Me, Myself and Life

This weekend, I went to Jimmy Davis national park along with my friends for camping, which is in the northern part of Louisiana. To tell you about the park, imagine a small piece of land in a huge lake and has a narrow passway connected to the land, only through which visitors are allowed to enter the park. Its completely filled with huge tall trees and deserted, believe me I didn't even see a single bird in the park. Hey, I forgot to mention, it has beautiful cabins to reside, a fireplace, a barbecue pit beside each cabin. You can call it as heaven in short, where you can make frequent visits :). There is no internet connectivity or even mobile signals in and round the park (Cingular network is patchy around the park, we need to find a spot to make a call), Its a perfect place to escape from rest of the world. I know, you guys are already missing the park isn't it !

We (I and my friends) made sure that we had all the stuff we need for the two night camping in our car trunks. We reached the park around 9 pm on Friday night, we got into cabins and started digging into our packages for food as we were already starving after the 3 hour drive. We could find our fill and then decided to watch a freaking horror movie GRUDGE (my sincere advice, never watch this movie when you are alone, it will definitely scare the shit out of you for sure, may be I will write more about this in the next post). After the movie, I had a strange feeling that I'm kind of missing something, naah its not girls ;), its something else. The next day was exciting as we had campfire and barbecue. Even though,we were rocking and having fun, over the night, I still felt as if I'm missing something important despite having my buddies around.

Next day, I found what I'm missing, its nothing other than internet connectivity, even having my buddies around. When I was in India, what I needed most is to hang out with my friends, and not caring much about anything else . But after living in USA for a while, I'm (may be WE all are) obsessed with internet, without it, I am like a zombie, my mind doesn't seem to listen to me. I love the feeling of checking my mails as soon as they drop into my Inbox, whether its important or not. (I can infer it to a mother teasing a child with his favorite toy, the child is always excited whenever the toy is offered to him, he never gets bored about it even if it is offered for thousandth time). I may not even read the mail completely , but its the internet connectivity that matters to check my mails and google around. I still don't believe, what a drastic change the internet had been to me over a short span of time. Its the same fear I named it as webophobia for this post, the fear of not connecting to internet ;) Let's admit it, can we live with out internet for a period time ? How many days you think you are gonna last with out internet ?

detroitdude: How are u guys doing ? I miss you guys ? any new movies/babes in town ?
chicago guy: Everything is fine and life is kind of routine... need something different.
monk dude: Ha raa! Look at this guy! this fellow never stop moaning at us !! you are asking about babes and he is talking about his tragic life story, lolz. Did some one say Babe's? yaa they are plenty around, but none with me :) Today I saw a pretty desi chick, near post office. Man !! she is......

Are you confused about what you are reading about ? I dont think,it makes any sense. Mentioned above is a, little talk with my friends in a conference call, yesterday. CONFerence call ? sounds very familiar to you, right !! Almost all, emphatic (VISA victorians) desi's which includes you and me, who landed in usa for a masters/phd program have friends in different colleges around usa . Please!! huh ... Dont tell me you that u are not having any? Iam not gonna take that for serious. Each of us try to adjust for a brand new life. (I was told that we indians can adapt anywhere in the universe given some place, either in antartica or in moon . Is that a compliment?). After a while, we also find some new friends who have mobile phones to make calls freely (FREEEE) during nights to anywhere in usa. Once we get phone (new or borrowed), we try contacting all our friends and put them in conference and start bragging about how good or better our colleges are, compared to others. What ever we chat, these calls happen for a while and reduce in number over a period of time, later they die.

Iam no different from the above people, I made tons of calls when I landed and they gradually decreased and I didnt make any conference calls over an year. Yesterday night, I was called by my two of my friends mentioned above and we did a conference chat for over an hour, bullshitting about all we did in the past and about the future. I felt something new for the day,rejunivated,exhilirated as it been very long time for a call like this. I had a great sleep that night, the next day while I was walking to school for the morning class, I was thinking about last night call and I thought I should write a post about this call in my blog and here it is.

P.S: I do understand how much you guys are interested in the sequel of my last post, but for the sake of viewers discretion I thought I might have to wait a little longer than I expected :-). Untill then, keep bugging me in my comments. Thanks guys for taking a peek.

Did you hear the famous saying "If something can go wrong, It will go wrong", it's by Murphy an Engineer and also believed to be an extreme optimist. He also postulated few more of these wonderful statements like these, all put together called as Murphy's Law and for which I fell in love these days. Today, I got a Murphy's law poster as a gift, 'O O hang on' it's not a valentine gift, it's from one of my close MALE buddies. Talking about valentines day I remember something which I swore to myself on last year's valentines day, when I saw a couple having a romantic candle light dinner, outside the law center building below the beautiful bright moon in pitch dark, what is it? I swore that I would have a girl friend by next year valentines day. Guess what, this valentines day I am thinking about computer program rather than a girl. I have been swearing the same thing for the past 6 years or so and its never been fulfilled. Guys! I am not looking for sympathy,its my life. By the way, its not end of the world if you don't go out with a girl on this so auspicious day of love. It does not mean, I don't talk or have fun with gals, believe me you will have the best time when you treat them as a girl, than as a lover.
(My personal opinion,may be I would be wrong once I am into it)

Everybody, in their lifetime would have a list called CRUSH list, come on stop dreaming about your dream gals or guys and continue reading my post ;). I think, they are very influential in every individual's life in one way the other. I have around 7 to 9 gals in my crush list and I would be talking about 3 of them here, to whom I never spoke to them and without them I don't think my life would be so interesting. To me, crush list is entirely different from people you proposed or been proposed by, they are like damsels whom you can never stop admiring in your entire life. :)

My first crush was during my 8th grade in my high school as most of guys start dreaming in that age. This girl is the most amazing thing happened to me during that age. I would literally kill myself, to get a glance of her everyday and a glance for a minute or so would make my day. I used to make myself noticeable in almost all possible ways from reading news during assembly sessions to serving food at dinner. Days kept passing, these kind of jobs became a routine , final day of school reached and I did the same. I never tried to talk to her or meet her, may be that's the best thing I have done or else I wouldn't have talked about her, like this today.

I had nothing much during my +1, +2 (intermediate), coming to the happening days of engineering .... Wait a minute !! Am I telling you too much. I need to run for my dinner, may be I will continue this in the next post. Sorry :(