First time ever in US!!!

u know what... I visited a Health Center for the first time after coming to USA. Its like i had some problem with my shoulders, which was diagonsed to be because of bowling action and stress which results from sitting for long hours in from the computer. He prescribed some medicine and just for some 20tablets i had to shell out like $25, that really aggravated the pain :(

Lets hope i won't make it a habbit to visit that place often ;)

and also for the first time ever (*lol*) my orkut scrap book reached 100scraps... gettin' famous day by day huh :D

Lord of the Rings!!!

Saturday was the day meant for movies. We watched all three parts of The Lord of the Rings and that too back to back. We started watching it from 5 in the evening the by the time we finished, it was like 5 in the morning.
pretty cool huh :)

NYC Trip

May26th-Jun1st New York Trip was amazing!!! had loads of fun and it was a memorable experience. For those of you who don't know where I went, here it is
May 27th - Niagara Falls
May 28th - Washington DC
May 29th - Western Maryland
May 30th - New Jersey/New York City
May 31st - Robert Moses Park, Long Island, NY
Jun 1st - Ganesha Temple @ Flushing, NY

The best part was that in New Jersey, we stayed in Vasanta Shashi's house n when we were leaving, she sang "Teredide Mane" for me :) i have the video if it ;)

Now I am Mobile Manjudu :)

*eddu_biddu_oddaDing* eeeeehaaa.... i got my new Nokia 3220 cellphone yesterday evening. Its kinda neat... perfect party phone with 4lights(aaika...music jote lights kuNiyutte ). The best part is that you can customize it in the way you like, be it ringtones n wallpapers or the facaplates or the back cover. all i can say is *Its a really cool thing*. will upload some pix of my cellphone pretty soon.

With less powers comes less responsibilities?

"With great powers, comes great responsiblities" - from the movie Spiderman.
It has been 1 year holding the Treasurer/webmaster position at the India Students Association in our university. Our term started off with a mere 43$ in the ISA account and today we have handed over nearly 2K(not in Rs :D) to the new ISA committee, inspite of spending on every possible event you can think of, thanx to all our committee members!!! But at the end of the day, I could not answer one simple question "What did you get by doing so much?" is it name? or fame? or satisfaction? or just waste of time?. Now, all I can say is that i'm done with it :)

Same day i've quit as Admin @ ka.com forum. i've achieved what I wanted before I quit. I know it was a harsh decision. anywayz... ka.com is now in a position to maintain its #1 position even without me ;) gr8 going!!! Now its like you know, i need not have really worry about anything.. relaxed, calm, no worries, no barriers, no rules!!! and my mind is like a freshly formatted Hard disk.

oh I forgot... what do you think? "with less powers, comes less responsibilities?"

Morning Raga

If you think that you are fed up listening to Country/Hip-Hop/Rock/Trance music, why don't you try a Fusion album? Recently, I came across one such album "Morning Raga" which is a classical fusion(Thanks to Praveen). Morning Raga is a hindi movie released in the year 2004, though I haven't seen that movie till now, tell you what, the songs in this movie are pretty cool. The songs that I liked the most in this album are
1. Jagadodharana - Bombay Jayashree
2. Thaye yeshode - Sudha Raghunathan & Rajini ramakrishnan
3. Mathey - Sudha Raghunathan & Kalyani Menon
4. Samaja varagamana - Gayathri

If you wanna listen to these songs, you can find it on Raaga.com or use this link http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=27957JTP7UNO73N73BO1TKSKHT
PS: this link works for only 7days and there is also a limit of 25downloads.

If this album has influenced a person like me who is always behind hip-hop/R&B/Techno/Rock, then you can know for yourself the potential this album has got.
Why wait?? Headphone on, full volume n enjoy the Morning Raga!!!
Enjoy!!!

Spring 2005 Farewell

At last, all the exams are over for this semester n now its time to party!!!! Yesterday nite there was a get-together/potluck dinner @ Devanand Maski's house and it was nice to meet everyone. Food was amazing!!! Then went to 519 Laramie for a KEG party(no use for me though) as Viskan n Thomas graduated today(n Vikram too). Then came home and at 12AM, we had this Spring 2005 Farewell cake cut and a 2hr long discussion followed that , discussing about the good and bad things that happened during the semester.
During the discussion, nidhi asked for pepsi n i gave this 2ltr sealed bottle n it just slipped n fell on the ground. When I opened that bottle , I felt like "i was a winner"... lol... it was like opening a champaign bottle, within no time all that place was filled with pepsi n i am such a dumb a*s that i am sitting there holding it n enjoying the way it was spilling out. It was not just the hall, even in the kitchen i am just holding it n the floor was like eeeer sticky sticky. My dress was a total mess. If u wanna have a good look at the pple behind this scene, just see the photo below ;)

Welcome Summer 2005!!!!!

pple who messed up our apt are standing there n enjoying what happened. Just have a look at that guys pant n shirt... oh man... totally messed up ;) 

Happy Married Life Ajay n Karthik!!!!

*lol*... relax... idyaavaginda bhaaratadalli shuruvaitu anta keLtideera??? *lol* i didn't mean that Ajay n Karthik are getting married... well, they are getting married... same time, same day, same city.... but with different girls *lol* *lol* *lol*. (manasinalli: ajay n karthik inda chappli yeTu guarantee... u know.. combo attack ;) )

*eddu_biddu_oddaDing_expression*
Yes, namma BTL Collegina "Saapad Rama" anta pamous aagiruva Ajay Kumar indu SumaaLa kayyi hiDidanu... ajay bagge heLbekandre ee blog space overflow aagogutte *lol*.

haage nam karthik saha nimge gottalva... ade nam ka.com RJ haagu nanna blogna regular visitor.... Karthik a.k.a kaari indu same time, same day, same city, but @ different chatradalli with a different huDgi "Soumya" jote maduve aaging.

(abba... huDgi hesaru saha gamanisidra??? suma n soumya... sounds similar rite ;) )

Karthik n ajay uncles haagu
Soumya n Suma attiges ge WISH U A VERY HAPPY MARRIED LIFE!!!!

hehe.... ide reeti next function yaavaga??? *innocent*

PS: ibbru nim nim maduve photosna kaLsrappa... naanu noDbeku :)

Manji gettin' upgraded with new cellphone!!!

"T-Mobile inda ee Manji mobile aagtidaane, inna neevu?" - this is similar to the one in which actor Srinath was saying for JTM long time ago.

Y'day nite I placed an order for T-mobile 600min/month with Unltd weekends n nights plan with Nokia 3220 cellphone. Thought 3220 is not that gr8 interms of looks, I am gettin' all the features that I wanted like.. its a TriBand phone with IR port, light weight, SpeakerPhone n on top of that its pretty cheap n the total cost will turn out to be that i'll get back $100. I'd say its Perfect for pple whose bank balance is hovering around two-digits n single-digits (chukles ).

See these links for more info on the cellphone
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009A5KUQ/qid=1115389271/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-5109595-5775837?v=glance&s=wireless&n=507846
&
http://www.tmobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=242032&class=phone

My other Options were
Samsung E715 & Nokia 6600. E715 was pretty gud with lotsa good looking features which i don't use at all.. but it didn't have the essential features that i wanted n i had to stick with 3220. Nokia 6600 was my first option earlier, but then that phone was not available currently + it was a bit expensive as well.

Will write a detailed review on Nokia3220 once I get it. till then
chao!!!

The 4-Variable IQ Test

Your brain: 60% interpersonal, 160% visual, 60% verbal, and 120% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers. Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious: Don't date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 80%. Don't be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 100%. Don't have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 200%.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 65% on interpersonal You scored higher than 92% on visual You scored higher than 65% on verbal You scored higher than 74% on mathematical

Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid

out of adrushTa

I am totally pissed off today becoz I didn't get one RA position(swalpa duDDu jaasti irodu ;) ) just becoz I had full 40hr RA job during Summer :( ... adu bere mailnalli adanne highlight maaDi bere heLidaane... just becoz of that ninage koDtilla anta... RA iddru problemmu anta eevatte gottagiddu :((
anywayz... eegiro RA positionne gaTTi aadangaaitu... ee sari lakshmi krupe toralilla :(

Hey u know what.. today it is our RJ Chaitra's B'day!!!!! happy b'day Chai!!! eshTu out of adrushTa andre Chai's b'day cake saha siglilla :((

innu bere enaadru keTTadaagi bareyokinta munche, ee postanna illige nillising.

Bad Bad Day :(

Yesterday I had the all time low bank balance with just a mere $4.83 in my account!!!
Thats not it... I had to send my laptop to the Compaq Customer Care center to get my CD/DVD drive replaced as there was some problem burning CDs in it. Expected date of delivery of the laptop is 28th of April :(

Bad Bad Day

Lakshmi Krupe

It was a day of surprise for me. Went to the office in the morning as usual n after sometime the Office Lady came and gave me a sheet of paper for signature n I was shocked to see that it was a paper related to change of Salary... u know what, I got a 20%hike in my salary today... ehe aha (as in Crazy Kernel).

Few days back RJ Shruthi Prakash from World Space Sparsha Satellite Radio contacted me n it was nice talking to her. :) http://worldspaceasia.com/nuketohtml.php?filnavn=files/shruthi_profile.html
Those of you who are reading this blog from Asia, pls listen to Sparsha Satellite Radio (n ofcourse our Kannada Kasturi Online Radio) ;)

Current ISA committee along with the will be ISA committee members at the end of Food Fest 2005, organized by India Students Association at Kansas State University 

Varun representing our stall from South Zone @ Food Fest 2005 

da Mob @ Food Fest 2005 

People standing in front of East and North Zones at Food Fest 2005 organised by India Students Association at Kansas State University 

Birthday Time!!!!

Happy Birthday to u Praveena!!!! Hope u r havin' fun. Its ur day, enjoy it to the max.

Not only that, it was my cousin Rahul's Birthday on 16th April!!! Things were gettin' so busy that I cudn't even call him up to wish on this b'day. Don't worry dude, ur gifts n chocolates r on the way n will be in home pretty soon ;)

So finally we successfully accomplished the Food Fest 2005 , which was the last event from our India Students Association committee. It was a huuuge success... The event was scheduled from 6-9PM on 16th April, n we had printed like 450coupons. But it turned to be that we sold almost 1000 coupons n the food was over within a matter of an hour and a half. The worst part was that there were some more pple who were going to each n every stall to see if something is left :)) I had made BANGALORE SPL BISI BELE BATH and it was over within 45min ;) All the profits will go to the Tsunami Relief Fund. As I am the Treasurer of ISA, I've become richer :D n will show u the balance sheet pretty soon. The next ISA committee will take charge from the end of this semester.
PS: pls don't forget to have a look at the Food Fest 2005 Pics :) (chix, next time ;) )

Long time no see

lol.... thatz the question you should be asking me :) nothing gr8 happening except the fact that my bank balance is hitting 2digit numbers :D... thanx to the semester fee which I had to pay this week.

The best part is that we have got our tickets confirmed to go to NY over the memorial day weekend.

Over the last few days I haven't changed my Winamp Playlist n there are only two albums in it.
1. Autograph Please
2. Jogi
The two class songs are the Ello jogappa ninna aramane and Chellidaro malligeya remixes and both albums are too gud with some gud peppy numbers and very good slow songs as well. For those of you who haven't heard good music for quite some time, I strongly recommend you to listen to them.

You can listen to these songs at
http://kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Moviewise/home/AutographPlease.php
&
http://kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Moviewise/home/Jogi.php

Pls don't forget to leave your comments on these two albums!!!