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 ?
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Lunch Combo
Contributed by Saurabh Jain
------------------------------
My roommate in CA (lets call him Raju) is a character as well. Since this blog is slowly starting to accomodate funny acts/conversations from people outside 9006, I am taking the liberty to add this conversation I had with Raju.
On a Sunday afternoon, we were dragging ourselves home after having lunch at an Indian Restaurant (a buffet ofcourse), ready to crash for a nice afternoon sleep. I was too busy dreaming how nice i will feel while I am crashing at home when I hear Raju saying:
"The restaurants should have some arrangement so that people can crash after lunch at the restaurant and then they should serve coffee after we wake up. They can call it Lunch Combo (Lunch + Sleep + Coffee)."
------------------------------
My roommate in CA (lets call him Raju) is a character as well. Since this blog is slowly starting to accomodate funny acts/conversations from people outside 9006, I am taking the liberty to add this conversation I had with Raju.
On a Sunday afternoon, we were dragging ourselves home after having lunch at an Indian Restaurant (a buffet ofcourse), ready to crash for a nice afternoon sleep. I was too busy dreaming how nice i will feel while I am crashing at home when I hear Raju saying:
"The restaurants should have some arrangement so that people can crash after lunch at the restaurant and then they should serve coffee after we wake up. They can call it Lunch Combo (Lunch + Sleep + Coffee)."
Microbio student proposes new theory
Okay, this is about a microbio student in the area, whom many of you might NOT know :-)
Call her P
In a friendly discussion, it came up once that other factors (like generation gap in age and life expectancy) being the same, a birth rate of 2 will keep the population constant. P says "No no, if you have birth rate of two, the population will double"
Her friends tried giving her an example. Assume A and B marry and C and D marry. Assume A and B have E anf F as kids and C and D have G and H. So 4 parents give 4 kids in all. So both generations have 4 people
P was so excited to prove her point that she goes "Yeah, but you see, then E has two kids, and F has two kids and so also G and H, and so that becomes 8 na "
What to do.. too much of bacteria and fungi !!
Call her P
In a friendly discussion, it came up once that other factors (like generation gap in age and life expectancy) being the same, a birth rate of 2 will keep the population constant. P says "No no, if you have birth rate of two, the population will double"
Her friends tried giving her an example. Assume A and B marry and C and D marry. Assume A and B have E anf F as kids and C and D have G and H. So 4 parents give 4 kids in all. So both generations have 4 people
P was so excited to prove her point that she goes "Yeah, but you see, then E has two kids, and F has two kids and so also G and H, and so that becomes 8 na "
What to do.. too much of bacteria and fungi !!
Suggested cartoon and more
This cartoon was suggested by one of the readers as fitting the Atul types. Good one :-)By the way, did I ever tell you that many times Atul rents movie DVDs and watches the entire movie in fast fwd (2x or even 8x and 16x). When asked what he is doing, he says "I am watching an abstract of the movie first" !
Friday, May 12, 2006
selfone !
Atul can't find his cellphone one day. Vindo n Atul start off on the Anveshan, and finally finds it... in the washing machine !!
As ATul was sitting gloomy and cleaning it up with paper towels, Vindo comes and says (jokingly) "Hey why do u wanna waste your time using paper towels. Put it in the dryer no?"
As ATul was sitting gloomy and cleaning it up with paper towels, Vindo comes and says (jokingly) "Hey why do u wanna waste your time using paper towels. Put it in the dryer no?"
small bits
One more on the volleyball front : last week Vindo was asked by his teammates, what is the area that he wants to cover. Vindo waved his hand in circle and said "I will cover this much". To any sane person, that hand gesture covered not only his full court, part of the opposition court as well :-)
***************
relevant protion of a conversation
Atul : ....... from NY to Omaha.. from Omaha to CA
Vindo : Are you flying from Ohama to CA (no thats not my spelling mistake)
***************
Atul : Hey shock, are you going to the Indian store tomorrow ?
Shock : yeah, mostly
Atul : Can u buy rice for the house, we ran out of it
Shock : sure
shock's happy that atul has finally done something in terms of taking care of the house. gets two sacks the next day. Only to realise that there were already three sacks of rice that Vindo got the previous week !!
Such is what happens when everyone does opposite of what they are known to be experts at !
***************
relevant protion of a conversation
Atul : ....... from NY to Omaha.. from Omaha to CA
Vindo : Are you flying from Ohama to CA (no thats not my spelling mistake)
***************
Atul : Hey shock, are you going to the Indian store tomorrow ?
Shock : yeah, mostly
Atul : Can u buy rice for the house, we ran out of it
Shock : sure
shock's happy that atul has finally done something in terms of taking care of the house. gets two sacks the next day. Only to realise that there were already three sacks of rice that Vindo got the previous week !!
Such is what happens when everyone does opposite of what they are known to be experts at !
Monday, April 24, 2006
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 !!
**************************************
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 .. :-) .
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 !!
**************************************
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 .. :-) .
the burning smell !
Evening time... shock comes back home and finds a burning smell in the house.. but can't find the source. Within 5 mins Atul reaches home too and he too gets the smell... he comes to shock and asks "hey whats that burning smell" ?
sock replies that he doesn't know where its coming from. Atul walks around the house, comes back to shock and says "Hey, are you playing games with me.. tell me, where is it coming from ?" .. shock gets a bit sterner "I told you I don't know"
anyways, it was left at that as the smelll slowly subsided. the next day Atul kocks on shock's door and declares "Hey, I zeroed in on the source of the smell. Apparently I had kept a pan on the stove and switched it on, thinking I will heat roti, and then forgot about that and went to campus. After about 2 hrs Vishal found it and switched it off. Don't worry, I will replace the pan" !!!
sock replies that he doesn't know where its coming from. Atul walks around the house, comes back to shock and says "Hey, are you playing games with me.. tell me, where is it coming from ?" .. shock gets a bit sterner "I told you I don't know"
anyways, it was left at that as the smelll slowly subsided. the next day Atul kocks on shock's door and declares "Hey, I zeroed in on the source of the smell. Apparently I had kept a pan on the stove and switched it on, thinking I will heat roti, and then forgot about that and went to campus. After about 2 hrs Vishal found it and switched it off. Don't worry, I will replace the pan" !!!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
B T S - 2
Meantime Vindo comes up with another one : Since past promises of "I will write it in better langauge" were not kept up, me shall have the privilege of the "crude" one itself up on the blog, until any better ones come up
Vindo:
most awesome incident of Atul is this... we were going to Beltville few weeks back, Atul was very tired and he literally slept behind car wheel while waiting on red light.... when I woke him up on green light he shouted at me why I had woken him up... then he came to sense and apologized... its classic Atul joke... I will write in better word this weekend...
Atul's Correction
I did not SLEEP OFF...I just "closed my eyes for a while"
Blogger's Comment
Thank God Atul did not say, what he usually says when we try to wake him up after having fallen asleep in front of the TV "Hey, wake me up after 5 mins man" !!!
Vindo:
most awesome incident of Atul is this... we were going to Beltville few weeks back, Atul was very tired and he literally slept behind car wheel while waiting on red light.... when I woke him up on green light he shouted at me why I had woken him up... then he came to sense and apologized... its classic Atul joke... I will write in better word this weekend...
Atul's Correction
I did not SLEEP OFF...I just "closed my eyes for a while"
Blogger's Comment
Thank God Atul did not say, what he usually says when we try to wake him up after having fallen asleep in front of the TV "Hey, wake me up after 5 mins man" !!!
Behind the scenes-1
For movies that become hit, people wanna watch the behind the scene, right ? So why not for blogs that become hit
Okay, its now known to many that material that is posted here is with some kind of consent from the goofers. Well, given that its usually from pretty much the same folks, it ain't that difficult. So let me reveal some backdoor activity now, which gives some insights on how sometimes (mind you, most times it doesn't take this much discussion, only sometimes) the material thats posted here comes up
For the first time, Wayne send in a contribution. That was sent to Atul for his comments, since its not a direct observation by yours truly. Attached are the Wayne's version (Post A) and Atul's correction (Post B)
Post A
-------
Hey arun,had too much time on my hands and no work at the office, so decided towrite this down. I've wanted to do it for quite a while. Check withvindo and atul before posting this:
One sat evening I happened to be lounging at the house and comeevening, vindo and atul both want to go out for dinner. We are allquite hungry. Vindo wants to have something veggie and Atul says he'sok with non-veg food and some beer. I say anything's ok with me andI'll also have some beer. So we decide to go to Benningan's on route 1near Laurel just for a change, since we've been to Applebee's manytimes. We get there and vindo check's out the menu and says "Heythere's no good veggie food here, only american stuff". We all decidedto go elsewhere maybe roam around and see if there'se somethinginteresting.There was some hesitation going to Chilis but still we go there, takea seat check out the menu .. I decided to order a chicken dish andvindo says he will take the side order of salad. Atul decides to haveanother side-order. The waiter takes our orders and goes. Within 5mins, we start arguing .. vindo says he wants better veggie food, atulsays why dont we go to Hooters next door and get beer and chickenwings. Vindo says he wants to go to Red Robin and even seafood is okwith him, but not to Hooters since he doesnt want chicken. We decideto leave Chilis and just walk out the door with no concern for thepoor waiter. Now we get in my car and Vindo says he will eat at Redrobin, and Atul says he will eat at Hooters. But I decide to drivearound and still see if any other places are open. After drivingaround for 20 mins or so, we come back to the same spot and decide togo to Red Sky and imagine our frustration when we see that Red Sky isclosed! (we thought it was open when we saw lights inside from theroad). Now we get back in the card and I'm enraged and hungry...there's some argument for a good 10 mins ... I lose my temper and Ifinally pull up in front of Burger King ... and since neither atul norvindo want to eat there, I bully them into going back to Bennigans. Sonow here we are at Bennigans after having wasted a good 1 hour drivingback and forth and trying to check out other places.
Post B: proposed editions by Atul
-----------------------------------
Hi,
Some correction...I personally wanted only veggie food...I only said I don'tmind just ordering a small veggie side dish if no veggie entree wasavailable or beer and fries/onion rings in hooters.
If you want to post it post this version with small corrections:
One sat evening I happened to be lounging at the house and comeevening, vindo and atul both want to go out for dinner. So we decideto go to Benningan's on route 1 near Laurel just for a change, sincewe've been to Applebee's many times. We get there and vindo check's outthe menu and says "Hey there's no good veggie food here, only americanstuff". We all decided to go elsewhere maybe roam around and see ifthere'se something interesting.
There was some hesitation going to Chilis but still we go there, takea seat check out the menu .. I decided to order a chicken dish andvindo says he will take the side order of salad. Atul decides to haveanother side-order. The waiter takes our orders and goes. Within 5mins, we start arguing .. vindo says he wants better veggie food, atulsays why dont we go to Hooters next door and get beer and get foodelsewhere. Vindo says he wants to go to Red Robin and even seafood is okwith him, but not to Hooters. We decide to leave Chilis and just walk outthe door with no concern for the poor waiter. Now we get in my car andVindo says he will eat at Red robin, and Atul doesn't want to.But I decide to drive around and still see if any other places are open.After driving around for 20 mins or so, we come back to the same spot anddecide to go to Red Sky and imagine our frustration when we see that RedSky is closed! (we thought it was open when we saw lights inside from theroad). Now we get back in the car and I'm enraged and hungry there'ssome argument for a good 10 mins ... I lose my temper and I finally pullup in front of Burger King ... and since neither atul nor vindo want to
at Bennigans after having wasted a good 1 hour driving back and forth andtrying to check out other places
Okay, its now known to many that material that is posted here is with some kind of consent from the goofers. Well, given that its usually from pretty much the same folks, it ain't that difficult. So let me reveal some backdoor activity now, which gives some insights on how sometimes (mind you, most times it doesn't take this much discussion, only sometimes) the material thats posted here comes up
For the first time, Wayne send in a contribution. That was sent to Atul for his comments, since its not a direct observation by yours truly. Attached are the Wayne's version (Post A) and Atul's correction (Post B)
Post A
-------
Hey arun,had too much time on my hands and no work at the office, so decided towrite this down. I've wanted to do it for quite a while. Check withvindo and atul before posting this:
One sat evening I happened to be lounging at the house and comeevening, vindo and atul both want to go out for dinner. We are allquite hungry. Vindo wants to have something veggie and Atul says he'sok with non-veg food and some beer. I say anything's ok with me andI'll also have some beer. So we decide to go to Benningan's on route 1near Laurel just for a change, since we've been to Applebee's manytimes. We get there and vindo check's out the menu and says "Heythere's no good veggie food here, only american stuff". We all decidedto go elsewhere maybe roam around and see if there'se somethinginteresting.There was some hesitation going to Chilis but still we go there, takea seat check out the menu .. I decided to order a chicken dish andvindo says he will take the side order of salad. Atul decides to haveanother side-order. The waiter takes our orders and goes. Within 5mins, we start arguing .. vindo says he wants better veggie food, atulsays why dont we go to Hooters next door and get beer and chickenwings. Vindo says he wants to go to Red Robin and even seafood is okwith him, but not to Hooters since he doesnt want chicken. We decideto leave Chilis and just walk out the door with no concern for thepoor waiter. Now we get in my car and Vindo says he will eat at Redrobin, and Atul says he will eat at Hooters. But I decide to drivearound and still see if any other places are open. After drivingaround for 20 mins or so, we come back to the same spot and decide togo to Red Sky and imagine our frustration when we see that Red Sky isclosed! (we thought it was open when we saw lights inside from theroad). Now we get back in the card and I'm enraged and hungry...there's some argument for a good 10 mins ... I lose my temper and Ifinally pull up in front of Burger King ... and since neither atul norvindo want to eat there, I bully them into going back to Bennigans. Sonow here we are at Bennigans after having wasted a good 1 hour drivingback and forth and trying to check out other places.
Post B: proposed editions by Atul
-----------------------------------
Hi,
Some correction...I personally wanted only veggie food...I only said I don'tmind just ordering a small veggie side dish if no veggie entree wasavailable or beer and fries/onion rings in hooters.
If you want to post it post this version with small corrections:
One sat evening I happened to be lounging at the house and comeevening, vindo and atul both want to go out for dinner. So we decideto go to Benningan's on route 1 near Laurel just for a change, sincewe've been to Applebee's many times. We get there and vindo check's outthe menu and says "Hey there's no good veggie food here, only americanstuff". We all decided to go elsewhere maybe roam around and see ifthere'se something interesting.
There was some hesitation going to Chilis but still we go there, takea seat check out the menu .. I decided to order a chicken dish andvindo says he will take the side order of salad. Atul decides to haveanother side-order. The waiter takes our orders and goes. Within 5mins, we start arguing .. vindo says he wants better veggie food, atulsays why dont we go to Hooters next door and get beer and get foodelsewhere. Vindo says he wants to go to Red Robin and even seafood is okwith him, but not to Hooters. We decide to leave Chilis and just walk outthe door with no concern for the poor waiter. Now we get in my car andVindo says he will eat at Red robin, and Atul doesn't want to.But I decide to drive around and still see if any other places are open.After driving around for 20 mins or so, we come back to the same spot anddecide to go to Red Sky and imagine our frustration when we see that RedSky is closed! (we thought it was open when we saw lights inside from theroad). Now we get back in the car and I'm enraged and hungry there'ssome argument for a good 10 mins ... I lose my temper and I finally pullup in front of Burger King ... and since neither atul nor vindo want to
at Bennigans after having wasted a good 1 hour driving back and forth andtrying to check out other places
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
