Blame it on my TA job X(. I have to do TA for a studio class and so, I've to talk with all american undergrad kids and I pick up their accent.. :( I find it so wierd when I talk that way, but it comes naturally if you talk with them for like 4 hrs a week :| I even pronounce my name like that.. Arun is pronounced with a few pebbles in mouth :P Noemaun ( my roomie ) got totally psyched when I was talking in their accent the second day I came here, when I went to the Radio shack. :)) At that time I made it up because otherwise they wouldnt get what I am sayin :P but but but.... today I was in the lab and answerin their questions.... and I realized I was so different! :(
The main difference comes in pronunciation of "A" and "R" I think.. and not pronouncin any "G" at the end... though there are \infty more differences.. but slowly I am changin! This aint no good maen ( man )! This aint :P I dont wanna change nothing. :(
so, Next time you talk to me..... dont keep the phone down if you hear some american accent. You might be calling the right number :D
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Big Bigil!!
So.. I have been interested in playing flute lately, thanks to my friend hari! the total enthu god in carnatic... I was searching and searching for websites which give useful info for learning flute.. Most of them are about carnatic music, but vocal. There is this prof in RPI named "Shiv kumar" who has put hazaaaaaaaaaaaar enthu in making a website with all kinds of info for learning carnatic music, mostly vocal. http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/music/
One of the seniors actually told me that he no longer puts enthu, since he is married and has kids and stuff. He has no time for it :(. I saw him in the department corridor I think, today. I wanted to go and gen talk to him about it, but didnt :-/. I was kinda nervous to talk to a prof generally about music and all. I was bulbing actually. I tried to do something else, and put my pen in my shirt pocket only to realize that there was no pocket. It was so shady... :)) He just looked at me and walked past. He must be tripping at me now :|
I met an american guy here, named Jeff, studying in the Electronic Arts department at RPI. He told me that he has even composed soundtracks for some english movies. I was like "WoooW! why the hell did this guy come to RPI?". He told me that he'll be meeting some professor at RPI today, who is some renowned flutist. He might not be able to teach, but he said he can try to get some contie who can teach flute. I was so happy :D
Anyway, basically I wanted to post something on what I was doing currently and keep you people informed. If you are wondering what "Bigil" means, you should probably ask some chennai tam d00d about it :)!
Friday, August 18, 2006
Greek city aint too geeky ....
I have been non-geeky things for a long time now.. Did you people notice that? :-? Let me go about outlining the things that have happened in the recent past. Guess thats what a blog is all about.
My flight journey was terrible, I should say... My flight was on the day next to that terrorist plot being foiled in UK. So, there was so much of security check everywhere that I felt like stripping completely and walking in the aiports... total pain!! every 10 mins there'll be a big queue and people have to remove everything from the pockets and the shoes also... then they'll check the boarding card and let me through.. argh!! Thanks to these idiots, I missed my connecting flight at Philadelphia and had to wait in the airport for 4 ducking hours.
After that life has been better, I stayed with the seniors :) Believe me I didnt miss my house grub AT ALL! They are expert cooks man! I even told those seniors, you people would probably make great husbands :P So, if theres any girl reading this.. probably you can look for husbands who did their post grads in US :)
And yeah, TA orientation and training has been taking almost all of my day time. From morning 8:30 to 4:00 PM they keep doing some activity or the other. To describe a typical day, I'll tell you what I did today. In the morning, we had lectures from the "Archer center for leadership training" and we did a lot of group activities. After the lunch, we had a lecture from Prof in the psychology about how to deal with depression and suicidal tendancies of Undergraduate students whom we teach. After that we were shown small videos on problems that most undergrads face and asked as of how we would react to it... Let me tell you, it was horrible. I would never want to solve such problems for them. Its all too personal. One of the situation was like this. "A girl comes to you and complains that the her labmate is hitting on her. Now, how'll you deal with this problem?" I mean, WHAT THE HELL??!? This is way beyond my responsibilities... OMG! I would never want to resolve such issues for others. But I guess I have to :(
Another trippy thing happened two days ago. We were going through this SPEAK test rules and stuff like that. The "Master TAs" as they are called are supposed to help us out by giving us some practice question. There was one story about a guy sitting in a park bench which had a wet paint. So, a korean guy was asked to tell the story. He started the story and went on slowly... and then he said " The man yelled "Oh my god! I sat and wet my pants!" ". I was lmfao =)). The Master TA was not laughing though. She went on to explain the guy what it really meant " You know when you say " I wet my pants" it could also mean that you actually peed in your pants". I couldnt stop laughing. I just turned my face so that it doesnt look awkward. But it was so funny :)) She was patiently explaining it to him some three times until he understood :D Poor female. Its funny when you think of yourself in such a situation. I would have surely laughed at him even if I were that Master TA :P
And yeah, I started bigiling here also ...... Lets hope I continue blogging :)
My flight journey was terrible, I should say... My flight was on the day next to that terrorist plot being foiled in UK. So, there was so much of security check everywhere that I felt like stripping completely and walking in the aiports... total pain!! every 10 mins there'll be a big queue and people have to remove everything from the pockets and the shoes also... then they'll check the boarding card and let me through.. argh!! Thanks to these idiots, I missed my connecting flight at Philadelphia and had to wait in the airport for 4 ducking hours.
After that life has been better, I stayed with the seniors :) Believe me I didnt miss my house grub AT ALL! They are expert cooks man! I even told those seniors, you people would probably make great husbands :P So, if theres any girl reading this.. probably you can look for husbands who did their post grads in US :)
And yeah, TA orientation and training has been taking almost all of my day time. From morning 8:30 to 4:00 PM they keep doing some activity or the other. To describe a typical day, I'll tell you what I did today. In the morning, we had lectures from the "Archer center for leadership training" and we did a lot of group activities. After the lunch, we had a lecture from Prof in the psychology about how to deal with depression and suicidal tendancies of Undergraduate students whom we teach. After that we were shown small videos on problems that most undergrads face and asked as of how we would react to it... Let me tell you, it was horrible. I would never want to solve such problems for them. Its all too personal. One of the situation was like this. "A girl comes to you and complains that the her labmate is hitting on her. Now, how'll you deal with this problem?" I mean, WHAT THE HELL??!? This is way beyond my responsibilities... OMG! I would never want to resolve such issues for others. But I guess I have to :(
Another trippy thing happened two days ago. We were going through this SPEAK test rules and stuff like that. The "Master TAs" as they are called are supposed to help us out by giving us some practice question. There was one story about a guy sitting in a park bench which had a wet paint. So, a korean guy was asked to tell the story. He started the story and went on slowly... and then he said " The man yelled "Oh my god! I sat and wet my pants!" ". I was lmfao =)). The Master TA was not laughing though. She went on to explain the guy what it really meant " You know when you say " I wet my pants" it could also mean that you actually peed in your pants". I couldnt stop laughing. I just turned my face so that it doesnt look awkward. But it was so funny :)) She was patiently explaining it to him some three times until he understood :D Poor female. Its funny when you think of yourself in such a situation. I would have surely laughed at him even if I were that Master TA :P
And yeah, I started bigiling here also ...... Lets hope I continue blogging :)
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Heil Fuehrer!
I saw one of the best World War II movies today - "Der untergang" or "The downfall". Excellent movie I should say; conveyed what it wanted to say clearly. It was not about the war exactly. It was more about what was happening personally around hitler during his last few weeks. The time when Berlin was going down. It shows how people treated the "Fuehrer". He was like a god for most of them. I always liked Hitler for his character. The most ideal military man I have ever heard of; stood by his principles till the end. It really touches your heart when Hitler feels betrayed by his own generals. When he realizes that his orders were no longer getting executed completely, he loses faith :'(. Its not about the war, its all about hitler and thats why I liked this movie a lot more than other general WWII movies and sentiments with people getting killed. I would have probably liked if germans had won the world war II. Dont ask me what the world would have been like if that did happen :-/ That'll probably be another blog :)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Ek Puppy Aapy dho
You might wonder what that means. You gotta know gujju for that OR you have to ask my dear friend ganja. Ganesh aka ganja, even after knowing what that means, says that statement to a gujju female who happens to come with us for the trek to Saurkundi pass. This is how it all started.
Initially ganja being a maajor fart god, keeps farting with all the junta out there, much more than the rest of us from IITM on extremely trivial/ completely boring topics which none of us in TG would want to talk about. Pk and I used to have nice discussions in the tent about ganja's farting skills. God knows whether they were farting or flirting. We assumed it was just the former, until our man does this stud thing.
A few gujju junta were there with us while we were eating and one guy happens to teach us some gujju. "Kame cho" meaning "how are you?". "Majaa maa" meaning "I am fine". "Meno bhi majaa maa" meaning "I am fine too". Then one guy says you can also say "Ek puppy aapy dho" meaning of which will be revealed at the end of the blog to keep the surprise going :D. Now our great man ganja packs and later goes and tries the phrase on a gujju female who was not in the party teaching us these words. He claims to have said that statement only because some other junta insisted him to and gave a disclaimer in the beginning to that girl before saying it. God knows where his brains were. I think he kept it in the tent :P. Now ganja has been farting with this female for quite a few days and thinks that girl wouldnt "mind" if its just said in a "playful" way. Alas, ganja was wrong. Just as ganja finished uttering those words, her face turns pale. She just leaves that place and doesnt talk with ganja after that. lol! We were laughing our f*cking ass off when ganja came and told the story to us. We were max teasing him and ganja was slisha psyched and he tried to console himself about this by saying "I dont care da. I have seen many people like this in jncasr. It doesnt matter." . We were like "yeah right! How could you do this da ganja! cupper". haha
Soon the gujju junta and a few other junta who know about this and the female well, start paining ganja :P. We had max fun man!!! It was ganja rape most of the time. Breakfast, during trek, lunch, dinner most of the day. Then some other fellow who thought he was helping ganja went and spoke to the female, and ganja gets more pained with that. lollu! Finally it was settled amicably when that female and ganja talked with each other a few days later. God knows what that conversation was. How I wish I overheard that :D
Anyway, if you wanna know what that phrase means ... it means "Give me a kiss"
Goooooooooooooooooooo ganja!
Initially ganja being a maajor fart god, keeps farting with all the junta out there, much more than the rest of us from IITM on extremely trivial/ completely boring topics which none of us in TG would want to talk about. Pk and I used to have nice discussions in the tent about ganja's farting skills. God knows whether they were farting or flirting. We assumed it was just the former, until our man does this stud thing.
A few gujju junta were there with us while we were eating and one guy happens to teach us some gujju. "Kame cho" meaning "how are you?". "Majaa maa" meaning "I am fine". "Meno bhi majaa maa" meaning "I am fine too". Then one guy says you can also say "Ek puppy aapy dho" meaning of which will be revealed at the end of the blog to keep the surprise going :D. Now our great man ganja packs and later goes and tries the phrase on a gujju female who was not in the party teaching us these words. He claims to have said that statement only because some other junta insisted him to and gave a disclaimer in the beginning to that girl before saying it. God knows where his brains were. I think he kept it in the tent :P. Now ganja has been farting with this female for quite a few days and thinks that girl wouldnt "mind" if its just said in a "playful" way. Alas, ganja was wrong. Just as ganja finished uttering those words, her face turns pale. She just leaves that place and doesnt talk with ganja after that. lol! We were laughing our f*cking ass off when ganja came and told the story to us. We were max teasing him and ganja was slisha psyched and he tried to console himself about this by saying "I dont care da. I have seen many people like this in jncasr. It doesnt matter." . We were like "yeah right! How could you do this da ganja! cupper". haha
Soon the gujju junta and a few other junta who know about this and the female well, start paining ganja :P. We had max fun man!!! It was ganja rape most of the time. Breakfast, during trek, lunch, dinner most of the day. Then some other fellow who thought he was helping ganja went and spoke to the female, and ganja gets more pained with that. lollu! Finally it was settled amicably when that female and ganja talked with each other a few days later. God knows what that conversation was. How I wish I overheard that :D
Anyway, if you wanna know what that phrase means ... it means "Give me a kiss"
Goooooooooooooooooooo ganja!
Saturday, May 13, 2006
X
Everyone talks about friends and parting with people and stuff these days. So, I thought I'll talk about some interesting phenomenon (probably more ppl like Y, but he is not even worth talking about..) named "X" that exists at my institute. This is a thing whose presence at IIT made no difference to others, atleast in my opinion
X an entity who used to live in godav did nothing in his hostel life but play chess and watch *shady stuff* in his comp. This entity used to park at my hostel for most of the time and study. Only a handful of people in his hostel knew about his existence ( note: this doesnt include his room neighbour). Even he doesnt care to know the people in his hostel probably because it doesnt help him in his grades anyway. I am not an exception in this regard; he knew me because I used to study with him during exams. I used to think, it was not just because of exams that he comes to my hostel and that he'll continue to come later on too. But I was wrong. In the seventh sem, we hardly had any courses in common, and his visits to our hostel reduced to single digits per semester. Having said that, I was surprised to see this guy pack his hostel and completely stay at home during the last semester. Last semester is the time when most of us are totally free and we always keep hanging out with friends, partying out, nightouts after nightouts of movies and stuff.. and this guy was just the opposite. He completely stayed in his house throughout the semester and when asked for a reason, he says "I am more comfortable in my house da, the grub is good.". Yeah, like we all love the food served at the hostels! X(. Infinite persuasions through chat, phone and talking in person hasnt changed him. I dont know what would have..
I was mostly never angry at him. Rather, I always felt bad for him. I think he missed a lot of college days life and he never really seemed to be bothered about it. Its probably good in oneway, he wouldnt miss it like me, later in life and feel about it. But isnt this the same nostalgic feeling that makes us feel good at times ....? I dont know if I'll ever be this "free" and "happy" in life again. I'll probably make some friends in my grad studies, but nothing like what it has been at IIT... I am chatting with him in the background. I no longer believe I can change him. Time doesnt run backwards, I wish it did. I wish I could change him right from the beginning .... I really do :'(
X an entity who used to live in godav did nothing in his hostel life but play chess and watch *shady stuff* in his comp. This entity used to park at my hostel for most of the time and study. Only a handful of people in his hostel knew about his existence ( note: this doesnt include his room neighbour). Even he doesnt care to know the people in his hostel probably because it doesnt help him in his grades anyway. I am not an exception in this regard; he knew me because I used to study with him during exams. I used to think, it was not just because of exams that he comes to my hostel and that he'll continue to come later on too. But I was wrong. In the seventh sem, we hardly had any courses in common, and his visits to our hostel reduced to single digits per semester. Having said that, I was surprised to see this guy pack his hostel and completely stay at home during the last semester. Last semester is the time when most of us are totally free and we always keep hanging out with friends, partying out, nightouts after nightouts of movies and stuff.. and this guy was just the opposite. He completely stayed in his house throughout the semester and when asked for a reason, he says "I am more comfortable in my house da, the grub is good.". Yeah, like we all love the food served at the hostels! X(. Infinite persuasions through chat, phone and talking in person hasnt changed him. I dont know what would have..
I was mostly never angry at him. Rather, I always felt bad for him. I think he missed a lot of college days life and he never really seemed to be bothered about it. Its probably good in oneway, he wouldnt miss it like me, later in life and feel about it. But isnt this the same nostalgic feeling that makes us feel good at times ....? I dont know if I'll ever be this "free" and "happy" in life again. I'll probably make some friends in my grad studies, but nothing like what it has been at IIT... I am chatting with him in the background. I no longer believe I can change him. Time doesnt run backwards, I wish it did. I wish I could change him right from the beginning .... I really do :'(
Saturday, May 06, 2006
I wanna be happy
I was chatting with "ranjit aka cc" at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Recently we have started talking a lot about "How to be happy in life?". Thanks to the movie "American beauty" which I saw a week ago, our discussions have been quite lovely . It was such an awesome movie. After that, I went to gurunath and was alone, somthing thats not expected of a person like me. I always go to such places with atleast one more fellow and keep farting. But today it was totally different. I went with a feeling that I should seriously enjoy life this evening, come what may. So, the next immediate thing that came to my mind was "What is happiness? after all...". I couldnt answer it myself, for I am so bored in life these days. I decided to silently watch others, and figure out what actually brings happiness to their life. Thats how it all started.
I ordered some food, and decided to park in a place and silently watch. I found a set of guys who were dedicated to "Gurunath fartters" community. They were really having some nice time out there. I knew they were happy. I could see the smile on their faces, people laughing out loud. I see these things very often, for I am one among them. I wanted to see something that I miss most of the time. So, I decide not to join the party. I was sitting in a shady place, and was waiting for my order to come. I saw a very elderly couple come to gurunath. Never seen such people in gurunath before. The aunty sat in the chair next to me, and the guy had no place to sit. I was thinking "Dont even think about it! I am not going to get up". She was enjoying her food (I presume) and the guy was looking somewhere else. They werent even talking with each other. After sometime she got up to get some food they had ordered and the guy immediately came and sat down at her place. :) When the female came back, I thought it was too indecent and so, I got up and stood near the door of gurunath. She got the chair, but they still werent talking. Something was wrong, they werent happy. I was looking in the wrong direction probably.
I saw the guy making the juice, the radio was loud, and he was singing along. I couldnt hear him, but I could visibly see his lips moving with the music. Infact I could, correlate his lip movement with the lyrics. It was a romantic song, and he suddenly started singing aloud. He was enjoying the music a lot, as I see it. Then I looked at another guy working at gurunath, remove a few coins from his pocket and carefully put it in the inner pocket of his purse. For a moment, I realized I was looking at things in detail. I saw him close the purse and put it in his right pant pocket on the back. He saw me, I quickly turned towards the entrance. Remember I hadnt opened my mouth after I ordered my food and I decided to play it that way. Jk, came to me, saw me standing next to the door and asked what I was waiting for. I showed him the token. He looked at me for a second, and then I said "noodles". He walked off and joined the fartting group.
I continued to look at the ppl who cook. One guy came and said something, they all started talking to him, teasing him and stuff. They were laughing and giggling. They were happy, and I was happy to find them that way. Now comes the so called "pain god" of the institue, OS. He came to me, looked at me and was quiet. He didnt utter a word. I was about to ask "Hey! Are you playing the same game?", but I didnt. He offered me some haldiram's stuff which I readily accepted. Silence broke in a minute and he was talking to me. I dont remember the exact words, but I was really happy talking to him. He was being so nice to me. He probably was, always and I wasnt seeing the good side of it. I saw an old fellow coming all the way to gurunath and having a coffee. I bet he enjoys it. I saw the gardener watering the lawn. I saw him play with the water pipe. They were all happy.
All these things were happening right next to me, I never looked at them all the while. I was really enjoying the game. I was being a good listener. I was so happy seeing others enjoying their life. I met PK after that and sat with him. I was feeling very light and happy within. He was so fussed up about the weather. I asked him "Have you seen american beauty? Did you like the movie?". He said "Yes da. Sood movie". I replied "There is beauty in everything. You just dont happen to see them.". PK shouted "Seruppaala adippaen. Veyyilla ukkaandhu idhuvum paesuva innumum paesuva" for the rest who dont understand tam, he was just blasting me. I realized happiness is in the way you look at things and I am not gonna miss a bit of it. No more "bored" status messages or orkut names. As "satya aka babe" would put it "I choose to be happy".
PS: This blog is too heavy for a first timer, and its probably very badly written... no KT, SSM .. plz
I ordered some food, and decided to park in a place and silently watch. I found a set of guys who were dedicated to "Gurunath fartters" community. They were really having some nice time out there. I knew they were happy. I could see the smile on their faces, people laughing out loud. I see these things very often, for I am one among them. I wanted to see something that I miss most of the time. So, I decide not to join the party. I was sitting in a shady place, and was waiting for my order to come. I saw a very elderly couple come to gurunath. Never seen such people in gurunath before. The aunty sat in the chair next to me, and the guy had no place to sit. I was thinking "Dont even think about it! I am not going to get up". She was enjoying her food (I presume) and the guy was looking somewhere else. They werent even talking with each other. After sometime she got up to get some food they had ordered and the guy immediately came and sat down at her place. :) When the female came back, I thought it was too indecent and so, I got up and stood near the door of gurunath. She got the chair, but they still werent talking. Something was wrong, they werent happy. I was looking in the wrong direction probably.
I saw the guy making the juice, the radio was loud, and he was singing along. I couldnt hear him, but I could visibly see his lips moving with the music. Infact I could, correlate his lip movement with the lyrics. It was a romantic song, and he suddenly started singing aloud. He was enjoying the music a lot, as I see it. Then I looked at another guy working at gurunath, remove a few coins from his pocket and carefully put it in the inner pocket of his purse. For a moment, I realized I was looking at things in detail. I saw him close the purse and put it in his right pant pocket on the back. He saw me, I quickly turned towards the entrance. Remember I hadnt opened my mouth after I ordered my food and I decided to play it that way. Jk, came to me, saw me standing next to the door and asked what I was waiting for. I showed him the token. He looked at me for a second, and then I said "noodles". He walked off and joined the fartting group.
I continued to look at the ppl who cook. One guy came and said something, they all started talking to him, teasing him and stuff. They were laughing and giggling. They were happy, and I was happy to find them that way. Now comes the so called "pain god" of the institue, OS. He came to me, looked at me and was quiet. He didnt utter a word. I was about to ask "Hey! Are you playing the same game?", but I didnt. He offered me some haldiram's stuff which I readily accepted. Silence broke in a minute and he was talking to me. I dont remember the exact words, but I was really happy talking to him. He was being so nice to me. He probably was, always and I wasnt seeing the good side of it. I saw an old fellow coming all the way to gurunath and having a coffee. I bet he enjoys it. I saw the gardener watering the lawn. I saw him play with the water pipe. They were all happy.
All these things were happening right next to me, I never looked at them all the while. I was really enjoying the game. I was being a good listener. I was so happy seeing others enjoying their life. I met PK after that and sat with him. I was feeling very light and happy within. He was so fussed up about the weather. I asked him "Have you seen american beauty? Did you like the movie?". He said "Yes da. Sood movie". I replied "There is beauty in everything. You just dont happen to see them.". PK shouted "Seruppaala adippaen. Veyyilla ukkaandhu idhuvum paesuva innumum paesuva" for the rest who dont understand tam, he was just blasting me. I realized happiness is in the way you look at things and I am not gonna miss a bit of it. No more "bored" status messages or orkut names. As "satya aka babe" would put it "I choose to be happy".
PS: This blog is too heavy for a first timer, and its probably very badly written... no KT, SSM .. plz
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