I am a Vampire

I am a vampire
I am a vampire
I am a vampire
I am a vampire
I am a vampire
vampire
I am a vampire
I have lost my fangs

West Indian

priya: o btw i just confirmed wit 2 girls today ...ill be stayin wit them in flat!!

me thats gr8

priya: so i got new house!!

me: who r they, wat do they do

congrats

priya: they works one in symphony n one in IBM i gues

one n indian other s indian

me west indian!

me lack of work makes jokes useless :P

some news

five days starting 1:00 AM tonight

• no internet
• no cellphones
• no deadlines
• no laptops
• all sun
• all sand
• all surf
• all shopping (yikes!)

for those that dint click on the link above
here is y ive earned the break

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24368183/

The bathtub fruit

It is only fair that a fruit this delicious is only available for a few short months each year. To be allowed to indulge in such sinful pleasures throughout the year is asking for too much. Even as a city slicker, I remember summer vacations spent scouting lanes for the biggest, most laden trees & trying everything from sticks, rocks & lighter friends to get at the raw fruit tempting us from the distance. The ecstasy of watching dada bring the first batch of glorious golden Alphonsoes into the house & stripping down to the undies to eat (and of course let drip) the juicy pulp. To hell with the heat sores & cavities, it was a bitter fight down to the very last faar and the one who won had to bathe after dinner. To top it off there were grannys stories about how it was the King of all fruit and how no other fruit would dare offend it by being available in the same season (except the beggar banana of course but we'll save that for another day).

The monarchy of the mango may be diluted by apple imports & better growing patterns but the first illustration that comes to mind every season with the first batch is that of an Englishman in a bath tub, eating (such a crude word), relishing the fruit. I can't remember if it was Tinkle or Champak that first published that picture & Google images keeps asking me if "i mean" something else, but its nonetheless engraved in my memory. The Frooti ad that carries the line "mango socha.. pittey" attempts to capture some of the magic but as any self respecting fattie will tell you, theres nothing like the real thing. I know of a few that completely detest mangoes for reasons beyond my realm of understanding and I'm only too happy cuz theres just more of them for me.

Happy Birthday to..

Bhupi
Buffadi
Bhupeshwar
Bhoopnath
Bhoopkumar
Bhoop-doggy-dog
Bhususu
Bhuppaa
muttu kodi buffadi hada
lahiri ... Bhupee lahiri
Bhoopster
whoosh-maker
Bhoop-in-dhoop
Bhoops scoop
Bhoo-pati
hula-bhoop
para-bhooper
Bhuppity (for the one who just HAD to be on the list :P)

a.k.a. (though nobody calls him that, Bhupesh Rajkumar Bansal)

we luv u bhoo

27% of this is just sad

• 27% of our intellectual properties have been deemed out of bounds
• 27% of all that was meritocratic has now been made unattainable
• 27% of what was ours has now been made theirs

• will that 27% ever wake up and say, let us fight our own battles and truly feel 'equal'?
• will that 27% demand the same treatment when it steps out into the global marketplace?
• will that 27% cast their votes to the hand that feeds them?

on the other hand

• they do recognize that a person becomes 'educationally forward' once he or she passes out from a university and cannot claim the same benefit
• they do recognize that there are those who are privileged among the backward and hence the creamy layer cannot claim the same benefit
• Justice Bhandari says "Reservation is an unreasonable restriction that infringes this right by destroying the autonomy and essence of an unaided institution" and hence those entering unaided institutes cannot claim the same benefit
• increasing the seats at the IITs to accommodate the additional students essentially leaves regular students competing for the same number of seats

like I said, 27% of this is sad ... the other 73% actually makes sense ... both for the ones directly impacted and of course for the ones that will reap the maximum benefits of this judgment in the coming election year.

The Voice

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