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I am married....

Ok.. the change in my life is that , i am married... got married last july.... thoroughly enjoyed the wedding... had great fun with my cousins.... well the pic is you see is the place where we all stayed during the wedding....

I am back...

Hey guys....

I am back... not that any of you guys are waiting for me to write but still.. i am back.. i finally was able to get hold the password of this account...so..hopefully i am going to post more blogs...see you all in a while...

AAF

Morris Library

I dont usually go to the university library. In my field of work i dont see a reason why i should go to the library except for doing a story or something like that. Right from my bachelors i could never picture myself sitting in the library and reading a whole lot of books. I dont like reading at all. I have never read novels in my life till now. I don't understand how people can sit in one place and read books like harry potter. ( The book is so damn thick..!@#@!)

Coming back to my library story, this is my fourth visit to the library. The students are allowed to check out Dell lap tops. The last three times that i came here, i did nothing except waste time on the internet browsing some stupid websites. This time i said to myself i would actually search for books and order it and read. I did that. I searched for books in research area and requested them at the circulation desk. Went down to the circulation desk and told the pretty american girl that i have ordered for some books and if she could get it for me.

Now being a new visitor to the library i did not knew that it would take at least 4 hours to take a book. ( This is because of the renovation taking place inside the library) i returned back empty handed. ( Of course after doing some chit chat with the pretty american girl & finding out her major n why she is working on a sunday and vagaira vagaira...). Now i want to study but books nahin hain..kya karen tho socha kyon nahin blog likhthay hain..so thats how this post came up..
ok now comments please............. thank you..!!!

I love thursdays

Thursday i think is the best day of the week. I dont have anything to do. I have a class at 11. There is nothing much to do that for that class, no reading no assignments nothing. I hate tuesdays and wednesdays...Tuesdays because i have to do my assignments for my classes on wednesday and everytime i end up doing in the last minute and i hate it...and i hate wednesdays because i have two full blown solid classes, both of them have a lot of work to do. The evening class is the most boring.... its called " Qualitative research" and its definitely not for me.. I have to read like 50-60 pages every week which i cannot... I have never read a novel in my life and my prof expects me to read all this...
The climate has been really good. It's spring time. We had our class outside yesterday. For the first time the class looked interesting as it was outside and i could just watch the trees , cars and ofourse pretty girls go by....
ok that was lot of tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays...sorry about that...

Rang De..Definitely

Yesterday i travelled two and half hours to watch Rang De Basanthi and the movie was worth more than that. Some of my room mates had downloaded an online version of it but i never wanted to watch it. I had decided that if at all i am going to watch the move , i would definitely watch it on big screen.
5 of us rented out a car and went St louis to watch it.
The movie was well made , some really good editing ( the open sequence ) and the movie i thought did not exaggerate much. Over all its amazing,awesome and it rocks. will definitely would wanna watch it again.
Later guys..

Happy Republic Day

Read till the end....

Life..Earth...something major is missing....

An Empty train

Life without you is....empty hallway

Like this empty hallway....My life has become devoid of all excitement.

regret...

Yes as of now thats a big regret i have. I know what ever happens i will never...actually never get an oppurtunity to study in ACJ. I have been hearing about it everyday practically from the time it started and i really wish i could have somehow taken 11 months out and done a course there.

I am done.

I am done. I cant believe it. One sem is over. I never thought i would be able to get stuff done, finish my assignnments in time. But then thank god i finished everyything onn time. I don't have much expectations with the grades part, will leave that for later.

some american lingo for you guyys..

something very good = awesome , its kick ass stuff
something done very cleverly = neat , sweet
bye = later
my teacher scolded me = my prof fired my ass
Everybody was shouting at me = my ass was under fire
alright= awrite
biscuits = cookies
Thanks very much = i really appreciate it
cycle= bike
car dicky = trunk
cola = soda
no = hell no
petrol=gas
ok thats it for now...later !!!!

music thanksgiving & more

I remember studying in school about thanksgiving, you know how a typical American family sits around the table, says a prayer and eats the turkey. But i never thought that at somepoint in my life i would also be a part of the thanksgiving celebration. My friend invited me over to his grandmom's place to celebrate thanksgiving. I agreed to go and decided to spend a day with an american family.
His Grandmom lived in a small town called Casey, three hours away from where i live. There were hardly any houses there and it looked as if most of the people who lived there owned large acres of land and did a lot of farming. His Grandma's house was big and spacious with the most amazing chandeliers i had ever seen. Her house was solid man. Pure opulence. One by one everybody arrived and i was introduced to my friend's family members. Initially i was finding it very odd to be there but then slowly slowly i got accustomed to the place and surroundings. The problem was that there are lot of customs which had to be followed and i did not know any of them
I was gettting scared that i might end up doing some thing really stupid.

It was 12 noon and was time for the big lunch. The table was set, the candles were lit and the turkey was out along with a dozen of other dishes. All of us held hands and somebody said the prayer. It was the first time i had acually done something like that. The Lunch included mashed potatoes ( prepared in the same manner as most bongs prepare it. ) The mashed potatoes were to be had with hot noodles on top of them. Then there was beans, veg salad, turkey , ham and lot of other things most of which i did not understand .
I just felt as if i was spending time with my family. I felt very homesick and remembered our get togethers back home. Lunch was done and it was time for desserts. There were whole lot of pie's and custards to eat. All of us were full but we were forced to eat by his grandma who after every hour would ask us to eat something or the other.
My friend's little cousin joseph took us around the place. Even though it was freezing outside we decided to go out. we went exploring the three big garages my friend's grandmom owned.It was filled with farm equipment, tractors and a whole lot of other crazy stuff. One of them also had a big truck. So there we were like small kids hopping from one garage to another checking out the antique stuff which my friend's grandfather had collected. It was nice and it was good.

oh ji !!!!

Voice from inside .....

Aye mere Khuda kuch karo abhi

mere unoh ka gussa kam karo jaldi

karte hain bohoth pyaar unko

bolo na ji kaise manaye tumko

kuch kaam kar nahin paa rahen hain

bas subah shaam tumko yaad karte rehthey hain

Aur ek ghante mein online aaoge tum

This " Hum " is nobody without you " Tum"

I want back the jodi of " Hum Tum"

I understand this shayari looks very silly

But baby this bunty is missing his Bubly

Aur kitne din tak aise tadpenge

Kuch karo khuda varna yahan ke

campus lake mein doob jayenge

Marna nahin chahthey hum

par nahin hain mujhmein aur dum ....

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...???