ellen made reservations at this place for restaurant week:
Payard Patisserie and Bistro for Wednesday, Jan 26 at 8:30pm
julie or rupa, interested? well prob not julie since its also on a wednesday...but if not, do you girls want to do one of the restaurants another day next week?
rups - both nights! i have a gift card for del friscos from my dad...so your first drink is on him :) their drinks are so good..and then maybe we can just grab a quick bite to eat or another drink...and we can stay midtown so neither of us has to travel far in this crappy weather
but tomorrow come to the apt around 830 or 9...thats when i should be home and ellens coming then and im gonna tell people from work to come then too! im excited...
i'm up for celebrating either night.. so let me know what you'd like to do :) i'm running to a meeting but will be back in a bit and can talk more about plans!
i think im gonna have a party at home anyway tomorrow. can you come rupa? ellens gonna come; i think some people from my work can come; and if not at least the three of us can get drunk and hang out :) i had already told some people since i didnt know of the change of plan..and we have tooons of alcohol...
you dont want to skip the gym for one night? rupa are you free?
i never want to go out...and when i do the weather is crappy and people are busy!
so i won't be home until 9ish, by which time i'll be starving and exhausted, so i don't think i'll be much fun tonight :(
just found out my bonus - too bad i get jipped since i wasn't a full-time employee for the whole year. blah
im not going to ct anymore...so jules/rups can we hang out and do something fun? the weather is soo crappy though...so you guys should talk on IM and see what you are up to...
it was a formal written review. he said i'm the bomb and the dept couldn't live without me ;)
i find out my comp/bonus sometime between today and friday. it's a little nerve wrecking. . .
is it a formal review/write up about you? did he tell you your bonus?
i need to do that soon...but every time i ask allen he says remind me later...
my hands stopped shaking :)
i may go to new haven to have dinner with my parents tonight...i tried to see if they would come here but they suggested me meet half way in new haven..
but tomorrow night - rupa want to meet up for/after dinner? jules if rupa cant hang out for dinner ill come to pauls..is that too many people for him to cook for?
i love getting updates on all your lives :)
celebrity poker sounds like fun.
nush- i checked out that sony one.. it seems cool. the whole thing really is a display! the canon one that i'm thinking about is basically the same size as the sony one.. and i looked through a bunch of sample pictures that it took which i really liked. i know what you mean though about sticking to the brand that you like :) i have an olympus now and first thought i'd only get that one.. but the reviews and pics on the canon were better than on the little olympuses. i'm so excited!! this thing is only 4.6 oz and will fit in a purse! i can't wait :)
i just refreshed and saw the "i passed" thing. woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!! yay :) i'm so happy for you. can we all have a drink to celebrate??? i hope we all aren't too busy ;)
oooh, rups, i really like that canon. anusha's right, my dad and i don't like sony cameras, so i definitely approve of your choice :)
i'll be here the last weekend in feb.
i dont think we're having a party after our haircuts tomorrow. jackie has a company dinner on friday, so she didn't want to really party too hard thursday night so she wouldn't be tired. nush, paul and his roommate invited us to dinner at their place after our haircuts friday. . . do you want to come? they live in the upper east.
celebrity poker was at lotus - jordan invited us. jackie and i just went to hang out. we couldn't play - we're not celebrities! i'm not a poker player, anyways. the tourney started at like 7 and they opened the doors to the public around 10. by the time jackie and i got there at 11, there were only like 6 players left.
we just got our written performance reviews. . . my manager loves me :)
That was the scariest 5 min of my life to check that website....
and my hands are still shaking...
i meant that ill be here that last weekend if everyone else will...i may also be here most weekends in feb but things change so frequently i have no idea...but megan - try to come that last weekend! (where the heck are you by the way???) how was fl???
and rupa it was for this friday - but that got changed too - we are leaving for philly on friday night. so dinner there with sashank. he has sat off so we will all spend the whole day together.
sony has an awesome new camera out that is like $450, 5 MP, and really really thin and the whole thing is basically a display. thats the one im going to buy my brother when i get my bonus :)
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/t1.html (i dont know how to post websites so youll have to cut and paste)
i know jules's dad and therefore julie dont like sonys for cameras cause thats not their forte, but i love mine...this one is just smaller and cooler...
are you still having a party after your haircuts? nush- did you figure out where you are going friday night? i may still have suggestions... but i couldn't remember if this was for last week's cousin or this weeks.
jules what was celebrity poker? did you guys go and play? i really like that girl that won americas next top model.. eva :)
i've started planning how i'm spending my bonus.. even though i'm not even sure how much it is.. i've decided to also get a new digital camera. i want one that's little and fits into lil purses.. since my current one is awesome but huge :)
i'm gonna get the canon sd300. jules.. any opinions?
hi megan!!! how are you?
i heard sean penn was there, although we didn't see him. we saw "america's top model", i don't know her name. also heard that the mtv vj was there, cadoose? (i'm sure i just completely butchered his name) although i dont really think he's a celebrity, especially since we've seen him a few times at suede and all.
we're getting hair cuts tomorrow! i'm so excited :) and this week is almost over! too bad it's FREEZING.
wait nush, i'm confused about your blog. so you'll be here the actual weekend of rupa's bday - the 20th? rupa won't be here - she'll be in san francisco for her friend's wedding.
flights to new orleans are too expensive and my mom is giving a concert the next weekend and if everyone else is free that weekend then i dont want to be the one to postpone for another few weeks...so long story short we arent going to new orleans...ill go sunday night or monday morning...
im freezing. im wearing my going out black pants under my work pants and a cashmere sweater and im still cold...i hate this weather.
ive been up since 530 and am soooo tired. ive been having the weirdest dreams all weekend. i cant remember last night but i know it kept me up a lot - the night before that my mom and i were walking somewhere and someone deliberately pushed her and she went flying/fell...i jumped up...it was scarey...
anyway all weekend was a lot of fun. im so glad i got to spend time with my cousin. i have so many of them but only know a handful really well - this is one that i dont know well at all. we talked a lot about his job, his friends, his family, and most importantly his accident. i felt uncomfortable to ask at first but then i did with the caveat that he can tell me to stop whenever he wanted. i found out so much about him / what he went through...
sat we walked around the whole city. walked to the WTC site, then to battery park city, then to 45 wall st- he looooved the apt! he couldnt get over how cool the apt was :) i guess i miss those conveneinces a lot too - gym in building, amazing roofdeck,doormen who know you even when you havent been ther for a year! it was nice :) then we took the subway to times sq - its fun to walk around there with someone who appreciates it. i just find it to be a pain in the ass these days since its a routine walk for me and i hate the crowd since i usually just want to get somewhere. but its nice to walk around when the person you are with is oohing and ahhing. then we walked to rockefller, my office so he could see a view of the park from the 33rd floor, then we were freezing so we went home - packed and got on a train to ct. we went to a party for akshays parents - he is so cute. saw all the boys - parth, parag, raj, pratiks brother was there too..
that night my cousin from boston and aunt came to see sharad. my aunt and younger cousin left at like midnight, the boy stayed -the two boys drank a whole bottle of crown!!! my parents werent too happy and didnt really know what to say - luckily they didnt throw up or act drunk in the morning i think my mom would have flipped...
then sunday my parents and i went to the temple, then to nalini aunties, and sunday we had a very relaxing day at home. i helped my mom do some errands, we watched hidalgo (which i liked, she hated, and i sent it back today jules). it was very relaxing and nice to spend that time with them...
this friday another cousin from india will be coming; we are going staight to philly on friday night since my bro has sat off. ill come back sunday around lunch time and rupa ill def come up for the double feature on sunday! (was this week a new one?? i hope so!)
that was my weekend....tonight i just want to go home, cuddle with my pink pillow and watch a movie....i bet my room is freeeezing since i havent had the heat on all weekend...
i still don't know when i'm going home in feb because it all depends on when my mom comes back (which she'll probably tell me today). i'm thinking it'll be either the 2nd or 3rd weekends in feb (so the 11th or the 18th).
for my birthday, i still want to go on a cruise. i'll probably send you more info tonight, but i think it's going to be the weekend after my birthday, april 22nd.
megan, come visit! i don't know when, though . . . the weekend of march 6 rupa and i will be in boston. maybe we can meet there?
jules did you figure out when you are going to miami yet? my parents want to go to new orleans with me that weekend (but i said it was as long as we werent doing something with rupa that weekend...) i need to book those tickets next week we have a month in advance rule at work...
and did you find out anything more about the cruise? are you def doing it that weekend in april that you said before?
how the hell do weekends get so full...i dont like it one bit.
where are you? i was just buying my ticket to cali for my friend's wedding and.. i remembered that it's the last day for the jet blue sale!!!!! it's only $90 between rochester and here.. any interest in coming for a weeekend? it seems like we are all busy till march.. but can we all meet for a weekend then? :) :) :)
i know it's way too early to plan.. but $90 seems like a good deal.
hope your trip to FL was fun!!
it is WAAAYYY too cold here. i want to go home!
anyways, hope you all had a lovely weekend. mine was great - jackie's party on friday was lots of fun. we got wasted, partied hard, joe and i made out again. saturday was allright - i finally met christian, the boy from michigan that jackie's been talking to. he's really cute and fun and seems like a nice person. something about him totally reminded me of chirag. not his personality, but i think it was his eyes and his smile. anyways, we all went out sat night and i didn't have such a great night since i was alone most of the time and didn't really hang out with his friends or anything. one of his friends, scott, followed me home at the end of the night which was totally weird since we didn't really talk at all at the club. jackie and christian went back to the hotel, and scott followed me home so i'm thinking to myself "ok, i guess we're hooking up now". and obvioulsy it was easier to fool around with him than to send him home, so we hooked up for a little but he kept trying to have sex with me and i just wanted him to go home. . . he left eventually and i was so happy to finally go to sleep by myself.
the rest of the weekend was pretty non-eventful, but really nice and relaxing. my horoscope today says that i should take a sick day soon, and i realized that i never take sick days, so i think i'll have to take a sick day either thurs or friday this week.
i just saw rupa - she looks so happy! i'm totally jealous of her weekend.
jules that horoscope was hilarious - and so true for you for friday night:)
i have so much to read/do but will write about my weekend soon...
hi girls!!! it's so COLD here :) i left and it was 60 something.. and come back to 13!! ahh :) anyway just wanted to say hello. i missed our blog :(
i had an amazing trip that i'll tell you all about in a few but i first need to finish up somethings for work. talk to you soon! tell me about your weekends!! :)