Forensic Accountant

Was watching the news today and there was apparently some unusual activity at the stockmarket according to a Forensic Accountant. Didn't know there was such a job in the world which made being an accountant actually sound like fun.

One more comment: actually two, every morsel of indian food is worth its weight in gold and the reach and popularity of indian movies in the world cannot be underestimated.

Snapshots

After eating Indian food at a Chinese restuarant in chinatown, Calgary




















My First Solo cooking adventure on this side of the Atlantic

A day in the life of an engineer

Murphy's law (also known as Finagle's or Sod's law) is a popular adage in Western culture, which broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation. It is most commonly formulated as "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." In American culture the law was named after Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer working for a brief time on rocket sled experiments done by the United States Air Force in 1949.
-Wikipedia

When things go wrong , one thing usually leads to another. Every action is intricately linked with its causes and effects that when things go wrong they go all the way to the disaster level. A bolt, a roll-pin, lack of grease, lack of attention, dont give a damn...the list is endless. The smallest errors cause the biggest disasters.
One wrong thing leads to another and before you know it you're diving right into disaster, swimming against the insurmountable waves of 'failure', swimming in an ocean of failures.

There are these days in the life of an engineer when you just hope that something, anything will go right. You sit there angry and bitter with your equipment, with yourself and wait fearfully for the next thing to go wrong. You jump at every unfamiliar sound until there comes a time when you cross the threshold of fear and don the armor of bravado and turn into a firefighter. Nothing scares you anymore and everything brings smile to your face. Soon that phase passes and you enter the stage where you just wanna go home and sleep.
All in a day's work!

I'm Back..?

It's been a while. I have spent the last few days attending Company talks and interviews, writing mid-terms- I still don't know which was worse. The interview days meant, getting up early, making sure I was clean-shaven, having a quick shower and being off by 7.30 or 8.00. It would then be a day of endless interviews, Pepsi and coffee, sandwiches and Pizza that you progressively grew sick of.

Now, I am at home, enjoying the food and the rather pleasant Chennai climate. It's good fun.
I have also wondered why people think it's necessary to have shave before the interview. I mean people were aghast that I had come to one of the interviews without shaving my day old stubble but honestly, I didn't see the point. Shaving is a very boring, painful and monotonous job which involves careful handling of a blade on your face on a sleepy morning- better stubbled than mauled!!!

There are people writing the CAT tomorrow and it takes me back by a year to what I was doing the night before the test. I think I was asleep by 10.00 p.m. after spending the evening on the phone and watching some vague movie on Sun TV. I didn't really know how much of a chance I stood.... since things have worked out, I can say anything I want to :).

I have hence completed my usual quota of rambling... hope everyone who reads this is doing well.

Greek and Mongolian

Some real food at last. After a few months of Canadian food which basically means tasteless food which all taste the same, I had a couple of decent meals. One was at this Greek restaurant in Airdrie, which was not quite to my taste, but it was real food. Learnt interesting fact: Melbourne is apparently the biggest greek city in the world after athens, now dont ask me why that fact is on this blog. Just look at the title for this blog.
Now for the good food and great dessert (nothing tastes as good as a free decent meal). I suppose I liked the meal mainly because you got to choose the ingredegents that go into the meal and you get charged(or whoever is paying for it gets charged) by the weight. So that basically meant that I had a meal to my liking whether it was mongolian or not. It probably was actually cooked in mongolian style, but anyway, I felt so good after that good meal that I decided to post despite having tons of work and an inviting bed beckoning behind me and a half drunk cup of coffee in front of me. Which brings me to my new word for today, not that I have one everyday. Kahlua.

The pictures are by the way my way of introducing my camera to my blog. Here's more:

Waiting for the Sun

At first flash of Eden, we race down to the sea.
Standing there on Freedom's Shore.
Waiting for the Sun (3x)
Can you feel it now that spring has come.
And it's time to live in the scattered sun.
Waiting for the Sun
Waiting.... Waiting.... Waiting.... Waiting....
Waiting for you to - come along
Waiting for you to - hear my song
Waiting for you to - come along
Waiting for you to - tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Can you feel it now that spring has come.
That it's time to live in the scattered sun.
Waiting for the Sun.....
- The Doors
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The spring time of your mind is when it awakes.
In morning of summer its awake and intelligent
In the afternoon the creative juices start to flow
And in the winter it freezes up. Slumber.
Mind numbing slumber.

Silent Spectacle

On Deepavali day, the first of november, the day after halloween, instead of the usual explosive fireworks that I've been used to, I stepped out dressed in three layers of clothing to feel the soft thud of snow flakes against my face. The first snowfall of the season in Airdrie. There's this saying about snowfall, the people here claim. That snowfall is great for only the first fifteen minutes. But actually it felt pretty good for a lot more than that, especially for someone who has never witnessed snowfall before. Atleast it gave me something to be cheerful about. So what if there are no fireworks(not that im really a fan of fireworks), atleast there was some snow. But Im guessing that very very soon, I will be back here cursing the snow and winter when I have to work outdoors as a part of my job. Its been close to a day since it snowed and it is still white outside(will post pics sometime soon). So I guess ill just enjoy it for as long as I can.

Before I sign off, Warning: Do not watch Flightplan unless you're in a group of people greater than five, out to have fun watching really bad movies. And heard from a cab driver here about this film festival of world worst films in Newyork. His reccomendations were for "Terror in Tiny town" and "Attack of the killer tomatoes".