Santosh and Rags are here

it was funny how they arrived,
santosh came with an extra baggage (literally) and Rags arrived in the night by about 10,
what was funny was the fact that Rags completely lacks the sense of direction, a 90 degree turn can be 360 degrees in Rags geometry book, anyway, thats another story. we had booked the Flushing YMCA, however, we cancelled it as the logistics could not be well arranged. so we all crashed at latha's place :)

we started off by putting santosh's luggage in latha's house and went directly to the greyhound office where Rags was supposed to appear. Once we picked him up, we went to the village, after searching for a few places, ended up in a open air restaurant, looking over to the streets filled with extremely happy people :), after a couple of drinks and some italian food and a little more browsing of the pubs, we went back home.

saturday was the day to remember, we planned we will take the ferry around manhattan and the statue of liberty, but since the starting that looked like a pipe dream. here's why, Santosh took bath for only 55 minutes and everyone got up by only about 10:30 in the morning. We, i.e, Rags, Santosh, Raj, Latha and me, finally left the house by 1 PM.

As usual, we started off with the air trin (Tram) from Rosevelt Island and walked to UN and then onto Grand Central, where Latha decided to head back home. we embarked on the reminder of the glorious journey to the Brave new world for few. We had good (long) time searching for the bull, well yeah, the Bull on Wall street, symbolizing the growth of the world economy. After a couple of photos and ice creams later, we had to search for the actual wall street, and we did, again after a couple of photos, we headed straight to south ferry and waited for the ferry, well, in between, Santosh and Raj were fascinated by the card games on the street. When we finally arrived at the Ferry, "IT HAD ALREADY LEFT", we missed it by about 30 mins. :)
well, next time, May be

That evening, we had dinner on another open air restaurant, with Rags getting fascinated by the venezuelan waitress, who infact handed him her phone number :)

you can see all that and more on the link below

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zqrage/album?.dir=/199f&.src=ph&.tok=phVB_fDBSWWUx62D



Sunday

Sunday was Soumya and Vijay's engagement, since all of us were invited, we headed to VJ's house at about 11:30 AM, They had a wonderful ceremony and we all had a great time, well me more than others, coz i got a cool shirt :)

all that and more on this link
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zqrage/album?.dir=/9c76&.src=ph&.tok=phVoQgDB3BJEVQzf

more later
vathsa

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Another Night out!

yeah, u guessed it
we had a overflow of alcohol, even though i restrained myself to a large extent

In case my parents are reading this (which very very rarely happens), i am not a hardcore drunkard!, i just like to talk that way :)

anyway,
to continue with my quest of the night glory, i boldly entered the village in downtown New York, with another 6 of my friends. The occassion "bidding adieu" to (singer) Vijay (more popularly known as "Vijay Brother", or just "Brother"). Village is the part covered by the New York University. Its a huge place with lotsa young crowd and the related activities. Its a place for lotsa pubs, bars, lounges, hooka bars, food places, Tattoo parlors etc, well you get the idea, its a party place.

we first went to a bar called "Fat Black Pussy Cat" then onto some eating at the "Kati Roll", then back into "village Tavern" and finally to "off the wagon", i might have screwed up on the chronology, but who knows and frankly who cares!

by the time we took the subway and arrived back to respective crashing areas (in my case Vijay's house), it was 4:30 in the morning, poor vicky, he was on call (since he works with siemens on the technical side), and he left his house the previous day at 5:30 in the morning to go to connecticut / Jersey.

i like vijay's house, i get to crash in his basement, i like getting up to gormadize on Aunty's beautiful coffee that takes me right back to bangalore and chatting to glory with uncle (VJ's parents).

i miss my parents, i haven't seen them in 8 months now!, thats bloody 8 months which seems to have gone by in a jiffy, but there are times (as in the words of bob Dylan) "The next 60 seconds can be like an eternity"

well i guess life has its own ups and downs, since the sense of apathy is in abundance in me, i dont think i care too much for the past or the present.

planning on studying for my CPA, like i said I'm "Planning"

will let you know how that turns out

till then
destiny awaits desperately

vathsa
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Judging Vat!

well, the results are finally out, well not finally, they filled it in pretty quick :)
To Commemorate all the hard work (really!), the 3 hours of daily journey for a 2 hour class, varied homeworks and presentation, tons of group activities, 2 exams and class participation points and 20 hours of working with 2 different professors of completely different management styles.

you might say that i am quite satisfied with the results. :)

for those of you who do not understand the GPA, here is the quick summary
maximum GPA (Grade Point Average) is 4.0 (look at the current term score)
If one gets a 4.0 its called a perfect score, my overall GPA with two terms put together is 3.88

If you are still not satisfied with the explanations and have this obsessive need to convert that to the traditional % system, This term i have a 100% score and overall in both terms put together i have about 97%.

thats it from me

for those who want to wish me, please leave a comment, it means a lot :)

vat
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hangover!

irish car bombs suck!
in case you have no idea what that means, just read on

here are the ingradients
1/2 pint Guinness 1 oz Jamison 1/2 oz Bailey's Irish cream

and here is howz its done
"Pour Guiness into a pint glass. Float Baileys on top of Jamison in shot glass. Drop shot glass, carefully, into Guiness. Drink quickly before it curdles"

and here is the result
"it just screws you over, like life and lets u fall down flat on ur ass, when u r still wondering what the fuck happened ??"

well, it was an end of an era, again,
this is the last day of my second semester, have lotsa stuff to update!

so i finish the Corporate finance exam, (taught by a professor i really admire, by the name of Dr. Joshua Krausz), i head out of the building with a smile on my face that i have 5 weeks of holidays (u read it right, i have 5 weeks of holidays). i join my girl friend, her sister (somya) and her sister boyfriend (Vijay) for a casual drink in a place called bar nine, which is only like a couple of blocks from my college. I go there, gulp a shot of tequila, and order for a Jack Daniels, straight up, and i get a bloody big glass of scotch (well, whiskey actually, but bear with me), i devour
on the nachos, gulp some corona and head out into the night, after latha and somya headed home, me and vijay headed to other places.

we started with another bar, i dont remember the name, i guess its "Socials" or something, with another mug of beer in my belly, we continue our bold mission of getting trashed. But neither of us are getting any younger :), so we go to another place called "The cutting Room" to meet Vijay's friends. Well, this is the place which destroyed pretty much of my whole friday and saturday. Here, my fellow travelers, i was introduced to the hardest liquor (cocktail), known to mankind (atleast from vathsa's perspective). so we chug a car bomb, be back to our good old Jack on a chaser and another car bomb, all this within a span of 10 minutes.

This is what you have to know, an irish car bomb, doesn't hit u in stages, it just bombards all at once. well, the rest as they say, is history, cause i can't remember what happened next. All that i remember is getting into a cab to head back home.

one more update, i started my CPA classes, well, the classes for the first subject are almost getting over. the fun part is (if you remember my first blog), i have to get up by 6 in the morning to be in the class, which starts at 8:30 AM and goes on all the way till 5:30 PM with a couple of breaks

as i said
from having everything to having a dream :)

more later!
destiny awaits,
vathsa
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