I wanted to speak out my heart...

But all I was able to do is to make out a "lie" ....

Remembrance

It is not well this time. I am low and sunk by the demise of a friend of mine. Though he was not a part of my comfort inn, we have been classmates for 4 long years and it is a good enough time to miss someone when they are not here. He was good and simple, not that good words should be said to the late ones but he is indeed one such. The only thing that flashed my mind when I heard the news of gloom is "Everyone marks a print in your life. Some when they are with you, and some when they leave". This was true and complies with the second note I mentioned.

We both came around the same time last year to the United States but different Schools. I have lost contact with him once I am done with my Bachelors but all of a sudden after 6 months, I heard the news from an other mate that my friend is suffering from Brain Tumor and very mention of that news made me stand still for sometime and it caused me to be in utter silence when I heard it over and over that the tumor is in the final stage and chances of living are bleak. I was then there, thinking and brooding about the past instances where we have been together if not for most of the time but for atleast some good memories to recall. He was then back to India almost instantly unaware of how dreadful that tumor encroachment is going to be. He was then there, back in India, being treated for his illness (what he thought). I was getting almost regular news from other friends back in India about his situation and my sadness only deepened on hearing about him each of the times. And finally came the time, when I heard possibly the worst news I have ever heard, his death. My heart sunk for a few moments with a zillion of thoughts triggering in my brain about him, his family and about the times we shared in the past. The only thing that recited in my mind at that time was, "It should not have happened to him and he has not done anything bad which deserves him this treatment". But the destiny had the final say.

May your soul rest in peace, Manideep! We Miss You!

New of its Kind!

Well....of course...you cannot really expect me to start a sentence without my fav word....It has been a real long time that I updated my blog. Have been busy with work and my love, "Cricket". Cricket almost forms to be a part of my life ever since my childhood. This post isn't going to be about Cricket (but I am pretty sure of one coming up soon) but about the people around here that I have come across, interacted, befriended and loved every bit of them. Starting with, I always sense that I show more signs of gratitude to the people who help when I am in a need. I just really love the ones who can just dig me out when I am sunk or in a low or in a need or sometimes even a want ;) (perplex word, I know! :D). It was these lads from Gujarat (I had to look up for its spelling, strange that I never used it to write) and Rajasthan (dint need to look up as I still have a frame of the newspapers flashing a headline Rajasthan Royals are the Champions in reference to the last season's IPL edition) that I befriended with. These are super cool ones. More unlike seniors and like friends. They beared all my Hyderabadi Hindi (All the Hyderabadis! Stop arguing that we speak the correct Hindi but be gallant that our's is a super cool accent! Love it to the core! :) ), struggled to understand my pieces of flying words for the fact that I am not-so-good at this language (Have been struggling ever since my Hindi teacher punished me in primary school for a misspelled word. Crap! How can you expect someone to be a pro right after being dropped into it. LOL. Atleast NOT ME). This is the way that I get away from the actual theme and keep dwelling over the other things of little/no importance in these braces (LOL...but it is the way I LIKE IT! :D ) .... And getting on with the actual post.....yeah...those people were good to me and actually too good to guide me how to handle the classes and other stuff (Thanks people!) .... And coming apart from those... I was there with a group of chaps, of course that was for a very short time but they were good to me...but havent been in touch with those guys these days (they are a bunch out there) but learning that they have developed a kind of a tame impression with everyone (Seriously I dont know why but I still like those guyz....and thanks for the Biryani (only if you are reading this ;) ) ). Then it is that I moved to my new apartment.



My new apartment. It really forms like a feel-good-factor when you have something all for yourself and when you can prefix MY before it. It does. Starting with, lol....this guy...is amazing....Let alone for the fact that he writes his own testimonials in orkut doesnt leave the paint tainted lol....I never knew that people can be so talkative, cunning (accept it dude! x-( You are! ), good, intelligent, helpful and all at one time. This guy can turn anything to his way. Believe me. He can.

Then there was this guy who is loved my everyone, almost instantly. He attracts people unlike the other guy but in his own way, his torso does the talk! :D . This guy is like an almost instant hit types. Have known this guy before but not from the close quarters. But now for the fact that he is one of my better buddies, it really makes me feel good. And u know what...the very flash of his talk make me ROTFOL (roll on the floor laughing) (I am gonna make a para for every two people. Be patient or get away. LOL. Was just kidding... This just reminded me about the latest interview of RGV of how arrogant or rather bold one can get... he does ROCK! )

I dont know why I always feel like writing late in the nights or for the time freaks, early in the mornings... Its already 5:10 AM now and I really feel like sleeping for having to wake up early in the morning before 11:30 (Its early. Atleast to my standard) to catch up India vs England T20 action and desparately praying for India's win. May the lord bless and make India win tomorrow.

Thats all for this post...and I would be continuing the same post tomorrow, for sure!

Adios!

Life at Houston - 3

Well.....(This is the most sought after word by me....I usually feel like starting every sentence I use with a WELL...lol) After exactly one month's of time I am back here ....and guess what....it is only after an inspired compliment from a friend of mine I felt like writing back here...And u know what....this compliment came from a person who is much better at what I am doing...so it always a feel good factor when someone better than us appreciates our work! (Sure! U would realize it only after you experience it)... Before I begin this post, let me wish my best friend on his birthday (I know best is superlative and superlative always refers to one....But for me it is one of the many).....

Happy Birthday Karthik :-).

May you have a year filled with fun and frolic, happiness and joy, success and accomplishments and all the good!

It always feels good on wishing your best friend at the right time!

Yeah...coming back to the post....and let me remind you about the time....its 2:52 AM, May 26. And for yet another time...its again a mid-night that I started writing a post....so there should arise no argument in people accepting me as a thorough nocturnal. And...I just now skimmed through my last post and learning what point I stopped writing in my previous post....

Now that I am not quite interested in writing more about Life at Houston....I will just make it a quick post on this.... Well(yet another time)...Its weekends time.....And guess what..our weekend starts on the Friday evening itself.. And usually it weighs some 4.5 Liters + 1 Liter (special).. And for the spelling freaks like me....Yeah. You have got the point. Liter is an americanized word of Litre (what we use in general....And this thing pisses me to the core....the way these Americans destroyed the language English....they make everything at their will and create confusion amongst the British followers...F**k 'em! ) .....And after this much of content one only needs to be a sober to not have lost the senses...And by the time mid-night bygones (sometimes morning too) one (needs to be a sober) gets the feeling of being either in a "pagal khana" or in a land full of morons. You see people apologizing each other (I sense no reason and understand no point too) ... You see each of them laughing at their own stance.... people recalling their past love and cussing their ex for whatever shit that happened.... someone drooling on the floor...someone puking on the shit place... and their happens to be some gems in these situations too.... Some of those which I recall are .... my friend (no names please :-) ) taking his shirt off...point his left side of the chest..and reciting "Idi heart ra...it hurts! " ....some even go to the extent of being what these Americans and the modern Indians have achieved .... being G**.. lol.....this is what I understand when I see people kissing each other out of no where affection and even sometimes locking in a restroom for about 15minutes together.... (Do you see any other point apart from what I suggested ? ).... ha ha....lol.... these are the usual shit things that happen....that happen only on a Friday Night.... And I just love being there...And u know what...sometimes I miss parts of this action, Reason: You should me good enough at guessing it after this much of elaboration..

And waking up on a Saturday noon....you see people being cranky out of hunger and running to a near by store or the newly opened Indian restaurant to feed themselves and get relived from the usual burning sensation in the belly (an after-effect of an usual Friday Bash) ....And...slow settling themselves by watching either one of the "feel good" movies .... (I dont realize how many times I have watched some particular movies...I lost the count.....)...or by being on the mobile and talking with friends spread across the wide horizon of the United States of America and sharing the things of week....

And....guess what...I thing u must have got it by now... it is no more of a surprise.... the usual call ....wats up to night question....heading towards valero....some good liquid stuff and the usual crap! ... and again we see our Saturday getting lost in the breeze and wake up on a Sunday noon...catch up with the latest movies....talk with friends....and if there is any time still left....have a look at the assignments....and sensing a feeling....oh no...! its too tough to do it all alone...lets wait for others to have a look at it and join them...and getting back to the action of movies or the yet again...no...I cant take it....VALERO! The guy there has a big broad smile on his face on seeing us and realizing that we are the boost to his good running store! ....lol....

This is our usual weekend stuff..... meanwhile we get through the weekends time....we usual sneak some time out to settle our cash balances and realizing that our bank balance is depreciating, depreciating exponentially and our credit cards outstanding balance raising exponentially and speaking or rather a sworn....I will get these expenses down from now on....lol...That "now on" has not yet come into our lives....and we know that it is not going to come in any near future too... :-).....

This is all about the weekends stuff! I am not quite sure if this was a good post..!! Perplexed I am! lol....

FYI: For the music fanatics, Yeah. I am again listening to the same play list of the last post to get the same feel but not this time...this doesnt really interest me anymore....I wud be chaning the playlist now.... And the time now is......3:33 AM ( Something David Shepherd would love to shrug at;) ).....

Thats it for this post! Will be back pretty soon!

Ciao Amigos!

Life at Houston - 2

Yeah...10 mins...and then getting ourselves ready in 10mins of time and believing (literally praying) for the bus to be late ....and rushing towards the stop...it makes a gawky look with these Americans sensing something wrong with us and keep looking at us in an odd fashion...I dont understand...even after these many Indians staying here, they still dint completely get to know about us...lol.... yeah...rushing and catching the bus at last.... and panting ofcourse we enter and and driver gives a gawky expression yet another time...then we enter and find some of our folks already in there and start a loud conversation usually compelled with an even louder laughter and of course(two words! and SHIT!) commenting on the fellow "Kallu" ( No offense) travellers and having laughter.... then we enter our school after a tiresome yet refreshing 30minute travel....and again rushing (We, Indians do rush a lot! ) to catch up with the part-time work at the campus and realizing its again late and working out a theory to explain in case if the boss needs some clarification on we being late all the times to work! ....Quite Desi! Then catching up with work....and yeah....I did not skip about the break-fast thing....but the thing is that we skip the break-fast (Reason: You know it! ) , then feeling hungry...we wait for the boss to go out on a scheduled meeting and quickly slip to a near by Satellite or the University Center where the health conscious people rely on Subway food, and the usual food-lovers latching on to the Taco or the more tasty (Calorie) Pizza Hut! I dont know how it starts, but we people do get aware of the word calorie... and start babbling about it...Comon, what have you been eating for the past 20 years and how many calories does it weigh ? ( lol...I dont want to blasphemize too much on those for me being one of those calorie conscious guy :P, it gets into you with people talking so much about that) ....then...quickly having the break-fast cum brunch cum lunch at the same time and quickly getting back to work!

And the usual work starts and believe me, more than 70% of the people working literally have no work to do or too little to do....yeah! its true! and the rest 30%... poor guyz...have to get their heads out to solve the issues....and in this sense am lucky! :D .... Then getting done with work....we wait for the bunch of people to gather up and it usually means 30 minutes of wait....I hate to wait! gather and set off home in a bus, of course and indeed with the usual LOUD factor ringing in constantly....finally getting back to home and getting back to our respective homes and making some instant food and getting ourselves satiated of having filled in the belly and not needed to eat anything for the next 4 hours (pretty soon we are found feeding ourselves with some or the other instant stuff :P).... then...rings our phone! someone of our friends calling up...and asking the usual rhetoric question, "Wats up to night ?" aaah...No...yet again!! We are soon seen collected and heading towards Valero, a near by gas station where we buy the liquids! Then we quickly roll out and seen sipping yet another time....Sometimes it gets overdose...but in the usual week days everyone almost keep themselves controlled! .... (Well....All the talk I have been doing so far is only about the weekdays, there is lots of action to be jotted down for the weekend stuff and thrills!) ... But it is a different sense, different feel to be sipping in with so many people (the regular count is at least 8 and expected to rise to 15 during the weekends)....After having the regular share....we slip past back to the respective homes again.....and start cooking something to get ourselves feeded and then the usual night-midnight-early morning melo drama starts.... and then its a repeat from what I have posted earlier!!

Continued!! I think its going to be a huge post!! To describe an experience of 9 months does take lots of time !!

Well, its already 6:02 now and I guess its time to sleep....got to study lots of stuff tomorrow.....need some good nights err... morning's sleep....

FYI: In Dino so far played 5 times and the current track is "Ahista by Pankaj Udhas", super one! Listen to it if you havent yet! I dont exactly get the lyrics but do get the FEEL :) .....

This post will be continued.......ciao!