Saturday, January 21, 2006

Taking Stock....

Exciting/ Fun things that i've done in the past 2 years:

1) White water Rafting on the Royal Gorge in Colorado
2) Halloween on the best freakin halloween party in US ofA Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, NC
3) Watched 4th of July celebrations from Brooklyn Bridge in NY.
4) Skiing on Arapahoe Basin near Breckenridge Colorado.
5) Trekking and Camping in Rocky Mountain National Park near Boulder CO.
6) Sat on the vertical drop ride on top of Stratosphere in Vegas.
7) Drag raced against Hemanth's Mustang, touching 110 mph near Dallas.
8) Earned 60$ on my first attempt at Blackjack at MGM Grand in Vegas!
9) Steamer ride to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
10) Go-Karting 30 Laps at Go-Kart racer in Burlingame CA.
11)Pub-Hopping in San Francisco and getting lost while driving a Ford Winstar.
12) Partied like a Rock star on New Years eve in New Orleans, hangover the next day was a near death experience :)

Things that i want to do this year:

1) Drive down the Pacific coast in a Convertible.
2) Wine tasting in Sonoma Couty
3) Bungee Jumping
4) White water rafting in West Virginia

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Jam Topics

JAM (Just a Minute) was a popular event during college fests in Bangalore. Me a my friends were in a nostalgic mood a few days back and were trying to recollect a few popular Jam topics.

A brief history of JAM

Just a Minute was devised by the late Ian Messiter who came up with the idea on the top of a number 13 bus. He suddenly remembered being given the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation by one of his school masters. The idea is to speak on a random topic for 60 seconds without "deviating",hesitating" or "repeating" ! If a contestant deviates,hesitates(pauses) or repeats then you can raise an objection to the JAM arbitrator and take over the mic. The scoring system is based on the participant's correct or incorrect challenges.

JAM Topics

-Sympathy, Empathy, Venkatachalapati
-Bal Gangadhar Senna said Garage is my birthright!
-Abortion is Love's labor lost, No Foetus can beat us
-My Aunt uses viagra on her face to give herself a facelift
-A psychic midget escaped from prison and the headlines read, small medium at large
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