UNT Home Coming!!!

Last weekend I went to a collage football game. UNT vs FAU. It was a home coming game. Never knew that the homecoming games are so much fun. There was a small size fair near the ground. There were games, food... and above all free t-shirts. (Well free t-shirts are like hot cakes.. ;)). Though I don't go to school at UNT but my brother goes to UNT and I was supporting his school's football team on their home coming.

This was the first football game I went to watch. The crowd was great. Though the game started at 7:00 pm, the celebrations began way before, at about 2:00 pm. There was a cool parade of cheerleaders, army trucks, vintage cars, scouts, veterans, cheerleaders, cheerleaders, cheerleaders ..... ;). It was a nice parade. Me along with my brother and his friends followed the parade to the fair grounds.

This is where the fun stated. The whole place was filled with people. Then there were fun games, food, people painting their faces. There were grills all over the place in the parking lots. It was like a celebration. I don't know what they were celebrating.. :) ... Well I too became a part of it. Spray painted my hair green, had a tattoo on my hand.. and went to the game.

For long time I wanted to go to a football game. Actually wanted to go to cowboys game but never got a chance. So finally went to a college football game. The kickoff was at 7:00 pm. The stadium was almost fully packed. So much noise. People shouting. I too shouted alot .... (After the game I had a sour throat..) .. Anyway the home team lost the game but I watched till half time only. Though I watched only half the game but still it was fun.

I had so much fun by just watching a school game. Now I am imagining watching a pro game... It will be a hell of an experience. Though I didn't had any knowledge of football before I came to US, now I love the sport. Though it hasn't reached the place in my heart that cricket holds, it is still one of the top 5 sports I like. Hopefully I will see cowboy's game this season.

♪♪ Engineering Rocks ♪♪

So after the school days then comes the engineering days.... well one more fun filled episode in ones life... Four years of engineering.... What wonderful days... Even though school days are the best... engineering days too constitute in the fun filled days of life... Once you are out of there.... The reality kicks in... Well I believe most of my friends are engineers and guess they will agree with most of the stuff in this post....

So well lets see .... The 25 common things in any engineering collage...

• 1. The lecturers don't teach. The students don't study. The only guy who benefits is the one who owns the 'dhaba' next to the college.. (S S S Hostel Dhaba).
• 2. Deadlines are made to be extended... (Always).
• 3. Promises are made to be broken... (Most of the times).
• 4. Guys always think the chicks in other department are more beautiful...(Kya pottiya hai rey CSE mein).
• 5. The nerds are the most pampered ones... (During mid-terms).
• 6. The lab assistants are the most respected ones.... (During the lab exams).
• 7. There is always a lecturer in the college who can't speak proper 'English'... ("Are you understand?").
• 8. There is always a lecturer who throws your lab report outside the window... ("Is that a transistor?").
• 9. The principal is the person most abused and insulted... (Of course behind his back).
• 10. Dropping subjects is the 'coolest' thing... (Really??).
• 11. Night-outs and one-day batting are the important tools to ace the exams.
• 12. Whereas the most important tool.... is the 'chit' in which the words can be understood only by the person who wrote them.
• 13. The freshers are the most sought after.... be it in the canteen, the 'free' periods or for completing the records, assignments.
• 14. The second-years are the ones with the 'I am the don-of-the-college' attitude.
• 15. The third years are the ones with the 'so-many-backlogs' feeling.
• 16. The fourth years have no connection with the college whatsoever... All they want is '1st-class' tag attached to their memo.
• 17. There is always a dumb fresher who asks a 2nd year where the canteen was, and even dumber one who follows that senior to canteen.
• 18. Practicals are mostly for 60-90 minutes in which a considerable amount of lab equipment is destroyed and finally the readings are copied from others.
• 19. The common dialogues after an exam are "70% of the paper was out of syllabus".. or "It was the worst set of paper I got".
• 20. There is always one girl in the collage who writes her cell number instead of the 10 digit hall ticket number.
• 21. Assignments are solved by a few and then... (Well you know what happens).
• 22. There is always 'Critical Calculation' after the exam to see if you can score 28 out of 80.. (The cut off).
  
• 23. The first three years are spent in cursing the college,the people there,the system.
• 24. The common feeling after completing engineering is....... "Thank God. Survived Engineering".
• 25. But on the farewell day, people tend to feel nostalgic about the pure unadulterated fun they have had for 4 years. Now the very system they disliked, the very canteen they cursed, the time that they spent there, the birthday bums they suffered.. all these seem like heaven.

To me personally, engineering was a fun filled 4 year holiday.. Though it had its ups and downs I had lots n lots of fun... Though the college was awful, but the memories that I look back to, the friends I made there and the degree that I obtained... will be cherished by me... always !!!! "Engineering Rocks" !!!

I dedicate this post to all my engineering buddies... Especially to 1999-2003 batch of SSIET.

Happy B'day Chinni (Rahul) !!!!

Dear Chinni,
Its your birthday today and I wish you a very Happy Birthday.. May all your dreams come true. Thought I missed a lot of your birthdays there were a few which I remember the sweetest being your 1st. Even though with time we became busy with our lives and may not be spending a lot of time together, I know we will be there for each other in the time of need... I am very grateful to have a brother like you.

May you enjoy this day to its fullest and and many more happiness that will come your way... Thanks for being a kido brother that you are...


There are three hundred and sixty-four days in a year when you get all kind of un-birthday presents.. And only one day for birthday presents... So here's a special present from me to you... Hope this is the best present you ever got on your birthday ;).. Have a wonderful time and may you celebrate lots more birthdays like this.


Here's you Birthday Present.. Have a blast !!! Once again wish you a very Happy Birthday!!!!

Gone are the Days !!!!!

I think the school days are the most memorable days that we have in our childhood... The days we miss the most... When I look back to my school days which I spent mostly in Tinsukia (Assam) and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) I always miss those days.. It always makes me think....

Gone are the days.....

...When the school reopened after summer, and we settled in our new places in the ...new classroom.

...When we look for the best desks and benches in the class which is nearer to the ...exit door.

...When we queued up in book depot, and got our new books and notebooks with ...Ashwariya's picture on the cover.

...When we wanted no Mondays and every Saturday holiday not just 2nd, yet ...managed to be in the line daily for the morning assembly.

...When we learnt writing on slates, with pencils, progressed to fountain pens and ...ball pens.

...When we began drawing with crayons, colour pencils and moved on to sketch ...pens.

...When we started calculating first with our fingers, then tables and then with ...Clarke's tables and advanced to calculators, scientific calculators and computers.

...When we chased one another in the corridors in intervals, and returned to the ...classrooms drenched in sweat, yet wanted a longer reccess.

...When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, under the trees.

...When we awaited P.T. period more eagerly than the monsoons.

...When we played cricket with long-books as bats, and socks rolled into balls.

...When we simply played "book cricket" in the history period..

...When we fought but had no conspiracies, competed but had seldom jealousy.

...When we listened to live cricket commentary in the last bench.

...When we rushed as soon as the bell rang to "Conquer" window seats in the school ...bus.

...When we had one-month long preparations for sports day, and the annual school ...day.

...When we spent almost the whole year of Xth an XIIth writing revision tests.

...When we studied just to pass.

With so much fun in them, so many friends, so much experience , all this and more... I still feel that... gone are the days, but not the memories, which will be Lingering in our hearts forever.

I think most of you have the same opinion..

25 Random Things About Me!!!!

25 random things about me.. Well these are the 25 random things that most of u guys don't know about me. Well this is the latest trend going on the facebook right now. So I decided to bend the rules a little bit and instead of posting in facebook I am posting it in my blog. In facebook you have to tag 5 friends and they have to write 25 random things about them. But in my blog I am tagging everyone who is reading my blog.. :) .. So go ahead and if you have a blog post 25 random things about yourself and leave me the link in the comment section.. ;) ... If you don't have a blog.. don't worry.. post the 25 things in the comment section of my blog.... ;) .....

So here we go....

1. My middle name is Kalyan. Though it was my first name, which my parents gave me, my grandmother named me Gokul. And my parents kept both the names.. Hence Gokul Kalyan Potluri.

2. The first day while learning how to drive I drove my Dad's car over the divider to the other side of the road.

3. I once drew a picture of a dinosaurs, named it "Our History Teacher", and stuck it to our Principal's saree but never got caught.

4. I can speak 5 different languages fluently and can understand 2 other languages.

5. The oldest memory I have is the one when my uncle slapped me for trying to light a cigarette from his pack.. I was 3.

6. I love trains. Real and toys. Always wanted to have a toy train setup at home.

7. I once accidentally set my maternal grandmother's house on fire.... I was 4.

8. I love to travel. I have been to 26 states in the United States and to places where I never thought I would.

9. I have a photographic memory. I don't easily forget anything.

10. The first time I went to a dentist when I was 8, I cried so loud when the dentist brought the syringe near my mouth, that 2 other kids who where next in line started crying and left. I also left without my tooth taken out.

11. I once broke my brother's chin while I was pushing him on a swing and the swing broke.

12. I am crazy about Angelina Jolie & Megan Fox.

13. I always wonder what was I in my past life, if there is one?

14. Pyramids have always amazed me. Want to go to Egypt atleast once before I die.

15. I am a Numismatist.

16. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was "Sholay". I was so scared when Gabbar cuts off Thakur's hands.

17. I never came across another Gokul till now in person.

18. I once held a loaded machine gun of an Indian Army Jawan when I was in school that was in an army base.

19. I love thrill rides.. The best being the ones I rode on the top of Stratosphere in Vegas and at the edge of the Royal Gorge in Colorado Springs.

20. I am Thanatophobic of a Heart Attack.

21. I am very careless when it comes to eating healthy and being fit.

22. I got 2nd prize in a healthy baby contest and I still have the car they gave me as the prize.

23. I have a hobby of collecting shot glasses. Its weird because I don't drink.

24. I want to get a tattoo but probably will never get one.

25. Lastly, I am a perfect Gemini.


So I bet these are some of the random things that people don't know about me ;)... So as now you read mine... you are now tagged.. so go ahead and post your 25 random things ....

Best Things in Life!!!!

Life is so short but yet there are so many cool good things that are there in life.. I thought of making a list of all the good things.. But the list seemed too big and never ending.. So with life so short and so many good things, I thought to take the time to live it... Life changes on day to day basis... And sometimes it comes at you fast.. :).. So I decided to make a shorter list and name it "Best Things in Life".Well experiences may vary but I guess lot of people will agree with me on this list.

So here's the list.....(Top 10)

• 1. Falling in Love.. (Hell of an experience..)..
• 2. To wake up and realize that you can sleep for another hour (But ended up sleeping for another 3)..
• 3. Smile at yourself and realize that people around you are looking at you.. (Oops..)..
• 4. To find money in the jacket you wore last winter... ( I bet everyone agrees)..
• 5. A phone call at the middle of the night.. (Of course depends on who calls..)..
• 6. Meet an old friend and see that they didn't change... (Some do change)..
• 7. Waiting to hear from someone special.... (Always one eye on the phone)..
• 8. Wake up everyday and see the sun rise... (Ok.. don't judge me..)..
• 9. A SMS that read "My sweetest memory - Our meeting."..(.....)..
• 10.Last but not the least... Spend time with someone who makes you forget time.. (why can't there be another 5 or 6 hours in a day)..

So this is my list for the best things in life... and of course they are free.... What are yours??

Happy Independence Day

Hi frnds..
Today is the 63nd Independence day of India. And celebrating it away from home sucks.. Been like 5 years since I was in India the last time it was August the 15th. There is no flag hosting here in US in the way it is in India... Missing India on this wonderful day!!!!!!

I still remember the days when I was in school and we had to go to school though it was a national holiday. We had to dress in white. Stand in line.. Either the chief guest or the principal will host the flag... We sang Jana Gana Mana... which is the National Anthem and then some programs.. and finally couple of sweets. It was such fun.

Though its not the same here but people celebrating this day in US try to bring back that home-like feeling. I have been in Dallas for 5 years and the Indian community in and around Dallas celebrate this day on the weekend. Its termed "Anand Bazaar Mela". It is always a pleasure to see the crowd in a mela style. But every year some thing came up and I wasn't able to go to see the Anand Bazaar. Hope fully will go this year.

Whether I am there or not... The day brings joy and happiness in me.... Wish you all a Happy Independence day !!!!! Jai Hind!!!!!