Wednesday, January 03, 2007

one month remaining...

New year passed , bari eid passed, my birthday passed.. first time out of country...out of Pakistan.. These celeberations are already boring; i mean, i already complain about these days as being boring,but this time it was boring than ever before....

We were/are having very narrow deadlines for the current project...so we worked non-stop without a break..for nearly some 28 - 29 consecutive days.... There were no weekends, no holidays, no breaks etc..i had started getting my latent depression getting over me....infact i guess it did.. i dont think that is the proper way to work on a project..a break is always needed to increase productivity...thats not what i say , thats what psychology says. .. you always need to spend some time out of the box..

Anyways , we finally had a break ...a long one.. on christmas..starting from 23rd Dec to 1st Jan..most of the part of this vocation was spent in bed......Three people from Pakistan NCR left .two are not billable on project anymore (they wont return) .. so i am left with just one person to hang around with.. Its really boring..

The only great thing that has happened is my own car.. i finally rented a car.. a Chevy HHR.. i guess its 2000 CC...Its great.... more than enough for all of my requirements.. has a roof window , automatic gears, remote ignition (that is you can start/ignite the car engine from the remote ) , seated heats , a big diggie.. its a complete comfort... i am gonna miss this car later....i wont be able to enjoy THE PRINCESS at all when i will return to Pakistan..

There happens to be an Auntie of mine who lives nearby .. at a distance of some 35 minutes .each time i visit her my driving time decreases.. Driving is very very easy here.. but i am always scared .. especially on free ways/high ways.. Visiting my auntie was the only good thing in the vocations.. the only time i could conversate with people for long times.. She is in US for some 26 years now..and her children are all Americans now..

Google map is a real fun thing now. i visit a certain place and then keep on looking it on map for sometime to see all the area around.. its really beautiful , the way it shows all the roads and building , amazing.. i always take my driving directions from there..

In the vocations , i once visited the Detroit Science Center.. It was amazing.. I finally saw I-MAX cinema there; something i had planned before coming to US...an I-MAx cinema covers nearly the complete vison angle... in a normal cinema when you just you just look in front on a flat screen .. in an I-MAX , the roof is the screen .so you sit and rest your head on the head rest and look slightly upward.. Its really Amazing..I might visit it again before leaving..if i will get time..

I have started feeling really bored now.. want to go back to Pakistan.. This place is good .. its really beautiful and all organized.. but i dont have friends here..

Work started again.. soon i will be all busy .. but my countdown has started..today is 2nd.. i have to stay here till 31st.. 30 days remaing...

Right now i am in office.. there is no task to do right now.. but when they will start coming , it will be like raining..i wont have anytime or life then..

Ali bhai blogged about our newyork trip on his blog here . Ali bhai is my colleague in NCR... basically my batch mate.. happens to have very good knowledge about every topic of the world.. He has written a very very very very long narration of all that happened in Newyork.. (still his post doesnt beat Raza and my war on Professor Eugito mototo or whatever ) ...thanks Ali.. His long boring narration has become funny with my slight interruption in the writing.. (those who have been reading for long can easily find my touch there :) )...

And you people can see my pics here.. and of my car here .. see some more here in the order they are ..do give some attention to the captions ...they explain a lot...

4 comments:

Dangling Pointer said...

whats is "seated heats"?? :o

Sameer Durrani said...

well..there are some car seats that heat the back and bottom of the person sitting... its a very required feature for cars in cold areas.. you can also call this as 'heated seats' .... :)

Anonymous said...

and there is a difference between vacation and vocation. Amrika ja ke yeh to seekh lo.

google it!

Sameer Durrani said...

just to sruprise you bodz..as far as my english is concerned , i have come to know that its lot better than many people here..honestly..so you can well imagine the kind of english people speak here.. :)

but even then , i will see and understand the difference.. thanks for poinitng it out..