ok ....am still in the MAX Dada phase...i think sometime back it was Bosley from charlie's angels........

over new years i was in ocean city , maryland with ma good friends panter and dee...and my bro and my bhabhi to be.....5 o' clock in the morning and a couple of beers later the discussion moves to .... what would u like to do or be if you were not doing what you do now for a living?...it has to be something that society frowns upon...especially something your parents would be embarressed to tell people when asked at gatherings...."aaapka beta/beti kya karta/karti hain?"......

i am not sure if i was suprised to know the following

Mr Panter wants to be like Tyler Durden from the movie Fight Club. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler says the things you own, end up owning you. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Fight Club represents that kind of freedom.

Mr Brother wants to be a junkie and try out the latest drugs and addictions that flood the market........

Ms Bhabhi.......would love to make a living stealing cars like they did in Gone in 60 Seconds.......by the way she already has her own BMW 3 series....acoording to rajiv voh BMW sirf naam ka hain...neeche ka engine pata nahi kidhar se aayyyya?

Mr Puneri/Max Dada would like to be like Daniel Ocean............thinking, planning and executing the most elaborate heists ever.....and there are many more things in the mind of this puneri......

what would you like to be?????

am watchin dil chahta hain .........and have seriously lost count about how many times i have seen it.....somehow just does not get boring....
saw another good movie again today.....city of joy......some good acting and a nice story .......the cliched good overcomes evil presented in a better way.......Patrick Swayze is MAX the disillusioned doctor....affectionatley called MAX dada by the bengali ppl.......and i dont know why but this name sounds very appealing to me....i told everyone in Akron today that henceforth i would like to be called MAX Dada......and i really dont know why but i got the wierdest looks.....

anyways i think Max Dada better get some sleep

ciao ....g'nite

when it snows so much you really have no choice about what you do when u are back home from school....especially when your car gives you problems like mine does......i mean never say a bad word about her......plus i got it as a gift....my good friend S moved to new york for a job and he left me his '89 ford taurus...now thats nice of him...but the point is she gives me way too much trouble and i dont deserve it.....i kiss the steering wheel every morning before cranking the engine.......instead of crancking up she gets crankier day by day.....why i really dont know??????.....so anyways coming back to the issue on hand....you really dont have a choice....u cant go too far in the snow without a car ....so am stuck at home watching horrible re-runs on HBO....its HBO...not TV..mind it...or then i have to watch one of those hindi movies with no less than 6 words in the title.....

was watching aaapkko kahi dekha hain( exception...only 4 words)......om puri goes to milan and gets a surprise gift for his daughter...her actual and screen name i forget.....the surprise gift....a car...when u think of milan.... of italy...... u think of ferrari's ,masseratti's , lancia's, lamborghini's ....or even a fiat for that matter......but he comes back with a ford mustang.........gimme a break.......why would he go to italy and get back a ford mustang....but you gotta give the director some credit ...he sure has made a different movie...supposedly its been flimed entirely in canada........how very original i must say..........moving onto other things this puneri has in his mind...how can a movie like kabhi khushi kabhi gum become a runaway success at the box office....sure we all look for some good fun when we go for movies...especially hindi movies.....but does the audience not have the sense to make atleast a decent choice..i mean makdee was a zillion times better than k3g....anyways i better not say much about choices.....especially when i am a founder member here in akron of the FANS OF GOVINDA and beginning to appreciate the finer points of a mithun movie.....

some things never change .....however i wish to make it next week to my department proudly driving a less crankier '89 ford taurus......cheers

Super Bowl XXXVII....1/26/03...Oakland Raiders vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers

late third quarter the bucs lead the raiders by 34-3.....looks bad for the raiders and their fans ........one of them would be me .......since my team, the Cleveland Browns did not make it beyond the 1st round of the playoffs...which in itself is an achievemant of sorts for the BROWNS at this stage.......late comback begins and the raiders score 2 touchdowns and one soon thereafter...sometime in the forth quarter the score reads 34-21 in favor of the bucs.....and i see some hope.......hope that the raiders will oversome the remaining defecit and post a win and in the process i get to witness one of the greatest games ever...so its all a question of HOPE......

sometimes i wonder abt all the things 'HOPE' makes us do........we hope for good...some hope for bad.......some hope the will find love someday....some hope they can just run away........but hope is something that keeps us going......when things look down...we turn to hope.....but how many times do we truly work towrads getting something we want..rather than just leave it all to some good ol' fashioned hoping........who am i to say anything when i myself indulge in one of the most popular pastimes of mankind.........

like morgan freeman said in "The Shawshank Redemption"......let me tell you something, my friend. hope is a dangerous thing. hope can drive a man insane. it's got no use on the inside. better get used to that idea.

no hope against hope this time.........Tampa Bay Buccaneers creamed the Oakland Raiders 48-21

I hope the BROWNS win the SUPER BOWL next year..........

I am sorry to have made those comments about the williams sisters.............i mean they have all right to reach the finals of which ever tournament they enter....all i ask of god is that lets have atleast one grand slam in which one of the sisters does not win .............let them reach the final......and if both of them reach the finals...well then they can settle it in their own backyard....thats all i ask of GOD....are u listenting????? having seen the last four grand slam finals ............i doubt......
SERIOUSLY!!!!!

So finally i get this blog runnig with a template i like and then someone says why not get a comments link....so i spend time lookin places where i can get one....finaly after having spent close to two days i think its looking decent...come what else can u expect from a polymer engineer.......ok confession i did take help from someone to get this up and running........guess i can tweak it now and then but basically i think i better get back to what i came here for.....GRADUATE AND GET THAT MS!!!!!!!

Last nite apna dost comes back from India....best part....mom has sent some awesome Amba Barfi and Bakar-Wadi from Chitale Bandhu.....every puneri will know what i am talking about.....Well luckily this friend was coming into Akron and he stays close to where i live in Pune......but sometimes i wonder .......the moment parents hear of someone going to America, they have parcels to be sent for their kids.........for all you know this guy is going to Los Angeles and kid lives in Maine.....and believe me its not cheap sending 2-3 kilos by US Post...or then it is sent from Los Angeles to Maine through your uncle's friend's wife's kid who will then pass it onto his friend's sister's boyfriend's dog's original owner who happens to live very close by to the unfortunate deprieved kid......get the point????

Parents ...listen up.......we have made this choice to live here in America away from all those goodies.....send stuff if its feasible for the "courier".....dont make him sweat to send some Anjir Barfi across the continent.....For all you know it might just perish before it reaches Maine!!!!!!

Will there ever be a grand slam final in the near future that does not one have one of the williams sisters in it????????????????..................cant wait for that day..not jokin ppl......ciao and sleep well

Ok ...so i admit it.....i am not a morning person........so what if my parents are.....somethings are just not hereditary......and there's nothing that can be done abt it......ppl say they are scared to talk to me on occasions after i have just gotten up.....one of the first things mom asks me on saturday mornings when she is calls is whether i was asleep when she called......finally i guess its a cuppa chai or coffe that gets me goin.......but anyways.....i do kinda intimidate pppl and am mighty proud of it.....gawd its great to be me:)!!!!!
So anways.......i speak abt mornings cause this morning i had to reach school at 9.30 which is very early by my standards....and boy was it a struggle......and this winter weather does not help much.....-14 C without windchill...no idea what it is with windchill......arrrrrreee deva....utha le re.....mereko hi!!!!!!

more later