Its Spring....yea, Spring

Long time no post! well, believe it or not- no time! Afterall I am taking social dance and vollyball class.ha

And with that Spring quarter has begun....with almost sleepless first weekend. The sleeplessness started with a call at 2 in the morning when I was definately wide awake, all the way from Singapore. I was suprised since my brother and me had spoken a day before for a good 20 mins.
He said "tu chacha banne wala hai" I was really jumping with joy...so excited I cudn't sleep..I wanted to call someone and share the news but it was 2 in the freaking morning. I called Ankit- thought he'd be up finishing some paper but it went on voicemail. I was really jumping- like literally! Then there were series of calls to India....apparantly I was one of the first one to get the news. YAY, I am going to be a CHACHA!

Then Srujan was coming up...and me and Ankit had very little done. We were still working on our video idea and other Info was just not available. The ideas just didn't seem to flow....but we stuck to it, working on what ever came to our heads. The shooting of video was going on well and basically everything ended being written on friday nite with some great inputs and suggestions by Ankit's friend Ashish who was over from U of Michigan. Finally, I thought, everything was going to be fine- we were not making a fool of ourselves on stage.

But Murphy's law had to be applied, saturday morning, some performances were added, some more info available that meant changing some parts of script. Ankit was having some trouble putting the video on CD. But we moved on...till there came a point when I was writing away last min. changes to our script by hand on 2 sheets of paper- one for me and another for Ankit. While Ankit was busy giving tech support to infinity number of people. We didn't practice once. The only part I was confident was our last act with Jennifer. She is good at indian thumkas!

The show started, our intro video got fucked....thanks to some itunes playing on some computer. I was sooo angry, if that went on for another second or so, I would have thrown the mic. right on the stage. Oh well, the video played, with me getting highly nervous with such a start. We some how made it to interval when we changed our outfits. The changed outfit got some confidence in me and ankit too i guess. Coz we were ready to take on whatever comes now. Some of our best acts were coming on!

There were def. more gliches ahead...but we handled them well. Like our script got mixed up- not a big deal....just more confusion, and our OSU group wants to change the intro. at last min. Are u kidding me...?sigh!
Then, it just dragged on really....and within no time- it ended. I wanted to hide somewhere with soo much screwing up on stage. But people were like- you guys were great, you did well? What the hell are u talking abt? we messed up soo many times, just tell me on my face- you were horrible! We got loads of compliments for our last act- the one with jennifer. I guess, that really saved our day and my face! Jennifer- you were really great! People loved it!
This is the only pic we got together... oh well, we did manage to get one together!

Check out our video- Srujan Video on google video!
Ace editing by Ankit!

We didn't go to the after party, it was something that was planned days, maybe months ahead.

That night belonged somewhere more peaceful and relieving the sleepless nite with another sleepless night!ha

And for now, its bright and sunny outside!

Vidhi, congratulation on finding some one! I am sure he enjoys your poems more than I do!