Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Life after NSIT
For the uninitiated i finished my B.E. in may 2009 and on 5august 2009 i left for Amreeka to pursue my masters from University of Southern California. To mention the very least the months of June and July were pretty taxing not only physically and emotionally as my maternal grandfather passed away. I wouldnt like to elaborate on his passing away as if i do so i would be unable to continue any further secondly i wouldnt want the occassional reader who visits my blog leave with a sad memory after reading my blog as it would defeat the very purpose of my blog. In 1 line i would like to say i will miss my maternal grandfather.
Its been more than 2 months since i have been here and i think i am still becoming accustomed to life here. The ride here has been filled with fun and pain. Fun yes because i get to meet new people from different nationalities on a daily basis and the pain is because i am away from my parents and friends. Yes i know what will be the next few questions in your mind so i will try my best to answer them. Yes i have visited a few places i have been to santa monica beach and to san deigo. In san deigo i even watched a baseball game it was fun as people here support the teams very passionately in other words the experience of watching a game in the stadium is pretty different you will get what i mean only if you come here and watch any sport in the stadium.
Los Angeles in general is a good place to be i mean nice weather and with all the entertainment industry here loads of places to visit for eg Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Universal Studios etc etc. People here are friendly or it could be that people in US are generally friendly. But the area around USC is shitty i mean pretty boring i mean you have to go some distance to enjoy so you either need a car or you should use the public transport which is not that good either plus the neighbourhood is not that safe at night so all in all it does give you a bad feeling once in a while but nothing that cant be handled.
Now for the food hmm i must say i have been blessed with good roomates as 2 of them cook pretty well. Since the time we have been here we have cooked aloo paranthas, chhole, rajma, mix veg, shahi tofu(american version of paneer), dals, butter chicken, mutton, poori, rice and its variants. So all in all we do get to eat nice food. Plus there are lot of indians living in my building so we tend to cook together sometimes.
Almost every friday is a frat party in our building as 10 of us have dinner together and we generally cook butter chicken or some variant of chicken. Then we have it together sometimes we do invite some of our friends over for dinner so i hope you get the drift. In 1 go we end up finishing 40 chapatis or paranthas.
Well there have been some funny moments since i have been here in the US though i dont have the energy to write a post on them individually but will describe them briefly here. One of the fridays when i had cooked butter chicken and i was about to leave the room 3 (2 of them are guys and 1 is gal and they are durnk)people who come over and ask if we have food. We say yes and we let them in. I think one guy was pretty much in his sense and his girl friend was pretty drunk as she was dancing on songs of pink floyd which were running on my friends laptop and the other guy after entering left. I was heating up the chicken as it was in the fridge and she comes over and says she will have little and i am like sure but let me heat it up for you and she was ok with that. She went back in and was kissing her boyfriend on my friends bed and the thing was there were atleast 7 people on the room that time. Once chicken was heated up i gave her a chappati and chicken and she rolled it in the form of a roll or burrito and was trying to have it. She spilled some on the floor and i gave her the plate so that she doesnt spill properly i was wiping the floor and she asked my friends who cooked the butter chicken and they pointed towards me and she comes over and to my suprise she gives me a hug and thanks me for the meal. I didnt know what to say as i was in a state of shock but as they say alls well that ends well.
In all i have got hugged, frustrated on not getting my phone on time, submitted 6 assignements in a week, felt weird that people here cant understand my english at the pizza hut, seen some hot chicks dressed, been given a high fi by random drunk people walking on the street at night, i have been thanked almost 10 times a day for doing nothing even been thanked for paying my grocery bill as if they would let me take the groceries without paying all in all i get to see different things everyday would be almost impossible to document everything though here i am still trying.
PS: Sorry for the long post but i guess such a long break deserved a long post i am hoping i can update it on a more regular basis..
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Scribbling Day
I reached college very late around 1:30pm as according to plan Scribbling Day for class would have begun around 11:30am but i was late due to some commitment made earlier on shukla and my part which had to be fulfilled. I almost came to college at dwarka mor metro station to give Software Engg's file to ap's friend around 12:20. After that i went to Shaidpur Metro Station to collect kunal's notes of financial management from shukla. After collecting that i reached back college a little tired due to the journey without expecting much as i hoped that most of the people would have gone home back by then.
I called up kunal and asked him where he was and he said he was at the admin. I reached there and i saw a huge crowd shouting at the top of their voices. Till then i had no idea what was happening. I saw my class and felt a little relieved. After seeing me everyone just started scribbling on my t-shirt and i was not able to move for like 5 mins as everyone pounced on me. One by one they just kept on coming. It was the warmest reception i had ever received in my life. Everyone in the class was so warm me due to that all my exhaustion of the journey and heat just went away.
The comments written on the t shirt were really nice especially by isha and swati raghunandan. Thanks for writing such nice words about me i dont know if i deserve them or not but if i do i would like to give credit to my parents and to my school Mount St Mary's...Thank you guys for making this day one of the most memorable moments of my life..
PS: Must say couples like isha and anita share a very strong relationship i mean both of them wrote on opposite side of my sleeves was that coincidence or they have ruhani powers due to which they tend to know each other thoughts before hand..
Also mohit yar your comment about making millions and millions of babies is not right yar as it is india is already suffering from over-population and with me making millions and millions of babies would aggravate india's problem.
@Saurabh i do love Virtex. To put it another words you can say it is my love interest these days. Have you seen the legs of Virtex they are the most beautiful legs and it gives you electric shock when you touch it. You can check the pic of Virtex here
http://picasaweb.google.com/ankitanand1986/4YearsOfCollege#5327956347360114946
@Anshu nice to see the Worst Gaali of GH..Though kuch farak nahi pada mere ko..
@Kunal please dont do this to me let only Shekhar be your love interest. I am straight. You are already giving me second thoughts of joining CSC... :P
@Soul Gang i hope today by sitting at home some of you must have achieved Enlightenment or must have got more closer to the same by walking on the path toward Enlightenment and i hope all of you must have completed your sleep also..Enjoy..
You can check out picture of scribbling day here
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/ankitanand1986/ScribblingDay#
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Trip to Rajasthan
Day 1:
On 3 april we were to leave by 6 am but we left by 7:30am(if i remember correctly). 81 people were there on the trip and our mode of transport was bus. There were 2 buses and all the 4yrs were sitting in bus no 1. As there was nothing much to do early in the morning Soul gang decided to play Poker and as i didnt know how to play poker they taught me how to play. Must say it is an interesting game. Soon Hemant and Ayush joined the game. Hemant did what he is best at machaopanti, the guy was not very clear with the rules and started to place very high bets or to put it simply he was in the mood of "All In" this affected the game plan for rest of us.
We had breakfast at some lousy place run by Rajasthan Govt where 2 samosas cost 30rupees (i mean like WTF loot macha rakhi hai). Being a miser i did not eat much as there was no point spending too much money there. While traveling we did discuss some interesting topics from demolition of Babri Masjid, to Fanaticism in Islam to the concept of religion etc etc. Some of the topics were discussed to make sure that sutt does not sleep as he did only 2 things on the trip sleeping and toilet. Sitting in the backseat of the bus we six made a heck of racket as arushi later told us that even she could hear our conversations she was 2 rows ahead of us.
We visited amer fort, kanak garden and saw jal mahal. For dinner we stopped at Chaukidhani. I had heard a lot about it and must say it exceeded all my expectations as the place had perfect unison between traditionality and modernity. The dinner was delicious and very heavy they just keep on serving you. The only fault which i feel is that they waste a lot of food as one cant eat that much plus not all people like all the subzis they serve so if someone says no to a particular dish they should not serve him. The highlight of the day were:
1) Usage of a new dialogues like "Sabka apna perspective hai", "Taash ke liye light jaalein", "Maa hi **** di"
2) Adi sleeping on the floor so that 5 of us can sleep comfortably
3) Playing poker inside Kanak Garden
4) In 1 of the forts the Ticket guy said that Boris is a foreigner so we pay 150rs for his ticket
Day 2
We finally reached our hotel Florence Continental in Udaipur around 9 i guess. A room was being shared by 4 people. My roomies were Sid, Varun and Shrey. Hammy was with COE guys and ashwin, adi, shankar and sutt were in the same room. The rooms were well lit and with AC working everything was nice. After attending's nature's call in our room there was a knock in our room and we see hemant standing outside. He said that he wanted to use the toilet in our room. He even charged his digi cam in our room. I guess usse apne room mein "feel" nahi aa rahi thi.
We visited Saheliyon ki Bari, Fateh Sagar lake and also saw the Solar Observatory. We also saw Haldighat and saw the statue of Maharaja Rana Pratap Singh. After a motor boat ride on Fateh Sagar lake we reached to the other end, we had 2 options either we could stay here or go for paddling. Initially we all had decided we will paddle but after reaching there the scenic beauty and table at the canteen caught our attention so we decided to stay here and play Poker. Must say it was a perfect place to play poker with a perfect view of the lake and wind blowing and with chairs and table outside it was just amazing. After playing for sometime the canteen owner came outside and asked us not to play as his customers were getting scared. In words of the canteen owner "mere cusotmer ko darr lag raha hai aap logoin ko dekh kar ki yeh kaun se gaanjedi aur jaauri aa gaye hai".
Highlights of the day:
1) It was poker night in our room with poker chips(thanks to nanhe)
2) Varun and Shrey too learnt how to play Poker
3) 11 people were playing poker that night
4) Around 12:30 there is a knock on the door and i open to see who it is and we see some 10 to 12 fucches asking can we also join we said it is almost time to pack up.
Day 3:
We had to leave for Mt Abu. We left by 6am. Well the mood in our bus was completely different as everyone wanted to play poker. Almost all the 1 years were playing poker with ayush's poker chips. Must say some of them displayed the knack of being pro gamblers.
We visited Dilwara Temples. It was an awesome place. The architecture work of that was mind blowing. There we discovered an NP Hard problem of Devrani & Jethani as they never get along so there is a conflict between them always. We then reached Nakki Lake and all of us in the mood were trekking. We climbed the Toad mountain it was a great place for trekking feel aa gayi thi and for others unki feel nikal gayi thi(like sutt). Ashwin and Shrey were the most adventurous amongst us they did climb some very steep cliffs. Ashwin, shankar and me came down from a very unconventional path and once we reached down it felt amazing.
After trekking with our knees paining we decided to paddling at nakki lake. We roped in Sid and went for paddling it was an enthralling experience.
Highlights of the Day:
1) Playing Poker at night sutt called ashwin naga baba and since then it is his new nickname.
2) I wrote my first prose and i made sure that all the soul gang read it. Most of them didnt like it except ashwin who kept encouraging me(@ashwin thanks for the kind gesture).
3) Our driver took a wrong turn and climbed a bridge and the he had to reverse a bus for a km or so....
Day 4
We went to see City Palace, Vintage Car collection, to a Rajasthan emporium store.
Highlights of the Day:
1) Adi got his first alms by singing the song Feel waale baba at Vintage Car collection giving him company while singing were Sid and me.
2) We ordered 4 plates of Tandoori Chicken 1 for shrey, 1 for Sid, 1 was shared by adi and shankar and 1 for me. It was delicious. All of us savored it. For sid it was a spicy treat it was funny seeing him eat the 3 piece as it was too spicy for him he ran wearing his socks on the roof of the hotel where DJ was going on to drink water.
Day 5
We went to see Pushkar temple, Nathdwara and Moinuddin Chishti Ki Dargah. All the places were nice but one could clearly see that dishonesty and greed for money by the brahmins and mullahs. This is why i hate going to temples as one cant find peace there anymore. All they wanted was to get your money "ALL IN".
Highlights of the Day:
1) The song Naga Baba was developed
2) Yeh Shukla Shukla M*******d hai... was made
Overall it was a nice trip and it was worth going there and what to say about the food it was awesome. At the end i would like to thank all my friends for making it such an enjoyable moment. This trip will truly serve as a great memory once we pass out of college.
PS: Maine trip ke baare mein "ALL IN" kar diya hai i hope soul gang likes it. Also i would like to thank nanhe for organizing such a memorable trip. You can check out the pics at the following link
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/ankitanand1986/TripToJaipurUdaipurAndAjmer#
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
L.K.Advani as the next PM
Respected Sir,
I am 22 years old and for quite sometime i have been listening to the talks about active role the youth is going to play in the future and how youth should actively participate actively in politics etc etc but seeing you as the prime ministerial candidate for the NDA doesnt go with the above theory. I mean with no disrespect you sir i feel you are too old to be a prime minister, i mean how can you have the same enthusiasm and energy of a person less than 60 years old. Sir i respect you not only because you are an elder to me a principle which our parents try to imbibe in us as children but also because of the great role you played in fighting for india’s independence and also for the role you have played in its development. I respect you for that but dont you think it is time you start mentoring the next generation rather than run for the prime minister and let some other young person run for the prestigious post of prime minister.
Waiting for your reply.
Ankit Anand
I guess this is democracy i am free to leave a comment on his blog and he is free not to publish it as he might end up losing a few votes.
Monday, December 29, 2008
New Year Resolutions
Before any of you start reading ahead hold your horses i am warning you this post is not meant for the light hearted. The author takes no responsibility for the extreme emotions you might undergo after reading this, so think before you read it. As this post is a an attempt from the author and author's friends namely Siddharth Goyal and Deepank Gupta to describe what should be the New Year Resolutions for some of our batchmates, so if you feel offended there is a possibility that it was not the author's idea to pull your leg but their's..
Lets start Roll Number wise, here goes:
1) Abhishek Kumar Sharma (aka Mukki) - He will try to get a gold medal in the next Olympics in the Featherweight mukkebaazi.
2) Aditya Singh (aka Ramu) - Dude should try to bath regularly sometimes it becomes a real pain standing next to him. Plus getting a new hair style wont harm him either.
3) Anant Shankar (aka Chinti) - He should try to stop watching Reshma ki jawani.
4) Anita Kumari - She will try to stop putting up so many lovey dovey quotes as her gmail status.
5) AP - She should try to stop two timing this year i mean she already goes out with a guy but she also goes out with a gal from our class. What should i say times are changing in India people dont mind being in multiple relationships.
6) Archit Shukla (aka sutt) - He should start watching the movies first before seeing the the name of the movie also should try to quit *******
7) Ashwin Mukhija (aka Feel Waale Baba) - When he is travelling by plane and air hostess comes over and asks him to buckle his seat belt he should not say challe chal
8) Boris Kundu (aka bangali) - He should try not to be P**N king of the class..So till the time he is the king we all know whom to contact to take stuff or as deepank states Point of Contact..
9) Ayush Jain ( aka nanhe) - First of all i congratulate him on performing his tasks well as Laxman and i hope he continues to do his best. Secondly he should try to talk his girl friend with a little more respect and should stop watching movies like euro trip and pirates, american pie series etc etc..
10) Assim Deodia (aka rabbit) - He will try to break free from his first GF(his laptop) else his second GF might leave him.
11) Deepank Gupta - What to say about him all we can say is he should stop bunking college.
12) Nidhi Gupta - She should start bunking college.
13) Harsh Kathpalia - He should pray that BH1 gets a Lift very soon.
14) Hemant Goyal (aka suur) - Should try his best to keep his nalla clean.
15) Kunal Rustagi (aka gaanjawala) - Should try to forget about Shekhar
16) Siddharth Goyal (aka robot) - Should try to forget about Kunal. Also he should try to go to movies alone because if he ends up going with a girl he generally doesnt understands the movie(ask him why that happens).
17) Sandeep Rastogi (aka sandy) - Shaadi kar lega.
18) Shekhar Gupta - He should start cracking laughable jokes.
19) Tarun Arora - He will try to stop putting his hand on his face while talking with others.
20) Rajat Talwar (aka ghoda) - Ghaas se dosti kar lega.
21) Pushkar Gupta - Will try to stop reducing his weight.
22) Swati Agarwal - Chillana band kar degi.
Well there is 1 more..I would like that the person who baked a cake last year, to please bake a cake once again this year(You see you cant make this her new year's resolution because that way i will end up losing the opportunity of having even that 1 cake if i had any).It is pretty obvious that the cake was good.
I would like to thank Deepank and Siddharth for their invaluable help ( i am mentioning this again so you know whom to catch). Also if i left out a lot of people i am sorry it is just that either we couldnt conjure up something interesting or being late at night we didnt wanted to think too deep.
I hope i stay alive to see the new year after publishing this post.
Happy New Year to all!!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Archit is Straight
Ultimately hemant had come and gone now only siddharth,aditya vishwakarma and me were left with 2 hard disks connected to 1 laptop things were getting messy as it was getting tiresome as it was already 3:15 and we were still sitting at the admin freezing our asses without food. Then finaly aditya left (sid and i breathed a sigh of relief as we could see an end to our misery) but alas anant came by and asked "which movie do you have?"
Sid could not contain his laughter as my hard disk of 80gb has nearly 60 movies and to tell him which movies i had would have been a pain in the ass. So we gave him fight club and quantum of solace and pirates 2. Finally when we are about to pack up i remembered about archit's request and i asked sid to put in 4 to 5 movies in archit's pen drive but we were damn tired so sid said no and then i asked anant to put in the movies which we had given him.
He agreed but added that why dont we change the names of the movies which we transfer to his pen drive to which all of us agreed. The name of Quantum of Solace had been changed to "Gay scenes from Brokeback Mountain" and an episode of duck tales was renamed as "Quantum of Solace" and another movie Young Frankestein was added. This according to us was a test to find out whether archit was straight or not.
And we can safely say he passed the test with flying colors he straight away deleted the movie with title "Gay scenes from Brokeback Mountain". I am sure all those who know archit can breathe a sigh of relief(all those who know archit well can understand).
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Anil Kapoor & Yuvvraaj
I was recently having a chat with one of the girls in my neighborhood and topic diverted to yuvvraaj and its chances at the box office(this was way back when yuvvraaj was released,even while i am writing this i am not sure whether yuvvraaj is hit or flop). I said the movie has a good chance as the music seems to be good plus being a multi starrer it fares a good chance. She said i want to watch the movie as "Anil Kapoor" is in this movie. And i was like WTF Anil Kapoor, i mean who likes Anil Kapoor. After realizing i was quiet for a minute she added that Anil Kapoor was 1 of her favourite actors. After being dumstruck once again and i tried controlling my urge to laugh out loud i respected her opinion and said it is ok.
I narrated this incident to Nidhi and Deepank and they could not stop laughing(i can already hear critics like sid saying why cant she like Anil Kapoor. My answer to them m2l2 he is definitely not my favourite..). But wih all due respects to him one has to admit he has been in the industry for quite some time and has produced a few hits occassionally like "Ram Lakhan" , "Mr. India" , "No Entry" etc but then again he is NOT my favourite.
PS: I have been reading Abhinav Bindra's blog and few other blogs and i kind of feel disappointed with my lame effort of writing on my blog i mean whatever topic they write on they end up getting more than 170 comments. Lets hope things change on my blog too.(I can already see people like Ashwin saying who writes for other people, I used think like this too but after talking to sid things have changed it feels good to get appreciated for writing on the blog so i guess i want that appreciation).
Friday, October 17, 2008
A Poem
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun,
as 1.7321
Such is my reality,
a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed.
PS: I took this poem from the movie Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.The movie is nice you should try to watch it.