Weekends

But first how does a week pass?

A week starts with the weekend.
Friday evening: Long marathon meetings get over. A certain sense of relief looms over you, you feel satisfied and feel the urge to celebrate. The night is spent watching a movie. Sleep late night
Saturday: Get up by 1200, eat lunch, family time(chat or phone call). Evenings are outing times with freinds. Copper county UP and the beaches beckon. Nights are again movie time.
Sunday: Same as saturday except in the night it is more like bickering about the next days work.
Monday: Blues.... Get up go to work. Come back. check online stuff mails blogs news chat.Then research work till evening. Evening hang out with friends have some fun some songs feel better monday is over. Come home eat food.
Tuesday: Same as monday except no hanging with friends but just come back home and start cooking food, these days its just vegetarian as two of the roomies are vegetarian. Night get bored sleep off soon after watching some tv.
Wednesdays: Same as monday no more blues though. Meeting on friday starts making its presence felt harder. Sit and read some more research.
Thursdays: Meeting looms strongly.
Friday: Weekend :)

Thats the life I have been living these days.

Bilanshi nagin nighali

Darudi baghaya lagla
Bilanshi nagin nighali
Nagoba dolaya lagla

"Koli Geet"

Every culture in India is differentiated from every other culture by means of its music, dance form, dressing style, language, food and mostly the overall outlook people have.

Maharashtra is a land divided by the deccan plateau. The east is a bit on the plains and Tamasha form is very famous in the east. The west on the other hand is the Konkan belt. "Koli" people's land. The land of the Fisherman folk. The land of Hapus Amba (Mango) and of the Jackfruit. The land with the waterfront home to various delicacies like Bombil (Bombay Duck), Paplet (Pomfret), Kolambi (Shrimp).

(Traditionally I have no clue what my grandfathers father did. We werent Koli folk but they lived in the Konkan Belt.)

The kolis are fun loving people. They have been picturised in the Bollywoods as people wearing Lungis with a triangular cloth in the center, a Bandana type head gear, a white banian type vest, a net on their shoulder and of course the celebrated bottle of santra and narangi in the other hand to depict a state of total and perennial inebriation. The women were depicted by the "Mungdaaaaaaaa" dress body fitting skimpy clothes (u may as well call it indian bikinis with a sarong) and always running a santra narangi bar.

And the link above are some of the songs these happy people used to listen to.

"Naisargic" UP

Yes the previous post was to introduce you to UP. But this place is a total green blue spot on the maps except in winter when its just a white spot all over for 7 months.

This is a natural marvel of a place. Not the tropical caves and corals here but the vast expanse of a fresh water lake surrounding the land makes it a great place to have fun. Amitabh will not be able to sing his song "samandar me nahakar tum aur bhi namkeen lagti ho..." for two reasons ... he may be fooled by the endless to the horizon water body as sea but its a lake and its not salt water its fresh water!!! Imagine NO SALT, no icckiness when u dip in the water. And the beaches are lined with greenery right behind them.

Truly its a lovely view from UP here.

UP, MI

When I first came here to my school (ironically even a Phd student calls his instituion a school, here) for the next fifteen days or so I tried to grasp the intensity of the 1 person per square mile population density of this region, I also saw some signs.
"welcome to the UP"
"say ya to da up"
"yoooper"
As I sat wondering WTF why are there signs called UP?? Did Mulayam ever visit this place ? Or was there some sort of an extradition policy between the uttar pradesh gai bhais association and the dairies here ??? I was really wondering hard when people showed me the map of Michigan. The State of Michigan is divided into two halves one with the great cities like Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Lansing, Holland( yeah holland ), etc. and the other with Gratiot lake, lots of harbours, some dears, pictured rocks at Munising, greenery enough to feed twice the entire cow population of Holland, lakes lakes more lakes and michigan tech university.


Thats how they got it UP !!! Upper Peninsula not Uttar Pradesh. No Mulayam nightmares here !!!

Story of friends who visit a pub.

Five pals go to a pub. Three dont have cash, the other two werent all that keen on spending( I cant blame em )
So they pool cash realise they have enough to buy beer for all.

Cute waitress comes asks " what may i get u? "
" Beer " in chorus.
Cute waitress comes back with the beer ( lots for all) "there u are! (That will be all the cash u have)"
Two pals: " ok thanks! there u go!(all cash gone)"

The observer sits drinks his beer thanking his lucky stars that his two pals had cash.
The other seemingly wanted to get "stoned" by the beer.
the other two:"hey this is not beer at all"

Moral Of the story: Not always will you get free beer. Next time you complain you may get piss.

I dont want to be a critic to God for giving me what little life I have.
Hey thanx boss up there. Youve got me so far keep on doing the rest. I dont have any complaints.

Websites I found this weekend.

Just visited this website where this guy has a database of almost everything possibly related to life in India in the 80's.

Sunder is the guy whos put up this webpage.

Although I couldnt find a mention of the great "Fusen Gum" theres another site which does this. This site also puns the Indian libido online. Shows how desparate some of our great men are. here are the tasha files

And oh ... what about the patriotic indians @ MIT who think that South East Asian girls can speak Marathi well enough....

mile sur mera tumhara @ MIT

Thats enough of websearching for the weekend

KGB beckons

The KGB, short for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности; English: Committee for State Security) is well known by people all around the world to be the equivalent of the FBI or more closer to home we have the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

This sudden urge to check the intelligence agency of Russia comes from the very striking ring of the phone at 5 in the morning.Heres what made me think of the KGB

Phone : Rrrrrinnnggggggggggggggggg
Me: ( sleepy ) Huh ! Hullo ( drowsy tone )
Russian: Hello Shailu !!
Me:( Thinking Who The Heck in Russia Knows me as Shailu ??)
Me: hel...(Phone goes click)..llo ???
Me Thinking : WTF!! 5 in the Morning whos this chap who calls me so?? confused
Phone : rrrrringggg
Me ( Awww ) : Yeah hi wh....
Russian ( in marathi ): Me yogesh !!
Me: (Phone goes click) huh ??? wats happening
Me: BINGO!! my school pal from India Yogesh Wagh who had been in Russia for his Medical Studies.

Now this situation continued and we spoke one sentence each on the phone and it went dead. Of course I realised it must be the phone card compatibility porblem but just for a second I thought the Russian KGB is still in operation and is still tapping all calls to the US .. hahahahah .....

Yogesh Wagh: Cool eccentric guy i had lots of fun with in school and junior college. Miss those days !! :( will be in touch with him have his yahoo ID !!

Back to sleep now .. jeez 5 in the morning .. halfway through my sleep !!!

Happy Anniversary

To the two most lovely people in this world. One of the sweetest couple I have ever come across. It was their 28th wedding anniversary today june 9th.

These people are going to be a part of my life for ever. And they dont know yet that Im part of their life forever as well.

And I thank them for their best creation ever!

Have a great Anniversary Amma and Acchan

Dates

Just got to remind myself to have a look at dates !!!
grrr.... feel helpless when I end up screwing since I wasnt checking the dates .

I have to, should, must and just have to remember dates !!!!

RAM bohot kam hai !!

Chatterji does a Metallica

Let me introduce you to the world of my friend chatterji.

Chatterji mostly is online.

The name Chatterji is his pseudonym. He isnt from Kolkatta, and he surely isnt a bong at all. The name was coined by a pal of his. Seems chatterji extensively uses the internet applet and device called messenger and "chat". Now you see the "Ji" is out of respect to the great chatter himself and so yahoo is thus linked to the world of rasogullas.

Heres are the last lines of a song:
sad but true - Metallica
.........
I'm inside, open your eyes
I'm you
.......

And that people is the connection between metallica and our pal chatterji !

More about chatterji will follow in times to come.

Moi Photos !!!!

Hey check it out !!!
after lots of parishram !!! i have finally got it up !!
slowly my whole website will develop !!!
eehoooooooo !!!!
My Photos
lets now dream of a complete website !!

Random Thoughts

Have been listening to the song U and I by some rishi rich ost "humtum".Coinicidently saw when harry met sally and heard that humtums got the same story.But when you are miles apart from civilisation let apart Indian civilastion .. U can probably appreciate some parts of even the sickest C grade movie the Indian Industry has ever produced. Not that Im comparing Humtum to a C grade movie, but yesterday found me whole heartedly enjoying a movie called Talaash *ing ur khiladi Aki.

We were wondering if the film Industry actually has a database of clips and sounds to complete a movie. Here are some clips we thought you could identify with:

1. Thundering Lightening: This one has to be by far the most over used clip ever. It has multiple features.Can be used to enhance the climatic effect of the climax. Can be used to addon to the intensity of a rape scene. Can be used to enhance the fear in a horror flick. Can be used to initiate a love scene where in the girl first gets scared then hugs then gets wet then changes saree et al.Can also be used to indicate rains.

2. Flowers hugging : No explanations needed here we are peeping toms so we get to see just the flowers. Havent ever seen them use this one for a fight scene.

3. Bare Navel : This one is used in lots of incidents like dance numbers, look through keyhole spy scenes, rape scenes, love scenes, girl bathing scenes in horror flicks.

4. Snake with its hood up : This one is used to indicate that nature will get even with all your evils. Or it also indicates the reincarnation of your dead spouse in the form of a snake which will protect you and your siblings.

5. River Flooding : This one is used to solve all complex situations by one answer the river flooded and all evil were overpowered by nature whereas the heros and the good doers were safe perched on top of a chana ka jhad !

6 Car Falling down valley with a boom at end : Mysterious disappearance of your beloved ones ? check the nearby valley. Want to kill your enemy? To the valley You go. Want to get rid of a Laash ?? well you know it by now of course the car and the valley.

want to create a new clip for the database ? go dream on .. this industry is self sufficient for clips.