Saanp Ceedy

This post being my 100th is dedicated to all you bloggies who have been part of this journey and madness and egged me on.
Like you might from many of my prior posts that I think a lot (yeh bimari ka koi ilaj batavo - please suggest a remedy for this disease) - YOUR USERNAMES give me weird ideas that I am presenting here.
The idea was embellished in my mind by Stupidosaur's comment and naming me as the title of this post on one of the blogs. Intrestingly one wins when one reaches 100 in Saanp Ceedy....
Thanks guys (I will really have to say it after you read this) - Enjoy! and if offended do read the end
So here goes - hope you can identify YOU.

- Abhi Shake kyu Khanaa - Are bhai Shake to piya jata hai na! (Why should I eat a shake - isnt it supposed to be drunk)

- After reading your posts I think you should call yourself - Am in Rhythm and Blues not Trance

- An errie masi you are not...you seem like a sweet masi.

- The "j" has to be dropped as it is not grammatically correct - it should be A juli or An uli

- A desi got a free ticket to see a symphony and then he met and told him - "you are famous dude - after every act they shouted "Ancore Ancore" wah wah

- Sometimes when I read her post the reaction that is similar to WTF in gujju is Aaa Shu che!

- Well if I ever get to visit all the places she blogs about so elaborately - instead of buying a tourist guide I will Back Pack Her

- If I design a house for this dude will have to call his study/library Brocas Area - and suggest he puts a sign Keep off!

- Carolina you better be careful as there is a GAL hunter on his way to New York

- Sending her Single will be a Ne Ne as she is a blond!

- Being an architect she is fascinated by Cinder blocks and I bet she must be shouting at contractors - Cinder la brick nahi yede! (get some cinder blocks not bricks)

- Are Sire should it be Jyada(more) Passion Unlimited - why Kam(less) Passion Unlimited?

- No wonder you are Day Dreaming puffing all the stuff you mention about....hope you do wake up sometime

- A once in a while visitor to the blog it makes me say Deep Aali re Aali (finally she comes)

- Now are there A, B, C categories of SIN!!! - Why D Sinner - how did you attain that level?

- You confuse me dude - do you want to be Friendly or Stanger - koi ek pick karo and no this answer is not going to win you any money.

- G - Man knows that FBI is after him....he better change his name quick and I really wish he meets Hancock to discuss his post on Khuda (god)

- How can one forget the famous dialogue from Karma - Thapad Ki Gooonj (Thunderous Slap)

- He Ran and Ran and Ran but did not loose weight cause then he eats lots of Ghee and Mithai !

- I hope you mom tells you I L U son

- I did not know there were bhais in Hyderabad - bolo bolo Jaggu bhai

- Joi in gujarati mean Did you see her? - So my question to you will Kone Jovu? (Whom should I see?)

- Yeh ladki Kaisi he re? (This girl is an enigma)

- Dude how can you do an anglular K Pee?

- Are kachori, bhajiya talaye Knee Kem Talu? (Lets fry fritters - Why are you wanting us to Fry our Knees?)

- The meaning of Nirmal is pure? Are you? I dont think so.....

- Girls usually dont like Soccer - but No She does

- Sirf Pav Hi dogi? Bhaji ka kya? (You will only serve bread - what about the vegetables?)

- There is an architecture institute in NY - Praat - any connection?

- Someone has to Pry Open her mind to check whats in there

- Now this confuses me a lot - Shouldnt it be Prince Mia? koi beech wala to mamla nahi Princess Mia me?

- Reading her posts every one is Raaji Raaji (agreed agreed)

- Are you a Raa Di Ka girl?

- Yeh sirf Ravi var ko nahi harroz Bollywood ki khabar deta hai

- Only Pope can Rome Hila?

- Kya aap Sham sunder ho?

- Sam Bhi agar bacche hote nam hote pinku.....reminds me of this song

- From your writing I can tell you - you are Some Heera

- Yeh Satish koi bhi angle se Bholla nahi hai...guarantee...

- I already told him from his recent post - he should be Mr. Orkut Scrabbler

- Maintaining Five blogs and completing PhD - phir bhi itne ghane baal - Arre Docter be aap ke to Solid Hair hai....

- Now once he becomes an actor and hopefully famous I hope he does not ignore others with the attitude - chal hat Chu Taa nahi hai....(get lost I dont have change)

- How Loud do you get when thinking? Or is it in the inaudible range?

- Urv Moor Dhantura nu fool sakar sherdi khajoor - remeber it?

- Finally she Wins a coveted other half....and now her posts resemble "krazzy kiya re"

- He is the newest addition and is a Bridge to anything India

- Eggs Hatch ho gaya kya?

So if anyone is offended and feels screwed, my response to you all is same as the desi finalist in this seasons Last Comic Standing - Papa CJ
"I really dont give a damn. I am from the land of Kamasutra - I can screw you in more ways than you can even dream of"

Hope I dont have to shave off my blogroll after this!

La(l)loo

What more can one say?

Meet and Mosaic (updated w/answers)

First off...Since I moved I have limited access to the internet...so have not been able to visit blogs. Hope to be full on in a weeks time.
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Here is my VERY FIRST Bloggie meet - up.

From l-r : Ankit (KP's brother), Kevin Patel (KP to bloggers), Sanket (my friend) and Me (ceedy to bloggers)
Last week KP was in North Jersey to attend a family wedding. He is from Columbus, Ohio.
We met at Bazookas - a sports bar and spoke about cricket (his favorite subject), everyones current lives and dreams, other bloogies and blogs and yada yada yada....
It was interesting as both of us did not remember how we landed on each others blogs - but the "gujju" connection has endured almost a year and was happy to finally meet him.

Hope to meet many more interesting bloggers here.
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This is the Flickr Mosaic Tag which I saw this first at -xh- 's blog and liked it.

Here is my version - hope you guys can guess my answers.....
The rules are:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name? : Chintan
2. What is your favorite food? right now? : Pav Bhaji
3. What high school did you go to? : St. Xaviers
4. What is your favorite color? : Black
5. Who is your celebrity crush? : Paz Vega
6. What is your favorite drink? : Long Island Ice Tea
7. What is your dream vacation? : Ibiza, Spain
8. What is your favorite dessert? : Chocolate Souffle
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? : Master Architect
10. What do you love most in life? : Shades of life
11. What is one word that describes you? Funny - the cat threw everyone off.....
12. What is your user name? : Ceedy

and The Resultant Mosaic is:

And I tag

Ankur, Noushy and Cinder-Single

Embarassing Secrets -Tag

Have been apartment hunting for the past two weeks and finally moved (not completly) so will be catch up with everyones blogs soon as soon as I get all wired.

Meanwhile was tagged by Ankur and Radhika for 10 secrets and then again today for 5 embarrassing moments. Am going to combine the two together.

1) I had big problems to a point where I wanted to quit school in Kindergarten itself. Being left handed we were taught how to write "c" and "d" being a curve inside out and "b" being a curve outside in. Well at school "bad" remained "bad" but at home it became "dab" as my grandmother forced me to use the right hand. So following the instructions (I was obedient then) got rapped at school for all the homework being wrong and at home for using the left hand......so I wanted to quit school (grown ups are really crazy - I had made up my mind very early!). This was solved eventually but its another story.

2) Used to be a sick a lot as a kid.

3) In 8th or 9th standard there was a Nescafe advert playing in India - and had the ending lines "Shake Shake Shake" - I resembled that kid a lot and so I became famous in my school as the "Shake Shake Shake" guy....

Well this one turned out to be an embarrasing moment once - as we were about to go to the "Sex Education" class under a visiting lecturer and somebody shouted in front of her "Shake Shake Shake". It had to be explained in detail what it all meant.

4) Have been part of the student council in some form or the other throughout school and college as a monitor, captain, president etc etc. So I was supposed to "monitor" other students and not get reprimanded. Well I did get once and it was embarrasing - but the calender (school diary) never reached home - I threw it off the bus and lodged a complaint in school office that it is lost. Phew was saved!

5) Was an avid cricketer - playing for the school for 6 years. Practiced everyday morning from 6 - 9 and never attended the first three lectures in the school. (We were allowed to)

6) Post tenth board exams 10 of us went to a 5 day trip to Mahabaleshwar - planned, executed and booked solely by two of us. (My dads friend owned the hotel we stayed at - a secret I told all my friends only after reaching there - till then enjoying the wah wah for all the plans.

Now post this trip there was a very embarassing moment. Just out of school and off to college - we had gone and rented some "movies". Guess what one of my dear friends had to tell this to his mom and after the trip she is like "Since you planned this whole trip - you must have planned this too! - dunno what I said then but somehow got out of this situation.

7) The little finger in my right hand is dislocated - two injuries back to back injuries playing cricket. Cannot join the right little man with the rest of the fingers.

8) My craziness and funny demeanour - I attribute it completly to many of my Parsi friends and the Parsi neighbourhood I grew up in. They are a bunch of crazy people - I simply love them.

Here is something that being in such company made me do -
We had to do a "Working Model" project on something that we learned in 7th (am not sure) standard. Most students choose science or geography projects - showing volcanoes, solar system, robots etc etc.
Now me and this Parsi friend - we decided to have some fun instead of doing a serious project.
So we decided to do a project in English - it was a category never done before and we were the only submitted project.
There was a story in Balbharti "Man Eater of Chabunkwa" - we designed our project based on that story. We grew real grass for a month (arguing that we studied germination if needed). Got his grandmom to sticth an African Hunters dress for the He-Man, put a tiger in the grass (enacting the scene), researched on the author and put some of his work and finally since we really did not know if this will fly we made a thermocol cutout of the earth and put plastic animals on each continent (including science and geography - just in case).
Well again this turned out to be a bit embarrasing - since there was no "working part" in our project we did not see it necessary to attend the exhibition of all the projects - went dressed in casually - only to realize that we had won the "Best Project Award" - "Most Innovative Idea and Presentation" and ours was the first project on display. And since we were not in our "school uniform" we were not allowed to partake in the award ceremony and we became the jokers! Ah well it was fun still.

9) Had a near death experience once - fell off my bicycle in between two cabs. Luckily the signal turned red. It was close.

Most of these are experiences from the school years which were till now the best years.
Can only think of so many for now.

High and Higher

Summer is here and just busy enjoying it after the dull winter. Two weeks back finally went again to Six Flags Great Adventure here in New Jersey with my cousins who were visiting me. Got a chance to ride this two year old ride Kingda Ka finally. It is currently the worlds fastest and tallest roller coaster ride.


This is a description of the ride from Wikipedia :
"Once the train is in position, the hydraulic launch mechanism rockets the train from 0 to 128 miles per hour (206 km/h) in 3.5 seconds. At the end of the launch track, the train climbs the main tower, or top hat, twisting 90 degrees to the right before reaching a height of 456 feet (139.5 m). The train then descends 418 feet (127 m) straight down through a 270-degree spiral. Finally, the train climbs the second, 129 foot hill, producing a moment of weightlessness before being smoothly brought to a stop by the magnetic brakes. The ride lasts 28 seconds from the start of the launch to the end of the brake run."

Really dont know how to describe the experience in words...it was simply awesome. Shaken, hurled, pushed, thrown and exhilerated, it took sometime to get our bearings straight. There was a long wait, so had to sit on the second row. Will go back to ride it sitting in the first seat. That is the best way to experience any roller coaster with nothing in front of you.

That was a physical high and then yesterday evening was a kind of spiritual high.

Attended a live concert of Ustad Ghulam Ali and Munni Begum (both famous Pakistani ghazal singer) in New York. Again words fail to describe the moment in presence of such a legend.

Image courtesy - Wikipedia
Had never heard Munni Begum before. She started the show and had a very different voice from that of Indian singers that we are used to hearing. She ended her part of the concert with Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Sharabi - a Qawalli which I had only heard in the voice of Aziz Nazan before. (Here is the e-snips link of the Qawalli in his voice)

Then Ghulam Ali entralled the crown with his rendition of ghazals that included some of his most famous numbers namely - Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa, Chupke Chupke Raat Din and many others.

The crowning glory of the evening was the online booking goof up. Due multiple booking of the same seats from two websites, I had one of them and so got upgraded to 5th row from front right in front of the center stage.

I will retain this experience in my memory for ever.