Virus in my hotmail

Yesterday (when I was probably out jogging), something entered my hotmail account and sent mail to I guess some or maybe all the people in my address book. The subject of the mail is "please do this" and it asks you to click on the link in the mail and that will get me and the recepient both a t-shirt. Well, ofcourse there is no t-shirt to get. I apologize (though its clearly not my fault at all) if you got that mail and wasted time in going to that link. Just a note of caution for future, I do not send such e-mails, and if I ever send, I do not send them without a personal note from which you can be sure that I have sent it myself.
nyways, this whole spamming thing atleast helped me get in touch with a couple of old friends who I had not mailed for long as they had also not mailed me for long which in-turn they probably did not do as I had not mailed them for long. (Did that just sound like something from HHGG??)

Job hunting days

My job hunting days are back. Its so hard to find that one perfect job, especially when u do not know what perfect is. Guess everything just gets boring after sometime. Maybe software itself is boring. Sometimes I wonder if I should have done something else, like being reporter, singer, dancer, voyager, pilot, or something more exciting than just sitting at the same computer everyday and blogging.

Italian movie weekend

Last weekend was Italian movie weekend, I watched 2 of them, "Life is Beautiful' and "The last kiss". Life is beautiful is pretty famous I guess, though I did not find too much great in it, except the story may have been heart touching if I was not concentrating so hard on trying to understand what people are speaking without reading the sub-titles. And guess what, I did understand parts of it, it was great. Italian is very similar to Spanish, most words are similar, conjugations are little different. Infact in the beginning of the movie when I did not know that its in Italian, I was wondering if I have forgotten my Spanish and cannot understand or it is Italian. Anyways, it was nice, maybe learning Italian would not be too much effort then.

What am I blogging

Well, today is the blogging day. I just wrote the reviews to two of my favourite book series at our site http://bookreviewsbyus.blogspot.com/ and now I am writing here. No, I am not jobless, umm, actually I am, but I have work. It was just that today I was doing some ego surfing earlier in the day, (for those who do not know, I was searching for Tulika Agrawal on google) and I found out that my blog does not even show up anywhere. So much for a great search engine. You will find all sorts of things I posted on mailing lists, even years ago, but not my blog. If you have any suggestion on how can I make google show my blog under my name, please leave a comment.

Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling

Today is the review day, since I just wrote review to HHGG, its also time to write long pending review to one of our (yes, rahul and I) all time favourite books. These are few books in which you get so much involved that its hard to put it down without reading untill the last page. Some people would say that these are for kids (also from the fact that in the library you get them in the Teen section), but those 'adults' are just denying themselves the pleasure of a ride into the fascinating world of Witches and Wizards. (!poor muggles!), rest you can find after reading the books.

A MUST MUST read.

The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Today I was going through this site and realized that I still have not written the review to one of the most interesting books I have ever read, The HitchHiker's Guide!! Not that its been very long since I have read the books, but I have been its fan since I first read the first few pages of the first book in the series, and that was back in India, in late 2001, when the book used to be available free to read online. I never found the online edition again. But thanks to the public library, I can read all the five books once again. For those of you who have not heard about the books, let me tell you that HHGG is of course sci-fi, one of the most creative sci-fi, it is so creative that it actaully sits at the border of being creative and being insane, bizarre. While reading the book, if at any point you start feeling that you have understood what's happening, my advice would be - read again, u probably misread something. If still you think that you understood the book, you are a creative genius.

Literally speaking, Douglas Adams is a great satirist (did i get that right?). You will see him mocking everything from current face of Sci-Fi to different cultures on earth. But everything is said in such a funny way that you cannot help laughing out loud even in a crowded bus. (ya that's where i did most of my reading)

A MUST read.

Vitamin C

My recent project is to research vitamin C. It seems to be the culprit behind my never ending cold (though it does not look like, suddenly after moving to SFO I got vitamin C deficiency!!). Anyway I am hoping that its this, rather than allergy as most people think that it is. What can I possibly have allergy from, SFO air?? Pollution, yah right, after spending years in Delhi and Pune, I get allergy from pollution in San Francisco. Maybe its fog, that is something new, except these days its exceptionally clear in san francisco. so....