well...
Finally the bus came at 6:45 and I was on go... bus was almost full; maybe it wasn't the first pickup point...
In this Greyhound buses you don't have seat allocated ... first come first served...
Finally got a seat beside a lady..
She had a expression of 'Why the hell I got into this bus'... unwelcome... as She had to move her hand bag off her adjacent seat...
I somehow got into whatever little space She left for me... it was a 2 seater... however I barely got half seat..
She was huge... for the rest of the trip she was busy with her meal

Our next stop was going to be Washington...
I had started feeling that it wasn't going to be easy to reach home...

We reached Washington bus station at around 9:00
The station was crowded...

After a break of 15 min; we started for Baltimore...
I made it to the front of queue hoping to get a better seat...

I rarely sleep while travelling... there was no better option other than to keep looking outside window ...
I was trying to spot places, buildings etc. that I had observed during my previous trips...
Return trip usually lack the enthusiasum ...

I reached Baltimore at around 10:00 pm.
On reaching I came to know that there were no more buses to Wilmington ...
the next bus was at 7:00 am...
I talked with the authorities to atleast cancel and refund my ticket fare for the part 'Baltimore to Wilmington'...
but the lady incharge was too rude; it seemed She had a day worse than mine... maybe break-up ... whatever...
I had a ticket from Richmond to Wilmington and there was no mistake on my part... nobody was ready to listen...

I controlled my emotion and moved out of station in a banging way as if that will make anyone move...
I wanted to go home...
I called up my brother and he found out a AMTRAK train from Baltimore to Wilmington at 11:15...
I decided to go for it..
forget to mention that my cell was on the verge of getting discharged...

Outside the Baltimore bus station; there were cabs...
I approached one of the cab guy... two of his friends were standing beside him...
one of them said something to me; which I couldn't get, on which they started laughing; this turned me suspicious... and was about to go ... when one of them came forward and said that they were just kidding...
I somehow got convinced ... maybe because I was runnning short of time ...

Took one of the cabs and headed to railway station... the cab guy was an immigrant as well ... not sure from where...

My heart kept on pounding...
Finally I reached railway station ... paid $30 to taxi guy

Railway station was big... but there were few people...
Counters were closed... there were some machines to take tickets; had never tried them... but being a S/W guy; it wasn't difficult...
Got a ticket for around $90
more than what I paid for my bus trip from Richmond to Wilmington...

15 min to go... my eyes were glued to the screen showing track number for trains...
I don't remember how many times I read my train number and searched on the board...

Just to confirm; asked a railway guy as well...
'Gate 9!'
He was loud and clear and the expression was
'How the hell you don't know the track for Amtrak train to Wilmington?'

My cell was dying... I tried reaching 'Delaware cab' so at to book a cab from Wilmington to Newark... but there were no cabs...

I got on to train ...I used all possible signs put on station to conform that I was getting on the right train ...

The cabin I got in had few people... took the seat close to the door...
I was drained by now; still cutious not to miss out stations ...

On looking around I realized that the guy next to me was from India...
2-3 years younger than me
I noticed him 2-3 times looking towards me ... interested to talk...
Obviously people from same country have inborn affinity for each other...
I normally avoid talking to strangers...
On next look... I turned and gave a smile...
We started talking... nonstop for next 1 hour...
The Guy was from some rich family and was into medical field which he didn't liked...
I wanted to know about college life in US and he wanted to know how it feels to work in US...

We exchanged cell numbers before I left...
he is now there in my orkut friend list.

Wilmington Railway station
It seemed I was the only person who got down ...
it must have been between 12:00 to 1 am...
There were no cabs outside station!
Where do I go now?

I had a notorious image of Wilmington; especially after dark.
I started getting wildest thoughts. It sent a stir within me.
Didn't knew what to do...
F**K! I tried to switch on my cell to get some of my friend numbers; but it was totally discharged and I didn't had any written numbers with me

I was desperatley looking to find any cab.. but there seemed none...

Suddenly I heard a voice from my back... 'Hey!'
Scared I looked back.
A policeman

He scanned me top to bottom. I had even heard of policeman taking advantage of young kids!
I wondered what God had next in store for me.

After asking a few basic questions he came to know my situation...
He called up a cab guy and stayed with me till the cab guy arrived...
I really thank him from the bottom of my heart...

The cab guy took me to Newak, my house.
I paid him $40 dollors that took every penny out of my pocket.
I wished to pay him Tip but didn't had even a $1 to pay...

Indian Bachelor Weekend in US

Have u ever wondered ...

How do we the so called S/W geeks spend weekend... (no offence to my community)

I am talking about Indian guys / girl deputed to US by firms like TCS ...

One of the major intentions of people joining S/W firms in India is to grab a opportunity of flying to US ... all about being paid in $$$

Some get lucky soon while others hv to work on it

Well... coming to the point ...

Here is how we bachelors spend weekend

Weekdays goes in wait for weekwnd... and when weekend comes; we do nothing... sometimes it becomes difficult to even spend those 2 days - Sat and Sun

Online movies and DVDs from free library are the main go...

fun? yeah.... Rather I call it Hobson's choice

Some people can be found online on Google talk all the time...

looking to find someone; whom they never find...

changing custom message ... changing snap... Keep them busy

Orkut craze is high....

Its easy to see people over any trip only focussed on getting a best snap for orkut!!! Believe it

Here is how time ticks for these guys ... changing snap ... scrap at times...

never finding any meaningful scrap...

the generic message sent

'are yaar bhul gaye kya? Kabhi yaad bhi kar liya karo'

(Hey, do you still remmember me? sometime atleast remmember me)

... the funny part is that neither party is least interested to hear about the other...

More strange is we have hundreds of people added to our friend list whom we barely know...

Whatever... 90% time is still spent in front of Laptops! Personal or office

This is another thing that you will need to believe it.

Chatting... How can I forget to mention it...
I mean chatting with unknown over Yahoo Messenger etc... one day I find someone

Youtube is next in the list of favourites.

Sleeping... aha .. offcourse! We guys love it
Staying awake late browsing browsing and browsing...
one of the qualities inherited from college; however it used to be fun at college since you used to be awake in a group...
Waking up late... and realizing 'Oh God! Half the day is already gone'

Next in the list are...

Cooking for a while or cleaning house sometimes... Passion for some; necessity for others.

Going out for buying groceries...

You love it at start but slowly you start disliking it...

not again going to Indian store, Walmart, Shoprite...

Guys definetly start hating it soon

Gym for few people...

Change in food / climate often result in gaining weight ....

table-chair-PC professionals like us are very prone to it...

howsoever u work out; at times the curve keeps moving forward and so is the curvature... you realize it more when you take out clothes for taking bath... Yell!!

In summer we are able to go for swimming / playing some sports... though rare we go

Few people dread of having a fortune spent; if they step outside their home...

since $ was what we came for in US... you need to count on each one... though later you realize that you can get back $ but not time gone

Can you believe it that some people r able to pass weekend without even stepping out of there house once?

Common question ... when two people meet ...

"What plans for weekend?"

(It saves you lot of effort in putting a more meaningful question)

If the answer to above question is 'No Plans'... you get a pity look 'Poor guy!'

We humans keep making things complicated...

Keep looking for better things /time ...

Keep telling lies of how happy we are; even if we feel miserable

Guru Mantra -

First try to find time to check on your some friend or call your friends in. Being with friends is the best way to spend weekend.

Second 'Go Creative over weekend' :)