Orkut is an addiction. For a long time I ignored invitations from my friends and cousins to join this 'online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends.' My being far away from home, availability of Internet at flat rate and ample of free time were the reasons for me registering myself on Orkut, besides the tireless persuasion of my loving sister to start 'orkutting.'

Within a few days I got consumed by the fascinating virtual world of Orkut. I was happy to rediscover my long lost school friends, suddenly discover profiles of cousins and stumble upon amicable strangers. Soon, the world of online communities was what I got introduced to and started becoming members of countless communities. So much so that I came across a community for those who are 'members of too many communities', phew...

Slowly I 'unjoined' irrelevant communities and focused of few interesting ones. And now, finally, I have got hooked on to it so badly that I hate being a part of the whole orkut thing, in the first place. One of these days I might just delete my profile in a miff...have been saying this for too long..haha!!

The Internet is dangerous. I call google my second brain. Unbelievable as it may sound, I need google for anything and everything. in our office if someone asks a question, pat comes the reply, 'google it you moron, don't waste my time!'

Back to the original topic of me being a victim of orkut addiction - to my irritation - much similar to the irritation of an alcoholic or a drug addict - this orkut thingy behaves as if it has its own mind. Often I am greeted with the irritating message - 'Bad, bad server. No donut for you.' The performance of this 'google family' member is so miserable these days that shamelessly the display says 'Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way.' It does not stop here further it reads 'It's likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months.' How horrible! Such bad service from google is not accepted at all.

Having faced that, as I mentioned, I need google for everything, so I 'googled' for 'bad, bad service. No donut for you.' (by the way what is this 'donut' thing all about??) and I came across this blog post by a fellow blogger. His way of writing is so mind blowing that I have become a fan of his writing. Have a look! Happy blogging!

To those, who are yet not a victim of Orkut, believe me, you are not missing anything and please, I appeal to you - do not fall prey to this growing orkut mania...you will be happier that way...

It snowed :-)

View from my house yesterday & today!!

(click on the pics to enlarge)

Hey...you know what...it snowed today!

In was unusually cold today, something like -2. I thought it might start snowing in a day or two so I asked my colleague to read the weather forecast. While he was at it, I looked out of window and screamed...he got scared...lol! It was snowing!

I started jumping around like a kid...you should have seen my face :)

But then in stopped :( then it got dark. After a couple of hours I left office. I came out of office and there was snow every where...it had continued snowing after it got dark. there was snow on the footpath. Man it is so slippery, i was about to fall only :)

Snow on the cars, snow on the roofs, snow on the cycles, snow on the benches...what fun!

I came home and looked in the mirror - the fine featherlight flakes were all in my hair and on my shoulder...I didn't want it to melt but what to do the heater was on na :(

But its OK now am not a snow virgin any more :)

PS: This morning, while walking fast fast for the bus...I slipped and fell....hahahahahahah....it was so embarassing ...there were many people watching the fun. But - nobody laughed, nobody helped!!!!!! Forget helping but atleast have a hearty laugh.......strange are the people here....I was laughing to myself till I reached office.... didn't care for the looks I recieved.....hahahahahha

Walking on the snow seems to be an art :)