Quotations By LaRe

• Everybody is right in their own point of view.
  
• Become an inspiration instead of searching for one.
• Learning life your way will make you leader  instead of follower.
• You should have guts to live your life the way  you want to.
• Get Inspiration, Never Imitate.

2008 Yackings Contd

After coming back to America, I had really a tough time, I lost my RA mainly beaucse my project was done and second I left for India for a few weeks. Even though they offered me a long term project I had other plans so could not continue my work. But  Academically I had a great time I learnt so much and even had some hands on a new programming language. I must admit that this was the year I really understood what life was and had some great lessons learned through my way.

I contested in some beauty peagents, my intetntion behind them was really nothing, I just wanted to try everything in my life. I even participated in some T shirt Design competition for IEEE Society for ULL and Evening gown Sketch for Bloomingdale's.

After spring I headed California to my brother's place. I stayed with my brother and sister in law until the end of December and came back to Lafayette in Dec for my graduation. I had a bad time on the day of graduation. Just a week after my graduation It was New year and I celebrated with my friends Amitha and Deepthi.

2008 Yackings!

It been long time I have updated my blog. I have to keep up with my usual stuff that I do every day and eventually has some lagging.

My sister got married in Feb 2008. It was again my most memorable time I had spent with my family apart from some bad things that happened.  My sister's marriage was in Feb, I flew to my sisters place Florida from Lafayette and then we both were accompanied by my cousin at the Chicago airport who came to wish my sister Luck and safe journey to both of us. We had a blast in the airport. We sat on the floor and ate Vankaya Kura (Brinjal Curry) which is my cousin chinni akka famous for. Then we had some snaps together, my sister saw snow for the first time through glass windows in the airport (haha...). We were totally having fun until we realized that my sister lost her ticket from Chicago to India. I was waiting at the check in counter while my cousin and sis went to the airline service counter to get new tickets.

During the flight journey I had a slight temperature which I got from my sister. It was a difficult journey for me, I had to take pills all through my flight trip. We landed in Mumbia, India in the early morning and we had wait in queue for hours to get to the next flight from Mumbia to Chennai, the final destination.

Finally, we arrived in Chennai, my parents have already arrived there hours earlier. It has become like a tradition for our family  considering Chennai as an arrival and departure from USA and India. Later we reached our home in Madanapalle in the morning. On the way my sister ate Idli and sambar in a small road side restaurant. I had suffered with temperature for a week.

As my sister's marriage was in Nellore we traveled there few weeks before. And all the arrangements were mostly taken care of  by me especially the beauty and cosmetics department ;). Then THE DAY has come and it was a happy moment for my sister and I really felt very happy for her. Then her reception took place in Hyderabad which my jeeju's home city. My sister and I got our make up done by one of the beautician's who lives downstairs my Jeeju's home. We had some family snaps and the food was delicious, later the next day my mom, me and dad said farewell to my sister, I really felt sad to leave my sister. Even though my sis, my bro and me live in USA, It is difficult to meet often, right? Do you agree? !!!

Few days later it was the time for us to come back to USA and get back work. While coming back I came with my Jeeju and my sister. 

My Sis and Jeeju on the day of reception.

 

  The above two pics are from

Chicago airport.

LOVE = ?

Love is "as pure as a baby's smile".
Love is "tears in your eyes".
Love is "the sweetness in a kiss".
Love is "to make the loved ones happy".
Love is "joy".
Love is "in every moment we spend with our family".
Love is "with you when you feel love".
Love is "to cry".
Love is "to loose".
Love is "happiness".
Love is "lonliness".
Love is "true eyes".
Love is "caring for love".
Love is "to hate".
Love is "to hurt yourself".

This is written by me. :)

You should have guts to live the way you want!

I used to think it is very easy to live how you want and do what ever you want to do in your life. But in reality is much more difficult even to think our own way. Since my child hood I was guided by mother or father or sister and brother. They never let me take my own decisions. I was not good at studies since my child hood. When I was 10 th class I picked interest  in joining a polytechnic college as I had some interest toward hotel management. Then I was not allowed to go in that direction because my family wanted me to go academically strong. Thinking of my idea then I laugh now that how stupid my thought was.

I was very afraid of mathematics, so I did not wanted to join MPC in my 11th standard. During my 10th class the biology subject grabbed my attention and really wanted to join BiPC, but some how I was brain washed and I took MPC. Then after my under graduation, I totally wanted to stay with my parents but was forced to go for higher studies.

I am glad because of the decisions taken by family, I have every thing I wanted and I am happy. But some where in the corner of my mind I was feeling  I have not done it my way and this is not me.

Should have the guts to live the way we want!

Chandamama Kathalu

I am so happy to come across chadamama website today. We used to read these books when we were kids. I especially loved to read them before going to bed, while having my lunch.

Here is the site Chamdamama. I hope you will have a great time with this.

A Bad Experience

Yesterday I saw in you tube a contest for Christmas carol, the contest is to sing one of the four christmas carol songs and submit. I practiced the Carol thinking that I would participate in the contest. But some how when I found out that some profiles have been created with my name and picture in social sites. It seems some one has snatched my pictures and misusing them. Eventually I had to close all my social accounts. I got so upset and had to drop the idea of participating in the contest.

I feel so pity for those who do not dare to let their feelings out either love or hatred and who do not have even a modicum of common sense before they act . Instead of  doing this kind of dark acts I would have appreciated the person who would have the courage to come and share his/her feelings towards me. Anyhow I do not want waste more time thinking about the sad incident that has happened. Will be back here  with some other stuff soon.

2007 Jabbers (1)

My brother got engaged and has his marriage in Jan 2007, so I was very excited to visit my family. Had a great time with my family and a new member my sister in law joined us. After marriage my sister and me left to America and my bro and sis in law came later.

After coming back it was my first of school and as a teaching assistant. I spoke with my Professor and outlined the structure of classes, assignments and projects. As a TA I used to earn some money as form of stipend and it explored and expanded my investments on apparel and accessories.

So many things happened this year. It was my first time watching a Mardi gras Parade. It was so fun and it was so cold and had a great time with my friends. Had some get together with my roomies. Had a dance performance for Deepavli function. Started my fashion sketches. Hosted Potluck for year 2006 and 2007 consecutively.  Got my Assistant ship at LITE.Woahhhhhhh!!!! wait there is one more thing to come heard one more good news, my sister's marriage got fixed in the month of Feb 2008. And I forgot to tell you one more thing went to Dallas trip with my friends and had a Blast. I HAD ENOUGH  :). I shared some of the pics.
 

First Semester Of My school

Landed in Lafayette, Louisiana,  USA on AUG 22 2006 at 12.03 AM in the night, was picked up by the president of students and was taken to a girls room. Called my mom to let her know that I reached safely, then my sis and bro. I used to weep when woke up and when I sleep every day. My school was about to open in two and I started searching for jobs and funding going to every department and every professor to inquire any open positions.I could not find a job until middle of my semester then one of seniors recommended me for a small job in an English department I used to get 6$/Hr. I felt very happy coz that was my first ever earning.Generally it is a tradition that students who do not have funding/assistant ship can apply for them the following semester by getting a good grade in the first semester.

I was living with 5 girls Me, Harika, Deepika, Vidya, Srujana who are my friends now, me and Srujana is of same class and the rest of them were seniors. We had lot of fun time together especially watching movies together, shopping together, chit chat, studying for exams,doing projects everything was good. We moved like a family then, but I feel sad now that every one is busy with their schedules and we got lost in touch with each. Then there came Deepthi to join us as Vidya left after her graduation and she mingled with us instantly and we had a great time.

Then came the exams and projects and every body was busy with their works. Srujana got Assistant ship and felt happy for her. It was my turn to feel that stress waiting for funding, fortunately I also got Assistant ship. Since then we grew apart and could not spend time together  because of our work schedules.

It was December the end of semester, hence I planned to visit my sister in Florida. My cousin also planned to visit my sis and me Florida. It was the best time we spent together. We went to late night rides, late night photo sessions. What an amazing time we had. It was the time we got a call from our family that my brothers engagement has fixed and the marriage date is fixed in January.

Arya 2 Movie

Yesterday I was so excited to go to a Telugu movie after a very very long time. There are very few theaters in our area that air telugu movies, so I was little more excited to watch Arya - 2 mainly the reason being "a Telugu movie".

Read the review before hand but kept every thing aside and watched the movie. The movie goes like this, allu arjun(Arya), and navadeep(Ajay) are orphans. Allu arjun randomly picks navadeep as his frined by placing bubble gum on steps thinking that who steps on bubble would be a friend for his life. Unfortunately its navadeep. Then a couple wants to take custody of one either Allu Arjun or Navadeep and Arjun lets go Navadeep.Some how Allu Arjun joins Navadeeps Office where they both fall in love with Kajal(Geetha).Finally it is who wins Kajal.

The movie's director Sumkumar done a dirty job in portraying the hero's character. Allu Arjun puts pressure on Navadeep to accept his friendship which really never happens in Life and which is totally opposite what actually Arya's motive(In Arya 1, according to arya  if it is true love nothing comes in between them, but here he constantly pester's Ajay to feel his friendship eventhough Ajay says he does not feel him as his friend). In   But in Arya 2 it has no clear idea what it is going after. At least if director has shown in the beginning of the movie that Allu Arjun was brought up alone with no one in his life, his friend ship value towards Navadeep would have justified, since the beginning of the movie hero was shown with Negative shades and as a Psycho. No body in real life would love or make friend ship with psychotic characters. Navadeep's role was practical and it is apt for the movie. I do not know what Kajal is doing in the movie. Her Characterization is poorly molded in the movie she does not have a opinion of her, she does not know whom she loves, she just takes decision according to particular situation. I find no reason why she gets angry on Navadeep in the end and goes with Arjun, even though from the beginning she supported Navadeep instead of Arjun, that really does not make any sense at all.

But it really needs a mention that Allu Arjun's dance was fantabulous, he nailed it and I am glad that we have such a good dancer in Tollywood. Needless to say about his acting skills, he is at his best.

The only thing I liked in the movie is Arya(Allu Arjun) expressing that he wants to be true to his character either good or bad to his lived one Geetha(Kajal). Literally I had head ache after watching the movie and had to spend on Coffee, a pain relief tablet and half day of sleep to get rid of it.

Thanks giving and Black Friday!

Just woke up and guess what it is 71 F outside, finally it is cold here, read in the forecast and it says would be same till the end of the weekend. Hurray!!!!! Enjoying every sip of the hot coffee sitting in the corner of the couch and writing here, OMG I cannot explain how I am cherishing this moment.

Past two weeks saw a lot of ads for thanksgiving and black Friday, especially yesterday night my brother in law Chaitanya went to best buy to snatch some deals on his favorite electronics and came home, told us that a lot of people had their tents in front of shops to grab the deals.

Not having born and brought up in America, I do not know the meaning of Thanksgiving and BlackFriday, hence I had a glimpse of what exactly are they. Found out that Thanksgiving day is to thank god for blessings of the last year.But the first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the piligrims survive the brutal winter. And the Black Friday is Friday after Thanksgiving. Black Friday the term refers to the heavy traffic in Mall, Shops, on the Roads. But originally September 24, 1869 was deemed Black Friday, a day of stock market catastrophe.

Had a cup of coffee, Had my moment..... Catch U Later.......

Little Memories of Big Life

In my child hood during summer holidays we (bro, sis, me) used to visit peddamma's, babai's house. We used to play with all my cousins and have delicious food. One day we went to my Saroja Peddama's house, they had a dog, they used to call it sony. I really love pets, but then I was so small that the dog looks taller if we stand together, that apparently made me fear of her. One after noon we were talking about movies and other stuff and suddenly my bro vikki and my cousin sripriya changed the topic, they started talking about characters in a novel(I still ask them the name of the novel.. haha..).  My sister vinni and me we were staring at them as it sounded to us like a foreign language. Later that day I saw some books in their house I tried reading a book but I could not as I did not understood a single word they meant( I remember I was going to high school then).

Days passed and I was left alone with  my mom and dad, as my bro has to leave for usa for higher studies and my sis to a hostel for her degree. My father used to do a business and so he rarely used to stay with us and my mom is a working women and I go to school. I still remember the days we celebrate when my bro or sister comes to home for holidays.

My bro (before going to usa) used to come home for two days, he used to come on friday night and leave on Monday morning or Sunday evening.Then my sister was in hostel doing her degree in cuddapah and I was doing my intermediate. I still remember the day when I got Chiken pox my brother was not allowed inside my room as he might get. One day when my brother came home he said he will take me out, I was so excited and very happy. It was so funny when my brother took me to his favourite place Visalandhra book I was shocked and so upset. Then came the real shock when he said we were going home by walk, as it was in the afternoon it is hot and I could not walk and he finally bought me a Maaza fruit drink to make me stop crying and we took a Rikshaw to go home. Can you believe it was Rs5.00 then. My brother started preparations for his GRE and he got admission from a university. He came home after his completion of degree and made preparations to go to chennai for F1 Visa. Then as it was holidays my cousins, babai's, pinni's from hyderabad and Nellore came home to visit us, we all went to railway station to wish my brother to get Visa.
Than my sister and me went to Nellore to spend the rest of the holidays and my brother came from Chennai to Nellore on the way back home to pick me and my sister. I remember the incident that my sister and I were in my babai's home with my cousin Ujwala and Saran and we got a phone call from my brother asking for the address of the home. We waited for him outside for a very long time and not able to stop the curiosity to see my brother we all four walked on the road to meet him and it was like in a movie that we all four and my brother were on both ends of the road and we ran towards him with excitment and as we reached him he told that he got Visa. Then I did not know what Visa was except that he would be leaving us soon. We went home and my babai Kumar gave us 300 Rs to celebrate the occasion. My pinni, cousin's Ujwala, Saran, sis, bro and me went to Babu Icecream and celebrated the day. The day came when my brother has to leave for America and my family  was happy and sad for him. I still remember I went inside restroom and weep after my brother left. Everybody was sad to leave him. :(

After my brother left, I was home alone with my mom and dad in Tirupati, my sister was in cuddapah and she used to visit us every now and then as cuddapah was only 5 hr journey to Tirupati. My sister is full of energy and my mom and sister always used to fight like kids. But I believe that made them bring closer and made their relation ship stronger.In hostels they do not have Television to watch and they need to do all the chores, so when my sister comes home she does not want to do anything. Most of the day she watches Television and my mother shouts at her not to watch Television, rather read or do chores. But my sister she hates doing them and even today she does not like to do the cleaning.I remember an incident that happened when one time my sister came home. After spending time at home she was not at all ready to leave for hostel and she was making some excuses to avoid the leaving. But my mom some how made her leave for hostel as it was the end of semester and she had to write the semester end exams. Later my mom got call or my sister knocked at the door I dont memorize exactly, but it seems that the bus my sister got into met with an accident. So my mother cancelled her trip and my sister was also feeling home sick to leave the home, hence my mom did not force her to leave. Later the next morning my sister got a phone call from her friend that my sister was selected as the project leader for her group and they will start working as soon as she attends the classes. My sister in a nick of time forgot the home sickness every thing and that afternoon she left to cuddapah( Hahhahahha). There was one funny incident during her project, as a part of the project they had to do some on field work, Cuddapah is a very hot place and the more you expose to sun the more you will get sun burn. My sister came home and my mother started crying  seeing her, the truth is my sister turned coal black after her on filed project work. It took a month or two to get to her natural skin colour.Days went by and my also started her preparation to make her step in to USA. She worked very hard and finally my father and sister went to chennai for her visa and she got it. We started shopping for her trip and I really felt sad and cried  :( after her farewell. My mom and dad missed her so much especially the little fights and arguments they had.

We three me, mom  and dad were feeling lonely without my brother and sister. Than there were my brother and sister visits to india every year and I used to feel so sad that we have to take the permission from schools and goverments to spend time with our own family which literally is 3 weeks of which 4 days are spent in travel and 3 days in rest and the reamining we get is 2 weeks. It is a pity that 8424 hours of waiting is equal to 336 hours of spending time with our family. Is this the importance given to human emotions and family in this world created by none other than US?

A Day Spent With My Memories

After a very long time I thought of updating my blog, as I was doing my routine "applying for jobs" I came across a job posting from an elementary school in Florida, I completed the formality of reading the requirements, attaching my resume and then finally sending it to the employer. Since the time I saw the posting  from elementary school I was not able to control my mind from thinking about my past especially my child hood. So I gave a quick pause to my work and was glancing through my old emails  I wrote to my mom, my sis, my bro, my father and my friends especially  after coming to USA.

It was my brother in my family who started the tradition of coming to USA to pursue higher education, he has great talent and ambitions that he wanted to achieve in his life, I am glad he did and happy for him.Afer him was my sister, she is as talented as my bro, but the reason she came here is, then she was so crazy about coming to USA and living here for the rest of her life ( but after spending couple of years she lost the interest ). After my bro and my sis it was my turn. I had no interest in coming here and pursuing Masters, but it was my family who made me change my mind and finally I landed here on Aug 22 2006.

I am so glad I came here, made so many friends, can see my family, most of all I had many adventures here. Love you All.