Reflections
India has been PJ free for the past 365 days for the first time since 1983. Here's what I've learnt over the past year:
1. It IS possible to do engineering without a xerox machine.
2. Men CAN cook.
3. It IS possible to get the right amount of salt in your food.
4. Weekends rock!
5. The NAND gate is truly a universal gate. (Unfortunately, only one person reading this blog will ever understand this)
6. Linux rocks!!!!!
7. There'll never be a cooler computer than an Apple.
8. America is essentially anything limited to a fifteen mile circular radius of a person living on the mainland United States (also see: Bush, George Walker)
9. I was wrong - Austin has one of the best public transportation systems on the planet.
10. Everything is bigger in Texas.
11. The population of the world is 6 billion. The population of Gujarat is 7 billion.
12. It's amazing the kind of crap people are willing to read on the Internet! (see: Lunacy, Inspired)
13. There is such a thing as the kindness of strangers.
14. You can't do without friends. You just can't!
15. Studying in the library during finals week is the best community feeling you can ever get.
16. Public transportation is essentially wasted in this country.
17. Darwin was right - I did evolve from an ape. (another esoteric joke)
18. I can yell at a higher pitch than most women.
19. There is no name in this world that Americans cannot screw up (except, maybe: "Seema")
20. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans do NOT look they same. In fact, they look very, very different!
21. Koreans are awesome people.
22. The American alphabet lacks the letter "J"
23. It is humanly possible to go without television for ages.
24. I can exist without sambhar.
25. There may never be a world community like Grad school in America - ever!
26. Never trust the US News Rankings.
27. There is Chinese food, Indian Chinese food and American Chinese Food, and never the twain shall meet.
28. Thai food is DELICIOUS!!!!!
29. If you want to know what the world looks at 2 a.m. in the morning - go to grad school. If you still want to know what the world looks like at 3 a.m. in the morning - have kids.
30. PG Wodehouse is God
31. American football is fun!
32. It is possible to survive watching only 1 cricket match in a year.
33. A laptop is not necessarily a luxury item.
34. You may suck at math, but learn to calculate 15 % of any number.
35. Without Italian food, graduate students would be extinct.
36. "Mmmm...hummmm" is an acceptable response to most queries.
37. There ar 37 shades of blonde.
38. There is a difference between looking "left, right and left again" and "right, left and right again" before crossing a road.
39. A horn is essentially something quiet that is found on a bull.
40. It is possible to speak for over 4000 minutes a month.
41. "To page this person, press 5 now....at the tone, record your message, when you are finished recording, hang up, or press 9 for more options" is the most popular greeting in America.
42. If you had stopped at number 20, you might still have retained your sanity.
1. It IS possible to do engineering without a xerox machine.
2. Men CAN cook.
3. It IS possible to get the right amount of salt in your food.
4. Weekends rock!
5. The NAND gate is truly a universal gate. (Unfortunately, only one person reading this blog will ever understand this)
6. Linux rocks!!!!!
7. There'll never be a cooler computer than an Apple.
8. America is essentially anything limited to a fifteen mile circular radius of a person living on the mainland United States (also see: Bush, George Walker)
9. I was wrong - Austin has one of the best public transportation systems on the planet.
10. Everything is bigger in Texas.
11. The population of the world is 6 billion. The population of Gujarat is 7 billion.
12. It's amazing the kind of crap people are willing to read on the Internet! (see: Lunacy, Inspired)
13. There is such a thing as the kindness of strangers.
14. You can't do without friends. You just can't!
15. Studying in the library during finals week is the best community feeling you can ever get.
16. Public transportation is essentially wasted in this country.
17. Darwin was right - I did evolve from an ape. (another esoteric joke)
18. I can yell at a higher pitch than most women.
19. There is no name in this world that Americans cannot screw up (except, maybe: "Seema")
20. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans do NOT look they same. In fact, they look very, very different!
21. Koreans are awesome people.
22. The American alphabet lacks the letter "J"
23. It is humanly possible to go without television for ages.
24. I can exist without sambhar.
25. There may never be a world community like Grad school in America - ever!
26. Never trust the US News Rankings.
27. There is Chinese food, Indian Chinese food and American Chinese Food, and never the twain shall meet.
28. Thai food is DELICIOUS!!!!!
29. If you want to know what the world looks at 2 a.m. in the morning - go to grad school. If you still want to know what the world looks like at 3 a.m. in the morning - have kids.
30. PG Wodehouse is God
31. American football is fun!
32. It is possible to survive watching only 1 cricket match in a year.
33. A laptop is not necessarily a luxury item.
34. You may suck at math, but learn to calculate 15 % of any number.
35. Without Italian food, graduate students would be extinct.
36. "Mmmm...hummmm" is an acceptable response to most queries.
37. There ar 37 shades of blonde.
38. There is a difference between looking "left, right and left again" and "right, left and right again" before crossing a road.
39. A horn is essentially something quiet that is found on a bull.
40. It is possible to speak for over 4000 minutes a month.
41. "To page this person, press 5 now....at the tone, record your message, when you are finished recording, hang up, or press 9 for more options" is the most popular greeting in America.
42. If you had stopped at number 20, you might still have retained your sanity.
posted by Firebringer at 6:34 PM
10 Comments:
1: Culture shock
2: ditto
31, 32: Blasphemy!!!
35: I'm about to find out
37: Er, which one is the prettiest? ;)
Will do more research on 37 ;)
Wowsome! All yours?
no. 24)?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! poor amma will be crying her eyes out at that for sure!!
Nice ones, bj ....
Douglas Adams wud b proud of u!!!
"Studying in the library during finals week is the best community feeling you can ever get."
It also gives one an unbelievable feeling of impending doom. I believe my college library is haunted and can almost swear that it was used as a set during the filming of The Ring.
43. one "square" of toilet paper is never enough.
44.living alone one gets time to reflect!
so do they call you Ayakumar there?
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