you would have heard tales about hyderabadi hindi ....
but what u probably dont know is hyderabadi english...
here are few gems
1) hey dont make volume
what this actaully means is "dont talk loud"
2)stand in a straight circle
cant really intrepret this one...what is it a circle with infinite radius ?

how to become mad ,slowly ?
very simple study "basic electrical engineering text book" by tata mcgraw hill written by two profs.
sanjay best summed up the book .
he was reading dc motors from the text book ,when under extreme frustration he said
"what the ....,!!!i cant even understand if i am understanding what i been trying to understand "
half an hour later when i was by-hearting the slides ,i heard strange sounds like
"aeeee dc motorooo" ,"hoho inductionssss","magnetic feeeeeeilddddduuuuu"
it was sanjay.
another victim.

50th post

this is my 50th post .my half century :)
i thought i would write some philosophical poem which would make me look "intelligent,intellectual,attractive",but then why give you a false idea?
and besides i am realizing the value of keeping things simple

so i will instead share an experience that i had some months ago.

As usual i woke up at 10am or something like that and decided to go the institute cafeteria to have breakfast .
while walking from the hostel to the cafeteria i kept imagining the masala dosa and mazza combo i would have .
But alas !no masala dosa.
even more shocking ! no plain dosa !
but because of all the soham and sowhat , i could face the situation with equanimity
"which god-forsaken place i have ended up in ?!!!,cant even have proper breakfast"was my immediate reaction
the only thing available was non-edible upma and dahi vada .
i chose dahi-vada .
the guy at the counter put 2 tiny brown balls in a plate ,covered it a spoon of dahi ,handed it over to me with a smile and charged me 15 bugs for that !!!
"bakodia institute of technology and science will have better food options than this yaar ",i kept grumbling in my mind as i took my seat .

but another punch !
the dahi vada was delicious.yes it actually was.
my effort to get up and walk so far was worth it !
my commitment to get up early in the morning was now paying rich dividends
what a great start to a day!
dahi vada rocks.life rocks.

while walking back it came to me in an epiphany that i would pass by the library .
i stopped walking.
i started thinking.
should i or shouldn't i ?
Is it within my range of socially,morally acceptably behaviour to enter the library at 11 in the morning and study a "subject ".????
the answer on a normal day would have been NO.
but today was different.today i had Dahi Vada.
I took the plunge .sometime in life you just have to .There is no choice.
I entered the library .
I felt a little hazy ,like in a trance.
I remembered that to get a text book issued, one had to go the counter where a sarcastic librarian sat ,give him the id card and chant the name of the book.
I took my id card out and deep breath in and started walking to the counter.
A walk to remember.

The librarian was working on the computer.
It was all very eerie.

Then what happened next will remain a extremely embarrassing incident in my life.
A remainder of what deviating from the socially acceptable behaviour can do

"one plate dahi vada",i said in the library counter.
the librarian stopped working.
he was shocked.he was non-plussed.
never in his 30 year career had any student asked him for dahi vada .
but i did it.
he looked at me in the eye.
it was too late . the damage had been done.
i turned and left ,the library to the cafeteria.
:)


have u done anything that can match this degree of stupidity ?
let me know

watermelon

one of my friend's has been struggling with hindi right from the first year.
he is from andhra and had no inkling about hindi what so ever before coming to bits.
few days ago he went to the fruit stall in the campus.he wanted to buy a watermelon.
but the guy at the fruit stall knew only hindi .

fruitwallah : kya chahiye ?

silence.....
after thinking a lot for 20 seconds about what water melon is called in hindi ,he decides to take a guess ..

myfriend: panimelon dho!

lol
:)

pics from the last day of the latest yes!+ course in bits.
the next course will start from April 2.
haven't started working for it till now though :(

An excerpt from Shantaram:

And that was the elated moment i'd called glorious,in my mind,as i ran into the guns:that stupid waste of lives.There wasn't ant glory in it.There never is.There's only courage,fear and love.And war kills them ,one by one.Glory belongs to god,of course.that's what the word really means and you can't serve god with a gun.

the best days of my life

This sunday i went to go-karting with three of my friend's.It was such fun ,especially because one of my friend ,who had made tall claims about beating the others on track ended up being the slowest among the four .I would overtake him with ease and then look behind to put a thumb's down signal and would break out into a free laughter ,the sound of which echoed in the helmet i was wearing.It was then that it came to me in an epiphany that i was living the best days of my life,these days in bits with friend's and freedom.We are all bonded by our idiosyncrasies and craziness.God bless these days! :)