Just wanted to bow my head to the lowfat coffee drink that we have all come to accept and love, Starbucks' Frappuccino. Every morning i just need it...specially on mornings like this one...my roommate, atanas, always says that he needs a weekend to recover from the past weekend...i can't feel closer to that right now.
If you didn't know, it was my birthday on monday...and if you haven't wished me yet...now would be the time....j/k....anyways....two weeks ago hemant told me that he was gonna give me a gift that i would always remember....and i took his word for it...fully expecting the greatest gift ever....just didn't know it could be this great...sappy/sapna, avi and jai made a suprise visit to our small town in the middle of no where....and spent the weekend with us.....
Friday Night, 9:30 pm....my heart was racing because i didn't know who was gonna be there at the party and i just needed to get the initial doubts out of the way....so pritam, naso, and I went to hemya's house on torrey street to get the party going..i was in for a tough couple hours because no one showed up...so out of frustration...agony...and to lighten the mood we started to count the number of people who were there....there were the three of us with nishant at first....and then j, dong sek, and raj showed up...i was really happy....that some one showed up....so we got up to 6....but nishant had to leave so we dropped down to 5 again...and the night just looked like one long escapade....with enough alcohol to knock out a small battalion....we waited...and laughed at my great party!
Hemya had gone out for dinner, and a few other friends had shown up by 11:00 and now my doubts were confirmed...this party was gonna suck...i had to go pick up a couple other friends....and when i came back it was like ummm.....it seemed like the population explosion in india over the 90's....and i ran in happy as hell....thats when hemya told me that he was pissed off that i had cursed at him so much while he went for his dinner...and that i should look over his shoulder....and i was like...this better be good...and SHE WAS....before leaving i had asked pankaj to keep track of the number of people who came in....so i asked him....iska number kya tha....he said it was 32
We stopped counting after that...
Honorary numbers 40 and 41 went to Mr. Avi and Mr Jai....who drove down from Virgina...for the weekend...and guys it was awesome...thank you very much...and yeah avi i did mean every single word that i left on your voicemail from the bottom of my heart!
Friday nights party rocked till 6 am....next day we went to a beach on Lake Eerie...and that was a lot of fun....and then sunday night we partied in BW3...newly renovated...thats when the alcohol forced avi and jai to miss work next day and stay back for my birthday....so we partied AGAIN till 3 am...that's when i passed out...Talli/Nitul...left Akron for ever to go back to aamchi Mumbai....and life continued at a normal pace on my birthday....last night we went to Pad Thai...and had a sumptuous meal....and you could see the after effects of the weekend on everyone...sleep was what everyone needed....they say....what you do on the day of your birthday is what you will do the rest of the year....let's just say that....i'm lucky enough to have done it the past year...and even luckier to have one last one coming up....hanging out with friends like these....THANKS GUYS!
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Friday, June 25, 2004
Was it a tough decision
Just picked up a package from Aldrich Co., 1,1,1-trichloroethane...they say its ozone depleting and poisonous...damn....why didn't they tell me earlier...i've been literally bathing in it for days now! j/k
Anyways...was in the elevator with Dr Jana and his student Asim...when Jana asked me...Brijesh i hear you made a very tough decision...what changed your mind? It wasn't one actually...it kinda just fell on my lap...sometimes, scratch that, most times decisions are tough when you want to do something and you know by giving up on the other thing (which consequently seems like, the right thing to do) you would be letting your conscience, and people around you down...so you go with the thing that you really want! be it out of ambition, greed, or to make a point...to yourself or the world
I'm drifitng here...but yeah...i'd be crazy to want to stay away from my family...anymore!...i'd be crazy to choose a Ph.d...over four kids that i'd love to watch grow up...although the sound of that just rings a bell...i won't lie to you...but i'm here for another year...rejuvinated and refreshed and ready to learn...i'll take that over a doctorate...i will also take my mom's happiness and my dad's relief over it...any frigging day!
Anyways...was in the elevator with Dr Jana and his student Asim...when Jana asked me...Brijesh i hear you made a very tough decision...what changed your mind? It wasn't one actually...it kinda just fell on my lap...sometimes, scratch that, most times decisions are tough when you want to do something and you know by giving up on the other thing (which consequently seems like, the right thing to do) you would be letting your conscience, and people around you down...so you go with the thing that you really want! be it out of ambition, greed, or to make a point...to yourself or the world
I'm drifitng here...but yeah...i'd be crazy to want to stay away from my family...anymore!...i'd be crazy to choose a Ph.d...over four kids that i'd love to watch grow up...although the sound of that just rings a bell...i won't lie to you...but i'm here for another year...rejuvinated and refreshed and ready to learn...i'll take that over a doctorate...i will also take my mom's happiness and my dad's relief over it...any frigging day!
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Mind Reader
No matter how badly i played, i must say that win on saturday was GREAT...I have to do my laundry...i have no clean socks...no frigging boxers left....and my room, bathroom, car are a mess. This weekend...i will clean it this coming weekend...this rationalization has been going on in my head for oh about two weeks now...can you believe that i have to pay $1.25 per load be it the washer or the dryer! That's insane...I should go work on the dsc rather than write about this stuff...i could go do my laundry in priya's house...or the phi tau house...but the dryer dosen't work there...i wonder whats going on in the pps meetings...my results from the gel fraction and crosslink density experiments suck...i'll have to do it all over again...MAN! Pankaj's bike rocks....its a 600 cc Suzuki Katana...and i just rode it to my house and back....it is so light and so fast....and loud....its like you are sitting on a rocket...i guess that's why they call it a pocket rocket...priya wants me to go with her to get a new cd player installed in her car, and rizzo called asking if i wanted to go to the driving range...hmmm....but i should be doing the dsc experiment...hmmm....but golf is by far the most addictive sport ever! No matter if you do good or bad...you need more of it....win's like that establish the character of the team, it's like a cliche, it's the coming of age story! it's everything, but the best part is it's still early in the tournament and we gut one out! That's my kinda win! I hope the birthday party turns out decent, i hope its half as fun as the last one....that's the problem with having a great party...you probably won't out do it! I need a bike in mumbai....forget that.....i need a skyline gtr in mumbai....i want to be rich enough to have those cars and bikes and not worry about extortion calls, or duties, or the fact that i would be paying twice the amount that the car is worth...to money! The root of all evils! TIME FOR DSC
Thursday, June 17, 2004
The clock starts at 5
I don't know how it happened...or when it took over my entire body....but it's there....i can feel it...it's in my stomach...everytime, EVERYTIME! That's just how it is, if it's sunny outside, which, it is now, and the clock is anywhere close to 5 pm...my internal cricket clock, actually not only cricket...tennis, bball, all these alarms go off. It's like i just need to run out from home....work....car....and get on that field be it a makeshift cricket field, basketball court...or the gym....i need something.
I used to get off school by 3:15 pm and used to be driven home...which took about thirty minutes...so after that i had about another half hour...to forty minutes before it was time to play...tennis/cricket/bball/skateboard. As soon as the clock hit 5, everyone was down for anything and everything, bang-bang, golf with plastic clubs, swimming etc. But where this want grew into a need was tennis practice from eighth to tenth grade, and cricket from tenth grade till the time i came here...that has to have been the greatest time for all us guys because we used to have about twenty people every night playing cricket under lights, inside a tennis court. We used to start with over arm and move to some extremely competitive under arm action. This is coincidentally where i got my extreme need to WIN...it used to be so much fun...This was green acres to me, all you non-mumbaiites, and non-lokhandwalaites, should be told that green acres is an apartment complex which has everything you would need...when it came to activities...name the sport and it could be played and has been played on the hallowed surfaces of the complex...many a good, great, shallow, timeless, timepass friend has been made on and because of that great complex.
Sorry, i lost focus there for a minute...back to my point...its four forty...and i had to take a piss to calm down a little...i have to focus on my breathing to be able to sit on this chair...breathe in....breathe out....and all this because of sunny, aafu, ashu, shilpin, ketan, chintu, vicky narwani, ankesh, mayank, jolly, vikram, rahul sogani, vishal-the organiser, and suraj....thanks guys....for gifting this daily time bomb to me...wouldn't be able to live without it!
I used to get off school by 3:15 pm and used to be driven home...which took about thirty minutes...so after that i had about another half hour...to forty minutes before it was time to play...tennis/cricket/bball/skateboard. As soon as the clock hit 5, everyone was down for anything and everything, bang-bang, golf with plastic clubs, swimming etc. But where this want grew into a need was tennis practice from eighth to tenth grade, and cricket from tenth grade till the time i came here...that has to have been the greatest time for all us guys because we used to have about twenty people every night playing cricket under lights, inside a tennis court. We used to start with over arm and move to some extremely competitive under arm action. This is coincidentally where i got my extreme need to WIN...it used to be so much fun...This was green acres to me, all you non-mumbaiites, and non-lokhandwalaites, should be told that green acres is an apartment complex which has everything you would need...when it came to activities...name the sport and it could be played and has been played on the hallowed surfaces of the complex...many a good, great, shallow, timeless, timepass friend has been made on and because of that great complex.
Sorry, i lost focus there for a minute...back to my point...its four forty...and i had to take a piss to calm down a little...i have to focus on my breathing to be able to sit on this chair...breathe in....breathe out....and all this because of sunny, aafu, ashu, shilpin, ketan, chintu, vicky narwani, ankesh, mayank, jolly, vikram, rahul sogani, vishal-the organiser, and suraj....thanks guys....for gifting this daily time bomb to me...wouldn't be able to live without it!
Monday, June 14, 2004
The Perfect Day
I know...I know i was late getting up in the morning....but come on guys...its impossible to wake up in five hours...i AM a grad student...that is one trait that fits me perfectly...but yeah...all eleven guys from our cricket team were waiting for me while i got there grinning...7:15 am.
7:45...these guys wanted to eat already...we had a three hour journey in front of us and our beloved team NEEDED a break from driving TOO long...so we ate breakfast at mcdonalds...and while doing that made sunny cry about losing his wallet...MP took his customary trip to the crapper and we drove off towards Charleston West Virginia and the middle of nowhere to play cricket...if this isn't love for the game i don't know what is.
That's when it struck me that this was a great day already...i was with my buddies...and an ass...e named hemant...and i couldn't have asked for anything else, but one thing...Meine Jisse Abhi Abhi Dekha Hain....so we sang...and sang some more...Tanhayee...Tanhayee....Meelon hain phely hui tanhayee...and almost on cue...the sun came out...it was a road trip now! As much as i hate to admit it...hemant's my boy now...he can be a jackass at times...and thats only when hes having a good day....haha...anyways...to add to the already awesome morning...and once hemya was done peeing at the rest stop...i drove...rolled the windows down...and relived the freedom like the guys from the greatest hindi flick of our time, DCH, while humming to Kabhi Na Beete Chamkile Din...Hooooo...Ho...
11:00 am and we reached Charleston and saw the little ground we were supposed to play cricket on...Mr. Hari, captain ACC, won the toss for once and chose to bowl...thats when our bowlers went to work...i must say that we have one of the strongest bowling lineups in the midwest league...each bowler is capable of dominating any game at any time...and i think everyone is just now buying into and trusting our cappy's philosophy about sharing responsibility...it is a team game...and we haven't always played like one...but this bowling performance...although off the mark at times(namely: MP's 13 run over before the second drinks break...with a wonderful over the shoulder no ball :) )...was...Brilliant....good job guys...they didn't allow those guys to cut the ball...and that was the key...so yeah once again the bowlers did their job...kiran..our new keeper...he's gonna be good...i just know it....with some guys you just see it...you know...he is gonna be special...only if he figures out and adjusts to some fundamental flaws...im excited about that...so yeah GREAT JOB GUYS...keep the teams down...and hopefully we'll finish the games out for us...
Kiran Nataraj...came back and opened for us....scored some massive blows for us....that took the pressure right out from batting...so our own personal sanath...made it easy for the team...thats what im talking about...TEAM...GUYS....HOOOO HAAH...Thimmanna did a great job playing his game...and thats all we needed...all I had to do was hang around till the end...it was a pleasure...with the short off side boundaries...ummm
So the game ended...we came...we ate and we conquered...the drive back was awesome...just because it was after a victory...we reached torrey street...and enjoyed the victory some more...the guys drank some beer...and the customary teasing began...and obviously we had our fair share of goats...but then the day got even better...THE LAKE SHOW WENT DOWN TO MOTOWNS TEAM....AND HEMYA...AND NASO....ALL OF THEM ATE IT!!!!
Charleston 141/10 in 31 overs
Akron 142/3 in 18 overs
WIN No. 1 guys....HOOOOO HAAAAAH
7:45...these guys wanted to eat already...we had a three hour journey in front of us and our beloved team NEEDED a break from driving TOO long...so we ate breakfast at mcdonalds...and while doing that made sunny cry about losing his wallet...MP took his customary trip to the crapper and we drove off towards Charleston West Virginia and the middle of nowhere to play cricket...if this isn't love for the game i don't know what is.
That's when it struck me that this was a great day already...i was with my buddies...and an ass...e named hemant...and i couldn't have asked for anything else, but one thing...Meine Jisse Abhi Abhi Dekha Hain....so we sang...and sang some more...Tanhayee...Tanhayee....Meelon hain phely hui tanhayee...and almost on cue...the sun came out...it was a road trip now! As much as i hate to admit it...hemant's my boy now...he can be a jackass at times...and thats only when hes having a good day....haha...anyways...to add to the already awesome morning...and once hemya was done peeing at the rest stop...i drove...rolled the windows down...and relived the freedom like the guys from the greatest hindi flick of our time, DCH, while humming to Kabhi Na Beete Chamkile Din...Hooooo...Ho...
11:00 am and we reached Charleston and saw the little ground we were supposed to play cricket on...Mr. Hari, captain ACC, won the toss for once and chose to bowl...thats when our bowlers went to work...i must say that we have one of the strongest bowling lineups in the midwest league...each bowler is capable of dominating any game at any time...and i think everyone is just now buying into and trusting our cappy's philosophy about sharing responsibility...it is a team game...and we haven't always played like one...but this bowling performance...although off the mark at times(namely: MP's 13 run over before the second drinks break...with a wonderful over the shoulder no ball :) )...was...Brilliant....good job guys...they didn't allow those guys to cut the ball...and that was the key...so yeah once again the bowlers did their job...kiran..our new keeper...he's gonna be good...i just know it....with some guys you just see it...you know...he is gonna be special...only if he figures out and adjusts to some fundamental flaws...im excited about that...so yeah GREAT JOB GUYS...keep the teams down...and hopefully we'll finish the games out for us...
Kiran Nataraj...came back and opened for us....scored some massive blows for us....that took the pressure right out from batting...so our own personal sanath...made it easy for the team...thats what im talking about...TEAM...GUYS....HOOOO HAAH...Thimmanna did a great job playing his game...and thats all we needed...all I had to do was hang around till the end...it was a pleasure...with the short off side boundaries...ummm
So the game ended...we came...we ate and we conquered...the drive back was awesome...just because it was after a victory...we reached torrey street...and enjoyed the victory some more...the guys drank some beer...and the customary teasing began...and obviously we had our fair share of goats...but then the day got even better...THE LAKE SHOW WENT DOWN TO MOTOWNS TEAM....AND HEMYA...AND NASO....ALL OF THEM ATE IT!!!!
Charleston 141/10 in 31 overs
Akron 142/3 in 18 overs
WIN No. 1 guys....HOOOOO HAAAAAH
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Updates! Updates!
Just got off the phone with my ma! She is such a cutie...she was updating me on all the things that are going on in mumbai and family elsewhere...my cousin just agreed to get married to my sister, nisha's friend...haha...he fell for it...and i'm in the clear for the next few years!! Anyways, watched hum tum on friday night...that movie rocked...and the funny part was that saif totally reminded me of me! I was just talking with priya and rashi about that...the guy dosen't remember anyones birthday...thats been my trait since i was born...the only birthdays i know are mine and my sister's...and ofcourse my first girlfriend who literally would have slit my throat if i forgot her birthday or for that matter our anniversary, which by the way i don't remember now! See my point...i'm really bad with remembering birthdays, anniversary's, all of that stuff...i'm not saying that i get all the women he gets in the movie...or maybe i do??? just kidding...but yeah...i liked rani's role in the movie....she is so sexy!!! her voice...ummmmmmm...she did get a little fatter though, that i didn't like...yeah i like curvier women...but it has to be curves in the right places...i know you guys agree with me!!! And yeah.....summer f...ing rocks!
And i hope we win the next game! Go UAKRON
Oh! And may the LAKERS rot in hell!!!!!
And i hope we win the next game! Go UAKRON
Oh! And may the LAKERS rot in hell!!!!!
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
India Trip - Part 2
Nisha's wedding
I think the best part about the wedding was the preparation for the mehendi...my sister nisha was born to dance...and i won't be suprised to see her rocking family occasions even when she is 80...so upto a month before i was supposed to go down to india...i got calls from her "vicky! better be ready to dance," i was going down about three days before the first function was planned. So i knew the first week was going to be a grind....but a grind that i would pleasantly look back upon was a suprise i'll take to the grave with me.
My mom's side of the family is the wild side...these guys have lived in spain for years, and doing so has only made them act wilder when they come back to india. So there we were, about twenty five of the wildest family members packed into my chachi's house...my favorites being my little cousins...sharan and rishi...and ofcourse simran...so we practiced, all of us kids...nisha was the choreographer...and she had five of her girl friends dancing with us...and that was another reason that it was fun because i was upto my usual flirty ways...
After our dance practice myself, sharan, rishi and simran used to get down to some serious ps2 action on a huge projector screen...with bose surround sound...btw...cricket 2004 kicks ass...anyways...i hope my boys stay as cool as they are now...for the rest of their lives...the good part about the wedding was i really got to know my other cousins...and for the first time in my life i felt like a big brother...
You see my cousin brother nicky...and myself, and his friend were playing a need for speed underground....and we were taking chances to complete the missions...he got frustrated and he threw a tantrum...this is a twenty year old kid...so i whooped on him...told him if he didn't show me some respect i'd teach him how to...and i did....it felt great...wrestled him to the ground forced him to apologize and basically bullied over him...but you know what...that's what big brothers do...and he's my boy...but he's still got so much to learn...love you bro!
I think the best part about the wedding was the preparation for the mehendi...my sister nisha was born to dance...and i won't be suprised to see her rocking family occasions even when she is 80...so upto a month before i was supposed to go down to india...i got calls from her "vicky! better be ready to dance," i was going down about three days before the first function was planned. So i knew the first week was going to be a grind....but a grind that i would pleasantly look back upon was a suprise i'll take to the grave with me.
My mom's side of the family is the wild side...these guys have lived in spain for years, and doing so has only made them act wilder when they come back to india. So there we were, about twenty five of the wildest family members packed into my chachi's house...my favorites being my little cousins...sharan and rishi...and ofcourse simran...so we practiced, all of us kids...nisha was the choreographer...and she had five of her girl friends dancing with us...and that was another reason that it was fun because i was upto my usual flirty ways...
After our dance practice myself, sharan, rishi and simran used to get down to some serious ps2 action on a huge projector screen...with bose surround sound...btw...cricket 2004 kicks ass...anyways...i hope my boys stay as cool as they are now...for the rest of their lives...the good part about the wedding was i really got to know my other cousins...and for the first time in my life i felt like a big brother...
You see my cousin brother nicky...and myself, and his friend were playing a need for speed underground....and we were taking chances to complete the missions...he got frustrated and he threw a tantrum...this is a twenty year old kid...so i whooped on him...told him if he didn't show me some respect i'd teach him how to...and i did....it felt great...wrestled him to the ground forced him to apologize and basically bullied over him...but you know what...that's what big brothers do...and he's my boy...but he's still got so much to learn...love you bro!
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