Good Will Hunting

The human race is an odd species. Half its time goes away trying to contemplate the possibilities of maintaining reputation. We are so consumed by what our place in society is, what it will be, we forget who we are. Some would argue that this is not a bad thing necessarily, after all its the survival of the fittest. But take a step back and think about it- is it really worth it? We are in a constant struggle to be someone people want us to be, or what people expect us to be, what we think people expect from us, what will it take to be us? Imagine a world where everyone was exactly who they were- would it really be that easy and playful to live in?

I watched Good Will Hunting for the 'n'th time today and the last scene without Matt Damon finally made sense. He could have been what he was being sculpted into by a frustrated Math professor. But he knew what he wanted. Sure its a Hollywood story, but in retrospect it could be our life...It really isn't about others, it's about us as an individual.

Life has become about others, while death the individual....odd ...

Death...

Disclaimer: This is going to be a very depressing article, both due to the content and due to the fact that it was written on a weekend (great choice of day there). So reading along is totally up to your discretion. And no I am not suicidal, this is just a post.

Last Monday I woke up with an odd feeling- that this was going to be my final week on Earth. My final week to live. And then full stop. Period. Done. That's it, I wouldn't have to wake up in the morning, I wouldn't have to think about what was to be done, make an agenda, procrastination would have no consequences, I wouldn't have to be answerable to anyone, I wouldn't to worry about keeping people happy...oh the number of 'I didn't'-s and 'I wouldn't'-s that I could come up with....

Oddly enough, I wasn't sad or concerned about it. It almost seemed like a relief. I think the rationale behind it was that no matter what we do in life, and no matter if we achieved the fame we all yearned for, one had to die someday with or without that fame, with or without that knowledge. Hence, not a big deal. I sat down thinking to myself how life, in reality, was too long. On average, we live to about 70 years these days. Sure there are exceptions. But we can't help admit that life expectancy has increased. And yet, we seem so concerned about life being too short. I mean how much more time do you need to figure out your life. If you haven't done things by then, you won't do it anymore.

We are scared of death- no doubt about that. And living with that fear, we ruin every ounce of potential fun we are entitled to, or at least think we are entitled to. Almost seems like, things we do are to avoid death. That we know of its existence, should technically make it simpler for us to live, not complicated to the core. That knowledge should in fact just let us live...not die while living...

Gmail Blog

Call me a nerd, call me jobless call me whatever, but one of my things during leisure time ( err ok all the time) is to make sure I am up to date with the newest things on none other than GMAIL. I have to visit the gmail blog everyday to see if there are new updates to the mail system and of course I try and implement. Sometimes I wonder if gmail failed, what would happen to my daily routine.....err lol!!

As I contemplate over that, visit the gmail blog and be amazed

.....

She knew it wasn't going to get better. That feeling was the worst ever. When disappointment... being led off track was tangible. But what could she do? There was no way out. Even if there was, there wasn't enough courage in her to do what she wanted to do, or to at least even acknowledge that it wasn't what she wanted to do.

She'd seen her family spiral down. A little too fast. Domino effect. Better than before. A start she could pin point but was it worth it? An end- none possible? Was it worth thinking about....She'd given up a lot, or at least that's what she thought. It would take a lot more to make her life seem worthwhile.

Was that all she cared about, to get that attention she yearned for? She was one of those people that couldn't do without people. Had to be the center of attention, if she wasn't she found a way to sorta find her place there. She was living someone's life. That was certain. She knew it, acknowledged it. But she didn't have the courage to change it. It wasn't fair to her....it wasn't fair for anyone....

It was the best anyone could do....It was the best she had always known....Its the best she'll always know.....

At a loss for.....

Delhi-6 promises to be a good movie, inspiring as well. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra after all. You start with one video, and proceed to another one; you know that vicious chain of videos you get sucked into on Youtube. So my next video "happened" to be the trailer for Rang de Basanti- that movie that was thought provoking, that was off-beat, that made you think who you were as part of a country, of any country for that matter.

Of course my immediate reaction was to start blogging from what I saw in the RDB trailer- "A Generation Awakens". Myth I say it is. When 26/11 took place, when India was in shock, it seemed it would be the trigger to do something different, and not sit back. Sure we aren't sitting back, but ask yourself if we have in fact done something. Pakistan has not yet accepted involvement in the massacre. The dossier has had no significant impact on either government, it literally is a dossier. Plans were made in Bangladesh, now in Europe...apparently. In all of this, we have the Satyam scandal. The defining fall of India's IT sector in the world. Merryll Lynch backing out, so many clients insulted.

And in the heart of the country, that of the citizens- nothing has changed. We sit back and analyze; rage against those responsible, rage against the government has known no bounds for a while, but all in the coziness of the chair at home, in front of the TV. A two year old is raped in Bombay. Common, what can we do. Mangalore assaults. Horrendous. Let's send Pink Chaddis to the guy, Hindu Talibanization. Conduct certificates for single girls if they want to rent an apartment in Bangalore. Brilliant. Dawood trying to kill Qasab. We have all the news, we do zilch. It will all die out. I am waiting for it.

Half of us are sitting here in the US hoping things are better back home. In the mean time, we can take advantage of the exchange rate while it lasts and make fun of the falling capitalism. Job search isn't going the right way....well there's always India to go back to. And the other half in India too scared to change the status-quo. True you can't blame them because anti-social elements have taken the best of their thinking abilities. For that matter, non anti-social elements as well. Barkha Dutt pulled a brilliant stunt on a blogger, since she didn't like what was said. And she calls herself a journalist. A journalist who prides herself in the quality of work she has put forth over the years. Tell me this Barkha, wouldn't it have been easier for you to write something about that instead of pulling all the legal logistics, asking the blogger to apologise. So much for the freedom of speech you so dearly cherish and you so dearly derive your living out of.

Why has this gotten easier for us to accept? Thomas Friedman had written that our generation is Generation Q- Q for Quiet. We shout, we write, we debate, we blog, but in the end we are quiet, its better that way, we are in that infinite loop of leisure and ease that gets us nowhere.

Yours truly takes full responsibility of being in Gen Q. What will it take to change us in reality?

My bailout s'il vous plait

If there is one word that the GRE/TOEFL is not going to ask this year and the coming years, it's BAILOUT. Everyone knows what it means, after all it has spread its horizon throughout the world now.

Off late, every time I sit down to read the newspaper, I wait in anticipation of news about bailout. Who's next? Another financial institution, more likely than not....Social Security is definitely down the drain by the time I get old enough to be able to claim it.

Where is my bailout please?

Where is she now?

If you know me well, this post will come as a surprise. And let me know if what is in this post is not justified. I am guessing most of you have taken the time out to read the article and have already made a mental picture of what I am about to write. Sure, I am going to write about where this lady is. I do not care that she has a name, I do not care that she got to the US. All I care is I have been in this situation, still am, and have seen what it can do.

"Obama a messiah for Chennai family", that's what the headline read. Since the Obama wave has taken over places and people, yes moi aussi, I read the article, only to end up baffled.

I remember this person applying for a visa to get here to the US so that he can see his only daughter graduate with a bachelor's degree. Only she knows what she went through those three years, those three that she so desperately wants to forget. But sure enough he was denied visa, why - no points for guessing- cause he was a potential immigrant. Yes, his daughter was an American citizen, and yes his wife was here as well, sure that made him an immigrant, a potential one might I add. So he has never been able to set foot into the US ever since then. This to a man, who left the US in '86, has been to the US at least three times ever since then. So no brownie points for being here and leaving, nope! It made him a potential immigrant nonetheless. So would it have helped for his daughter or his wife to have sent a letter to the Congressmen in-charge then and seen if it had helped? Would it have been fair to beg for an entry to this country? Should I judge and say that because of this I had to go through graduation without my dad? Or should I just sit back and say, I guess I deserved it.

The article very sweetly failed to mention where this said lady is right now- India or the US? I wonder why........She wanted to come here for her son's house-warming ceremony, and she did. What wrong had my dad done to visit me for my graduation? That he didn't beg to get here, and held up his pride?

I want to know where she is. I want to know how many people here are NOT potential immigrants.

Written on the 25th of January, 2009

November 26th, 2008

Written on the 1st of December, 2008

San Diego Harbor mesmerized us. We were deprived of this in Houston. All of us in our own world, pondering life as it came. Until that phone call. Taj and Oberoi under seige, ATS chief Karkare dead. Terrorists in control over south Bombay. 900 TCS employees warned not to get out. Hostage situation on the rise, point and shoot not a misnomer anymore. This was all the updates we got, sneaking in updates from CNN about the situation in Bombay. Every chance we got, we heard something new, and then we were disgusted.

Frantic phone calls were made. Non bombaites in India had no clue to the unfolding events in Bombay. I called up my dad, only to awake him from his good night slumber and inform him about the situation. His first reaction- Don't worry its nothing. When I filled him up with details, he realized we had friends in that area and decided to check up on then. He called me back, thank whoever, nothing had happened to them. All our friends and family had been contacted.

We were back in downtown San Diego.

And then it was the usual. Analyze. Analyze what happened, what could have been done to prevent it, what should have been done even if there were obstacles, the usual wouldas-couldas-shouldas! Who was at fault, who claimed responsibility? Did the Indian Intelligence have prior information? Whose fault was it? How many people dead? Why isn't NDTV updating their website? Are you seriously telling me that this is headline/frontpage news on CNN, NYTimes? What is going on? Can someone let us know please? Damn the government!

Oh oops, did I just say government? That thing that is meant to protect us, that thing that we as citizens (those who vote (willingly to add onto that)) elect to power. We transcend into that word the minute we run out of options to blame someone. In this case, lets just blame...I give up. I don't know whom to blame cause we have so many of them in question. It took 9 hours for the commandos to arrive. Are you KIDDING me? 3 full days of sustained encounter. We did zilch. We sent in local policemen with pistols as reinforcements, when the opponent had AK-47s. Plain brilliant. We decide what to do after we get there, not while we are getting there. What happens in situations like these, does anyone think through or does everyone just go with instinct?

Do we have the right to analyze this sitting all the way here in the US? Is it just because it’s easy to blame it on human instinct that we analyze? We talk about things being bad back home, and we do this while we enjoy fruits here. The government should learn something from its foreign counterparts. Aren't we escaping from something? What it is I don't know either, but it seems like we'd much rather be here than there, at least for the moment. Think about it. We worry, we panic, we can't do a thing. We go back to doing what we are supposed to do, considering that's what we planned on when we took that flight to the US.

It's the same thing back home, you tell me. Sure it is. Which makes the situation all the more repulsive. I remember I got into a huge argument with my father and his friend about how cowardly a portrayal we drew, when all we did was sit at home and analyzed a wrong doing. A friend once told me, if you don't vote, you don't have a voice. I couldn't agree more. I know a lot of people in India, who inspite of being able to vote, have not voted. Lazy, irresponsible, self-centered citizens. Sorry, but its true. Its easy to analyze at home and think about the do's and don't's, its apparently very difficult to get yourself to the polling station.

We can sit down and analyze all we want. 5 terrorists (reportedly) still loom large in Bombay. Terrorizing the city as they breathe. What happened in Bombay was sheer pathetic. India's 9/11 they call. A black mark on what mankind believes. And yes the government failed once again. It failed to do what it vouches for- protect its citizens. It failed to get help as soon as possible. It failed at the nick of time, because it was too busy playing politics. It turned down Israel's crackdown team. It turned down help- what was it protecting? The non-existant ego? Not everything is IT. India shining is long gone. IT won't save us from what happened on that night of 26th November 2008. Nuclear deals won't save us from that either. Blaming everyone except your own work won't as well. When time came to act, everyone resigned. Resigned cause that was the easiest thing to do. Get someone new to handle and blame. Of course, the previous leaders go back to doing what they do best- NOTHING.

But Mr. Deshmukh did make sure to visit Ram Gopal Verma for a possible movie. I love Bollywood.

Not one straight story as to what happened that night. Not one. All sporadic information.

San Diego, in all its beauty, was somber, until we let that fade away.

A decision

When it comes to decision making, I am the last person one should contact. The number of "I guess"es you will hear in the conversation will leave you more flustered than before. Having said that, what happens when I find myself in such a situation? One such situation being the upcoming elections on the 4th of next month. One of the hardest things a voter is faced with is making the "right" choice. A very subjective right choice, but nonetheless, a right choice in the bigger frontier. I would like to believe that my thinking has changed from when I was 18 and voted that year (the 2004 elections), but then again with what guarantee. In short, I am faced with a decision to make on the 4th of November.

As we all are aware, the election hoopla started as early as Nov 06, so early that people took a step back to think as to when the elections were in reality. Over the past year and a half, we've seen everything in the political scenario- none that we are unfamiliar with. I myself have been a part of this chaos, attending campaign visits made by Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, and quite recently, listening to all the debates.

You go into these things with a clear mind, until you have a conversation with someone opposing you and forcing you to question your own views. What happens then? You know you are wavering in your understanding, but how sternly can you stand your ground? I can get convinced easily, usually not on issues like these, but yes, I start to waver a little. I could blame it on the two party system in the US, urging for a need for moderacy, but who's listening? So I vote. I vote to make myself heard, however, with a catch in my head. Would it have been better off me not voting, rather than jeopardizing the decision? The Swing Voters' Curse is a paper that talks about how undecided voters should abstain from voting. I wouldn't consider myself undecided but a little confused (Wonder what's different). November 4th, I will make a decision, a decision that we'll have to stick with for at least four years.

In the broader prospect of it all, its great when someone else makes the decision for you, but oh well I am sure I will have a post to write about when that is the case.

Thank you Terezia for this

USA ( It might not be a post for all of you)

This country does something to you. It makes you appreciate loneliness. Most of us are surrounded by friends and family here, but when its time to turn off the lights, you realize how alone you are... Someone the other day pointed at the noise of silence in this country. Though most of us laughed his comment off, I realized how right and how honest he was. A lot of us yearn for a support group, just to get us through the day. Face it, we are all in that situation. You could argue that it isn't country specific, but somehow it seems so.

And then of course the want to stay back here. We all come here thinking we'll stay here for a while and then go back, but then the fact that you begin to appreciate the independence you have, the self confidence you have harnessed here, the loneliness that doesn't eat you up anymore, all add up to you being a hypocrite to your own fundamentals. I have personally seen so many people say- I am going back- only to return to me a couple of months, not years, but months later and say- No one wants to leave this place- if its a genuine thing, fine. But do not use it as a defense mechanism because it's purpose is evident. I can't stand it when I come across these situations. And I can't stand it when people ask me what I will be doing- whether I will be staying here or whether I will be going back to India. If you can't figure it out on your own, don't try and figure it out through me and my thoughts; nothing's stopping me from classifying that as a sadistic view. Decipher what you want to do by what you want in life, not by what others want in life. Its disgusting when you do that.

So yes, this country does something to you ( if I may repeat). Can we get away from it is the question? I haven't seen anyone do so, and I don't think it will change for a while.

Presidential Debate-I

The 2008 Presidential Debates kicked off last night at the University of Mississippi. To say the least, everyone was watching. Viet and I weren't exceptions to the everyone clause either, cause what better else can bored economics graduate students do on a Friday night.

Background: Viet and I have known each other for a very long time now, considering we both did our undergrad from UH and from economics. While I am still at UH, Viet ran away to MSU. But we still chat- a lot! And I mean A LOT!!!! So we decided to chat about the debate live, cause both of us are quite iffy when it comes to the memory issue. Midway through the chat we decide to put it on my blog, because we are that bored and want to be amused by god knows what. So here it is: You can be offended, you can laugh at it, you can laugh at our chats, but do not question are views, cause trust me both of us were LIVE BLOGGING and we were bored. [I figure I won't be able to use the BORED excuse for quite some time]. Have fun!

8:01 PM me: ok debate time

:D

yay! debate!!!

8:02 PM Viet: oh lord

question, what's the point of suspending campagine activities???

8:03 PM me: hahahaha

8:04 PM Viet: i mean, the RNC was scaled way back due to hurricane, i can somewhat see the point

me: :D

8:05 PM Viet: what???

me: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

:D

8:08 PM hez not answering the queston???!?!?!

Viet: that's a total sonic the hedgehog rip-off

me: yea

true that

8:09 PM Viet: he didn't answer a question???

me: no

as in

he kept saying bt how he went to Washington and stuff

the guy asked him where dyu stand about the gloabl fina issue

and thats what he said

8:10 PM Viet: wtf???

8:11 PM wth does normandy has to do w/ anything??

me: PRECISELY

obama's kicking his butt

he needs to realize that

8:12 PM Viet: hahaha mccain isn't patriot enough

me: BRILLIANT

Viet: he aint got an american flag pin on

me: hehehhehehehe

8:13 PM Viet: hey do u know how i can get an absentee ballot??

8:14 PM me: hmm good question

donno though

lets research this

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

there u go

research done

Viet: huh???

8:15 PM what does gov spending and the financial crisis has to do w each other??

me: lessee

because the govt doesnt spend enuff we have a fin crisis

or because they spend we have a fin crisis

8:16 PM i dont think mccain noes what hez talking about

Viet: mccain is going w the second

me: ok

:D

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/26/america/26campaign.php

brilliant

:D

8:18 PM REALLY??????

oh lord

he doesnt know what hez talking

8:19 PM Viet: obama's geting pissed

me: yea.....

brb

dinner time

8:20 PM lets hope obama isnt pissed too much

hez being more assertive though

Viet: k

me: mccain's taking it lightly

17 minutes

8:37 PM Viet: let's count how many time mccain says he can cut spending

8:38 PM or miss congeniality

me: i was just about to type that

8:39 PM Viet: hahhaa

me: hahahah amy mom says

why is he saying eeraq instead of eyeraw

Viet: lessons of iraq, i can cut spending

me: eyeraq*

my*

Viet: what strategy??

me: :D

8:40 PM some strategy

i am gonna post our chat on this on the blog

:D

Viet: it's the no strategy that is our strategy

me: precisely

Viet: do it

me: oh there we have patraeus again

we aren't winning in Iraq

8:41 PM Viet: mission accomplished

b/c mission is accomplished

me: ok ew are gonna count "fundamental difference" as well

htere you go

ok seems like i am biased

but seriosuly when mccain said that we shud cut govt spedning and blah blah

8:42 PM i wanted to scream out- ur party's the one that spent on 2 wars in 8 years

i mean seriously

$10 BILLION a MONTH!!!

waaaattT????!?!?!?!?

Viet: wow

i wish i got 10 billion a month

me: or for the rest of my life

Viet: i dont think i could spend all of it fast enough

8:43 PM me: that decision hez already made

100 year war :D

8:44 PM uh oh

obama's in trouble

no wonder obama was harvard law review president

he knows how to talk

8:45 PM Viet: burn!!!!!!

me: I KNOW!!!!!

Viet: wrong wrong wrong

hahahahaa

me: wrong what?

8:46 PM Viet: whatever, there was stop loss orders

me: so how come patraeus only invited him and that other dude?!?!

Viet: ^ on soldiers re-enlisting for iraq

me: and no democrats

err wad does that mean

ok this chat is awesome ;)

8:47 PM Viet: stop loss order = active military cannot leave military

me: :O

really!!!

damn!

Viet: mean, if ur time was up, u had to stay

me: uh huh

Viet: yea

really :O

8:48 PM me: precisely- afghanistan is so screwed because of us

Viet: why is he smiling??

me: mccain?

Viet: yea

me: i think your transmission is faster than mine

wtf!

8:49 PM Viet: no he's been grinning for the last 5 minutes

me: hahahahahah

ok

that way

damn

obama is a debater

oh fuck!!!!!!!

Viet: yea

me: hahahahahahahahahahahah

Viet: he's a lawyer, right??

oh fuck what??

me: osama and patraeus have one thing in common

SERIOSULY???!?!??!

Viet: oh i missed that

me: iraq is a battleground is a common thing

hehehehehe

8:50 PM military questions are tricky

you could fal into a trap

and yes obama is a lawyer

primarily

8:51 PM Viet: burn!!!!!

double burn!!!!

me: i know

damn hez gainin strength

8:52 PM he actually worked this

out

ooo poppy trade

bush is working towards shutting/cutting down that trade in inida

Viet: i wonder if intrade has anything for the debate

me: i think it does, because of that whole tie up with global financial crisis thing

:O :O :O :O :O

did he just say that

8:53 PM the whole russia and afghan thing

we've always instated the people we go back and fight against

8:54 PM Viet: didn't we just fire into pakistan a few days ago??

8:55 PM me: YES :D

precisely

8:56 PM the new guy in pak is going to be back stabber

a*

Viet: who/??

me: zardari

8:57 PM awesome

musharraf

failed state?

really?

really?

Viet: what happened to musharraf??

me: he resigned before he was impeached

Viet: oh

hahaha

8:58 PM me: :D

Viet: is he the one that was on the dailyshow a few years ago, promoting his book or something??

me: errr dont think so

8:59 PM Viet: ok, wrong guy then

me: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200708/r166954_621046.jpg

this dude

Viet: yea, he was on the daily show

me: oh ok

i missed it then

hez so making up these stories

its evident

9:00 PM Viet: hahahaha

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=114685&title=pervez-musharraf-pt.-1

9:01 PM me: not now

its debate time ;)

with chat though :P

9:02 PM did we have to say that about subcommittee?

9:03 PM YAY!!! TIME!!!!

HOLOCAUST????

9:04 PM really?????????

Viet: oh we let it happened, think of africa

me: ok so now we go to Russia- preventing work at the UN

no no

i am saying how loosely that word is used now

hahahahaah

McCain- Iranians have a lousy govt

I am sure they are saying the same thing about us

:D

Viet: yea

9:05 PM lousy government = lousy economy

right

9:06 PM me: its so difficult to say whoz a terrorist org and whoz not

Viet: yea

i heart centerfuges

9:07 PM me: heheeheehe

rotfl!!!

oooo obama is cunning

he wants russia and china to be accountable when sanctions come

Viet: hahaha

i remember the stink it cause a few years ago, when iran got a few centerfuges

9:08 PM me: so that the blame's just not on the US when things fuck up again

ok we were in Iraq

now we are in Latin America

awesome

i love traveling

Viet: what kind of negogiation is it when u have preconditions???

me: think prenup viet

Viet: hey we espoused the extermindation of iraq

me: prenup ;)

9:09 PM there

i was waiting for Kissinger;s name to come up

there preconditions again

Viet: yea, but isn't negogiation a prelude to setting conditions??

me: what sort of preconditions

prolly

9:10 PM that unless you have women and JD i wont be there at tthe negotiation

Viet: one precondition that occured is with n korea, stating that the US will only negogiate nuclear treaty only if u stop all nuclear refinement

9:11 PM like wtf is that??, who in their right mind would agree to anything??

me: thas what obama said- low level diplomatic talks before something big happens

:D

there u go

obama is up with N Korea

Viet: exactly

ty obama

me: thas why when Rice went there in Summer of 06

she fell flat on the face

cos she dint know wht to do

9:12 PM Viet: yea, with precondition that they stop all nuclear testing

me: plus lebanon and israel started their stupid fight

Viet: what kind of bullshit is that

me: some bull shit that made sense to them

Viet: bad attempt at humor

me: SERIOUSLY???!!! did he just think that was a joke

hahahahaah

Viet: hey kissinger was brought up!!!

9:13 PM me: second time

;)

"Sen Obama doesn't seem to understnad"= prolly the 6th time

:O :O naive dangerous

hez talking video game talk

Viet: it's more like he doesn't understand

me: whaaat???

9:14 PM why the height between South Koreans and North Koreans

Viet: if it's the most oppressive regime on earth, why the hell are we not fighting them??

me: There Reagan in the debate

cos they have sooper nuke powers

Viet: exactly

me: and they cud wipe us out if they got bored and angered by us

Viet: that's why iran wants nuke power

me: uh huh

9:15 PM ok wipe out is an exaggeration

Viet: nuke power = US not the monkey on ur back

me: but u get the point

kissinger- 3rd time

u;ve known him 35 years becase you are OLD now!!!

Viet: his friend

or 35 years

9:16 PM me: :D

9:17 PM hez so much better than Kerry and the whole I have a plan thing

Viet: hahahaha

me: uh oh

nuclear proliferation

9:18 PM CTBT and all that

obama wants India and Pak to sign that

goddddd!!!

so since russia committed that serious crime

9:19 PM Viet: hahahaha

wtf??

me: we start prepping for war against them ?

right?

McCain- I saw into Putin's eyes and saw three letter KGB

mccain is not helping his case

9:20 PM Viet: ooo, he went there once

me: ooooo

9:21 PM Ukraine???

err ok

lets see where this goes

9:23 PM i guess thats why we have so many ukranians in the dept ;)

oops

that wasn't meant to be there

:P

Viet: hahaahaha

9:24 PM me: obama said plan

i am scared

hez not originally from AZ right?

9:25 PM uh oh

the host is a little lenient towards Obama

9:26 PM oh snap!!!!!!

good question

what is the likelihood of another 9/11

Viet: loaded question

me: and the answer is unloaded

and he said liebermann

ok i spelled that wrong

9:27 PM no onez asking what the refroms are

we want to know wil anohter 9.11 happen

no more torturing another prisonner

Viet: nobody will answer that

me: is anyone screaming Gitmo bay?

9:28 PM Viet: security is only an illusion

9:29 PM me: damn al-qaeda in 60 countries :O

9:30 PM Viet: yea

me: hahahah obama understands that america's lost respect in the world

Viet: pretty much any muslim dominated country

me: hmmm

Viet: SE asia is a hot spot for al qaeda

9:31 PM me: hmmm

oooooo emotional outreach

american blood

patraeus

jeeeeezzzzzz

Viet: hahaha

is that his lover??

me: well if hez not the general

then he is that i presume

9:32 PM check status ;)

9:33 PM Viet: haha

9:35 PM me: hahahahahahah

obama-my father came from kenya, thats where i get my name

:D

9:37 PM Viet: oooo i have to see that one

me: hahahah

ok

so we are done with debate chat

;)

9:38 PM stephanapolous is right

ok i am biased towards stephanapolous

9:39 PM hahahahahahahahahah

he said about the doesn't understand thing as well :D

damn i shud go work with him

hez saying what i am saying

Viet: yea stephanapolous is more awesome

9:40 PM me: we shud do this for a living

:D

Viet: hahaha

me: and send it to stephanapolous

:D

9:41 PM whad say?

9:42 PM Viet: ok, i'm beat,

me: heheheh

9:43 PM dyu realize we typed insanely

Viet: hahahaa

i did it with one hand eating cheetoes

hahaha, just kidding

me: :D

9:44 PM hehehe

true that.....obama was awesome when it came to foreign policy

yaya!

i shud be a journalist/political analyst

sscrew economics

9:45 PM Viet: no

me: oh

ok

:D

hahahahhhahahaha

Viet: be journalist/econ poly analyst

me: hez talking about mccain;s travel things

9:46 PM Viet: ok

i'm off to bed

me: awrite

i am gonna post this soon

:D

9:47 PM if u r ok with it that is

Viet: hahaha

yea sure

me: hhehehehe

awesome

fun friday :D

Viet: add some random muses in there and i'll be cool with it

me: :D

ok

good night

Viet: later

me: later