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April 23, 2006

I wanna Show Off!!

April 19th 2006. I finally turn 20. Not that I was waiting to, but in fact a b’day I wasn’t so enthusiastic about. Being 20 makes me feel OLD (I know it’s a lot less than the age of the ppl reading this right now). I hate growing up.

I wish I could remain daddy’s princess forever! I’m afraid I cant. Suddenly just going from 19 to 20 makes a lot of difference. I may possibly get better jobs now and not get turned down after several interviews, just because they think I’m capable but don’t want to keep me because I’m a teenager. I still don’t get to drive alone though, cuz I aint 21. I’m not gonna be able to enter a club without a being stopped even till I’m 30 , so that doesn’t even count. I can now officially blame Sam for being a teenager when I don’t want to agree with something he says.

My grandmother would now entertain other grandmothers when they look at me and ask her who’s daughter I am. Also I would now get more stares from women 3-4 times my age than guys my age. My brother, 4 years younger to me, is still gonna pull my cheeks no matter how old I get and how taller+stronger he gets. My cousin(also 4 years younger) finally feels like calling me ‘didi’. I still fear my future. I do not know what it holds for me. Its scary, and I move ahead, what doesn’t seem slowly.

I prefer my past. Don’t we all? Inspite of all the hospital stays, guilt for mom having to leave her jobs, use up a pretty good amount of savings, not be allowed to participate in sports, horrible adolescent fights with dad, facing the fact of scaring of some kids and amusing some others; it all seemed much easier. I would still be popular in school/among friends(not that I’m not now, but it’s a completely different scenario now), be pampered ( I still am), my best friend would still be alive. It was so much easier to handle.

All this is what was running in my mind as I approached my birthday. But by the end of it , it was’nt so bad, infact it was really good!

Now let me tell you how I spent it! Tadaaa~!

As usual I was expecting my mobile to start ringing at 11:55 pm 18th April, only it started 11:52 pm instead. My dad n brother were watching cricket and mom was sleeping, so I headed towards the kitchen to answer my calls.

While on the phone, my dad enters the kitchen for something and sees me on the phone and starts making signs asking who I was talking to. I ignore. This went on for next 5 mins, where he repeatedly entered the kitchen trying to figure out who the hell I was on the phone with past 12:00 am , so he finally asked me in a loud assertive voice, to which I responded by continuing my conversation in my mother tongue( I was talking to his sister, my aunt) and ignoring him so that he would get a hint. He gave me a puzzled look and left. He finally figured after muttering an ‘Oh Shit, its her b’day’.

Next morning, before going to work I received my first b’day gift from a friend:

An iriver MP3 Player

I absolutely luuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrveddd it! I always wanted one but could never really afford one for the time being.

Then usual day at work, treated everyone with a Twix bar. 1:00pm – boss walks in , office boy offers him a bar. Boss asks him why he was distributing chocolates, office boy replies ‘Harsha’s b’day’. Boss looks right at Harsha who is now smiling and cries out ‘OMG! HOW DID I FORGET, I HAD KEPT A REMINDER’ and takes me out for lunch at Delhi Darbar(Karama). ( my boss is double my age, and we 2 are the only ppl working in the company, the ppl I treated with a chocolate bar are the those who work in the company we sublet our office from)

Post lunch, back at work, head home, then to college, write a shitty mock exam no1 else bothered to write, get picked up my parents at 10:00pm. Sit in car – have a silent speedy ride back home, my dad had lost his mobile. The ride wouldn’t have been so silent had any of the other members of my family misplaced their cell phone. Anyway we found it the other car and zoomed off to Diera. I dint know why. No body bothered answering my repeated questions. Finally we picked up my pamper friend (langotiya yaar, chaddi pal) and her brother – who is my brother’s pamper friend as well and headed to Hyatt Regency’s ‘The Kitchen’. (b4 going there we stopped at the corniche for some filafil sandwiches where my mom revealed we were gonna have a chocolate buffet.) Yay!!

You guys! You should see this place, they have something called the ‘Chocolate Buffet’ which consists of the most amazing desserts in the wooooooorld, there were like a billion desserts to choose from allllll made out of chocolate, you name it, its there! All at AED 40 per person. Not bad, infact AMAZINGLY YUMMY!!!!
Here are a few glimpses of 2 plates we filled and dug from:

(they actually looked a lil more attractive than this)

THIS WAS THE BEST B’DAY EVER! I’m kind of a chocolate freak, especially dark chocolate and they had enough of that too.

Anyway, pictures of other gifts I received:

This is a very pretty salwar kameez suit piece from the friend who accompanied us at the restaurant.

And this is a beautiful Jewelry Box from my aunt and cousins. Inside which I found this:

And theres another Salwar Kameez suit (the picture of which I dint take since I just remembered about it now) I got a few days b4 my b’day from this old family friend who’s come to Dubai for a while, who son, when we were much much younger, would keep announcing to everyone that he’s gonna marry me when he grows up. I’m not in touch with him. Thank God.

So, I’m 20. Not so bad.

Posted by Harsha :: 10:12 AM :: 27 Comments:

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April 18, 2006

Drinking Problem

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April 05, 2006

Can you Freakin' Believe This????

Paris Hilton Eyed for Mother Teresa Role

Film director T. Rajeevnath, who is based in Thiruvananthapuram, India, says Hilton is on his short list to play Mother Teresa in a biopic he's planning about the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who worked among Calcutta's poor with the Missionaries of Charity.

Who's the bigger publicity ho', Paris or Rajeevnath?

Just hope this movie doesnt turn out to be to the likes of her previous movie (excluding House of Wax)

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---------------oOo--------------- FALCON gives du international wings

by Alex Ritman

The UAE’s second operator, du, has opened its landing station at Jebel Ali in Dubai connecting it to the undersea FALCON network stretching across the Gulf. The new high-capacity, multi-terabit cable system has landings throughout the region, from Egypt in the west to India in the east.

The FALCON cable system is owned and operated by FLAG Telecom, and will allow du to offer international calls and broadband connectivity without having to utilise the infrastructure of incumbent Etisalat.

Alcatel Submarine Networks has been building the cable system, and handing over segment by segment as installation is completed. Flag accepted handover of the segments from UAE to Oman and from UAE to Qatar in mid March 2006. The segment from Qatar to Bahrain is due to be handed over to operations team later this week. The network incorporates the Gulf region’s first self-healing submarine network ring, providing all connected countries with reliable, high quality connectivity. Following trials in Oman that started in April 2005, and a pact between Omantel and Flag, Muscat became the hub city for FALCON.

du has made a multi-million investment in the cable system, and joins other operators in Bahrain, Egypt, India, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and Sudan as landing parties and customers. Interestingly, du’s competitor in the UAE, Etisalat, is a 40% stakeholder in Kanar Telecommunications, Sudan’s second fixed-line operator which is providing FALCON’s first East African landing station based at Port Sudan. Once Kanar is operational, Etisalat will manage, operate and maintain the network.

The system has been designed so that further landings can be added in the Middle East and East Africa as demand arises.

During the opening ceremony, du CEO Osman Sultan made a calls using the new system to B D Khurana, group president of Reliance Infocomm in Mumbai.

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