Spectcale of spectacles

I buy 4-5 pairs of glasses everytime I visit India. My family and friends wonder where do all these glasses go? Well, some I just take out in public places and forget, one I slept with in my pocket, one fell down during rock climbing, and some I put on couches and all other sort of places where people sit. The picture is of a pair that I took off while sitting on a park and next thing I see is this. I think I just have to do lasik if not for anythin just to save money and avoid losing favorite glasses. I never liked contact lenses. Good, since I would always forget to take them out or put them on or worse try to take them out without putting on.

Strange, I don't know why it occured to me to visit this blog today after 2+ years. It's my b'day today.

Vinod

kabse bol rahe ho aadhaa ghanta ?

Vindos birthday this year was on a sunday.. but since our man had plans for one of his biking/hiking.skating/skiing/horseriding/........../jumpingupandown on saturday, junta decided to give a surprise b'day bash on fri nite..

Fri eveng Vindo goes for a party.. says he will be back by 9

10, and vindo is not back, shock calls him.. vindo says "half an hour man"

11pm - shock calls again, and Vindo goes "arey, sab piya hua hein idhar.. koi na koi ride dega, par half an house more man"

11.45 pm, Junta assemble at Vindo's (and shocks) place .. only our man is missing

12 midnite - shock calls again and say.." hey I am going home.. so if u want i can pick u up".. Vindo goes "hey don't worry so much about me man... I will get home.. half an hour"

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12.30 am Vindo is still not there.. Junta are restless ..Among the gathered crowd, srilatha decides to call up, even if it meant spoiling the surprise .. without going into anything else, as soon as vindo picks up, srilatha goes..

sril: "kab aarahe ho ?"
vindo: "aadha ghanta"
sril: "kabse bol rahe ho aadha ghanta, aadha ghanta"
vindo : "arey sorry yaar" !!

vindo still din't get it.. he was surprised, when at 1 am, he finally got back home, and saw a crowd waiting !!

in "sprite" of

One day Don (Atuls replacement) sees that the freezer of the fridge has developed ice here and there. Calls Vindo and shows him. After some investigation, Vindo finds the source of the problem. A sprite can that was kept in the freezer

Like a scientist who has just found out an explanation for the observation, Vindo started putting fundaes.. "Dekho, if you keep an unopened can in the freezer, it bursts and the vapours will then condense to form ice" etc etc

Don kept listening and in the end, asked "Who put it there ? ".... Vindo first goes, .."haa, who put it there ? ".. a moment of pause, and then goes "Oh damn, I only put it ..."

panchapandavas are like legs of a chair, 3 in number

Friday nite.. the umd_samskritam web team meets for some urgent updates.. Vindo is working on closing the MD feb workshop registration (due to overbooking) and put new registration pages for the March VA and NJ workshops

He dos a good job with the database, closes the MD registration.. alls done.. except that there was something undecided about the final information page for the VA (Ashburn) and NJ (Edison) workshops.. But then Vindo had to sleep, and so he said "Arey, I have done everything, have created a page also, the contents are not finalised, so I will, for now cut and paste some random info from the old MD workshop page and do some random additions. Once we have a decision on the pending things, we can update it and make the final page"

"Okay, good job and good nite Vindo", said the rest of the web team .. The next day morning, one of them "randomly" checked, what "random" data Vindo had put, and the info page read, among other things:


1) Click here to register for the workshop at Edison, VA
2) The venue is 6905, Cipriano Rd, Lanham, MD

and the bottom of the page said

3) Registration is now closed !!

chin-do !!

pat-eternity

H: Hey, this Friday is off for me.. veterans day federal holiday

VindO : Kya yaar... if only we also had such hols.. in fact we should have one full week off.. like presidents week or something

S : For that you will have to take paternity leave ....

VindO: Arey, you guys know, guys also get leave in this country ......

H : So what else were we talking about ... ?

VindO : Oh, I heard it as maternity leave ...

and then after a couple of minutes

VindO :.. arey nahin yaar.. wo nahin chalEga !!

ROTFL - 66

Found this somewhere on the net.. hope its not offensive to anyone (let know ur feedback)





And thanks to Wayne for sending/reminding the following piece on Vindo !


This happened when umd_samskritam was preparing for Sparsh 2006. In addition to the "aati kya khandala" and "gabbar singh", we actually had plans to do the "soocide scene" also, but scrapped it last minute as it wasn't coming out as well ....

Now read on the exchange of mails :

Mail 1 : Wayne_M to S_I, A_V, R_S, S_K, Vinod_S, J ... Apr 14

Can someone take a print out of the "soocide" scene script for me also?

tks
Wayne.

Mail 2 : Vindo's reply : Apr 14

I think Wayne can do that...

-vinod

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 !

etcetera

The way Vindo plays volleyball is pretty famous.. he will be all over the court, taking others shots, and many times colliding with them and falling over them. Ask him to be at one position, its almost impossible for him...

These days people have so gotten used to it that they make sure that they call "I shall" even if its obvious to others that its their take. And thats what Srilatha did too to an obviously her's take, as she was standing behind and vindo in front in this sundays game- she said "I will take it" as the ball was high up in air, but then to her surprise Vindo goes "No no no no no no no no...
runs back all the way back and takes it just from above Srilatha's hand !!

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Okay, I don't want to say who this was, but one of the characters of the area was seen apologising to a chair on which he kept falling, after getting a bit drunk .. :-) .

vin-comp

Vindo's laptop has two logins (w/o passwd) . "vin" and "stranger"

Most times shock, atul and whoever else uses Vindo's comp, use the "vin" login and Vindo uses the "stranger" login !!

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Sometimes when shock or atul are using the comp, Vindo would come and politely ask " Hey can I take 5 mins to check mails" ?

So many people use his comp, I guess, and every now and then Vindo cleans up his desktop, and puts all the unknown files into "UFO" folder

"Vindow"

Imagine the conversation

S: Hey Vindo, how was your India trip.?

Vindo: It was fun man ......{.......}

K: So, who was sitting next to you ?

Vindo: A girl was sitting on my left and her mom on my right.

A: How come you were in the middle?

Vindo: The girls brother wanted to sit next to Window..

K: Hey wait wait.. you said a girl was sitting on your left and her mom on the right..

Vindo: Yeah, thats right

K: So then what about the brother?

Vindo: The brother was sitting next to window.

A: But the girl and the mom were siting next to you already, right ?

Vindo: Yeah.. they were

S: So where was their brother sitting ?

Vindo: next to window.

A: Arey yaar, how is that ? the girl and the mother were sitting next to you.

Vindo: So let me explain. The guy wanted to sit near window... So I sat in his place.. - between the mother and the girl ..

K: Yeah, but how will the guy the sit next to Vindo ?

The fun went on until someone told "Vindow" what was going on :-)

Random Jokes

These aren't on the Lion King, so may not be as funny...

Vindo.. sometimes his pronounciations can crack u up ...

Once Vindo tells shock that his friend has gone to "trekking" and won't return for a month !! "What kind of trekking is that ?" asks shock.. and Vindo goes, "Trekking nahin yaar, treky treky".. "Oh you mean Turkey?" ...

Parineeta becomes Preneeta , Chandramukhi becomes Chandermukhi....

One day Vindo tells "Meine Egg Curry Banaya".. Junta look into Vindo's curry and do not see any egg !! Later on Vindo clarifies.. apparently what he intended to say was "Meine Ek Curry Banaya" !!