Family

Some of my cousins and I during my visit to South Africa.

Yeshodha and Renton

Yeshodha looking at the ring i got her. South African proposal. Dad met with her family and we exchanged gifts.

Storms in the Cape. Weird Foamy Sea water!

Phillies!!World Champions!!

Phillies won the world series and i tailgated the first half of the final game. Was much Fun.

Yeshodha, I love her(Borat accent)

When i was down in South Africa i bumped into my high school sweetheart Yeshodha Rajcoomar. We had dated a while back, to be precise 4 years ago and it was great getting to see her as she attends the church that i used to go to. Well we hung out and we went on our first date in four years. It was great, we spent it at a Restaurant called "Simply Fish" and after that we went on a few more dates until we realized that it wasn't so hard picking up where we had left off four years ago. Well now we are dating and it has been just over 2 months. Its really hard with her living in South Africa and myself living in the States, but we talk all the time and hopefully i will get to see her in June this year.

20 Years on Earth

In true South African Style, i celebrated my 20th birthday party with a dress up evening with catered food and lots of gifts. The turn out was great and it was a time for our family to get together and spend time chatting and doing what they do best and that is to eat. I was formally given the right of passage to adulthood and independence by my father and uncles and this was truly significant to me.

South Africa

After A long fall semester at EAstern University, our family flew half way across the world to South Africa, our home country. We stayed there for a month and was treated to good food, family and friends and just waking up to the South African Sun. We spent Christmas with over 40 relatives and New year with our former church. The trip was amazing and i have posted a lot of pictures on my facebook. So check it out..

Zimbabwe Crisis

Zimbabwean Quantum Mathematics
A brief introduction to the Zimbabwe Theory of Quantum Mathematics
Also known as Bob-enomics

The day is very hot and you are passing the Keg and Sable in Borrowdale, so naturally you go in for a nice cold beer. The barman informs you that One beer now costs 150 000 Zimbabwe dollars. You can pay with three crisp new $50 000 notes, still damp from the printing press. Or, if you are feeling a bit bloody-minded, and if you can still source the coins ( remember those things : they were still quite common a few years ago ) you can sit back and enjoy a beer while the barman counts out 15 000 000 Zimbabwe one cent coins. But hold it ! We have a problem. Each Zim one cent coin weighs 3 grams So this little lot weighs in at 45 000 000 grams or 45 000 kgs Or 45 Tonnes After humping 45 tonnes of coins into the pub you are going to need a helluva lot more than one beer to cool down. But don`t panic - we have a plan. Like all brilliant ideas this one relies entirely on its simplicity.

Plan B : We sell the metal and drink the proceeds There is a small legal question about smelting coin of the realm and exporting the resulting brass ingots. However we'll let the buyer worry about that one. There doesn't seem to be an international price for brass. Its main ingredient, copper, has recently been selling for an all-time high of US $ 5 200 a tonne on the London Metal Exchange, but we won't be greedy, for a quick sale let's discount it to U S $ 2 600 a tonne We are now the proud owners of U S $ 11 700 But we still can't buy that beer as the Keg is only allowed to accept Zimbabwe currency. We must resist the temptation to change our money on the lucrative but illegal black market ( only the Governor of the Reserve Bank and Cabinet Ministers are allowed to do that ). So we change at the prevailing interbank mid rate which is U S $ 1 : Zim $ 99 201,58 Our heap of U S green-backs now miraculously becomes a mountain of Zim $ 11 606 584 860 For the uninitiated the billions start at the tenth figure, counting from the right. So if the price of beer has not increased while we were doing this calculation you can now walk back into the Keg and order 77 377 beers !

HappyDrinking

Oh the Simpsons

I tried to imagine what life would be like without the simpsons......and i almost got a restraining order against myself for the attempt of committing suicide. YEs the simpsons is that important. To end the afternoon with the half an hour of blissful laughter that serenates each and every household nation wide. But alas i tell you.....there are those who have not yet seen the light(simpsons) and we need to save them of a life of depression without the simpsons. Oh the Simpsons.

The Office.....*sigh*

After a thrilling season of laughter and soar tummys, The Office is going to deprive us for four months until season 3 comes out in September. The office has become apart of our weekly lives and having four months without it is like not been able to ......*thinks*........live? I know i feel sorry for myself too but ts all good cos Jim and Pam kissed "No way" nah for real "your joking" nah man im serious "woah" ( I need to get these voices out of my head)

So i cant wait four months so I've decided to go into hybernation for four months until the office begins in september. "woah dude i gotta check that show out" Stop the voices.

Aces State Champoins

AFter the defeat that the Aces took against Chester in teh district finals they came out with revenge in the state finals against Shenley. Shenley, the basketball giants from Harrisburg put on a big fight against the Aces. Going into the half the aces were down 11 points but the sounds of Aces and Clapping from the Aces Dog pound brought the stadium to its feet at the start of the second half. Three treys in a row saw the stadium electrify and a huge dunk drove a dagger into the shenley fans section........when all was over the sounds of cheering and clapping were heard. The Aces State Final......and as the fans left the stadium the echoing crys of "Were number One" were heard throughout the parking lot.

HISTORIC WIN!!!!!!

EVERY so often, following no apparent logic, the history of sport throws up an event so definitive that it changes the way we think not only about that sport but sport in general.

What happened at the Wanderers last Sunday was one such event, a limited-over international that takes cricket into a new frontier — the uncharted territory of 872 runs in 99.5 overs, of 26 sixes and 87 fours. It’s man-on-the-moon stuff, the climbing of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stuff, all the more intoxicating for its rareness.

The world had always complacently assumed that an astronaut would eventually land on the moon without believing that such a feat would take place in their lifetimes. Then it happened. Sunday’s cricket was much the same: everyone knew, in a kind of misty “maybe next season” way, that a team could thrash their way past the 400-run barrier. Then it happened and, more remarkably, a record that had stood for 2348 limited-over internationals was broken the very next innings. With one record falling, so another fell, then another. The effect was not of watching a game of cricket but of a runaway fire.

As we watched this wild cricket conflagration, we lost the ability to make sense of it, to believe that it was happening. How many people have you encountered this week who have been unable to make sense of the event, even days afterwards? How many have spoken about staring at the scoreboard or television screen in disbelief?

The talk has been of it being like “Hollywood”, of it being gleaned from the pages of “fiction”. Others have thoughtfully spoken about the odd disjuncture of perspective that happens at times such as these, a disjuncture that happens when one can’t adequately process what we are watching, when an event and the words we have to describe the event are so radically at odds that, quite literally, words fail us.


So as science has proven the springbok can jump furtherer then the kangaroo no matter how far it jumps......

PING VS PONG

 
So the title tells it all,this is a asian sport not to be attempted by a South African who thinks that hitting a small ball across a table with paddles is tennis without running. So now the ping pong table is no longer,one must find other activities to indulge like loading on pizza and watching tons and tons of basketbaal until you can actually say that you know how many tatoos Allen Iverson has on himself.
So long ping pong....... 

ACES loose to overgrown highschoolers

 
Yes its Kobe Bryant's Lower Merion Jersey. The Aces looked like they needed him in their clash with 5 time district winner Chester High Schools. Now let me tell you something, either every basketball player has failed school at least three times on the chester team or they have come back to high school to finish their matriculant because these guys were huge. The game was played at the Vilanova Pavillion turned out to be a scorcher. Masses of human flesh jumping simultaneously to the sounds of "Go Aces" and "swoosh" everytime a free throw was made.
The game went into overtime and both teams were head to head in the overtime battle until the last 5.8 seconds when the chester coach calls a timeout with possesion. After a long chat the players get back onto the field and Chester's Guard Govan's who the play was intended for runs to the basket and awaits the pass from his teamate(who happened to be the shortest guy n their team). he doesnt pass it but instead he shoots with one second to go and sinks a a piercing three pointer that brought a silence and shocked atmosphere on our side of the stadium before the Chester fans erupted into celebration storming the court.
WE WILL MEET IN STATES AND THEN THE OUTCOME WILL READ LOWER MERION WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. 

Sking in the Pocono's

As i ventured out on my first skiing experience i looked up at the challenge before me and then decided that those ski poles were too big or i was too short. My first ski lesson and then i was off on my own skiing down a mountain. Well on my first attempt i fell down half way down the mountain but got up and tried again and in true torino style came flying down the mountain weaving in and out of fallen amateurs....... 

Snowfall and Football

Football on a snow covered back yard with no lights and makeshift touchdown lines, what could be better? So we took to the field some for the first time and some veterans who go back a couple months. Although the "other team one" what really matters is that we had fun.........who am i kidding...we deserved that win more then anyother amateur football team...but as i said the outcome didnt matter,we had fun.

No its not a very cute snow man,and no its not a really cute guy frozen in the snow......its me...yea we did some snow shoveling and i took a break to marvel at myself .........oh and the snow cos thats what we were out there for....

Thunee

The game thunee which is a prevelant game in the indian community in Durban South Africa. When the family gets together this game is ussually played by the uncles and nephews and always ends in a dispute. And given the modernistic(ifthats a word) views of the nephews they ussually come out victorious. 

The Beginning

Well this is my first post and the start of the web revolution where the world will be introduced to none other then Renton Ragwan(yea im sure youll know who that is:))So i live in Philly but i moved here in 2004 from Durban South Africa. I left friends, family and biltong for new friends and jerky. But its all good cos ............it just is,will be posting more soon,keep your eyes opened..