this friday started with the usual badminton practice with my roomate. Even though we didnt play that well in most of the games, we ended up winning. But i know for sure that we gotto play better, once the tournament starts otherwise we would be found wanting.i was invited for dinner that night to a tamil family house and i ended up watching a good movie pirates of the caribbean sea.
My friends had rented the xbox video game and i found out that i sucked in these video games..or in other words my friends were probably very good...
Next day we had this big potluck among several friends and i had a make a sambhar which i call it as "hotel sambhar" . I love this sambhar as this time when i went to india, i invariably had either idli/vada with sambhar no matter which resaturant we went. The sambhar i made was very good or atleast thats what i felt and it was very close to the taste that i was used to eating. All my friends dishes were extremely good and we had one ball of a time that nite. Later we played some cards and got involved in some fun activities. It was a probably a better weekend that i originally thought would be.
In the meanwhile, the weather god has smiled and i guess the last week of winter went past us.

it was just one of those weekends, where i wanted to do so many things, but ended up doing nothing..apart from the usual badminton,cards and movies, there was nothing productive/exciting i did..
yeah we did go for some bowling ...
every time i started to do some reading, i was always distracted by something else or the other and stopped reading..
this week being a spring break, most of the students are out of town partying..they should be glad that they are out of town, as its suddenly snowing here in the month of march and for the first time in almost over a year and half i was late to work by 20+ minutes on monday......
everytime myself and another friend try to plan for a fishing expedition, the weather becomes nasty and cold and we cant even step outdoors..
i m just trying to stay warm this week.and i hope this is the last week of winter..

my workout intensity has been increasing ever since the beginning of this new year and i am already seeing some drastic results. This has also helped my eating habits and my appetite has been really good of late.
This week has been less hectic at work as my boss has gone out of town for the spring break. He wont be back till the end of next week and i hope to utilize the coming week for doing up some cleaning activities and doing some reading. i want to do something exciting this weekend, and lets see what we all end up with...

last friday i had gone camping with my friends...even though i have stayed in US for a number of years, i cant remember when i had done camping before..it was quite a large gathering of people, mostly undergrad students..(around 25-30 of them...)...we did lot of activities even though it was dark.. we played frisby for a little while, then started lighting campfire and cooked some nice dinner...some of them were wandering around the nearby lake..,had put up tents to stay overnight..
even though they were young students, i should appreciate the planning they had put in for this event and it was well done..
after a while we started chatting with each other sitting around the campfire and then there were some crazy people jumping over the fire and trying to drink a gallon of milk in 1 hr..then we started to have some meaningful discussions on certain sensitive topics...
it was a fun night and i felt that i am getting to become real close friends with these group of people...

last evening i had a chance to spend some time with an american friend of mine..he was curious to hear about the kind of food, culture, religion and other key aspects of india. My friend, having travelled across several international borders was quick to learn about the history and heritage of india...we discussed about the ways in which american people lead their life, with lot of debts, but still enjoy the most comfort..
also it was one of my friends bday, and we all had gone out for a party..cake and stuff usual...

this is my first blog with the hope that i would do this continously for a finite period of time...
i have become a fitness freak in the past month or so and i am striving hard to achieve my goal...however today wasnt a great day at the recreation complex as i was not able to lift the usual weights that i normally do...maybe bcos i had a slightly busier than normal day at work, and probably the food at subway wasnt enough for me..we had a two hour meeting at work, which actually ended in no proper conclusion..which is always disappointing...however thats how it goes, sometimes with result and sometimes without...