Band Bajaa Baraath

Its holiday season here in the US. And today is the 4th day of the season. Still a day to go. All I have been doing in the last 3 days is shifting between tabs of Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. With youtube winning the race between the others easily. I am seeing all shows, movies, soaps, talk shows and also a complete documentary of SRK. Well thats how bored I am.

In the last 2 hrs, I watched Band Bajaa Baraath. Its not the first time I watched it. However, I had not realized these things the first time I watched. I just couldnt see more than the chemistry of Anushka and Ranveer the first time.

• Spirit of Entrepreneurship : Is fantastically captured in the first half. It shows that irrespective of the binness (like he says :)) and its size, if you have a great team its gonna be a lot of fun. And it would really help if there is a pretty girl in the team, even better if she is a partner. Nothing works like the right team spirit.
• Another realistic fact is that the guys suddenly feel very proud and great about themselves when the realize the girl whom they are dying to impress gives a feeling that she is interested in him. For some reason the interest in the girl dies once she reciprocates, and I wonder the reason is it suddenly feels too easy for the guy. Lesson for the girls : Even if you like the guy you need to keep some mystery and suspense to keep the relation alive. If the guy is a creep, the girl usually ends up being the candy in discussion amongst boys.
• Finally, I guess i am the only guy(amongst all the audience of the film so far) who sympathized with the character of Chethan. What mistake did he do for him to end up like that?? Anushka and Ranveer did business, Anushka and Ranveer had fun, Anushka and Ranveer fought, Anushka and Ranveer broke up, Anushka and Ranveer got back, Anushka and Ranveer got married but what did the poor CHETHAN do for him to go through the trauma of his marriage getting cancelled with no mistake of his. For some reason, I can strongly relate to this character. (I hope not but have a strong feeling, i might experience this). Such is the plight of Chethan that he was not even shown once on screen while Anushka and Ranveer did a lot of things even if it was only on screen.

I had not given thought to these things much while I watched the movie for the first time. Wonder what BBB will bring the next time I watch it.

Until the next watch. I pity you chircut (Chethan).

Luv,

Sri!!!

Funny Conversation!!

Friend : Hey wassup??

Me : Nothing much.

Friend : How is life??

Me : What happened to you. Cut the crap. Come to the point.

Friend : You remember that guy XXXX.

Me : Oh that idiot who would always be in the first bench and acting studious.

Friend : Yeah the same jackass. He is getting married.

Me : Damn. We already crossed the 7 billion mark. Whats the hurry.

Friend : Did you get the invite??

Me : I need to check the other email. Anyways I am not interested in checking others wedding invites.

Friend : I just checked and realized he is not marrying YYYY.

Me : Well I always thought she deserved someone better than that jerk. Anyways who is the poor girl marrying him.

Friend : Chuck him and whoever he is marrying man. Guess what??

Me : Are you fuckin hanging around with too many girls. Whats with this guessing and all.

Friend : OK listen YYYY mailed me. She is coming to the states to do masters.

Me: Oh good. Good for her.

Friend : Dude, I need a favor. I always liked her. And now she mailed.

(Meanwhile I am checking the other mail)

Friend : Hello. where are you.

(After 2 mins)

Friend : What do you think?? Anyways listen she has got an admit to ASU and is coming in spring. You are the President of ISA right. So I will mail her telling you are my good friend and you will help her in accommodation and all.

(After 5 mins)

Friend : Are you there??

Me : Ha what happened??

Friend : Where were you. I think I am serious about her man. She i so PRETTY dude.

Me : I just checked my other mail. She has mailed me too about her Masters plans . I was sending a reply to her .

Friend : Dude WTH man.

Me: Dont worry buddy, I will take good care of her in ASU.

Friend : I wanted to introduce you as my friend man. We were talking right how can you send the mail??

Friend : I had just now even sent an offline message to her about me arranging something in ASU. You could have waited right. What was the hurry??

Me : Dude take it easy man. She is not like your girlfriend or something.

Me : Also she is not your type.

Friend : What do you mean??

Me : Oh did you say you left an offline message. She just added me on Gtalk. She is asking about my studies, blah blah blah and even my relationship status.

Friend : No. It cant be possible.

(After 2 mins)

Friend : Are you there?? WTH man?

Me : Ok dude thanks for the informing about YYYY, I mean about XXXX's marriage. Now wait till I send my wedding invite.

Me : If you dont find YYYY's name in it, then try again.

Me : Ciao. Need to go. Catchya later.

Friend : Fuck you and fuck that bitch.

Me : Ha ha. She is asking me why are you pinging her again and again.

Friend : I neither care about her or you. I just told her what a bitch she is.

(After 5 mins)

Me : Hey are you there??

Friend : Yeah WTF do you need. I am busy dont irritate me.

Me : No I was just wondering if you can give me YYYY's latest email id.

Friend : WHAT THE FUCK??

The Scar.

What happened : Was fielding on one end of the tennis court, the fielder on the other end left the ball under his legs. I made a fast move to stop the boundary. Was too fast and too concentrating on the ball. Couldn't control the body or rather the shoes didn't grip the court.

Next Moment : I left the ball and held my face, only to feel blood gushing out profusely. After 30 secs, players on either side are scared and discussing which is the nearest hospital. Still bleeding on the right side of the face.

Hospital : Too much importance to system. No human touch. While I am still bleeding, no one is even bothered.

Procedure : More painful than the cut.

• Fill the application form to be admitted. Name, Address, SSN etc
• Weight and Height measurement. And then sit in the waiting area.
• After 15 mins, comes a nurse and checks temperature and BP.
• She notes down the case and asks what happened and some random questions. Funniest one being "Are you thinking of killing yourself". If I was why would I come to hospital??
• After she records the case, the wait continues and so does the bleeding for 40 mins.
• Then I am shifted to a bed, where I continue waiting for 40 mins for the doctor to come.
• He checks the wound and tells the nurse to prepare for stitches.
• He then works on stitching the cut for 1 hr while I am too bored and am clicking pictures (with my phone) he operating on my face.
• He says you will be fine and will be discharged in some time. Wait continues for an hour after which the nurse comes and issues the discharge sheet and asks me to leave.
• This was procedure for emergency visit. I cant imagine the normal visit.
  

Pessimist : Two scars on already ****** face.
Optimist : I can still see through my right eye, its better to have a scar half a cm below eye than not have a eye.
Realist : That will be an expensive bill. Getting hurt in US is a costly affair.

Two days later : Eye swollen and black. Since no antibiotics or any medicines were prescribed, fear arises, as the swelling increases, panic sets in. Finally, gave in to the fear and saw the doctor again, went through the entire stupid procedure after which the doctor says, swelling is NORMAL. Nothing to worry. Realist cries again, for it increases the bill by another $100 after insurance cut.


Facebook : Picture uploaded with the caption "My best friend's face art". Some believed, some thought I was beaten up, few concerned called to check. Overall good fun.

The other story : "I was in a bar chasing a girl, her boyfriend pushed me to the edge of the table and this happened. However, I broke a beer bottle on his head and he is still in hospital". I liked the fact that lot of people believed this and thought I was capable of this.

Advices : "U are old now, should be more careful". " Be a little less adventurous".

Thought process : I have done way crazier things than playing cricket in a tennis court to get hurt. Its God's way of telling, "When I decide, anything can happen anywhere".

Lesson learnt : U never know what will happen. How good or bad it could be. So do whatever you like if it makes you happy. For safety is not guaranteed just because u would be cautious.

Prayer : Final bill is yet to come. Hope its not too burdensome. And hopefully, these scars don't work negatively while my parents are bride hunting for me :).

Currently : I am going to Vegas and the doctor is not available to remove the stitches. People come back from Vegas with a scar, broken tooth, tattoo but I am already going in with a scar. Wonder what to expect.

Until next time (mostly after vegas),

Luv,
Sri!!!

The Summer of 2011!!

Generally, I post here when I like something and feel like posting. This is a different one. I am bored on a saturday evening. So I am writing this just to update something.

Internship : Currently, doing the summer internship with Cirrus Logic. Still not the work I would like to do for the rest of my life. Lets see, how it turns out. I sometimes wonder will I ever find something that I would like to do for the rest of my life. But at the moment, I hope to fund one semester fee. And Tucson, is not the greatest of places. Hopefully, it will get better in the rest of the internship. But I like Cirrus, they have a very positive energy and the other reason is they sent me to Austin for a weekend.

Austin : Loved the energy of the city. But what I liked more is the greenery of the place, the climate is closest to Bangalore. Its called silicon hills, i just hope the development does not kill the serenity of the place. Cirrus is situated in the lush green hills of Austin. We had a pep talk by one tech genius and the CEO (who is in his early 40's). There is something about CEO's, I always like their speech. Are all of them so good or is it just my perspective?? Cirrus is rated the best place to work in Austin. Was very impressed by the lovely HR staff there. Overall, at the moment Austin is one place I would like to be if I am given a choice. But I am yet to see the very famous California.

Movies : Watched Pyar ka Punchnama. It was not funny and at the end of I am optimistic and do not think the girls are as bad a s they are projected. Watched Ye maya chesave, telugu version of Vinaithandi Varuvaya. The telugu version does not work for me. I loved the tamil version. Jessie - Trisha - lovely.

Relationships : These are very funny. (You know the type of relationships I am talking.) I do not know much about them but I enjoy when I see others and try to learn from them. A lot of friends are tying the magical knot, this sort of gives me complex. Another good friend is in midst of very funny situation in his relationship. I am enjoying it from a distance.

If there is an award to somebody who like people who are committed, I might win it hands down. I always end up liking girls who are already seeing someone. One of them also got married recently. No no, I am not sad. Life moves on. Now I like another girl, who is also seeing someone else. Pretty much been the story of my life. But no I am not complaining.

For the rest of summer, gymming, research work on two topics along with the ongoing internship is on the agenda. Will update on how much was successfully done.

Until next time,

Luv,

Sri!!

Wannabe Desi.

Its one of those days that I am in a zone of serious thinking about myself. These days I have started thinking too much.

I saw this video on facebook, posted by a friend. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRgupTDuW4&feature=player_embedded). I never get scared seeing a video but for some reason was very scared after seeing this one. Makes me think if I am doing the right thing in life. Am I missing an important part of my life. Its been about six months that I left India. I am getting used to this place and thats the scariest part. US has been very kind to me so far, people have been very sweet (although some people say its not the true them, I beg to differ), its very scenic and beautiful but still I do not want a greencard, US citizenship, not even like being called NRI.

Looking back the only reason I came here was I needed a break form my work. And this was the most obvious path or rather a path followed by many before. All thats written in the SOP is not true.

Its almost like a catch22 situation now. Suddenly when I want to go back, I have the loan money running on me. Which means i cant go back after my masters. If all goes well, I would recover my money by working a couple of years after my MS. But do I want to wait that long?? Will I be able to make a decision after 2 years to go back?? These are questions that linger my mind and I still do not have an answer for them.

But the other question which is more interesting one. What do I want to do if I go back to India?? I do not have a clear idea of what I want to do, however I clearly know I do not want to do anything related what I am doing so far. If I had full freedom to do whatever I want, these were a few things I would have liked to do after going back to India.

Politics : Given the number of scams that are coming out, even I want to try and get my share. On a serious note I want to be part of it as I have a gut feeling that I will do good. Not because I am qualified to be there but just for the fact that I want to do good at that stage. This option looks very unrealistic for now.

Race Horse Trainer : The biggest motivation for this is I can combine and work with my uncles and brother. I feel the combination could be lethal. The pure pleasure of working with them would be killer. Although, profession by itself is very challenging one. But if I want to get into it, the biggest challenge is convincing my family for they feel there are enough people struggling there already.

Professor : This is the interesting of the ones for one reason that its actually a realistic one. I dont want to teach the technical stuff, atleast not the way it was taught to me. I want to make education more fun and more intuitive. I would like to take the approach of the US education system back to India.

There are a lot of things that are going to stop me from doing any of this. If I add all of them to this post, it will be unnecessarily long. That will be another post by itself.

So thats it for now.

Cheers,

Sri!!!

Warmup.

I am wondering what the title of the blog should be and am not able to find a suitable one. I do not know what I want to write in this blog but for sure know that I want to get back to writing in this space more consistently. Purely for my own satisfaction.

Friends: A very interesting word. A lot of people pass through my head when I think about this word. At times I feel good to have them all and also miss most of them. Its an interesting stage of life. I have friends doing everything, some are working, some are studying, some are getting back to work from studies. A few of them have married, a few are due this year and there are few who are still accompanying me in the single status. Its all goods so far. I somehow feel some of them could get really busy after marriage and not keep in touch . I hope I am wrong. Hopefully, a reunion of sorts will happen in December.

Family: If there is one thing I miss the most in US it should be my family. The funny part is amongst all the Indians who stay along with me, I call the least to India to speak to family. The reason is everytime I speak to them, I feel like going back. More over we have never been a family who expressed love, celebrated any fathers, mothers or any other type of days. I always thought to myself I am a cool guy and not the one who is too family oriented. Slowly, I realize that at the backdrop, I am a very family guy. And its damn cool to be one.

I have almost finished whatever I wanted to write. Still do not have a suitable title. Lets just call it a "Warmup" for now.

Cheers,
Sri