31.8.03
yeah, there's this girl kris i met at this forum i went to last year. she lives in indiana and we've been wanting to meet up again ever since. i was hopin we could meet tomorrow. i had to pick up some stuff from uic about my summer school classes. then i could just tell my parents id stay at uic for the day and she could pick me up from there and we could go out to eat or sumthin. i was actually really lookin forward to seein her again after bout a whole year. hwvr, my parents said that instead of me wastin time at uic, id be better if i stayed home and worked on college apps or sumthin and they went and picked it up for me. so that plan's washed down the toilet. but now, things are sorta lookin up bc im hopin to go out w/ some ppl on saturday. they'd prolly pick me up from the hopsital. then i found out that this choir workshop is on upcoming weekend and being the assistant choir director it would sorta behoove me to go. last year noone really went and the ppl who did go said it was pretty pathetic. on saturday at choir practice i asked the kids who all was going. nobody raised their hand. i had registration forms that they had to fill out their name/phone and if they were goin or not. everybody was concerned about whether so and so was goin. they wanted to turn our lil workshop into some sorta social event. yeah, our priest told us last sunday that our choir pretty much sucked. for a while i took it hard and felt it was my fault but thats all over now. yeah, its def not my fault. its their fault. this is actually a wonderful way to solve problems aka 'transferring the blame' which can apply to all other walks of life. so i had the dilemma of either going out w/ friends or goin to a choirworkshop. the workshop is on fri from 7-9 and sat 10-4. soo ill go on friday and just go for the beginning of saturday. shouldnt it be my way on my bday?? yeah, so my bday's comin up this saturday. my sister called tday and asked if i was callin any friends from school over. i told her that mom would prolly not like my friends too much. i dunno, my placed just get borin as hell after like a half hour. my mom said id be ok to have a couple friends over, maybe 10. i asked if it was ok if they were all girls and she said no. i tease her like this quite often. i dunno if its all indian parents or just mine but my parents think that jsut bout any girl they see me talkin to or anything is some intimate girlfriend of mine and that i have many many many of these intimate relationships. i would tell them otherwise but i think this way is a whole lot more fun. im debatin bringin krispy kremes to class on friday but im not sure which class...we'll see. im hopin for a digital cam from my parents which miraculously they consented to. i only get two presents a year: bday and xmas. last yr i think i got like sunglasses or sumthin for xmas. i dont usually ask all the time for stuff. im a pretty content kid. like, ive always wanted xbox but if i got it i prolly wouldnt have the time/will to play it. when i was small it was the total opposite, i would always have that one thing i wanted that my parents just wouldnt gimme. for a long time it was this pogo stick... tday right after lunch i just went to bed. i slept for bout 5 hrs, 2-7. then my mom came in, turned on the lights and started pullin me outta bed. she was pinchin/punchin/kickin. i really didnt feel like puttin up much of a fight so i just let her go at me tryna pull the covers over my head. i told her afterwards that if there was documentation of this kinda child abuse id be taken into child custody even before i could say sumthin. like a long word. like geriatrics. see, in my house, when i was growin up my parents resorted to physical punishment to discipline me. my sister never did anything wrong so when my parents were ever even in doubt of who did sumthin, the blame always fell on my head, even when it wasnt my fault. (maybe this is where i developed my 'transferring the blame' method). some people think children will get psychological problems if they go through excessive physical punishment at early ages. (father joe says there is no such thing as a psychological problem. ur just plain crazy. and that you need god. maybe sing 'up up jesus, down down satan' 3-4 times.) so obviously my parents rationalized that its ok to have non-excessive physical punishment. of course, they draw the line between what's excessive and what's not. ive had marks on my arm that have stayed for months on end before. i actually think their punishment has shown me my place in the world making me a good kid. scratch that. make that generally good kid.
'ive always wanted to fill up a huge piggy bank full of pennies and once it was full id get those cargo pants with the pockets all over. then id fill all the pockets up with as many pennies as possible. then id walk around the slums of chicago with one of those car alarms w/ me. then when one of those beggars came up to me and asked me for some change id just turn on that alarm and WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO! id start emptyin my pockets and just chuckin the pennies at em. id hurt em so bad and they'd start to scream but itd be a scream of joy bc theyd be gettin rich then id start screamin just to add to the effect. id be incredible. but, the other day i found out somebodys already done this before. that's how oktoberfest started.'
sexist joke of the day:
adam was walking around the garden of eden feeling very lonely, so god asked adam, 'what's wrong bud?'
adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to. god said, 'i was going to give you a companion and it would be a woman. this person will cook for you and wash your clothes. she will always agree with every decision you make. she will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. she will not nag you, and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. she will never have a headache, and will freely give you love and compassion whenever needed.'
adam asked god, 'what would a woman like this cost me?'
god said, 'an arm and a leg.'
after thinking about it a moment adam asked, 'What can I get for just a rib?'
Song of the day: Jimmy Fallon - Idiot Boyfriend
'ive always wanted to fill up a huge piggy bank full of pennies and once it was full id get those cargo pants with the pockets all over. then id fill all the pockets up with as many pennies as possible. then id walk around the slums of chicago with one of those car alarms w/ me. then when one of those beggars came up to me and asked me for some change id just turn on that alarm and WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO! id start emptyin my pockets and just chuckin the pennies at em. id hurt em so bad and they'd start to scream but itd be a scream of joy bc theyd be gettin rich then id start screamin just to add to the effect. id be incredible. but, the other day i found out somebodys already done this before. that's how oktoberfest started.'
sexist joke of the day:
adam was walking around the garden of eden feeling very lonely, so god asked adam, 'what's wrong bud?'
adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to. god said, 'i was going to give you a companion and it would be a woman. this person will cook for you and wash your clothes. she will always agree with every decision you make. she will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. she will not nag you, and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. she will never have a headache, and will freely give you love and compassion whenever needed.'
adam asked god, 'what would a woman like this cost me?'
god said, 'an arm and a leg.'
after thinking about it a moment adam asked, 'What can I get for just a rib?'
Song of the day: Jimmy Fallon - Idiot Boyfriend
27.8.03
question of the day:
which is worse/more embarrassing?
a.) to fly off your bike in front of a buncha ppl havin a picnic
OR
b.) blowin your bike's tires and havin to carry it 2 miles home on your shoulders?
song of the moment: tenacious d - tribute; mp3; music video.
which is worse/more embarrassing?
a.) to fly off your bike in front of a buncha ppl havin a picnic
OR
b.) blowin your bike's tires and havin to carry it 2 miles home on your shoulders?
song of the moment: tenacious d - tribute; mp3; music video.
26.8.03
my classes are great. mrs v, farran, ekpo, dr b, rarf. oh wait. then i got spanish w/ megall. its weird i hate her but i dont. see, shes actually a really nice person but shes just a super hard teacher. hmm, maybe i just hate spanish in general. that span ap is totally gonna rape me.
this one girl's been smilin a whole lot at me lately. i dont really know her that well and im not really sure what shes tryna get across. like i mean any time we make eye contact: smile. of course i smile back, what else is there to do? dunno whats goin on...i thought i could read a woman's body language pretty well but this chic's got me stumped. yeah, girls still confuse the hell outta me.
i just realized college apps are more of a hassle than i originally thought. essays, teacher recommendations, SAT II's, alll that stuff to fill in. what a hassle, im doin some apps online which makes it a whole lot more easier bc it saves most of the stuff so ya dont hafta write the same stuff twice.
i was readin this magazine (college q: what magazines do your read regularly? none. ive started just for the sake of the app) and in it it was talkin bout the world's most unforgettable achievements it ended w/ some add bout the most forgettable battery that ya never have to worry bout. hwvr, some of the unforgettable stuff was most sensitive robot, oldest man, smallest car, biggest snowman. the best one was the largest amphitheatre: 'Inaugurated by Vespasian Augustus Caesar in the year 80 AD, the Colosseum of Rome is spread across five acres and can seat up to 87,000 people comfortably. Famous for its gruesome gladiator battles, it recently hosted something almost as unpleasant, Yanni live.'
tday at school in ekpo's i was by the window lookin outside and i could just see the skies churnin like no other. it was incredible. then the thunder started like it was far away. then it got louder like it was gettin bolder and bolder and then it just went all out and then there was this huge peal and the rains started pourin down from the sky. wow. it wasnt that id never seen mother nature in action b4, but tday just seein it all play out, jeez, undescribable. maybe it had sumthin to do w/ me goin to bed @ 1.30 the night b4 and me not having study hall tday to sleep in...
"ive been told that if ya flip through the bible, if ya have it in your hands right side up you can see jesus christ. riding a horse. waving a cowboy hat in the air. then if ya flip the other way you can see a fat lady w/ a hulahoop. pretty impressive how she... anyways, back in the day, people never knew jesus was gonna amount to anything. they always thought the fat lady w/ a hula hoop was gonna make it big. strange how these things in life play out"
yowza, wouldnt it be sweet cruisin down the street in one of these? the other day we (my mom and i) were at a stoplight comin back from school. and these 4 guys in this sweet red jaguar pull up beside us and look over and all of em just smirk at me. then they light changes, they salute me and zoom off. i felt like a total shmuck...
ppl(at school) are sayin i look 'unrested', 'out of it', and 'depressed' and they're like, 'whats wrong siby?' or 'hey, if ur goin through some tough stuff or anything and ya wanna talk bout it w/ somebody, feel free to tell me w/e ya want' and other stuff to that effect. like teachers even. this is quite disconserting. does it really show that badly??
song of the moment: w/ my own two hands
father joe quotes: 'you all are hot stuff' and 'you have to drum for jesus!'
this one girl's been smilin a whole lot at me lately. i dont really know her that well and im not really sure what shes tryna get across. like i mean any time we make eye contact: smile. of course i smile back, what else is there to do? dunno whats goin on...i thought i could read a woman's body language pretty well but this chic's got me stumped. yeah, girls still confuse the hell outta me.
i just realized college apps are more of a hassle than i originally thought. essays, teacher recommendations, SAT II's, alll that stuff to fill in. what a hassle, im doin some apps online which makes it a whole lot more easier bc it saves most of the stuff so ya dont hafta write the same stuff twice.
i was readin this magazine (college q: what magazines do your read regularly? none. ive started just for the sake of the app) and in it it was talkin bout the world's most unforgettable achievements it ended w/ some add bout the most forgettable battery that ya never have to worry bout. hwvr, some of the unforgettable stuff was most sensitive robot, oldest man, smallest car, biggest snowman. the best one was the largest amphitheatre: 'Inaugurated by Vespasian Augustus Caesar in the year 80 AD, the Colosseum of Rome is spread across five acres and can seat up to 87,000 people comfortably. Famous for its gruesome gladiator battles, it recently hosted something almost as unpleasant, Yanni live.'
tday at school in ekpo's i was by the window lookin outside and i could just see the skies churnin like no other. it was incredible. then the thunder started like it was far away. then it got louder like it was gettin bolder and bolder and then it just went all out and then there was this huge peal and the rains started pourin down from the sky. wow. it wasnt that id never seen mother nature in action b4, but tday just seein it all play out, jeez, undescribable. maybe it had sumthin to do w/ me goin to bed @ 1.30 the night b4 and me not having study hall tday to sleep in...
"ive been told that if ya flip through the bible, if ya have it in your hands right side up you can see jesus christ. riding a horse. waving a cowboy hat in the air. then if ya flip the other way you can see a fat lady w/ a hulahoop. pretty impressive how she... anyways, back in the day, people never knew jesus was gonna amount to anything. they always thought the fat lady w/ a hula hoop was gonna make it big. strange how these things in life play out"
yowza, wouldnt it be sweet cruisin down the street in one of these? the other day we (my mom and i) were at a stoplight comin back from school. and these 4 guys in this sweet red jaguar pull up beside us and look over and all of em just smirk at me. then they light changes, they salute me and zoom off. i felt like a total shmuck...
ppl(at school) are sayin i look 'unrested', 'out of it', and 'depressed' and they're like, 'whats wrong siby?' or 'hey, if ur goin through some tough stuff or anything and ya wanna talk bout it w/ somebody, feel free to tell me w/e ya want' and other stuff to that effect. like teachers even. this is quite disconserting. does it really show that badly??
song of the moment: w/ my own two hands
father joe quotes: 'you all are hot stuff' and 'you have to drum for jesus!'
21.8.03
'back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that im not a fool. ive got my lunch all packed, my boots tied tight, i hope i dont get in a fight ohhh...'
summer's over. started off pretty blah but got better and better. in a way i dont want school to start bc i just dont feel like doin any work anymore (an early form of senioritis) hwvr, i do wanna see all the ppl at school again. am i the only one who feels this way?
mk, once again, i really should be in bed bc i gotta wake up at 5.45 tmrw, but here's just a buncha random stuff off the top of my head:
yesudas was incredible. the whole place was packed and tons of ppl were standing. it ran from bout 6.30 (7.00 IST) to round 10. it was sorta embarrassing though bc my dad is in the building committee for the new church so my fam paid 1,000 for the ticket. see, the more money you paid (since the proceeds were goin for the new church fund) the farther forward you could sit. so we were smack dab up in front. i was really tired throughout the whole thing cuz of jet lag though so that sorta put a damper on the whole show. only later did i realize that yesudas is 65. his hair was jet black and i had no idea. 65 and singin like that. wow.
my cousin jeffrey's a pimp. like a super pimp. but. he's only 5. his mom was tellin me that he would come home w/ all these lil papers w/ numbers on em and they didnt know what the hell they were. then this girl calls him and my aunt picks up and asks who it is and the girls like 'oh, jeffrey was supposed to call me but i think he forgot so im calling him.' then my aunt knew what all the numbers were. the thing is that he never calls them, its always them callin him. what a great kid, he never fails to crack me up. hehe, my mom and my aunt (sisters) said he takes after me... the other day i went over to his house bc we had some stuff to give their fam from india and his mom tells me that he found this video of when he was a baby, like the day he was born in the hospital w/ me holdin him and like the next couple days, and that he had watched the movie over and over for the past week. then my aunt and uncle rented some other movies like shrek, jimmy neutron, and ice age and he still only wanted to watch his baby video. and he would ask em qs like 'mommy do you remember when i was born in the hospital?' 'dont i look like siby(everybody says he looked exactly like i did when i was a baby)?' 'are you glad i was born?' 'do you love me more now than you loved me then?' jeez. who knows where he comes up w/ this stuff.
mk, when we went to india just bout every person who saw me said i had gotten bigger or put on weight or sumthin to that effect. duh. course im gonna get bigger in 2 yrs. kids grow quite a bit btwn 14 and 16. they said my dad had put on weight too. my dad's a diff story, most men stop growing b4 47. he actually had developed a nice pot belly. and as usual, everyone said my mom and sister looked the same. then fsome reason, everybody (family/grandparents) started callin me fatty. whats up w/ that? its been goin on for some time now and since i dont think im fat im not gonna do anything at all. lol, even if i did think i was fat i still prolly wouldnt do anything at all. its not that its hurtin my feelings or anything, its just so damn annoying! well, either way, both of my grandfathers mentioned starting to look for a girl for me. haha, it sorta like at the beginning of the matrix the agents are like 'the search for him has already begun'. um...ok then, maybe not. my parents were like 'no! no! no! not now! dont put ideas like that into his head!' see in india, the parents look for their to be in-laws. in my case, i wouldnt do anything at all. my parents would find some girl, she and her fam would come over and have dinner w/ me and my fam, then, after dinner, the families would talk in one room, and the boy and girl would talk in another. after bout an hr or two if the guy likes the girl and vice versa its a go and the marriage is set asap. usually this process takes place when a person is just bout done w/ grad school. my parents sorta run a loose organization w/ this stuff. ppl tell my parents bout their son or daughter who wants to get married, then my parents match ppl up. its essentially sorta like match.com just a helluvalot faster. this is one of the main reasons y my parents are so finicky when they see me even having a 1 on 1 convo w/ a girl. they think immma find a girl myself and that they wont get to and i might be wrong in my decision and/or that im jumpin in it all too early. christ, at this point in my life, the LAST thing on my mind is gettin married. hell, i actually dont even know if i wanna get married or not (my parents would shoot me if they knew this). in the words of mr durdin 'We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.' but fserious, who knows whatll happen. i dont like setting goals/resolutions for myself bc if ya fail to meet them ya feel like a failure. but if ya dont have any goals, everything's allll good.
funny tidbit of the day: an administrator at the hospital my parents work at (cook county hosp) got really pissed at this guy named ptzifarro. this guy is in charge of bringin in the food from the restraunt ptzifarro's (its a fam restraunt) and has some other job too besides that. they never really liked each other and the other day the lady went bonkers and poured piping hot coffee all over this ptzifarro guy. (right when i heard it i was reminded of the time i splattered catsup all over this guy at school once but thats a diff story) he filed charges against her for assault ('that's assault brotha' what movie?). she went to court and didnt even get a lawyer. dumb broad lost her job and her whole retirement plan.
moral of the story: pouring coffee on somebody will NEVER solve your problems.
a buncha quotes (cmon, gotta catch up on lost time)
'i want quote of the day back!!!!!!!!!!'
'ur turnin into a real badass'
'why cant yoo just date dan martino?'
'i was at the mall and kevin punched me in the face!'
'you cant hurry good pizza'
'ah, the joys of goin stag'
'you get around dont ya kid?'
'what if i told you i was madly in love w/ you?'
'its as hot as dutch love out there'
'wouldnt it be great if women didnt have a gag reflex?'
'baby, i dont need a whole lotta love, i just need a steady supply'
'ive always wondered if necrophiliacs were really into dead people or if they just liked the quiet'
'lets call ourselves criby-ungay! fighting pembrokes everywhere.' 'like bluntman and chronic' 'bonnie and clyde' 'team ramrod!'
'But listen, I ain't ever been in St Louis, but I think I can safely say the only place in the Midwest you wanna be is Chicago. And you don't wanna be here cuz your parents are'
humorous site of the day, thanks to nicole
summer's over. started off pretty blah but got better and better. in a way i dont want school to start bc i just dont feel like doin any work anymore (an early form of senioritis) hwvr, i do wanna see all the ppl at school again. am i the only one who feels this way?
mk, once again, i really should be in bed bc i gotta wake up at 5.45 tmrw, but here's just a buncha random stuff off the top of my head:
yesudas was incredible. the whole place was packed and tons of ppl were standing. it ran from bout 6.30 (7.00 IST) to round 10. it was sorta embarrassing though bc my dad is in the building committee for the new church so my fam paid 1,000 for the ticket. see, the more money you paid (since the proceeds were goin for the new church fund) the farther forward you could sit. so we were smack dab up in front. i was really tired throughout the whole thing cuz of jet lag though so that sorta put a damper on the whole show. only later did i realize that yesudas is 65. his hair was jet black and i had no idea. 65 and singin like that. wow.
my cousin jeffrey's a pimp. like a super pimp. but. he's only 5. his mom was tellin me that he would come home w/ all these lil papers w/ numbers on em and they didnt know what the hell they were. then this girl calls him and my aunt picks up and asks who it is and the girls like 'oh, jeffrey was supposed to call me but i think he forgot so im calling him.' then my aunt knew what all the numbers were. the thing is that he never calls them, its always them callin him. what a great kid, he never fails to crack me up. hehe, my mom and my aunt (sisters) said he takes after me... the other day i went over to his house bc we had some stuff to give their fam from india and his mom tells me that he found this video of when he was a baby, like the day he was born in the hospital w/ me holdin him and like the next couple days, and that he had watched the movie over and over for the past week. then my aunt and uncle rented some other movies like shrek, jimmy neutron, and ice age and he still only wanted to watch his baby video. and he would ask em qs like 'mommy do you remember when i was born in the hospital?' 'dont i look like siby(everybody says he looked exactly like i did when i was a baby)?' 'are you glad i was born?' 'do you love me more now than you loved me then?' jeez. who knows where he comes up w/ this stuff.
mk, when we went to india just bout every person who saw me said i had gotten bigger or put on weight or sumthin to that effect. duh. course im gonna get bigger in 2 yrs. kids grow quite a bit btwn 14 and 16. they said my dad had put on weight too. my dad's a diff story, most men stop growing b4 47. he actually had developed a nice pot belly. and as usual, everyone said my mom and sister looked the same. then fsome reason, everybody (family/grandparents) started callin me fatty. whats up w/ that? its been goin on for some time now and since i dont think im fat im not gonna do anything at all. lol, even if i did think i was fat i still prolly wouldnt do anything at all. its not that its hurtin my feelings or anything, its just so damn annoying! well, either way, both of my grandfathers mentioned starting to look for a girl for me. haha, it sorta like at the beginning of the matrix the agents are like 'the search for him has already begun'. um...ok then, maybe not. my parents were like 'no! no! no! not now! dont put ideas like that into his head!' see in india, the parents look for their to be in-laws. in my case, i wouldnt do anything at all. my parents would find some girl, she and her fam would come over and have dinner w/ me and my fam, then, after dinner, the families would talk in one room, and the boy and girl would talk in another. after bout an hr or two if the guy likes the girl and vice versa its a go and the marriage is set asap. usually this process takes place when a person is just bout done w/ grad school. my parents sorta run a loose organization w/ this stuff. ppl tell my parents bout their son or daughter who wants to get married, then my parents match ppl up. its essentially sorta like match.com just a helluvalot faster. this is one of the main reasons y my parents are so finicky when they see me even having a 1 on 1 convo w/ a girl. they think immma find a girl myself and that they wont get to and i might be wrong in my decision and/or that im jumpin in it all too early. christ, at this point in my life, the LAST thing on my mind is gettin married. hell, i actually dont even know if i wanna get married or not (my parents would shoot me if they knew this). in the words of mr durdin 'We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.' but fserious, who knows whatll happen. i dont like setting goals/resolutions for myself bc if ya fail to meet them ya feel like a failure. but if ya dont have any goals, everything's allll good.
funny tidbit of the day: an administrator at the hospital my parents work at (cook county hosp) got really pissed at this guy named ptzifarro. this guy is in charge of bringin in the food from the restraunt ptzifarro's (its a fam restraunt) and has some other job too besides that. they never really liked each other and the other day the lady went bonkers and poured piping hot coffee all over this ptzifarro guy. (right when i heard it i was reminded of the time i splattered catsup all over this guy at school once but thats a diff story) he filed charges against her for assault ('that's assault brotha' what movie?). she went to court and didnt even get a lawyer. dumb broad lost her job and her whole retirement plan.
moral of the story: pouring coffee on somebody will NEVER solve your problems.
a buncha quotes (cmon, gotta catch up on lost time)
'i want quote of the day back!!!!!!!!!!'
'ur turnin into a real badass'
'why cant yoo just date dan martino?'
'i was at the mall and kevin punched me in the face!'
'you cant hurry good pizza'
'ah, the joys of goin stag'
'you get around dont ya kid?'
'what if i told you i was madly in love w/ you?'
'its as hot as dutch love out there'
'wouldnt it be great if women didnt have a gag reflex?'
'baby, i dont need a whole lotta love, i just need a steady supply'
'ive always wondered if necrophiliacs were really into dead people or if they just liked the quiet'
'lets call ourselves criby-ungay! fighting pembrokes everywhere.' 'like bluntman and chronic' 'bonnie and clyde' 'team ramrod!'
'But listen, I ain't ever been in St Louis, but I think I can safely say the only place in the Midwest you wanna be is Chicago. And you don't wanna be here cuz your parents are'
humorous site of the day, thanks to nicole
16.8.03
yes, i am finally back from india after 3 weeks. 8.5 hr flight to london, 8.5 hr flight to bombay, 2 hr transit stop, 2.5 hr flight to cochin, 2.5 hr flight to trivandram, 2.5 hr drive to my grandparents' place. mk for starters the driving is TOTALLY insane. in most areas its just a dirt road. its barely big enough for 2 vehicles. when a really big bus sometimes its paved but when it rains it screws it all up so theres potholes everywhere. if ya wanna overtake somebody ya gotta go into the opposite lane and rush to beat the oncoming traffic. there were definitely some verrry close calls. then since theres trees/brambles on both sides of the road and no sidewalk, yoo got ppl walkin/bikin on it too. at times theres stray animals too. dogs, cats, goats, cows, elephants. mk, maybe the elephants arent stray but they're still there. and then just to make things better, since its a narrow dirt road ppl dont find any problem in just running accross. this is the worst. at least they could look both ways and acknowlege the oncoming vehicle, but noooo. good breaks are a necessity. one time there was this drunk old man like doin a jig accross the road w/ a goofy grin on his face and we came soo close to hittin him. its illegal to use cellphones while driving. and w/ good reason too. when we were drivin from trivandram to our house our driver got a phone call and he answered it and he got pulled over. (for really long trips ppl hire drivers. its just the norm.) he drove us some other places durin our stay bc my uncle in india is a politician so he gets gov vehicles and we get to use em free of charge. the driver was goin extremely fast. like 80 kph which is bout 50 mph but on a bumpy road with all sorts of things wizzin by it seems a whole lot faster than 50. it was like a 2.5 hr roller coaster. no line, no warnings, no seatbelts, no guarantees. pretty freaky.
we usually stay in india for a month but we only had 2 weeks this time bc of summer school and this concert on the 16th which i will get to. (oh, btw, india's independence day on the 15th! yeah! like yall care...) the main reason we went was bc it was my grandparents' (dad's side) 50th wedding anniversary and they were havin this assembly/ceremony for bout 300 ppl. my grandfather is a very proud man. likes everything to be showy and all so there was food afterwards. (i won this essay contest last summer for my church. i didnt want to do it but as usual my parents forced me into it. i was quite surprised bc the contest was open for anyone living in north america and europe. i thought it was some sorta fluke and didnt really care bout it. my grandfather got word of it and asked for us to send him a copy. then he goes and publishes it in this big name paper. i was really embarrassed. i somehow won 2nd for the contest this year, once again prolly by some fluke. i dont even member what the topic was. my grandfather asked us to send him a copy and we said no. he couldnt understand why it wasnt ok to just publish stuff i had written. hes like 'this is really good. it should be shared w/ others. yoo shouldnt be selfish and just keep it for yourself.' he got his hands on my phil term paper on morality and wanted to publish that too. course, the paper editor would have to determine if it was good enough to publish but still. yes, very proud.) he wanted me to sing a song for the assembly and i was like helll no. but then my grandparents and my parents pushed me into it so i was like w/e. fine. then the day b4 the thing i woke up late as usual. (its just great sleepin from 12-12...) my parents and my grandpa were creating the program. then i take a shower and i find out its been set in the program for me to do a speech on my grandparents. they didnt even ask me. speakin wasnt the problem. it was sorta like he was showin me off or sumthin. now i know what chics mean when they say their bf's just keep em as pin ups...or mabe not... but i declined once again and w/ much effort for the majority of the afternoon, finally managed to wriggle out of it. my fam went to decorate the hall w/ balloons/banners/ streamers the night b4. around the hall they have pics of couples that have donated alotta money and of course my grandparents photo is up there. he knew that we were puttin up balloons around the hall but he told me to stick 3-4 round that pic of him. i was like 'mmm maybe thats crossin the line' so i just acted like i forgot bout it. dont get me wrong, my grandpa's a great guy though. like one time we were drivin down to the market to buy some stuff for lunch and he saw some kids walkin to school (there are abs no fat ppl in india. at all. everybody walks a helluvalot. not everybody has the luxury of a car) and he wanted to stop and drive em to school. in india, everybody knows everybody else so its not like they were complete strangers. meh. the function did go well that saturday and after it TONS of ppl came up to me to say hello or congrandulate me on my singing. and all of em are like 'do ya know me?' not wanting to seem dumb i say yes and that satisfies some. but the majority of them are relatives of mine bc my grandparents had big families. and all their kids have big families too. i see these ppl once ever 3-4 yrs and they still expect me to remember them. they all look familiar but i dunno how they're related to me. then they tell me but the next time i see em they always gotta tell me again. quite a hassle. in india, every day the power goes out at 8.30 pm. usually it comes back in half an hour but theres no guarantees. sometimes in the middle of the day the fan just dies and once stayed off for the majority of the day. ppl just get used to it there. just our luck, the power went out durin the ceremony and didnt come back till late in the afternoon so luckily we had a generator handy and the head guy runnin the whole thing knew the generator couldnt support the mikes, lights and fans. so he decided to turn off the fans. it was boiling! and the lights were on too! and i was wearin this indian type suit that we had bought a couple days b4 and we all just sweltered. but then it rained after it was all over which really cooled everything off.
its late, pardon the randomness:
the food was terrific. every single day. some of us gotta arrange an outing to an indian rest. for all of yoo whove never experienced great indian food, ur def missin out. my sister did it w/ some of her friends from high school who wanted to try it out and my parents consented. cant find a reason y they wouldnt let me. lemme know if ur interested. // new nickname to add to the long list of names for me: siby-kuta. it sorta means like little one or sumthin like that // TONS of mosquitoes there. i got bit everywhere imaginable. the worst was on my eyelid and on the knuckles. they're everywhere. thats y i always need the fan on to keep em away. then the power goes out and they feast... // turns out there are lil liiiiizards runnin round everywhere. they are all over ppls houses and ppl dont really seem to mind bc the they say the lizards eat the bugs and all. the first time i saw one i was like 'ummm wait a sec...' but then ya just get used to it. hehe, one time there was a snake. my mom totally freaked out. it wasnt too big and i was just gonna pick it up and put it outside and my dad's like 'NO!' and he gets this huge stick and starts hittin the ground all over. finally the snake died and it was thrown outside. it was quite sad. yeah, one time when my grandparents were in the US, i came home w/ a snake and brought it inside and everybody thought it was just a toy or sumthin till they saw it bobbin its head back and forth and flickin its tongue. parents are so paranoid. // last time we went, the tv in india only had like 3 channels. one w/ news, one w/ weather, one w/ serials (soaps). this time they had a couple more channels including espn and some american movie channell. i was quite happy that i was able to watch high fidelity while i was there. // the first time i took a shower there i found it strange that there was only one knob instead of the standard 2. jesus. the water is freeeezing cold. i usually take a bath in steaming hot water even when its really hot outside and everybody complains bout me foggin up the mirror. i just bout screamed. sooo cold. in contrast, all the drinking water is hot. this is just strange. ppl come out from trekkin 5-6 miles and they drink a cup of hot water. the main reason is that all the water is boiled to removed germs/bacteria. // aishwarya rai, 1994 miss world has now topped the charts of my 'most beautiful women in the world' list. it used to be heidi klum but hey, i was always a sucker for an indian chic. // the whole time i was there, i was thinkin of this one special someone... maybe 1 or 2 of ya even know who it is... // on the way back we stopped at london to look around at the sights and stay w/ my second cousins. it was fun but sorta washes all hopes of goin to london this coming spring break bc my parentsd be like 'we went and saw all of london already in 2 days, theres no reason we hafta spend 2 grand to let ya roam around there for a whole week...' or sumthin to that effect.
its about 4 in the morning. dayum jet lag sucks. tday evening theres this concert. yesudas, the #1 singer in all of india that ever was is coming to chicago. my church is putting it on. proceeds are gonna go to us building our new church. problem is that we're not tearin down the old one. so all the ppl who are stayin at the old one dont wanna pay any money for a new one. theres bout 500 families and its jam packed every sunday and we gotta have 2 services every sunday. we need to get round 1.5 million total. fat chance that happens. but anywho, we sold lotsa tickets to ppl who didnt go to our church but still love yesudas. so id be sorta bad if these ppl came and we didnt go ourselves. i got a bad rap from anil for gettin home right on independence day. oh well. theres some stuff still in my noodle but ima just leave it at this. gnight to all.
hehe, interesting dialogue from earlier tday:
kometgurl7: '...so i pulled onto the highway and i see this ant crawlin around on my window. i slowly start to speed up and after a while im goin 70 and waddaya know it's still there, not even movin, just clinging on for dear life'
kometgurl7: 'sorta made me thinka how we're all like that. we're wizzing through life holdin on and tryin all we can to not get bucked off...'
sibysamuel: 'wow. touching. then what happened?'
kometgurl7: 'to what?'
sibysamuel: 'the ant'
kometgurl7: 'hehe, i hit 80 and the lil fucker flew off'
~happy bday to audre!~
we usually stay in india for a month but we only had 2 weeks this time bc of summer school and this concert on the 16th which i will get to. (oh, btw, india's independence day on the 15th! yeah! like yall care...) the main reason we went was bc it was my grandparents' (dad's side) 50th wedding anniversary and they were havin this assembly/ceremony for bout 300 ppl. my grandfather is a very proud man. likes everything to be showy and all so there was food afterwards. (i won this essay contest last summer for my church. i didnt want to do it but as usual my parents forced me into it. i was quite surprised bc the contest was open for anyone living in north america and europe. i thought it was some sorta fluke and didnt really care bout it. my grandfather got word of it and asked for us to send him a copy. then he goes and publishes it in this big name paper. i was really embarrassed. i somehow won 2nd for the contest this year, once again prolly by some fluke. i dont even member what the topic was. my grandfather asked us to send him a copy and we said no. he couldnt understand why it wasnt ok to just publish stuff i had written. hes like 'this is really good. it should be shared w/ others. yoo shouldnt be selfish and just keep it for yourself.' he got his hands on my phil term paper on morality and wanted to publish that too. course, the paper editor would have to determine if it was good enough to publish but still. yes, very proud.) he wanted me to sing a song for the assembly and i was like helll no. but then my grandparents and my parents pushed me into it so i was like w/e. fine. then the day b4 the thing i woke up late as usual. (its just great sleepin from 12-12...) my parents and my grandpa were creating the program. then i take a shower and i find out its been set in the program for me to do a speech on my grandparents. they didnt even ask me. speakin wasnt the problem. it was sorta like he was showin me off or sumthin. now i know what chics mean when they say their bf's just keep em as pin ups...or mabe not... but i declined once again and w/ much effort for the majority of the afternoon, finally managed to wriggle out of it. my fam went to decorate the hall w/ balloons/banners/ streamers the night b4. around the hall they have pics of couples that have donated alotta money and of course my grandparents photo is up there. he knew that we were puttin up balloons around the hall but he told me to stick 3-4 round that pic of him. i was like 'mmm maybe thats crossin the line' so i just acted like i forgot bout it. dont get me wrong, my grandpa's a great guy though. like one time we were drivin down to the market to buy some stuff for lunch and he saw some kids walkin to school (there are abs no fat ppl in india. at all. everybody walks a helluvalot. not everybody has the luxury of a car) and he wanted to stop and drive em to school. in india, everybody knows everybody else so its not like they were complete strangers. meh. the function did go well that saturday and after it TONS of ppl came up to me to say hello or congrandulate me on my singing. and all of em are like 'do ya know me?' not wanting to seem dumb i say yes and that satisfies some. but the majority of them are relatives of mine bc my grandparents had big families. and all their kids have big families too. i see these ppl once ever 3-4 yrs and they still expect me to remember them. they all look familiar but i dunno how they're related to me. then they tell me but the next time i see em they always gotta tell me again. quite a hassle. in india, every day the power goes out at 8.30 pm. usually it comes back in half an hour but theres no guarantees. sometimes in the middle of the day the fan just dies and once stayed off for the majority of the day. ppl just get used to it there. just our luck, the power went out durin the ceremony and didnt come back till late in the afternoon so luckily we had a generator handy and the head guy runnin the whole thing knew the generator couldnt support the mikes, lights and fans. so he decided to turn off the fans. it was boiling! and the lights were on too! and i was wearin this indian type suit that we had bought a couple days b4 and we all just sweltered. but then it rained after it was all over which really cooled everything off.
its late, pardon the randomness:
the food was terrific. every single day. some of us gotta arrange an outing to an indian rest. for all of yoo whove never experienced great indian food, ur def missin out. my sister did it w/ some of her friends from high school who wanted to try it out and my parents consented. cant find a reason y they wouldnt let me. lemme know if ur interested. // new nickname to add to the long list of names for me: siby-kuta. it sorta means like little one or sumthin like that // TONS of mosquitoes there. i got bit everywhere imaginable. the worst was on my eyelid and on the knuckles. they're everywhere. thats y i always need the fan on to keep em away. then the power goes out and they feast... // turns out there are lil liiiiizards runnin round everywhere. they are all over ppls houses and ppl dont really seem to mind bc the they say the lizards eat the bugs and all. the first time i saw one i was like 'ummm wait a sec...' but then ya just get used to it. hehe, one time there was a snake. my mom totally freaked out. it wasnt too big and i was just gonna pick it up and put it outside and my dad's like 'NO!' and he gets this huge stick and starts hittin the ground all over. finally the snake died and it was thrown outside. it was quite sad. yeah, one time when my grandparents were in the US, i came home w/ a snake and brought it inside and everybody thought it was just a toy or sumthin till they saw it bobbin its head back and forth and flickin its tongue. parents are so paranoid. // last time we went, the tv in india only had like 3 channels. one w/ news, one w/ weather, one w/ serials (soaps). this time they had a couple more channels including espn and some american movie channell. i was quite happy that i was able to watch high fidelity while i was there. // the first time i took a shower there i found it strange that there was only one knob instead of the standard 2. jesus. the water is freeeezing cold. i usually take a bath in steaming hot water even when its really hot outside and everybody complains bout me foggin up the mirror. i just bout screamed. sooo cold. in contrast, all the drinking water is hot. this is just strange. ppl come out from trekkin 5-6 miles and they drink a cup of hot water. the main reason is that all the water is boiled to removed germs/bacteria. // aishwarya rai, 1994 miss world has now topped the charts of my 'most beautiful women in the world' list. it used to be heidi klum but hey, i was always a sucker for an indian chic. // the whole time i was there, i was thinkin of this one special someone... maybe 1 or 2 of ya even know who it is... // on the way back we stopped at london to look around at the sights and stay w/ my second cousins. it was fun but sorta washes all hopes of goin to london this coming spring break bc my parentsd be like 'we went and saw all of london already in 2 days, theres no reason we hafta spend 2 grand to let ya roam around there for a whole week...' or sumthin to that effect.
its about 4 in the morning. dayum jet lag sucks. tday evening theres this concert. yesudas, the #1 singer in all of india that ever was is coming to chicago. my church is putting it on. proceeds are gonna go to us building our new church. problem is that we're not tearin down the old one. so all the ppl who are stayin at the old one dont wanna pay any money for a new one. theres bout 500 families and its jam packed every sunday and we gotta have 2 services every sunday. we need to get round 1.5 million total. fat chance that happens. but anywho, we sold lotsa tickets to ppl who didnt go to our church but still love yesudas. so id be sorta bad if these ppl came and we didnt go ourselves. i got a bad rap from anil for gettin home right on independence day. oh well. theres some stuff still in my noodle but ima just leave it at this. gnight to all.
hehe, interesting dialogue from earlier tday:
kometgurl7: '...so i pulled onto the highway and i see this ant crawlin around on my window. i slowly start to speed up and after a while im goin 70 and waddaya know it's still there, not even movin, just clinging on for dear life'
kometgurl7: 'sorta made me thinka how we're all like that. we're wizzing through life holdin on and tryin all we can to not get bucked off...'
sibysamuel: 'wow. touching. then what happened?'
kometgurl7: 'to what?'
sibysamuel: 'the ant'
kometgurl7: 'hehe, i hit 80 and the lil fucker flew off'
~happy bday to audre!~
