Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Cookie Thief

The woman arrived
At an airport one night
With several long hours
Before her flight.

She hunted for a book
In the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies
And found a place to drop.

She was engrossed in her book
But happened to see,
That the man sitting beside her,
As bold as could be,
Grabbed a cookie or two
From the bag in between,
Which she tried to ignore
To avoid a scene.


So she munched the cookies
And watched the clock,
As the gutsy cookie thief
Diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated
As the minutes ticked by,
Thinking, "If I wasn't so nice,
I would blacken his eye."
With each cookie she took,
He took one too,

When only one was left,
She wondered what he would do?
With a smile on his face,
And a nervous laugh,
He took the last cookie
And broke it in half.
He offered her half,
As he ate the other,


She snatched it from him
And thought... ooh, brother!
This guy has some nerve
And he's also rude,
Why he didn't even show Any gratitude!

She had never known
When she had been so galled,
And sighed with relief
When her flight was called.


She gathered her belongings
And headed to the gate,
Refusing to look back
At the thieving ingrate.
She boarded the plane,
And sank in her seat,


Then she sought her book,
Which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage,
She gasped with surprise,
There was her bag of cookies,
In front of her eyes.
If mine are here,


She moaned in despair,
The others were his,
And he tried to share.
Too late to apologize,
She realized with grief,
That she was the rude one,
The ingrate, the thief!





How many times have we absolutely known that something was a certain way, only to discover later that what we believed to be true...was not? (Cookie Spokesperson) saying " Keep An Open Mind And An Open Heart, Because...... You Just Never Know...... Ya might be eating someone else's cookies!"

Thursday, September 23, 2004

A Strange Kind of Friend

A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.

As I grew up, I never questioned his place in our family. Mom taught me to love the word of God and dad taught me to obey it. But the stranger was a storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries, and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spellbound for hours each evening. He was like a friend to the whole family. He took dad, my brother, and me to our first major league baseball game.

He was always encouraging us to see the movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie stars. The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn't seem to mind, but sometimes mom would quietly get up-while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of faraway places-go to her room, read her bible and pray. I wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave. You see, my dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But this stranger never felt an obligation to honor them. Profanity for example, was not allowed in our house- not from us, occasional four letter words that burned my ears and made dad squirm. To my knowledge, the stranger was never confronted.

My dad never permitted alcohol in his home-not even for cooking. but the stranger felt like we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often. He made cigarettes look tasty, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing. I know now that the stranger influenced my early concepts of the man/woman relationship.

As I look back, I believe it was the grace of God that the stranger did not influence us more. Time after time, he opposed the values of parents, yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with us, but if I were to walk in my parents' home today, I would still see him sitting there waiting for someone to listen to his stories and watch him draw his pictures.

His name?............we always just called him.............TV.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Successfully failed...

Once again, just as in my bachelors I did my best not to study for the masters too...
The premise, predicate everything's the same; just that the conclusion was a nice grade "F"...
I bet the TM teacher didnt read a word I wrote... Any ways; im glad I failed... It's really fun to not study and (still) fail... Was missing this feeling since my 10th grade...

Khair... Finally got the phone up and running...
Life now revolves around sourceforge.net, the ACM sites, GMAIL besides work and college and trying to discover new books and stuff on Social Networking...

Well, today was probably the most useless day I ever had... I only made 4 routines out of the many many I was supposed to make at work... Just because 'ideas' kept clicking me again and again for some Social Networking CS project I agreed not to take seriously this semester...

But I just noticed; Im really not the type... I just cant sit idle and not learn anything... Everyday I wake up I want something new, exciting and innovative to work on...Besided that today we got the Wednesday BarBQ Party changed to a lunch Salt'n'Paper just because someone doesnt want to have too much fun...

Spending 8 years with the internet; I must say its actually a wonderful invention... How would life be for me without the Internet...? People I see around me are just new commers who followed the crowd to enter my valley... But where do I go if IT gives up on me? Even if im imprisoned; i'm sure God would realize my need and give me a 24hr internet connection...

Monday, September 20, 2004

Earth is just a dot...

The earth is just a "dot"... And there are so many dots inside every dot you take... But all you "dots" (.com) out there; be witness to a big change comming your way...

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Firefox and A9.com

Just a short note...

I've shifted from IE to Firefox (Web browser) for more than 2 weeks now...
Easily my favourite browser!
Easily beats IE! The best part is no spyware; no looser toolbars and builtin pop-blockers and a new concept of tabs.. Loved it!

Get a FireFox for your self... http://www.getfirefox.com

Also A9.com was recently launched
(Amazon's new born baby to compete with Google)...

Must say a good effort! Can't say who would win in the long run... But clearly a very close competition....

Friday, September 17, 2004

Infinite

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

Good luck google...

You guys failed to win me in an attempt you call your best...

Although, i've been a great fan of yours for some time...

Larry, let it be clear we will sit on the same table one day doing some business, that too not very far from today...

Let your own blogger.com be an evidence on that day!

Best of luck Googler...

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Googler!

I guess Larry Page just couldnt resist it!

He wanted me so badly that he organized a competition for me so I can step in...
Well what can I say, alrite larry... i'll give it a try, but you know what?
Im not too sure you have done your best... Even with so many efforts what if you still coulndt win me?

You know its a little difficult to get hold of me... If somehow I slip through the net, you might want to consider re-engineering your fishing net :P

Because, else you'll be missing a lot...