A short break from blogging for a while...but i think i will be back in business by 4th or 5th Aug....till then...take care guys and see you around.....

thesis done .......defense done....thesis submitted.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

jhakasssssssss (like aamir khan does in 'andaaz apna apna')

aaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Birthday blog.........

some things that happened without fail on my B'day in India

-my friends would come over at midnight with a cake and their unique gift which was made with whatever they could find in the house.......once it was superman cape , red undies, a pink hat with artificial hair attahced to it and a yellow 'banian'
-mom always cooked the same suff every yr.......becos i wanted it that way.....lunch was spanish rice.... for all my friends who came over to wish me there were samosas, black forest cake and thums up.....
-dad would go all over town till he found the perfect flowers
-evenings mom and me would go to Hari Krishna Mandir .....then she would take a rickshaw back home or drive back home with dad....dinner was home made pizzas always.......with Panterr and his family coming over.....as far as I can remember dinner was always at home on birthdays.........partying with friends was reserved for a later date....
-chachi would smear my face with cake....

having spent my last two birthdays away from home.....I miss all these things......no pizza ....no spanish rice...........but i still get the cake smeared on my face........no flowers from dad....but i still have my friends come over at midnight and they do a darn good job at making my day awesome..........I think its time to accpet the fact...goodbye India birthdays..........welcome Akron Birthdays.....

Yahoo Launchcast out.....BBC Radio 1 in......( as always the british accent kicks ass......my fascination with all things British continues......I wanna go to UK again......)

state of sleep deprivation continues.............

my best friend and my brother have conveniently forgotten me.......but what the hell they are getting married soon (edit: not with each other.....)....and with impending doom...people do tend to forget important things:)

I do underestimate myself.....but I think I shall stick to that till I finsih my thesis defense...my dears...we can then move into overdrive.......

Thursday Night is Fight Club night...............

Thesis defense tomorrow......once thats done...need to submit the corrected copy to the graduate school...and then partyyyyyyyy....and then i think its high time I moved my comments system to haloscan.....enetation sucks big time.....

Why is India so obsessed with Vivek Oberoi and his injury ....especially a newspaper like The Times of India........yes he is a good actor...but then there is a limit......

16 hrs......I dunno how long I can carry on .................ughhhhhh!!!!!! I need sleep......and some food.......

care for some morning sherry and fox hunt....

watch a game at Lords and clap everytime a boundary is scored and shout "Lancashire Lancashire" with a stiff upper lip.....no matter which team is playing...and sip tea while watching the game.....

yep thats what i wanna do.... I guess the Lord of Erandawane makes his return.......

DNA.........

For the past few days I have been on a Douglas Adams spree........or as G says a DNA spree ( DNA is what many ppl know him as).....when I mention that my MSN nick is Zaphod Beeblebrox, they ask what is that......well and then i start with the same sentence...."He is part time galactic president".......so then more question marks......so I further explain saying he is a character in one of my favorite books of all time " The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: A trilogy in Five Parts"........actually six parts now that a new book called 'Young Zaphod plays it Safe ' has been introduced in the trilogy......

Since a pretty long time I had the desire to be in possession of all the books written by DNA. Finally after a long wait my financial status permitted to splurge some money on the books I wanted. I maybe poorer by 70 odd dollars but I know the gain is tremendous. Shall write more about the books in a later post (hopfully), once I am done typing my thesis.

later gatorsssss

All we have is here and now....so procrastinate.....I heard this on some channel of HBO.......I smiled to myself..how appropriate I thought....

And then I surprised myself by getting up , walking to my desk and working on my thesis for two hours non stop....maybe this is the miracle I have been waiting for......

Ever seen the energizer bunny......no?.....come see me.....Im pretty much like that nowadays.........exact reason I dont know but I think we can attribute it to the stress levels....( since I am writing my thesis nowadays I dont make statements outright...dont wanna be put on the wire for what I say...so hence everything may be "attributed to"....or we can "speculate "......)....so the next time mom asks me whether I am eating well or sleeping enough....I might find myself saying "Due to the effect of the thesis deadline I speculate that the stress levels are increasing and my lack of sleep may be attributed to the same. Further studies need to be performed to pin point the eact cause for this effect"....ugghhhhh....for more on the same plz refer to Chapter Three for experimental methods and materials used......

so long folks..back to my crazy twisted world....

Tridev Tridev

Back when I was in India, I never listened to much of 'desi' music........rarely saw Hindi movies.......and it would take a lot of coaxing to get me to see a Hindi movie......here in the US......that has never been a problem.......I listen to the any Hindi song......am willing to watch Hindi movies.....not all of them, but I don’t complain if I have to watch one.....as a kid though I did watch a lot of Hindi movies.......my favorite Hindi movie was Tridev......I must have seen it atleast eight times in the theatre......every time we had relatives come ands visit us...I would drag them to watch the movie.....partly because mom would not say no......and we knew the gentleman who owned the canteen there...and just before the interval we would have piping hot samosas and thums up delivered to our seats......royal treatment I must say.......four days back I rented the Tridev from the local 'Indian' store....and I have now seen it four more times in four days.....and I can still appreciate the movie....I love the nonsense in the movie and the way the three hero's kill all the extra's and the villains in the end without even getting hit once by a bullet......the sidey dance sequences and the songs........for some reasons I can tolerate that and enjoy it..........rent Tridev or Golmal or Khatta Meetha or Choti Si Baat or then Hera Pheri... and call me over for ...don’t offer me food or water and I'll still thank you for your hospitality.....rent K3G or Chalte Chalte and invite me for the most elaborate meal with that...I'll pass.....call me prejudiced....I don’t care.....I still think Tridev rocks....

One of the longest days I have had in the past few weeks......been in school since 7.30 a.m.......soon will be 12 hours that I have been here.,....come to think of it though I'm not cribbing because I know deep inside that in exactly two weeks I will no longer be able to boast about having such long days in the University.......

"you dont know what you got till its gone"........how very well said

latest addiction...the song "unwell" by matchbox 20.......

I have been listening music online nowadays on this website called Launch. All you need is a yahoo login ID...and then you can decide the type of songs you like as in the artist the genre etc. and then songs are played...every song that is played can be rated on a scale of 1 to 100 on the basis of song, artist and album and then depending on your rating songs by similar artists or of the same genre may or may not be repeated....Your rating can be anywhere from 100 (highest) to X (don't play again)........and the free version has these ads which play after about 2 or 3 songs ........ads for yahoo travel and yahoo personals and yahoo whatever and every one of these ads ends with the line " do you yahoo?"......to which i find myself saying in my mind....." I do....and so does Shammi Kapoor".....and my dears I do find that very funny........whether you like it or not......among 'other things' I'm in love with my sense of humor......the other things I refer to here are none other than my own attributes..........what to do....we are like this wonly....

Utterly lethargic weekend....got a bit of work done but not as much as I would have liked......the farthest I ventured from home was to Wal Mart this evening.......but I am glad I did not travel over the weekend...I did get some work done....I can imagine what my state would be if I would have gone ahead with my travel plans and not got work done.....but at the same time I wish that I was more sincere with work ......that would have ensured me getting my work done in time and I could have gone ahead with travel plans......ohhh well.....cant do much about it now......I guess this is the best way to learn lessons....

This one's for you Ma

I did my engineering in Pune...and home was just 10 minutes away..sometimes lesser depending on the traffic......Every morning befroe I left I had three options that Ma gave me......have an early lunch at 10.30 a.m., or come back home at 1.00 p.m. for a quick lunch in the break or then carry a dabba to school with 'roti' and 'sabzi'......back then all three were unacceptable to me......10.30 a.m. was too early for lunch.....and carrying a dabba to school was so not cool....and I did not wanna make the trip home during the break because of whatever reasons..........what I really wanted to do was go to this place called 'Durga' near my college and have a nice anda bhurji and a glass of cold coffee.......... I can write another post about 'Durga' but G has already written about this place in some of his previous posts......so anways coming back to my aversion to lunch at home.........

Back then I never realized the advantage of staying so close to college save for the times when I got real sleepy or then there was this really boring lecture I did not wanna attend.........thats when I would rush home......and watch TV endlessly or then sleep or spend the afternoon trying to convince Ma why I was not hungry and why I ate out when she has made good food for me......I never thought much about those arguments.......I knew that history would repeat itself and I would be spending many afternoons during my four years of Enginnering giving her the same bull ........


Present Scenario........Thousands of miles away in Akron,Ohio I'm nearing the completion of my Master's program..........its been more than a year since I went home..........I am tired of eating the food we guys make at home........tired of eating Subs, Veggie Pita's, double bacon Whoppers or Pizza......I just want one home cooked meal.........dal...... chawal...ghee and nimbu......bas....

Ma, I admit for once in my life,......all three options are acceptable to me........

Some lines/verses from songs I have been listening to over the past few days that make a lotta sense .....


somedays are diamond ....somedays are stone..........from the song by the same name ...John Denver

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned........from the song Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35.....by Bob Dylan

Its something unpredictable but in the end its right
I hope you had the time of your life.....from the song Time of your Life by Green Day

Jaane kya dhoondta hai, ae mera dil
Tujhko kya chaahiye zindagi.....from the song Jaane kya dhoondta hain......from the movie Sur...sung by Lucky Ali.....

I should learn to appreciate the things that come easily and learn to accept that things dont always happen the way I want them to happen........ohh well ...what the hell....tomorrow is another day...as someone assured me.....by tomorrow evening everything will be fine.....