Hi Blog how are you? I am doing good. As usual sorry for not updating you as regularly as i would like to but still here i am trying to make an effort. All said and done it feels great to update my Blog.
I landed here in LA on aug 5, 2009. Its been 1 year and 17days the ride till now has been full of both joys and sorrows, happy and bitter memories. But at the end of the day all of these were experiences which were part of the journey. As the saying goes what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger so i guess all of these experiences have made me stronger in their own way. One of the good things about the journey up till now was the people with whom i shared the journey. So this post is dedicated to all those people who have made my journey more eventful in their own way:
Initially when we came last year while we were settling down in our apartment we met lot of Indians living in the same building. Since we couldnt remember the names of all the people living in each apartment we used to call them by their native place for eg right across the hall lived guys from mumbai so we called them bombay guys(sorry to bal thackeray) and opposite to them lived banglore guys. All this was done for the purpose of convenience and not for being a regionalistic bastard.
Luckily for me all the people whom i met here at USC either in my apartment or in my courses from India were not the kind of people who used to discriminate on the basis of region, religion etc etc. I have had the privilege of not only knowing but also being friends with people who belong to different parts of india. During the 1 week i still remember how we started sharing food with Karthik, Sushant and Manjeet who are from down south. I dont remember what we exactly we cooked and shared with them but what i do remember is that they gave us Tandoori Chicken which was awesome. It was at their place where i cooked chicken for the first time. And then it became like a daily affair in Fall every friday. These guys have been good friends as they used to let me invade their fridge when we were out of stuff. It was thanks to these guys that i got hooked onto sitcoms like 2 and half men etc etc :P. Plus they were nice company to be around especially when i used to be locked out of my place.
Similarly day by day interaction with bombay guys increased ie with Nisarg, Sagar and Souranshu especially the daily Counter Strike sessions at night during spring semester. Thanks to them I was able to experience food like Toastada, Sheer and other mumbai food which i had never tasted before. They are nice company to have especially for going out for walks or for discussing things about philosophy and life.
Then comes Vairavan and i must say i am lucky to meet a guy like him. He is a gem of a guy. He has been a friend and more of a guide. Thanks to him my journey here at USC has been easier and more enjoyable. He is a guy who enjoys a good meal and a good laugh. He is 1 guy whom you can rely on. I am also lucky to have met his ex roomate Arjun who too is a nice guy. Arjun is a good friend and a guide who keeps on advising on what to do and what not to. He is an awesome cook and i love eating the various dishes he cooks though i am yet to eat anything he cooked since spring semester ended. Both of them have been very nice to me. And thanks to them i have learnt a lot about life and more.
At USC i have met 2 more people who have had made a positive impact on me they are Venkat Raman and Venkat Balaji(VB). I met VB in the latter half of spring semester and i must say i havent interacted with him too much but whatever i did it made me realize we had a lot of things in common. He was very helpful to me and i would like to wish him best of luck for the future. Venkat Raman is also an interesting chap a nice guy who is nice company to have especially if you wanna go and have a meal together or if you wanna talk about girls in general. I would like to to mention about Anushree as she has also been helpful to me not only for helping me out with the content for interviews but also for providing me with food when i was hungry. I would also like to thank her for giving my roomates and me home cooked food which was delicious. But i guess i need to remind her that she has 1 of our containers and we would really appreciate it if she returns it containing some awesome dish :D
Last but not the least my roomates Anu, Sumit and Devesh. They too have been nice and helpful to me. Sumit is a nice chap who was willing to give me a helping hand right at the start when i wanted to collect my phone from Fedex. He was the one who went with me to pick it up but unfortunately i wasnt able to get it but that wasnt the point. He cooks well but doesnt do it very often. Anu is not only the guy who is tall, dark and handsome but also a guy with a big heart. He was the guy who literally took care of me when i was unwell. Just to add he makes awesome sweets. Devesh aka Vito Corleone is a good guy who not only cooks good food but also is awesome at playing Counter Strike. He is good guy if you wanna discuss history, politics, religion etc. Also we have 1 more roomate this fall his name is Abhinav up till now my interaction has been limited but whatever it is he seems to be a nice chap. Lets see how things go with him.
Anyways enough talk time to hit the bed..
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Blunt Honesty
Hi there blog how have you been doing? As for me i am doing good met new people this semester they have been nice to me. I have a learnt a lot from them plus i am enjoying this semester 3 new courses learning a lot all in all its nice feeling. Are you kidding me is that the truth who will say that you are still without a proper campus job you kind of screwed 1 midterm. Plus you have been struggling to keep up this semester and last but not the least you are still technically unemployed.
Hmm which would be a nice introduction the first one where i am talking generally about my life this semester or the second one where i am explicitly telling the truth. I guess most of you would say the first one and to be honest i too would agree. I mean who the hell likes to meet a guy who is cribbing about his problems in general. Even if he or she is not the cribbing types but on a general basis if that person is cribbing you wouldnt like it if he or she is a close friend else you will be like why the hell is he or she cribbing in front of me.
I will tell you about my experiments blunt honesty and to be honest results were not surprising. And as usual i will try to add a funny tinge to the whole thing so as not to make it a serious debate so please bear with me(This line was just written to please myself as you see i too cant be blunt honest with myself and say who cares about your blog its not as if many people are going to read it.)
I was talking to my friend who is in india and i asked him so was he still single or did he found someone special he said he did and i congratulated him on this. He posed me with the same question and i replied with a very logical answer. I said i am a grad student and i am technically unemployed plus it is not that i have too much money to spend and on top of it i dont even have a campus job and i dont have a car so why would any girl go out with me. He replied by saying dude you are being too pessimistic blah blah. Rest of the conversation is not important. I thought i was being realistic and i was very honest with the reason which i think i was the problem.
For all the people who watch how i met your mother and have seen the episode return of the shirt can relate to this. In this episode when Ted wanted to break up with Natalie he thought that he should tell her the truth by saying she was not the one ie he wanted to too honest and do you remember what happened Ted was beaten up Natalie using Krav Maga. Plus i was just talking to another friend of mine and asked him about his experience about being too honest. I will not go into too much detail as it might be mundane for many of you i will keep it short. He told me while he was working in 1 of the IT companies and was attending a meeting when his boss asked him a question and he replied from his heart ie he spoke too honestly result his boss said to him he was too young , immature, he was hallucinating that is why he was talking rubbish. In short an epic failure.
I think the problem with being blunt honest is that it threatens the very existence of other peoples dream that is why they hate blunt honesty. The thing is you are trying to shatter the dreams which they might have clung on for so long and by being too honest you are demotivating them. Also i feel that we humans have now become accustomed to lies where we truth is slightly modified so that it does not hurt us too much or it makes sure that we are not taken out from our comfort zone. And to be honest its okay i mean come on who likes it when you have cooked for the first time and the person who tastes it says what the hell salt is too much, it is not cooked properly, it is too hard blah blah you will like it if the other person is like ya it is nice try for someone who is new to cooking etc etc. I mean a little bit of flattery doesnt hurt right that way the concerned party is left happy and they also have an idea where they lack but in more subtle way so in a way it makes them feel good about them. In short blunt honesty hmm is not a good option and generally it doesnt work if it has worked for you do tell me about it.
PS: First of all the talk with my friend about gf should not be taken personally by girls i am not accusing them of anything. Its just that this happened with me recently so i used this as an example nothing more nothing less. Plus this whole blunt thing goes with my theory about me being a cold hearted person and all but anyways no big thing. Plus for those who like this post or dont like this post but take it in light hearted manner good for them but for those who took it too personally i will say what naga baba says "**** *** ****** ****" \m/.
Hmm which would be a nice introduction the first one where i am talking generally about my life this semester or the second one where i am explicitly telling the truth. I guess most of you would say the first one and to be honest i too would agree. I mean who the hell likes to meet a guy who is cribbing about his problems in general. Even if he or she is not the cribbing types but on a general basis if that person is cribbing you wouldnt like it if he or she is a close friend else you will be like why the hell is he or she cribbing in front of me.
I will tell you about my experiments blunt honesty and to be honest results were not surprising. And as usual i will try to add a funny tinge to the whole thing so as not to make it a serious debate so please bear with me(This line was just written to please myself as you see i too cant be blunt honest with myself and say who cares about your blog its not as if many people are going to read it.)
I was talking to my friend who is in india and i asked him so was he still single or did he found someone special he said he did and i congratulated him on this. He posed me with the same question and i replied with a very logical answer. I said i am a grad student and i am technically unemployed plus it is not that i have too much money to spend and on top of it i dont even have a campus job and i dont have a car so why would any girl go out with me. He replied by saying dude you are being too pessimistic blah blah. Rest of the conversation is not important. I thought i was being realistic and i was very honest with the reason which i think i was the problem.
For all the people who watch how i met your mother and have seen the episode return of the shirt can relate to this. In this episode when Ted wanted to break up with Natalie he thought that he should tell her the truth by saying she was not the one ie he wanted to too honest and do you remember what happened Ted was beaten up Natalie using Krav Maga. Plus i was just talking to another friend of mine and asked him about his experience about being too honest. I will not go into too much detail as it might be mundane for many of you i will keep it short. He told me while he was working in 1 of the IT companies and was attending a meeting when his boss asked him a question and he replied from his heart ie he spoke too honestly result his boss said to him he was too young , immature, he was hallucinating that is why he was talking rubbish. In short an epic failure.
I think the problem with being blunt honest is that it threatens the very existence of other peoples dream that is why they hate blunt honesty. The thing is you are trying to shatter the dreams which they might have clung on for so long and by being too honest you are demotivating them. Also i feel that we humans have now become accustomed to lies where we truth is slightly modified so that it does not hurt us too much or it makes sure that we are not taken out from our comfort zone. And to be honest its okay i mean come on who likes it when you have cooked for the first time and the person who tastes it says what the hell salt is too much, it is not cooked properly, it is too hard blah blah you will like it if the other person is like ya it is nice try for someone who is new to cooking etc etc. I mean a little bit of flattery doesnt hurt right that way the concerned party is left happy and they also have an idea where they lack but in more subtle way so in a way it makes them feel good about them. In short blunt honesty hmm is not a good option and generally it doesnt work if it has worked for you do tell me about it.
PS: First of all the talk with my friend about gf should not be taken personally by girls i am not accusing them of anything. Its just that this happened with me recently so i used this as an example nothing more nothing less. Plus this whole blunt thing goes with my theory about me being a cold hearted person and all but anyways no big thing. Plus for those who like this post or dont like this post but take it in light hearted manner good for them but for those who took it too personally i will say what naga baba says "**** *** ****** ****" \m/.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Random Ramblings
Hi there a happy and a prosperous new year to you and too your family. Okay thats about it now that we have the salutations out we can get to the business(i dont know why i am saying this it just felt kind of cool at the time of writing this post).
Well one semester down at USC and i can say it was nice and interesting in its own way. I mean whats better than slogging you ass of for 1 semester i mean doing 6 assignments per week and coming back home around 3am to find that you have to do laundary else you wont be able to go college tomorrow ohh man that feeling is awesome.
Just kidding but grad school is different kind of exeperience altogether i mean it is more about time management and it is extended COLLEGE LIFE. It was nice that for the winter break i went to the east coast and visited my mama in Virginia. From there on i went to New Jersey and New York. I had the opportunity to get to know my mama's family so it was fun.
Well New York was my dream city i mean i had always dreamt of visiting New York i dont know maybe it was due to the hype created by the hollywood but after being there i can say it doesnt live up to the hype created. Lets not go into the detail as to why it didnt live up to my expectations all i will say is my next dream place to go is Paris lets see if i will go there or not.
I had an interesting event which happened with me right before the semester ended. It was match between USC v/s UCLA lets just say its A guy walks up and asks the price of a jersey and i say it is 60$ and he says "thats too expensive what if i pay you 50$ and my wife shows you her boobies" His wife who is listening to our conversaton adds that i might have seen a lot of fake boobies but i havent seen real ones like hers i say that doesnt work out. He then offers me another scheme he says "i pay you 45$ for that and my wife gives you a bj" i say that also doesnt work out. Well then she asks me to show her a jersey for her size and i ask what size she says the one that doesnt make her look fat i give her an extra small she says that it so sweet of me but it wouldnt fit her boobies. Well after they left i had an hearty laugh.
And this year i also realized that whenever i go out and meet a girl alone(some people might wanna call that a date but i wouldnt) and if she ends up paying for the meal then we never end up meeting again. Well this happened again this time too dont want to go in details about i will just say this time i will be happy if we dont end up bumping into each other again. And the reason i believe is that we never end up meeting again is that i let them pay or maybe because i have the knack so i have utter social inaptitude. Anyways it really doesnt matter once i find a wingman like Barney Stintson.
PS: I will end up saying girls on the west coast are much hotter than girls on the east coast.
Well one semester down at USC and i can say it was nice and interesting in its own way. I mean whats better than slogging you ass of for 1 semester i mean doing 6 assignments per week and coming back home around 3am to find that you have to do laundary else you wont be able to go college tomorrow ohh man that feeling is awesome.
Just kidding but grad school is different kind of exeperience altogether i mean it is more about time management and it is extended COLLEGE LIFE. It was nice that for the winter break i went to the east coast and visited my mama in Virginia. From there on i went to New Jersey and New York. I had the opportunity to get to know my mama's family so it was fun.
Well New York was my dream city i mean i had always dreamt of visiting New York i dont know maybe it was due to the hype created by the hollywood but after being there i can say it doesnt live up to the hype created. Lets not go into the detail as to why it didnt live up to my expectations all i will say is my next dream place to go is Paris lets see if i will go there or not.
I had an interesting event which happened with me right before the semester ended. It was match between USC v/s UCLA lets just say its A guy walks up and asks the price of a jersey and i say it is 60$ and he says "thats too expensive what if i pay you 50$ and my wife shows you her boobies" His wife who is listening to our conversaton adds that i might have seen a lot of fake boobies but i havent seen real ones like hers i say that doesnt work out. He then offers me another scheme he says "i pay you 45$ for that and my wife gives you a bj" i say that also doesnt work out. Well then she asks me to show her a jersey for her size and i ask what size she says the one that doesnt make her look fat i give her an extra small she says that it so sweet of me but it wouldnt fit her boobies. Well after they left i had an hearty laugh.
And this year i also realized that whenever i go out and meet a girl alone(some people might wanna call that a date but i wouldnt) and if she ends up paying for the meal then we never end up meeting again. Well this happened again this time too dont want to go in details about i will just say this time i will be happy if we dont end up bumping into each other again. And the reason i believe is that we never end up meeting again is that i let them pay or maybe because i have the knack so i have utter social inaptitude. Anyways it really doesnt matter once i find a wingman like Barney Stintson.
PS: I will end up saying girls on the west coast are much hotter than girls on the east coast.
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