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Probably the most complete Spring Break day

2008-03-28T23:52:00.000-07:00

Today, I woke up at 11, ate cold cereal, played CS for at least an 1 hour, made rice, went to the gym, ate lunch, showered, went to Club Sport to ball with some friends for a couple of hours, relaxed for an hour with CS again, picked up my pay check, got milk and bread for the rest of next week, bought Taco Bell for dinner, and rented "I AM LEGEND" from the nearby Dublin Blockbuster (and of course, watched it), talked to family in India and now am sleeping at 12.
This is what a solid Vacation day is for me... Too bad it all started on this Friday, three days prior to the beginning of school.
In case you didn't know, life is cruel.

Why today was a big day for me...

2008-03-27T22:44:00.000-07:00

Well, it wasn't too exciting for most of the people I know, but for me it marked a couple of things.
-At the top of our heads, Thursday screams the beginning of the end, in this case our Spring Break. It's gone by real quick for me and I've started reorganizing myself for next few weeks ahead.
-I've recovered from a bad cough and fever that literally struck me from nowhere. Pretty much killed two solid days of my break. Nevertheless, it's given me tons of rest and thought about my near future.
-Most of the college decisions are out, except for maybe a couple. For me, today marked a next bold step in my decision-making process. After the sad Berkeley denial, (tear tear, yes), I've successfully narrowed my options between Davis and Santa Barbara (still considering Riverside a lil bit). Of course, I still have all the Ivy League decisions left to wail through (considering every one will be denial).
-I'm planning on Friday (tomorrow) to be full-homework day, hoping to pummel through everything to chill on Saturday and pull it back together for school on Sunday. It's part one of my Obliterate Procrastination At Least By College Operation (OBALBO).
-I'm looking for a strong close on Comp Civics and really SENIOR YEAR!!! I'm really excited and ready to roll.

YEAAH FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AT 10:55 P.M.

Comments on the second Laker-Warrior game

2008-03-26T14:08:00.000-07:00

Its a couple days late now, but I've been keeping up the with the media coverage of the whole scandal in the end. If you weren't keeping up, here.
The entire thing is good, but if you want to in a nutshell, what the controversy was, I'd recommend the last two minutes.

I don't get how the "anti-laker" analysts don't understand the simple truths about human reflexes. Derek Fisher was in the act of falling when he threw his arm around Monta Ellis. And since Ellis was pushing real hard, the fact is that he triggered Derek Fisher's fall. And if anybody is falling, what you do is try to hold on to something.

Thus, the anti-Fisher argument is wrong on two cases.
1) Logically, something had to have tripped Fisher for him to fall and from the footage, Ellis pushing hard has to be the only culprit.
2) You can't vilify Fisher because his reflexes acted just like it should for every other human, and this is not a pre-planned scheme that was harbored in the timeout. It just happened.

I know I live in the East Bay but can all the Warrior pansies just shut up for once and swallow the facts.

BBall today: why we can't escape race

2008-03-23T19:23:00.000-07:00

Today was an eye-opening experience.
By eye-opening really, it was a blast from my own past.

For the past couple of days, me and ash have been hitting it up at the tennis park, where its been pretty baller. Today, there were a ton of black guys and the myth holds true for some of the readers that haven't really been around black people... THEY GOT HOPS.
The team I'm on, we run the ball up court and one of the guys goes to score but the ball rims out. Then, these white high-schoolers drive by in their suburban, going around 30 mph, pull down their windows and scream "F*** YOU, N*****S!!!!" (middle fingers as well)
Man, did the guys get roiled. They all screamed and were like COME BACK HERE! and one almost ran up to him. Thank god, they pacified. The last thing I wanted is for them to drive to them and beat the hell out of them, cuz Ash and I would be involved in police-shit, being eye-witnesses and all.

Thats when I realized how long I'd been in Pleasanton. I've been here for 5 years now, the longest I've been in any place in the U.S. And I really forgot about all my experiences in Atlanta, Dallas and San Jose, where this was an everyday reality. Obama hit it spot on when he said that race is something that can't be ignored any more and he's proven to be the best candidate running. But otherwise, I realized how I was connected to black people. They introduced me to America. I couldn't some up this relationship any better than a funny quote a black friend of mine told me,
"Man, we love you Indians. Cuz before, us black people used to be the ones that got all the pressure. Now, you guys carry the baton, cuz of you stealin jobs and all. Hahahaha"

Edit: The black guy is a guy I used to know two-three years ago called Wardell. Heartwarming friend.

Wow, the attack...

2007-10-27T22:04:00.000-07:00

Check out
"I am Legend" starring Will Smith.
A must-see for me.

Anyways, what the title really meant :)
THE ATTACK OF LAZINESS
LAZYLEPSY,
yeah its that time of year,
when stuff becomes sameold sameold (i.e. bhoring)

I've gotta fight it.

The fight persists!
(of course, with Leonidas in mind)

Some cool stuff today

2007-10-18T20:40:00.000-07:00

Today is one of the better days of my life.
Gotta much decent score on gov test than I expected 85%.
Finished basically entire CC syllabus, sent Unit requests,
Got ELC (u know, the UC top 4% thing) made me extremely joyful,
Got email invite from Yale (hugely surprising)
Saw the new Rambo (my role model, saw his movies in india)

Rambo: When pushed... killing is as easy as breathing.

Isn't this guy totally beast?

Another coincidental post on a tuesday

2007-10-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

Aite,
I just happen to find way to put aside
my burdensome loads of homework.
*Sigh*
lonely gov reading
along with calc hw (maybe maybe),
and of course,
more stress and panic
from college apps waaaah.
I'm planning on distributing my teacher rec forms
on on thursday, the 18th, and i need them by 31st,
thats not even two weeks (its 13 days for those who call themselves math haters but are really retarded if they can't do addition and subtraction).
my teachers are gonna get soooo pissed.
my interview for one of my colleges bailed on me :O and i have to get another one to interview me by this saturday.
and OMFG, i haven't started any of my essays.
gawwwd and uc night, which i am powerlessly compelled to go to, is tomorrow,
with gov test and calc quiz and english final draft all lingering on thursday.
god damn.

and god i want to get good grades and get into college,
so i take that back.
my new phrase:
FiretrUCK!

Synopsis of a Blegh Tuesday

2007-10-09T20:14:00.000-07:00

Not much HW, feelin laazay

finished most of calc in library,
english essay (Mr. P's words "It can be rough [draft] as needs to be."
totally going to make a scrappy essay.
gov. ha, upenn meeting tmrw not going to be there
human geo crq tmrw, already studied most of the stuff,
physics, awesome class with hall, no homework,
(spider hanging in halls room in demonstration of forces, right after entering
class)
Me: Is that supposed to fit in with the Halloween thing?
Hall: Sid, that's a good pun.
Me: I didn't intend a pun.
Hall: Get it, HALL- oween.
Me: (Giggling)
Hall: Sid, I never knew you were so VICIOUS at puns.
Me: (in mind, OMFG. ROFL at so many puns)

Comp civ: finished court case thingy, hopefully partner responds.

Senior year = BOMB (minus college apps)

Father: College Applications. Pour your sweat and blood into it.
Me: That would be one ugly looking application.
Father: (doesn't get joke, turns away and goes back to work)

Mindspilll.

Fusillade of chaos ending with a solitary Saturday evening

2007-10-06T18:19:00.000-07:00

La solitude, bien qu'elle puisse être silencieuse comme lumière, est comme la lumière, le plus puissant des agences ; car, la solitude est essentiel pour l'homme. Tous les hommes entrent le monde seul, et ils le sortent seul.

Real meaningful quote by Thomas deQuincey.
I decided to do it in French, which comes easier to me and I don't have to look up stuff and explore how to conjugate and stuff.

Need to think over this week's mistakes and etc.
Hindu/ Buddhist thing... even though this shit isn't forced,
"They're more like guidelines." Good guidelines though.

Man... long week

2007-10-05T20:32:00.000-07:00

I don't know, this week felt unbelievably wrong.
Alas, its Friday.
I'm tired and SAT testing is tomorrow.
People make a big deal about the SAT, which is a sunuvabitchin' piece of shit.
I can't tell you how passionately I detest that test.

Well, I need a good rest not only for the SAT, but
for this outrageous week. (Maybe because of 5 tests, averaging about a C.)
Alright, I gotta change my work mantra or something,
I'm going through an alltime low.

Paix.

Procrastination

2007-10-03T19:57:00.000-07:00

Indugio
That's what gente parlante bella call it.
I suffer from this disease more and more nowadays.
It feels like last year.
K, after this post, I'm going to fight this vicious disease.

Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die.

Something I thought of when bored

2007-10-01T22:18:00.000-07:00

In perhaps the most beautiful language ever,

Ogni immagine che vedo assomiglia a lei. Ogni suono che sento è la sua risatina. Ogni cibo che mangio ha il gusto del suo vino preferito. Mi sembrava di impazzire, finché non ho capito che tutto quello che faccio, lo faccio per il dolore della sua assenza.

Translate if you wish, but reading it out loud itself (with proper pronunciation)
conveys.

web mods

2007-09-25T23:01:00.000-07:00

k, i guess i was bored.
i added some tweaks.
o'course, i changed the appereance a little.
its more raw. and i added some fun things to the right side.
alrity then.
nite

p.s. phil don't be spammin the new shoutout box. -_-

First rain and power outage

2007-09-22T16:33:00.000-07:00

yeah,
this rain has me down in the dumps
(ya, i hate rain. i came from south india, monsoon capital)
and we just got power back.
interesting experience.
otherwise,
this is perhaps the most chill weekend i've had in weeks,
so back to chilling.

ttyl readers

tmrw's friday

2007-09-20T22:22:00.000-07:00

sing with me, friday.
a new day,
a new horizon (chimes ringing in background)
its going to be friiiday (acoustic guitar waning same sound)
oh friiiday (guitar)
which just means that the next two days after,
will return you riiiite backkk to schooool (orchestra left...)

i know,
that moved from stupid to annoying to annoying pessimism.

Been away for a long time...

2007-09-19T07:22:00.000-07:00

everyone warned me this is the fate of blogs,
but we will escape FATE!

well, i've been fairly progressive the past few days,
no aim, no games, no tv, just work and email.

i'll still try to keep my blog running,
i mean who is actually tired of me...
(that was a rhetorical question)

HAWTNESS on DS

2007-09-15T18:22:00.000-07:00

Slaying dragons is my middle name, if you happened to know.

Up, up and away

2007-09-12T21:32:00.000-07:00

no, this is referring to that disney channel movie.
i happened to watch it my brother while eating dinner.
if you think it taught me, you're wrong.
ok, not completely wrong,
it taught me how i waste time watching not-entertaining movies
and not reviewing gov.

nites, cupcakes.
i'm shitz.

As inspirational as ...

2007-09-10T18:14:00.000-07:00

you finish the statement.

This world makes me cry...

2007-09-08T19:08:00.000-07:00

Why am I not in summer still?
My wanna-get game list:

-Upcoming soon and recent releases:
Metroid Prime 3- Wii
Medal of Honors 2- Wii
Call of Duty 3- DS
(all kickass shooters)
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass- DS
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros Treasure- Wii
Dewy's Adventure- Wii
NFL Madden '08- Wii (and DS maybe)
Need for Speed: Prostreet- Wii
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground- DS

-Close to holidays releases
NBA Live '08- Wii
Super Mario Galaxy- Wii
Super Smash Bros Brawl- Wii
Ghost Squad- Wii
Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles- Wii
Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games- Wii
PSP: Slimmer, nicer, brighter Version, with
Daxter
NFL Street 3

-Way later on
Civilization Revolution (DS then Wii)
Spore (PC)
An Xbox 360 (plz reduced price)and maybe two good games like
Gears of War
NBA Street: Homecourt
A new computer (preferably a new laptop and desktop, under college budget tho =D)

-Shit I'd wish I gotten a long time ago, but am prolly gonna buy at bargain price
Super Paper Mario- Wii
Warioware: Smooth Moves- Wii
DragonballZ Tenkaichi 2- Wii (my bro likes this one too)
Advance Wars: Dual Tactics- DS
Yu-Gi-Oh: World Championships- DS (share with bro as well)
Resident Evil: Deadly Strike- DS
Age of Empires: Age of Kings- DS

Ya, this is effing long, but if i make myself the time and money
to enjoy this games. I, myself, will dub myself GAMER (which is a title i have lost over time).

Resolving things out the... wrong way

2007-09-08T14:57:00.000-07:00

I realized I didn't have my book for a test on monday.
I, thus, started panicking my butt off. I made myself think there was nothing
I could do. And I, effectively, did nothing for 3 hours.
I decided to go shower.
I saw a broken tile in my shower. In the crack, I saw the cement or whatever the tile is made out off.
I don't know what happened, it just told me to do work.
And I came out, and I did a lot of work.
i feel better.
No moral, no meaning at all for this blurb.
just meant that, u should do ur work.

Ay-ay-ay Cramo

2007-09-06T20:40:00.000-07:00

KABOOM!

i hate craming, even though i have told myself countless times its bad for me,
calc quiz/ test? shit tmrw,
english stupid back-to-school nite writing thing,
all the human geo reading,
of course, the perpetual catch-up in comp civ,
and a stupid speech.
all while having twilight princess (which, do i have to mention, is a
completely kickass, addicting game)

Wow, weekends over

2007-09-04T17:31:00.000-07:00

Labor day just got over, I have tonna crap to finish.
I feel just mowed over.
Anyways, thought you guys should know one thing,
life is shit.

A funny vid on golf by R. Williams

It's called Spaghetti Junction for a reason

2007-09-02T20:37:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I get random flashes in memory to all the places I've been in and lived.
This is one of them.
This birds-eye view doesn't do this junction justice.
It's in Atlanta, where I spent my first few years in the U.S. (yeah atlanta, go figure)
Anyways, this junction rocks when you're riding on it, you see sooo many cars and shit all going there own ways.

Why skaters suck...

2007-08-30T20:43:00.001-07:00

Wussy Skater Fight - Watch more free videos

it was short, but message is conveyed.

Thursday completed

2007-08-30T18:27:00.000-07:00

schedule kicks ass,
comp civix absolutely rox.
human geo kicks some more ass.
and all teachers are absolute bomb.

a drunken hurrah, for SENIOR year!

Late at night

2007-08-27T23:22:00.000-07:00

Procrastinating.
Ok, sleep, I fall. You rise.
You have beaten me in this battle, but know it, that this is AN ETERNAL WAR.
And this battle is nothing!

Good night

There's a saying

2007-08-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

That my French teacher told my French 4 class;
everything starts and ends with a song.

I personally think songs are stupid and cheesy especially if they're in French.
I adapted that saying to my own interpretation.
Everything starts and ends with a laugh. A laugh is the only
thing any person will enjoy and it satisfies the heart.
So below, my friends, I will post a full Russel Peters vid, (yes one of the funniest guys on Earth)
in high quality. Enjoy, especially the Russel-ly deprived.

Edit: Well, I realized I can't play the full video on an embed. But, you're still welcome to download it.

A Beginning

2007-08-27T10:02:00.000-07:00

A long awaited blog, finally commenced.
And you can't ask for better timing than before the first day of 12th grade.

Onwards to new experiences and most certainly,
senseless findings.