Bravo Don

(click on pic to enlrage)

As I saw the address on the letter lying on the table, I thought that was funny - "Bunnoose". But then, soon learnt that there was much more to it, on what was inside





The story goes as: Our man puts 75 cents in a vending machine in front of the Taco(h)ell on campus and the product came to the edge and did not fall down. He called up the number on the vending machine, wasted about 6 of his day time minutes to make the guy understand what happened..





and finally, in a packet with 39 cent stamps, came his well deserved refund, 3 quarter coins, and a form explaining the deal





Bravo Don ...both in your fights for justice and in your catching up on Atuls legacy.. way to go :-)

old id gold

Some old jokes of atul, being recollected

1) Perhaps a repeat.. we used to maintain "I owe You (IOUs) " amongst our roommates.. and then settle it at the end of every month.. Once Atul wrote Atul owes X - 5$ , where X was not amongst the 5 roomies !!

2) This used to happen more, in our first year in US . Atul would buy, say a bottle of juice.. put his name on it somewhere.. One week, the name writen would have faded off... Atul sends a mail to everyone "hey there is a bottle of juice in the fridge.. is it any of yours ?" .. everyone knows whose it is, but none responds.. next day comes atuls next mail "hey, if noone remembers whose it is, lets share it" .. and atul is so happy that he took the initiative ..

2 weeks later, the cycle repeats

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 !!

Atuls bhooth on Don

We have kept Don under observation for suspicion of Atuls bhooth having entered him - especially as stays in the same room... Don also burned a tavaa and like in atuls case, vishaal found out were the "burning smell" is coming from.. (well, some more, and he will catch up with atuls no:s) , like atul, he "accidentally" goes of to sleep in the couch upstairs, asking some one to wake him up in 15 mins (only to wake up the next day morning)...

and the latest... we got a pedometer (whatevere- that counts the no: of steps u take) with the cereal.. Don has clipped it on his neck and walking around all day every hour asking some one "Hey can u read the count?" ... "18" says the fellow.. "Yeah, its not working, I have been walking around from the morning, and only 18 ?"

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 !!

Multipurpose laptop

Disclaimer: The following is NOT inspired by anyone else's action. It is purely an idea developed by yours truly. If any of the readers wants to lay claim for it, please post in the comments section your arguments, and how you hit upon the idea

Now for the main point. Here is a million dollar worth innovation. A multipurpose laptop or a laptop+digital weighing machine especially for all the dieting people !!

Imagine, how cool it would be, if you could just close and fold your laptop, and stand on it and it would measure your weight ! And not just that, automatically saves the data with a date and time stamp into a folder in the same latop !!

Soon to hit the market - watch out !

virtual biriyani

Donno how we missed on posting this classic goof by Bhoot (Prashant.....).. or is it a repeat ?.. neverthless

So, Shock and Vindo are one day on their way to Prince Restaurant, to join n other guys already theere.. including Bhoot.. To save time, they decided to call Bhoot on phone and ask him to give their order.. Vindo ordered some curry and said "No rice, but naan". Shock ordered a Biriyani...

Bhoot, walks up to the counter and orders .. "One curry and one biriyani without rice" ...

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 !!