GRADUATION!!!

The conferring of the degrees...


The walking to the stage...


The getting of the degree...


The turning of the tassels...


Teeheehee here's one of Srish Pram and Dill singing our Alma Mater!

Dear Freshmen,

For your whole life, you think you're good at something...
......until you major in it.

IT homework

Ashwin SHANKAR: what r u studying for again??
Sunita: strategy
Ashwin SHANKAR: oh the take home
Sunita: that take home
Ashwin SHANKAR: outsource it

Larry on Telecommunications

XSirocco: youwch
dularibeti: ya ur tellin me
dularibeti: it's so boring
dularibeti: telecommunications
XSirocco: i had a hard enough time with 1:15 min classes
dularibeti: and all he does is talk about google video
dularibeti: gag me with a spoooonnn
dularibeti: ya man
XSirocco: hahah as if
dularibeti: hahah
XSirocco: telecommunishutup
XSirocco: psh
dularibeti: hahahahaha
dularibeti: hahaha

petC

Here's a commercial that my group member and I made for Marketing class... It's for a product that we had to make up and we chose an animal energy drink :)

Nirmita on the library

LiMBuZZ: dude i have to study
LiMBuZZ: i better go hit the library
LiMBuZZ: literally
LiMBuZZ: it's evil

More banquet pics

Here are some more banquet pics stolen from Radhika (kikikiki).

And stolen from Srish who stole it from Anoop!!
Aww my bumblebee and my Kella Brotha were "Jack and Karen" that night
HEY YOU GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WIFE, ANOOP!!!
For more pictures and videos from banquet, see this post

IPSA Banquet

The Indian Pakistani Student Association of The University of Texas at Dallas just put on a very successful show! The 2006 Cultural Banquet was a blast. I was so impressed by the great job the executive officers did with putting on the show!

Here are some pictures and videos of the night.. hope you enjoy it as much as I did! :)

Before the show started...

All the girls
Radhika, Shalini (my sister), Me, Srishti, and Pramila :)

Leon and Dillon... so called "best friends"
You won't out-friend Radhi and I!! aww you guys actually do make a cute couple though..

Prammy and Srish
Aren't they cute??? I love you guys!
This was before Srishti became "bumblebee-ified"

Nowww.. it's time for the show! I apologize in advance for all of the acts that I didn't get to take video of... It's only because I felt so enthralled by them and forgot! That, or my mouth was full of gulab jamuns :-D *drool*

The Paper Airplanes - Original Song (I don't remember the name)
Performed by Hassan Ali, Faheem Kehmani, Sumair Merani, and Shereen Surani


Okay after this first act I didn't take many other videos of the other dances.. Now I'm regretting it because they all were really good!! We did go crazy with pictures during intermission though.. Here they are:

Srish and Prammy
sooooo pretty!!! This was impromptu, too! They only had a split second of prep time

Leon and I
;-)

Radhi and Dillon
aww!

The girls
I love this picture! Srish and I are being silly and Prammy and Radhi are all perty hah..
Look at how HOT Prammy is!!!

The second try
Picture perfect :) Srish and I are bumblebees :-D tsssssss (That's the sizzling sound Prammy's making because she's so hot)

Me and Shmeon
Say cheeeessseee!!!

Srish and I
We just "tied the knot" so we're pretty giddy..

Me and beautiful Srishti!!
"bbbzzzzzzzz!!!"

Anoop and Leon
Meanwhile, Anoop and Shmeon took their own Keller/Coppell Pic (Copy-cats) Uh oh, Dillon.. it looks like you have some competition!!

Shal and Pramila
They got married too, apparently ...In Prammy's DREAMS!!

Dillon and Radhi

Hey, I just noticed that they match!!

Shal and Sun
The Persaud Sisters :)

Now for some more performances!!

The following dance was really amazing...

Masti - Kajra Re
Dance performed by Sweta Ahuja, Nupi Merchant, Sonal Patel, Aesha Shukla, Jaladhi Shukla, Neha Walia, and Dhol performed by Neal Gupta.


Masti - Choli Ke Peeche


Next, I have a vocal act. They sang one of my favvooorriteee songs!!! I really enjoyed it.. such a hard song to sing, too!

The Abrahams - Laal Dupatta
Sung by Jobin Abraham and Julie Abraham


Denton Dhamaka - Nach Baliye
Performed by Karim Ali, Vishal Bagchi, Nirav Bhakta, Ekta Duggal, Tina Duggal, Gautam Kadiwar, Kajal Patel, and Shivangi Shah


Josh - Say Na Say Na
Performers coming soon...


Josh - Punjabi
Performers coming soon...


I was so disappointed that I didn't get footage (what would you call digital video... bytage???) of the other acts, especially the Bharatnatyam dancer and the Punjabi singer and Dholi.. they were so awesome.. GO GIRL POWER! :) But I did get a clip of the Dholi at the end... Here's the announcement at the end of the show with her playing...



That girl is so awesome.. I want to be her friend.

Here are some more pics:

The Newlyweds
What I want to know is... when's the honeymoon? ;) (haha)

Srish and Suni
Thanks for this pic, Srish! I love it :)
You're preeetttyyyyy

Leon, Shal, and Me
Yay for Guyanese people!
We took this pic after the show

More banquet pictures here

If you want the full DVD of the IPSA banquet, you can find information on how to purchase it at http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/ipsa

Pramajama

Pramila when she's happiest... with a menu!!

Prammmayyyy my oldest non-roomie college friend! (I like u.) In fact, she's one of my best friends! (Hi Srish i like u) You guys are probably tired of hearing the story, but here u go again..

Let's take a trip back in time... *doodle-oo-doo doodle-oo-doo* (That was supposed to be the Wayne and Garth dream sequence sound with the wiggling fingers.... except.. this isnt a dream, it's a trip back in time.... Man, shut up u know what i mean)

The year was 2001. The song "Because I got high" was in its prime. Daniel Radcliff was only like 11 years old. Pramila was in two of my classes, computer science 1 and rhet 1101. Mita and I would walk out of class with Pramila and would chat politely... we were just acquaintances with her at this point. It stayed that way for a couple weeks... until that fateful day that changed my life FOREVER!! (dun dun DUNNNNNN) It was on that day that Pramila fainted on a class trip to the UTD career center!! Mita and I, desperate to get out of class, volunteered to rescue her (although I don't remember this...) We brought her to her car and, seeing that it's a two-door Accord with leather seats, fought over who would drive her to our apartment. Then we realized that Pramila might be dying so we gave up and Mita drove her to 5836. This was mistake number 1. Now, she knew where we lived. After this, I think Pramila noticed that I was in her CS1 class so she took the liberty of inviting herself over to our apartment and "work on programs" when, in reality, I worked on our programs. Mistake number 2.
We started to see more and more of Pramila..

it was not uncommon for Radhi, Jessi, Mita and I to walk into our apartment to find Pramila sitting on the floor eating gulab jamun and biryani from home watching Maine Pyar Kiya or Koyla with a sheepish expression on her face

while we smiled nicely and wondered "How the hell did she get in here?! I thought we locked the doors!" Weeks passed and our final CS1 project was due. Prammy and I were in my room.. I, working and she, giving moral support. I excused myself to use the bathroom and Pramila asked if she could play music from my computer. I said "Sure!" Mistake number 3. Of all the songs that I had on my computer, what do I hear coming from my room while in the bathroom?? "CHITHI AAYI HAI AAYI HAI CHITTHI AAYI HAI" It was at that moment that I realized my heart was stolen forever :) I haven't gotten it back yet! (And, now that I think of it, I can't find "Maine Pyar Kiya" either.. Prammy, give it back!)

Hehe now that you know the background, you can view the madness!! Remember, don't judge us too quickly.. Keep in mind that we are high on love during most of these convos ;)

Pramila: my paper might as well be brown and smelly cuz its all bullshit

~~~~~

Pramila: okieme gonnam ake some gulab jamuns
Me: ok!
...
Pramila: okie jamun time!
Pramila: haha my version....of bob marly
Pramila: jamun..jamun
Pramila: jamun something something
Me: LOLOL
Pramila: lol
Me: u just fobbified marley

~~~~~

Pramila: i mean i dont mind you cheating on me
Pramila: and stealing my money
Pramila: and talking bad about me
Pramila: but not giving me food...especially desert....thats just horrific

~~~~~

Me: thas an oxymoron!!
Pramila: lol
Pramila: YOU JUST CALL ME A MORON?
Me: hahahahaha
Me: a paradox!
Pramila: and an OX
Pramila: girl that aint right

~~~~~

Prammy: haha this guy asked me for my number
Prammy: i said sure
Prammy: go look for it
Prammy: and call me when u find it

~~~~~

Me: I JUSTFOUNDOUT I DONT HAVE WORK TOMORROW MORNINGGGGGGGG
Pramila: REALLYL
Pramila: COME SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME
Me: KKKKK
Pramila: WHAT U WANA JOIN THE KKK
Me: haha
Me: nooo.. it's the kkkkk
Me: the.. ku klux klan killers ...klan
Pramila: LOL
Pramila: LOL
Pramila: LMAO

Okay that last one was something funny that I said, but part of the essence of Pramila is her laugh... feel free to comment on that hahah :)