The code is hosted at Google Code. Email me here is you are interested to join in.

First release scheduled by June end 2007.

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you know you’re a pakka desi when:

• you wear white Reebok shoes over formal pants and tuck in your fake Cambridge T-shirts in them
• you take student discount even when ur kids are students …
• You stand in a line at Best Buy for 3 hours to get a 5$ discount on Thanks Giving
• You prefer to buy New Balance over Nike because they balance your pocket
• You wear a outfashioned jeans jacket in 85 degrees !!!
• you take a grande @ starfucks with extra cup so that u can share it with ure buddy
• youre a desi woman and you buy jeans from the ‘mens‘ section
• you are eagerly waiting for GAP and OLD NAVY Spring Summer Collection.. so that you can buy the FALL collection then
• T-shirts should clearly say which make it is … in BOLD and CLEAR
• you researched for 5 months to buy your 1991 white corolla…in 2007
• You are trying to sell your second hand furniture at a higher rate than you bought it initially for
• you bring lunch to work and eat only half of it so that u can have the rest for dinner
• u ask other desis ‘advice about women‘
• You share youtube links more than any other race
• You sit in a circle in stripclub and twiddle ur thumbs and never get for a lapdance
• while downloading on bit-torrent you keep ure upload speed as 0.1kb
• The only pay per view you ever watched was cricket
• when you hit the clubs .. naah that wont happen
• When buying soda, you go for the 2 litre bottles
• When you split a group dinner, often gratuity is not split initially
• When you buy Futon thinking that would be the guest bed
• When 30% of the things you bought were returned or exchanged
• When you prefer to watch Koffee with Karan over Entourage
• When you test drive a Lexus and come back with a Toyota
• When you watch Hollywood movies with subtitles
• your favorite movie is DDLJ
• you order veggie chalupa and confirm it twice.. to make sure yaar
• When you use Deodorants on your clothes rather than your body … that is if you use a deodorant
• When you go for a desi group meet, the only topic you talk about after a few beers is the times in the past when you got completely drunk with other fellow desis
• you tell people u did world tour when in reality u visited all those 8 places n sat in the airplane at the airport coz they were stopovers for your cheap lameass 20 dollar discounted flight to India.
• When the stripper refuses to sit on you bcoz u asked for 2 lap dances in the price of one. (eh eh please haan I am student no that is why I am saving for future)
• When the definition of get together is potluck
• you get a phone call from him/her .. eh, eh, who is your travel agent yaar, i got a quote for my india ticket at 1250$ and I heard you got it for 1240$
• you fly air india and u steal their blankets, toothpaste, brush, chaddi, baniyan .. everything air india has to offer
• you do the same as above for hotels too
• your favorite website is raaga.com
• When you read blogs like this and reply with fuckall comments
• you call some one a nerd just because they know some new technology that you also know !!!
• eh eh, call me after 9 haan, no day time minutes
• U think its so patriotic to wear traditional dress in US of A when u yourself despise wearing anything but a tshirt n a levis jean in India.
• U walk on Rodeo drive as if u own 4 boutiques when in reality the only thought thats going thru your “waatana”(go look that up in google biyaach) sized brain is 1$=43Rs
• U act like a “player” by pretending to ignore white chicks that mistakenly glance towards you when in reality then dont give a rats ass about your sorry little existence.
• You always ask for Water with no ice
• You wear jeans on the beach !!
• you have grp pics with white people with captions “with friends” on your orkut who have never scrapped you
• you reply - “I design protocol stacks” when others ask you whats ure job profile - and then you dont ask them back, condescendingly, assuming that they are secretaries
• your relatives in india think your a freakin awesome person - coz they think goin to the US is a big thing
• when your friend tells u he’s going to India - you assume he is going to meet girls to get married
• … and continuing the previous post- they actually do go to meet girls to get married - and they’re UGLY BITCHES
• U use “like” multiple times in conversation in your campaign of “trying to fit in with the white boys” n end up redefining the term “GAY”
• U try desperately to attain dimensions of those chicks from “8th st latinas” when in reality all that ugly gross FAT, courtesy “DALDA” just migrates to a different location in your body.
• Skip 3 meals b4 going for buffet, eat food enough to feed a small army n then take laxatives for the next 4 days.
• play cricket on a baseball field and make a lot of noise in hopes that people will notice u.
• when u try to take as many white folks in the background in a pic so your relatives think u r freakin cool.
• U do disgusting dance “moves” anywhere there is bhangra music.
• Ask for a vegetarian “hamburger”(do you even know WTF that means)

and the last and the best

Disclaimer: this post is just created to initate some social awareness among my fellow desis..about fashion, discounts, women..
why you say?.. because of u m—-fu-k-s everyone thinks WE desis are U –>

But suddenly (in the last 3 weeks), I find the old me back, may be about 5% of him. And I have to thank NBA for it. The Playoffs have been a good sigh of relief in my life and so are the soccer games that I play every Wednesday with my office colleagues.

The Result: 5% happier and carefree me. a team to cheer for and of course, less bitching for everyone else.

hail to thy hd-tv! –>

Now I can comfortably say am that I am a complete non-vegetarian. I eat meat (mostly chicken) almost everyday (which sadly has made me loose the charm for it).

So my observation #2728 is not the tremendous contradiction that I have seen between US and Indian meals. In my 4 yrs and 1 month in US, I have yet to see an alive chicken .. (may be) running freely on the streets (I am all for a ‘chicken lane’ on I-405 ;)). In contrast, I almost eat at least 1 everyday. In India, I could have guaranteed to see at least one ‘alive’ chicken; not caught in the shackles of any butcher.

Well, thats a Statistic!

And yes, its 11:11am Monday morning here.. and I am not drunk :).
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now back home in chembur, mumbai, exactly in front of my house is ‘sainath general stores‘. he keeps all the utility equipment that are needed on a day to day basis. from ‘dantmanjan‘ for morning to ‘paan‘ after lunch to ‘tortoise machhar dani‘ for a good nights’ sleep. its basically your walmart packed in a 5×5 ft. place.

gosh, i wish they had a los angeles branch for ‘sainath general stores‘ which was right in front of my house, eating up 2 parking spots hogged up generally by nasty SUV’s. no moving on street cleaning days!. i would do with that part of my street to be as dirty as possible.

i guess only thing would top that!. a free home delivery for my bread and anda every morning.
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Claiming just over 107 million accounts, with the 100 millionth account being created on August 9, 2006 the site reportedly attracts new registrations at the rate of 230,000 per day.

and about facebook

As of December 2005, it has the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites (at over 7.5 million US college student accounts created with an additional 20,000 new accounts being created daily).

Now I get the point that people love making friends and men like to ogle at chicks. I do the same on orkut. but i cannot stay on it for more than 5 mins. I know people who stay on myspace / facebook for hours to ‘explore‘.

now some people can claim that I am not a sociable person. but u know what, I bet if not me, there is some ’socially active’ person wondering about the same thing. i represent him/her.

it is starkling to me how can such an about average site(s) gain so much ground with the general crowd. i bet the founders of the site go regularly on their sunday mass just to thank god for making them so lucky.

this brings me down to the question on manys VC’s minds. which internet business will be the next big thing?
tell u what? throw all ure ‘analysis‘ powerpoint slides into that dustbin and go and ask the teenager next door. that generation has totally replaced the ‘lab rat‘ when it comes to this ‘internet thing’.

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‘Doing Things’ were just starting them and sticking to it.

Now its sorta different.

These days my idea of doings things go thru’ a Software Engineering Lifecycle
I go through planning, wireframes and brainstorming.

By the end of it, ‘the thing’ has lost its charm; I start preparing myself for the ‘other one’

I sit here now, eagerly wishing for that same ol’ Innocence to come by

I’d definitely accomplish something with it,
It would definitely get me somewhere

Its sorta tough to get it back though,
I trained myself for its destruction thru’ 18 years of education
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