Just missed it… it was here a minute ago. I was on it, was about to enjoy a nice little train ride on that heavenly express. Just for a few moments, I took a step out and it left the platform.

Funny how it works. Each cargo has its own train.. the passenger is only one though. These trains… their appearance, their speed and the comfort within varies with its cargo. Some journeys are joyous, relaxing treats, some though, take a dark, lifeless path. The only passenger on these, is mostly misguided. For he, is just a traveler on the path. Neither does he know the way, nor does the train. They just follow the path of where the cargo needs to reach.

It does take some definite efforts to streamline the schedule of these trains. Build their routes, navigate them to the desired destination safe and sound.
For the better of the passenger, the station has to be good. It has to be clean, well prepared, well scheduled …
Station needs to control the trains that leave, it must asses the cargo before approving the departure.
And the passenger??
Best if he could be the stationmaster.

yours,
~JaguarNac~
(who has no idea why he took this train…)

Kinda running outta titles here, just used the one word that I like and often use. I’m happy. One month here in the new place and I can say that I’m getting used to it quite well. It’s just a matter of time when I get back to my everyday development mood and start learning fun stuff off the internet.

Apart from the office timings, I’ve been concentrating upon keeping myself entertained just so that I could get along with this new little space of mine and keep the boredom and loneliness away from myself. Entertaining yourself is not all that hard here if you have a good Internet connection and Netflix Instant Streaming Disk. So far I completed watching Dexter: Season 1, Heroes: Season 1-3 (running season 4), cought up on a couple of Hindi movies online that I could not watch back home, got a blu-ray for “9”, an awesome animation. OH the fun !

I could not help but notice a tiny sting of a feeling that I am missing “some” fun that I totally like, but am not getting so far over here. For one, I have zero access to kitten furriness here. So, no instant happy mix. Second, I still cant get myself in front of a computer, mashing away the keyboard to learn something new, try something different and enjoy that difference !

For the time being, I’m gonna allow the entertainment continue. After 4th season of Heroes, I’ll move onto the Legend of Seeker. Dexter season II after that. Till who knows when.

one thing I’d like to quote here and is worth repeating.

“cats are soft, meow meow”

~JaguarNac

PlayStation is Awesome !

It’s been years since I wanted to get my hands on that awesome gaming console. I’m loving it and am more than happy about it. Netflix on that is just the cherry on the cake (or something like that) …

Its been over a month here now, total of about four months of my US experience. This time, I’m here for some significant time. So far, I’ve managed to get myself a nice place to stay with descent rent and low commute time. All equipments required to maintain online communications are well in place.

funniest part so far is that I’ve started cooking some stuff at home.

For last 23 years, I had absolute no need to cook any food for myself. For one, my mother and grandmother cook awesome and healthy food and two, they are always in kitchen… its their empire, their rules. Whenever i tried to cook back home, if at all, i always managed to mess something up, further diminishing my interest in cooking food for myself.

I cant just yet say that I’m loving it, but so far, the produce I’ve managed to obtain from my cooking did not taste bad. It was not spicy, interesting, awesome taste. but for sure, it did not taste bad. This result is good enough to keep my faith in myself and improve in this area. Till that happens, whenever I cook, I’m simply playing safe by taking digestive medicine before hitting the bed.

Few initial days, when I had no TV and no Internet, were pretty boring and lonely.  X-mas was good time for me to hunt for the house and get settled. With the help of some friends here, I was able to get up and running with my basic needs !

Thats about it.

PlayStation is fun, netflix is awesome, my daal doesnt taste bad, I like southpark and I hate rains !!!

~Nac

Celebrated my cousin’s birthday today by watching Rocket Singh at City Pride Kothrud, my favorite place for a good relaxation.
Over a past couple of weeks, I’ve been running around the city, preparing for my journey to the US. I’ve been there before, for three months. This time however, its gonna be twelve times more. Three years is a LOT ! There’s a whole lot of stuff that I’m going to get there, but a lot of stuff that I’m definitely going to miss.

Parents, home and family, friends, Olive office , olivians and the office cat, Karve Road, My Vehicle, City Pride, Durga Coffee, Diamond cyber sports (even if I havent been there since last 6 months or more), a whole lot people and a whole lot of places.

gonna miss you all, folks….. will stay in touch over the internet, telephone and all possible modern means of communication.

NO! Telepathy wont do, I haven’t found a suitable service provider for that as of yet !!!

~Nac

A new and exciting change is coming Its exciting enough for me, dunno about others but still, I’ll keep it secret for a few more days.
The new theme, is the change I’m talking about today. I’ve been exploring several themes today and was finally able to settle for this  “Amazing 3.0 by Bingo – Web Design “, a neat and attractive theme that brings the recent activities on the blog to immediate attention. After seeing so many themes today, the long buried itch of trying to create my own theme for Wordpress is kicking back in. I tried doing that a few years ago, and had developed a neat no-images theme using only borders, padding, margins and backgrounds. That theme went down with my windows crash, taking down my overall enthusiasm of creating themes for Wordpress. Now it seems the itch is trying to return again.
The change I want to keep secret should keep me off from it for some more time. But after that… you never know

~JaguarNac

It’s fun exploring Google Wave. It was awesome to see and participate in a wave conversation with over 70 people and about 5-6 bots and gadgets the experience one can only describe as “fun” and “slow”

yeah, when it goes this chunky, its bound to get funky !!! lets see how they do it good and make it better !!!

~Nac

Did some changes around the blog yesterday, if all has gone well, there should hardly be any visible difference except the google friend connect sign-in button on the left sidebar and friend connect bar in the footer.

You can now follow this website, log-in, write comments and share the site with friends using a Google account, Yahoo Account, a netlog account or any Open ID account of your choice (preferably, your own account). Try it, comment with it, and if you like any post on the blog, don’t hesitate to share it. I wont mind

~JaguarNac

Happy Diwali Everybody !
Here are a few images that I’d like to share

This, has got to be one of the best links on the Internet that I’ve came across so far !!!

http://www.funnyheck.com/40mistakes.html

It’s been almost two years since I’m writing things on the blog (i guess)… I started it as a learning experience, to get to know what blogging is, how it feels and to learn how people design their blogs. To me, being a web designer-developer, it seemed the right thing to do. So, I did it and felt very good doing it. It was “Fun”. However, since last few months, when I look at my blogging frequency and content, things don’t look right. It’s as if I’ve lost the sheer motivation that drove me to write any blatant stuff on this blog in the first place.

The reason behind this is probably because I wanted to make it better, and didn’t quite realize the correct path to achieve it. It’s every bloggers dream to get more viewers, readers to their blog. To establish a “communicative” relation to the society through their blog in their very own way. I am not an exception. I wanted more viewers, so, I thought I should do some study around it, read some good articles about blogging and try to improve myself a bit. So, I did…

Articles, people around the web and probably everyone else who knows blogging emphasize on content quality. To create quality content, one should actually try to identify the type of content that the blog is supposed to serve. This is where I fell. It was a hands down pants up failure. The blog had(and still has) a lot of random stuff such as cat pictures, images of a couple of computer keyboards, some more cats, my ramblings and mumblings about the movies that I liked or disliked and some of computer, flex and programming stuff as well… But, when I tried to categorize my blog, i just ended up confusing myself terribly. Often happened so, that whenever I thought of posting something on the blog, I restricted myself thinking whether it’d suit the flavor that I want my blog to belong to. Most of the times, the thoughts were ended as discarded drafts.

Now that I think of it, I never really wanted my blog to belong to a particular flavor. I wanted it to reflect a bit of myself from on the web. I wanted it to be a place to store my late night randomness, to dump my offline brainstorms, experiments, parties, fun events etc…. (and to show furry cat pictures). From this moment onwards (actually a few moments before this moment, and a probably a few more moments before ‘this’ particular moment) I have decided to not to restrict myself from posting any(ducking?)thing on the blog.

I want my old fun back !!!

says,

~Nac