Communication Breakdown

Dont know what LedZep were thinking when the made this song. But its title is apt for me right now. Hopefully my doings for the week could be observed online. So ill be posting a lot about my korean experience.

Also this korean experience can be pretty much related to talkign to people in Kerala. :) ;)

ar raa ring or something like that !!

So here I am
Shaai lin dra
shi lon da
Shi len da

My name was sounding like it was just caught up in this tornado and all the alphabets just got mumbled up. If you start wondering what the heck am I blabbering well off recent times I have been counselling some 40 odd Korean Teachers on how the americans live their life. So there are these nice people from a different country who cannot speak english properly trying to pronounce my name!!

They are fun to be with, but now I am sure how Arunandan feels when we start speaking in front of him something in Marathi(my regional language) and keep on repeating his name.(Ah but I am not going to stop that !! hahah !!) Anyways these people are a great deal of work to handle with. Firstly they are our guest so we shouldnt be demeaning or insulting them, next they have really obnoxious requests and the worst is they dont understand one bit of what you reply back to them.

heres a transcript of something funny thats been happening with me
Me: so do you guys listen to music
kt: oh oh yeah yeah music
Me: I like Music..
kt: haa music ( now he realises I was talking about music)
Me: yeah Music
kt: oh aa whata typeah music you like
me: oh anything that sounds fine
kt: me ah like ah hotel california
me: oh yeah great song
kt: korean great song ar raa ring
me: hmm
kt: come on sing aa raa ring
me: ( huhhhhhhhhh ????????)

And this is the funniest one...
kt: where ah can i find vitmin a
me: huh?
kt: ahh you know vitmin a vitmin b b vitmin
me: oh vitamins sure there.
kt: and fiber.
me: ?
kt: fiber fiber.
me: (thinking he needs to eat fiber I was gonna show him some bananas but suddenly my eyes spotted some Metamucil( its a dietary fiber powder) hoping thats what he wants i point out)
kt: aaahhh thanx thanx
me: sure
then after he has bought it he aint quite sure what he jsut bought so .. the question
kt: is a constipation meaning not dung
If you find this hilarious you should see the action that followed with the "notdung"
the guy literally squat with his hand moving outwards from his ass as if it was pulling out the rip chord of a parachute.

thats it.. enough of ah what wise man say ah . blogging for the day .

Bombay and Thane

This is an amazing blog. It takes you back to all the memories of India and specially brings one closer to home. One should go through all the archives to see a lot of pics.
Bombay
Thane
Great job Yogesh .

cool website

this is cool

Northern Lights

This is a blissful phenomenon which I was lucky to experience tonight. It was like standing in the sphere of electricity or like an electric blanket fluttering on you. This is not even one bit as dangerous looking as Lightening.

Everyone should experience this at least once in their life.

3:39

Sloshed in a mixture of budweiser and labatt blue.
some calls to 1-800 numbers to see if they are Indians.
missing a call by your beloved....
Aasma se dharti fati fati fati...
an alarm going at 330
friends singing to ehsan tera hoga mujhpar.
and a blog post that reads otut what is happening right now.
this seems to be a nice night..
way to go...
this is friday night ppl.

what thee blogeth?

So here I am stiffling and struggling hard to jot a blog.
what do i write here???

maybe about the mistakes people reaslise they did after they see someone else do the same.
about the insecurities people have which makes em ridicule others just so that they can feel a lot more better.....
about the songs that make the mind stand up and take a thought.
about the people who for their own selfish pursuits neglect and ridicule everything else that is fundamentally and ethically just.
about ethics and who decides what ethics are.
about being able to stand up and make a jerk of yourslef or being the wise and not take a stand yet fall in the eyes of the beholder.

naaah ..
i guess ill just enjoy my ice cream and have fun.
have great day fellas.

C2

Have been watching the new coke ads recently.

They first enchated us with the rolling stones and you cant always get what you want
They then got us queen yelling out i want to break free
Now if they just could get us u2 saying its a beutiful day.

Music really helps you soothe out.

 

 

Fear of the dark

This one marvellous peice by Iron Maiden really works magic whenever I get to hear it.

a lot of assignments have been completed by getting in the groove just humming on the Iron Maiden solo guitar pieces in all the songs.

Although a lot of my friends in fact started listening to rock and a lot more because they heard the X factor album.

I wanted to end this post in a sentence that includes may be a song title but it would mean unfair to the other songs.  

 

Geometric Constraints

Thats my research topic.
I am trying to fit a piece of algorithm for a piece of program so that it solves peacefully.
Hope to write something more about this than a blog someday !!!!

 

Happy Birthday

This is one birthday I wouldn't be able to miss ever.
Its the Birthday of a very special person.
And its more than a birthday. Its very much like a celebration of sorts for me.
Because had it not been for this day. I still would have been searching for my sweetheart.
Happy Birthday SM.
..............
May your dreams come true this year. ;)

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July 8th

Its the season to be in love guys.

currently listening to:
Dancing in the Moonlight- Toploader
You Cant Always Get what you want - Rolling Stones

Two very lovely songs to have a ball of a time.

Wishing Everyone a very Happy Day to celebrate life.

Washington to Dhobitalao.

This isnt the story of a guy travelling from washington to dhobitalao, Mumbai. Its how a conversation can digress from washington to dhobitalao.

Have you ever just blabbered or talked on for a while without making any sense in the conversation but yet having an underlying link to the flow of topics. Yes a lot of people start...
hey i got this amazing drilling machine... now i can get rid of the plank and the ants wish i could just shoot the ants down.. boy i need a machine gun.....

get the drift ???

yes well so this guy talks about washington then says mebbe they were washing by the tonnes out there.. mebbe washington was their dhobi talao...

if only the world could come up with better dreams for people like our pal here.

Reincarnation of Cooker

Corny looking dal
staring out the valve
burning smell all around
in the cooker no water found

this is an ode to the cooker which just died

Law of Reincarnation of Cooker- discovered by Satyajit and formulated with the help of abhishek and nishit.

"One cooker's valve blown replaces the cooker with a brand new one"

Blogs

Have been surfing the net a lot these days to know more about blogs and to read some more.
Everyone tryies things on their blogs.
Everyone tries to be insanely different from the others.

Some write Poems
Some write Plays
Some are writing their diary
Some are pasting the fwds ( honestly this is a good idea the fwd chain stops immediately as soon as u just post the fwd on ur blog )
And some dedicate their blog to something arcanely bizzare just to make thier mark.

well i dont know what category mine falls into.

I hate categorizing things.

lets see where this leads to.

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.