the usual weekend stuff...

Scene 1: Saturday, 12 p.m.
[knock on my door]
Roomie: Abe uth sale, its 12 in the afternoon..it's your turn to cook!! and we are hungry...
Me: Saala kal raat ko 4 baje soya tha yaar...i will be up in 5 mins...kal ka khana bacha nahi hain kya??!!

I get up, luckily there is leftover food from yesterday night..I heat up the stuff, we all eat and do BS...before we know its 4 in the afternoon...

Scene 2: Saturday, 4 p.m
[A friend walks in]
Friend: Chai pila na..bahut bore ho raha hain...wat r ur plans for tonite..lets watch a movie...
[Another friends calls up]
Friend: Wassup man, you woke up, eh??!! Lets play volleyball..
Me: Call the others, see you at 6.

Scene 3: Saturday, 10 p.m
[ People decide they want to play teen-patti at my apartment...]
Friend: We are coming over to play teen-patti..
Me: OK..aa jao....khelte hain..

Scene 4: Sunday Morning 3 a.m

Finally teen patti is over...ppl plan for a coffee..we go to Steak & Shake at 3:30 a.m. in the morning..

Scene 5: Sunday Morning 10 a.m
[friend calls up]
Friend: Hey Punit, I am cooking Karnataka Special today ;-)...and good Madrasi sambhar..come over at about 12 for lunch...
Me[Delighted]: Oh sure, I will be there before time!!!

I end up eating like a pig, come home and sleep for 2 hours in the afternoon (i love these afternoon naps)...

Scene 6: Sunday evening 6 p.m
[I call up a friend]
Me: Hey, kya chal raha hain..kuch accha khana bana rahi hain kya??
Friend: Come over, we will make dabeli...get boiled potatoes if you can..
Me: see you at 7:20

Scene 7: Monday morning 00:11 a.m

I finished my assignment for tommorow and I am writing this post...

Scene 8: Monday morning 9 a.m...
[9 hours in the future]

I miss my bus and am cursing myself because I am late for my office again....

My younger cousin sister sent me this mail on the 15th of Aug., when I finished 1 year here in the US...and I really really loved it...dont know why I felt that I should post this...so here it goes...

One yr has past but....
baa still watches kumkum ,
mota papa still goes for a walk at 5am ,
mota mami still cooks ur favourite kheer ,
papa is still against love marriage ,
mummy still makes theplas ,
kaka still loves chocalates ,
kaki still runs behind raja with his food ,
shashank bhai still bullies me ,
shraddha is still waiting for the latest gossip ,
vishwas still talks more wth girls than with guys ,
kshama is still growing fatter wth me ,
raj now plays wth sagar and chimpu ,

THERE IS ONE THING THAT CAN NEVER CHANGE ..........
WE ALL LOVE U A LOT :-) :-) :-)

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We have been having a lot of parties these days...infact, for the last 5 consecutive days, we've had something or the other...here is a picture collage..thanx to 'Picasa' by Google....

busy times....

after taking two courses within the first 6 weeks of summer and working the remaining hours in the Campus Dining Services and the dorms on campus for the past 10 weeks, i thought i would take a 'vacation' for a week. Vacation meant doing nothing, sitting at home, not moving my bum for anything....exactly as my friend Andrew says..."sitting at home and doing nothing is my favorite past-time!!"..but destiny had decided differently...i gave an interview for a new Graduate Assistant position in the College of Education. ( http://coe.ilstu.edu/ilnbpts ) and it turned out that they liked me ( applause applause...), and which i knew they would...you might call it (over?)confidence....but whatever....i had to start work immediately....and my plans for my very own private personal vacation vanished faster than 'we all' used to vanish off, when, while playing cricket, someone's 'shot' used to break a glass window or a light bulb of some house in the colony....reminds me of my friend Iquebal who often sang...Dil dhoondta hai...phir wahi...fursat ke raat din...

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Lot of new Indians students are coming in and I am picking them up and arranging for their accomodations...yesterday I had 7 ppl in my house...me, my roomie...and 5 new guys....my roomie is cooking good food for them...and I guess I'm not being that bad a host either...the whole point is that, when I came, I lived off 'Haldirams' packets for 1 week...it was BAD, to put it most positively....and I just want to be of good help to these new guys so they dont feel the way I felt during my first week here....history should not repeat itself atleast when I'm leading the war...

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I helped a friend with something which was very important considering the current situation..and I hope it works out....I wish life was not so 'one way or the other' sometimes....why should all the hardwork done be of no use if you miss the result by a wafer-thin margin...why years and years of endurance and perseverance end up in that miserable feeling of 'everything is lost'...after thinking a good bit bout it, all I have come to conclud and believe is that all that hard work atleast makes a good Man out of you....

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Just recalled today morning, one of the best attitude quotes I've ever heard..."Dont walk as if you own the world, walk as if you don't care who does..." Know anyone with such confidence??

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PS:- Creep, ofcourse I got along with you man...sorry for missing the name...there are some people with whom I operate at a different frequency.....you are one of them...