Some cricket and my hectic schedule

hello everybody!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who dint know... i got my GA...
GA stands for Graduate Assistantship.....

in the english department....
lotsa big shots....
and the best part of my job is that i get to interact with them as their colleague...
i have my own room... its full of junk computers and its organs...
u guys can visit http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl if u wanna know more about my
colleagues and have a look at their faces....
my boss's name is Nancy Gebhardt, a stereotypical old american lady.
Almost everyone around me is very nice....

okie lets talk about some cricket...

I'm now part of a cricket team....
We are called advancers...

first match... we won... we played in astro turf.. awesome out field....
we scored 223 in 40 overs and they were allout for around 109 i guess...
i scored 8 opening the innings and was out driving a ball upishly straight into the hands of cover fieldsmen...
dint bowl... but i think i can better than many of my teams' bowlers...
i just coiudln't ask for them to give me a chance... they are all unlces... if u know
what i mean!!!!

second match... we lost ... but i played well... again in astroturf and this pitch was much faster than the older one....
scored 22 unbeaten runs.. i came as 7 down batsman and i had to play with the tail...
i had a hit in my crouch area... guys who play cricket know that its not funny
to get your balls wacked by the cricket balls.. though i had the cup in place it still tickled and i
had to gasp for breathe for a feww minutes....
i also kept wickets...
i dropped the openers catch when he was in knot and he went on to score 61 in 3o odd balls...
we lost the match only because of that....
we came pretty close though...

for scores click here
our batting scores is not updated yet and i guess it wont ever be updated but
i know the reader will believe me....
"Faith is a beautiful thing if not the best of things"

Home away from home

his post is dedicated to my new permanent accomodation @

826 S claremont avenue, Apt#2,
chicago, IL 60612.
US

I tried sending to groups but the size exceeded the limits and hence i'm posting it...
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This is one bedroom with newly bought stuff in it

Another bedroom.........
Another bedroom.... yeah its a 3 bedroom apt with guys in it...
Me, Siddharth, Sai prasad, VIjay krish and Sirish apparantly others haven't moved in then...
Corridor with 3 bedrooms and a common bathroom doors on the left... straight door is our balcony
This is kitchen...got a fridge, baking oven and shelfs(this comes with the house) and an oven(which u see in the pic) and a mixer are the ones we bought
kitchen again

me and sid
My roomie Siddharth boiling milk in oven...(see we dint give up on our heritage/culture/religion et al)


The above one is our pooja shelf...

I'm all CUBS and BULLS

Chicago is known for Chicago Cubs(baseball team.. which i'm getting addicted to) and Chicago bulls..... Jordan is still a GOD in my part of the world...

okiedokie...

I'm doing good here.... not good enuf for a GA though...
Something keeps pushing me...i still haven't found out wat...
but my day goes like this
wake up at 8 00 am
wait for the restroom(my bowels r on a strike i guess!!)
breakfast is : cereals with milk, protein shake or a half boiled egg, and a coffee(not even close to my mom's!!!)
and head to either west campus or east campus... east campus is engg and sciences... west campus is medical, nursing pharmacy n
stuff like that..... where ever i go i do this....
" hi i'm a grad stud... looking for ga(this with a big smile and they usually wish me.. they r artifically courteous..)
i just thought i wud drop in my resume.... hm huh.. is there ne openings here ?(reply :a spontaneous polite no) okie ne way
u may want my resume for ne future openings.... have a nice day..(i usually end up smiling as if i earned a million dollars) and sorry for the trouble..."
or something to this effect..
and we usually meet in some place to have lunch.. my fav is cheese pizza with a choc milk(3.5$.. the cheap and best in the east campus)
or eat in a chinese restaurant.. my good god they serve fried rice for 3 people and they call that "small veg fried rice" which is around 3.25$ and its not that good or not that bad either... and we go as 6 or 8 peeps and we will buy a JUMBO fried rice (small< medium< large< jumbo) which is around 8 $ and it turns to be a long fun lunch and also the cheapest possible...i once saw a fat (1 in 4 r obese) female devouring a large all by herself... and after that she went to the neighbouring shop to have a sub( a burger kinda thing sold in subway) and a drink(large.. close to 750ml)... i was shcoked to see that... peeps here live to eat...
i now no longer stay with those DAL fellows(DAL = kaboor[mocked version of kapoor]= north indians)
i live with tam folks.. when i say tam folks i mean pakka tam guys ranging from coimbatore, erode, chennai etc etc..
and the count is around 20 and we (5 of us) have signed a lease and will be moving in on sunday making the count go
to 25 everything is pretty close.... each house is either meter away laterally or a floor above me... so its immense fun esp in the weekend..
they screened padayappa... samma koothu!!! and we also played cricket...

speakin of cricket... guys take some 30 tennis balls(not exaggerating) and end up returning with mostly 0 or less than 5...
we play on sundays in between the lecture halls and we loose a tennis ball every 3 overs...start around 4 pm and end up around 8 30 pm....
sun sets here at around 9 pm ... and thats damn deceiving .. i while away my time thinking its just 6 and suddenly i realise when my dad calls up and the time is 9 30 or so....

i bowled after a long time and my shoulder went crazy....

and u guys must read my resume... it sounds as though i'm ready for a coding job in AT&T or BELL(bleeding babu bell hahahaha)
will post my resume or just mail you guys...

there was a b'day party for one of my senior... i saw some real time gross videos.... like the ones we download in kazaa and we see a guy getting killed alive or something to that effect...
b'day bums... i thought 'thank god my b'day comes in march'... machees dharma adi na dharma adi... and all are drunk...
the guy then gets ready for a abhishegam session and it goes like
samber 1 vessel full
rasam if any...
pepsi as many as ppl wish..
and some sarakku as well.. volume of it depends upon the cost of the sarakku..
and then he comes out bathing and guys r even more drunk now and now again a bums session and follwed by
cake abhishegam... he then again goes for a bath.. poor guy comes out hoping nothing happens and he gets some goodies...
this senior named JUDE got a Apple ipod shuffle... 200$ or so and other goodies like chocs and stuff

i usually hit my home at around 4pm and then music rings till i sleep.. and i walk in to ne of the seniors house and eat wat ever i want..
chips, juices, desserts, rice with sambar, biriyani wat not... dinner is usually very heavy as all of us eat lunch outside and breakfast is also very light....
and sit with comp for sometime.. get some conversation goin with seniors and get some tips from them....
and i crash at around 12 pm...

and u guys(my friends) and my family visit my dreams..... and at times some hot female who smiled at me when i said "have a nice day".... guess wat then... a guy named umashankar wakes me up saying "dey baadu time evalo theriyuma 8 15.... endhiri!!"

SMS.... Save My Soul

its been 20 years since i was born...

i had to overcome so many battles.... 10th board, 12th board, entrance, 4 yrs of engineering, GRE preparation, IIT interview... all these accompanied by mental instability at times, emotional discomfort.... now going abroad seems like just another struggle...

No... i need to take back my word... "just another struggle"...

Did i overcome those struggles all by myself?
Can i pat my back for my "so called accomplishments" ?

i was groomed in a green house, with all the necessary ingredients
required for making of a good human being... to be true i had been spoon fed.....

I'm gonna get sentimental and stuff... yeah i needed cut loose someday... this is it i guess...

To start with, my parents...

Amma... everyone's angel... "Universe is finite but unbound" says einstein.. i never grasped the feel of it... until i grew bigger and got matured enough to realise the depth of her unbound, infinite love... i think i will never be able to love someone like she loved me...
i had shouted at her, i had made her cry so many times that it amounts several times greater than she had cried not because of me.
i had hurt her so bad... and its been a consistant riddling of insults and scowling... all i get back is "a fleeting nominal curse (she doesn't even mean it a bit) followed by the cliched yet very comforting wave of warmth and PURE 911 unadulterated LOVE"...
i can go on and on... so many anecdotes to make me feel extremely guilty... but after all Time and Space are bound unlike her Love and the universe... Now i can completely understand the meaning of the thirukkurazh..."Punish the evil doer with a good deed".. she has unwarrantedly punished me.... She is gonna break down in the airport for sure... the biggest punishment i will ever get... i badly hope out of the odds to protect my masculine shell and be a man... " that is not to cry" not breakin down...
She was, is, will be my ANGEL. with utmost feel "enathu vaanam nee... izhandha siragum nee..."


Appa... people who know me will have a notion that i'm a wee bit intelligent etc etc.... i was architected by this genius of a man...
My First teacher and will be a teacher for ever... he taught me
mathematics, cricket, science, tamil, ssc blah blah... most importantly the rules of leading a meaningful life.. with his own as a case study.. how to respect people, how to deal with people, ... How To's are as big as Linux How To's!!!!
Tough time imagining how i would have grown up if he was not tuning me up the way he did..... i would have been a rogue... big mouthed good for nothin kid..
He is always My Big God Father!!


Madhan.... my big bro... i had never called him "Anna" once in my life..... though he is 7 years elder to me..... probably the guy who has influenced me the most... more than my appa...... my skill set is a proper subset of his... he taught me how to dance... "the cross legs"... made me a fan of sachin, Mj.... made me relish good music... taught me maths since my 10th... dad ran outta gas thats y.....
his character is flawless.... never even utters or thinks ill of someone... had a tough time earning a good name among my relatives... he was the "pet" for them...
the fights we had had are numerous... even when i was 18 we had a cheap fight... it got physical and as usual i was the loser...
In short, he is my MJ, my Sachin, my A R Rehman.... my ROLE MODEL!!! ...


Next comes a league of extra ordinary ladies and gentlemen.... my friends....

the list is pretty long.....
Easwar.... this guy has been in my books for a long time now... 11 yrs r so..
someone to whom no one will open out and dish out his/her sorrows...
but he's in phasae with me... very enigmatic.... lotta ppl misunderstand him..
but not me.... i know him very well... the one guy whom i will miss the most i guess,
simply because of the fact that i have been with him for a long time and he has tolerated
me for sometime!!!!... BROTHER would be an overkill; BEST FRIEND is an UNDERSTATEMENT... i hear mustaine's lead for she wolf..

A Sight i would miss!!

other school pals...

Akshaya, karpagavalli, Uthra.... this trio is the first set of people whom i got to make friendship
with from the other sex.... the realisation of the difference between the sexes... i found them as an emotional back up or a power house... i for some reason can open out to them pretty easily...

Akshaya... she knows a lot about me... short temepered, sweet, idiotic, friendly, sensitive, sportive. She had made me feel guilty... i had made her cry...thats why?? Now we have a interrupted communication due to her job and has problems of her own... in a husky voice i sing "what else should i say... 'ALL APOLOGIES' ..."

Karpagavalli... a very pleasing friend to have... a stereotypical south indian hindu girl... extremely pious... enigmatic at times... talkin like a don..'she is a "A SILENT KILLER" '

Uthra... special friend of mine... short and sweet. wierdly sensible for a female and unusually ambitious for an eve (i 'm not a male chauvenist but empirically speakin). i always run outta words when i write about this dame...damn... singin in high pitch "UNFADED PRIMA DONNA"

Prasanna... my class mate for 7yrs... this gifted irritator is often a sceptic or atleast pretends to be one for the sake of irritatin ppl.... he's "well settled".. so he wont miss me but i will.. "Alen Nair Iverson"

Shyam... classmate since 8th std...hard workin, reticent, intelligent. Never leaves a thing for tomorrow... and will prosper in any environment... "Arisikara theru hero"

College pals... esp my dept pals..

Suchai... my favourite friend... check the previous post for more details...he really deserves a separate post!!! humming mustafa's chorus "oh oh o........ oh oh"

Rajiv G mehra... sweet is often used with females... but i'm forced to call him so.. he's also on the sensitive side like the opposite sex...though very irritating at times... he's a great friend to have... "dil chahta hai..."

This blog is apparantly incomplete... as i dint have time to complete and i also found out i was running outta craetive juice to make my blog, esp the one about my friends and family, a good read... writing about everyone i love is very tedious and if someone find out that i haven't cared to put the pen down about them is extremely painful... so i wanna say all those who r mentioned in this post and all those who aren't and who consider me as a good friend are always very special to me... so no hard feelings... may be i will blog later about these invaluable possessions of mine... whne i get some time and when i feel extremely nostalgic................

Suchai... truely an inspiration...

This psychopath is a Fun loving soul who makes ppl(esp
me laugh my intestines out) lol. He has some 20 odd
jokes and keeps on shuffling them and i can proudly
say most of them were modified versions of my very
original jokes, and still they are damn funny..Most of
the ppl in the class dint know his calibre until CAT
results came out, we the last benchers(rclamsv3g3) had
no doubt in what he wud get and he did....did it with
charisma........

Amazingly positive in his approach and his self esteem
is one among his never ending list of admirable
attributes.........To be poetic

Attitude as straight as sachin's signature straight
drive;
speaks like a walking lexicon;
sings like elvis;(close to mustaine's voice though)
thinks like a genius;
acts like hanks;(except on stage)
solves like andrew wiles;(both are math wonders)
often utters a blunder;
still rocks you like a thunder;
All wise gals just surrender;
even i wud render;
if only i was born of a different gender;
"World beckons until he goes 6 ft under";


IIMs deserve you dude!!!!

Liabilities :
His pschosis know no bounds(he eats, sleeps
embarrassments, they mean nothing to him).

His temper (often hidden but easily invokable) is
vehement. He just utters rubbish when he's angry.He
does get back and think rationally if let to cool
down.

P.S. Don't take in those rubbish, he just utters them
and he doesn't mean them.
Dude u need to chill out a bit....(lEaRn It FrOm Me)

i feel pity for all those who missed out on him in
these four years!!

i never knew

i was 6 months old and i swallowed a piece of poori(no teeth)
i never knew i would have digestion problems then onwards all my life..................

i was 24 months old and was admitted in a creche
i was reciting alphabets and rhymes better than the LKG kids
i was admitted into LKG right away
i never knew i was pandu until then

i was 4 years old and i pulled lit sparkles from my bro
my bro was castigated by my mom and he cried
i never knew that my mom scolds even my bro until then

i was 6 years old and i drove a tricycle down a 10 stair staircase intentionally
i never knew i was so very insane until then

i was 9 years old i guess, joined SSK to do my 4th std
i went into the ladies toilet and saw ^#%*^(^(*
i never knew i was inherently pervert until then

i was 12 and i stole money from house for the 1st time
i was not caught but still felt guilt
i never knew i too had some good in me until then

i was 15 and i was playing in beach water with friends
i was caught by a huge wave and lost consciousness for few mins
i never knew nature and GOD were that powerful until then

i was 16 and still had no mush and bierd
i did things i thought, would bring some changes
i never knew animal instincts were irresistable until then

i was 16 and i suddenly found myself nowhere
i had aweful scores in my board exams
i never knew life was not a easy ball game until then

i was 17 and i was euphoric for my 1st sem results
Though unexpected, unwarranted and undeserved
i never tasted the true flavour of victory until then

i was 18 and i was witnessing the mental maturity i was,
& i had undergone, though learnt a lot about myself
i never knew as a man i had huge uphill tasks ahead until then

So many crucial epochs has gone by and still when i morph through
my life there is something in me that hasn't changed;
all are born mad but only some retain the spark of madness,
i think my retention of the childishness has gelled my life all along.

I never know,One day I might become so mature mentally,
I lose my great gift and until then i will be the same old psycho
who lives everyday, does his insane works, gets embarrased
all along but at the end of the day says "what a great day!!"

quotes that define me

Dont count your life by number of breaths you have taken;
But by number of times life has taken your breath away.

Dream as you live forever;
Live as you die tommorow.