Ice-cream.....finally!

Not so much an ice cream as a non-dairy frozen dessert...
In case you didn't know, I'm a vegan (I do have occasional slips)..make that a sweet-toothed vegan. Before you get on my ass with that, I'm a vegan not for health concerns but for animal rights and ethical issues. Anyway, so being a vegan who loooooves chocolate and everything sweet, it's been difficult for me to keep up with my habits. I made vegan jelly-filled cupcakes and brownies but unfortunately, they aren't the same as the "real thing", and besides, I have to cook of which I'm not a huge fan. So a couple of weeks ago, I was at Whole Foods and decided to checkout the frozen dessert aisle just for the heck of it...and to my surprise, I HIT A FREAKIN' JACKPOT!!! Ohhhh mannn.....I don't have to limit myself exclusively to sorbets anymore! I discovered the most amazing thing ever known to humankind today...VEGAN ice cream!!! I picked up a pint of Coconut Craze and when I opened it and took the first spoonful, it was...FIREWORKS!!!! Seriously, if you can get hold of it in this lifetime, I'm pretty sure you'll free yourself from the cycle of life-n-death!!

It was too good to be true. The overall coconut taste with shredded coconut, almonds, and more-often-than-occasional chocolate bits.....droooooll... It had absolutely no taste of soy and other ingredients not found in actual ice cream..it didn't even feel as though it was vegan, and the best part? Zero cholesterol! I'd give it a 9...until yesterday! I got another flavor yesterday - Key Lime Pie - which I finished off in 2 days! Don't judge me...you'd do the same if you had this. The pie crusts in the dessert were just...well....I don't have words for it, but I don't know how they do it! Neither ice cream nor gelato come close to this baby...heavennn

Windows fights back

Sometime back, Apple started with Mac commercials that showed PC as a geeky guy who is also dumb and a bit fat, wears a suit and glasses, and overall, not that attractive. Check it out....



These advertisements are without doubt creative and intriguing, but aren't all Apple ads? From what I see, 75% of the cost price of an Apple product goes towards marketing! Anyway, so now Windows came up with this new wave of advertisements, which aren't as innovative and interesting as Mac's, but they at least provide the real information!
Check it out.....



And Southpark's take on Mac vs. PC

Back on track...and lessons learnt

Whoa....what a week, what a week! Finally, I got my debit card on Monday. Even though I haven't used it yet, I know it's a big deal because with that in my wallet, I feel safe and secure....don't even think about the word weird...you'll have a lot of chances as your read on..! I now have a cell phone that I got off of Ebay, but looks so old it might have been here on this planet before the Neanderthals. I have my credit card, my school ID, and my Qdoba card (nope, it's still not weird), my Sephora card, and CVS card. What I don't have is my health insurance card (which had expired anyway), my PA driver's license, my ACA membership card, my IN state ID card, my Gujarat state license, Philly CarShare number, my Borders card, and case number card given by my homeopathic doc. Yep, I'm almost back in the saddle...almost!

First of, I 'd like to thank the people who helped me during this "crisis". I have to mention them because I probably can't thank them enough in-person. I'll begin with my colleague(and my classmate), who suggested what I should do about this, especially since I was sort of in a shock. Thanks to one of the staff members who helped me a great deal with this by telling me what to do about this entire mess (he also checked up on me today....such a sweet guy). Thanks to my friend who got off work early to meet me so that I could activate my credit card to get my phone. NO thanks to AT&T peeps who don't keep Go-phones at their retail location and asked me to go to the worst Walmart in US (yes, the one in south Philly IS the worst) from which to get the instrument. And last but definitely not the least, one of my classmates whom I ran into at the AT&T store and who let me borrow her phone for "as long as I wanted".

So anyway, one of my friends said that I should look at this as a tough lesson and I agree with her. The most important thing that I learnt was DON'T TRUST YOUR CLIENTS! Well, not clients but crackheads! In fact, I even asked my therapist if I'd be able to become a counselor after this...if I'd be able to trust humans again and her answer was..."you don't trust them now, I don't think that would change anything". That was one good therapy session! Okay, so jokes apart (yep, that was supposed to be a joke, nc), I feel like I realized a very important thing...I cannot really be extremely independent. As I mentioned before, I ran into this classmate at the AT&T store and I don't know why (I guess because of the shock), I just blurted out my story to her. If you don't know me, I'm a very private person, so I don't know how that happened! Second, when she offered me to borrow her phone, I pulled a second 'not-Megsie'....I borrowed it! What the fuck was that? That's soooo not me...but it felt good, getting something you desperately needed. So yeah, I guess my therapist is going to be happy about that!

Anyway, I think the most important lesson learnt is that I need to lock my office whenever I leave, regardless of the time I'm going to be out...the office is gonna be locked even when I go to pee or make a photocopy. Also, I'm going to be using the cheapest phone and wallet available in the market so I feel a lot more secure. Finally, I'm going to get a gun and keep it with me at all times....kiddingggg.....only when I'm at my internship site. Sarah Palin's going to be proud of me (couldn't resist)

The worst day of my life...so far!!

As the title suggests, September 18th, 2008 was the worst day of my life and it certainly didn't help knowing that it was exactly a week before my..uh..nth b'day! I've had bad days and worse days, and before this, the day I considered the worst was the day when I laughed so hard that Sprite came out of my nose...seriously! So what happened on this day? Continue reading my woeful story....

It was a usual near-fall day with a pleasant 23 C temperature. I stepped out of my apartment at 9 to go to my internship site, and saw a client at 10. At 11:30am, I headed upstairs to the Human resources department to watch orientation tapes but was told that the person who was going to show it wasn't in that day and scheduled another time for it. What a bummer! So I went back to my office and asked my supervisor about the groups I would be able to observe for the day. I decided to go for the 1pm group and headed upstairs to the 4th floor.

I came back from groups at around 2 and was sitting in my office when one of the interns asked me if she could use the phones. I stepped out to give her some privacy and was standing right outside. I thought I should get my phone so I could access my emails and play for a bit while I got my office back. This is when everything went wrong and hazy! I searched for my phone inside my bag but it wasn't there. It's a black bag, so I searched for 5 minutes before realizing that both my phone and my wallet were missing!! TING TING TING TING

WHAT THE FUCKKKKK?? What will I do? How will I survive? Is this the end of the world? Did someone hide it from me? Did I search for it right? What the fuck is happening? I was shocked and unable to move. My supervisor next door was with a client and I didn't know what to do. So this intern tells me to ask one of the other staff members about this. I tell him I cannot find my wallet and phone and then he tells me what to do next, which is to cancel all my credit cards and my phone service. I spend half hour doing that and am still shaking, thinking about nothing but my phone. What happens next? Is my phone lost forever? How will I get my life back? I don't have a single dollar with me nor anything in my apartment, how will I buy shit?

This has never happened to me before....NEVER! I have been outside in Philadelphia, have left my purse hanging on my chair while I was sitting, but nothing, NOTHING like this has ever happened to me, and one fine day, in my own office, I leave my office door open and leave my stuff unattended for an hour and I get robbed? I know, it's Philadelphia, I should've known better...BUT IN MY OWN FUCKING OFFICE???? Is nothing safe anymore?

So anyway, my credit card arrived the next day and I could get my SIM card and phone (thanks to my friends) after activating it, but my fucking bank where I have my checkings account pissed me off! I went there at 4pm the same day to ask them if they could give me a debit card on the spot and the fucking bitch at the information desk was the rudest person I've ever seen. She said, "No way, uh uh, it takes 5-7 days to get it from Pittsburgh, there's no way you can get it before the end of next week". HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO USE THE CARD FOR OTHER THINGS, Like buying phone (they only take plastic)?? I stormed out of the branch upset and on the verge of breaking down with anger!

Thanks to AMEX, I got my card the next day, within 24 hours of reporting, and used it to get my SIM card activated. I'm getting my life back on track but the thought of losing my phone is the worst feeling ever. It wasn't only a phone, it was my navigation system, my organizer, my alarm clock, my email client, my source of connecting to the outside world....basically my security blanket. Yes, it was fucking expensive...and unlocked..but the crackwhore who stole it probably traded it for 1 shot of heroin or a snort of crack.....fuck you, you fucking junkie!! I learnt a lot of things, but the most important lesson is that I'm never going to help a junkie, no matter what....they fucking bite the hand that feeds them...they're the scum of society...I don't know how you got to be that way, and I JUST DON'T CARE!! Damn you, MOFOs, damn you all!

The Devil in Disguise

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I Heart Tina Fey!!!

Did you watch Saturday Night Live's first skit of the season?? Well, it's been said that Tina Fey and Sarah Palin look a lot alike, so obviously, SNL took advantage of this uncanny resemblance and brought in Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin. Depending upon your stand in this election, you'll love it or hate it, but the bottom line is, it's supposed to be funny, so put your Democratic/Republican biases aside and watch this video for what it is!