Loveleen ek Joke bataoo !!!!


*) Q: How do you get a one-armed man out of a tree?
A: You wave to him.
*)A blonde went to the appliance store sale and found a bargain. "I would like to buy this TV," she told the salesman.
"Sorry, we don't sell to blondes," he replied.

She hurried home and dyed her hair, then came back and again told the salesman, "I would like to buy this TV."

"Sorry, we don't sell to blondes," he replied.

"Darn, he recognized me," she thought.

She went for a complete disguise this time; haircut and new color, new outfit, big sunglasses, then waited a few days before she again approached the salesman. "I would like to buy this TV."

"Sorry, we don't sell to blondes," he replied.

Frustrated, she exclaimed, "How do you know I'm a blonde?"

"Because that's a microwave," he replied.

*)A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman's face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn't graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband offered to donate some of his own skin. However, the only skin on his body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his buttocks.

The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter.

After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the woman's new beauty. She looked more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives just went on and on about her youthful beauty!

One day, she was alone with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice.

She said, "Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. There is no way I could ever repay you."

"My darling," he replied, "think nothing of it. I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek."

*) I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if I'll get to the book. But I'm certainly excited about the day where I can't find the book, and I get to say, 'Where the hell is my anger management book?!'

Winter is Weird !!!

I used to hear that in winters your brain doesnt work. When i say work it means "mental exercise" (@least that is what i thought). But !! But !! i never thought this included " clumsiness ".
And if i were to write a book on "winter acts" which i have seen and njoy people do ( this also includes cryptmaster )i could easily win booker's prize for a comic book ( if such an award exists).

Here is the list:
*) I was about to put washing power in my food insted of salt.
*) ( my usual act ) put my cold coffee in microwave
*) I am always in dilema .. ( for the whole winter season )
*) I also suffer from amneisa ... in winters ofcourse, just in case u guys doubt the length of it duration.
*) I do and re-do things ... ( even if they are "perfecto" ).
*) I eat alot .. u can call me a Pig ( in winters Only !!! ).
*) December is a month of pranks ... ( last december i mailed my US frds that i am going to india. They all called their parents and told them to get some stuff ready for me to bring them. I later .. after a 15 odd days told them ... i was kidding :P... and back home all their stuff was ready for a trip to US of A ..... This year some chick called my lab , mistaking it to be some other office of my university ... i kept her on hold for say about 15 min, before hanging up :P )
*) I laugh alot.. even on serious situations.
*) My obsession with knives reaches another level. ( i am not a serial killer )
*) The 3-4 fts of snow outside hipnotises me sometimes .. and i wanna go out and roll in the snow " NAKED". ( i once did such a thing ... but i had a t-shirt and shorts on... only @ -28*C )


I am tierd now .... enough of self-humiliation.

Boredom + Irritation - Jump - 2Walk - Naagin - etc = Happy Man !!!!






This is not new @all. I am BORED !!
In the last two weeks two of my trips have been cancelled. First one (to Ohio State University, ... Indian Ocean was performing and I really wanted to go BUT !!!... ) it was me who cancelled it because of some nonsense project of some shity course ( which i regret taking ... ) the second a rock climbing expedition: that was cancelled because some because the organizer thought that not many people signed up for it ..so " Lets cancell it " !!!. ( I got a mail for the rock climbing thing getting cancelled ..... the first words that came off were " I KEEEEEEEEEL YOU " ...from the dead terrorist : Achmend act " :P )


So coming back to my boredom !! I was do irritated and bored yesterday ... that i could have :

* Jumped off Link hall ( the engineering building ) without parachute .. just for excitement
* Walked in " the cold November Rain @ -3*C " for 45 min without an umbrella or a jacket (I was @ my friends place ( E. colvin st ) which was a approx 45 min walk from my house..just in case you guys r wondering y 45 min )
*Walked in the middle of the road for abt a mile ..and irritate people. ( which i kind of did .... for 100 mt only ... but guess what. not a single car came .... dammm )


and few more crazy things. And yaah if i had you people ( Sly , junkie , ganja, sood and gang ..) here, would have done that " Corn Hub " thing for sure this time !!!

In the end ..wanted to see Decible palying " NAAGIN " live here in the university last nite !!!

Song !!!

This is a song by " Jessica Lea Mayfield " named "bible days".

The lyrics may not be that great but for me the best part is the way she sings ... and the voice. Its different !!!

Remember Remember the "5th" of November !!!


Yes !!!! Remember it ... not because it Obama became the president of US ( well if you want you can mark it that way ) but because the 5th of November is the day when coincidentally one man or few people try to change something, SOMETHING that large enough to affect the lives of not hundreds but millions of people.

Two events mark the "5th" of November as a " the day of Changes ". One event is of course the election of Obama as the president of USA. The first African American to get the highest office in USA. ( just in case you are wondering .... " whats the big deal "? ... the ans. It is a big deal ... for a person who is not tagged as "white" to become the most poweful man in USA .... is a "biggg deal". )

This is " THE change ". !!!!

The second event dates back to 1605, in the era of King James 1 of England. It was on this day
"the 5th of November" a man named Guy Fawkes decided to blow up the HOUSE OF LORDS and end the touturous era of King James 1. But he was unsucessful. !!!

Though his attempt... did create a revolt against King James 1. ( again the "chnage" )

Yearbook Yourself !!!


By now almost every student here in US knows about this site ...
this is what you can do .. using this awesome timepass link !!!

Remember the movie " 21 " :


Remember this scene :




At first i couldnt understand what ... this guy was saying ....
now i do !!!.. watch this . Its really interesting .... ( this is the explanation ...)


MONTY HALL PROBLEM !!!!!

Hail Floyd ... Hail Rick Wright !!!!!!!!!!

Another legend passed away.
I didnt get the news till 17th, ....... thanks to orkut i found out the Wright died. ( its not like if i had found out a bit earlier i would have gone to his funeral ... but still ).
Its sad ... anyhow !!!!

I was listening to few The Doors songs when i found out about wright's death. The moment i read it " the end " started playing ...... now this is what i call timing !!!! This was like one of Sly's weird incidents, not the Deja vu ones .... but one of the weird ones.


May Rick Wright ...... " Rest In Peace " !!!!
I some how feel .... posting the lyrics of ... " the end " !!!!
so here is .... " the end " : doors .


This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
In a...desperate land

Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...i want to...fuck you

Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die

The Week !!!!

In the last 10 days i have seen my mood flicker like anything. It started with 2 major disappointments. By major i mean ... they were in real sense mental breakdown kinds. Then came the time when i was " ME " again. I felt like i was in Nagpur again. Those were fun days where i spent more time out on the roads and in CCD than flipping the pages of my course book. And not to mention the crazy things we did ( Parsee graveyard was one of those .... and i hope everybody remembers what we had planned for the Corn Hub restaurant ).

I was back doing everything i love ... !!!!

But i guess good times dont last long. I saw two things: one last thursday and one this thursday. Some how i couldnt stop thinking about these two events. One of these i cant discuss. The other ( 25th sept one ) just felt as bad as the other.

It was 1pm, i was having lunch in a restaurant in the university. There was a garbage outside, a homeless guy with a trolly full of his clothes and random stuff came, dug out a box of fries and a bottle of coke from the grabage box( which had only few drops of coke left in it ). He gulped all the fries, drank all the coke that was left ........ and I just couldnt stop staring at him. Eventually i stopped eating my stuff.

I looked around and saw about 20 people enjoying their lavish meal and "there" was a man who just had few sticky little fries as a solid lunch ( which looked like " the meal of the day" for him ) and few drops of coke to quench his thirst.

Imagine !!!!!

With what name do u call a girl when you are drunk ......... TAMANNA !!!!!

This is a real incident !!!! which took place in March 08 @ one of my friends party.

People Involved :

Me : Ashish
Friend : Varun
Senior : Vaibhav
Senior : Aman


It was around 1:30 am, people were drinking, dancing etc. Me, Aman and Vaibhav we on the couch tired after dancing. Vaibhav was completely drunk ... OUT , STONED !!!!!

And we all know what people do when they get drunk. Vaibhav i am assuming had a friend or a crush on a girl named " Tamanna ".

Here is a narration of what happened that night.

Vaibhav ( sitting next to a girl ) : Heyyy !!!! You are Tamanna ..... right !!???
Girl : ( gives a ?ed face .... as if she said What !!!! ) !!!
Aman : Vaibhav ... lets go home .. you are so out !!!!
Vaibhav : No she is Tammana .... Aman . i know ...and i am fine and not going home !!
Ashish : Vaibhav ... ok then sit and keep it shut !!!
Vaibhav ( see's another girl passing by ...) : Aman ... look there is Tamanna !!!!!
Aman : Ashish ... do something !!!!
Ashish ( laughing is guts off ) : What can i do !!! ...
Vaibhav ( eyeing the same girl ) : I have to talk to Tamanna .... ( he get up !! )
Aman ( trying to pull Vaibhav back ) : Vaibhav ... shut up and squat !!! she is not Tamanna .... let her go !!!

Vaibhav: I know she is Tamanna .... plzzzz i just need ot talk to her !!!
Ashish: ( still laughing @ the scene Vaibhav is creating )
Vaibhav: Abey why do they all look like Tamanna !!!???
Aman : dude !!! they all different girls ..... and they are not certainly Tanmanna !!! so ditch them !!!

Vaibhav ( again get up and walks to the hall ): Tamanna .... i am comming !!!! :P
Aman and Ashish : ( hahahahahahhahahah :) )

This all continued for a while !!!!

Then we kicked him in a car and drove home !!!!


This was one hilarious scene !!!!!

Blood Suckers !!!!


I have had blood tests like a zillion times and normally the docs take only few milliliters of my blood. ( when i say few i mean single digit measure and that to less that 5 ).

But this was the second time when these innocent blood suckers took more that that was required.
I was ill for like a week. I went to the university health services for my blood test. The nurse there took 2 full big test tubes of my blood for just one test.

By 2 full big test tube i mean .. around 25 ml of blood. Dammmm

I know its for free but that doesnt give these white coat creatures to suck it like leeches and mosquitoes.

The day I Entered My House ............................. ( wait for it )









as a thief !!!!!!!!!!


The is how the story started. One of my room-ates decided to have a leak, he twisted the bathrooms knob but he realized that it was locked. So he did the obvious .... he knocked and asked the bathroom occupant to hurry up. But surprisingly no body replied and then he noticed that the bathroom light was also off.
So he checked our rooms and noticed that ... none of us was actually in the bathroom. We all talked and after a while we concluded the some how the door got locked from the inside.

And there was only one way to get into the bathroom .... a slit ( 1 ft by 1.5 ft ) which we call " Window ".

The photographs show the " break in " point. ( the window on the extreme right in the first photograph ).

Me being the skinner had to go in and open the door.

It was fun !!!!! :)

Rise Up ..... nice music, awesome video !!!!


watch the skippers ..... somewhere in the middle of the video watch them skip on their bumps ..hahah. They got springs " up their arses [:P] " ... hahahah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mouM5fw6HoA

Silly Video !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY





awareness test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47LCLoidJh4






Prank : watch the cyclist @ the end !!






People watch this.... nicee video !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo





Crosswalk !!!! poor car drivers !!!! [:P]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHT_ufv2iY8

Butter Fingers !!!!!


These are one of those days when things are just not going right. And i am getting clumsier [:P].
Since yesterday about 10 things have slipped out of my hands.

Here is a list: ( the counts are approx. no. )

*) Few bottles ( includes a coke and a bottle a water ) ------ 4-5 times
*) A small HRC shot glass ( which broke )
*) Ice Tray ---- about 3 times
*) My cell phone --- " 10 " times !!!!!!! ( am about to get rid of my Grandpa style cell soon ... niceee )
*) My Ipod --- 5 times
*) My camera lens ( which survived --- my heart was in mouth for a moment ) ... just once !!
*) And a small keg of milk ....

huh !!!

I am glad i dont play around with laptop, otherwise ......... !!!!!

Where has the " Spirit " gone !!!!


Every morning I watch India's news and read articles @ Rediff.
Rediff is my primary source of info when it comes to interesting articles. Today when i opened Rediff's site i saw a an article which was on a Cuban martial atrs Olympian. He hit the Match referee ( actually kicked him on his face ). The reason was that the referee ruled the match in favor of the Cuban guy's opponent due to something ( the match wasnt over officially ). I dont know who was at fault, but hitting the officials or the opponents is just not in the spirit of the any game. Even if it was the referee's fault, he should have gone and talked to the event chairperson or the olympics commitee.
I do understand that these atheletes get only one shot in 4 years, so things are intence and the pressure of Olympics is in itself is titanic. So its very easy to get carried away and do things like these... but why take matters in your hands and be the " LAW ". Its is quite possible that the Cuban guy wont get to represent his country anymore in any international event. He just did not kick the referee, he also kicked his future Goodbye !!!!!.

What was even more disappointing, was when the Cuban guy hit the referee, the other guy was still rejoicing over his circumstantial victory. He just did not care about what was going on at the other end. He was busy is monkey style dancing.
He didn't even make any attempt to stop the Cuban guy from going any further.

here is the video : ... initially few pics will be displayed but after a while the complete video on the incident will start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24BLj5DmbBw&feature=related

A new Band ... and good songs !!!

These days we dont get to see new bands really producing good songs. These days i am listening to this new band " Saving Abel " ... they these 4 good songs ...


Addicted:








Sailed Away :





18 days:




Beautiful Day:

Khoon Chala !!!!!!!

I wasnt there when this happened and i deeply regret not being a part of it.
15th Aug India's Independence day ... wasnt celebrated here in my university, but people here did do something that has to be commended ....

here watch this !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZULALkWXs







JAI HIND !!!!

GOD !!!!!! ......... I Hate Myself !!!!!

yaahh you read that right .... I " HATE " myself to an extent that i detest my very existence.

Why ..

*) I am an incompetent asshole
*) Procrastination is in my blood .. ( but i do eventually complete things )
*) I am a ( in Steve Waugh's words ) " Choker " . I do everything right but when it really matters, I put myself down and end up doing things horribly wrong.

*) People hate me even more for what I am.
*) I am like jack of all trades but master of none. ( ask me one thing that i am really good @ : as in expert .... i'll probably give you a blank face )
*) I hate my life .... my luck tries to make up for it, but even that has turned shity recently.
*) I am in a wrong place, doing some thing i shouldn't be !!


I can go on ..... in short i hate everything about myself !!!!!!

Crazy Driving !!!!!......

Today we were coming back to Syracuse and we were late as we had to reach by 6 pm anyhow ...
so whenever we got a chance we did this ......


100-110 miles/hr

Who is Mic Jackson .... again ?????

This vdo was taken in the subway to NYC ... and believe me somehow i love it. It was not extra ordinary but was gr8 watching this dwarf doing some quality moonwalk.
I guess the NYC subway has more to offer that times sq.

Times Sq and HRC .... Vdoz !!!
















HRC : Suits of " the Beatles "

Some random vdos .... from my NYC trip !!!!

The first 3 vdoz are of St Partick's Cathedral













Apple Store



Bikes @ 53rd and 6th

Where to ? ..... NYC !!!!...... hmm ok wait for me !!

Yesterday my friend rented a car, i asked him where he was heading to ? He didnt reply but instead asked me to tag along. I had no plans of leaving Syracuse or even my home yesterday evening, but the moment he told me that he was going to NYC for a day.... I was ready in a flash. Packed my bags in 10 min ... and off we were to NYC.

This is my 3rd unplanned visit to NYC.

Well i am in NYC right now so dont have much to write, but here are few interesting things I noticed along the way

1) A 2 mile long traffic jam ... in which were stuck for an hour.
2) we saw weird white circles on the road which we had never seen befor ( they were some kind of traffic signs .. and we had no idea what they ment )
3) for about 2 hrs of journey were surrounded by mist ( it was so dense that calling it a fog wont be wrong ... we couldnt even see the moon or the lamps ... it was that thick ). 22* C it was (70*F) and as far as i know 20*C is not cold enough to create a fog that dense.
4) after we were out of the fogy area, we had a crystal clear sky above .. but even though we could see rain drops on our screen and aournd us. ( this is not that strange .. but good enough )
5) I have never been tailgated by a monster truck. But this was the day it happend.
There was this mad truck driver who was almost driving bumper to bumper with every car that was in front of him. Imagine driving 70-80 miles/hr with the fear of crushed by a gigantic truck.... hahahah.

6)Lastly : We lost the race against our GPS. Our GPS showed the estimated time to reach our destination..... which was 11:06 pm. When i say race againgst our GPS i mean we set up a target time less than what our GPS shows and try to make it within that targeted time.
So we normally dont loose but this time we did..... " shit ". In the end we were off traget by quite a bit... we reached around 11:15 pm.

Why is it so hard .... ?? Just say it !!!


I have no idea why people find it so hard to just step up and ..... say it all something on somebody's face. If you want to admit something, abuse somebody, propose to someone or whatever .. just say it. People just try to express themselves in every possible way they can but they just dont take the easiest way out, which is " blatantly say it on the face " !!!!!! Come on how hard it is ?

I can understand, ya if the person you are talking to is your friend, you may not want to be rude and egregiously blunt ...... but i feel one should speak ones heart out. You may want to keep shut for few days but you must say it when its time.

I have been seeing people around me trying to push me away and i have no clue why they are doing that. And i dont think i did something wrong to earn that kind of an attitude. If feel these people or this one person doesnt want me around. So if that's the case .... just say it .
" Dude " i just dont want you here..... end of topic .

Is it that hard !!!!!!! naaah i dont think so ...... and i do wanna know the reason !!!!

Have mercy on me ... dear Router !!!!!


My router has nasty sleeping habit. It stops working whenever it wants to, works whenever it wants to. It has mind of it's own ( i wonder ... that is the effect of the Terminator series ).

What irritates me the most is the frequent toggling between its sleep and wake modes. And this happens when i am doing something really important on the net.

Yesterday was one of those that when my router was at its best "worst" behavior. I was cussing it like anything. I restarted it many times, but that didnt help at all.
Well ... i had other ways !!!! it kicked it, slapped it ... and waaallllaaaaahhhhh it stared working.

But what i didnt realize was after all that thrashing, it just had to do something to annoy me even more.
So the time came ..... i was filling up my UK visa forms. Just when i completed it and i was about to make the payment ( and to save the form ) that F********* router stopped working. And for 10 min it remained that way.

As a result all my forms got erased and the UK Visa server logged me out. And above all that my forms we not saved. .... i was so pissed that i felt like ripping it ( router ) apart.
But thats the only router i have .....



So moral of the story is ...... Never ever beat up your router !!!!! ( @least i wont do it )

Questions ????????
( another one of my silly ... time killing posts )


Lately i have been asking people 5 weird Qs. At first i thought that people would say " WTF what kind of silly Q is that .. or dont you have anything better to do? " And i had answers ready for those kind of replies.
But to my surprise....... they all seriously answered my Qs !!!
They were interesting ...

Q1) ( a standard Q ) What all things would you do if somebody told you that you had just 6 more months to live.

Q2) If your competitor or your enemy challenged you to do something you dread the most, would you do it? ............. If not then why ??

Q3) If something or certain situation demands you to leave something or someone that's dearest to you ........ Would you give up ? ( and you know giving up is the only way out ).

Q4) Well all have a dream job and a life that we all want to live. And you will go to any extent to get them both. And if by some miracle you get both of this.... wow !!!. Now somebody offers you to trade this gifted job and life with all the money Bill Gates has ............. Would you accept the money and leave what to desired and respected the most?

Q5) Do you want a long life ( a happy life but a bit boring and bit monotonous, where you have a good job, nice house ... but its the same 24*7 ) or ..... a short one where you do the most amazing things and you get to do things a person could only dream on doing even of he/she get to live for say 100 yrs?



I got some really crazy answers ... and boy i loved those conversations.
I would want you guys to think and reply if you feel like.

Gran Apertura : 2008 Olympics

Today I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2008. And as per me it was by far the most beautiful opening ceremonies ever. I loved the Athens Olympics ceremony and i had he feeling then ( and i guess till today ..b4 i watched the show ) that it was divine. And i guess it still holds its crown for the best Olympic ceremony ever.
But today's show on 08/08/08 stands along side Athens's.

The 2 things that swing the balance on China's side were the fireworks and the way they lit the Olympic torch.
The firework was awesome and absolutely spectacular. And as for the touch thing the concept of the flying man was class apart.

Hyper Time !!!!


Its been one year here and there were times when i was swamped with work. Yesterday i got a glimpse of whats in store for me for the next few months. This will be a : "Mammoth work load".

And i have no idea how am i gonna keep this up with my on-campus job next semester.
And i hope this doesnt kill my leisure time.

Space, Eclipse, Earth .... Cosmos and Heaven.

Yesterday me and my friend were having a discussion on what we thought of space odysseys. And i wanted to tell her that it could be a beautiful and spell bounding adventure.
Space, Cosmos are synonyms of Heaven. People say earth is beautiful, by god it is !! But imagine how beautiful that thing would be .... that created this planet earth.

I agree space is dangerous but, at the same time its beautiful. You get to see some of the most amazing creations of God. Its one gigantic firework show. Its a place where every single spark, every single flame of fire, every explosion and every collision is a master piece of an art named COSMOS ( aka space ).

I can go on and write pages on this ... but i'll just stop here. The whole purpose of this post was to put up this video of the recent solar eclipse taken from a plane.

I wish i could see a solar eclipse from a plane.. NO WAIT ... from space. For a second imagine the whole picture ... you are in space, in a space shuttle or in a space station and solar eclipse happens. Ohhhhhh !!!! that would be .... DIVINE !!!!!!!!!!

Here is the link to that video .....

http://gizmodo.com/5032374/beautiful-video-of-a-solar-eclipse-taken-from-an-airplane

Am I worth 500 $ !!!!!!


My insurance is exp. on August 1st. And its cost a whooping 500 $. And in times when you are living on a shoe string budget then even 500 $ look like $ 5 mil.

I was going though my finances today and thought am i worth 500 $. The answer ... " NO " !!!.
I cost a lot less that $ 500. :P

Believe me its very hard ... to give away those 500 $ every 6 months. Seriously .. i can do 4 10000 ft jumps, or go on a road trip after renting a car for say a week, or i can buy a Pool table.
I can think of a thousand things worth doing with that amount of 500.

But why that insurance !!!!!..

And whats with this university, why cant i enroll for classes without the insurance. That's simply my problem, my life .... i'll deal with my health and life problems, why is the university so worried.

Its not that i am after money ... or i would die for it ( money is one of the last things in my lists of priorities ), but why spend it on some shity insurance.

Terrace Walk !!!!!


As usual i had nothing to do this evening ( rather i didnt want to do anything ). I was bored of watching movies/tv shows on my laptop , or lets say i was bored of my laptop. And only source of entertainment in and near univ is few hrs of quality Pool time. Bust since I dont have a Pool table here and the student center closes at 5, above all that I could hardly think of anything worth calling a time pass .... so i took a terrace walk.

In-fact !!! : I wrote this blog post just to kill time ...

I walked rather hopped out of the window on to the terrace with my best friend " My cam ".
Did some random shooting which included a shot of my camera itself. And believe me it wasnt me that took it, .. it was the cam itself . Sadly the only visilble body part was the strap and the lid.

Ohh ya there was one moment when i almost slipped of the edge. At least some excitement was there even though i lasted for few seconds.

This wasnt that much fun but .... was better than banging my head on the laptop.

" The Chimney "

Some Church

Comstock Place

Mind Twister !!!!!!


My brain is screwed !!!!!.... BIG TIME !!!!!!!!!!!
I do silly things and the shity thing is I laugh on my own idiocities ( thats not even a word .. but i like it )

Things I do:

* This has happened twice in one wk. Instead of using a shampoo i ended up using the shower gel on my brainless screwed head.

* I prepared myself 2 slices of bread & jam took the ice cubes out for juice and guess what ..... i kept the bread / jam in the freezer and was walking away with the ice tray to my room.

* ( this happened a few day ago ) .. i was supposed to put some sugar in something instead i made it salty ( the usual F****up we all do .. sometimes )

* I keep things someplace and after a while i forget about their whereabouts. ( this happens mostly with my pens )



And as i say " of all the things i have lost i miss my mind the most " !!!!!


" where is my mind " ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPE2zKbORF0

Weird Things happening !!!!!

I guess the title says it all, so i'll just list a few of them:


* I have been sleeping a lot less than i normally do. Some how my sleeping hrs have drastically reduced to 4-5 hrs and i cant sleep after that. How badly I need a a good nap only my eyes can tell. ( My eyes are so red in the morning even the mirror gets scared).

* I dream of me getting stuck in a cross fire and eventually getting shot. ( i guess these are the after effects of Counter Strike )

* I take out all my frustration on the Pool balls.

* Strange things are happening and i have no clue how to interpret them.

* I have a hunch that people have started hating me and in some or the other way they mock me because of my bluntness. ( and / or may be for some other reasons )

Who cares ... !!!!


This is "again" one of my serious posts. And as my friend " SLY " comments : dude that's some heavy stuff . And seriously i dont know why i am writing this but i guess i feel like..

So here it is. Lately i have been thinking about few things, things that are not my problem but they kind of become mine. I guess this is because i think about them a lot or simply because i care about.
I try to hide them but they some how find their way to the surface. And no matter how glaringly obvious these problems become, nobody seems to care. " Story of my life ". Your problems you deal with them.

People wont budge, no matter how i hard you try to make people understand what you feel and what you want. And in the end you just leave it to fate. And hope time would do its job and make things right.

I have been trying to make people understand but now i know that they just dont care.

Reason?.. i mark it as " UNKNOWN ".

But they all pretend to care and as Shakespeare said " the world is a stage ...... " indeed it is ... and these people they all ACT ... ( and boy they ACT well ).




Quote: " I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement, battered by the winds and broken in by the storms, and all i know is that the landlord does not care " !!!!!

Black River .. My rafting experience !!!!












Today we went for a 5 hr violent ride on rapids of Black River. It had about 14 level 3-4 rapids. And believe me in 2 or 3 of those ... people had their hearts in mouth.

The best of all was a rapid named "cruncher". It was like 3 rapids clubbed together. Towards the end were two big rocks ( facing each other ) and two small rocks ( well inside the water ) were on there left and right of the big ones ( like the corners of a sq ). The big rocks formed two mounds of water and the small rocks caused turbulent tides. And the effect all these 4 rocks had was of a huge natural juggler.

Before we went into this " juggler " our guides told us about the hazards of this rapid, so just in case anybody wanted to back out that was the best time to raise the white flag.

We were in total 9 people. 5 were in one raft and 4 were in the other. We were supposed to go upstream into that "juggler". Both the teams couldnt do it @ first, so all hopped into one raft and moved in.

And here came the moment. We were counting our peddle strokes " 1 2 3" " 1 2 3". When we started the third round our 1 2 3z .. people started falling out, one by one.. 5 of them went down.
The guide told us not to swim in that juggler if we happen to fall get caught in it , because it was like a whirlpool, you would move in circles and the swim strokes wouldnt do any good. So we were asked to roll up in a ball and hope the water would spit us out. In the worst case scenario (if we couldnt get out of the spin ) our only hope was a rope.

4 of us we in the boat the whole time. And the raft was like a ball in hands of that rapid. It kept spinning, tossing , flipping us in every possible direction it could.

Finally after 4-5 minutes in the "juggler" we were thrown out of the rapid (not the raft ).

Then we all came down a 12 ft fall rapid and we were done with out tour of 14 rapids.


It was a fun, thrilling , "egg"citing , adrenalin pumping ride.


My next adventure and a long awaited one as well is a " sky dive ". I guess that would be in September. 2 months to save some money, 2 months to have the drive of a lifetime and 2 months to have a 10 sec tour of "heaven".

All that's left is.....



Call it philosophy or call some random words from some random useless mind but my dear friends this is a "Gospel Fact".

Today i saw one of my friends put this in his gtalk ( google mail chat ) status bar and i couldnt resist putting this up here...



" People want to care, but they forget to do that. People want to help, but soon realize they can do something better with their time. People you wish would care, have a lot going in their lives to bother. People who will care, well you can't tell them you need care. People say they wont, but they forget you. You would like to think that you are unique, unforgettable; but it wont be soon before the world forgets you. All thats left is...for you to die alone. "

The Song of Hope !!!!


Well lately i have been thinking a lot about certain things. They all just keep raising questions. Its like a chain reaction of Qs, one gives way to two and those two to 4 ... and so on. And i am just not thinking straight. ( Its not that i cant but its more like i am not able to ). Weird thoughts buzz in and move out. These are all about me and my present life and also about things that i " WILL"
( most certainly i will ) face in years to come.

All i need is hope. !!!!

In times like these i always turn to music.
They say music is the doctor of all.



So i just keep listening to this one song all day long. " Stairway to heaven " : Led Zeppelin .
I found a live version of this masterpiece by Ld Zep and the rythm is better that the original version. The deapth in its lyrics is simply divine.
Its like this song is keeping alive these days. And the best part is i dont get bored by listening to it repeatedly.
Mostly i try to listen to floyd in these situations but i dont know why i rate this one above foyd's songs these days.


Here is the song..... " Stairway To Heaven " : led Zeppelin 1973

Get me something mouth watering, finger licking and slurpy to eat !!!!


Its been almost an year now and " and " i have never, not even once gorged in tasty meal.
I miss all the chicken tikkas, tanrdooris, paneer tikkas, halwa, gujiyas.
Everyday i eat my hand made disgusting food. Everyday i go in the kitchen hoping that i'll come out saying " ohhh my God .. this food, this .. my hand made food is so awesome" !!!!. Well you know its a hope.... just a hope.
And as my culinary skills are way beyond "worst" i can hope only for some miracle to get some "ohh M G " kind food off my hand.

"THE VDO"....

This is some random vdo on some random TP (time pass) i do these days.
In case the vdo looks 2 fast:
this is what i was doing for about 2 hrs:

*) gtalk chat
*) ph calls
*) did some writing
*) tore every single molecule of the chewing gum i had in my mouth (that is y u see my lips moving)
*) ate maggie
*)tried to study .. ended up trying only
*) fiddled around with the football
*) etc etc .....

just in case... the link doesnt work... here is the link



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tcCpdOJH0

A strange feeling, A weird Desire, Another Dream. !!!!!






" Tricolor": that's the flag ...

This is me Ashish Agrawal ( i see a spell check under my name ), and i guess this what i am "natures another mistake". Recently i saw a movie " wanted ", the actor Googled his name everyday just to know whether he exists in the dictionary of the world. Like me he got a prompt " no search results found ". This is not about " i want to be famous , popular or a rockstar", this is about one of dreams. Which ironically demands me to be a known figure, for it to become a real thing.
So here it is ...

I have India's national flag in my room, which happens to be right above my bed. Its the only things thats prominent and the only things that stands out in my room.

It feels great to lie down and stare it for a while. " IT SIMPLY FEELS GREAT " !!!
Its a feeling that only the most honoured men/women get to feel ( this doest not imply that i among those few ).

I sometimes wonder how would it feel to have a the " Tricolor " around your body and and the whole nation/world is watching you. One would understand it only if he/she sacrifises his/her life which is worthy of such an honour.

I know i'll never see such an event where i am the eyecatcher, but this is my dream. I "so" want to have that FLAG on and around me when i die.

Canceled !!!!!! x-(


Its summer and I am busy making plans. Plans of going around and seeing places. Most of these were canceled, 'cos of various reasons.

I wanted to attend the Pearl Jam concert scheduled for 30th June in Mansfield, MA. This was one thing i really i wanted to do. But " history repeats itself " rite.... so even this was canceled.
A simple reason I had no company.

Its sad. ..

but here ... i am going to these two concerts.... and i dont care whether i go alone or with a dozen people, I AM GOING... !!!!!

" stamped and sealed " !!!!!!!!

Concerts :

" Bob Dylan " : 17th august Saratoga Spring , NY
" Chris Daughtry " : 21th august , Syracuse , NY
" Goo Goo Dolls and Def Leppard " : 22 aug and 24 aug Syracuse, NY.

Cornell .... @ 2 am !!!!





" NANOTECH Building " : Cornell Universty.




" Olive Garden: Italian Restaurant "



We went for a lavish dinner last night @ Olive Garden ( an Italian Restaurant ). The restaurant was B...E....A ...U....T...I..ful and above that the food was awesome. It was 12:30 or 45 by the time we were done gorging in food. At 1 AM we came home picked some stuff and off we were to Ithaca. The reason we went there was, we didnt want to go home so early and the weather was gr8, cool winds and the smell of raindrops were pushing us to spend some time on the roads.
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It was fun, the wind gussing in the car from all sides ( ohhh and the sun roof .. made it even better). Cornell University ( an Ivy league ) was our target.

We reached Cornell @ 2:15. It was beautiful. Its entrance is through a gaurge. Imagine u have a natural fall in you university. The duo of old medivial style and modern structures was deadly.

We stolled there for about and hour. We all wanted to have a leak then. It took us 30 min to find one loo. We checked all the buildings that our eyes laid sight on. But none of them were open for us ( the all req. Cornell IDs ). In the end we found one building we could have never imagined to have open doors, newly constructed "NANOTECHNOLOGY Building". The was one awesome structure. It was no less than a 3 start hotel. 3 storied bulding will gr8 labs and machines huh !!!!. I wish i had that kin do fbuilding here in my univ.

We did what we came for " euuuureka "!!!!. Looked around again. And then we were off to a lake side drive. That was beautiful as well. We yapped there for an hour and then left the place @ 5 am.

Ohhh i loved the peace in the air last night. It was so quite that you could actually hear the sound of the ripples in the lake and ya not to mention the breaze.
I love these meaniningless, random trips. And if i get to such a quite place to sit .... ohh it attaches a better boundary to such late nite excursions.


( i wish i had more time to stay @ the lake... ).

"Into The wild "....

I saw this movie today ( dono how i missed it ). But how i feel and what i want say is better said thought these soundtracks ( OSTz of Into the Wild).

Its an awesome flick. U have to watch it to understand what i am saying.

Before you listen to the track here are the lyrics.

Long Nights : Eddie Vedder ( Pearl Jam's Vocalist )


Have no fear
For when I'm alone
I'll be better off than I was before

I've got this light
I'll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know

I've got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground



No ceiling : Eddie Vedder

Comes the morning
When I can feel
That there's nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never
Will never be far from here

Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there's a reason I'll be
A reason I'll be back

As I walk
The Hemisphere
*I've got* my wish
To up and disappear

*I've been* wounded
*I've been* healed
Now for landing *I've been*
Landing *I've been* cleared

Sure as I'm breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom
In my flesh

I leave here believing
More than I had
This Love has got
No Ceiling



Vdoz :

Long Nights :




No ceiling :

Fact File :


We all know " Pink Floyd" is a GOD band. But yesterday i found something new.
The life changing album of Floyd and a land mark in the history of rock and roll " the dark side of the moon" was doing badly in US. And it was an Indian who made it Platinum here in US.


watch this !!!!






And just in case you are interested in ... watching the complete show...

here is the link... u can navigate the all the parts from youtube. The first part is here :

" I " - HOP ... yahh we hopped .. for abt 40 miles . !!!!!!

Last nite 5 of us went out for a movie " get smart " . We were late so we had to kill are desire to eat early and do some stuff later. It was 12:30 am when the movie got over.
At that time IHOP ( International House of Pancakes ) was the best option we had. And believe me our stomachs were growling hard for that awesome " chicken Fajita omelette " and the super soft pancakes they serve.
So we fed our classy Honda GPS the location of the IHOP which has the best service here. But like any other hifi gadjet it failed to show up the results. In the end we went to the nearest IHOP, which was about 7 miles away from where we were. When we rached there it was all full. 20 out of 22 tables were occupied.
We had to leave for the IHOP we had planed to visit earlier. Luckily we now got it on the GPS. It was 12 miles from that place.
Our bad luck contiued .. we reached there and it was closed. Dammmm
it was now 1: 30 am.
We tried for the third IHOP which was again ... 12-13 miles drive. And we all drove 13 miles for nothing. We couldnt find any " IHOP " there. Marred by luck, we decided to go back to the packed IHOP. And it was againg 13 miles from that place. ( talk about how lucky 13 is ).

In the end we had our dinner @ 2:30 am. But it was worth waiting. We came home around 4 am.
And the 7 hr nap was just what the doc ordered.


That sums up my Hopping dinener ... @ IHOP.



PS : the late nite drive reminded me of my undergrad days in India. Coffee @ 1am in Guffaa and the tea and poha @ 3 am in shankarnagar. I miss those days.

Two songs i listen a lot these days !!!

Everything For Free:





Not And Addict:

My Movie list for this year !!!!!


* : interesting but shouldn't be that a gr8 flick ( could watch it )

* * : will watch if i get time and company

* * * : ohh " i'll watch this one "

* * * * : people no way i am missing this one .... and you go watch it as well.


1) Mongol * * * *
2) Wanted * * *
3) Twilight * * *
4) Kicking It * * * *
5) Babylon A.D. * *
6) BOY A * * * *
7) Righteous Kill * * *
8)Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emp. * * * *
9) The Promotion *
10) Dark Knight * *
11) Hancock * * *
12) Bloodline * * * *
13) Tropic Thunder *
14) Journey to the center of the earth *
15) Noise * *
16) Hellboy 2 ***

Camera Lens Vs. Sky diving !!!!!!!!!!!!



Its summer now and i plan to go on long drives. And if i go places i will do photography, its kind of a hobby and besides i love it.
Last semester bought a cam Sony DSC H7 ( a hybrid cam or lets say it almost matches the lower end DSLRz). I was actually saving money for Canon Rebel XTi, but my patience gave up and had to buy this one. It works fine, though if i have went along with what my instincts said i would have ended up buying Canon S5 IS, which i now realize would have been a better choice. Though there is hardly any difference in them.
When i was done with all my save money it was now time to move to the next level. I started saving money for a sky dive. This has been my dream since i don't know when. I ended up saving around 200 $ for it.
I was about to plan a trip to the Long Island for the sky dive, i found out that Sony has two converter lenses for my DSC H7. Now how in the world can i resist trying those. I ended up buying those to lenses with money that i had saved for my " FREE FALL " adventure.

The lenses are awesome no doubt. I once had a thought flash of sending those two back and keep the money for sky dive, but my love for photography won over my " free fall " dream.

But i know i'll some how manage to get the Sky dive done this summer only after all, 10 sec in heaven... who would want to miss that.

Killer Apps !!!!!

Apple yesterday announced the launch of new iphone 3G. iPhone says a lot about itself and with that 3G in it is like another feather in the hat.
What makes it even more special are the new awesome Apps ( applications ).
These apps include games, remote desktop browsing, friend locater ( shows the location of a friend on a map) and many more interesting apps.

Out of these i found the " Mobile me" and " loopt " most interesting and useful.
Mobile me stores all the information about you and your contacts which are on your MAC or PC ( including your mail and files on you desktop ) in a remote server " Cloud " from where you can access all the information from anywhere in the world though your iPhone. And any change that you make on your PC/ MAC or iPhone will be reflected back/saved in all the devices that are connected to your mobile me account.

Cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loopt is a social networking app. that basically locates your friend and displays his/her current location on a map.

Niceeeee !!!!!!!


There are many other apps. Look them up .. !!!

iPhone 3G !!!!!!!!!!!






Its here !!!!!
Today at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, California Apple announced the much awaited " iPhone 3G ". Well by now everybody knows its heavily loaded with new gr8 apps, GPS and all that stuff. What was a shocker was its price, a dirt cheap ( when compared with other 3g PDA type cells ) $ 199 .

I guess Steve Jobs wants the whole dam world to use only iPhone.
You will hear the kids say " I want iPhone and nothing but iPhone ". In my opinion Mr. Jobs and apple finance handlers didnt realize that its gonna a nightmare for the parents to keep the rope tight on their kids.

It has almost everything with that people wanted in that apple product, but still its not upto that mark. Take the GPS for instance its an " Assisted GPS " not the kind of GPS we have in our cars.
I guess apple left it for the future, just to keep them busy with iPhone. The apple people like creating a buzz about there expected products. With the " assisted GPS " they want the people to keep flooding there blogs/forums etc with rumors about the next iPhone ( iPhone 3G x lets say ).


Anyways enough said I think i should buy it. The black one of course.

Apple iPhone 3G launch:

Boondock Saints .. ( Explicit Content .. viewers digression is advised :P )


This one in my opinion provides the best possible solution to reduce the the crime rate. Some might digress with this view of mine but if one need justification i say watch the movie and listen to what people say towards the end ( during the casting). If you are still not convinced i say you have a blind faith in the egregiously corrupted judiciary of ours.

The movie is about two brothers who fight for the good of the society, and by fight i mean they pulverize the "bad" people.

Its not "that" a great movie in terms of direction and picturization but what sets this flick apart are the dialogs. Its a mix of the Irish , American , Italian and Russian accents. One more plus point are the hymns. The two main characters chant a prayer before they announce there judgment.. which believe me is awesome. Its not something that one would call "music to my ears" when you listen to it carefully, as the contents are not that pleasing. But what's in that hymn is a fact. " A bitter truth".

And ya last but not the least the use of the " F " word is like somebody had a verbal diarrhea of the " F " word. There is a a scene where a guy uses the " F " word in every grammatical way he knew. Imagine after hearing this what would the other guy standing with him must have said ....

Guess ????????.............

" Now that describes the diversity of the word ". :P


Its an old flick. But one should watch it.


Here is the stretched version of the prayer which the two main actors say:


"Now you will receive us.
We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
We do not want your tired and sick.
It is your corrupt we claim.
It is your evil that will be sought by us.
With every breath we shall hunt them down.
Each day, we will spill their blood till it rains down from the skies.
Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
There are varying degrees of evil, we urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three. And on that day, you will reap it.
And we will send you to whatever god you wish.
And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.

In nomine Patri.
Et Fili.
Spiritus Sancti."