Happy Birthday!!

Viji and Cheems!




Happy Birthday to you! Have a wonderful year ahead.....Love ya!

The Real Party.....

Event : Madness!
Place : Graham Central Station
Date : 09/16/2006
Day : Saturday
Time : Midnight

Yes, we were at the Graham Station! (a club in Lafayette). The same bunch of people at Lafayette, Cheems,Chowdhry,Soc,Parate and I with the addition of Poornima this time. With Poornima and Cheems in their own power-dressing (Girls, both of you looked awesome!), and the guys in what I can call a "decent" attire, we reached the club at around midnight and the party began. I got to see the real American way of partying.....Huge crowd, dancing, drinking, people yelling at the top of their lungs and absolute Madness everywhere!
We remained in our little group with Chowdhry and Cheems being the stars of the night. Non-stop dancing of all kinds! (even Bharatnatyam and "namma ooru dapaanguthu" - clapping hands with beer bottles on the top of their heads)....I, the only passive witness, was rolling with laughter over the crazy things that a little alcohol does to people. (by people, I refer to our very own group!)......Every moment was memorable and finally, all was well. Though I didnt dance, I had loads of fun just hanging around with these people....There are some more incidents which I'm not supposed to "disclose" to the public, because "whatever happens in Lafayette, stays in Lafayette!"...So, we had a good night's rest and are back on track with school/work today! and that's how my weekend was....

P.S : In case any of you are interested in the specific incidents, (I have one incident for everyone in the group which can literally crack you up), buzz me!

Whatever happens!

This is kind of a very spiritual and emotional post!......I felt like writing about this probably because, I prayed well and meditated after a long time yesterday and it feels good. I'm feeling totally at peace now.....
The GITA UPADESAM is considered to be the most vital part of the Bhagavad Gita, since Lord Krishna tells the GITA UPADESAM to Arjuna. Sometimes, when life is too damn rough and things go totally out of control for me, this is the only thing that gives me hope and courage to withstand the stress and pressure of the situation....The following is an English Translation of the GEETHA SAARAM.

FAITH

Whatever happened was for good
Whatever is happening is also for the good
Whatever will happen will also be for good
What did you lose of your own that you are crying for?
What did you bring with you that you have lost?
What did you create that has been destroyed?
Whatever you possess, you have got it from here
Whatever you gave, you gave it here
Whatever belongs to you today, it belonged to someone else yesterday
And tomorrow it will belong to someone else.

“CHANGE IS THE RULE OF NATURE”

Dearest,
As I look back at my life, I find you helping me in every stage of my life and never once have you left me alone. Be it in my successes or failures, you have been there, helping me succeed, giving me the mental strength to withstand failures and come back alive and kicking. Thank you for being so kind to me, thank you for your blessings all along my life, thank you for taking care of me and thank you for everything.

SARVAM SAMARPANAM.

Four Things......

These are just four things in the world that drive me to the edge of fear! (necessarily in that order)

(I'm wondering if there were just four things...May be the list keeps adding on as I sail through life more! or may people who read this blog and know more about me can comment!)

1. Dogs

Dogs, of any kind,breed..whatever....Even if its just a puppy. I hate dogs! or for that matter
pets of any kind. I cannot walk anywhere near a dog, not even on the same road as the dogs are! I hate visiting people's
houses who have dogs as pets...In my childhood days, I'd say every silly reason to my parents for not visiting my relatives/friends's houses who have dogs.....I used to throw all kinds of tantrums when my parents ask me to visit the relatives. So, friends, whoever is reading this, beware! I will not and cannot visit you if you have dogs in your houses!

2. Stale Food

The next weird thing about me is, I go crazy when I get a feeling the food am about to eat has become stale. Even if its not gone stale, but if someone even raises a question about it, I cannot go near the food! and I can even starve for the day! I wasnt even affected by this when I was in India. Because, mom used to cook fresh always, (Mom, how much I miss you now, when I'm writing this!) at all times and I didnt even have to worry about this. But, from the moment I stepped out of home for my internship at Pune, I have developed this kind of a weirdness and I cannot seem to get rid of it. Its just plainly weird! And Sorry Santhosh, I know I've troubled you enough with all those weird questions and being adamant when it comes to eating old food.

3. Sitting in the front seat of a car

Now that you have already thought, "how weird is this female!", here's some more to add on..The title says it all! It's just impossible for me to sit in the front seat of any car with my eyes open. Especially, if I am the only person in the car along with the person who drives the car, that person is dead-meat from the "ssssssssssss...ooooooooooooo...aiyooooooooooo" sounds I make when we are on the road. Many a times, I pity the person who's driving the car sitting along with me. When someone drives faster on the InterState, I go to the edge of fears that I catch hold of their hands on the steering and ask them to slow it down. When we go on traffic, I just tightly shut my eyes and cannot even talk to anyone normally! I feel like I am on some roller-coster ride! I can just trust nobody when they drive sitting near me! Sorry guys for all those hissing sounds I make when you drive!

4. Plane take-off and landing

Ok, now to a person who's been in the US and has travelled a lot, this should sound so silly! But, its not! I am scared to death when a flight takes-off and when it lands. Its just the insecure feeling or may be call it, any type of "phobia" or the perfect word is in tamil - "mana braandhi/brahmai". But, the same way, I do sitting in a car, I cannot see outside through the window when the flight takes-off or lands. I hold the two arms of the seat in the flight tightly or I hold the person sitting beside me tightly, if I know them! I can release my hands and open my eyes only when its on the air! Pretty weird huh???

So, yeah, thats some more stuff about me! But, dont think I'm totally weird! I have some good stuff too!.....

Miles to go.....

Its 1:00 AM and I am still in my lab writing this post!....My thesis is taking all the time in the world and I am not even done with my first draft yet. Man, I never thought those small indentations, diagrams, and writing references will take hell of a time. And the worst part is, I should be at work at 8 AM tomorrow morning....Anyways, the thoughts of completing everything perfectly and visualizing a good successful defense is what keeps me going now.....

Am listening to THALAIVAR's "vetri nichayam!'..and it sure drives me to work more and I have
"Miles to go before I sleep"....

Will be back with more updates later....

I'm neck deep in my thesis drafts.....So,will be back with more later....

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Somehow, I felt there was nothing to write about, but crap, in the last 3 days.....So, one more long weekend has passed by and a big week ahead of me. Did a lil bit of work for my thesis on Saturday and Sunday. And on Sunday evening, some of my friends here (including me!) suddenly started craving for Indian food and so! We were at Baton Rouge India's for lunch on Monday...(We- Chowdhry,Prashanth, Socrates,Cheemz and me.....I must mention here that Cheemz and Chowdhry have a weird relationship where Cheemz calls Chowdhry as "thambi"(younger brother) and chowdhry calls Cheemz as "thangachi!" (younger sister)...Can it get more weird????). Ok, back on track, one of the few things that I've been terribly missing at the US of A is good south indian food..Lafayette has no Indian Restaurants and the closest place we could ever smell Indian food is Baton Rouge.....Ate to our fullest, for the 10$ we paid for the buffet.....Once we were there at the restaurant, we never thought how weird it was to have dosai,naan,rice and pudding all at the same time!

And after some usual photo sessions, while coming back we started playing this game in the car, where I start with a word and the next person should say something related to that and it goes on. At some point, we start with the last word and keep saying the words in the reverse order. So, I started with the word "blue" and the game went on! Once, Prashanth said "thangaachi!" and I was to say the next word. I said "paasa malar!" (was reminded of the sivaji ganesan-savithri movie that time)....and next it was chowdhry's turn! Guess what he'd have said....he said "cheemz!"......Cheemz was completely overwhelmed and was at a loss for words! You should have seen the look on her face! That said it all!!!!

And so, after all this, we started working again...I have a deadline coming up soon and the rest of them had an algorithms homework to complete....In the middle of work, we thought we'd go for dinner and ate at a chinese place....While I was at the restuarnt with these ppl, I got a call from one of my friend's at Lafayette asking me if I knew something about "something" (I am sorry, I cannot furnish more details on this..) that happened in Lafayette on Monday.....and that was enough for all of us to spice up the dinner with the already spiced-up chinese food that we were having....especially, chowdhry,I and Cheemz were in full-form! guessing what wouldve happened.....And Chowdhry the 5-year old guy he is, started doing things which couldnt get any more funnier! and we all laughed like crazy.....It was one of the memorable moments I've had in Lafayette so far! and the talk did not end even after coming home and the funniest thing was, one of the guys didn't even start with the algorithms homework, ended up gossiping about this until 11:00 P.M in the night....! I am sure ppl who saw us laughing, wouldve, without any doubts, thought, we were totally drunk!

So, Monday was a good day! We had lots of fun...and oh I forgot! Some of my friends had been to Niagra and Newyork for the long weekend..Guys, hope you had loads of fun and do send us the pics!

நானும் மெழுகுவர்த்தியும்!......

"பேச்சு எல்லாம் தாலாட்டு போல என்னை உறங்க வைக்க நீ இல்லை
நிலவின் ஒளியில் முத்தம் தந்து காலை காபி கொடுக்க நீ இல்லை
விழியில் விழும் தூசிதன்னை நாவால் எடுக்க நீ இங்கு இல்லை
மனதில் எழும் குழப்பம் தன்னை தீர்க்க நீ இங்கே இல்லை
நான் இங்கே நீயும் அங்கே இந்த தனிமையில் நிமிஷங்கள் வருஷமானது ஏனோ
வான் இங்கே நீலம் அங்கே நீலம் அங்கே இந்த உவமைக்கு இருவரும் விளக்கமானது ஏனோ"

Have been hooked up on this song and listening to it in a loop.A perfect song to listen to when you are done with the day's share of staring at the blue screen....

A one-liner about this song:

"Uruginen idhai kettu mezhugaai"!