Why don't we smile???

Gana: Why is that Indians [meaning Asian-Indians] don't smile when they look at us?? Rather, they turn their face away at the sight of another desi...

Divi: Hmmmm, may be its in the blood for people not to smile....

Divi: Do we smile at other unknown desis when we come see them???

Gana: I don't think so... But we do smile at those natives when we see them face-to-face...

Divi: It's the culture of this place to smile at even those people who you may never know, but back home we don't have such culture... So when we see a desi our culture kicks in; but we ape the culture of the natives and smile at them when we see them face-to-face...

Gana: may be that's true...

Santa Barbara, CA

Starting at 9 am on a Sunday [25th June 2006] after a late night sleep on Saturday, we had to drive for around 2 hours on US highway 101 dodging the traffic for around 100 miles. Finally reaching Santa Barbara beach at 11 am, the next mission was to find a spot for parking at no cost on that busy summer beach. Filled with people on the arcade, it was a tougher job than driving for 2 hours. After finding a spot for fee, getting the car made us realize the worst mistake one can ever make. It was fucking cold with the sea breeze which we have not realized living near downtown since the summer began. The desert had misguided us into the chill. It tool li'l time to get used to the chillness, and trotting on the waters made it worser. So finally we went to the wharf and had a look at the surroundings: beach, arcade, mountains, sea gulls, people [gurlz] :P, etc etc etc....

After having lunch we decided to goto Santa Monica, CA, making it a BEACH DAY... but added to it was sleep deprived sore eyes and hence headache - so back home to sleep for sometime...

Moving towards OUTLOOK 2003

Worst thing that there was this email from Yahoo! [of course to my Yahoo! email account] that they are giving a free immediate upgrade to Yahoo! Mail BETA... which means no waiting in the line for this offer to kick-off.... Curses!!!!

Reaping at farms...

Knotts Berry Farm self-claimed as America's 1st Theme Park was better than worse [as I thought about it from overhearing people at UBOC].. I heard that it was more for kids than adults... Hmmmm, okay so I go there just because I got a free pass...


So I start looking at the theme park's website & I find some pretty interesting rides such as XCelerator, Montezooma's Revenge and SilverBullet, which I wanted to try out for sure...

Well, after trying out, I found that they were not pretty bad. However, Silver Bullet being an amazing long roller-coaster and XCelerator being an 0-80 mph in 2 seconds are absolute false claims... XCelerator was nothing but dumb. SilverBullet for that fact was better... So after a day out in the hot sun I returned home with headache :P

Moving toward Outlook 2003

This is about the recent move to BETA versions of leading & pioneer email providers - YAHOO & HOTMAIL....

With the inception of Windows Live Mail, Hotmail moved towards the making the interface look and feel much like MS Outlook 2K3. With facilities like reading pane, select & delete emails with DEL key, yada yada yada.

This the same thing aped by Yahoo Mail BETA [which I just tried]... Looks like they are facing stiff competition from GMAIL, and competing with GMAIL, the only forte for HOTMAIL & YAHOO will be look & feel. Well, I will not state GMAIL is not user friendly, but with its simplicity it is more than necessary for the average, crazy and frequent email checkers like me....

However, at times I wanted this overwhelming look & feel of Windows Live Mail BETA [which I used to get from Cognizant Web Mail thingy], just to break the cycle. One thing that both Windows Live Mail & Yahoo Mail have in common other than "Outlook 2K3 look & feel" is that, if you choose to opt out of their BETA email thingys, you gotta wait in the queue to get back to try their BETA email thingys... Also that u need the latest firefox if you wanna use 'em from Firefox....

those 2 quarters...

This is the public phone that bullied me for 50 cents @ LAX as soon as I landed there for the first time in my life [23/Aug/2006]... Just opposite to this phone is the change machine which is still not working :P