taken for a ride

The umd_Samskritam group expanded its operations in a big way in June '06 by scheduling 4 Sanskrit study group sessions simultaneously in the DC metro area every weekend (check www.speaksanskrit.org/forum for info). Vinod, Naresh and I are the “designated” Samskritam study group coordinators for the College Park area. So, I emailed Naresh and Vindo about getting together on Fri evening to “prepare” for the 6/24 class. Naresh sent a positive, pithy reply asking for Vindo’s address. And the rest follows:

Srilatha wrote:
Hi Naresh and Vinod,Can we meet on Fri evening at Vinod's place, say at 8.30 pm to go over the concepts to be covered in the second study group session on Sat, 6/24? We need to get together probably for atleast 2 h. Naresh, would you like to lead the class this Sat?

Naresh wrote:
Friday 8:30p. (Vindo: can you send me your address?)Saturday around 2 hour class.Both ok by me. Sure, I can take the lead.

Vinod wrote:
Naresh, my address is (address and cell ph info here, and then…..)
call me if u need ride...

(Very considerate of Vindo to offer a ride to Naresh, don’t you think?)

Srilatha wrote:
Wah, Vindo, wah! Car to tumhare paas nahi hai, car Naresh ke paas hai, aur ride ke liye Naresh tumse pooche? Time for another blog entry?

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-contributed by srilatha

the inverted E

VindO is watching the world cup match.. Looking at one of the player's Jersey (back), he exclaims ' Kya kya likha hai bhai shirt pe.. look, an inverted "E" '

VindO bhai, me thought thats the number that comes between 2 and 4 !

Dr Simmha

9006 turned 8309 congrats Atul on his degree.. Congrats Dr Atulasimmha

The smart fellow he is, knowing fully well that he will be known by his last name, interchanged his first and last names, 5 years before. When asked why, he AT THAT TIME, had pointed out "When I become a Dr, I don't want to be called Dr (my fathers name)." - and that day finally came last week !

Atul's mom is also here, has come all the way from India for his graduation. Within hours of landing at our house, she tells all of us "I will take 2 days to clean up Atul's room" .. she not only cleaned up Atul's room, but also our (common) kitchen. everything got shifted into dabbas with a label- both in english and kannada..

Next time Vindo ventured out in the kitchen to cook, he was totally lost "Hey, when things are so ordered, its difficult to find where is what. We need the mess to find out where each item is" ....

I guess so... isn't why its called a mess ?