Who says you get wiser with age?

Veden, my 11 year old cousin, asked for my help with his homework...

Sunita: wow
Sunita: veden's homework is too hard for me
Sunita: lol
Sunita: which i expected
Sunita: it's science
Sunita: he needs shal's help with that
Sunita: im the math nerd... and vani's good at english
Sunita: together, the 3 of us equal 1 sixth grader

I like messing with Shal

Shal: hallo
Shal: what do you call a man with no arms and no legs on your wall?
Sunita: creepy?
Shal: Art
Shal:
Sunita: i dont get it
Shal: ok..how about this one?
Sunita: explain it!
Shal: what do you call a man with no arms and no legs at your door?
Sunita: i dont like these jokes.. they scare me
Shal: Matt
Shal: lol
Shal:
Sunita: .................
Shal: forget it
Sunita: boooooo get off the staggeeee

Performances from Rosita and Raj's Wedding

Shal's dance to "Dama Dam Mast" and "Daag Na Lag Jaye." Thanks Radhi!!


Dev singing "Chandi Jaisa Rang,"


My Dad singing "Dulhan Se Tumhaara,"

Good luck, Shal.... Good luck

Aluball17: do you know how much i want my kid to be a magician

Brown Skinned Hash

Aluball17: so mcdonalds has this thing
Aluball17:: that shalini got this morning
Aluball17: a brown skinned hash
Aluball17: A BROWN SKINNED HASH .... i was about to say ... your a brown skinned hash and then all of a sudden i said in a defeated voice - "i'm a brown skinned hash"
dularibeti: hjaahahaha
dularibeti: lol
dularibeti: seriously???? it's called a brown skinned hash???
Aluball17: dude ... i couldn't believe it
dularibeti: that's basically a brown skinned aloo dude
Aluball17: yea that's my point ... i been watching my back ... if you don't hear from me again
Aluball17: make sure you tell the world my story
dularibeti: lol!

dularibeti: mannn u are on a ROLL recently.. ur being blogged
Aluball17: lol dude ... this is a serious situation
Aluball17: they may realize this is copyright infringement and take me out
Aluball17: you know how these big companies do
Aluball17: i can imagine grimace as the hit man
Aluball17: or better the hamberglar ... :-O he got gloves and everything
dularibeti:: brb
dularibeti: AAHAHAHAHA
dularibeti: hahaha GRIMACE

Shal's Presentation

So my sister gets me and Aluball to help her with her presentation.. as he's doing the slides from bottom up and i'm doing top down....

shalaynay persaud: i wish i thought of this before
shalaynay persaud: i thought of it yesterday
shalaynay persaud: if you wanna take a break..you can check the presentation for typos
Sunita: lol
Sunita: thanks
Sunita: slave driver

Halloween

New pics of Sanjana and Karina!!!

Arjun and Simi

It's not easy being green...aaww someone give him some candy.. he only has one piece!!!

Ready to do some trick or treating!

Aowww lucky asha!!

Naya White and Simi Beauty

The two little princesses :)

The kids cashed in!! Good job!

Shal and her friends on Halloween (They were each nucleutides of a DNA).

Mavs vs. Suns - Game 5

Shal's Graduate school awards ceremony

Shal won the award for "Outstanding Graduate Student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" chosen by the Dept heads of the school!! The sad news is we don't have any more room on the wall for all her awards!

Shal's Birthday Dinner

Here are some pics from Shal's birthday dinner with the fam at Papadeaux Cajun restaurant.

Shal chowin down on the coconut shrimp

That poor lobster didnt know what was coming to him!

MMmmmm crabcakes!

Dad's seafood kebabs

It's so hard to surprise this gyal!! Our plan was to pretend to go to the bathroom and then order the birthday dessert for her... but we got seated right next to the restroom! So I got all James Bond and took a picture of a note that said "Sshh Slice of birthday cake please?" in the bathroom so we could ask the waitress to take our picture and she'd see that. But then my sister decided to go to the restroom so I just asked the waitress then :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAL!

Shal in the paper!!!

Look!!! My sister's in the UNT Health Science Center's newspaper (after she won FIRST PRIZE in the Graduate school's poster presentation contest!!
**I'm proud of you, Shal!! Woohoo that's my sister!**

Check the whole article out here.
(She's the one on the FRONT PAGE and the second page--back row, second from the right)

Yeah, I know... she took all the good genes :\

My Brutally Honest Father

Talking about this pic...

Shal: i showed them the pic..
Shal: Mommay said "awwwww..."
Me: :D
Shal: and Daddy said u're head looks big!
Shal: lol
Me: HAHAHA
Shal: hahahahahahaha
Shal: hahahaaaaa
Me: that's wat i saidddd
Shal: maybe because u were in front
Me: maybe your head is SMALL
Me: PINHEAD
Me:

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