The (in)famous Five: Part 2

Singhee a.k.a Mukul a.k.a Chuchchu: The only 'experienced' guy among us. His past visit to the US armed him with ample skills at finding means of recreation. Things were going great when a hammer, made of lightweight multifunctional magnesium alloy stuck him, and since then the recovery has been all but complete. Apart from making commendable strides into the realm of materials, he is determined to ransack all outlet malls in Atlanta, and buy any dirt cheap item found by the virtue of one of his umpteen 'stroke of luck's. Now relaxing out somewhere in pennsylvania and elsewhere, with some new machine he got from ebay.



Tags: "baal" , a gary moore ring tone, "****ji!!", " Is weekend party rakhte hain", " Aaj hum lab mein hi soega", "Abe ******* ko agar mera project de do toh 3 din mein khatm kar dega", "HAAIN!!!!!"

Aims:
1. PhD????? ummm mm maybe still a 50-50
2. Phone conversations: wow! is there a limit?
3. getting things cheap, and cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper, and...sigh

Me, a.k.a Tiwari: The third person is a good way to remove a lot of unwanted bias...so here I go------------

Tiwari, known by his last name probably because his first name seems to have jumped straight out of some hindu mythological epic, is the (non-unanimous) Pj king of the (in)famous five. His jokes leave the original inhabitants of tumlin C2 ( that's where we lived) gasping for breath, and looking for ways to eradicate the source of such misery. Bobbed down by the fact that he is still underage by american law for...ummm you know what, sometimes he finds himself with his tastebuds numbed while others enjoy the MEAL.
Pretty particular about correct hindi in a pretty bengali company, tiwari always looks to have his share of puns.

tags: " kareGA nahi kareGi", "mujhe MRDC janaa hai", ....." i am waiting for more contributions

Aims:
Sorry, I do'nt know a thing. Why else do you think the blog is named the way it is?

Deepti: Well, no a.k.a s here. She has the advantage of her name being pronounced correct everytime, unlike any of us. The infinitely many implications of her name render it unnecessary to look for any nicknames.
Deepti has many passions in life... academics, academics and more of the same. As an individual who takes pride in analyzing the contents of textbooks, her aims in life always remain as solid as Georgia's Stone Mountain. She looks to take any opportunity of aimless tourism on weekends, and that's the way she sees life.

Useful Tags: " Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!", "Jayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!", singsong intonation, " mera presentation toh ban chuka hai", " aaj gall se mile the"

The (in)famous five : part ONE

It has been more than a month since i have been in atlanta, and the experience has been rewarding to say the least. While a major part of the weekday-day passes in the lab, its predominant blandness is more than compensated by the phenomenal weekends. Yes, thats a change i would like to see in life back home too, where a weekday is pretty much the same as a weekend, except that we do'nt wash clothes [i do'nt call it laundry because it sounds so American] on the former [:)].
An FT always comes with a purpose (for non kgp people, an FT means foreign training). Of the hundred or so kgpians who embark on these profitable(literally!!) errands every year, the diversity of expectations deserves a mention here. As far as i am concerned, my information has been limited to this state of Georgia, and the only worthy examples i can quote are 4 co-kgpians with me on this trip, along with yours truly.

These descriptions are entirely subjective, since i am the only one contributing. For readers who have got a mention here, the text below is entirely without malice, and I hope not to be sued for that. Sorry for the handicap to non-kgpians in understanding parts of the following, but i have tried to keep these descriptions as real as possible.

1. JASSI: He was and is (and will probably remain) the hermit of the gang. His aims and expectations from the trip are:
- getting himself as close as possible to being a professor in mechanical engineering.
- improving his culinary skills,much to the relief of the rest of us.
-maintaining a 'higher than normal' thermostat when it comes to defining 'cool weather' and 'cold beverages'. suspected source: a common cold attack in 2004. visible effects: abstinence from any fluids below body temperature
-maintaining the severe lack of tempo from all sporting activities, even if it costs less than $1 a day.
useful tags: staple food, rice, microwaved juice, khana kya banega, alkesh jee, lab janaa hai, usko chhod kar koi bhi restaurant,

to be continued..........

Halfway through????

Its a guilty feeling indeed, to start this process of documentation at such a point when fun comes not in islands, but significantly larger chunks. It fails to do justice to the rest of my very eventful life, which has had its share of highs and lows. The problem is that human memory is too fleeting to take care of it all, and now that experiences are arriving every second day, I have resorted to the highly popular,yet addictive, 'insecure' and 'timekilling' activity of blogging.