live ur lives

this article made me think a bit too much than what i wud have preferred.
i have believed tat, howmuchever (is there such a word?.....who cares!) advancement humans makes in closer to god, he will always fall short when it comes to creating life (or rather, recreating life). seems, i have been proven wrong!.....hope people wont take life easily coz of this. "you live ur live once" will no longer hold true!

AVS

one more reason

This article demands my reaction.
being a sensible cricket fanatic i have always admired good cricketers irrespective of their nationality except one: javad miandad. of all the crickets on present and past i dont think there is any other cricketer whom i hate as much as him.
He has always been a pain in the @$$ for the indian team, and tats another factor for me hating even though he has achieved a lot on field.
the very mention of tat name brings up not-so-font memories---smashing chetan sharma for a last ball six in sharjah,mocking kiren more during 1992 world cup etc(may since i happened to see them during my nascent stages of my 'cricketing' life, it doest easy get away from my memory)
and here is yet another reason for me to hate this %$%$^*&
i have been told tat when u dislike someone, u will find only faults with whatever he/she does......but in his case,i think the question or like or dislike is irrelevent..........th***** is always a th*****

AVS

a crappy son

a follow up to my last blog: btw, my parents wedding day was infact last sunday, 19th of june. it fell on the same day as fathers day. as i expected....didnt call home tat day (made my weekly call on saturdayand knew from maniappa that its on the next day). since my image is not tt of someone who cares/expresses a LOT abt family relations, dint bother to make the call ( what a crap of a son i am!)....btw, shud thses things be expressed? shudnt it be just understood?
anyways.......hope tat these blogs will remind such occations hereafter!
got my first reader of blogs today........may be i shud be cautious hereafter opening up 'mera mann'.........tat forces me not to be self indulgent hereafter while blogging...hhmm.....lets see, hw the ship sails from here (just wanted to use some expression.........am notorious for coining such thinks,u see!)

AVS

mein aisa kyon hoon

yesterday was a pretty good day for me.got citi credit card and temporory driver's license (and an AMEX card is on its way). yeah i know these r highly trivial,but what to do.....there r few pity details or achievements which i remember than much more imp. things i forget..........i know the date i had my visa interview,but i donno the date of birth of my parents; i know when i gave my GRE,but donno when my parent's wedding day is; i knw the details of any cricket match,but donno the details of the answers i screwed up in exams.
many atimes i wonder mein aisa kyon hoon?........cudnt find a reasonable answer......may be...as ajay devgan says ina movie -- aisa hi hoon mein.

AVS

disappointing day

Last friday one one of th most disappointing and dipressing day in my life.Other than the personnal problem i had (which is so outrageous and atrocious tat i dont want to type even a word abt it!), 4 people including me were not taken for the cricket practice. It wasnt tat bad but people who came after us wher taken and the attitute of the "new captain" (i have my reservations abt him being the captain) tat hurt me. anyways........wat was heartening to see what there r sensible people in the team who can sort out whatever sparks are there within the team.hope anything like this doesnt happen here after! (i am eagerly awaiting the practice on wednesday to see whats the treatment i am gonna get!)

AVS

blog by a fanatic

i read this news couple of days back.it reminded me of one story in mahabharatha....Haven't we suffered enough from the hands of them,tat we need to further 'help' ourself ? (Pls pardon me if i sound jingoistic, its the indian cricket fanatic in me who made me post this blog!)

AVS

new words

Came across an article tat abt 1500 new english words have been added in the collins dictionary.Seeing the sources of few of the words,i feel, may be its not a bad idea to recommend the words coined by me like rubbishest and padichukazhinjusis onnum illosis. I feel they have a good change of being accepted ;-)

AVS

7th June

7th June- I remember this day very well..today is the first aaniversery of my visa interview. exactly one year back,on this very same day I cleared ,what i suppose, the first major interview i managed to get through.For others it may not sound special,but for one who has a poor history when it comes to doing well in competitive exams and interviews,it is quite an achievement.
The day is very well itched in my memory.........my usual tension before the interview;usual final minute unwanted anxiety regarding the wringled shirt;rushing all round maidpakkam(where i stayed) in search of an 'iron' man etc etc.well,again nothing unusal about it for those who know me and have seen me freak out before exams.
so.......want to celebrate this day? how? i donno......may be eat from pizzahut and wendy's and subway?.......lets see!

AVS

one for the heck of it

nothing on top of my head to blog abt........buti wanted to write something.
may be i can catogorize this blog as "one for the heck of it"..........i have one topic to write abt-the movie i saw last day..........but back to back blogs abt movie will make my blog rather hackneyed(so refraining from tat).well......on second thought its not tat tough to write something without having much substance in it .well.......nothing new for me coz i have been doing tat in all the essays and assignments i have done in my Btech,and i can confidently say tat i am pretty good in beating around the bush without ever entering the bush of even going near it.(a gold medal for 2nd rank in the univ. is the testimony for my excellence in the above mentioned field). even as i type these words i am totally blank abt what my next sentence is gonna be.may be tats the beauty of writing abt nothing........may be i realized tat enough of craps.one thing is for sure........."there is something abt nothing"

AVS

i know what i did last week

last week i was at my laziest and jovial best.i gave up the hope of scoring good grades this quarter (with our boiling course totally and completely screwed up). didnt do anything productive last week...except play cricket!.........oh! yeah also managed to finish off the 'ethoquad experiment after 5 previous furtile attemps.ofcourse i had the help of sandeep.i realized tat too much honesty is not encouraged at masters level-result: i cud finish the work(not a matter of great joy,coz same stuff for another 2 surfactants coming up!)

also managed to see 3 movies in 2 days over the weekend-3 totally diff. films in diff languages: kazhcha(malayalam),mitr-my friend(tamil) and kaal(hindi).

kazhcha was a really good film......nice to see directors coming up with good films even now though sporadically..........fro the feed back i got from anand n others,i thought mamootty wud give AB a good compentition for the best actor national award.......but i was wrong.........AB surpassed mamooty by a long way with his once in a life time performance in BLACK!
mitr disappointed me.......i had great expectations from it given tat shobana won national award for it..........but it didnt appeal to me as much as i thought it wud!
kaal.......SRK,karan johar..big names involved..........but again it disappointed me............an amateurish work from the new director.........i mean the screenplay was very childish and the climax was ridiculous!...........i found it similar to malayalam flick aparichitan (which again,wasnt a great affair)

again missed out from the cricket team for the second practice match........chandan promised to play me in the next game...........so has to srt out my shortcomngs on friday practice session........i cannot take any more belting in big match!

AVS

for the zillionth time

boy!..........the other day,for the zillionth time, i was said how come me from india speak such good english.......HUh!!!....comon,gimme a break!

Mr.USian : r u from india?
Me : yes
Mr.USian : how long have u been in US for?
Me : 8 months
Mr. USian: u speak good english!
Me : (Oh! pls not again) Thank You!

Oh! god! who the hell with let this @$$****$ know tat we indians also speak english as good as anyone around the world.r these USians under the perception tat india is somewhere in the wilderness of amazon forests and we still have sign language as the mode of communication?

Note: even though its irritating to see the bewilderment of Usians and the total negligence and prejudism they have abt Indians,on a personnal level, I enjoy the compliments i get regarding my language!(I always had a complex abt my english vocabulory).So each compliment i get is testimony of the improvement of my vocabulory skills and proof tat my conscious effort is paying off!

AVS

anything for cricket

A quick recap since my last posting:

* Repeated the surface tension experiment on ethoquad for the 4th time........showed the results to Manglik, he asked a few questions and i was at sea...... got the order to repeat it again (moral: Never $#!~ if u dont have enough toilet paper)........seems its gonna take me ages to complete it!
* Anand got a job in Chennai.....ABM AMRO (or some name of tat sort........whatever!).........glad tat lady luck has smiled,at last!
* Met old friend Edwin in orkut........was a sort of surprise.......long live Orkut!
* Atteneded the UC cricket team selection and was shortlisted!!!!!!!!!


Aur,aagay dhekhiye.............

About 20 of us where shortlisted for the UC cricket club.Though i performed pathetically in the practice match held in the soccor ground (gave away 14 runs in 1 over in a 16 over game) i was (for my own surprise) was retained in the list. When raghav received mailregaring the practice which i didnt, i presumed tat "jisse darr te the, wohi baath ho gayi"........but still i have the shamelessness to go to see how they practiced. Another surprise awaited me there when tejas asked me to join the fielding practice.then i came to know tat it was by some mistake tat i didnt get the mail.......a new aura of energy surrounded Aravind since then!........practice with stictch ball was new for me,though the wet ball really hurt my hands,i enjoyed it.........ANYTHING FOR CRICKET!
we where taken to crieckt ground abt 40 mins drive from UC...........and for the first time in my life i was playing with real cricketing apparals.........stitch ball,pads,gloves,AP, thigh pads,arm guard,helmet etc......wow!.........a sort of childhood 'dream-come-true' for me.Thos ewho know me personnaly can understand how ecstatic i wud have been, coz even since a boy cricket has been a passion of me and playing with all the proper cricketing gears and playing a serious match for a team was my dreams. when i grew up,with maturity,i relaized tat playing for ateam may be out of question for me [donno y,where ever i go, i am always along with much superior cricketers than me :( ].so when chandan gave me the red ball........i was elated to another level of 'eternal bliss'.
As usual,started of with many full tosses and 'down the leg sides',soon i got the touch. I was much much better tha i thought i wud be!!!!.......hit the stumps 9 times all together (seems i was the one who bowled the batsmen the most no. of times tat day, thanks to swapnil and chandan, who made me look more venomous than i actually was!)......but my favorate was the one ball i bowled to niranjan.......it pitched on the middle and left him,he almost went for the shot,then at lats moment realized tat it was too good a delivery to be hit.......(am not saying coz i bowled it),but it was "peach of a delivery"(credit to niranjan also, for being sensible enough not to attempt a shot!).
at the end of the day,a good days work (i am not mentioning anything abt my batting,coz, as expected(even by me),i struggled even with mild off spin of madhu and rahul.,but ..never mind........i never had the pretension tat i am great with the bat!
sprained my right knee after the match.....i am 2 days into the week and still having trouble straightening the leg........never mind........ANYTHING FOR CRICKET!
we have to pay $50 as membershif fee.......its a huge amount,but just the pleasure of being able to play in the ground the real cricket makes me forget abt the value of my hard earned money,(its worth my one whole days' work), all my stinginess and all my obligations......ANYTHING FOR CRICKET!
we have our next fielding practice on wednesday and ground practice n next friday......man! cant wait until friday evening to run on to the ground!!!!!..yeah i know a danger in the form of boiling waits me on friday itself...........but the sheer thought of cricket just erases every trace of studies from my mind...........ANYTHING FOR CRICKET!

AVS

lazy blogger

donno y, i am such a lazy blogger that always i need somebody's blogs to get inspired to write...........if my last blog was created after reading ashwin's blog,this time the ignitor is bhargavi's blog.......anyway as long as there are other bloggers around, i can hang around!well........i am into my 4th day of the spring break.Ah! just 5 for days to go before the battle resumes!(i hate schooling).my employer didnt give me 40 hrs during break"(in a way its good, sicne i find it tough to spend even 20 hrs there).I have an advise for all u employees.....when u whine abt long working hours, just remmebr that spneding long hours without doing anything is equally difficult.today evening also planning to play cricket in sigma sigma commons for the 3rd day in a stretch.I am high in confidence after a good performance with the ball yesterday given that i was pathetic on the first day.had the wicket been half a foot more taller, then i wud have ended up with 3 wickets in my kitty.......never mind,sometimes near misses are as cherishable as comprehensive achievements.

AVS
(i felt that i need a pen name for my blogs.......so hereafter it will be AVS)

well, it cud have been worse

My present job gives me ample time to do anything except work! after doing crapy things like downloaoding wallpapers,ring tones, the Mr.Nice Guy in me asked me to do something worthwhile.It was around that time,that my wild explore of the net got me here.got to read a lot of blogs -some by my friends,acquaintances,some by total strangers --after going thru them i felt "whats the heck?.....its so easy writting blogs.......even i can do it!.........y not?".i must have been mad to think so given that i was as poor a writer as a reader(only time i have written anything has beenfor the exams).Books and articles are my sedatives,they put me to sleep irrespective of the genre.so.......in the fit of madness,i decided to enter the world of blogging and OMG i dint realize how tough it is writing something!!!!!!!!boy-o-boy.......my hands got frozen,mouth dried up (my limited vocabulary list got further abbrivated).......My inherent stage fear came up in new form as blog fear.It didnt seem like my cup of tea........but,since i am trying to change my outlook and attitude,i felt....." ok,i cudnt do anything abt my stage fear,lemme atleast overcome this fear! so summoned all my courage and power to write till this the next sentance. Now feeling better........as a friend of mine had told me( which i find apt for me in all the circumstances)......." well, it cud have been worse!"