A word on my roomies...

Roomies - what a nice word... conveys all that sense of friendship, brotherhood, the lukhaa time spent together and all the fun that we have in each other's company... coming to a new country, I was a bit tense on how I would adapt to this culture and how would I get along with people here; but with such roomies... it never was going to be a prolem at all. Well, I have already mentioned that I have found great pals as my lab-mates (a separate blog entry on that later, as I get to know them better) but my roomies do need special mention on my blog... here goes :)

As I had said, I have moved into Maple hill apartments, Maple Ave out here... there is this saying out here - if you stand in Maple Ave and throw a stone, chances are that it will land on an IITian. The place is full of Desis (that's the word we use here) and Chinkis (that's what we use everywhere :P). I moved into an apt that surprisingly had a vacancy (surprising indeed, coz Maple Ave is the cheapest on campus acco and the closest to Duffield (ECE dept) as well. Anyways, I guess I just got lucky :)

So here I am, staying with 3 great dudes - Krishna, Suresh and Vivek (their last names are quite confusing, so I shall avoid mentioning them for the time being :P) Krishna is probably the most happy-go-lucky guy ever among all those whom I know. He has this 'load nahi lene ka' attitude and the cheerful demeanour going... great hanging out with this guy (plus the fact that he has a car... and doesn't mind driving me around... so great hanging out indeed :P) Krishna though, may leave Cornell this summer, whereby he plans to move over to TAMU for further studies. Trust me, Krishna is one chap you want to have as your friend.

Then there's Suresh - the cool dude of the neighbourhood... He has this trademark way of addressing everyone as 'Bhai' out here... not in the mumbai way though... but his typical gulti way... but this sounds better. Suresh has been like my mentor ever since we were in touch thru emails... always helpful and ever cheerful... he even encourages me to play frisbee and cricket out here (something I've never done @ IITB) and says he'll take me for a jog this week onwards... let's see if that helps :P (btw... I've realised I like playing frisbee)

Then there's Einstein himself - Vivek. Vivek is the typical mummy-ka-good-boy (no booze, no pron, no gaalis, no cheating etc etc.) Vivek was an IITD topper and known for minting publications - I guess he had some 3-4 while in IIT itself. He then went on to MIT, where he was unhappy with his work and the RAship assigned to him - and hence moved over to Cornell. Vivek is possibly the most knowledgeable guy I've ever known... he knows virtually everything - right from which shop has the cheapest shoes to the cutting edge in Optoelectronics... Also appreciates art and cherishes the finer beauties that life has to offer.

So that's it.. a word on my roomies... from whatever I know about them in the one week that we have known each other.... more to follow...

P.S. Next post is for Shashikant, the most helpful dude out here... he is most responsible for me meeting and getting to know all people in my neighbourhood. A word on my lab mates in a future post... and a word on my prof too :P (I guess this is something that MM would be eagerly looking forward to...)