Me, Myself and Life

Shraddhanjali… Two doctoral students lost their lives at LSU

2007-12-15T13:24:00.000-08:00

It is with immense grief and sadness that we announce the untimely deaths of two of our friends and colleagues; Kiran Kumar Allam and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma.

We are outraged by the blatant violence that has brought an end to such precious lives and condemn it. As expatriates, we know how friends become family in this land away from home. And it is this family that we turn to in our hour of need.

We would take this opportunity to thank the community, faculty and students who attended the memorial service and acted as a show of strength for the families of Chandrashekhar and Kiran. Many offers of help were made and we hope we will be able to assist the families both financially and emotionally.

As part of our small but significant Indian community here in the USA, we ask you to extend your heartfelt support to the bereaved families of these two young men in these trying times. As a first step, LSU has established a support fund for the families of the victims. We urge you to donate generously. Those wishing to donate to the "Komma & Allam Support Fund" can do so online by visiting https://www.lsufoundation.org and scrolling down For the Benefit of:" select "Komma and Allam Support Fund" or send checks, made payable to LSU Foundation, to 3838 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

We would appreciate it if this information could be communicated across the country and that the Indian community in the US would stand as a united front with the families.

My bro pradeep got engaged : ) to Hema

2007-10-26T11:26:00.000-07:00

Me, my younger brother and two cousins all grew together from childhood and its kind of strange that we never talked about marriage or what kind of girl each likes. Even though everyone of us knows about others pretty much everything. Anyways time will decide the best I guess and true indeed.

My elder brother Pradeep who is in New Zealand got engaged with Hema from Vijayawada this week. I was told Hema is very very patient and super cool, unlike my silly bro who looses his patience very quickly and often -- grrr. It's like east meeting the west. Hema -- please control and change this guy !! We have full confidence in you :)

Chaitu, Sony and me all of us congratulate both on their engagement and we are happy and super excited to welcome first of our vadhina's to our guys group. Can't wait to meet you all in Feb for the marriage.

More pics of us in facebook here and more pics of engagement are here..

Honesty and Sincerity --

2007-08-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

Mr. Rogers, in 1969, went to the Washington to ask for funding for his children's TV program.

He recited the words to this little song, whose lyrics the children helped provide...

"What do you do with the mad that you feel?"

I need not tell anything more about him or his program, please watch the video.

He got $20 million in 6 minutes.

NOTE

N0 hype.
No promises.
No big words.

Here goes - 6:50 minutes

So what do you do when you get mad ?

Happy Married life to Manoj and Indu

2007-08-12T12:22:00.001-07:00

My close friend Manoj is getting married with my friend Indu this September 1'st. I wish them many many happy returns of the day .... oops i guess it should be I wish you Very Very Happy married life to you both.

Dude, you are very lucky to have Indu -- make sure she is happy forever. Otherwise you know how bad its gonna be from me.

Indu, you are very lucky to get Manoj, make sure you make him to do all the work ... please :)
Whenever he calls me and complains about house work, I owe you a treat. I mean it.

Manoj's hotline --- please call (+1 225 614 3184) this guy and wish him, whether you know him or not and ask for a treat, he is rich enough. Arn't you manoj ?? (Indu is reading too)

Both are blessed to have each other. Manoj and Indu in below pics. Leave your wishes and comments here, I will make sure both of them, gets your message.

Dude.. I changed your previous picture, upon Indu's request. She said you were not looking handsome itseems. May be you are in this. :) --- what say Indu ?

Wishes from Friends,

Vatsalya....

Hey Manoj and Indu.. U make an awesome pair !!!!!!

Wish u guys a very happy married life... Manoj I believe u must have known Indu pretty well by now (but there are few secrets ... just our roomies know abt it :)

If u wanna know them... get ready for a treat :D
Indu.. wht else can I say ???

Prathyusha...

First of all sorry for not being able to be present at the wedding (circumstances kudraleddhu emi chestamu :( ) ....

Wish you both HAPPY MARRIED LIFE... You both are perfect for each other....
Indu machipo kunda Manoj ni diamond set adugu..."ahh marchipoya" ani antaru..aina parledhu gurthu chestu undu....naku okasari cheparu Indu ki koni pedatha ani .. nenu proof ( :D)... illantivi inka koni koda cheparu naku ... avi ani chepali ante mari peda party e evali mari...
Have a nice stay in India ... c u back soon in USA ... please post the party schedule and place in USA.... so that we all can meet....Manoj party ekkada ........oka mata anukunte baga untundhi kada mari ....

KArun .... a pictures koncham paka pakana pedithe baga untayi kada ....kinda paina kakunda....
btw na dhegara oka too much picture undi Manoj dhi ... "bull tho fight chestuna Manoj" .. Indu pampana mari....

changin template... will be ready soon ..

2007-08-10T18:25:00.000-07:00

hopefully..... yipeee completed... :)

Can I even get a fake number ?

2007-08-09T22:33:00.000-07:00

I found these lines while googling around !! I liked them .. may be u might too :)

try them when U meet cutie cutie girl ;) ... who knows it might work like a charm !

"Give me three good reasons why I shouldn't buy you a drink. "
"Can I even get a fake number ? " --- my favorite
"Hey beautiful...that is your name right?"
"You're like a prize winning fish... I dont know whether to eat you or mount you."
"I may not be the best looking guy in here, but I'm the only one talking to you"
"Can I have your picture so I can show Santa what I want for Christmas?" -- what a classic !!
"First buy an ice cream and find a hot girl, then say "I'm sorry to bother you, but your melting my ice cream!"
"Did the sun come out or did you just smile at me?"
"What does it feel like to be the most beautiful girl in this room?"
"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I would be walking through my garden forever. "
"If I were a fly, I'd be all over you, because you're the shit! " --- Yuck! but funny :0
"My boys over there bet that I wouldn't be able to start a conversation with the most beautiful girl in the room. Want to buy some drinks with their money?"
"I bet I can kiss you on the lips without touching you." -- ya I bet

"Do you remember when you were a little kid and you wanted a toy really bad when you went to the store, but your mom wouldn't let you get it, no matter how much you begged?? Well that's how I feel about you."

"It's not my fault I fell in love, you're the one who tripped me! "

"I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I have yours? " -- I have a printed Tshirt
"Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by you again?" --- I can walk any number of times.

Life in calif ... :)... :( ... :-| --- I miss U :(

2007-08-05T23:07:00.001-07:00

When I first moved to Calif, I was little worried about how am I gonna survive alone again.. It was the same fear I had when I first landed in US for my masters three years ago. But, everything is pretty much arranged by Indian Students Association and there are always seniors to guide/help along. Luckily in Calif, I landed with roommates,I cannot ask for any better persons/roomies. They are coolest of cool, they .. no we get along very good in any aspect, you might say from restaurant to night clubs... we rock !!

Not to mention again, calif is such a beautiful place to hang around. These are the places which I have visited recently...

1) Golden Gate -- should I tell anything more about it
2) 2500 mile drive from Baton rouge, LA to Mountian View, CA Pitstops Lasvegas, Albuquerque. Met Japji Hundal my old friend from engineering college in Chennai.
3) Lake Tahoe -- beautiful place, experience snow for the first time did ice skating, sun burned my eyes, had to take week off from office.
4) Yosemite --- visited twice :) , I love this place to the core, glacier point is amazing, we hickeed to vernal falls.-- > will visit with my girl again
5) Half moon bay beach -- played cricket and had super size snacks.
6) 17 mile pebble beach drive --ooops, we forgot to take camera :(
7) Sky diving -- 13000 feet free fall, was scary before the jump but during the free fall .. you are in shear force of gravity, after opening parachute I was in heaven, calm, floating in air and away from everyone, ofcourse except from my instructor ;)
8) numerous restaurants and night clubs .. currently spice hut restaurant in sunnyvale is on top of the charts.

During all these trips, I miss my friends from Baton Rouge very much. Three years of my masters would not have been so much fun without you all. There are certain things which I experienced and I might not experience in future. I don't know whether I will meet any of you people again or not. My time with AID India, Dr.Brygg and few my very close buddies is unforgettable. I love you all and would remember forever.
I miss U :(

P.S. Click on the links for the pictures.

I wonder "Where is San Francisco, in california or India?"

2007-04-29T17:06:00.000-07:00

People always talk about California as a dream place to live and San Francisco as Night clubs capital in the world. Fortunately (or what ever it might be) I got my first job in SF. Here is what I think about ...

Things I liked:

1) Weather is the first thing anyone would admire about Calif, its never too warm and never too cold. Its sunny, pleasant and beautiful most of the days.
2) Too many Desi restaurants to linger your taste buds.
3)Commute, for a guy like me who is from a place like Baton Rouge, its wonderful to see many people around and using the public transport. Especially, my daily morning caltrain journey is simply perfect to start a day.
4) Shopping, Night clubs, food and of course girle's ;)

Things I @!#$%&:

1)Where am I ? Is calif in USA or India.. I am totally confused. Its rare to find a white at this place. Well if you ever wanted to see a guy in the car stopped beside you at a traffic signal, don't be surprised to see a Desi's in almost all the cars.

2) When you meet a Desi, make sure you have the following list (who ever it might be, a colleague or friend of a friend of a friend of a friend , I guess you got my point)
a) Name:
b) Company you are working for ?
c) Consultancy ?
d) How long you been working in USA ?
e) How long is your contract ?
f) Programmer or SAP ?
g) If P, is it JAVA, c, blaah blaah and If SAP what module ?
h) ....... endless... better be prepared, he would like to know even if he meets you in a restroom for a min..

3) You cannot talk in your mother tongue anymore in Costco or Walmart, everyone around you can understand what you are talking about.

thats it for now ... will keep posting more

where is WEB 2.0 going ?

2007-04-01T13:20:00.000-07:00

I wonder where the web2.0 stream is taking us ? Is it just the beginning or Is it already started dyeing ?

Downstream ?
here
here

In VC funds, here

Upstream ?

I actually believe that web2.0 is still in the beginning stage and only the strongest survive. If its a service very useful to people it always stands out.

Dare to stand !!

2007-03-28T23:17:00.000-07:00

Amazing driving skills ..

watch world cup cricket online for free ..

2007-03-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

I was browsing to buy an account to watch worldcup cricket online and I found this .. where we can watch cricket for free .. obviously do i need to buy an account anymore :) .. lucky me and you too if you are reading this ..

Is Ugadi on March 19 or March 20?

2007-03-19T02:13:00.000-07:00

The controversy regarding the Ugadi date in 2007 continues.

The Andhra Pradesh government has declared holiday for Ugadi, the Telugu New Year, on March 19 instead of March 20. The government had consulted several scholars, writers of panchangams and Seers to fix the date. The government had earlier declared a holiday on March 20.

But some scholars are not happy with the March 19 Ugadi.

From a report in the Indian Express:

Telugu New Year day Ugadi should be celebrated on March 20, not 19 as ‘Padyami’ will be present till 6.33 a.m on March 20, says Yaddanapudi Ayyannapantulu.

He said in a press release that the principle of ‘Tithi’ (‘Sukla Padyami’ in this case) should be taken into account. The presence of Sukla Padyami till the time mentioned above, is called ‘Sparsa’ and it is the mathematical aspect that ought to be considered in ascertaining the day which heralds the New Year (Ugadi) as it had been done for centuries.

’Sparsa’ should be taken into consideration for the New Year Day, Ayyannapantulu observed.
To make matters worse there is a Solar Eclipse on March 19. And some astrologers feel observing Ugadi on this day will bring ill luck to the state.

Incidentally, the annual Ugadi Asthanam at Srivari Temple, Tirumala is on March 20 according to the Tirupati official web site.

Ugadi is also the Kannada New Year and it is being celebrated on March 19. So far there has been no reported change of dates in Karnataka even though the controversy exists.

taken from -- here --

ycombinator !!

2007-03-16T14:34:00.000-07:00

My next project would require seed money, for which we are planning to apply to Y combinator. Hopefully we get selected and rock again!

first order...

2007-03-07T20:25:00.000-08:00

today we received our first order in Photohugs.com. Hopefully we reach to serve atleast 1 lakh users.

Photohugs.com -- Getting myself started as an Entrepreneur

2007-03-05T22:28:00.000-08:00

Successfully launced my first venture this saturday along with couple of my close friends. Photohugs.com is a online service which allows people from anywhere in the world to send photos or pictures to india. Feels, great other than dealing with bug fixes and marketing ( which also includes bugging and spamming friends - to check our website). We got some great reviews, tips and applauds for our website too. Well, this isnt the end but its the begining of new era in my life. I quoted this text previously in my earlier post, " Entrepreneur's have to like the feeling of being an entrepreneur instead of acting as one"

Good to know : Top ten geek business myths

2006-10-15T14:08:00.000-07:00

Read this, when you need a break ;)

Entrepreneurial feeling

2006-10-15T14:03:00.000-07:00

Enjoyed reading this wonderful quote from Dan Bricklin

Being a successful entrepreneur is tricky. You have to live with having control and not having control at the same time. It's like this: In big business, when you need to cross a river, you simply design a bridge, build it, and march right across.

But in a small venture, you must climb the rocks. You don't know where each step will take you, but you do know the general direction you are moving in. If you make a mistake, you get wet. If your calculations are wrong, you have to inch your way back to safety and find a different route.

And, as you jump from rock to slippery rock, you have to like the feeling.

how tall is this ?

2006-08-20T12:40:00.000-07:00

The Millau viaduct is part of the new E11 expressway connecting Paris and Barcelona and the overall height will be an impressive 336 meters, making this the highest bridge in the world.

Inevitable happened ... :(

2006-07-05T16:11:00.000-07:00

My worst night mares have come true. My thesis defense was postponed :( to next semester. I was dreaming of finishing it by this semester and do the grad walk. And I even wrote a stupid post about thesis writing (my previous post). I can't imagine how many hours I spent all alone in lab on writing .. God !! Horrible time..

I fear that my professor has gone through my last post and would have taken revenge on me, by backfiring at me (My sixth sense is kicking me from inside). If that is the case, this would be the worst incident in blogging history ever recorded. Lolz !! I hope not. Anyway , now I have to spend some more time on writing. Since I got more time , I thought I should blog more as all play no work and no play all work are equally dangerous. I used to spend some time on drawings while writing my thesis.. Here are some of them ... guyz!! Remember, I dont have 74 years of experience of drawing as Picasso did.

I know guys ... you want to tell me that Iam the next Da Vinci .. that's ok, thanks for your appraisals before hand :)

P.S. ..M.. I am also starting my PhD in the same school after my Master's, lolz... pinch pinch

Thesis writing...

2006-06-24T15:20:00.000-07:00

I never thought I would write a new post until I finish my thesis writing. Man ! Writing is hard. Especially technical writing, where I need to make real sense of what I did over the past two years. Guys! I know what you are thinking, did this blogger do anything productive at all in the last 2 years. Frankly, speaking I don't know myself but one thing is for sure I did waste lot of time :) and had tons of fun.

Here are few suggestions given by humble professors before thesis writing.

1) Your thesis has to be understood by anyone who is trying to read it, including 10th grade folks. Are other people that jobless to read (my) thesis ? Is it not sufficient if it is understood by the folks from the same research group.

2) It should be in a continues flow.
Is he talking about waterfalls ? Obviously, I try doing it but it never ends the way it is expected to :)

3) It should be meaningful.
Why the hell am I writing it then ? Huh!!

4) write lot of content, you can edit later.
Can I include the movie I saw yesterday ? So that I can edit later :) it throws lot of content for sure.

5) Think before you write.
Ho god ! Did I ever do thinking part in my life. No I just wrote what ever I felt all through my life, got through my gre, TOEFL and BE just by pure luck .

6)...
7)... These suggestions are endless and goes on.

After 2 weeks of the above suggestions, during the review process.
If your professor says 'You have done very good job, in this paragraph ?' don't get too excited and start telling him how ingeniously you got such a innovative idea and how much time you spent in this section. But the real fun part would be his next comment. Which would usually be "But do you think, is it really necessary in this section. REMOVE it". I warned you not to get excited before. Here goes all our one week work to thrash bin.

After deletion there is nothing much to review so the prof says to encourage us " Even though there is nothing much left, you done a Great job ! I am proud of you, Continue to work like this, you will finish it soon". Ho yah! I would finish my thesis writing as early as next year at this pace. We get out of the prof office, completely disappointed and dejected. On our way home, we plan the next week schedule in advance promising ourselves to do rigorous writing and finish atleast one chapter by the end of the week's and impress our humble prof.

We reach home, exhausted ( Why? Remember thinking drains brain, since we have done some thinking on the way, we feel exhausted, eventhough we haven't done much :D). After reaching home sitting in a cozy couch, watch T.V, have delicious dinner and sleep early to wake up early in the morning and start writing. But you know what happens next, the same old story ... the alarm keep ringing and we keep pressing the magic snooze button ( I love snooze concept, I recommend the inventor of snooze for a Nobel prize in Peace, how many people like us are enjoying it, ever thought of it ? :) )

In the middle of the day, every day before we start writing thesis, some important job falls at your feet from sky, so quit writing and get involved in the job. At the end of the work, we are usually tired and call it a day. Days pass by. The day before review comes and we write some crap and the next dayyyyyyy... Our usual dose of suggestions and reviews followwwwww ........

Hey! what do you think I am gonna do after this blog ? I am calling it a day:)

P.S. The characters in the above post are not from real life. Especially, about my professor. Believe me he treats me at his best, Iam damn lucky for that. And please if you are not of the types described above while writing thesis, don't criticise me, its just a blog. Cheer up !! :D

thanks for the wishes regarding my graduation in the earlier post. I need it.

Graduation dreams ;)

2006-05-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

When is the first time you had dreamed about, seeing yourself as an Engineer or a doctor? May be I realized to become one of them after watching the graduation ceremonies in the movies, where they throw their caps high enough and later they need to search for their cap(silly fellows). I don't know about you guys, but I was destined to become atleast an engineer if not a doctor the day I was born :). That is what I was told by my mother. ( I wonder how, may be I was radiating jubilantly sane knowledge, lolz). And its time that I prove to my parents that I am worth as their child. How ? Its simple I shouldn't have waited this long and wasted money to reach here. Follow the steps carefully,

1. Grab a friends graduate gown mostly by begging or steal it if he is not lending it.
2. Buy a SONY digi cam ( I am a big fan of Sony gadgets).
3. Beg a friend who can take decent pictures, if not willing treat him. ( he will )
4. Select a no man zone and start shooting the pics.

I told you right, as simple as making an omelet. Shouldn't have studied this hard right ! huuh!
Here are my graduation dream pics,
sorry, had to remove pictures... :D copyright issues.
Posing as a HERO -------------Trying to look Zulu ------------ What are friends for ?

Folks, hang on all this is a big hoax I never graduated, hopefully I would graduate this summer. I started writing my thesis ( writing sucks ), I needed a break so all this followed in.
To all my friends who graduated Well DONE and All the best in future. You made your parents proud. Good luck.

Tit bits: I thought I would give the best songs of the month in every blog I write. Hope you would like them too. Here they are
a) Bo Bic , The real thing ( Male vocal)
b) Dixie Chicks , I'm not gonna be nice to you ( chicks implies female, do I need to tell more )
c) Daniel Powter, Had a bad Day ( I like the video, go watch it)

P.S. All the pictures above are copyrighted.

I won Cryptex ! gooooooogle

2006-05-16T14:55:00.000-07:00

yep ! I won a cryptex which is a replica of the one used in the movie Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard. (He is also one of my favourite directors, starred himself in Happy days as Richie Cunningham, if you havn't watched happy days till date, I cant help you, my only advice "get out and watch it" ). Anyways as a titbit here is a pic of my precious cryptex :-)

The game is conducted by google sponsered by sony.

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten

2006-05-08T22:13:00.000-07:00

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

* Share everything.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work [and sleep] every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon [but not in the living room].
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

PS: I tried my best to align the text :(

Confidence !

2006-05-03T06:51:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed this mail from one of my friends, which tells us what is confidence ? Go through it and you will feel better or more confident ;)

What is confidence ????

A hypothetical situation where 20 executives board an airplane and are told that the flight that they are about to take is the first-ever to feature pilotless technology: It is an uncrewed aircraft. Each one of the CEOs is then told, privately, that their company's software is running the aircraft's automatic pilot system. Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the aircraft, each offering a different type of excuse.

One CEO alone remains on board the jet, seeming very calm indeed.Asked why he is so confident in this first uncrewed flight, he replies : "If it is the same software that runs my company's IT systems, this plane won't even take off." !!!!

That is called Confidence!!! :)

Kenny and the dead Donkey

2006-04-28T08:54:00.000-07:00

I liked this forward from one of my friends, worth reading...

A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died last night."
Kenny replied: "Well then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said: "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Kenny said: "OK then, just unload the donkey."
The farmer asked: "What you goanna to do with him?"
Kenny: "I'm going to raffle him off." (Note: To raffle is to sell a thing by lottery - draw lot -! to a group of people each paying the same amount for a ticket)
Farmer: "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
Kenny: "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
Kenny: "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998.00."
Farmer: "Didn't anyone complain?"
Kenny: "Just the guy who won. So I gave him back his two dollars."
Kenny grew up and eventually became the CEO of the American Energy Company

: Enron

I am not sure whether this is the same Kenneth Lay, ex-chairman of enron who was charged with fraud and inside trading and later prosecuted for the same.

the CURRY

2006-03-14T18:55:00.000-08:00

Its time for me to write a new post, as the previous post was done long back and I have no intention of killing my scintillating blog ;).(that's what I feel about my blog, you might think the other way around). Guys and also gals! thanks for the comments and also for reminding me to write a new post very soon , here I go.

Today, is my cooking turn ( What !! This dude cooks ? Yah , I do cook to eat ). Cooking turn ! What's it ? I stay with 3 of my friends in an apartment, as many desi sailors usually prefer to stay together. It works to be way cheaper than staying individually and I personally feel staying in a group is fun and important, afterall man is a social animal. We four of us take turns to cook our dinner every day. Holidays are meant for fun so exclude Saturday's, Sunday's and also in atleast for one day a week, somebody in our room will be having a exam or some very very important work on their turn, so we don't cook ( I always wonder, why we always have such an important job to do, on the very day of our cooking turn and not in any other day? What a coincidence.. ha :). Hence, there are only 4 days left in a week and I need to cook once in a week. Everybody cooks, what's the big deal about it ?

believe me, everyone in my apartment has a designated curry. (Ramu- sambar, just like educational degrees referred, Dr.Ramu, FRCS-london ). Each will cook the same thing every week, in what they are specialized in , no matter what happens. The other day I was talking to my Mom back in India and I told her that ram is cooking, the very moment she said 'Is it Sambar' , we are that familiar and sick of cooking same thing over and over. Ho! ya this dude is known for cooking excellent chicken dish :D but recently changed to capsicum curry, as the stupid birds are caught with flu. My advice stop eating chicken and the money you saved from it, send to me I will eat mutton and maintain the natural balance of life ;) .

And I started cooking, remember today is my cooking turn for which my roomies die to taste my yummy yummy super curry. I started frying onions, which are making sizzling sounds. Meanwhile I was seriously thinking about a topic for my next post, for which my enthusiastic readers are literally killing themselves to read my new post ( I got this news from intelligent sources. :) Guys! dont kill yourselves, when I am here, why fear, I will do my best to atleast write a decent, understandable blog. trust me). I put the sliced capsicum, tomatoes and the needed ingredients, stirring them slowly, waiting for it to be cooked. After some time, the flavors, aroma,spice pouring out from the dish is amazingly mesmerizing. ( mmm....thats how this dude cooks ;). you have to taste it personally to feel how good it tastes, I just cant wait to eat myself, then I was struck by a golden thought, what if I write about this curry. Finally, I finished cooking and without tasting it, I sacrificed it for writing this wonderful post for you all :) even though I am starving.

By the way! my roomies were already eating, when I enquired about its taste, they were criticizing me :)) it tastes like rotten $&*(#@#$!!~#*)#*(!)_+!#&$* , yaa it tastes SHITTT . thats how I cook and everything mentioned about it is CRAPPP.

P.S.
1)First time readers no offence on me, I usually forward my blog to my friends. And I take full freedom with my friends, thats what friends are for. :)
2)there is no one named Ramu in my room, its for characterizing.

Webomania

2006-02-28T22:50:00.000-08:00

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 ?

Conference call

2006-02-22T22:01:00.000-08:00

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.

Valentino Heat

2006-02-14T19:17:00.000-08:00

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 :(

Movie freak

2006-01-28T21:07:00.000-08:00

Did some one say movie , ho yah that can kill my day . To tell you , I'm a great movie watcher and I ll do anything for spending quality time of mine for any decent movie with a great sound quality. I usually do not compromise for movies with poor video quality or poor sound.

I tend to be attracted towards 3 kinds of movies. Battle or modern war movies being my top favorites which ranges from brave heart, patriot, gladiator ,lotr, black hawk down and so on , these movies are generally highly budgeted and take more time for them to be produced and the best of all they have amazing incredible quality. Belive me , when I watch these movies with surround I feel myself in middle of the battlefield fighting heroically for a great cause.(luckily not in my real life : )

Action movies with great action hero's like Arnold, stallon,Nicholas cage, keanu reeves , Bruce wills etc, with their killer attitude and demolishing stunts attract me. Last but not the least iam a great fan of Comedy and Animated movies too. You might think, these 3 topics covers almost all of the movies,I told you before iam a movie freak. I have a feeling that most of the Animated movies are produced with great care especially for children. Afterall everybody has their inner child hidden inside, and movies have the magic of touching my inner child and I do enjoy them a lot. So what am I waiting for, I need to grab a coke, popcorn and start the movie with surround sound system.

We in life

2006-01-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

Everyday passes by I see people of more different kinds, possibly thousands . Everyone has problems no matter what, they just hide or even pretend to have no problems at all. Whom do we think are the best ? I broadly classify them in to three categories, the ones who complains about their problems to others, the ones who don't talk about them at all or the ones who pretends to have no problems at all. Here is what I think about it, People who complain about their problems are usually who are innocent I meant, they are the ones who doesn't see the broader picture of the world, you can call them not-optimistic but to be precise they are optimistic and they are constantly thinking too much about their problems and that is the reason they tend to disclose their problems to others for a chance to solve them at earlier stage or even for pity from others.

Coming to the second kind they are the people who suffer from inner conscience, they don't talk about their problems to others and never try to share them except to their closed ones. They are clever enough to alleviate the problems and overcome them. Can we call them as smart , may be ?

Finally , third kind are the people who keep their coolness through out even during tough times, they are too optimistic , they feel like the going gets tough when the life gets tougher , they take it for granted problems are part of a life and they are not bothered about them and continue to lead happy life. What do you call these people ? Angels ? :)

In what kind category ,do you fall in ?

the above topic might be insane,its completely from my personal opinion .

iam so stupid !

2006-01-25T18:27:00.000-08:00

ya the title should tell you everything.... i am sooo stupid . do you know why ? i have been waiting for a decade to write this nonsense . so you do think iam stupid right ! well you must be wrong, do you know why ? think ! think ! ... harder .. and you still thinking!! huh .. see are more stupid than me.. hehe and you still reading my blog ;)

I am just kidding , you do know that right . i promise myself to write on this blog everyday , what ever nonsense it might be, it might help me for better writing in future and one day i would love to beat shakesphere himself .. haha 2be or not 2be hehe... confused ? yaa thats what the title says iam so stupid.. thats it for today .

cya