Quoting Atuls mom , while she was staying with us for a month or so
"Last time Atul came to India, I sent with him all spare parts for the cooker- washer, weight, safety valve etc etc. After coming here I realise that the cooker itself is not there !!"
evidently our man has burned it and thrown it away.. and the "spare parts" are sitting nicely in his bag, unopened and untouched
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Atuls Father told us all the goofs that happened on the road trip they undertook.. we laughed and laughed for almost 1 hr.. its too difficult to write about those here... instead, here are two jokes that his Father told us that happened in his younger days
1) After graduation, Atuls Father had all his friends over at his place once.. they decided to take a group picture... and gave the camera to the only other person who was home at that time- his grandma.. just to be sure, (since it was the "old type" wash camera.. not digi) , they took two snaps...
Alas, after devloping, the two photos came- one had the ceiling fan it , and the other had the carpet :-)
2) This one's is slightly improvised: Talking about forgetting car keys... apparenty once he went with his friends in a car to Marina beach.. and they started playing "hiding things" .... one set of people hide various things and another set finds them out ... they played, the second team found some of the things that were hidden... they left the unfound stuff as it is and kept walking down the beach ...... while it was time to go back, they realised the following things
a) the fellow who was driving was in the "hiding" team
b) worse, the fellow chose to hide the car key
c) worst, that item was not one amongst those that the "finding" team unearthed !!
Monday, August 28, 2006
Friday, June 23, 2006
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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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
Sunday, June 18, 2006
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 !
VindO bhai, me thought thats the number that comes between 2 and 4 !
Saturday, June 03, 2006
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 ?
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 ?
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Lunch Combo
Contributed by Saurabh Jain
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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)."
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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 :-)
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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)
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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 !
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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)
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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 !!
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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 .. :-) .
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 .. :-) .
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