I clogged all the groups I access through my gmail when I tried to send invite to all my 'friends' in orkut to facebook!

This is what happened. I was in one of my vetti moods and I saw a link in facebook that said that you can get in touch with all your orkut friends. Off late, I seem to be more active in facebook - even though, from my point, orkut is simple to understand and work with! - I thought why not try this to get all contacts here.

Followed the steps that were given in the link

- Logged into orkut
- Clicked on 'Friends'
- clicked 'Export to csv'
- It gave me the standard 'donut' message - should have stopped here, but i think it was my fate that I should go through this :(
- Repeated the 2nd and 3rd step
- File got saved

Accessed that file from facebook.

It told me that I'm connected to some of them, not connected to some of them.
I happily sent invite to all those who are part of facebook and not connected.

So far, so good.

Then it told me that some of them are not part of facebook and I should invite. I did not bother to check the ids (obviously because I'm supposed to have exported only contacts from orkut and not from gmail as it turned out :(), happily clicked on invite all...

THen I see mails flying everywhere - official mail id, my husband's office id, groups that I've subscribed to... Bah! so much for trying out something new!!!!!!!!

I tried sending apologies for couple of the group ids as initially I could not understand what happened. Then I ditched.

If you are part of one of those groups, please forgive me. My sincere apologies for spamming your mail box...

I only wish I had a better profile photo ;)

Feeling bad about couple of things...

one - Kim is ignoring me completely...Rejection from your kid is the worst feeling even if it is momentary.. I should actually be feeling good that I can do something that I want in that time I would have spent with her. But heart doesnot listen - asusual. Am just telling myself I should not shout at anyone as a result. this too shall pass and I will better tomorrow (she will also)

second - she did not get through Deens. first lot of names is out, and hers is not there. Looks like it is becuase that she did not speak a word. That day morning she was pretty ok. We told her that she should answer if anyone asks her questions, but it was a long wait, we ourselves got irritated. by the time we entered the Principal's room, she was all hungry and sleepy. I just hope she will get admission elsewhere.

Hope it is a better day tomorrow.

Heard about two deaths in office. Somehow it upset me so much, am still thinking about them...

One guy's mother passed away a month back after struggling with cancer. Yesterday his sister's (she is younger to him) husband met with an accident and passed away in the morning. They have been married only for a year now.

Other one - this girl, her parents and her younger sister went along with the other doctors(around 15 of them) who work with her dad (who also is a doctor) went to an amusement park, dad had an heart attack - unfortunately none of the other doctors where around to administer a CPR - passed away. How tragic! He had been healthy and the family had least expected this..

May their souls rest in peace and May God give enough strength to both the families to handle this.

My paternal grandmother is once again in hospital, this time specifically for the blood transfusion. Her first one happened in August when we went to emergency becuase she was having fever and breathlessness which we associated with her asthmatic condition. It turned out that her haemoglobin was as low as 6 and the reason after a bone marrow test was found out as leukamia. She was there in the hospital for 8 days, had three units of blood transfused and got discharged.

My husband, my brother and I were told by the doctor that the condition will detoriate very fast because of her age (She is 84) and if she wants to make any trips we should get that done in the next twenty days :(. He said she cannot be treated with intense chemo as she may not react very well becuase of her age and also that we should not put her through major pains. "All we can do is to make it less painful and easy for her" he stated. We all are grown ups, have some level of maturity, know that our grandmothers are getting older and they will die one day, but someone is predicting it, it is REALLY REALLY HARD to digest. Breaking the news to my dad was my job. I had to take a day to digest what was told and then told him as well. It was shocking for everyone at home in the beginning, but we all came to terms with the news as days passed. We treated her as normally as possible and did not tell her about this. Maternal grandmother's heart attack, her hospitalisation and her coming to stay with us also helped in a way as the focus shifted.

Just after a month after her last transfusion, on Thursday, from 12.1 haemoglobin count has come down to 7.1. We have admitted her yesterday for the blood transfusion again. Even though we all are trying to joke about it, I can feel the tension at home. I myself, am feeling afraid. I am trying to tell myself she should be ok. But my head tells me that she wont last long. On one hand I want her to live, on the other I dont want her to suffer too much. As my husband says "The greatest gift that you can get from God is that you are living normally one day and just pass away the next. It might be painful for the near and dear ones, but for the person who dies, thats the best that can happen". I agree with this completely, thats why most part of me is now thinking, that she should pass away without suffering. Whenever that happens, may God give us the strength to handle it.