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March 26 2009

Lease Renewal

I went to the leasing office to get my lease renewed. I wanted to renew it for only 6 months because I don’t know if I’ll be in the same city after that. My contract with the current client expires Oct. end. So, this lady at the front desk wanted to know why I only wanna renew my lease for 6 months and not 12 months. It took me 5 minutes to make her understand that. Then she told me that if I renew for 12 months, I get 1 month’s rent free. Also, since I work for XXX company as a contractor, I can be on their “preferred client” program which lets me get out of the lease by giving a 30 day notice. So, suppose my contract gets over in Oct (and the lease gets over next March 2010), I can still get out without paying any penalty in Oct as long as I give a 30 day notice. And I get to pay the same rent. Renewing the lease for 6 months only required me to pay $50 extra per month. I need to go back tomorrow with a copy of my paystub so that they can run a credit check again and add me to the “preferred client” program. All of that is good. What got me really mad is that she was trying to tell me that EVERYONE in St. Louis pays his/her water+trash bills. Supposedly, she had some sort of a research document handy. I told her that I have friends who don’t and that the leasing company pays for it. She almost fought with me. After a long day, the last time I want to do is fight with a leasing agent in the front office. I chose not to fight back and let it pass. I get 1 month’s rent free anyway. Yes, that’s the prize I get for choosing not to fight back with her, I guess.

While I was talking to this woman, this other leasing agent tries to butt in and asks me “oh so you are a contractor”, “yeah you can just get a letter from your company, doesn’t have to be on the client letterhead blah blah”, “so your visa status is _______”. I don’t know why I responded to all these questions. I gave her a pointed look, but I wanted to really tell her “how are these questions related to my lease renewal?”

These people at the front desk remind me of those who hold positions in menial govt. jobs. This is the only way they feel like they are in power! I still feel disgusted thinking about it. And oh, she asked me to drop my paystub in the “dropbox”. As if I’m gonna do that when it has my SSN#. And I told her that! Her response: Fair enough.

March 24 2009

I am full time doctor and was used to take care of my OPD.I have had one and half years of healthy practised which I terminated as I got call from US for higher education.
— from my friend’s Orkut profile. LOL.
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carocat:

Hey, I still remember how to do that, too! :)

March 19 2009

[News] Complete How-To: Tethering An iPhone With 3.0 Firmware www.crunchgear.com/...
TechCrunch
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Another one…on my way to Grafton. I’ll go back again for sure.
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Clicked this when I was in Alton, IL last weekend.
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My mom sent me these bangles from India. I feel so happy!
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dianaparker:

Cinderella, a British piglet, won’t walk through mud unless she is wearing her specially adapted Wellington boots. The little piggy lives with owners and pig farmers Debbie and Andrew Keeble. (Ross Parry Agency ) !!!! from ABC: Baby Animals

Control Freaks

I have been in a worrisome mood since yesterday because of a co-worker who is a control freak. I didn’t even know that she is a control freak, until I did some research and realized that her character matches that of a control freak to the hilt. I have realized that I don’t want such a lady to control my emotions and my life and my feelings. She is not that important to me. I refuse to let her make me feel horrible about myself and my work when I know that I am doing fine. Sometimes, it gets difficult to draw that boundary and learn to accept the fact that some people never change. All we can do is change our behavior towards them.

I was a little cold to her today! she probably realizes that she is not very popular around the work place. I have hardly seen anyone talk to her about anything other than work. She is not the types who stops at other peoples’ cubes just to have a small chat. She has this sense of urgency regarding everything! And she forces you to behave in the same way and treat everything with a do-or-die situation. I have decided to stay calm and breathe deeply and not give into her panic mood. She likes to retain control- I’ll give her that! Let her remain happy and feel like she’s in control. This doesn’t make my work any less significant.

I’m surprised that I let someone like her actually control me sometimes. I’m mad at myself for that. Today, I intentionally played my iPod to shut off her voice. This helped me stay focused and happy almost all day long.

P.S- would be nice if Tumblr were to have a “more” tab, similar to what’s been introduced at Twitter. Of course, I can use an infinite scroller script using Greasemonkey…

March 16 2009

In one of my horribly depressed moods. Doesn’t help that the pants that my mom bought for me last summer doesn’t fit me anymore :(

I’m going on a strict vegetables (boiled or raw) and fruits diet. I need to lose a LOT of pounds. At least 15 pounds before I can feel happy about my body.

March 15 2009

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krishanu:

Shrinking Self Esteem

March 14 2009

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Argosy floating casino, west Alton, illinois

March 13 2009

March 12 2009

Please tell me why all the websites for the IT company I work for...

robot-heart:

…only work in Internet Explorer.

The e-mail, the online training, the time sheets…all accessible only through IE. It’s like working in a time warp. You’re an IT company! Why are you this far behind the times?!

My company’s IT department is the same way. That’s because firefox is open source and the code can be modified by anyone. Companies do a lot of work to make sure that each functionality works in the browser being used. Having more than one browser is a problem when you are dealing with Java apps. It’s like…almost all work computers (not talking about web designers) run on Windows OS. Same thing. Yeah, I don’t like it either.

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carocat:

mylifeinacube:

You win this round, Twitter.

Yeah, I somewhat agree with that.

I used to be like that…now it is the other way round.

March 11 2009

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How much smaller can the shuffle get? Small tablet size maybe?
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Hate it when people use “Your” instead of “You are”…ugh…disgusting.
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Orkut celebrating Holi…quite cool.

P.S- Shows that Google recognizes that millions of Orkut users are Indians.

March 10 2009

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