Business as usual...
After a hectic day yesterday, I am yearning for super long extended weekend...had to work till 5 am ..... least I was satisfied with my progress.... I had mentioned about a friend of mine who was moving to NY to take up a job offer... well he did yesterday.... eerie silence prevailed in the airport... that too from a total boisterous group.... reality that every1 shud part in not-so-far away future staring at us.....and here's my ode to Arun... the worthy and the one that i care ... is the last one....
Slothful...Genius....Forthright....Ussss.....witty... dumbass ....a good friend... wishing him the very best.....

Another miserable day....miserable in two parts....one didn't do anything of worth today and a pathetic start to a fresh week is the last thing I wanted....and the other....had a pretty ugly tiff (is that too regular) with a friend of mine.....what started as an innocuous remark brewed itself into a caustic altercation....cud have avoided that....but guess it was pretty much on the cards....felt awful after that...still does linger....have had quite a number of arguments but unusally today didn't stop at that....guess I'd tread past limits and inadvertently said thing which weren't supposed to mean that way...neway....can't change that.....hoping for something better tommorow......fingers crossed.....

The pretty short adventure (lasted 28min 15sec.)
Cudn't explain my extended absence from blogs!....I've got to defend my thesis in a couple of months...so had been getting busy with that (beleivable eh!)....had been to Paloduro canyons...a really gorgeous gorge formation close by...and for the best part went Hiking ....it was fun....imagine getting scared at the smallest of bugs and tadpoles......and the pertinent fear that a Rattle snake might pop up any moment...although we've been throughly informed abt the absence of poisonous snakes in that area.....and for the prized possesions of the jaunt...we got a twig, which doubled up as an actve weapon against intutive (and whole lot big) bees....genuinely thrilled when we found a nice stream out of nowhere in the middle of a crumbling clay mountain....all this a not more than 500m from the makeshift parkinglot of our car.....and all the while we left empty coke bottles in the event of us getting lost....and the unanimous decision that adventures with nature are better suited for viewing reclined in the couch..... For a lil bit of history...Palo Duro is Spanish for "Hard Wood" but every1 who went there wud agree otherwise....chanced upon a few animals a couple of spotted deers...unfortunately that's all we cud catch glimpse of apart from a overgrown turkey....and the fact that those weren't found inside the lush forest but on the parking lots...myabe they'd prefer some human company...so back home with an hour spent at an oulet mall in a small town nearby...didn't fund much to my liking....ciao....

Nothing to post ...fixed my lab computer at last.....so can work late......i mean do useless things late....suddenly over the past few days...my head is kinda like in vacuum...raring to do something...but unable to figure out that something...... rambling on to those innumerable things that I don't know....and possibly cudn't figure it out either.....and feeling really ashamed abt that too.....neway for the kicks...went shopping !!! yesterday....in search of a perfect gift for a friend of mine who's graduating and moving to NY....confusion prevailed all thru and found him a sweater which i think i hate it....i'm sure he doesn't .....perils of shopping with 4-5 ppl ......ciao....btw suddenly noticed the rapid downfall in visitors to my page....guess it's too boring now....

Independence !!
Unusually for the past couple of years, Independence days no longer remind me of cliched speeches and practically useless one-day stunts...I've been to three independence day cultural fests organised wholly by students here at my univ.... and every time they sing Vande mataram at the end of the show...goose bumps run over my body...for a moment or two I'm too proud to be an Indian...This weekend too was quite amazing....the Indian community has swelled over the last couple of years and I had invited my professor to the show and he had inadvertently exposed in me a lot of ignorant facts abt India....For us Indians, ppl speaking abt different cultures and all the ga-ga abt Unity in Diversity may seem so boring having heard the same blah-blah for sooooooo long...but to him it was so startling to find that so many languages did exist in a comparitively small country.....the show was the usual mix of culture and masala as in the movies...but it was fun...the hooting, the whistling and the booing...it cud be the one of the last get-togethers I cud have have with my friends as most of them are graduating...it feels kinda poignant...atleast Independence days no longer mean stupid film actresses' interviews on umpteen channels..b4 i sign off this is the best of the fwds I get for this Independence day!...should rekindle a lot of memories in u ...particularly if ur used to going to the movies close to a decade or so...Movie

Tele-Alarms
Events as I wole up this morning....things in my mind are depicted in italics....so here goes....Tring Tring...tring tring (actually it's more of a buzzing sound)
Telemarketer (a sweet sounding girl on the fone) : Hi, Gd morning...May i speak with Rawnjite Raanjha Nathan (chukles)
Me: There goes my name for a walk....Yeah it's me....
T-Girl: I'm calling frm ur XYZ credit card company, how r u doing today sir !
Me : (Bewildered)...Didn't i pay my dues...omg!! was it last month i paid for......(nervously) err..... fine (hurriedly getting outta my bed)
T-Girl: I just wanted u to know abt our Payment secure plan...blah blah blah blah.....(she speaks so fast ..I can never pay attn....but who cares...my bills aren't due....so on the couch)
T-Girl: (going on) blah blah blah..........
Me: oh! shd I sleep a lil bit more!!........but its' 9:30...so wat I slept late last night....stupid movie too....
T-Girl: Blah blahing non-stop.......
Me: I think...I shud cook atleast today.....maybe some nice smelling Rasam......
T-Girl : (pauses for a moment).....and blah blahing again.............
Me: Then again.....we're out of Rasam powder and who'll wash the dishes ....Maggi will do i guess....
T-Girl: (slows down a bit)...So wud u be interested in signing up for the plan?
Me: (twitching)....No I am not interested at this moment ..( Irrespective of their question this is my handy answer)
T-Girl: But sir, Having listeend to the benefits...it's so helpful for u...u can just try it for a couple of months at the end of it u can call us to cancel it ...
Me: How can i get her off the hook....But ....I wudn't want this at this point of time...so maybe call me after a month....
T-Girl : She never lets it go.... But why don't u sign up for the trial period....(goes thru the benefits 1 more time...reallllly fast)
Me : (Irritated at her persistence)...Plz Iam not interested...so plz call me some other time.....
T-Girl: Thats fine sir, have a nice day....( and gives me a fone number which I totally disregard in case I chg my mind)
Me: Oh! man Was I rude on her....she was just doing her job......the timimg isn't good for the call....
So now peace at last for a bout of slumber on the couch.I barely close my eyes when suddenly Tring Tring......Tring tring'

Me: Gosh...I am gonna kill some 1 today...
TMan : (with a husky voice) May I speak to the decision making member in the family or the one whose name the telephone is registered?
Me: Oh gosh! that wud be me....(hesitantly)...that's my room-mate ...He's outta town....will be back in a month....so plz call us then....
T-Man: (probably understood me by the way I rushed to disconnect the call)...still I wud like to inform u abt the gr8 new service we're offereing to ur locality...plz pass on this to the decision making member......
Me: ( cursing myself...still trying to get out)...but I wud not be here when he returns ...so...err
T-Man: That wud be fine....U said he'll be back in a month right?
Me: (sighing in relief)...Yes....
T-Man: Thanks for ur time sir, have a great day!
Me: U bet i wud....(graoning) Shud I switch the ringer off....
So lying there wondering for a sec, how these ppl had to take grouchy ppl like me all the time and still speak so politely for the next call...man! they do have something called Patience....(pitying them for a sec...only a second when suddenly)......Tring Tring Tring Tring.....

Me: Oh god! this is gonna be a crappy day!
Ganga: Deii, Did u get up ( unknowingly asking the same question...but had i not woke up ...i wudn't have answered the fone)
Me: Deii, Kya matter??
Ganga: Nothing! ....Did u get ur........blahing
Me: ZZZZing.....thats it for the day..

The weekend was something spl.......some of my friends have come over from Austin and we had nothing short of a gala time here......a far cry from the dull weekends of yore....luckily I missed the one part that was bad....going to watch The Hulk.....actually one of my roomates during undergrad had come here to pursue his master's ...(after slogging out for a couple of yrs)...so was kinda nostalgic to go back a few yrs...thought of going somewhr but the weather had the final say and wasn't too amicable to put it mildly......with the freshers trickling down day by day I cudn't compare me with them not so long ago.....and this is the funny thing abt them...they'll listen to u so intently that u feel so conscious abt urselves.....yet with all my efforts i try to be loyal in answering the question however stupid that may be....with that poignant feeling in me that I bored some1 else with the same.....Planning is what I do best as with the case of most indians....churning them out however impossible it may seem.....had a lot of plans ...cudn't remember even one of them rite now.....nad for the daily dose of stupid news....couple of parliament officials have been suspended in allowing a Shatrugan Sinha look-alike into the parliament.....i see that's the most stupidest thing they have ever done....they say he looks like Mr.Sinha...stupid of them to deny him entrance....they wud be fired either way ...had that been the real guy he wud see them fired for shall we say disrupting his work schedule.......pity those officials....wonder what was he doing in the parliament....probably shatrugan sinha must have thought up of a fantastic stunt....for they had the double in......btw...what is he the minister of????

This day that age......
It's offically been two years away frm home....and nearing graduation as well.....going back a couple of yrs .....these 2 yrs have been spl. in a queer way.....me along with a bunch of my friends....had decided to embark on what I wud call nothing short of an adventure....well its the preps b4 coming here that were so much fun....I was an hostelite for the best part of 4 yrs.....so I wudn't say missing home was that much of a big deal....i wud say my friends are as close as my family.....it was fun shopping, to the minute detail.....endlessly chatting on stupid myths......and so it proved the first few months were entirely different too.....i've never been outta india prior to that.....the 1 thing i still recall with astonishment is the way unknown ppl tend a smile as they pass u...for in india 1 wudn't care to..lest he might be thought of as a stupid intruder....i find it nice and warm....courteousness is lost somewhr..atleast in indian cities....ppl just don't know how to be nice...maybe it's the weather...maybe its the rush ...u never know....community is not what it stands for.....i don't mean to say i loathe my home.....i miss home too..beaches,temples, chai @ midnight in the small tea-stall......i wudn't trade them for anthing...but it wud be a whole lot nice place had ppl been nice to each other ...instead of carping all the time....asking for too much...do u think so???

FRIENDS.....

On the occasion of "Friendship day" ...I had received a couple of forwards (luckily not the type of ones which as u to send it to a few more).....neway for all the while I thought that celebrating these kinda nonconventional days was "girly" stuff...friendship bands...blah blah is what my sister does which i practically find it amusing thatshe had been friends with them the day b4 and wud be the day after that...so y earmark a precise day where u cud exchange pretty useless gifts (so to speak).....but to ponder over it rite now.....i came upon something which bit me strongly....I have had lotsa friends....quite a number of them....used to hang out ...but after a couple of years ppl start to go their own ways..The one thing I regret now that I don't have any contacts with say most of my school buddies...but I used to hang out with them all the time.....feels kinda queer...but ppl do drift apart ...jobs, education.....It's odd to think that the one fella whom I trusted the most cudn't be traced coz I don't have nothing abt him.....and even if i do get a chance to meet him...it is more likely that I'll be outta words.....So the real question is Do or Do I not have a Special friend to trust with the things of utmost importance?...Maybe I do...I just don't know them....maybe i am too lazy to keep in touch (beleive me when I say I'm lazy).....or maybe I don't trust ppl too much...all the while I had thought myself to be a reasonable person....but when I go back to see the tiffs(oh they were pretty useless ones) that I had with some of my closest buddies.....I cringe now sheepishly....I don't know whats the problem...but to reconcile to a friend after a fight...I find that humanely impossible....and even if I do that...I kinda loose the intimacy shared and now it's more or less like a formal relationship.....I had forever blamed this on the other person...but never thought I had an important part in that stupidity as well...maybe a larger share......oh and now I do envy ppl who get my previuosly christened "useless gifts" ...things do change...perhaps it's time for me too...my EGO willing....

After a small hiatus...I"m back....had to set things right...and boy! do I feel better now...neway....most of the week I've doing is visit a lot of other bloggers....as often for the whole of last month...I'm not doing much in terms of research.....if u can't call Googling of latest movie reviews and useless trivia Research.....Among the useless news for the weekend....this one takes the pie....MP govt. has banned K3G for the indecent exposure of the National anthem...and ironically it was removed frm the theatres after a rerun a day b4 the decision....they based the decision on a petition frm a retd. govt. employee....had i known that i wud have called for the ban of the movie long b4 that !!!!......Little wonder whenever I speak to grandma she says it was a lot sensible during the British Raj.....I might tend to consider her statements if the kind of things go on...like a "fair & lovely" ad having the parliament in a stand still.....guess we're too democratic to oppose for the silliest of reasons.....and for the movies over the weekend ...they don't deserve a review....so long.....

Frustration.....
The other day I was talking about Inspiration and now it's Frustration....quite a gamut of feelings for a couple of posts.....neway..I am irritated as hell...didn't feel like blogging too(that doesn't happen often)...but neway if something as bad as it is rite now...it ought to be blogged....i had put myself in such a spot of financial bother ...no one else to blame except for a very lazy clerk/manager/keeper of accts... had failed to do some paperwork that must have relieved my current strain..instead she opted for a vacation and here I am stretching my limits on CC's.......the couple of days have been quite blank.......all I fear that I might lose my temper at some1 and make things worse....wish that doesn't happen....my prof's on a vacation too....so not much to do (as if I had been doing stuff earlier but still)...so it's extra long morning sleeps and late night movies again...wonder what I'll do when I run outta movies to watch.....