Facebook updates take over my blogging updates

Perhaps it's the brevity that appeals to me - but facebook updates have taken me away from blogging.

Is it me or were the academy awards this year totally lacklustre? It's the predictability that spoilt it for me. Even Sean's MILK win wasn't a Rourke upset. Rourke definitely needs to deliver in a role other than a wrestler.

Going through the motions of buying a home puts living, priorities in perspective. I suddenly feel old. Up until now, I could atleast don the "not old" state of mind. But I am glad I didn't give into buyer fatigue and play the usual procrastinator.

ReceDepression years take a toll with the near brink nature of everything. It almost gets all the Half Full folks into the Half Empty bucket and the usual Half Empty ones want to externalize into dry walls. Wonder how Obama and Helicopter Ben visualize Hope, Change, sunny skies. I think of my last happy place. Aside, I am resorting to only reading the Prez's speeches - the rhetoric is easier to read, for me anyway.

A couple of days ago a 15 year old cousin lost his battle to cancer. While I am almost relieved he's no longer suffering,it's amazing how friends and family pull the God cloak back on.

Cascading Failures have been my quality quest for the past month - designing to harden nondeterministic behavior against such failures is harder.

2009 - throwback into history

Khatami wants to run again. And a rerun of the 90s is happening to SriLankan Tamils.

Out of the Youth bracket and Uncertain Times

Well, I am officially out of the Youth Bracket. An evening of Syrah with friends and family over the phone. Atleast it rained - I love anything that reminds me of the monsoon. I dread getting older. I was truly tickled when Rod Stewart's Forever Young came on the radio playlist. I remembered contracting chicken pox on my birthday in class 4 - it's funny how the colors are still vivid in memory - in a blue and white frock designed by my mom standing outside my class in the Montessori, waiting for a pickup, chatting up with the students from the local Jesuit college serving as teachers in social science classes - ah what became of the promise? Everything seemed limitless, possible then.

The stimulus passed - but we are into over regulation with the Prez treading into recommending payscales - over regulation is never good - kills innovation.