type of indian women found in us grad schools courtesy longhorn

this is not mine but hillarious to say the least

so here goes

this is just a summary. for details visit
http://sudiptachatterjee.blogspot.com/2007/11/desi-juliet-guide.html

THE BALLERINA (Julietofus Dansicus)

THE SNOBFACE (Julietofus Pedigree-ius)

MOTHER MARY (Julietofus Matronus)

CATWOMAN (Julietofus Amoramus)

THE CHATTERBOX (Julietofus Blabberifus)

UBER-GIRLY (Julietofus Pansipus)

BASANTI (Julietofus Rusticus)

THE ULTRA FEMINIST (Julietofus Sultanus)

FIRANGI PHASAYA (Julietofus Oversea-us

ULTRA CAUTIOUS (Julietofus Cherry-pickus)

MISS BIRDBRAINS (Julietofus Pinheadus)

THE ROUND ONE (Julietofus Slimmifus)


VEGGIE DELITE (Julietofus herbivorous)

THE TAKEN ONES (Julietofus long-distancus)

for my own reference :P or anybody else for that matter :D

source http://www.ibnlive.com/news/she-wants-our-relationship-to-be-a-secret/59243-19-p1.html

Here are the five things that definitely say another is either not interested in carrying on with the relationship (if you aren’t imagining the relationship in the first place) or are not interested:

1. S/ he does NOT introduce you to friends and keeps you a secret: Unless there is secrecy due to parental disapproval or HR trouble (for office romance cases), most people will introduce their partners to their friend circle. If yours is not doing so, there could be two reasons: You are not ‘important’ enough to be introduced (and are a private convenience or ‘time-pass’) or they don’t consider you good enough and consider you an embarrassment. If s/he talks to you (or meets) you in private but denies even knowing you in public, they are not serious about the relationship and you are about to be history soon.

2. S/ he does not talk to you (as much) anymore: There cannot be a clearer sign of another not being interested than them NOT wanting to talk to you. If you have been talking to the other for some time – whether over coffee or on the phone – and now they don’t want to talk anymore or don’t seem to have much time, they’ve either lost interest or are not interested. Replying in monosyllables, yawning on the phone, ending calls midway or always being busy when you call are clear signs you should back off.

3. S/he is ignoring you: When someone is interested, they SHOW interest. If on the other hand, the other avoids places where you could be, does not tell you where s/he would be (for fear you would land up there), does not take your calls, blocks you on instant-messenger and does not respond to SMS-es (even after five days), they are definitely NOT interested.

4. S/ he hopes you will find someone “better” for yourself: It means they are hoping that you would leave them alone and get on with your life. When you are clearly interested in someone and they are giving you the “find someone better” line, it means they wish you’d rather put your interest and affections elsewhere and not on them. Many times people are not comfortable telling another to buzz-off on their faces and employ this tactic hoping the other would get the message.

5. S/ he wants to be ‘friends’ with you forever…: Wanting to “be friends” is the most classic and perhaps the biggest sign that the other is not interested. ‘Being friends’ here should not be confused with the other person valuing you; instead it means the person definitely does NOT see you as a romantic interest. Wanting to be friends is perhaps their way of telling you that ‘friendship’ is all they want from their association with you and is a polite way of telling you to move on.

Baarish - Indian Rain Song (Original)

dug this song today from youtube and lo and behold before the day ends, everybody has it in their favourite videos list on orkut.
This song for its sheer beauty(and the beauty of the singer) deserves to be blogged.

The guy who uploaded this video gave the following apt description

"An original song about the emotions stirred in a girl witnessing the first rainfall of the season. Pardon the nowhere-near-perfect guitaring/singing, this was a single take recording...loved the quirky camera angle so I couldn't resist putting this up here"

I go one step ahead and say watching this video was the most beautiful event in my day today


so here goes!! enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9OWy_JTqbg

kal-yesterday and tomorrow...... a tribute

From the amount of movies i see this blog should be filled with tributes to all kinds of movies. from psych thrillers to horror to comedy(i dont do romance!!). But only once in a while there come movies that are befitting a tribute. Of late there was one 'Taare Zameen Par' and then there was one starring kamal hasan called 'Sadma' and then a few notable ones would be 'Haasil' and 'Seher', both worth their weights in gold.
I believe most of the readers would be familiar with actress chitrangada. This two movie wonder shook bollywood with her performance in 'Hazaroon Khawaishen Aisi' . That is another masterpiece. But today when her third movie has been announced i write a tribute to her second movie which in my opinion is her best work to date and I doubt she will ever be able to surpass it. "Kal-yesterday and tomorrow" is a hallmark in cinematic excellence. It is more than a movie. Its portrayal of life itself. A wise man once remarked to me 'Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks all'. This movie is a life size portrayal of that sentiment
Two years ago when i was about to leave for my graduate studies here, i used to sleep pretty less. Days were spent with family and friends and nights watching TV cause i knew it would be sometime before i could see a real nice hindi movie here. SO on one of those days by chance i stumbled upon this movie at 2 am in the morning and can never forget the next three hours.
Its a haunting tale of four friends played by chitrangada, shiney ahuja , raam kapoor and a very pretty simriti mishra. The four friends have a happy life till life itself happens to them. Writing anymore here would be a dead giveaway of the script.
The tale itself is slow paced with haunting soundtrack a remixed version of which can be found on youtube. So if you are into fast paced racy raunchy masala stuff then dont see this movie. You just wont appreciate it. However if you want to reflect on life itself then go grab a DVD and watch it in the darkness of night. It will give you a perspective on a lot of things atleast thats what it did to me.
The director of this movie is ruchi narain , the assistant director for HKA. She has done a great job but her immaturity can be seen here and there during the movie. But all in all its completely pardonable and a great watch

North Vs South or is it....????????????????

They say birds of a feather flock together. I say the feathers may be different but they belong to the same sky; that all the sky is for them to share. They say north should stay in north and south should stay in south. I say north south east and west are the same. In fact they are an amalgamation. Together they are complete and alone they are just fragments; incomplete carcasses of a mammoth culture.
My insinuations are towards growing crisis being faced by hindi speaking population at their very origin. Branded as lawless, brawling, chaotic and barbaric reminders of the marauders who have plagued our lands since time immemorial, they are being singled out and subjugated to humiliation and alienation in the very country where national language is hindi and whose ex prime minister had the pride to deliver a lecture in hindi on the floors of UN general assembly.
My being from the north has got nothing to do with what I write here today. In fact sitting in US, I should be least bothered about whats happening in India. I have never been beyond madhya pradesh(Once to bombay for three days), before coming to US never met any south indian, never dated any south indian girl(the only one i know is aishwarya rai and boy she is hot!! and ironically now married to a north indian living in bombay) and obviously never watchd a south indian movie. Being a pakka north indian from haryana according to some Lt governer of delhi and a certain political wannabe from bombay, i should have popped off a couple of unsuspecting south indians by now, molested at least 10-12 women before/after getting completely wasted, broken all laws regarding parking, loud speakers building construction, money laundering tax evasion, electricity theft, forgery impersonation and last but the least my personal favourite mowing down people under my car.
To their utmost disappointment if they probe in the life of this pukka diliwalla as i pride in calling myself i have done neither. Pride myself in being a law abiding citizen of india for 21 years and a law abiding non resident alien in united states for two years where ironically laws are stricter with lesser loopholes for both north and south indians to wiggle out of.
The reason i am pouring my heart here today is because fighting over names of states, filling up of personal coffers at the cost of stunted growth and red tape were bad enough we now have these irresponsible netas hell bent on irreversibly widening the north south divide.
Banglore is IT capital of india not of andhra pradesh or karnataka where majority of business is carried out in english which is neither hindi nor marathi nor tamil nor telugu. Mumbai is the home of bollywood which churns out the maximum number of movies in hindi language year after year. Haryana produces the maximum amount of wheat in india which is the staple diet from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, the steel from jamshedpur and bhilai is in homes of north and south indians and tea from darjeeling and beauty of himalayas and salt from gujrat and...... the list goes on and on.
Can we live by beating and alienating each other? The above argument amply illustrates that united we stand and divided we fall. So why this chasm? why these fault lines deepening now? The answer lies in petty cultural differences and differences in upbringing people from north and south have. while people from north believe more in showing off what we have and what we dont have,living beyond what means permit and enjoying life to the hilt. From whatever i have observed in graduate students from south india here, i can say that they are generally reserved, brilliant in their minds, not showy and pretentious and very proud of their heritage. These differences are just my opinion and based on my observations. However these petty differences sometimes lead to petty disputes which are now being blown out of proportions and being used for vested interests.
If I look at a micro sample which would my graduate school here, i see a tendency in people belonging to same regions hang out more together. Nothing wrong with that. It is purely a matter of choice more than anything else. But i also find people who have this notion that since people speaking 'their' language are almost equivalent to hindi speaking language, their language should alo be made national language or a certain super star from south should be made bharat ratna and so on. Again nothing wrong with that. Purely their opinion. I dont agree and dont find it to be socially correct to overtly disagree. There are people on the other side too who would use expressions like 'gult', 'southy' , 'illad', 'sambhar -dosa' and stuff like that to brand segregate and label people according to their convenience. Rather than the stupid politicians, there are these small tendencies in us which they aggravate to a point of conflict between individuals born to one land. I for one after coming here have learnt to judge people on merit rather than their mother tongue. Idiots and bigots can belong to both north and south but so do good people. We must learn to see good in human beings regardless of their caste color and creed or else we who weep for our lost sons and daughters abroad will have to weep for ones killed at home by our own hands.