Pizza and Community Service

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Without any further ado, I was informed that I have to partake in Community Service. No no it was not a drunken escapade gone wrong, but the result of me signing up for a Humanities Class. It's not a big deal or anything, only ten hours by the end of April. I used to do community service all time when I was in highschool and even through my first year of college. But unfortunately now, it cannot be anything of my choosing. It has to be something that requires a lot of dealing with people and cannot be clerical work, hospital stuff, doing things behind a desk, etc.

Working with people is not an issue but I just kind of want to get in and out of there. Because it cannot be a 'business type' environment where I can use that time to put on my resume as an internship opportunity, I am slightly at a loss as to what I should put my foot towards.

So she honestly recommended something like the Big Brother/Big Sister program. How irresponsible could she be? When one makes a commitment like that, it is supposed to be something will last for years because one is trying to make an impression on that child's life and at the same time try to fill a void. So to say that we should just burn 10 hours on that, will just be a waste of time for me and almost like a teaser for the kid. So I am thinking possibly volunteering in the soup kitchen. I used to record for the blind and dyslexic in high school but as aforementioned that does not count since its just me with a tape player. If not the soup kitchen I will figure something else out. I have till the 9th to let her know.

My other classes are okay. They are as follows:

Monday / Wednesday -- Stats II 8am - 9:15

Personal Finance (Similar to Consumer Ec in HS) 9:30 - 10:45

Advanced Managerial Finance 11-12:15

Break between 12:15 - 3 which I use to either hang out with people, go eat something, or just go sleep for a couple hours.

Cost Accounting (Accounting 3, part of double major) - 3 - 4:15

Tuesday/Thursday -- Humanities (Required to graduate) 1:30 - 2:45

International Business (Part of Minor) 3 - 4:15

Lately I've also been obsessed with trying a lot of local pizza joints. As a Chicagoan I believe we should know a decent amount of pizza/hotdog places. I mean in terms of food what else are we known for? Nebraska has their corn and Idaho has their potatoes, am I right?

So I tried the Aurelio's by the DMV on 75th a few weeks ago, had a few different versions of Old Town which is around 59 and 87th, and today I brought home some Pieroni's which is located on Modaff and 87th.

But needless to say since one of my resolutions for this year was to cut my 'eating-out' down to 2-4 times a week, this definitely is not helping my cause.

I have not watched any new movies lately after watching Eastern Provinces (with Viggo Mortensen), The Lovely Bones, Master Ip, Up In the Air and some of This Is It in a one week span.

Why have I toned it down? Because of school, all you ladies and jellyworms.

And the Australian Open hah

Anyone else watching it?

TOnight we have Roddick vs Cilic and Murray vs Nadal.

Im thinking Roddick and Murray both gut it out in 5 sets, but Im hoping the other two win.

By the wayyyy me and the Siddiqi brothers got into a heated debate about the fact that women get equal pay now at the grandslams. What do you guys think? Fair or not? Spin the wheel and let me know =]

God, Muscles, and Legacies

School has started and so far so good.

I guess after three days if things were already headed south I would had to have a long hard look at myself in the mirror.

But considering it was the first week there was the usual nonsense -- mainly the bookstore.

Okay really ->>>> Humanities 250 requires 7 (yes SEVEN) books and then two more "supplementary" ones. Grand total easily exceeding $400 for that class alone. So Im skipping out on the extra texts and 'only' going with the required ones. But take that class and the ones from other classes such as 3 more for International Business and whatnot, my total was $768.85

absolutely disgusting and highly unnecessary.

So last night I decided to go fishing online and try and see what I could dig up and I can happily say I returned about $580 of it back and bought it for $240.

We have not had a Finance Club meeting yet but HSA stuff is going well. Although I am not on the board, and not to brag, but they are pretty much using all of my ideas to freshen up the stagnant pool. Last semester all they did was talk about the next event for 3-5 minutes (India Night, Diwali Show, etc), then go to youtube and hook it up to the AV to put it on the white screen, light an open flame, have the aarti for a half hour and then leave.

It really got me questioning as to whether or not most Hindus truly know about their religion or are they just blindly following it. Not just the kids in our association, but even our parents/adults both here and abroad.

Now 75% of the kids in it are what you would call "fobs." But with that said I was surprised that they would not even bother WANTING to discuss the Gita, Puranas, Vedas, or even common misconceptions or how it is like to be a Hindu in America rather than India. A few weeks before break we took a vote whether or not people wanted to discuss topics. I got completely shut down, except for a select few such as Nishant and Pinal who are always glad to try something new. I guess if you were raised in India does not necessarily guarantee that you are more in tune or aware of the knowledge and meaning behind the religion that you follow. I went to Chinmaya for about 6 years so I know my way around it a bit. I may not know every shloka or aarti in the world as they do, but I believe I can hold my own on just about any topic.

So I thought maybe we could watch some movies, considering they have so many now such as Hanuman and Ganesh.

I decided that it would be up to me to bring all this up, so I talked to Pinal about it and she brought it up again and now I guess after some arm twisting it's finally happening and I'm happy that we are evolving.

They are also going to have a table at Quad Day on Tuesday and I suggested that we give out something free. Not necessarily kumkum or anything but possibly something edible. Let's see how that pans out.

I also worked out today for the first time since about September. Yeah. Tell me about it. I feel so terrible. Not physically but I went to the gym and I randomly had low body image because I have lost almost everything I had gained over the past year. It was sickening. I know slowly I will get it back, possibly within a month due to the phenomenon known was 'Muscle Memory' but it sucks when you have to go back to the drawing board. The worst part is the people who were weaker than you, or even beginners, are now jacked because they are more dedicated (or insecure and superficial). And I never took creatine or anabolic supplements that so many of my close friends around me are currently taking so I know I am going to be slower than them in refinding my mojo. But as long as I have Eye of The Tiger blasting I'll be back to normal come March.

How many of you also know the website bleacherreport.com ?

I am going to try and post some articles on that, and try to get published. Am I trying to establish some sort of legacy? Possibly.

Manny Being Manny

This is Manny being Manny as Brandon and so many others like to call me.

I shall be open and will be about anything from my Imag-I-nation o_O

from artwork to alter-egos, news, sports, entertainment, anything is fair game