Sunil Bhanot

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So at my work, we have this lunch guy who comes around noon everyday and everyday Lindsay (aka L) sends a group message to a bunch of people at work informing them of his arrival (Thanks L).

But…….Alas…….GOOD DEEDS NEVER GO UNPUNISHED!!

This ALWAYS and I mean A L W A Y S freezes my Messenger for atleast 20 seconds until everyone is done either replying to this conversation or leaving the conversation. It’s like a forced break for me.

Why Microsoft Why?

Just under:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"? > (no spaces after and before < and >)

you need to put:

< ?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl"? > (no spaces after and before < and >)

Simple?

Hey RUBIOS….its SUNIL not SUMIL.

I spell it out to you and I hand you my credit card…you still insist on SUMIL…WHY??

My little cousin sister recently became a journalist and now and then sends me the articles she writes. This one I really liked, made me feel I was right there when she was narrating it. Great job little sis, I loved reading every word . You make us all proud … keep up the wonderful work!!!

On a flight of fancy… but landed in reality

Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks Deluxe w/ Built in Microphone - $19

WD 6GB External Hard Drive - $12

February 25th, 2007 my Volkswagen Jetta completed 2 years with me. I received this email from the LA Car Guys and Volkswagen Santa Monica; the email was so cool that I had to put it up on my blog. Here it is:

Dear Jetta:

“Happy Anniversary” from your friends at Volkswagen Santa Monica!

I hope you and Sunil are getting along well and that Sunil is taking good care of you. If you have any bumps and scratches, aches or pains, just come in and see us. We are here to care for you. As always if there is anything I can do, please call me at Volkswagen Santa Monica at XXX-XXX-XXXX.

I hope you and your owner have an excellent day!

Respectfully,
ABC
XYZ
ABC@XYZ.com
XXX-XXX-XXXX

I am pretty sure each and every one of us now and then sits and thinks about their past.

Different people have different times when they think about their past moments. But I can guarantee that this happens at a time when one is alone or when one takes a short moment / break from the everyday tedious schedule.

Lets call these as “SELF-MOMENTS” or as Ash says “ME-TIME” (I kind of like “ME-TIME”).

As you see in the Brain Diagram above, you notice that there is already a lot of stuff going on in there. This make the “ME-TIME” even more crucial in your everyday life.

For me, I usually go into my FLASHBACK when I am listening to a particular song that I relate to a happy, sad, anxious or tense moment in my life. Some of the moments are so embarassing or tense that I try to run away from them even in my mind .

Earlier this was not so bad as music was the only time I would think about the past. But lately I have started taking more “ME-TIMES” where I try to relax and get away from a hard days work. Now I am running away from my mind even more….hehehe….not a good thing huh!!

Kind of makes the whole purpose of the “ME-TIME” useless. Instead of relaxing I end up making it worse. Most of your past memories (and I say most because obviously no one has a PERFECT life) should make you smile and feel nice about yourself.

Well what’s done is done. How about a fresh start? Next time you say or do anything, just ask yourself: “when I remember this later will it make me feel good”. Lets make “The Present Make The Past Worth Remembering”. This PRESENT will be a great PAST to remember, that’s for sure.

The Discovery Channel has been my all time favorite channel. The other day I watched this great documentary on Discovery HD about how the Egyptians would have built The Great Pyramid Of Giza in an era where there were no modern tools or machineries.

It was a projection of how the Great Pyramid might have been built based on the remains the archeologists have found over time at the pyramid. They show the story of a common man who is taken from his village along with his brother to work as one of the thousands of laborers at the building site of the great pyramid. The whole documentary is actually split into being narrated by the this common man and the documentary narrator.

The man starts out doing the least skillful job on site, that of a water bearer to help wet the ground where the huge 1 ton rocks are transported from the stone quarries to another zone from where they are taken to the site on a huge ramp where the skilled masons work on accurately shaping the edges of the rough blocks of stones. Even at that time, historians think that the Egyptians had developed tools like an “L” shaped wodden frame to try to make the edges of the rocks perpendicular to each other.

The job of removing stones from quarries was also considered skillful. They used small club like hammers and copper chisels, since copper was the hardest known metal at that time. The chisels would blunt out often so they had these other group of men who would sharpen the blunt chisels and always have some back ups ready for the quarry workers.

The workers were well taken care of and well fed. They would work for nine days and rest the tenth. Some of the workers who lived close by were also allowed to return back to their villages to see their family.

The man who narrates this story talks about how he was soon moved to more important jobs like pulling up the hige stones on the ramps and other skilled jobs. He never really bothered to question what the reason was for building such a huge pyramid until one day when he loses his brother, the only person he has always been close to, at the building site to a freak accident. He felt it was his responsibility to take care of his brother and devotes his life to the completion of the pyramid.

In the documentary they also show him as the person being responsible of the team that put up the final small pyramid at the top of the Great Pyramid. Special granite stones, about nine of them, were also brought from other parts of the Egypt to serve as the roof of the king’s burial chamber. Finally an expensive wooden coffin was brought into the king’s burial chamber and the pyramid was now complete. Next to the great pyramid three smaller pyramids were made for the king’s three wives.

All in all this was a very enthralling documentary and I am glad I got to watch it .

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If There Was A COFFEE GOD,

Everytime I Drank Coffee From The Office Kitchen

I Would Have To Ask For Forgiveness,

Else The COFFEE GOD Would Punish Me !!

That’s How UnCool This Coffee Is.