major miss u a lot.....!!!!!! :( :(

I have been thinking of penning some lines down for the past few days but this grad life is sucking most of my time off.....[:(].......my friends would laugh at me if I ever mention this or atleast they would get irritated when I tell them this because I am supposed to be the only person who seems to be free most of the time.......or atleast I tend to behave that I am free......!!!!!![:P].....

There goes this saying "A dog is man's best friend"....now people might be wondering why am I talking about dogs all of a sudden.....this post in my blog is dedicated to Major my best friend and my bro.....for those who know me well might be thinking where on earth did I get a brother all of a sudden....no I am not talking about a human....!!! I am talking about my dog....ooops!!!!! now did I utter that word....!!!! I hate people calling major a dog not major in general but "I hate people calling dogs as dogs"......Now the reason why I am putting up this post is that I want to remember major at least for the entire day today.....because it has been exactly 7 months since he died of heart attack...[:(].....and I couldn't even have a last glimpse of him because I was away from home doing my master's in the US of A....and the fact that was agonizing was though I loved him so much I couldn't even bid him goodbye when I was leaving India.....because of lot's of relatives in my place at that time.....and poor thing I could always hear him barking out my name whenever I used to call my parents back home...[:)]....and exactly a month after I left it died on our terrace out of a massive heart attack....and my dad and me who loved him a lot couldn't get a glimpse of him...[:(]......and the most agonizing part was I got to know that he passed away only 3 months after he left this world....[:(]......it was shocking!!!!....I still remember that one day when I was at my job, I called my grandparents and my grandmother accidentally let out the fact that he died which my parents were hiding it from me because they don't want me to get more emotionally upset(which I already was at that time).......!!!!!!

I still remember those lovely days when me, dad and major used to play cricket and mind u he was an awesome fielder....!!!!! need at least one of his kind in the Indian cricket team[:)].....Miss u a lot major and luv u a lot....May you rest in peace wherever you are....You are forever in my heart!!!!

the new year dish!!!!!

Today being Tamil new year's day I wanted to wake up early in the morning and cook something special and I did wake up after 3 of my alarms finally stopped ringing.....(I know my roommate might be cursing me bcoz this is the way I wake up everyday with 3 of my alarms ringing for a span of every 15 mins. :)) !!!!).....got up at 8:30 with a zeal to do something different today so that my family back in India would be proud especially my mom.....!!!!!! First I went and had a nice cup of tea(ahhh!!!! that tea made my day...:P...I finally had a chance to have some good tea after many months....) and then went and had my head bath....which I used to hate a lot when I was in India but here surprisingly.....[:P] then went ahead calling my relatives in India and also here in US wishing them a happy new year....made it a point that I wish them all in Tamil(supposed to be my mother tongue) and wished them saying "inniyai puthandu nall vazhthugal"(now that's happy new year in tamil for people who are still trying to figure out what it exactly means...)....now comes the biiiiiiiigggggg thing....:P I got into the act of making gulab jamuns(this is an Indian sweet dish).....it had a disastrous start where I ended up pouring more amount of water than required to the mix I purchased a day earlier exclusively for this occasion......(it was when I realized why people tell water is useful, don't waste it...:P).....I took my laptop to the kitchen, had my mother come online and give me instructions as to how to proceed further to avoid any further complications....luckily 2.5 hours of my hard work finally paid off and here lies the gulab jamun that u can see in the pic. :)......then took a few snaps and sent it to my mom to have an expert's opinion... :P) She was very elated seeing my effort and at the same time felt bad that she couldn't taste it....!!!! I told her "mom, u don't worry I would cook for u when I come down to India during my break"......... Hope I do that at least for one day during the break when I get back to India.... :P!!!!!

patriotism at stake!!!!

My fellow country men here in Cincinnati have been giving varied opinion about the life back in India right from the day I landed in the Uncle Sam's place!!!! U feel delighted when people praise ur motherland....u would have a sense of patriotism injected in u......what u call as "josh" in Hindi(my home country's national language) but today I was damn pissed off by this Indian prof. who was taking my Non linear dynamics class(might sound greek & latin to a few but this is what I read here :P). He had migrated here some 30 odd years ago and he feels that he was born here in this place and it means everything to him....agreed that this place is providing food & shelter to him but that doesn't mean he has to speak ill of the country that molded him during his teenage years and was responsible for providing him with the basic education that helped him reach to this great height.....!!!!!! He was making a mockery of India.......and me and my friend were the only Indian students in the class among a class of 20 odd students......Just imagine what those American classmates of mine must have thought of us....!!!!!! Generally these Americans have tendency of speaking great about their country even in cases when there isn't anything to speak about but why do we people fail to do that!!!!!! This prof. was talking about how dirty India is and how underdeveloped it is.....!!!!! That wasn't good on his part especially from a man of his stature!!!!! Way back home I was thinking is this how most of us are behaving......??? Is this how we are going to be after a few years of our stay here......Just see how this place is influencing people.....if this is the case then we would be hardly left with people to support our own nation....!!!!! There was this speech by our president A.P.J Abdul Kalam where he says why do our people always find fault with the government and the country saying that the country hasn't done anything for us!!!!! He quoted an example saying that our own countrymen maintain discipline by not throwing stuff on the streets and roads when they go abroad.....but the moment they land in India they start throwing and spitting right from the airport premises itself.....when u do such things u obviously don't have any right to complain.....!!!! There was this incident when my uncle had come down from USA to India along with his kids......and during his visit when we went out for some shopping he happened to throw some waste on the road when his son questioned him "dad, you said that you shouldn't be throwing stuff on the roads then why are you throwing it?" At first he was baffled by such a question and that too from a young kid but he convinced him saying that since everyone throws waste on the road here I also did the same thing.......I felt ashamed the way my uncle was convincing his son and justifying himself.....this was least expected from him.......!!! Seeing all this I made up my mind that under any circumstances that I shouldn't succumb and follow the path that others have followed.....instead this generation should be a trend setter for everyone......!!!! People should get inspired from us......and hope that Prof. of mine also gets a chance to read this and change his notion about his motherland atleast for once in his lifetime......!!!!!