No strings attached...

I saw the movie No Strings Attached last weekend....my only complaint is that when Ashton Kutcher wakes up naked in a girl's apartment, and the camera zooms onto the face of a dark-skinned Indian girl named Shira the entire audience went "oooohhh". I mean wtf, it's not like she was ugly?!? Have any of you guys seen this movie? I still don't understand why she had blue contacts on or whatever, she's a doctor, she'll get a lot of rishtaas either way. LOL. 

This Saturday I went to the mandir with my mom and dad so I could light some diyas and pray quickly. So I didn't bring any shoes but the $13 sneakers I always wear, and I was forced to wear a ghagra choli with sneaks. I felt like such an auntie, it was horr-i-ble. I also went to the Little India place closeby, which is basically a couple streets full of Indian movies, clothes, food, and people. While at a snack place, I saw 2 goris with their little kids and then their desi husbands join. Lol. I don't know what to say but damn those uncles were old...I mean how often do you see a desi girl with a gora husband? It's usually the other way around...But at least his kids were wearing Indian clothes and asking for lassi like a white kid asks for milkshakes.

DEJA VU

New Post in 3,2,1...days...I'm at my parent's house again, so I'll update tmrw night when I'm back in my lonely apartment with no friends and just my books to surround me! No comments on my posts discourage me! FYI :D

As of now...

I see an ad on my gmail acct saying "www.phoneindia.com" with some random hindi text. I should be scared, but then again my desi computer self knows they're only tracking cookies.

Friend zone!

If my instincts are right, then more than one of the desi girls reading this site agree that they have been in the friend zone with a desi guy they like. Sadly, I'm no exception. I never understood the feeling until it was me going through it! The reason my posts haven't been that interesting the past week is because my social interactions have been limited to study dates with friends (guys included) and running into ex-friends (desi of course, to add to the drama). Ah, if only flirting was more interesting than flirting. I have midterms this week, including an Organic Chem midterm on Saturday following a Biochem midterm on Friday! That's after physics lecture and lab and behavioral psych. But you guys knew that, I ranted about that before!

Being an Indian college student living off campus pretty much defines my state of cheapness. So I went to a law club meeting simply because they were offering free pizza, and during an icebreaker at the meeting (a requirement, if you wanted to get to the free food), I met....a Persian British dude. Ahhhh heaven. The only thing that could have made him better was if he had a English accent, which sadly enough he didn't. But then my amino acid flashcards were beckoning, and I couldn't leave them unattended. I've been listening to the Hindi version of Ride It, by Jay Sean, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giy1bfPuZD0&feature=related who apparently, was 2 years into med school before he dropped out to become a "pop star" as he called it. The video about him telling his parents is floating around there somewhere on Youtube. Granted, there is no juicy story of disowning or anything!

New Post tmrw!

Sorry I haven't been posting lately with my riveting stories ;) Physics and biochem have been occupying my life. We have to memorize all the structures, intermediates, enzyme structures and mechanisms involved in glycolysis. And we have 2 days to do so. Awesome.........but I'm sure you guys approve of me being holed up in my apt for 24 hours. MLID

in 6 months time...

I'll be out of my lease (away from some pagal ladkis) if you catch my drift, done with the hardest year of college, done with applying to grad school, and 21 years old. Gosh, I cannot wait for that day! Anyway, I was on the shuttle the other day, going to campus, when I saw this girl's bag that said something along the lines of, "Laugh. Dance. Love.", or something, you know those "inspirational" type things. Sadly enough, the only thing I could think of was that she should have added "Eat" to the bag, or else her body would not have a steady supply of glucose, thereby inhibiting her production of adenosine triphosphate. Haha. And yes, that's true.

Today, I watched the movie called, "Tooth Fairy", and in the movie, the mom puts a dollar under her daughter's pillow, I realized that my desi parents only put a quarter under there. Haha. Go figure, cheap even in imagination. It's kinda a lame movie anyway. This past week I went to my first high school sporting event. We have a sister high school, and the kids play in our gym sometimes, so I went! It was actually pretty fun, considering our team won by 1 point and the last minute. I even stole a foam finger. And of course, the fact that the cute desi older brother of one of the players was on the sidelines made it even better. After, I tried TapEx for the first time, which on my campus, is one of the busiest places because we're practically 99% Asian haha. It was ehhh, I'm vegetarian, so I'm sure they have better chicken or something. Is it bad that I think their meat looks sooo good? Haha. Another note, I don't think chivalry is dead. It might be hibernating though. :D I'll leave you all to ponder what that means! This weekend, there was a dance on campus, which I really wanted to go to, but sadly, I didn't, because I knew there was going to be a certain ladka there that.... Yeah...

Anyway, this week I've been listening to "Just a Dream"-Nelly, "Crush"-David Archuleta, "Impossible"-Shontelle (my favorite), "Zara Zara"-Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein.

I don't know what to call this...

I am finally done with my first week of school. After next week I have my midterms sequentially, by which I mean that I have 5 in a row. Greatttt...Surprisingly, I don't have much to study this weekend, if anything, because I've been studying everyday after class for 4-5 hours. Watch, I'll post in another 10 weeks babbling about how I've failed every class. And all you desi girls know I don't have a hot date with a guy because all desi guys don't have the balls to ask out us girls. I've decided that periodically, I'm going to write advice tips for guys. For starters, tip #1 Don't be a jerk, or make us feel like WE'RE jerks for liking you. Tip #2 When you like a girl, ask her out, don't make her feel ridiculous for talking to you. Tip #3, PICK UP ON THE SIGNS MANN. Is it just me or do desi guys not understand girls?! And yes, when a girl likes you, she's using all the self-control not to stare at you with big googly eyes. And is most likely failing. And yes, I've been listening to Impossible by Shontelle. :D Anyway, hope you desis out there end up using your smarts to get your parents to let you go out and make awesome plans!! Another week come and gone...

First day(s) of school...

Damn, another year, another quarter. Wait Wait, let me switch to some Hindi background music. Aah much better. College sucks. Correction, college with ambitious desi parents sucks.When I was in high school, I used to think that college was like the movies. Total LIE. I'm not sure if you guys are in high school or college, but no, college is not about parties or Greek life (my UC doesn't even have frat houses) its about trying to get into professional school, while not being a complete LONER. haha. At least that's it from my point of view.

Today, when I went to to the Med School Library, (I'm an undergrad), I opened my physics book and I swear there was some sort of achar or curry stain on it. And I don't even eat near my books. I swear, achar : clean books :: fireflies:light. Fireflies glow because of a compound called luceferin, which undergoes fatty acid activation. YAY for metabolics. Not. And that last "not" is for you guys who thought I was considering my rishtaa. I swear, while I was in the library, every time I made a funny face or did something really awkward there was a cute gora or a really cute desi guy walking by. Its like a curse :( As I was leaving the library, I saw a gora studying the same material (and there's only one teacher, so he's in my class), I wanted to go up to him and say, "Oh yaar, I sympathize with you!" And I just discovered a हिंदी translation feature! No expectations though! As I was walking by the food court, I saw a boatload of people by the Indian restaurant, I felt a surge of desi pride! Finally some goras eating curry.

And sorry for the incoherence, comes after hours of studying the fizzicks and biochem :D Now, batao what subjects get on YOUR nerves?

Happy New Year!!!...

I'm writing this from the comfort of my apartment, away from my parents. Hai Rabba! I don't know what to think. I actually missed the ball drop in NYC (on tv of course), because my laptop was a minute early :P Go figure! When I was a mere baachi I used to pray for the New Year to start with no thappads, but as I grew older, I used to pray just for January 1st to be thappad free. Now I realize, that no matter what I do, there will always be a lecture waiting. I could discover the cure to cancer, and our desi parents will wonder why we didn't do it in our "spare time". Anyway, we went to go view the Rose Parade floats, but we were late, so we went to a nearby race track to bet on a race. And no, I'm not lying, but desi parents did actually bet on something volatile. So on the drive back home this was the conversation: (M= mom D=dad)

Me: Hiccuping
Dad: Why the heck are you hiccuping so loud, do you have an attention problem?
Me: Um...I can't control it?
Dad: Well shut it! (Or the Telugu equivalent of it)
A little while later
Mom: You better get good grades this quarter.
Me: Ok
Mom: (Angry voice), Tell me why you didn't get grades this quarter!!!
Me: Because I didn't study hard enough. 
Mom: Tell me why you didn't study hard enough.
Me: Because I was lazy?
Mom: No!! That's not the reason, tell me why?
Me: Since you seem to know me better than I know myself, then you make up an answer and believe it.
Mom: After pulling into the driveway. Starts giving me a major thappad, desi style, like goras or kalas wouldn't know, kicks me out of the house, until I "figure out", that since my parents pay my bills, they can treat me like a mere beti of 2 years. We desis invented the 0, don't know why our parents seem to forget it so easily. Eh, I'll be applying in 7 months, I'll be free soon enough!!

I just had to bust out that rant. I don't understand why our parents treat us like little babies, and then freak out when we don't get perfect grades or behave perfectly. And when we do bring home good grades, they don't even acknowledge them. I'm not asking for a pat on the back, I'm asking for acknowledgment. They control every aspect of our lives, especially academic, financial and marital. Speaking of....I got my first rishtaa. Yay. Now tomorrow I get to start another quarter of school!!  Good luck to all you desis out there!

New Post in 3...2...1...

I'll be posting tonight, when I'm back down at my apartment, ready to start school tmrw! For now, I'm off to a desi PARTAY.