Something Random

Thanksgiving weekend begins tomorrow.....am off to South Carolina.....off to see my brother and bhabhi....visiting them the first time after their shaadi......plans of partying either in Gatlinburg or Myrtle Beach......am not quite excited yet though..maybe will take a while to sink in....maybe i just want to stay in the house and sleep and chug on Scotch and Ultra Lights...


Have a good weekend junta....

Goodluck and godspeed....May the force be with us.....Amen

Mere Bachpan Ka Dost

As a child did you have an imaginary friend????……someone who you played with and spoke to about the silliest of things……..I think I had one…though I don’t remember most of my conversations with this friend…by the way he had no name……being the leo that I am sure I imagined him to be fitting replica of me…...though with me being the dominant one.......funny how my friend is referred to as ‘he’…..I think at that age the last thing boys want to do is associate themselves with girls (just like Calvin from C&H)……how things change…..

ya so this one incident I remember clearly about me having a conversation with my friend....one evening......after my daily khelene ka sessions with my true friends I was sitting on the floor in my bua’s room …mast freshafter a shower and all......and she got me dal and chawal and kept it in front of me…..I don’t remember what it was but she went back into the kitchen to get me something…and in the meantime I poured the dal onto the chawal and suddenly started speaking to my imaginary friend and was explaining to him the beautiful phenomenon of chawal absorbing the dal…..and my bua walked in and suddenly finds me talking to someone when there is actually no one….that look on her face when she asked me who was I talking to and followed by my reply that its no one…..well that look of amazement is something I will never forget…I am sure she figured out that ek ya shayed ek se jyada screw dhilla hoga…..

I learnt that day that I should keep my conversations with my friend a secret and from then on nobody in the house knew of my escapades and adventures when I went with him to save the princess’ (funny how I am willing to save girls but will not have one to be my imaginary friend…….sometimes I think life as a kid was never simple…I find it hard to understand some of this things I did)……or fight dragons…….or how we both wanted to rule the world……we nearly achieved that and just a few days before I was all set to take over and become CEO of the world…tragedy struck….

I GREW UP

And Patience my friend ..... is a virtue...........

Frequent updates earlier...now the have become sporadic......its not that I have lost interest....i still love to read junta's blogs...I still feel like writing but then nowadays there are few things which I feel are probably too personal to write here......maybe what would help is to write it down elsewhere....and that will help clear the thought process ...followed up by probably more frequent posts.....shayad aaj sham ke agenda me yehi hoga......

Among other things...laundary....repair laptop......room ki safai......

Its Monday and the weekend plans have already been made....when???.....made them last Thursday...off to Detroit to meet my cousin.....

And then next week .....work till wednesday and the long Thanksgivin' break begins.....off to Clemson, South Carolina to meet the brother and bhabhi....I hope to venture beyond the crossroads of University Ave. and Tiger Blvd. this time......Myrtle Beach maybe.....:)

Think its time to get myself an Almond Joy.....*slurp*....laterssss

I have learnt/observed over the weekend

American football looks very boring at first glance....however first impressions as in most cases can be very deceiving….well the present addiction says it all (O.K. this I realized a while back)...

Eating eggs for lunch and dinner does not go well with the body....

The things you try and resist the most…..well you can never resist them.....

I trust Douglas Adams’ choice……..when he says Monty Python is the best….I agree and go and buy 5 DVD's…I'm sure I won't be disappointed ....will find out soon after watching the DVD’s I have invested in…

With increase in spending power the things I feel like buying the most are books, CD’s and DVD’s…..

If I am talking with someone while driving on the expressway and this someone happens to be in the car with me my average driving speed is about 60 m.p.h whereas if this someone is on the phone my average speed is about 75 m.ph…..reason being …..when the person is next to me I have a tendency to look at him/her periodically while talking….which slows me down…..

I don’t end up raising my voice nor get too excited when I am arguing or trying to prove a point…..unlike previously…..

Most folks who know me from my days in India and have not been around me constantly (physical presence) in the last two and a half years will be surprised at the change in my attitude….this would include my family too…though I doubt to how many this might come across as pleasant…….

Too much time on the phone equals to brain fry…or mindfuck or dimag ka dahi ( not my original words)

Nicotine though harmful does relax…….

Yeh Sham Mastani

Another week passes by and another weekend…..I cant seem to get the hang of this…..The weekend passes by before I realize and fortunately for me so does the ‘working’ week….and that’s a good thing right tat time at workplace passes by quick….its not a drudgery…I enjoy the evening time watching TV with apna Akron ka junta….go to the mall occasionally…..catch a good movie……but somewhere I still feel something is missing…….guess I might as well give Mom’s idea shot (exercise for the body, mind and soul)……plus the steadily increasing waistline better start decreasing now……we’ll see if the saying, “Mommy knows best “, holds true……not that I doubt her but then ye kambakht scientific mind hain na….experiment to karna padta hain!!!!

If you could change one thing about the way you spend your evening….What would it be?

Francois Gautier

Being Indian abroad, part II by Francois Gautier is really good....I have come across his work before.....and I think he rightly deserves the Nachiketa award of journalism..

Do you support the Indian Holocaust Museum?.....

I liked what I saw in Matric Revolutions.....lotsa action..the way I like it.....let people say what they want to....I dont mind goin and watching it once again.....After the movie a couple of us feel that its gonna soon be fashionable to trash talk about this movie......

NZ: 68-4 and now 181-4....arre he kay......laaaaj ahe apli team......I think this is where I close the score window and get some work done

Abbeeeee Dhakkan!!!!!

How dependant can we get on technology. All of Monday and half of Tuesday, we did not have the internet working in our office and not only me but a couple of others also felt stranded……for some of the work we do we are so dependent on the internet……to access databases for journal papers, to see vendor lists for material to be ordered, to check the datasheets of chemicals on the manufacturer’s website….and in my case …blogging too….

The only thing working was the internal mail….and I knew that the moment the internet would be up and running I would get a mail announcing the same…but impatient that I am….I kept checking every 30 minutes to see if I could access Yahoo Mail…..arre how desperate is that……I think we are way to dependant on the internet, electricity (especially inAmrika…remember the power outage??) and so on……..ok yeah so I did not reveal anything new….we all know this……..but I am saying this because I do find it extremely funny and a bit irritating (because of the dependency) when I stand in front of my house ka door and hold the remote for my car in my hand and press the unlock button expecting the door to beep and open….and then something inside me says, “ Abbbeee Dhakkan!!” and then I reach into my pocket for the keys….