Random Blurbs

The last few weeks have been blessed. The more I work hard for school, the more I am liking the work I am doing. Here's a short collection of notable quotes I heard from people during the past month in the cacophony of a fast paced unrelenting race towards chasing one's dream-a masters degree from CMU.

• "Ujjwal, your mind is in the gutter. You are inappropriate": A female friend to me after my first attempt to break ice on a personal issue with a small non veg joke.
• "Your problem is not that you speak too much but rather that you dont know when to stop taking someone's case": My room mate during one of our drinking sessions.
• "YES. I have never had sex. Why would I lie?": A working white male friend during our gel-in period.
  
• "Her name is Nicole Beninati. She is the best thing to have happened in my life when I was at my lowest ebb. She has really been my spritual leader since and taught me so much about female relationships and friendship": Ashley on Nicole during one of the YAM sessions
• "The upshot of it is that...": I have heard this atleast 100 times today. John, my Secure Software team mate, begins EVERY freaking sentence this way. Save me Lord.
• "Please take that blog entry down!": A friend who did not want me to dedicate one of my entries to him.
  
• "He is not ill. He is just excited": Name withheld, referring to the "red rocket" that mammals project on getting "excited" :P
• "Ujjwal, what do you think of Jesus?": Nicole to me. I had an answer which visibly upset her for the rest of the evening.
• "Dont spend too much on wasteful expenditure": My sister asking me to buy her a laptop rather than spending money on the weekends.
• "Dont try to get fresh on me": Ashley on AIM. What's fresh? No! Come on now! I mean, how does one get "fresh" on messenger?
• " I am not sure if I want to take this job": Gaurang, after getting a six figure job offer.
• "Are you kidding me? I am totally single.": Female friend on being asked if she was going out with one of the guys from our department.
• "Would you rather streak across naked in office or be known as the farter at work?": Question from a fun book asked to me.

Last week has been busy. In between shuttling between exams and interviews, I managed to wish Ashley at her place at midnight on her birthday. Of course, she did not know about it and as Nicole and I sang the birthday song for her standing at her door, she danced like a kid. Pure joy. Pure fun. Pure Ash. Trevor gave her an extraordinary card reflecting her life on one peice of paper. The pic that I present here is a crude attempt to emulate one of the many pics present on the card. Its the sperm through which Ashley was conceived in Rome, Italy on February 6, 1984 (ironically enough, Nicole's birthday!). Sachin just pointed out that the idea is a rip off from the movie "Amelie". Cheater! :)
Grandma is back home. She had a minor brain stroke with partial impairment of the left side of her body. She would be needing special medical attention.
Diwali was celebrated in style last evening with a party at Mandeep, Bankim and Suvrat's place. Nice food. Bad music. Good times.
Someone played a prank on me and wrote down nasty stuff on my whiteboard in office signing off with someone else's name. If you are reading this, I know who you are! :)
Swaroop got a second round call from Google. He and Zain got offers from Panasas too. Good going guys.

Got my biggest mid term exam tomorrow. Secure Software. Hopefully, things should be fine!