My first Tornado warning

My university is one of the very few universities in US to have a TV station and a radio station attached to it.I work as a student worker in the radio station which is in the basement of our building.


I mostly do archiving work which is basically at nights or sometimes i do reporting if i get time duing the day. It was yet another boring monday night and i was recording some stories onto a cd. At around 10.15 pm a alarm goes on, really loud.Being pretty much new to the place i didn't know what was happening, so i carried on with my work. Then after 10 min ( this thing was really loud i had to do something ) i came out of the room and checked for this really loud sound. I saw a small box something like a radio which kept saying warning tornado warning..." i was like what Tornado Wow !!! this is going to be fun. There was nobody around and i did not know what to do. I went out to the rooms outside and knocked the doors checking for people. One lady was still in her office and she came with me to check what was happening. I told her that this alarm has started saying severe weather for the Carbondale ( this is the place where i stay ) and other surrounding areas. She went upstairs checked with the TV station guys if they had recieved any warning. She came down and told me that the weather conditions had been such that there are chances of a tornado striking this city.
I had access to the TV news room which has all the equipment and the cameras. I told myself man this is the time, if a tornado hits take the camera and go out. But then luckily or unluckily nothing much happened. Everybody was very calm and said that this sort of alerts are quite commmon but is very rare for a Tornado to actually hit this city. I finished my work and went back home. The lady told me that where ever you are if you hear a sound as if a train is approaching just run to the basement of the building. I was awake all night....i waited ...for it to come but it never came. It rained heavily with strong winds and the severe weather continued till the next day. These rains changed the temprature. From hot days we are going to subzero tempratures. The winter has arrived.

Cornflakes Story...

Yes .. I had cornflakes both the time. Yesterday night i came back home from the lab at around 3.15. Was feeling hungry so i thought why not have some cornflakes. I got up in the morning did some work went back to sleep again. I was supposed to go to the department but i did not have the energy so i went back to sleep. I got up at 1.45. Wanted to eat something but then i realised that i had only 15 min left for class, so i ran for class. Finished with class then went to the radio station to work. By the time i finished it was 5.30. I was hungry i thought chalo bhai lunch kar lete hain par karen toh kya karen...? dopahar mein tho hum log ke ghar koi khana nahin bantha. so what is the next best option ..? you are right it was cornflakes.
Thankfully for dinner its not cornflakes as i made some good food today. I still haven't eaten though. Have to go back home and eat it. I am back at the radio station to do some archiving of stories onto a cd. So this is it my cornflakes story. A story i hope will end very soon....

By the way we have an off tomorrow. Its Veteran's day. It seems after a long time our university has decided to give an off.

what do you think of this letter...?

I am attaching a copy of a letter sent by my cousin in our family's yahoo group. Just wanted to ask you all, what do you think...?



"Hi !!!

Idd Mubarak to you, all at home and everyone in this
group.

Yes am happy with my new job. Though I do not get to
earn as much as I could have in the US or in Gulf, I
like what I am doing at work and also am having a
great time with bro, mom and dad and all my pals in
bangalore.

Recently, another roomate of mine came back to India
after working in the US for a bit and getting a H1. He
got into Intel here in Bangalore and is staying with
his parents - who are happy to have him back and plan
to get him married real soon.

Out of all the roomies I have had in the US, more than
half of them are back in india.

Rest everything is fine...

Regards and MTV enjoy...

J "

its monday !@#@$%#

Its monday and the rat race has begun.Assignments deadlines classes projects oh stop it . I have a 3 hour class in the evening, need to edit the nature music video and keep it ready by tueday 2 pm. Think a project idea for my final documentary for wednesday evening...the list is endless...its too too much...

festival time

Eid Mubarak....Happy diwali ...little late but thats ok...three assignments were due this week and it was crazy. Its only now that i am getting some time when i dont have to think of any deadlines ( few days only though...)

I did not have any feeling of diwali here. I missed the diwali night organised by the indian families. There were no tickets ( some dumb problem you could say..) Some of the houses where girls live had lighted candles on the door step. Few drunk indian guys buys bursted a few crackers and shouted happy diwali at like 3 in the night. Bas apart from this it was just another day.

Ramzaan was nice. we went to the mosque for our prayer clicked a few pictures it was good.Felt like haan bhai we are also celebrating something.But then its not like being in india when you come back home from prayer, shona has cooked lovely sheer kurma for you ..hmmm...The other sad part here was that i had to attend class that day . It was so damn boring and of course irritating. In the night one of the guys gave us a party. he cooked delicious chicken which we hogged like mad. all of us were like ghar ki yaad aa gayi bhai and stuff like that. If not events like these living in here would be impossible. This is what keeps us going....the indian touch ..being with indians ....i hate staying in the dept...i just wait to come back to the apartment where i stay....


Ramzaan is done and we have to start worrying about cooking again..Its back to turns of who is going to cook....its back to cornflakes in the morning and concept of no lunch straight dinner thing...hmmm...

shona cooks well.....i enjoy her food .....w r u...???