Visa power!

Fear not......Am BACK....... Regular readers of my blog (yes....all two of u ), the wait for my next post ends here....... I ll start of with a quick update on what i ve been upto ..... NOTHING.....And the only news of any substance is ........ I ve got my VISA ..... And wat an anti climax it turned out to be .... The interview barely lasted a minute…. Not that am complaining now….

I ll run you through my strategies/lack of it….and the general way I went abt preparing for the visa interview ….

Modus Operandi
The main idea behind the whole visa interview process is that the Visa interviewer asks questions and evaluates you …..
There usually are a few(many, in my case)questions that dnt always ve good enough answers….
Examples:
VI:What courses are u planning to take up as part of ur program?
ME: Masters in Industrial engineering and specialization in SCM and business logistics( runs out of breath)...........
VI: ??!!

VI: Have u contacted any of ur faculty, someone under whom u d like to work, at Ohio ?
ME: yeah….. there s this blonde 30ish prof….
VI: ??!!

VI: have u identified ur research interests?
ME: Masters in Industrial Engineerin speciali....
VI: answer my question pls....
Me: ....sation in SCM and business logistics.......(is not out of breath)
VI: ??!!

And other questions for which there are more than one cool(usually false) answer…..
Examples:
VI: What will u do after ur graduate studies?
The ‘academia/research’ reply : I ll identify an area that interests me and will pursue my Phd..(it helps to throw in a few ‘java coupled with the cosmic energy’ kinda statements)
The ‘Jai Hind’ reply: I ll come back to India and work in one of the multinational companies here /serve my country etc etc…. ( u run the risk of sounding corny)
The ‘family ‘reply: I ll get back to India and take care of my family business… ( A strict no no if u mentioned ‘govt employee’ wen asked abt ur parent s occupation)
The ‘WTF ‘ reply: I ve got to get back to my girl in India…
(and if online forums are believed… This answer will initiate a slapstick routine that will end with the student getting his visa … and a green card…and some money to take his girl out for one last time, courtesy-The American Embassy….and the uber hot visa interviewer s number… WTF , really….)

My idea was to lead him into asking me questions for which I had answers….
Now, how do I do this….
I really am not sure…. I thought I d improvise on the spot….

Oh….and the advice and suggestions I received from various quarters need some mention here….. People who have some distant cousin’s son’s dhobi know someone who is in the US of A feel it only fit that they pass on the information…..and strategies they give range from the simple‘ Be confident and maintain eyecontact’ to the complex ‘juxtapose your face so that ur oculi are in line with that of the visa interviewers’….which on retrospect, means the same….almost… This and the ‘wear a smile’ are the two most irrelevant yet cliched pieces of advice u can ever get …
I know….cos the ploy failed me …. I went in, armed with a wide false Joker kinda smile plastered….The visa interviewer never once looked up frm the computer and was more intent in typing out wat was prolly an online job application….. she looked pretty bored……

no one has anything new or exciting to say….
I would rather make up a story of this guy who was denied a visa but who then proceeded to draw out a M4 rifle from his hollow crutches and abt how he threatened the VIs at gunpoint and forced them to issue multiple entry visa s for all the people present…
And, oh.......The ‘WTF reply’ guy is denied his visa ….even in this made up story…..

And, any prospective student to the USA who s come here looking for tips on the visa interview…. I ll tell u this much….
1)be confident
2)maintain eye contact
3) carry a hollow crutch ….with a shotgun inside…
But on a ‘oscar winning speech’ note…. I would like to thank all the people who had at least some part in me getting my visa….. Seriously….


Comments please....

king :kingdom ::bore: boredom????

If u ve not recoverd enuf to close this window after reading that fantastically mokka title of mine.....I ll give u a few more seconds....

Aha...Now that I know u are really jobless... pls do me a favor by clicking on the Google ads u see in the page...Thank u

U are on ur own now....

My never ending vacation is getting very boring indeed….. With all the hubbub surrounding my final days in college and the ‘manoranjan ka baap-IPL’, now over …I ve nothing substantial to harp about….

So, I ve decided to go along the clichéd ‘I am bored’ route ….And even this route, has its fair share of pitfalls…..I can no longer exercise my right to boredom and freedom of speech …… I run the risk of work if I ever say ‘I am bored’ …

My attempts at boring off boredom by sleeping through the mornings are getting dangerous by the day/afternoon…..I cannot confidently use the ‘I ve just finished my exams/college/work’ excuse anymore….. My morning begins in the afternoon ... My only activity for the day is the 2 hours of cricket at 'Ramba Cricket Ground' (RCG).....

My numerous attempts to get up at 6 in the morning and go out for a tummy reducing run ve met little success... However, I plan to start from tomorrow…..

Ive come to a conclusion….. After many years of fooling even myself ,I ve finally decided that even though I sound all frustrated and annoyed at having nothing to do, I like it this way…..

PS: Pay close attention to wat I ve said to decipher the coded message ....

mid summer days musings.....

IPL s been all entertainment and a success overall.... but there are still things i would like to do away with/ change....i ve run through a few of them.....

1) commentators going "! that is a DLF maximum sixer" for every ball that just about manages to go over the boundary rope..... or going " that was so close to being a DLF maximum six'" for every lofted shot.... or the various versions of " though that might not ve been a DLF maximum sixer , it still gets them one valuable run" ..... Grrrr .... i cant stand it....
same goes for the citi moment of success..... How can bowling a maiden over (at least six moments in itself!) or the wicket of Sauvrav Ganguly (no pun intended) count as a " citi moment of success" ??
The nly plausible reason I can think of is that the commentators have their own " Krackjack- iyam thenja record " contest for being the most repetitious ......

2)Shah Rukh Khan..... whether be it his stupid dance routine with his minions in the stands or one of his umpteen ads ... i cant stand this gaunt, old guy.... I cant go one full round of channels without either seeing his KKR theme(oru mairum purila) or his airtel ad or his sunfeast comedy or the panchvi paas mokka or the many number of 'up close and personal with the badshah of bwood ' reruns of interviews.... or the .... or the.......

Rant over...

3) the number of IPL related articles and debates on the supposed news channels are hardly newsworthy....
the cheer leader's outfits(or the lack of it) has been getting some flak from various quarters ...

apparently , the photos of the cheer leaders outfits are to be sent to the commissioner of police for his approval.... I guess, soon enough, he d start asking of photos of the cheerleaders themselves.... and soon.... he ll have them perform in his office to make sure they dont get away with excessive dancing....... and then.... and ....
Yikes!! i want to be commissioner of police.....

Its ok to run arnd skimpily dressed and do as u see right on screen.... but u are seen as being obscene and influencing young minds when performing live in front a crowd ( yeah rite!!).....

There was this interview which had me in splits too..... some family in some interior town in the north ( i think) have their very lives torn apart because of IPL.....or so they said and i waited till the 'break ' got over to catch the rest of the story....
I thought that maybe they had a son who lost out on a chance to play in the IPL or mebbe that its distracting him from studies et all.....

but no.... nothing quite so trivial .....

This family had to miss out on their favorite soaps cos of the IPL.....

If u are thinking , they can prolly tune in next year and still know wats happening in these mega serials....u are right, but u r missing the point....

either that the channel has no other news to broadcast or they think they ve done something worthy of a ' humanitarian award' for revealing to the world - the sorrow filled life( especially from between 8PM to 11PM) this family had to live cos of the IPL..... Am crying already.....

If only i become the commissioner of police ....apart frm the cheerleading aspect,I also see to it that the ' kyun ki saas ..' be reinstated on prime time television.....



there.... i ve run out things to type..... or have i ??

Verdicts on my first post ranged from ' slight mokka' to ' intense mokka' ..... i d be happy if u let me know wat u think..... no 'm' word ....
i ve really run out of things to type.....

vanakkkhammmmm.....

Another year....yet another blog.....

I ve been blogging fo sometime now....as in , i ve been creating blogs for sometime now.... only o forget either the password or the id or both.....
Am determined not to do the same this time arnd and so ve picked up easy to remember names.....
But the thing with easy to remember names is that they are easy to remember as long as you dont forget them..... u digg ???

Anyways... i ve created this blog dreaming(yet again) that my ruminations ( thank u wordweb) will make any girl(preferably hot) chancing upon it to fall head over heels for me.....unlikely to say the least..... but this blog ll at least keep me occupied during my hols....


there.... i ve run out of things to type....