home: priceless

ne1 seen the new mastercard baseball ad?

1st base - $58
2nd base - 670 peso
3rd base 650000 yen
home:....priceless!

amazingly creative! you gotta see it. can't find it online...will post it when i see it.

as good as it gets

what more could i ask for? (i mean, ofcourse i could do with a better salary and an mba invitation from MIT..but am not talking about that!)

a nice start to the 26 year.

So, when on 25th Sal, his roomies and Rupesh gave me a surprise with a cake, on 26th my office gang ganged up on me...in a good way! Rick took me out for lunch while Steph, Lisa & R set up the balloons and the cake. Oh the cake was yummy..i think had 4pieces and so did Rick ;-)
come 27th, one was flattered while the other was portrayed a villain and/or hero. the words were -
"I think the lucky guy is Ankush.
....
Best of luck with Ankush"
As much as a surprise this was, it was also hilarious as to how presumptuous could anyone be. Or was it just his premonition to face rejection strongly?
Or he could be a smartass trying to check availability?


27th night, i played Ping Pong for 2 hours. Wow! I had never been this excited to play tt before. plaed it after almost a couple of years i think.
The stamina and the touch with the own racquet...that makes it difficult to get back in the groove...!

happy bday to me

'twas almost as if something was running behind me for most of the past year. When i woke up this morning i was 26, and i realised that it was 'time' that was after me.
and the worst part is...it still is.

But i'm not gonna make this a boring post with the yearly resolutions..another day another time :p

Today has been fine day.
Had been busy all morning with phone calls. Got about 70-80 scraps (yeah, that is one measure of the popularity index). Not that i am de popular guy in town, never was, but its always great to get calls and notes of best wishes any day of the year.

here's the list of people i spoke with in one form or the other in no particular order -
mom, dad, bhai, sid, mama, mami, nana, nani, avinash mama, usha mausi, hiren, puneet, pulkit, swati, deepika, asif, abhishek, addy, Manish, Biju, Himz, Raheel, Paddy, Soumyatanu, Somnath, Namrita, Vaish, Milu, Gouri, Santha, Hereka, Sandy, Shveta, Ankush, Samidha, Parmod, Disha, Sandeep, Jith, tini, chiki, dolly bhua, arvind, abhishek, sumeet, kapil, avik, srijesh, varun, uday, gaurav, Payal, Gaurav, Hemali, Saurabh, Nidhi, Sal, Deepak, Adity, himanshu, dipesh, tushar venky, bency, yatin, amit, vidushi, soham, varun, shaoor, sudeep, gaurav, shrikanth, rajesh, Seth, Richard, Lisa, Guillermo, Samidha, Rupesh, Satish, Smita, Arjav, Rupesh, Chitra, Inder, Gyan

i dink dats dat.
(sometimes I find reading names as interesting...)

finally my friends here in CT got me a cake and I took them out for dinner :-)

how was the weekend?

super.
nothin special. but had a nice time.

Did bowling for a couple of hours. Always nice to see people awe with my spinning style :D Just need a bit of finesse and *obviously* more accuracy. Can't seem to get beyond 150 nowadays..
Saw 'Jet Li's Fearless'. Impressive natural action sequences...in that they used little of the fagged computer graphics. Although, the flying humans of 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' fame still reign!
These 3 big mosquitos were giving me a brain buzz...spend 30 minutes trying to hit 'em with my slippers. lol!
Gave the Solara a happy shine. Took it for a car wash, cleaned it up myself, and then a car wax coating. And tomorrow i have the appointment for an Oil change.
Spend some time on Official Guide.
Had aloo paranthas. Burned one of them.

vacation mangta hai.

Hollywood Land

Since Sal has one broken limb we decided not to go for bowling this weekend. Maybe a month from now...unless i decide to go alone.

We went to watch Hollywood Land. Wasn't a particularly amazing movie, just about worth the effort of going for a movie.

The story was kinda complex, and at one time I was thinking to myself that even the director of the movie should have been confused while working around with all the scenarios and the few little mini stories within the movie.

I'd give this 7/10.

The last good movie i saw was definitely Pirate of the Caribbean 2

donation people

would you believe it!! how can so many things go wrong at the same time.

I called up Aetna atleast 3 times to make sure they send my payment coupons to CT. Which ofcourse i never received.
Instead, i get a letter which says that i voluntarily terminated my subscription.

uhhh!!!
you have no idea of the extent of my anger. with license, car registration, car insurance, health insurance, springs at reston. OMG, the list is endless.
am dealing with morons these days.

sneak preview

Perhaps Google accidently turned on the 'add tab' feature on the Google Personalised home!!!
I got it for a second. Then it disappeared. Then it came back, and i added more cool stuff to a new tab on my personalised home, and now it has again disappeared!

I got a sneak preview i guess. and here's this post as a proof that i saw it...before the release date?! :p

russell and dmv

Russell Peters. The numero uno Candian-Indian comedian. If you have not already seen him perform, you will want to after watching his videos!

Anyway, he will be performing inn NYC in Nov. I intend to be there.
So, there's you chance of hitting two birds with one stone - meet Russell Peters & Ankush Bhargava live in NYC Nov 17th!
ta da!

Tried to get a CT license today.
Completely ran out of luck with these guys! Went to Middletown office, only to hear that they don't process licenses for non-US citizens here.
Then went to Wethersfield office to learn that my Ohio license is non-transferrable. And i need to re-apply and go through the entire grind of test taking again. And on top of that, the earliest appointment day available was Dec 7.

jeez!

tujhse naraaz nahi...

tujhse naraaz nahi zindagi hairaan hun main...haan hairaan hun main...

once i had sat down trying to understand the song...
...could not at that time.


Had a chillax Saturday! Did groceries to begin the day. Broke 6 eggs while driving back :-). Was on phone for like 2 hours. Ate chicken biryani at Sals place. Went out for shopping. Bought a nice black Van Heusen jacket to feed me heat in the CT winter. Bought loads of Lindts :-). Made shrimps in the evening...everyone liked 'em :-). Ate fish cooked by Maddy (S.Madhavan!). Tomato daal and rice.
All in all a very satisfying weekend and Sunday isnt even here yet.

Akshia is ever so busy with his mba.

RBCs

huh! they can clone sheeps. they can clone monkeys. they can clone humans (well in theory!).

Somebody tell me, why can't they manufacture blood for those who need it?

Why should people die because they could not get blood that their medical condition urgently demanded?

Ha! And Red Cross just got fined $4.2million because they did not follow the blood donation rules and regulations

ankushbhargava ankush bhargava

lagey raho

saw munna bhai sequel and Omkara...
wow! you know...i'm not much of a Bollywood fan...so me watching 2 of them in 3 weeks is big deal :p

Omkara was okay. Watchable movie. well made.

Munna Bhai was hilarious! a must watch :-)

can't sleep

sometimes you get so tired...you can't sleep.
i'm tire of thinking today. i do that all the time...can't sleep now.

got the emission check done on the car, and a haircut today. $22 for the haircut? is that expensive or what!
Have bought the ipod fm transmitter, and stuck it on the dashboard. A little tatic, but overall a better experience than the radio!!

had a team lunch today. Rick likes everyone to get together for lunch ever once in a while.
went to the 'Blue Oars' restaurant. Its located besides the Atlantic...a scenic view and the food wasn't bad either.
ts funny. you never visit the local attractions until you are forced to, after wich you realised what you missed.

had gone to NJ this past weekend. The weekend was so hectic...worked throughout. the release finally went live yesterday. and now had another one tonight. and another one on Saturday.

gotta catch up with sleep...

need to sleep

is sleeping early a sign of machurity??

come to think of it, that's a darn fine question!

if you sleep early, you are in the best shape the next morning. you can concentrate more & work harder. Basically you are in the best position to do things that a machured guy would do...like make a living and be good at what you do!

if you sleep early, you are not doing things that you'd do late night viz. partying, drinking, vella-panteeing, watching t.v. So you are saving so much time during the night and you use it to actually give a rest to your body (you know it's been shouting at you - gimme a break, gImMe a BrEaK, GIMME A BREAK!).

if you sleep early, you wake up and you are just happy; you know there is a whole day ahead of you. Just check your gmail/ yahoo and orkut accounts in 30minutes and you're all set :-) all set to survive the rest of the work day that would probably end early sinnce you started early!

seriously.
i'd consider it.

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