First of all, the content posted below does not belong to me and I do not even know the source but I did find this stuff online and it is so true about most of the DESIS ( Indians students ) who come to USA for Masters. Thank goodness my life is different for the reason that I am an undergraduate.
God is so kind! Every year, the highest number of international students coming to USA belong to India with the figure exceeding 70,000. China is the next! Always second in comparison to India except for when it comes to population. Have fun reading and let me know what you think.
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You may be a Desi if...

1. You ask for small drink at fast food restaurant because the refill
is free.
2. You know more than one plan offered by long distance
companies.
3. You take plain water instead of Coke for lunch. (may also be
a health nut)
4. You take any drink with no ice because you can't drink ice.
5. You ask before eating any meat "Is this beef?".
6. You try to ignore all other unknown desi's around you.
7. You tell your friends about this wonderful opportunity, and invite
them to an Amway meeting
8. You know all the facilities available at public library.
9. You talk to americans as if you represent your whole country.
10. Your stove top in your apartment is covered with aluminum foil.
11. You frequent to yard sales every week.
12. You find taco bell sauce packets in your kitchen drawer.
13. Your dinner involves spreading newspaper on the living room floor.
14. You take off your shoes before stepping foot in your living room.
15. You like onion rings at Burger King.
16. You are looking for dual voltage appliances.
17. The phrase "When are you going to India" comes into your
conversation at least once a day.
18. You bought Toyota or Honda car only because it has better
resale value.
19. The number of long distance calls is more than domestic calls.
20. You keep switching your internet service provider because the
first month is free.
21. You go back to your apartment for lunch.
22. Your full name contains more than 15 characters.
23. You know all the $1.50 theaters in your city.
24. The only reason you go to a temple on festivals is because there
is free food.
25. You have spent nights in the car while traveling because you
wanted to save money spent on cheap motel.
26. You don't know any American outside your work.
27. You tried to flirt with the Hindi speaking
operator at AT&T.
28. You have at least one India made pressure cooker in your kitchen.
29. You know how much a 7 layer burrito costs at Taco Bell.
30. You run to Laundromat in your lungi.
31. You put oil in your hair.
32. You have a picture of Indian deity on the dashboard of your car.
33. This thought comes to you "Oh shit I just saw another desi" when
you are window shopping at the mall.
34. You keep comparing prices at circuit city for the phone you bought
six months ago.
35. The lawyer handling your green card is in your speed dial.
36. You are compelled to visit ever major city in the US, just so as
to say that "Yes I have been there"
37. You are comfortable with an American than an ABCD.
38. You have been to Mexico or Canada for multiple entry H1 Visa.
39. You pay your bills the day they come in mail.
40. You spent 2 days cleaning your apartment before leaving so you can
get full security refund from landlord.
41. You have a bucket in your bath tub.
42. You have to borrow luggage from friends for an India visit.
43. The smoke detector goes off whenever you are cooking dinner.
44. You know which grocery store keeps coriander.
45. You buy butter milk before you run out of it.
46. You use grocery bags as garbage bags.
47. You say 'Damn I have already seen this show" whenever you are
watching Married With Children.
48. You buy rice in the 20 pound bags.
49. Office supplies mysteriously find their way into your house.
50. You don't want to buy a printer because you can always use the
office printer.
51. You have postponed buying that answering machine because the
computer you are planning to buy six months later has a built
answering machine.
52. Your idea of fun involves bowling.
53. You starts spelling your name to the operator like A as in Apple,
B as in boy, T as in train...well you get the idea.
54. You ask another desi if he/she ever got a traffic ticket.
55. You haven't had a single female in your apartment besides your
friend's wife.
56. You bring over the counter medicines like Iodex and Vicks from
India.
57. You decide to marry a girl, your parents fixed without even
meeting her.
58. You know the current differential in gold prices between India and
US.
59. You smell like a curry.
60. You go to a temple to pick up a women.
61. You have worked illegally in a Guju's motel.
62. You mark your forehead with scared ash.
63. You have a bought a video camera just before Niagara trip and
returned it after the trip.
64. You wear VIP/Indian brand underwear and undershirts.
65. You have Rin (detergent soap cake) in your bathroom.
66. You have taken pictures of your car and mailed it to your folks
back home.
67. You use the credit card with maximum cash back.
68. You have collected enough frequent flier miles for an
international trip.
69. You are saving more that 30% of your salary.
70. You have never asked a girl out. (you might just be plain ugly
too)
71. You've bookmarked immigration web pages in your browser.
72. You know your friends salaries!
73. You tried to talk in a phony accent with the freshie in the
school.
74. You have asked a PhD student for a ride to grocery store.
75. There are more that 4 guys living in a 2 bedroom apartment.
76. You have cooking schedule in your kitchen cabinet.
77. You spend at least 2 evenings in a week at Kmart.
78. You split even the tax out of your common grocery bill.
79. You complain about Indian international airports on your first
vacation to India.
80. You take 4 week long vacation.
81. You are the first to know about any on campus job openings at
the school library/cafeteria/computer center.
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Stuff added by me:~
* You promise temporary accommodation and an on-campus job to  Freshmen traveling from India in return of signing up as a new IBO for QUIXTAR/AMWAY.
* Present a perfect picture of an Amnesia attack after signing up the new student by suddenly forgetting about all the promises you made.
* You throw out the student whom you were most friendly to, the moment he/she refuses to sign up.

The brand new relationship! BUXFER and FaceBook! Facebook opened a whole new world for people of the world when it allowed creation and embedding of applications on their website. Very soon thousands of Facebook applications took birth. Some were fun, some were useful and some were just pointless entertainment. That is when BUXFER too got in the race!
BUXFER launched its brand new application on Facebook by the name of IOU 2.0 and the rest was history. Thousands of Facebook users can now track every single penny they spend! Its fantastic to put up one's expenditures up there, it looks very fancy when every friend can see that what you are upto!
Try it out! BUXFER is awesome fun! Not only Facebook but BUXFER is a huge company. Get BUXFERing at www.Buxfer.com !

Found all your beloved videos on Youtube and Google Video? Awesome! But the sad story is that you never knew how to save them and keep them all to yourself. Here is my answer to this misery. So now the three easy steps to save a YouTube or Google Video to your disk.



 

1) Go to www.KeepVid.com

2) Copy and past the URL from your address bar e.g."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o5C1yUlx6w" to the BOX at Keepvid.com .

3) Click DOWNLOAD! ALL DONE! =)

The video gets downloaded to your disk as a Flash Video File. Simply use a Flash Video Player or convert your videos to any format that you desire! Easy and awesome isn't it? Enjoy your videos and keep them alllll to yourself!

People keep wondering about SHOLAY, the most successful movie in INDIA, a cult classic which spent years in various theatres of Bombay and other cities. The style, the dialogs, the eccentric villain and the never-seen-before locales created a strange amusement amongst the Indian movie connoisseurs. As a result, they worship the movie. Amitabh Bachchan shot to intense fame after the movie's release in the year 1976.
 People went so crazy that they erected a temple at Calcutta, INDIA in the honor of Amitabh Bachchan where fans actually worship his idol. So now let me share the truth behind the making of Sholay. The SHOLAY recipe was simple. The famous writer duo of India, Salim-Javed clearly extracted the script from 4 wonderful western hollywood classics -
1. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. Once Upon A Time in The West
4. For A Few Dollars More
Each and every scene from the movie SHOLAY has been copied exactly from these four gems. The recipe consists of entire scenes from these 4 movies blended into similar Indian locales and then beautifully churned into a DESI Bollywood style storyline which also includes two beautiful actresses for the two handsome men and also a wonderful "dance-to-save-the-HERO" song.
Yes it has the same spice!
If you watch the 4 classics, you can immediately make out the prominent similarities. As a matter of fact, the evil laughter of GABBAR SINGH has also been portrayed exactly by Amjad Khan.
Now you know what magic can be created by adding a hint of Bollywood Spice to Four Great Hollywood classics! Enjoy the movies though!

Time for the music revolution. Ever wondered why iPOD got so popular? It's excellent battery life, high storage capacity and ease of use but most importantly, the ease of getting MP3s is what made it so popular. Where do you go for MP3s? Google? Nope! Solution? Peer 2 Peer softwares! Yay! But wait, you still need to pay for the software! Here is the solution that I came up with.
I am sure people know about LimeWire, but the truth about LimeWire is that it does not give search results to the older versions. Older the version, less are the search results. You need to keep paying for the updates. But still, there exists a beautiful and brand new solution. THE FROSTWIRE!
A brand new in its type, it is FREE and an Open Source Application which looks and works exactly like LimeWire. Also, it contains no trojans and ipod advertisements that LimeWire offers for download.
Please welcome, THE FROSTWIRE . Download your copy now and get set for the world of MUSIC! Its fun, its fast and its easy! Let me know how you like it.
Adios! =)

As the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States suggests, let us enjoy the FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Got any good/bad ideas? Pranks? Suggestions? Come on in to the the "Temple of the Screaming Electron", yes you heard it right. It is the TOTSE. People from all over the world come to TOTSE and share their wildest of ideas. It ranges right from "carshopping" to hacking etc. Got stuff to say? Jump in and talk! It is after all your FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

Ever thought of being a Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Van Halen or Mark Knopfler? Do you have that strong desire to set the stage on fire, wham n' jam and make those heads bang? All your dreams are just a few lessons away!
Welcome to the world of GUITAR PRO a highly powerful tool which can make all your musical dreams come true and make you the master of those 6 strings.
All you need is this powerful tool called GUITAR PRO 5, a computer, a guitar and your fingers to do the magic.
Buy Guitar Pro 5 online of download it for free at some torrent site if you know how to do it. Ask me if you don't.
Once you have the software, all you need to do is find the tablature file online which is mostly in the ".gp4" or ".gp5" extension. There are millions of tablature files online and so you can be 100% sure to get your song. Run this file in GUITAR PRO and you are all set to rock!

Guitar Pro serves the purpose of making it simpler for musicians to compose music, editing directly into a tablature and/or musical partiture, and study music by offering advanced playback capabilities. It can also be used as a MIDI sequencer. The software makes use of multiple instrument tracks which follow standard staff notation, but also shows the notes on tablature notation. It gives the musician visual access to keys (for keyboard instruments) and strings (for guitars, basses, banjos, etc.) for the song to be composed, and allows live previews of the notes to be played at a specified tempo. It allows for certain tracks to be muted and provides dynamic control over the volume, phasing and other aspects of each track. Included in version 4 onwards is a keyboard that allows pianists to add their part to a composition.

So wat are you waiting for? Go ahead and ROCK IN THE FREE WORLD!

Orkut is an online friend's community created in the year 2004. It is the property of Google Inc. and is most widely used friend community online. Of course there have been several controversies about it as we know, but it still retains its popularity.
I have been a huge fan of Orkut since all my friends are on it and it has worked wonders for me. People about whom I thought that I would never see them again were found by me on Orkut and the memories flowed again......Ahh! Sweet stories to tell.

Finally I get my golden chance to inform my dear friends about this awesome game. ULTIMATE FRISBEE ( aka Ultimate ) is a game played mostly on the East Coast and ever since I moved to California, I did not experience even an iota of information about this game in my fellow Californians' brains. Ultimate is an exciting, non-contact team sport, played by thousands the world over. It mixes the best features of sports such as Soccer, Basketball, American Football and Netball into an elegantly simple yet fascinating and demanding game. It is highly interesting once you get into the game! Wanna try it? Why not join us for a game at some place in the South Bay Area? Leave me a comment and I will let the good information out.

They asked me about CRICKET and they GOT THE ANSWERS from me ;-)