Down with Friendster

When you are active on the internet, you create your personal and business profile in god knows how many social networking sites...tab.com, friendster.com, meetin.org, myspace.com, meetup.com, facebook.com, orkut, yelp.com, yaari..the list is bigger than you can think. After sometime, you end up only using a popular and trendy few forgetting about the others (except the occassional emails they send out to let you know how they are changing to compete w/ the best sites).

My serious concern for all you out there, who are dating or newly married specially, is to make sure that all your profiles are up to date in all such sites or get rid of profiles on sites you are not using. You can run into trouble and this time its not your boss at work or Uncle Sam. Its your current heartthrob. She might phish you (she has few scrupulous, not-at-work friends too) on one of these unused sites as "single" and also find that you accessed them say within last few months and didn't update the profile. If she is of the jealous kind (most women are, even if they don't accept) or the typical suspicious, insecure female....then everything will be lost the moment she finds out something like this. Her possible ignorance about the behavior of such sites and the mental remnants of the last argument you had with her will all resurface with a dark vengeance to end it all. She will not care whats your status and profile on the ones you actually use, but this un-used one will become the focus of severance.

This is true. This has been my experience.

NOTE: Also, if you can explain yourself well and give some time, the disbelief can be eliminated. Thats my experience too.

Sloppy Service

Sloppiness in service sector seems to be on the increase in USA while developing countries are improving on them. And this is not just limited to public/ government offices. Check some events over last week.

NJ Motor Vehicles Dept. Change of address on driving license. The agent verifes 6 points of Id and then issues you a new license (all 20 minutes of work), with the same old address (you need to be there to believe it). She then uses the F* word in frustration and issues another license card with the new address after another 20 minutes.

COMCAST Cable Unable to get proper resources to install a digital television cable connection to my condo for last 2 months.
Correction: Comcast was able to set up the service. A couple of really good helpful supervisors and engineers got this working around 20th.

Graceful Spa in NYC. Lost all their Valentine's Day week appointments due to computer crash. No back up available so all appointments are messed up. First come first serve. Can you believe this is New York?

Home-made Indian fare

I cannot believe this. More than a year in mid-town Manhattan and still didn't know of this hole-in-the-wall Indian food joint at 6th Ave and West 38th before last afternoon.
No menus. Just plain veggie dishes to be ordered.
6 dollars flat. White or yellow Indian rice, Saag-daall, Okhra-squash sabji curries, 4 rotis heated with traces of ghee, a lentil soup with sambar, Mango-chilli pickle, and a gulab jamun to end it all.



Try it out! Its a good break from Kati rolls and other Indian buffet fares. If you get bored with the veggie fare (the side dishes are different every day), then try the next enclave of Spanish non-veg food.

Broadway Show in NYC

Broadway Show: Chicago Venue: Ambassador Theater. New York City.
Tickets are worth 112 dollars each and then you get seats with the smallest leg space you do not even want to experience in your nightmares. Even in Mumbai, which has higher real estate prices compared to mid-town Manhattan (source Time.com), I have had better seats to watch movies than in this theater. By the time the show is over, you develop serious knee cramps. The whole experience of watching and enjoying a diabolical and historical broadway show got marred by the weird alignment of seats. And believe me I was not alone in that theater with the problem. Indians and Chinese are "smaller" compared to Caucasians and most people around me were trying to "fit" in their seats or stretching their feet out to the next seat (in case it was empty).


The show was marvellous-the orchestra, the choreography, the costume and the light arrangements. Totally commendable. However for the seats...may be they need to find a new theater.

Appreciate What You Got