(On the lines of "Mi Morcha nela nahi.." by Sandip Khare and Heres the original version)

मी डेटिंग केले नाही, मी सेटिंग केले नाही.
मी निरोप सुद्धा साधा कधी पाठवलेला नाही.
भवताली चॅटिंग चाले, ते विस्फारुन बघताना,
कुणी दोस्ती वाढवताना, कुणी गर्लफ्रेंड मिळवताना.
मी लॉग इन होऊन बसलो मेसेंजरवरती जेव्हा.
मज हाय करायला देखिल कुणीही पिंग केले नाही.
मी डेटिंग केले नाही..
बुजलेला यांत्रिक चेहरा, सुटलेली घाबरगुंडी.
सुंदर पोरी बघताना भर उन्हात वाजे थंडी
त्यांच्या बापाला भ्यालो अन भावालाही भ्यालो.
मी स्वप्नात सुद्धा माझ्या कधी "लफडा" केला नाही.
मी डेटिंग केले नाही
अव्यक्त फार मी आहे मूळ मुद्द जिथल्या तेथे.
कॉलेजात अभ्यास केला, कंपनीत करतो कामे.
पण बोटातुन कुठलीही एंगेजमेंटची रिंग नाही.
कुणी प्रपोज केले नाही ,कधी फ़्लर्टिंग जमले नाही.
मज जन्म नटाचा मिळता मी "हंगल" झालो असतो.
मी असतो जर का व्हिलन, तर "जीवन" झालो असतो.
मज पाहुन तरुणी कोणी हसली वा चिडली नाही.
मी "शाहिद" झालो नाही, "शक्ती" ही झालो नाही.

(I wanted to provide a link to the poet of this parody, but unfortunately, after searching for a couple of days, could not find a link. Apparently, someone by the name Abhijeet Date is the creative genius.....So, all credits of this poem go to him.)

Happiness measures.....

A few measures of happiness for a Masters student. Following are the categories(in increasing levels of happiness)

Level 0: You read a notice board and see a seminar poster that says 'free pizza and drinks' and the seminar date has not lapsed.(Wow, let me note that date/time down)
Level 1: In college, you have some spare time. So you read the notice board and bingo, a seminar offering free pizza is about to begin. (Man!! I sure am at the right time at the right place.)
Level 2: Its your cooking turn. You finish your classes for the day and on your way back, you notice that a seminar that offered free pizza has ended and guess what, there are still pizza filled boxes and cola filled bottles. (Whooopeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!....Oh God, this has to count as one of the happiest days of my lyf.)

"Oooh it gets too hot in India for me to handle......"

Some people are just weird, just too weird for me to understand. I have started hearing some comments from my fellow-Indian students at Gatech on which I just dunno how to react. Sample one of them. One of them said that he wont be going to India in Summer because its fricking hot and his body just cant withstand it. I was like what the faack!!!! He must have spent more than f*(king 20 years of his life back home and now suddenly in 1 year, his body cant withstand it? I just could not understand the reason. I can understand and appreciate reasons like saving money etc. But this one was weird. Guess, he must have already applied for citizenship here.
I may be being too judgmental(as usual) out here but its interesting to see how people's preferences change almost overnight. People suddenly find hot weather too much to handle when for most of their lives, they have spent their time in a tropical zone.

Note to self: Guess, shall hear more of such comments....asli loka dokyat jaataat...chyamaari.

Georgia-pur institute of Technology

A few demographic stats on the courses that I have taken this semester.
(No. of Indians/Total no. of students)
Software Arch. and Design:
12/26
So thats around 47%

Networked Applications and Services:
26/35
So around 75%

And here comes the shocker
Mobile Application and Services:
28/32
A Whopping 88% of the students are Indians.

Seems like I am studying in Georgia-pur Institute of Technology..