~visa power~ go get it!

the second dream come true event i have mentioned in my previous post is getting an US visa stamped in my passport. it was a pretty tense thing considering the fact that people who had gone previously painted a picture where the only things the visa officers dint have were a dracula set of teeth and 2 horns. trust me guys they are no way near that. my appointment was scheduled at 7 30 in the morning, so the day started with me waking up at 6 (a rarity during the holidays) and going thro the morning routine then reaching the embassy at around 7 20. was surprised at the people present there being treated shabbily by the local police and we were asked to line up on a foot path ( THAT FOOT PATH IS NOT FOR PUBLIC USE, general public walking there would be shooed off by the surprisingly alert police constables). after that there were several security checks done by the security company hired by the consulate, then ALAS u see some counters.is that all, i think?no i was horribly wrong, those were just the preliminary counters staffed by indians where u get your documents arranged in the order needed by the visa officer. after that u are supposed to head to the next building on the right, i probably missed the instruction as to where to head after these preliminary checks and i asked a volunteer present there, and trust me he started shouting as to whether "where were u when i was shouting all this while?" ,perhaps he doesnt know the meaning volunteer. after that it was pretty easy going, went into the second building got my finger print registered then was seated for quite some time. i was still feeling sleepy and around me all i can see is hungry people`s nails getting disappeared. after that there was the head of the consulate who gave away few tips, few incidents where people got their visa application rejected(those were real funny ones :D, can`t imagine how dumb people could be).few of his quotes were
"i had just shaved yesterday and i had looked in the mirror...i dont see myself being a stupid to take in your statement that u will spend 40k$ for ur studies and come back to india and earn 12k$",
"pls dont give memorised answers to the questions that are going to be asked and pls erase the memorisedanswers to the 'questions i m supposed to ask'"
.the essence of all he said is that the applicant had to be truthful with their answers and more importantly his financial documents.believe me or not two guys standing ahead of me came up with literally same answers to the questions, i have no idea how they made it, same to the extent that both want to work in "big companies like Siemens, Motorola etc (note even the order of the big companies was unchanged!) guess that the visa officer was kind hearted. then came my turn, the conversation I had with the visa officer(VO) was as follows:

vo: gimme ur marksheets n gre toefl score reports
me: here there are, but i m yet to receive my provisional certificate, can give u my 8 sem marksheets n a course completion given by my college
vo: that would do gr8
gave it
vo: reasins for choosing usc?
me: m'am to be frank, i had very litte choice to make because i had only 2 more admitsi
vo: which ones?
me: ut arlington n sunyB
me:sunyb dint give me what i wanted, so i ruled that out
n between usa n uta spoke to a lot of ppl, got their inputs, went thro their sites n finally thought usc would give me better job prospects
vo: weather in california better than other two
< I misheard that her and thought that was complaining about the weather at california and said>
me: yes m'am, buffalo i heard is still worse
vo:exactly, how do u plan to fund ur education
me: fathers savings in bonds
showed the bonds
she was happy
n said alright ur visa would be issued

This is it guys, visa interviews are cake walk if you straight forward with your answers and documents

~style style dhan~

guys, orey the feelings will be continued later. the reason well there are two events that took place, which i feel i should share with u ppl. both the events are kind of dreams coming true.

So, what is the first so called dream come true event about? what exactly happened, well i drove all the way on one rainy very late sunday evening to a not so famous part of the city, so that i could go to an almost unknown cinema hall to see a movie. guess by now most of u would have got what i am talking about, yes the movie was much anticipated SIVAJI-THE BOSS, and the cinema hall was brinda theatre in perumbur.

Alright what is the big deal about this? well, i had always wished to see a rajini or for that matter a vijay movie during the first week of its release. the reason is simple, just to get soaked in the atmosphere created by the audience during those early shows. i know i am gonna get ridiculed for this by so called "hi-fi", "accented english speaking", "intellectual", "multiplex visiting" audience, hell with u ppl is all that i can say!
So when i got a chance to see sivaji on the second day in a not so famous theatre i grabbed it! i enjoyed every bit of that experience be it parking getting full, fans outside getting excited about being let in, fans tearing down tickets when the "S-U-P-E-R-S-T-A-R" tag got displayed, or be it people going agog over the punch lines delivered or be it people dancing, whistling or what not! it was gr8, i mean something that has to be experienced!

Apart from that, the movie was good with rajini stealing the show with his mannerisms or his style of acting(the mottai part was simply out of the world) , shriya was simply superb, n vivek, guess this is his best performance so far!

A good movie, a set of people mad about their matinée idol and a wonderful atmosphere i couldn`t have asked for more! And guess what it din`t end there, it was 3 in the morning when i got back to my friends place at perumbur and the drive back home on those empty roads with breeze cutting across was totally unmatched! It was truly an memorable sunday evening, THANKS THALAIVA n of course a big thanks to harish for getting me a ticket!

~orey the feelings~

y am i doing this?i ve been vetti all this while reading blog after blog and to some extent they have made me feel sad about the fact that college is over and not again can all of us sit in the same class or the bus or whatever. even for a person who doesn't try to project sadness or emotions outside, its really been tough not to write about my cherished ones. at this point, i wish to say that i feel so honoured and privileged to have been written about by people whom i am gonna miss in the time to come. keep checking my blog for the list of people who mattered most to me!

what forced me into this....

for some one who ridiculed every other blogger i knew saying that they were so bloody jobless to blog, i shocked everyone including myself when i decided to this. guess frustration, irritation, emptiness could lead you into doing things which you would have least expected yourself to do. now what was i irritated or frustrated about?? well thats a easy call considering the day this has been posted. yup the "brilliant" INDIAN cricket team and the indian sports in general. yes u have stumbled upon an another angry blog targeted at indian sport. having no one else to complain to this is the best platform to vent out my feelings. my present state of mind is that of a person being ditched by his/her beloved. why does this happen to indian sports alone, people are never united, trying to pull others down, people dont perform to their potentail... what better example than the famous lee-hesh spilt or the sourav-chappel spat? just when things look good we have some one ruining it. sucks man,hurts a lot.

how do i describe the feeling when lee-hesh lost a semifinal at Chennai, against some X and Y being a set and a break up? how do i describe the feeling when both conveniently pulled out of this years Chennai open and playing at some unknown tournaments? come on man, this is THE EVENT that launched u guys. dont you owe at least this much to the tournament and the public? i just cant stop myself from wishing you bad luck in all the matches you play.

well back to cricket,how would i describe the feeling when we lost to bangladesh? taking nothing away from the young bangladesh side who really played like a team possessed, india played poorly as if they never really willed to win. a lot of debate had been done about selection processes and the chairman of selectors had not better job but to divulge the captain and coaches preference for carrying an extra baggage, was he washing his hands of the responsibility or was it an indication of sehwag not going to perform? I wished and prayed that it was the former but its proving to be the latter. well if he just wants to have strolls, there are plenty of parks back home where he can have those walking practices. what irks me is he doesnt regret getting out and seems to be more than pleased to get back. well its unfair to criticize a single fellow for the debacle but that just came out of sheer frustration.

dont these of set of over rated people with larger than life image, have a sense of responsibility towards the public? are we fools to be following them right through be it night or day or be it ignoring work, knowing more about them than they do? dont we deserve more? to be frank i have never reacted this extremely to the wins and losses but yesterdays defeat was just too much for me to take. well i wish i had never seen or followed sport and these superstars never really meant anything to me, but that being out of the equation "oh ha india aaya india " :p