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Ahem!Cough..cough.. February 06 American Desi!Helllooooo people!! It was lovely to hear from all you lads and fillies!! I was also amazed to see that unlike me most of your blogs are still alive and kicking, congratulations on that people!! Well it's another cold but sunny week here! The weekend was fun as usual! I went out with friends on Friday to watch Pan's Labyrinth - It's a must watch movie!! It is so well made!! I am rooting for it at the Oscars! Saturday saw the screening of Guru here! 300 odd Indians gathered at one place, it was funny! The movie was OK. After watching such an intense movie the previous night, Guru seemed so 'run of the mill'!! I would have enjoyed the movie better had I watched it another day. I have noticed that there are two kinds of Indians in the US - the overly patriotic and the extremely "un-patriotic" (btw what's the antonym of patriot??) !!! Let me explain - I happened to meet somebody in the cinema during the intermission and she asked me how I liked the movie. I replied saying after watching 1.5 hour English movies, sitting through a 3 hour movie is difficult! It was just said in jest and for the sake of conversation and boy did I get conversation!! She pounced on me with "subtle" questions like - " Why?.. didn't you watch hindi movies in India" which translates to "So, you come to the US and hindi movies are not "cool" anymore is it"!!!! Chill lady, I didn't mean to offend anybody!! I was glad when a friend came to my rescue and changed the topic!! In my defense I actually rented Babul and watched it Sunday before last!! If I willingly rented that movie it is clear proof that I am not prejudiced against hindi movies!! That stupid movie was three hours of nonsense!! Remind me to think and think again before I say anything about my country here! There are a lot of Indians here who complain about how other Indians bad mouth India all the time, about how its just a developing nation (just 50 years old) and then they go onto the "think about what America was fifty years after their independence" tangent!! They go on and on about the wonders of India! Then there are the second type who find it insulting to be "Indian"!! They think they are "cool and happening"!! You must listen to their accents, they even pronounce Indian names with an American accent!! Raj becomes Rash and Kumar becomes Coomaar!! They should be left to the mercy of Rajkumar fans in Bangalore!! The sad part is that their grammar is so atrocious, that even the most perfect accents can't save them!! To make a long story short - their whole life becomes a quest to ape the west!! I am a liberal Indian! I like my country, I love the culture, the flora and fauna, my family, friends, the freedom.. lots of stuff!! I don't like a lot of things about my country too!! Unless you work and experience the life of an average Indian citizen, you tend to overlook a lot of the bad things about the country! I don't like the fact that based on caste and religion the best colleges in India throw their doors open to you immaterial of your scores! I don't like paying taxes to the government when the government doesn't care two hoots about the average Indian! I don't like the public transport system and I definitely don't like auto drivers!! In a nutshell it's a likeable country with its share of good and bad!! You just have to live and let live with a clear conscience... I guess! Another funny thing I notice here is the "shaking hands dilemma" between Indian men and women!! I get introduced to a lot of people and I usually shake hands and say the usual "nice to meet you" dialogue!! When it comes to Indian men some of them shake hands and some don't!! It's embarrassing when you extend your hand and there isn't a similar gesture from the other side!! After umpteen such incidents, I have decided to wait until a hand is extended before doing so!! I hope to get my learner's licence this week!! I also need to buy a weighing machine to burst my "weight ignorance" bubble and hopefully it'll get me panicky enough to start visiting the gym regularly!! Fat is very tasty accessible in America - I live on chips, carbonated drinks and ice-cream!! Toodles people and Dreyer's Toffee bar crunch, here I come!! --   !!January 30 Back from beyond!!How long has it been since i made an entry?!! Seven months??? Ah, well
let bygones be bygones!! Methinks, me going to be regular henceforth!
Do I hear a snigger of disbelief somewhere...hmmm....well snigger not
folks coz I am on an indefinite holiday right now and can blog to my
heart's content!!
I went on a holiday to the Maldives, and boy was it beautiful!! It's a
must visit place!! The colour of the water takes your breath away!!
It's truly "heaven on earth"!! Well, I have a whole entry dedicated to
that holiday, it was truly awesome!! Everytime I visited some place
new, I always thought - "boy this would be such great stuff to blog"
and then laziness takes over and its the usual "LATER" thingi!!! Let me give you a sneak peek into my life the last seven months!! First and foremost I resigned - yayyyyyyy!! So currently like I said before I am on an indefinite holiday! I went around Maldives, Kerala, interior Karnataka and then decided I wanted to visit the United States of America!! So here I am sitting in my room, somewhere in Idaho and basically being lazy! The view from my window is incredible - there is the river flowing by and then a golf course and then the mountains!! I am eagerly waiting for the summer when I can wet my feet in the water!! There sure will be a post on the 'American' way of life!! I did a few things on my "Wish list" - scuba diving, snorkelling and skiing!! They were extremely exciting! I am trying to catch up on my reading - all that I missed while I was out working!! The publics libraries abroad are so well stocked unlike the ones in India!! I also watched a couple of movies!! I have decided to catch all the oscar nominated flicks before the Oscars!! I am done with The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine, Borat, Happy Feet, Cars, Monster house, The Devil wears Prada, Pirates of The Caribbean. There are loads left and hope to catch them soon. The next on my list are Babel and The Last King of Scotland. Speaking of movies, I went and wathced The Epic Movie and argggggggggg!! What was I thinking!! Its pathetic!! Nine dollars down the drain!! I am trying to upload some pics from my Maldives vacation and its taking its own sweet time!! Well I got to stop now if I want to get some blog hopping done before I start reading the driver's manual!! I have to take my licence test soon and start driving!! I am completely stranded without my licence!! Anyway I am off now!! Ciao people! !!June 07 Birdy Trouble!!    and an
My god, how long has it been since I opened my blog?!! Life sure is busy nowadays! I miss returning home before the sun sets! I am so sleepy right now, yawwwnnnnnnnn!! I was woken up by the birds at 3AM today! Normally I am unaware of the world until 6AM, but today there was this one rambunctious cuckoo Ah, well, it’s going to be another month of slogging it out Enough of my rambling!! I just wanted to let people know I haven’t abandoned my blog!! You’ll see an occasional ramble until I make a comeback  http://www.millan.net/      May 17 Search Engines 2!
Gosh, I get stuck every evening in the rain!! I invariably forget my umbrella and return home drenched!! I am all prepared for the rain today, bring it on!!! Last weekend I went to Legends of Sikander for dinner! The food is good although pricey! I loved the biryani! I also managed to catch 36 China Town - that was ok too!! What I love about the movies is the popcorn and the big pepsi! I hate eating it one at a time, I am more of the 'stuff my mouth' kind!! I don't like popcorn unless I am watching a movie!
 May 11 Summer days??   It’s strange how an increase in workload is both a good thing and a bad thing!! Good thing because you don’t know how time passes by when you do something interesting and bad thing because there is no time to do anything else!! I hardly spend time at home anymore!! Home feels more like a hotel!! I leave by about 7:45AM and return only after 9:30PM!! There’s just enough time to grab a bite of dinner before I hit the sack!! Well the project I’m a part of will hopefully finish in the last week of June and I can look forward to some breathing time and blog my heart out!! I had a nice long May 1st
weekend! I visited Kerala and boy did I have fun?!! I managed to meet two of my
friends from high-school by the Arabian sea and we cracked up recalling all the
crazy stuff we did when we were in school!! I also attended a wedding and
reception there. It was beautiful!! I love Kerala, I’ve always got happy
memories about that place!! I went on a shopping spree in Cochin with my
brother and we were surprised to see how quickly we could spend money!! I also
managed to watch Ice-Age2 during the weekend, I pulled my mum along for company
and she slept through most of the movie!! I loved the sloth, Sid, he’s so
cute!! Oh, I must add it was hot and very humid!! Actually it was as hot as
Bangalore only more humid!! It looks like the rains are here to stay in Bangalore!! It’s a welcome change after the hot sultry summer!! Gosh it's hot in this place!! The downside is water clogged roads, snail-slow traffic and auto drivers having a gala time charging poor helpless customers exorbitantly!! If I could exterminate a species from planet earth it would be the ‘auto drivers junta’!! They are such a selfish, dishonest, nauseating bunch!! Arggggg… Anyways yesterday while I
was browsing the i-tunes store I came across a bunch of old English numbers I
haven’t heard in a longtime!!  I’m in the mood for a feel-good movie!! Oh, btw guys my
blog-hopping has come to a standstill
now, free-time like I said is still elusive! So if I don’t comment or
visit your space as regularly as I did , like they say in Bangalore ‘swalpa
adjust maadi’ (kindly adjust)!! Anyways I’m gonna scoot now!! Hope to be more
regular from the month of July, until then keep visiting – I’ll try putting up
stuff once a week!May 04 Tagged!
Grettings fellow-bloggers !! I had an absolutely fantastic weekend!!! Just got back to work today!! Long five-day weekend, there should be more of those!! OK, getting back to the point Shan tagged me so here I go.... Tag25: Twenty-Five things you desperately wanted to know about me ( If I was desperate to know 25 things about a person these definitely wouldn't figure on my list!!)
1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. presence of errors, not their absence. Given enough time, an error 2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. Thankfully the guy next to me is not on his seat, else I would have whacked him on the head!! 3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? Scrubs!! 4. Without looking, guess what time it is? 9:15AM 5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time? 9:30AM, yawnnnn, pretty close!! Awww shoot!! I got a whole Thursday in front of me!! 6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? The
toilet door banging shut!! Just came in to work from ‘outside’!! Doing the ‘rain dance’!! 8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? Google talk window! 9. What are you wearing? A space suit – complete with the oxygen mask!! Pollution levels in B’lore are alarming! 10. Did you dream
last night? Yes, about how Pezz rescues blogland from the evil clutches of ‘Taggar’ – the evil tag!! 11. When did you last laugh? I’m laughing right now!! 12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? A fire-extinguisher with blood stains on it (they use it to whack people who fall asleep)!! 13. Seen anything weird lately? Weird lies in the eyes of the beholder!! 14. What do you think of this quiz? Duh!! It's a tag not a quiz!! 15. What is the last film you saw? Ice Age 2 – The Meltdown!! 16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy? A bookstore and a pastry shop! 17. Tell me something about you that I dunno. Shan, buddy, you don’t know anything about me!! Whatever I say is going to
be new!! I jumped through the fire loop in school for the gymnastics show!! 18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? I would bring about “WORLD PEACE”!! So do I get the Miss Universe Crown now??? 19. Do you like to dance? Nope! 20. George Bush. Jib-jab!! 21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? I am allergic to kids, acchhhooooo, <sniff> <blowww>, I am going to skip this question!! 22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? Refer answer to Q.21!! 23. Would you ever consider living abroad? Any day!! 24. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates? Where were ya?!! We were waiting for you so long!! I wanna retire!! 25. 5 people who must also do this in their blog. Ravi (http://spaces.msn.com/ravishankar2704/) Other than that....
April 26 Thanks people!  Howdy people!! My blog turned one two weeks ago, hmmmm, a year since I ventured into ‘blogland’!! My blog is going through a pretty lean phase now, I know I have pushed it way back on my current P.O.A!! Well unfortunately my workload has increased tremendously, I am moving houses and nearly everybody I know is suddenly getting married!!! I find myself desperately looking for some spare time to post an entry, unfortunately, that little bit of spare time is like the ever elusive mirage!! So until I am up and raring to go let me introduce you to my partner in crime - “Crabby Cancerian” !! Now Crabz and I are in the midst of a deal where he agrees to take care of my blog until I return. If the deal comes through (he seems pretty reluctant now, crabby, lazy thing that he is!!) I’ll introduce you to him before I take off for a short break from blogand!! I absolutely love blogging and can’t dream of shutting my blog down!! I am glad I decided to give blogging a shot coz I sure have come across a lot of interesting fellow/felli-bloggers !! Through the year many have stopped to say Hi - some stayed, some disapperared!! So here’s a big thank you to all for taking the time out to read my entries and leave comments!! It’s definitely the best part about blogging!! So here’s a list of most of my visitors with a small message from me!! If I have missed out anybody please please forgive me – I am a little pre-occupied right now and I’m growing old J !! Thank you guys and gurlz and hope to see much more of you in the coming year!!!
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!! So again if you don’t see me reading your entries people – I’m a tad bit short of time!! Do drop in once in a while!! Hasta mañana
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