All my Internet Friends - Amanda French

Really nice song I came across recently:
The lyrics are as follows:
(Let the geeks and nerds inside you have a bright smile...)


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Monday afternoon I gave a presentation to the staff
Kicked off with a knock-knock joke to liven up the charts and graphs
That crowd
Never laughs out loud
But all my internet friends were tickled pink
They put animated smileys when they passed around the link
They said, Hey, girl, here’s another awesome thing we found
Sarah Palin getting smacked down
With a Prince song in the background
Better watch it quick before they take it down

Wednesday night I figured I’d go out and buy a DVD
Walked into a store and walked right out again immediately
This sucks
They want thirty bucks

But all my internet friends give things away
They just really like to make stuff even when it doesn’t pay
They say, Hey, girl, here’s a picture, here’s a poem too
Here’s a blog post, here’s a podcast
Here’s a song and here’s a lolcat
And an iPhone application all for you

Saturday I had a date with Dave the software engineer
Told him bout the time I got my headphones wrapped around my ear
I swear
He just didn’t care

But all my internet friends they listen well
They make sympathetic comments when I say that I’m in hell
They say, Hey, girl, what’s your status? I say, Omigod,
I’m not sleeping, I’m not eating
I can’t take another meeting
With the clean, well-meaning morons at my job

There are those who say I spend a little too much time online
Sometimes I agree, but on the whole I think I’m doing fine
Click, buzz
I feel strong because
All my internet friends are here with me
Saying Love and information want only to be free
And we’ll take no crap from anyone who says that they know better
We won’t stand for that because we all came here together
We’re remaining interwoven
We’re a net, and we have chosen
To be knotted tightly to each other
You be client, I’ll be server
We won’t ever have to be alone

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Enjoy all out there... :)

Thought for the day...

"Every experience has one thing in common - an attached lesson...! It's upto us to be smart enough to learn in the  first take or be stupid enough to wait for a retake...."

Another firsts in my list...my first Salsa experience :)

........today I thought to try something new. And believe me, it was not the easiest thing to do...well partly because of what I chose (I think) to try. I tried to go for SALSA...!
        Before I go any further, I should probably tell more about my dancing experiences till date...let me think, maybe a little harder, OK a little more, maybe, possibly I will remember something...! Nah...I don't think I will remember anything apart from those dance/jumps at some party/get-togethers/weddings - 'Baraat' processions...! So now you know, that I am not even at the level to be termed as a novice when it comes to dancing.
         Well, my colleague asked me if I would like to try salsa once and give it a shot...? I don't know if it was the sushi I was having then or what, that I ended up saying 'Yeah sure, why not...! Trying once won't hurt!" And that was it...I kind of realized it as soon as I finished my sentence...I felt that it ain't gonna be as smooth as it was sayin' it !
          So my colleague sent me the mail like 4-5days back, where I had to register for the session today. But since I had kind of realized my mistake right after I agreed to it, I preferred to delay the registration process :) My plan was pretty good though - Postpone the registration process till the last minute and then send a SMS
with an excuse that there were no more places left...!
          So then came today, the D-Day. I was all ready and everything was going 'as planned'. So 11:00 was the starting time for the SALSA session. So, as per plan, I sent a SMS saying that I could not register because of XYZ reason. I was pretty relaxed after that (rather with a sense of achievement that my plan worked out as expected). But then, something, that I had not thought of happened. Well my colleague messaged me "Just come, it will be fine. You can have the registration here...!" Hmm, was really not expecting that but then I was stupid that I did not have a backup plan...! Well well well...now I did not have any more excuses with me...so I thought whatever be it, I will now just give it a go...what worse can happen !
        I went there and saw over 20 people there, mostly couples (well it was supposed to be SALSA :) ). I don't think it did much to calm my nerves. But then having my colleague as the instructor helped a little for sure. Also it was somewhat soothing to find there I was not the only one out there with 'two left feet'... ;)
        So I started with the basic steps and after a few initial hiccups, I started getting some (if not all) of the steps...which made me feel nice actually :) And soon I kind of started enjoying (don't know if my partners felt the same or not though :) ). More than anything else, it was really relaxing and trying something new, actually after a pretty long time, was definitely a good feeling. Overall, I had a very nice time and another new experience added to my list of experiences in Norway - one which is surely worth remembering :)
       Apart from everything else, I think this experience certainly taught/reminded me one thing - Do not hesitate from trying something new (I think I had forgotten this for quite sometime) just for the fear of failure. The experience might be great, good or not-so-good, but then, at least you gave it a shot ! So that's how it will be from now...and my old list of 'To-Do's' that somewhere got lost in the heap of 'Doing now' ... but I have just brushed it off and cleared the dust from it today. I will make sure that it does not just stay there anymore...I will keep my pen in my hand - ready to check item in the list, in due time...............


PS: I will check out if my colleague did click any picture when we were in the session, I will upload it here :)

Cheers,
Keep trying and discovering...

Trip to Oppdal...through pictures

This are some memories from my recent trip to Oppdal with my colleagues. It was an amazing trip, filled with many 'firsts' (and probably that was the most fun part of it).

Wii - Moving from making a 'Family Console' to 'Making a Family' Console

In a recent turn of events, Wii, from out of nowhere has come up with their very first seducive Wii Game - Wii Dare!!! Though, I must say, more interest in this game has been developed by promo of this game rather than the game itself. Well, well, well I don't know what Wii wants from this game, but certainly they have stuck to being a 'Family Console' - though just by a thread now :))