What lies ahead ?

• All the females with whom I have played cat and mouse with over the years
• I hope to go after a good fight so I would expect all those whose lives I must have touched on the way
• The Callapy Brothers( see the orkut list for names and ID)
• A full choir singing 'Footprints in the sand' and 'Awesome God'
• Atleast a couple of people other than my family who came because they really felt i had made a difference, I have tried to touch so many so I expect someone to cry for me
• Bring My dog Pluto, I need to have atleast one animal thats just like me near me - so full of love but unable to put it in words

Trappings and decoration

• A Headstone that reads "Soft on the inside, terrifying on the outside- Here lies the Gentle Giant"
• Tombstone that also uses my pseudonym " WeBspider" and a spider on the web - Top right corner
• I need flowers placed on my grave each valentine's day

Things I have always wanted to say

I have felt I was falling in love oh so many times but never have I carried someone with me for so long- over two years without being stoked by contact or talk. I think I am irrepairably in love with you but the minute I hear your voice, my tongue sticks to my throat - another surprise for my character which normally is hard to shut up.

I have been less than a perfect son most of the time but I guess its coz I have this armour that I don't want anyone to come too close of the fear of getting hurt.Each time I kicked you away , Mom N Dad, I was hurt more than probly you.

Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?

An Interview with God ...

"Come in," God said. "So, you would like to interview Me?" "If you have the time," I said.

God smiled and said: "My time is eternity and is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"

"What surprises you most about mankind?"

God answered:

* "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
* That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
* That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future.
* That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived..."

God's hands took mine and we were silent for while and then I asked...

"As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn?"

God replied with a smile:

* "To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.
* To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.
* To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. All will be judged individually on their own merits, not as a group on a comparison basis!
* To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.
* To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
* To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
* To learn that there are persons that love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.
* To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.
* To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it totally different.
* To learn that a true friend is someone who knows everything about them...and likes them anyway.
* To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others, but that they have to forgive themselves."

I sat there for awhile enjoying the moment. I thanked Him for his time and for all that He has done for me and my family, and He replied, "Anytime. I'm here 24 hours a day. All you have to do is ask for me, and I'll answer."

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

George has done it again

As always, I have done the unthinkable again.After 1 year of J2ME development, I have joined Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY) as a Test Engineer and have elected to spend a sabbatical writing test cases for applications from all over the world.Infy has lived up on its word of promoting national integration by transferring me from one end of the country to the other across 3 centres in just 2 months and I am loving all the cultural interaction I am getting( except for the occasional cash crunch and living out of a suitcase) We at Independent Validation solutions at Infy are the ones who hold the final veto on any project before they are released into the wild.Therefore once I certify something as pucca it'll be my head that rolls first if the application turns out to have any bugs.Right now, its just cool places to hang out and waiting for project allocation.Do write in to know more

My tryst with MAD

I know just what you are thinking now, Why would GT join a team of people calling themselves MAD but you also know that I am a pretty inquisitive soul and would never pass up an opportunity to stick my nose in somethin that seems vaguely interesting( I guess its a trait Me and my canine Bestfriend Pluto share)  Well here I was trawling orkut for interesting people to investigate over the weekend and I get a scrap from a gurl who works with an organization called MAD.Since I had Waayy toomuch time on my hands and too little to do ( I have actualy plowed thru a sizeable number of Ernakulam Public libray's fiction collectio and am now reading up on income tax laws) I forget about it totally till a saturday when I absolutely cannot be seen at home ( minor occupational hazards ) and I call up the organizer dude and he tells me to skip down to the meetin place.Before I know it, I am asked what I am good at and I say "duh.... I'm pretty good at observing people and spookin them out..."  and before I can say anythin else, I'm appointed  observer to a numbert of centres .Wat I mainly do is to evaluate the facilitators on their adherence to the lesson plan proposed by a remarkable lass called Aswathy who is a Cambridge trained Trainer Trainer( that sounds deceptively like Carthago returned Lion Tamer from Ceasar 3 ) To cut a long story short, I hide out among the kids( I blend right in you know.... A big 6 foot dude in a group of 4th standard girls) ,observe closely what the facilitator is doin wrong and write snide remarks in a sheet of paper.Then after the class, I read them to the poor souls who by then hav started plotting my murder>Life is cool.