Selective Memory

Sewing Adventure - V - Pillow Galore

2010-06-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Going to the fabric store has become my new stress buster.. walking amidst the amazing fabric designs is so inspiring. so picked up all this fabric and wanted to make a pillow for everyone i know! since i can't practically do that, i made a set for amma and atha. Making the bolsters was hardest and most time taking and the patchwork for atha's diwan set was a great learning experience. All in all, it was great fun. but i think i overdid, i will be taking a break from sewing for a while!

Sewing Adventure - IV - Patchwork Purse

2010-06-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

I love my grandma (who doesn't!) .. she has made numerous crochet dresses/purses/hair clips for me, that i always wanted to make something for her.

I thought I finally knew that i could make her something, so I went to the fabric store and loved what i bought! The process was lengthier than i thought, but i was so excited to see the end product.

Sewing Adventure - III - Pattu-Pavada

2010-06-10T21:26:00.000-07:00

Maya is our neighbour's baby girl and is sooper cute! I decided to make her pattu pavada. my first attempt at sewing clothes andi thought baby clothes were easy. later found out, NO!

but i had amazing fun making it and much much more when maya actually wore it, she looked adorable!

The pavada was good size, but the first attempt at the blouse wasn't a hit. i took too long, maya grew bigger :) so i remade it and this time it fit her! yay!

Sewing Adventure - II - Patchwork

2010-06-10T21:11:00.000-07:00

Sue introduced me to patchwork in a very inspiring and informative way. I spent an entire afternoon in her awesome sewing room learning basics of patchwork and quilting, in exchange for showing her how i made palak paneer! how cool is that! She gave me a looot of fabric and the coolest thread cutter i have seen and a ton of books to ooh-aah on! so i had a hard time piecing the tiny 1.5" squares i cut up (later learnt .. NOT a beginner's project)... but when we got done, we loved it and hung it besides the game of life and circle of reason. :)

Sewing Adventure - I - pillow covers

2010-06-10T20:48:00.000-07:00

So the thread is in the machine and fabric in my hands. Did a lot of google-reading (i wonder how people learnt new things w/o google!).

Learnt a lot of basics about fabric. With all this gyaan from google, i set out to make these lovely pillow covers in an evening, withotu using scissors!

PS: i later googled (yes again!) and found that these pillows were priced @ 65$ each! ;) :D howeeesit!

Sewing Adventure - Introduction

2010-06-10T20:37:00.000-07:00

So the new hobby has set in my head. The husband bought me the New Complete Guide to Sewing and i love it! Like Kaushik said 'we reap what we sew'!

Happy Holidays 2009

2010-06-10T20:23:00.000-07:00

The 2009 Holiday Season was awesome! Did a lot of baking, painting and geared up for the next adventure - Sewing!

Food Adventure XX - Spinach Lasagna

2010-06-10T20:11:00.000-07:00

Good friends, Bhavna-Sunil were moving to UK and gave us their glass baking dish. In their honour made some awesome spinach-red bell pepper lasgna. Layers of spinach in red bell pepper - tomato sauce, ricotta cheese in between whole wheat lasagna noodles baked at 450F for 15-20 mins and it came out perfect!

Food Adventure XIX - barotha-goorma!

2010-06-10T20:05:00.000-07:00

so the husband wanted some barotha-goorma (Chennai style parantha-kurma). I had so much fun making them!

Good fun for exam-season.

Food Adventure XVIII - Butter it up!

2010-06-10T19:48:00.000-07:00

There isn't one desi restaurant on the foreign soil that doesn't serve paneer and naan. so we set out to make our own version of paneer butter masala and butter naan.

It was a great experience - making of the naan. I felt like the chef we used to love watching as kids in Jorhat, he would toss us the roomali rotis for us kids ooh-aahs. But i hadn't expected the yeast to smell so weird! But when they came out of the oven, it was awesome!

Food Adventure XVII - Pudina Rice

2009-11-26T15:26:00.000-08:00

I had a mixed opinion of mint/pudina. I used to like it's fragrance, but was apprehensive of cooking with it. It might be because, pudina would grow on its own with weeds and such in our quarters in jorhat, or maybe because i sometime in past ate something so strongly pudina-y that i am scared that it would over power the dish. But, today I gave in to the fragrance (and kaushik's farmaish) of pudina rice.

To prep for the dish - I separated leaves from the bunch and washed them thoroughly, chopped an onion, tomato and green chilli, grated half n inch of ginger and soaked 2 cups of basmati rice.

In a little oil, added some cumin seeds and hing. when the seeds splutter added the chopped onions and tomatoes. when they were done, added the mint leaves. cooked till the leaves wilted and turned off the flame (yes, we have a gas stove!). when cool, made a paste of the mixture.

In the same pan, added some oil, saunf and this paste. after few seconds, added the soaked basmati rice and mixed thoroughly. added 4 cups of water and cooked till the rice was done.

We loved the pudina rice - cucumber raita combo.

When spaghetti met a south indian

2009-11-26T15:14:00.000-08:00

I've learned spaghetti is as versatile as chapati.. can be eaten by itself or with any side dish. spaghetti and meatballs is such a common dish that i wondered if it could be vegetarian-ised. and what you know... it can be! so we soaked up some black-eyed peas (alasandalu), pressure-cooked till soft and sauted them with some chopped onions, tomato, ginger and green chilli. when cool, made the mixture into patties and grilled them for 5 minutes on the skillet (tava). made the pasta as per instructions on the box ( i use the whole grain ones). added some store-brought marinara sauce and my very favorite maggie hot and sweet sauce to the cooked pasta. once i toss these together to coat the pasta, i soaked my black-eyed peas patties in the marinara sauce and voila! we have the very vegetarian spaghetti with b-e-p balls!

PS: We ate the leftover b-e-p balls with chapati, tastes great!

¡Buen provecho! ¡Buen apetito!

2009-11-26T15:03:00.000-08:00

It's friday night and we needed something fun to eat with our weekly dose of movie. kaushik had promised me chana masala and i had promised him cilantro rice. and we both agreed to make them tonight. and we didn't feel like eating either of them when we were done. so we bring out the store-bought taco shells, spread a layer of jalapeno-cheddar cream cheese, add a tablespoon full of chana masala, add another teaspoon full of cilantro rice, sprinkle some freshly cut salsa.. drizzle some maggi hot and sweet sauce... and we have the most flavorful tacos we ever had! it was a great meal!

Food Adventure XVI - Mango Ice cream

2009-11-26T14:46:00.000-08:00

It was a bit sunny that weekend and what comes out of the kitchen - mango ice cream.

The picture below shows all things you need to make this delicious eggless ice cream - 1 can mago pulp, 1 can condensed milk, 1 pack of whipping cream and a freezer :).

Whip the cream until it forms steady peaks (it's a lot of arm-exercise if you are doing it mechanically). In a large bowl, add mango pulp, condensed milk and the whipped cream. Fold with a spatula until combined.

Freeze the mixture for 4-5 hours, mixed it every one hour. We loved the end product.

Vinayaka Chavithi

2009-10-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

It was another favorite festival on 23rd August: Vinayaka Chavithi. Memories of walking through the colony early in the morning, collecting patri, pooja katha, rava laddu coming back every vinayaka chavithi.

This year kaushik and I made a haldi idol and did our pooja with lot of love and neivedyam.

Varalakshmi Vratham

2009-09-16T20:42:00.000-07:00

It is that Friday of the year again..it is Varalakshmi Vratham..the time to decorate ammavaru.. and .. to make pindivantalu... . At different ages, it meant different things to me. But always it felt great after the vratham. This time it was that much more special.. my first vratham after the wedding.

So with all my food adventure enthusiasm I was in for 9 (most of which are brand new to my culinary skillset) pindivantalu - pulihora, dadhojanam, ariselu, kajjikayalu, poornam bonda, garelu, kobbari lauzu, pappu-chekalu and china-grass sweet (milk sweet made with agar-agar/china grass/vegetarian gelatin). Kaushik and I had the whole thing planned out (ya the planning freak in me had written it down!) - we would split the cooking and spread the preparations over the week before pooja and I would take the friday off.

It was a crazy week (week of July 27th). By Wednesday we had made pappu chekalu, kajjikayalu, ariselu, kobbari lauzu, china-grass sweet. By this time, I had blisters on my right palm... had been sleeping only 3-4 hours per night ( thanks to hectic work @ office)... the house smelled like a restaurant kitchen.. and the deep-fryed oil smell wasn't giving Kaushik any peace. I obviously had the other important tasks (including shopping for pooja-stuff) reserved for the day before and guess what!.. we had a fertilizer factory burn down in Bryan and we had mandatory evacuation orders by 4:00 pm on thursday !! what are the odds! I was almost in tears... there were rumours of the air being 'poisoned' and i was scared i would have to trash my hard work without even having a chance to taste it (talk about paronia!). I was like.. lets take the passport and the food with us!! We evacuated to the Navasota Omkarnath temple. God has his/her way of de-stressing us.. doesn't (s)he?!

On friday, things went by fast.. woke up.. took bath (?!)... put muggu (the search for a 'perfect' muggu is another story in itself!).. made pulihora, dadhojanam,.. and got stuck! I was dumb enough to not grind the chana daal after cooking it! argh! I realised this after ading jaggery. and i didn't think my lil magic bullet could take jaggery ladden chanadal in it (i might be totally wrong.. but then .. o well!) so i re-cook the chana daal till its soft in the jaggery water (which took soooooooooooooooo long!) and mash it.. till it was ok-soft. well after this, another shocker.. i could swear i didn't use ANY water to grind my urad daal but my garelu batter was runny! (reason: dad told me later, you are not supposed to let garelu batter stand for more than 1 hour if you want a hole in your garelu). Ya, the super-planner than I am.. I made my batter before-hand! so anyway I just made a couple holeless-garelu for prasadam. Finally! Now we are ready for the pooja.

This gave me the most joy... decorating ammavaru. After some hiccups with laptops, I finally managed to do my varalakshmi vratham. It was about 1 pm when I was done and I when I drank that coconut water-teertham...... I understood why coconut water. After all the empty-stomach-vratham-hard-work theertham gives the strength you need.

So that was my special day. Kaushik and I were so happy we did it and did it this way :)

And.. I could make my "perantam-packets"

Food Adventure - XV: Eggplant Parmesan

2009-09-14T18:36:00.000-07:00

Eggplant Parmesan is one of those dishes that make my mouth water just by the thought of it. And since moving back to CS, this had to be my special dinner adventure. So on july 11th on my regular grocery list, I added marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese,eggs and italian eggplant (we had some pasta left). I took Bobby Flay's and Nithya's recipe and modified it per our taste and what was available. We had only 3 slices of old bread, so couldn't get much for the bread crumbs. I combined marinara sauce with my maggi tomato hot and sweet ketchup to lightly coat the pasta and added a little garlic-chilli sauce to marinara sauce to bake the eggplants. The preparation took painfully long (we both were too hungry for the time it was taking).. the marinating eggplant slices in salt.... heating the bread slices in the oven... pan frying the eggplant... then dipping in egg white.. coating with bread crumbs... pan frying again... baking it... aah the wait for good food.. but it was worth the wait.. we LOVED it!! Buon Appetito!

Chaat-Scrabble

2009-09-14T18:12:00.000-07:00

We love Lazy Sunday Afternoons... we had one such lovely afternoon on June 7th... plates full of yummy chaat and hand full of scrable cards. :)

JFI Attempt: Mirchi Ka Salan

2009-08-05T21:16:00.000-07:00

I have been longing to make mirchi ka salan for quite some time now (read 4 years). JFI July (Chilli) seemed to be the perfect occasion, but did not have time to post and mirchi ka salan was a common entry into the event (duh~!) Anyways, I did make it and man! we loved it.
This picture lists out all you need for the reciepe.

I slit the chillies and took out the 'heat' part, and sauted them for a little bit. Roasted the peanuts and sesame with some jeera and curry leaves. when the sesame gave out a nice aroma added coconut flakes and took the mixture off the flame. In little oil, added jeera, ginger and onions and sauted them till the onions were done. On cooling, blended the peanut-sesane misture with the onion-ginger mixture by adding some tamarind juice. In very little oil added the smooth paste, remaining tamarind juice and the fried chillies and let them cook for 10 minutes. Add coriander, salt, mirchi powder and whisked yogurt and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Done Done Done!
I made Mixed Vegetable Biryani to eat with our salan.

PS: I wish i took pictures of the container after we ate it :P

Online Food Events: JFI (Jhiva for ingredients)

2009-08-02T17:05:00.000-07:00

New job - Again! yes! Job in CS means, walking to work with kaushik, lunch with kaushik, coffee breaks with kaushik and dinner with kaushik: Things I missed the most in the past 2 years.
So now that I am not spending most of my weekend-time driving, I can restart my hobbies or shall we say experiments. So I decided to take part in online food events. I have read about many such events across the food-blogosphere, but found one that interests me on my most-frequently-visited food blog Mahanandi; JFI (Jihva for Ingredients). Ingredient for July was 'Chilli'. I thought of many things to make: Stuffed Capsicum, Mirchi Ka Salan and Curd Chillies. And, made them. But found out/read that others have sent the same recipes, so I just kept them for us. The stuffed capsicum was again quite filling and the mirchi ka salan was simply tasty! (i never thought i could make it!) But the dahi mirchi was a flop show! thanks to the untimely sand storm. (i have no clue where in CS do we have so much sand...oh wait a min.. must be from the new biomed building construction site across the street...huh!)

So I patiently waited for August and the ingredient chosen was 'peanuts'.. yay! i was all up to make peanut brittle/palli patti/chikki. I soon found out/read that the host made it for the event..so i didn't make palli patti, but did make many many many ... ok 6 new pindivantalu for varalakshmi vratham.

Food Adventures - XIV: Apple Custard

2009-08-02T16:44:00.000-07:00

'Jobless' days are almost over and I realized I might not be continuing with my food adventures anymore, as I start my new job on April 1st (YA!) And then it dawned on me that I didn't try making what Kaushik likes the most - Custard! So bought the 'bird' brand of custard from local desi store and followed the instructions. Result: pretty decent! I was so amazed by the change in state from powder to liquid-ish to semi-solid. I am just amazed!

Angel has a new friend!

2009-06-30T17:25:00.001-07:00

Food Adventures - XIII : Palakoora Pappucharu and bendakaya-nuvvu podi koora

2009-06-30T16:39:00.000-07:00

The whole idea of 'pappu-charu' always made me curious. But mom never made it coz dad doesn't like the idea and dad never made.. well! So in my series of adventures, I thought of including a pappu-charu. So after the pappu is cooked, I started off with usual popu, added frozen spinach till it was cooked (well, till i think it is cooked!). Then added some tamarind pulp and the pressure-cooked toor daal. After the mixture boiled for about 5 minutes added salt, turmeric and a little chilli powder. That resulted in my version of pappu-chaaru.
Kaushik loves Okra/Bhindi/Bendakaya. so after the usual ritual of cleaning-drying-wiping, i cut okra into small pieces and put aside. In very little oil, roasted dry red chillies, jeera, curry leaves and sesame seeds. When the sesame gave out a nice aroma (this time i could distinguish the aroma from the burning smell), turned off the heat. when the mixture cooled, made a powder in my magic bullet! Meanwhile, took usual popu in little oil (little is the measure!) added chopped onions. after they looked cooked (this i can 'see'; turning of the pieces into translucent) added okra pieces and let them cook. when done added a pinch of turmeric, salt and the nuvvula podi. Done and done!

Food Adventures - XII : Hakka Veg Noodles

2009-03-08T20:21:00.001-07:00

So hubby dear is missing his maggie noodles diet. So tonight's menu: Hakka Noodles - wheat noodles, stir-fried veggies with a dash of soya sauce and chilli-garlic sauce.
We finally got a chance to use the korean chopsticks amma sent.

Food Adventures - XI : Kandi Pachadi

2009-03-08T19:31:00.000-07:00

So my cooking interests have shifted from main course to side dishes, particularly chutneys and podis. After my failed attempt at alam pachadi, i thought of trying kaushik and my favourite kandi pachadi. To accompany the all-nutritious pachadi, i made carbs filled aritikaya koora and ulipaya pulusu. The pulusu as usual was too high on mirchi count. The unbearable sidhu-siddhartha roy from Khusi was the cinema dish for this fun lunch.

Food Adventures - X : Beans Parupu Usili and Mor kozhambu

2009-02-22T20:07:00.000-08:00

My thirst to make something 'different' landed me on tamil food blogs. Considering my hubby dear is a tamilian soul trapped in a telugu body, I thought it was great idea. After about 98% of cooking, I found out he doesn't like beans parupu usili but loves mor kozhambu. But when the dinner was served, he loved it!! yaay!
My excitement was put to rest when I learnt I didn't make an out-and-out tamil dish, its also an andhra dish with a different name : beans patoli and majjigapulusu! so much for innovation!

Food Adventures - IX : Samosa

2009-02-22T19:59:00.001-08:00

What time is it?...It's tea time!! What better than using the left over potato stuffing and maida dough from my previous food adventures!! So using good old tricks learnt way back in school (one use of SUPW), I made this so-so samosas for tea.

Food Adventures - VIII : Stuffed Capsicum

2009-02-22T19:55:00.000-08:00

This time it was another old favourite's chance to be cooked: Stuffed Capsicum. Many variations to this filling dish, but I made it my favourite way - stuffed with potatos and a whole list of veggies. I add veggies to any and everything; one trick I've learnt over time to make Kaushik eat all his veggies.

Food Adventures - VII : Kajjikaya and Gutti Vankaya Koora

2009-02-22T19:36:00.000-08:00

Another reason to celebrate and a really important one: Kaushik's paper accepted in PRL!! yaaay!! We celebrate the night with another set of favourites : Kajjikaya and Gutti Vankaya Koora.
Thanks to all those various food blogs (too many to mention) which helped me make these dishes.

Food Adventures - VI : Akki Roti

2009-02-22T19:10:00.000-08:00

This time I wanted to make something 'different' and instantly 'akki-roti' came to my mind. One quick call to Nethra, my good kannadiga friend and once roommate and I was ready with the recipe and tips for akki-roti. I made allam-pachadi to go with it.

Experience: Don't get creative like me and make the pachadi with green chillies, it gets HOT!

Food Adventures - V : Gulab Jamun

2009-02-22T18:43:00.000-08:00

V-day is nothing more than a 'commercial' holiday. But this doesn't stop us from celebrating love. We did it with Kaushik's favourite: Gulab Jamun. To accompany the sweet, I made peas pulav and rajma masala. Again, thanks to vahchef for his tips!

We watched this 'logically-amazing' telugu movie, Chirunavvutho; a must-watch. We liked the logics-filled dialogues so much that one of them found its place on my fridge-board.

Food Adventures - IV : Aloo Kofta

2009-02-22T13:49:00.000-08:00

Husband's first paper published and it's time to celebrate!! yaaay!! What better than a nice dinner. No, we are not going out. We are going to make aloo-kofta. This time too the food-blogosphere helped, but did mislead me - resulting in too much besan in mu koftas, nevertheless, hubby dear loved them! I just took out some extra digenes after the dinner.

Food Adventures - III : Chivda

2009-02-22T13:43:00.000-08:00

This snack is another long lost favourite. In fact, the snacking habit by itself WAS long lost. It was time for yet another evening coffee and my mind paused at the big poha packet we bought out of 'atukula-pulihora' craving. Thanks to the food-blogosphere, we had nice chivda to accompany our coffee.

This time however, the husband couldn't come home, so we 'to-go' this chivda with coffee in hubby's favourite san-antonio flask.

Food Adventures - II : Baked masala vada and onion pakoda

2009-02-22T11:16:00.000-08:00

Jobless also means no exercise and craving to make something new and of course EAT it. So with our very new 'Magic Bullet', a wonderful gift from Prerna; I set out to make an old (almost forgotten) favourite : masala vada and while at it, I also made some pakodas. This time, guilt-free; without the deep-frying. Thanks to the idea from the foodblog world, we had our evening coffee with some baked masala vadas and pakodas.

Food Adventures - I : Mysore Pak

2009-02-22T10:36:00.000-08:00

It all started in Summer of 2006, with my then-roommate, Shilpa promising this wonderful sweet for a special Sunday (which never happened). The thought revived memories of the mysore paks perfectly made by dear most amamma. After a long phone conversation, I gathered the tips and directions from amamma, but could never find the time for it. Now that I was 'jobless', literally, this was the first I thought of making. After a wonderful visual explanation from vahchef, I set out to make this all-time favourite.

Ingredients:
1 cup Besan
1/2 cup Sugar
2 cups Ghee
1/4 cup water
Method:
Add a tsp of hot ghee to the besan and sieve it. Take sugar in a thick-bottomed sauce pan and add water just enough to cover the sugar. Keep stirring till the sugar dissolves and attaines a soft-ball or thread consistency. You can check the consistency by dropping a drop of the sugar syrup in a bowl of cold water or by using your fingers OR (thanks to madhu atta for the idea) use a kitchen thermometer to check the syrup temperature, it should be 250F. I got caught up in checking this and my sugar syrup became fit for Chakkara Achchulu (Sugar Figurines). Following madhu atta's tip this time, I added water again and started over. When the consistency is right, add the besan and keep stirring. Now add the hot ghee one ladle at a time. (For first-timers like me, the amount of ghee might give a slight heart-ache, but we'll get used to it) When you see the color change, pour the mixture onto a greased plate/bowl and let it cool. When firm, cut into desired pieces.

Food Adventures - Intro

2009-02-22T10:22:00.000-08:00

This is a series on my 'jobless in college station' food adventures. An attempt to chronicle the cooking spree to vent out frustration on the current economy. But, bright side of life is my hubby dear gets to eat fresh cooked (most-of-the-time) food for every meal. So get ready for a feast fit for a hungry soul.
P.S: Please feel free to grab a hajmola or two! (We had an entire bottle with 120 tablets!)

Kaushik-the taster,unaware of the storm cooking in the kitchen.

Boredom..

2006-05-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

how much i liked doing nothing...but these few days of 'get-paid-for-doing-nothing' after a long semester full of hectic week-days and fun-filled weekends..makes me feel..bad,sad and mad!! while i sit here postponing things-to-do..trying to figure out, what all am not doing... its a strange feeling..listeing to melodious songs of my room-mate, wondering why can't i sing... looking at online books.. wondering why i can't read a book?.. looking at the toned body of the girl sitting next to me... why can't i work out?..looking at the screen wondering why can't i get up and get going?
as they say..don't think twice..its alright! :)

hmmm...

2006-02-25T09:35:00.000-08:00

"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" - Green Day

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

Lo...main bhi salha dene lagi...:D

2006-01-19T19:45:00.000-08:00

a frnd of mine has been passionately working on his research, and someone publishes similar work just before he manages to write a paper on it..I enter the sceen and tell him about the many difficulties he would face in the research line ...(given some experience with my da being a scientist).end result.....i give him an "awe inspiring" (in his words) speech ...:D
I know, i can hear my frns say...."inka chalu taggu"...hehehe..at the end of teh conversation -
vichikai: ??? kallu tirigi padipoyava emiti ???
sirishkaushik: ledu ledu
sirishkaushik: jes sittin back n appreciating!
sirishkaushik: can i make this a blog of mine?

hahhaa.....o range lo feel ayyipotunale nenu :D

jana tha japan...pahoonch gaye cheen..

2006-01-11T08:50:00.000-08:00

7:15 PM, Jan 10'06
"FREE" mail from Papa John
7:20 PM, Jan 10'06
Digged out 6.99$ pizza coupon, given ages ago at aggie nights
7:30 PM, Jan 10'06
Decided to hv pizza for dinner
7:35 PM, Jan 10'06
Amma calls
8:30 PM, Jan 10'06
Manisha comes back from Florida
8:35 PM, Jan 10'06
We decide to go out for dinner
8:45 PM, Jan 10'06
Enter into Papa John's..
ME: Does this coupon still work?
PAPA: Work for what?
ME:(r u nuts?!)For pizza!!
PAPA:(Confused!!)
ME:(hello!!!)Do you stil have the offer??
PAPA: (Points at the logo at the bottom of the card)
ME:(:P) sooory!!
The coupon was for DOMINOS!!!!
hehhe... bade bade sheharon main choti choti baatein hoti rehti hain!

After some time....

2006-01-05T08:36:00.000-08:00

After some time.. i finally made up my mind..hehe..that i should get back to blogging?!..but tht song will always be special for me :)
new year...new hopes.. new challneges.. new oppurtunities..new me??? donno!!
this coming year..for the first time i want to make a resolution...want to get back to tht me.. whom i somehow lost in the race with time... tht me who is still there behind the layers of different shades formed by different strokes of life.... now! thts too much of philosophy for me... neways....
2005 was full of "first time" experiences.. first time flyig out of country.. first time getting a credit card.. first time paying tax!! (strange.. i never realised i also wud grow up to pay tax!!)... first time..visiting a wonder of the world.. first time.. feeling lonely..whn i was literally on the top of the world..(1800ft above ground level, on the top deck of CN tower..world's tallest observation deck)
2006 started with never-thought-wud-come-true wishes ... saw the beautiful niagara falls..and soon..i'll become "veechi atta" from "veechi akka"...and donno what more..
I am looking forward to this new year with all my enthu.. hope i can fulfill my expectations....OM!

[-o<

2005-10-26T16:48:00.000-07:00

itni sakti hame dena daata.. man ka vishvas kamzor ho na..
hum chale nek raste pe hamse .. bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na..
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Dream dreams no one else can see...

2005-10-07T13:16:00.000-07:00

They say there is no meaning of your life if you don't dream..but if you get literally crapy dreams.. whadda life u've got!!!
Like the Bryan Adams song goes...
"Free is all you gotta be
Dream dreams no one else can see
Sometimes ya wanna run away
But ya never know what might be comin’ round your way ya ya ya..."
Yday I was up till 4am doing my 457 homework.. and when i slept finally i started dreaming about the course, the problems i was doing... can't recollect excatly but i did come up with a new crapy technique to solve one of the problems.. but who cares!.. Bac home when i was working i used to dream about my projects, my boss(:(( ), the deadlines, during the microstation trainiing toh i used to dream of teh snap points, the errors i did.... all the crap tht i had to take in the morning raat main bhi mera peecha kyon nahi chodta!!! :((
Wanted to read sigmund freud's "interpretation of dreams" before coming to TX but as usual i am too lazy to "read" anything..

Alai Pongeraa kanna...

2005-10-02T09:27:00.000-07:00

Some people have such beautiful voice that once you listen them sing, that song reverbrates in your mind all the time. Yday i had the most "musical" drive of my life. And the " Alai Pongeraa kanna..." sang by nethra and smriti, i heard yday is still lingering in my mind..
I thot this wekend will be very boring,with a sketch of what all assignments and homeworks and readings to finish this weekend. But when i woke up on saturday,my room mate asked me if i would like to some to Austin!! and there i was in the car with amnay and nethra...two of the few people i met at TAMU who are absolutely passionate about music. We were going to Austin to pick up Mrs.Shirisha shahank - an upcoming star in bharatnatyam.It was a pleasure to be in company of an upcoming star in bharatnatyam,also the wife of a great fluteist, and nethra, who had the chance to sing with the likes of SPB.We started our drive with my all tiem fav "purani jeans aur guitar.." and loads of good hindi songs and on our way back we played some awesome flute, gutiar and yani!!When i woke up on sunday... my head was aching.. i guess too much of good music is bad for me :-P

Jhonka rita ka...

2005-09-25T10:32:00.000-07:00

It all started with a mail frm the ISS :
"Be aware that the current prediction is for heavy rain, hail (balls of
ice that can range in size from 1/2 centimeters to 4-5 centimeters in
diameter), and winds of up to 60+ m.p.h. in College Station on Friday. "
Followed by a walmart trip... never in the wildest dream did we think that walmart wud run out of water and bread! After planning where to seek shelter in case of emergency and packing my backpack with all my "imp documents" and spending some 150 minutes on phone to family and anxiously following local TV channels for rita forecast...finally rita arrived and went off... with a few minutes of drizzle!!!
BUT..but... but... RITA did give us a loooooooooong weekend... and for me.. a reunion with my good freind from SAP'03 - vinita.(and the yummy south indian "ghar ka khana"):D .. desis all around my place..partied hard on friday... didn't see college station (well my world limits to casa del sol and cherry hollow!! )more relaxed before... almost every desi house full of people, movies, booze... and in 1103 casa del sol..veechi having a good sleep!! :) ... no homework no assignment this weekend :D.. but hav to catch up with teh term paper :((..
but did realised something this weekend... hav to either earn enuf money to tour all around teh world..or marry a richie rich :-P .. latter to hone se raha... so better work hard and earn some $$..(god are u listening!!!)
..thank god that we all are safe :)

Maroon and White!!

2005-09-21T14:22:00.000-07:00

"The Spirit of Aggieland"
(Words by Marvn H. Mimms; Music by Richard J. Dunn)

Some may boast of prowess bold
Of the schools they think so grand
But there's a spirit can ne'er be told
It's the Spirit of Aggieland.
(Chorus)
We are the Aggies - the Aggies are we
True to each other as Aggies can be
We've got to FIGHT boys
We've got to fight!
We've got to fight for Maroon and White
After they've boosted all the rest
They will come and join the best
For we are the Aggies - the Aggies are we
We're from Texas AMC

(Yell sequence that follows; traditionally deleted at Muster)
T-E-X-A-S A-G-G-I-E
Fight! Fight! Fight-fight-fight!
Fight! Maroon! White-White-White!
A-G-G-I-E
Texas! Texas! A-M-C!
Gig 'em, Aggies, 1-2-3
Farmers fight! Farmers fight!
Fight! Fight!
Farmers, farmers fight!
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its a great feeling to be a part of a crowd of 98000 people!!!! And singing the spirit of aggieland. Midnite yell practice... a must experience phenomenon at TAMU... its better if u hav a date of ur choice :-P

Aggie nite!!

2005-09-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

Thts the rock wall i climbed this friday nite at tamu's fabulous rec center. cudn't reach teh top, but felt good about climbing three fourths of teh wall..despite of slipping thrice :)

aftersometime i finally made up my mind..

2005-08-31T18:18:00.000-07:00

sitting here in the blocker @ 7pm feeling hungry, humming 25 minutes by MLTR.. i finally thot i shud blog.
thn i realise the time is 8-15pm and i need to go bac home.. wud continue tomorow :d

sneak into the aggieland

2005-08-31T17:01:00.000-07:00

The aggie ring..a proud aggie wears it everyday..u get it when u graduate frm A&M.. as a graduate student I need to finish atleast 30 hrs @ school to order that... thts made of gold and if u don hav money to buy it..there r scholarships for it!!! its a part of eth aggie network.. aggies wud recognise u with ur ring.. and u never know.. u may get a job coz u wore ur aggie ring!!! waiting to get mine :)

Maharaja waiting...

2005-07-26T00:27:00.000-07:00

Maharaja of Air India is waiting for me to arrive and take me off to alien lands.The feeling of leaving all my near and dear ones and a living a dream.. i never thot wud come true.. is sinking in me now...
"I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be my fate;
I only know it shall be high,
I only know it shall be great."
Hopefully!!
I wud b making a long jouney after a gap of 7 yrs. wud be travelling 9780 miles in 22 hours.Reminds me of my second last journey to AP .. assam was cut off from teh rest of india ... and yeah coincidently it was teh same day in '97 i guess... no it was end of july... yeah so assam was cut off from rest of india due to heavy floods.. a very common thing for assame folks every year ... i n mom along with some valuables set out to reach hyderabad for the house-warming ceremony of our house... we reached guwahati frm jorhat.. found that trains wud move but frm bongaigaon.. n there is a free bus service to take passengers to bongaigaon.. we left our plans to take teh plane to calcutta (time bad ayte manam emi cheyalemu).. we got into teh bus.. a bus with a capacity of 30 ppl was packed with abt 100 ppl...with luggage..(read ppl as 80% army jawans.. n abt army jawans u hav to see to know how it is..)mom got panicky.. but we cudn't get out of bus so we stayed and let god decide our fate... in that rickety bus.. on that kucha road.. those 4 odd hours were in simple words hell....... to add to the spice.. one sweet elephant of teh village we were going thru decides to block our way.. and refuses to make way unless fed with some 2-3 gellas of bananas..... finally on reaching bongaigaon..(the railway station of which is smaller than bapatla's.. with just 2 platforms) there were hundreds of people trying to get into teh bus even before atleast half of us inside teh bus cud get out... teh driver got irrtated and kept moving teh bus back and forth to control teh tarffic... in this confusion mom got thrown out of teh bus .. i was stuck inside ... after some more hulla gulla i got thrown out of teh bus with my rucksack and a suitcase and a bag whose where about were known neither to me nor mom.. I was then one-third of what i am now .. we two finally after some fighting with teh traffic got together and frm god knows where some1 threw our bag at us.. we spotted an old kuli.. he said he wud lift our stuff.. but we had to see who wud lift him in case :P .. so at the bongaigaon station ... first time in our lives we saw a railway station with only 2 women on teh platforms -me and mom ... the train arrived.. got filled up.. we were guided by an angel in form of an air force officer .. whom we dared to believe on teh ground that he knew my mama (whoz also in air force).. and we three went to occupy a desserted bogie which was supposed to be attached to teh train that wud take us to vijaywada.. i donno how many times mom prayed that day but it really worked and teh bogie was by god's grace added to teh train.. thn on journey was smooth.. but here... some1 else is also involved.. my dad... cut 2.. location hyd... those were teh days without any cell phones or easy acess to telephone... my dad found from our neighbours in assam taht we had made arrangements to take plane to calcutta... we went missing for 2 days! there were announcements for mrs nalini and miss vichika on guwahati railway station,guwahati airport, calcutta railway station, calcutta airport, vijaywada station... dad was worried to core... when we reached vijaywada after our ordeal.. we called him and he was relived... phew! some exp..
:P .. i get carried away when i think about my days @ assam.. bas this episode ends here.. phir milenge agli blog main :D

School chale hum...

2005-07-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

savere savere...yaaron se milke ban than ke nikle hum..
badal sa garje hum, sawan sa barse hum..
suraj sa chamke hum... school chale hum..school chale hum..
oho oho ohhohoho..hooo......
so, am going bac to school.... used hate it whn amma called my college school... n now am going to a grad school!!
my 22 yrs long holiday is coming to an end in another 22 days....hope everything works out well....will definetely miss my lazy days :D ..

2005-06-13T01:52:00.000-07:00

sushil kr shinde

2005-06-13T01:50:00.000-07:00

Acharya Nagarjune University

2005-06-13T01:48:00.000-07:00

My sir Arthur Cotton gold medal

Amazed, Puzzled, Confused...

2005-05-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

Just saw BLACK.. well can't say black, saw teh second cd in a rush with FFs... but still... it was good...... i did read helen keller's "story of my life" a bit, but this one was some wht different....shud mention, teh small girl was better than rani :d
was amazed by teh will power and determination of teh girl, was puzzled if such people really exist, was confused about myself....... wht am i achieving with my eyes, ear and voice!!!
teh movie did bring in teh same feelings which i experienced whn i first visited a blind school with ashmita[(hmmmm......those sweet days!! the fun-filled class,writting 15 pages (i am talking abt teh looooong answer sheet like pages!!) long letters to anna, teh pride of owning a keyboard (its been about 5 yrs since i've played it:(), the weird feeling of sophistication of dining in teh air force officers's mess (atta hated me for taht :d), tht scenic NEEP,teh thunder&lightening full rain, the music competetions with my neighbour (wonder wht hez doing now!!), the non stop bathroom singing,(well this is still there:-P), those desperate rounds to children lib in colony trying to get myself interested in reading detective novels and ending up picking books on fashion n cooking :d!!, those lunches @ BBC (still can't figure out how i ate tht american choupsey!!)........ ok ok jana tha japan pahoonch gaye chin :d
the blind school......... it was some experience, ashmita's family frnd was teh school's principal, he also is blind. Must say he sounded sooooooooooooo nice, i was really amazed how he cud manage teh biggest blind school in asssam so succefully, he taught us braille, (well we tried to remmeber but....... donno if ashmita remmebers anything), took us around teh huge campus, i was really amazed how teh blind studnets were stolling around in teh campus liek tehy knew each centimeter of it, i still remmeber teh guy who was walking around playing flute beautifully..... i was so overwhelmed i couldn't stop asking each student's name... we returned taht day with a strange feeling withing us.. hehehe i was also amazed by teh principal's daughter's red with white polka dots skirt:-P, ashmita told me she wore only mini skirts :D. even to school!!!( womder wht shez doing now ;))
Whn i was @ gayatri in vizag, teh bus i took to bac home frm college used to stop at a def and dumb school. one shud see to believe how they converse. I had decided either i wud change teh bus or wud learn sign language....... it really drove me crazy.. there were boys and girls, playing pranks on each other, flirting, fighting, laughing, teasing... doing everything "normal" with their sign language. I used to try so hard to understand wht teh joke was taht i always ended up carcking my head.... cudn't make out even one sentece in those 3 months!!!
now taht i hav mentioned asmita (tuk-tuk for clooooooose pals n family), lemme introduce her. Ashmita Paul was one of teh most intelligent 16 yr old i had ever met. there was something abt her tht reminded me of ashwarya rai teh moment i saw her. my entire class was fida on her whn she joined our school. ashmitaz doing her final yr MBBS at silchar medical college, assam and does not forget to sen dme a sms everyday....... but forgets my bday!!!!!!!hehehhe don worry ashmi. will deffo send u teh cowboy hat whn i get there... :D

Disconnected.....

2005-05-16T22:22:00.000-07:00

never ever thought i wud miss anything like this.... being disconnected frm teh rest of world for some 3-4 days... INTERNET... donno whn n how it became an itegral part of my life... i know wht i missed.... ;)...
its really funny how some people try to act smart which actually proves how dumb they r... well happens to me also sometimes... but the sify technician who came over to set right my connection... papom.... :d
neways...
annaz bac. so r teh choclates, the chocolate dates... the lindt...:d
mera no. kab aayega :(

Wadda Year....

2005-05-07T19:47:00.000-07:00

Another year,another chapter, another phase of my life comes to an end.... what a yr it was....... some serious growing up... hmm... turning 22 brings in a mixed feeling....... i always wanted to be 22 but now i feel so soon!!
My 21st year was sort of strange.. not my usual days.... guess it was kind of an interphase between the carefree vichi to a lil mature vichi(well... still not all tht mature) working, meeting the gr8 people (found a few ppl i wud really luv to b frndz with).. was a different exp. but basically i remain the same..
overall i was lucky this year....... got my diamonds :D, met some amazing people, got thru a no.14 ranked US univ... hope this coming year is as good n i get to go to TAMU..
This bday was boring but was full of pleasant suprises,was invited to a disco (!!), ppl i least expected to rememeber my bday wished me..... and ppl i thought cud never forget my bday forgot to wish me :( , n some frndz called me up n forgot to wish me !!! well life keeps changing u can't expect things to b same always (!!)
I really hope tht i don forget the bdays of all ppl who wished me whom i expected to wish.... basically every1 i know...

IN THE END LYRICS

2005-04-26T21:07:00.000-07:00

Every song u hear.... always depicts some1z life and that some1 is most of the times you...

It starts with
One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down ’till the end of the day
Clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
You didn’t look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryn’ to hold on
Didn’t even know, I wasted it all
Just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it’s meant to be
Will, eventually be,
A memory of a time,
When I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter...
I had to fall, to loose it all...
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter...

One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself
How I tried so hard...
Dispite the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so far
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end...

You kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to be, will
Eventually, be a memory of a time
When I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter

I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far, as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know

I’ve put my trust, in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know...
I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all,
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter

Bapatla Blast !!!

2005-04-24T03:10:00.000-07:00

same roar whn i got onto teh stage.... same recognition, same love, same affection..... same homely Bapatla...
so finally got my third gold medal for god knows what eason. they shud announce it also i must say...
i seriously needed a tape recorded answer for "oh VICHIKA*excitment*. what r u doing now??"
neways. felt happy tht i was still a known person on campus... specially whn teh poor anchor of MAA TV's JOSH had to stand while i n muva were given seats:-P!!..
got to know 2 really interesting things:
1. sriram yeah our very own "phew!" sriram. yea hez got into Tollywood. yeah u heard me rite tollywood!!! goeology sir told me tht he was seen in a TV prog.... "PHEW!!!" i can't wait to tell this on the grp!!!.... hehhee was wondering where our own star had disappeaerd.. must b busy"!!!!!"
2. shyam. yea our prabhu deva.... got thru gate. yeah yeah gate. fel t soooooooooooo happpy for him.. i can't wait to put this on teh grp. yeah will mail today!
everything else is so much same in dept. except tht all sirs now av color mobiles.. n r krishna rao is now teh dept lib incharge. hahahaha yea added responsibilities.. hehehehe..... sir baap bane wale hain!!! n sweet satush sir is still teh same... sweet.
felt bad tht cudn't spend much time with RV sir. oh i miss talking tohim so much.. but had to b with mahi . she wud sure hav got a lot upset. managed to split my time btwn auntie n mahi..... auntie is such a sweet heart....
n god knows how tht ash don got into CTS!! i just cudn't believe ..... i hope god knows wht he is doing.. well i shudnot say this but still... ok mayb she was rite in her own way... naaaaaaaaah i don believe this....
neways...
GEBz come out so well. looked so good. omkaram garu was asking me how was it. felt so nice!! n the kalyana mandapam..... awesoem....... but errr said tht without going inside:-P... RV sir said whtz teh diffeence btwn u n a common man if u say tht just by external looks :-P
i just wish i get my visa. n get a chance to spend some more time with RV sir b4 i go... :)

Hand Writting Speaks...

2005-04-14T19:43:00.000-07:00

suddenly remembered my hand writting analysis.... dug it out frm my inbox n saved it... i feel its 90% right... mayb more...

Vichika

Vichika rarely shows emotions. She is very objective. Withholds her feelings. Judgement comes from her head rather than from her heart.
She is very acquisitive in nature. She is keen to acquire knowledge, ideas and education. Likes bit of philosophy in life.
She possesses high concentration ability. She has ability to focus clearly on one thing at a time. But at the first impression, one thinks vichika to be a very reserved person. She is socially very choosy. She has very few close friends. She does not open up unless she becomes very close to some body.
She has the desire for culture. She likes traveling, adventure, music and fine food. She has fluidity of thought. This signifies the ability to follow and change thoughts smoothly. She is a very good conversationist, speaker and writer.
She is a comprehensive thinker. She has lightening fast mind that can size up situations instantly. She is curious but impatient. She is quick, investigative and exploratory thinker. Gets irritated by slow talkers and doers. She is however self reliant.
She has good imagination ability. Has got the ability to visualize and see things clearly.
However, she suffers from low self esteem. She is very sensitive to criticism. She can’t bear some body criticizing her and gets upset with it.
She has bit of temper, irritation towards others. Some times tends to set unrealistic goals..

Overall, Vichika is a girl with vision. Lot of concentration, imagination and clear cut plan for her life. Due to her low self esteem, she under estimates her self and does not give credit to herself for her success. She seems to be reserved and does not mix up with people too quickly. She does not express her emotions and feelings voluntarily. She needs to develop leadership abilities which are missing.
She is a good speaker, conversationist and a writer.
Overall, a wonderful personality.

whn life seems to end....

2005-03-26T04:09:00.000-08:00

went to this very very very boring party....just mechanical ga velli tinni vocham:(....
didn't want to go but cudn't say no to teh birthday gal.kahan rtc x roads kahan jhills.... but it was nice to b bac at crystal after a loooooong time (remember my 10th birthday party !!....ashwin anna in formals!! gosh half hyd was stunned n thiose pics were sold out!!) but this tim eit was not the same....in these some 10 yrs RTC x roads has changed like anything ...used to spend all my summer hols in amammaz apartment there par abhi it look sliek a totally new place....mom told me to get into 45 n come to ameerpet n frm there in an auto, instead of teh via koti route rohini sggested, rohini dropped me @ the bus stop n i was there waiting in a completely strange place for abt 20 mins.........no 45..........my heart beat started raising......it was abt 8-45pm.first time i was all alone in a bus stop at tht hour...probably it was tehfear of loosing my gold medal frm my purse (yea the same purse frm where i lost my dearmost cell)....thn finally thot ok whichever bus comes next i am going to board it n i get a 1 to stn ok will atleast get a 47 or 10H..... but i was not sure i fu get any bus at abt 9-30pm...awww......but i didn't want to get into an auto!! thn finally after an anxious 1/2 hr i get this 2 10z n a 47 Y to filmnagar....i ran like a hell from th 10H stop to the 47.....god knows why i got so scared .....i started breathing so heavily.but was relieved called up mom who was twice as anxious n told dad to pick me up frm teh bus stp.....i thot my breathing will get normal whn i get bac home...it didn't. stayed out in the cool breeze for long hoping it will get normal....it didn't.....finally thot sleeping wud help......managed 2 hrs sleep thn cudn't sleep anymore........walked all around the house tried drinking water no use.... mom woke up n was scared.......thot of taking me to doc.i didn't feel the need of a doc ...thn amma did some home remedy..... it helped a bit but thn suddenly i got so scared ..donno why but i got really scared thot i wud die tht very moment god knows why i felt tht way but i did....thn thot me n my imagination.....kani tht very moment in momz arms i was life oh god my folks can't live without me..n will i die without getting an admit frm UC?? strange me!!
thank god it was just just for a few seconds, else i wud hav died of fear.....donno whtz gone wrong with me after coming to hyd..my immune system has crashed.... i am so easily infected.....1/2 hr in pollution n am dead...with throat pain suffocation n wht not....
wish i die without suffering n i wish teh same for all my dear ones...

ANU - XXVI COnvocation

2005-03-26T01:28:00.000-08:00

Finally teh day arrived when i got to wear the robe n all.........quite a feeling i must say. Sushil Kumar shinde the governer was all set to give me my "Sir Arthur Cotton Gold medal" for being first in university for civil........too bad they didn't give it out to all branches, i was lucky to hav a donor...some sweet fellow frm vijaywada. the funniest part of it was "Bramhi uncle" got a honorary degree"Doctorate of letters' he was so excited (at least i felt so).. n wht honours tht nageswara reddy has....... baap re i just wish i get at least one-tenth of them in my lifetime...
When Princi (incidentally Dean of faculty of engg) called up my name my heart started beating so fast....am i good enuf fo rthis medal???...the same question poped up.....but thn the cameras tookover.
the whole exp was good i was among the 4 engg students to get gold medals.......the rest frm sciences, arts n law streams wore 2-3 medal each....cudn't believe ppl did Phd in law....enta opika!!
but cudn't go to Bptl.....:(, but will go in april to get another medal:)

cold cough and chakor bali...

2005-03-13T07:06:00.000-08:00

what a weekend.....starts with amma scolding me for skipping the gym, continues with a new project at office(another water distribution:( (really wonder if the ppl out there wud ever get water from my distribution system .....hope for the best!!), n thn to add the spice cold and cough.........thn chakor bali......wadda movie(oka mukka ardham ayte vottu!)
after almost ages all four of us went for a drive to.......no points for guessing the place....cognizant n durgam cheruvu....tried talking anna into subway kani no luc dadz always furious abt eating out.... anna suggested while returning frm temple early morning kani thn dad had made gajar ka halwa...:D,n now whn we were abt to order pizza annaz frnds called him out X-(.... no luc @ shopping either god knows when i will get a new pair of shoes....its been so long since i hav got tht perrfect pair the last one was the italian sole wala leather shoes,i still hav it but u can't wear the same shoes for 2 years!!!
still working on my TAMU Vs Clemson dilema, hope to solve it soon......
arjun annaz wedding fixed n in nov n tht too in hyd!!!..hopefully i won't b here aaaah i made so many plans of going bac to the east.....being in kolkotta agin wud hav been so much fun, cud hav caught up with ashmita....parrr ok....socha tha bengoli bhabhi se kanthas of bengal demand karenge, misti doi khayenge, sondesh n all the oodness of bengal....lesse...chalo kuch bhi ho i am happy tht arjun annaz getting married at last, hav been waiting for this moment for so long, chalo acha has some link with east bana rahega..but the to-be -bhabhi looked so.begoli......hahah funny but the moment i looked at her pic all i said " she looks so begoli" amma said bengois bengoli nahin dikhenge to kya hum tum dikhenge...true.......par socha tha arjun annaz choice wud b different he being so philosophical. sophisticated n all thot his coice wud b some very different girl..tho i donno a thing abt binitha but still ......... too bad i cudn't get thru wisconsin, wud hav had chance to b with thm

aaaaaaaah jana tha japan pahonch gaye chin.......wht did i start writting abt n wht am i writting!!!
chalo kafi hai aaj ke liye

203 reunion

2005-03-11T07:31:00.000-08:00

203 reunion........thanx a ton subaniji for going out of town n letting me slip outta office to get together with my dearmost frnds.........
phir wohi sor phir wohi gana bajana wohi counters, wohi titlu wohi masti...........supercool. lived good ol hostel days again for 2 hours. in jsut thanx to my stars mahi was here for some paper presentation so caught up with all news frm hostel...........all ash -nonash gola all teh "interesting SFI" stuff.......
Bechara Sridhar was confused if he had come to his home or somewhere else(hehe)
n teh wedding pics......vani n her time with pics!! n there was this pick we all want to lift......the pic with me all over. i don rem why i was in teh front leaving teh bride n groom in teh background (heheheh me!!)
bac home @ 9-30 pm after 5 calls frm worried mom (first time so late!!)
cut 2 location change:office
saleem sir-kal saab hyd ko 5 baje aagaye teh na APUSP gaye the......
me: awwwwwwwww wht if he found out i was not in APUSP!!!!!
thn suddenly, subhani sir: amma veechika!!
grrrrrr he found out:((...............aww jaldi jaldi veechi kuch socho!!
bang!!
subhani sir:is this teh letter they gave u....was it like this whn they gave u??
me::: awwww i kept it in my bag sir, marchipota ani:)
subz: u shud take catre of such imp letter blah blah blah.............
((hahhahaaha.........)) ok sir!
neat na!!
am just waiting for this TS...may b by early next week wud get it n bas with teh draft letter apna resignation letter dedungi:) hav been thinking this for last 2 months
now therez this road project amam asked me to do...
dekhenge....miles to go before i sleep

By myself

2005-02-20T08:04:00.000-08:00

What do I do to ignore wats behind me
Do I follow my faith to escape blindly.
Do I hide my mind I away from these bad dreams
And give into sad thoughts that are maddening.
Do I let it go and try to stand it,
Or do I try to catch them red handed.
Do I trust some and give into phoniness,
Or do i, trust none and live life in lonliness.
Sunlight burns the skin of sleepy men,
I make the right turns but I’m lost w/in
I put on my daily full side but then
I just end up gettin hurt again

By myself [myself]
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I can’t rely on myself

Chorus:
I can’t hold on
To what I want when I’m stretched so thin
It’s all too much to take in
I can’t hold on
To anything watching everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in
If I turn my back I’m defenseless
And to go blindly seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they’ll take from me ’til everything is gone
If I let them go I’ll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I’ll be outrun
If I’m killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I’ll be buried in the silence of the answer
[by myself]
How do you think I’ve lost so much
I’m so afraid I’m out of touch
How do you expect I will know what to do
When all I know is what you tell me to
Don’t you know
I can’t tell you how to make it go
No matter what I do, how hard I try
I can’t seem to convince myself why
I’m stuck on the outside

bong bong....

2005-02-10T05:45:00.000-08:00

aaj anna se baat karte karte went abt 10 yrs bac n woh tagore ka pyara sa poem yaad aa gaya......

JODI TEO DAAK SUNE KEO NA AASHE
TOBE EKLA CHALO RE...
EKLA CHALO EKLA CHALO EKLA CHALO RE...
JODI TEO DAAK SUNE KEO NA AASHE TO BE EKLA CHALO RE..

JODI KEO KOTHA NA KOI...
ARE O RE O ABHAGA...
KEO KOTHA NA KOI...
JODI SOBAI THAKE MUKH PHIRIYE..
SOBAI KORE BHOI..
TOBE PRAN KHULIYE MUKH PHUTIYE
MANER KATHA EKLA BALO RE..

JODI TEO DAAK SUNE KEO NA AASHE TOBE EKLA CHALO RE...

i remember singing it at the Personality Contest at SPOORTHI,i had a tuf time translating it.the poem was basicaly meant for encouraging the freedom fighters to motivate them and drive all fears away.......jodi teo daak sune keo na aashe,(if no one comes when u call)tobe ekla chalo re(then go alone )..jodi keo kotha no koi(if no one speaks for u)jodi sobai thake mukh phiriye, sobai kore bhoi( if every1 turns away their face and every1 fears) tobe pran khuliye mukh phutiye maner katha ekla balo re(thn take courage and speak ur mind without fear.)
n teaching anila n vani the strange sounds of bengoli.....were fun..hostel life..miss it very much

Veechi's new space

2005-01-28T21:35:00.000-08:00

Made a webpage for myself in geocities
http://www.geocities.com/vichikai/myspace.html
Will have to learn htmil for making better ones...

Ate jate....

2005-01-25T21:39:00.000-08:00

Kal sara dil teen bar maine apni ram kahani likhi par har baar power cut aur bas...sayad mujhe itne jaldi apni autobiography nahin likhne chayiye....zindagi bahut lambi hain abhi aur bahut mod hain,bahut kaam hai, bahut time hai...apne 55th birthday pe start karoon to sayad theek rahega.........bhagvan na kare is beech mujhe amnesia aa jaye!!!
Mohabbat ki yeh intihaan ho gayi ki masti main tumko khuda keh gaya......bahut jaldi maan leti hoon main sabko, thts perhaps my weakest and strongest point. mother theresa kehti thi na" if u spend all your time scrutinising people u won't hav time to love them".....but i donno how practical this is but thts the way i am!! aur joey macintyre kehte hain" don't u ever wish tht u were some1 else coz u were ment to b wht u r now exactly...........believe in yourself you can touch the sky...!!" yeh sab to gane main achi lagti hain magar seriously sayad i wudn't like myself as much if i was not like this.......impulsive n bindas!!

Main aur meri tanhayi...

2005-01-24T08:44:00.000-08:00

Main aur meri tanhayi aksar yeh baten karte hain...tum hote to aisa hota, tum hote to vaisa hota. magar do ireally want tht to haapen?? NAAH!!
khair, some1 told me don't will bad things to happen to you, so i better jeep my imaginations in place..