OK, OK, that post was seriously WORSHIP-WORTHY!

GujuHottiee120586: u seriously jus mashed together 4 bookz

Would be a seriously idea to condense some of that masala-immigrant-porn....

waaaah, my parents r immigrants, im like sooo confused about who i am, i think ill date white girlz until i get wat i deserve from some desi bitch, then ill cry some more in some guava orchard b4 my arranged marrage with some chic in cheetah-print heelz who smokes which ill agree to bc now ive returnd to my rootz and shit after living with some widow n a bunch of lower cast peepz…waaaaah

Classic. Seriously, I think that's the whole genre.

I meant "good idea", obviously.

Anyway, I think ur mom should pinch u cuz u hav time 4 this stuff but no time to make Palappam!

Cooking doesn't generate the comments the same way!

Cute :) Very cute :)

*Reminds me, I have to link the whole Name-sa-ke Kal Penn/Andy Samberg thing from youtube one of these days......

Now if only he had spelt it Cal Penn when he changed it from Kalpen - he could be teaching at Cal in the Spring and Penn in the Fall...

OMGWTFLOLBBQ ur post waz teh funnie!11111oneoneone @=)

Anna, I knew you had it in ya! My favourite bit was this

GujuHottiee120586: yeah, but brown isnt even a real ivy league school…so lol on THAT

Only a twisted, twisted, generously gifted brain could come up with that.

Is it me or is Kal Penn the default-brownie for every single desi role in Hollywood??

My favorite line: NjDe$iQTpie: biach, please…im desi, its all about the chai tea latte

Those screen names were cringe inducingly accurate!

Genius. 10 out of 10.

That was a genius post my dear, though it was painful to get through. ;-)

Methinks Mr. Penn is going to have lots of lovely co-eds in his class. ;-)

hahahahaahahaahahahaha

brilliance!

Anna, I woship at thy altar!

my old TA said that the desi girls at penn went crazy when it slipped out that he was coming. she also said that he requested to live on campus. i don't know about that bit, esp. since most of penn's housing is crap. perhaps a low phase in the love life, mr. penn?

i would suggest to the people at penn, since it is listed in asian american studies, to please add harold as a co-lecturer. kp's not a big draw for me, but that harold....

great post anna!

WORD!

i think you might just have captured every conversation I've had with my desi friends. lol

Is it me or is Kal Penn the default-brownie for every single desi role in Hollywood??

There are a couple of desi's on NBC's Heroes..

Isn't it so hard to write like stupid? I have the hardest time figuring it out, especially wHeN pPl tYpE LiK dIs.

Ur best work EVER. :)
And for the record, UCLA undergrads write entire essays on exams using the type of sentences above. I know cuz i graded them lol :)

anytime!!! i loved the post! as i do all of them, but neglect to post on due mainly to my laziness!

kiss my chuddies, ho

Loved reading every line of the post.
Great post Anna!

A defining post for Sepia Mutiny. Anna, you've captured a generation.

Props.

So painful to read. In that can't catch my breath, my side hurts sorta way.

As always, you rocked it girl!

Dude, this post totally rocks!

Wow, you sort of have to read that without letting your eyes focus on the letters. Man I feel old. Well done Miss Anna :)

I disturbingly felt like I was reading a conversation between my little sister and her friend. It was so mock-worthy, yet freakishly dead-on. Why do kids write like that??? Isn't it harder then writing normally???

Best post, Anna

This conversation is missing something..

Oh right. This
Then This.
And this.

As a self appointed President of ANNA Fans Association, I propose that Anna be declared as the "Goddess of Humor".

I don't post much but that was great! haha even ivy leaguers can talk like that. well pre ive leaguers i'm down for an LA/OC meetup as I've tentatively relocated to the OC. u may have seen me walking the mean streets of Irvine w/o a piece at some pt.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

oh dearie me *wipes a tear away*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

This post made me laugh while procrastinating my thesis...nicely done! I do question his credentials (even TAs are typically PURSUING a PhD) but, let's be honest, if I wasn't graduating in May I would be pre-registered for these classes in a heart beat!

This was absolutely hilarious...fell off my chair laughing! Great post Anna.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.. That was one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. Also, awesome screen-names.

Oh, perfect. perfect!

Very funny Anna :)

NjDe$iQTpie: lol…now u can major in being bitter…just think, some other desi ho is going to ask if she can get extra credit n that couldve been u lolol

Extra credit hehe :)

WTFBBQ..lol, good stuff Anna. Looks like KP is going to have his pick of the desi wimminz

This was so awesome..lmao!

I disturbingly felt like I was reading a conversation between my little sister and her friend. It was so mock-worthy, yet freakishly dead-on. Why do kids write like that??? Isn't it harder then writing normally???

OmFG! so TRUe gaL!!!!!

shit after typing like that, I think it's all the DRUGS.

omg awesome!!

that was a GREAT post *LOL*

Classic. I'm so glad I missed out on the whole IM phenomenon.

This is like the "Aiyo!" of the century.

Holy shit Brilliant. I encounter these kids on the train every morning. Oh god bless the iPod I don't have to listen to this painful dialog.

Very phunny... lol

which time…cant believe u made me sit thru that shit twice…so effing BORING. waaaah, my parents r immigrants, n im like sooo confused about who i am, i think ill date white girlz until i get wat i deserve from some desi bitch. then ill cry some more in some guava orchard b4 my arranged marrage with some chic in cheetah-print heelz who smokes which ill agree to bc now ive returnd to my rootz and shit after living with some widow n a bunch of lower cast peepz in the motherland…waaaaah

What four books? I think i got two books, arranged marriage and Guava orchard...

Is it sad that I have both of those screen names in my buddy list? Brilliant post anna

Why do kids write like that???

hahaha....
so many good lines in there. kollam. shabhash. wah taj. and so on...
lol. ah. i'm glad i got around to reading bloglines early today.

What four books? I think i got two books, arranged marriage and Guava orchard...

You got one. :)

You got one. :)

Hmm... I was thinking Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai. I guess i was wrong, three more books. :-(

It's funnier when you read it a second time people, you notice jokes you miss first time.

Hmm... I was thinking Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai.

No, yes. :)

Holy @&i#! Amazing!! I'll simply have to show this to my cousins -- especially to QT3.14159 and to kochiBABE (& no, I didn't make up those screen names).

QT3.14159

OMG

QT3.14159

OMG

QT3.14159

OMG

Paging Yann Martel.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!

QT3.14159

When I was searching for custom tags, I read about someone who had this. :)

yindeed. i bow to such awesome nerdery.

Nerdery, possibly. But here in South India, QT3.14159 is treated like a total goddess (at least by the folks of her own age whom I've met)!

QT3.14159

Ohhhhhhhhh! Just got it.

Anna...you are incredible! That was really funny...I was reading it out loud to my husband, adn we coudn't stop laughing.

Excerpt from http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/28866/:
Yet Penn is eager to brush off comparisons between Gogol’s upbringing and his own childhood in suburban New Jersey—for one thing, he and his parents have always gotten along. “It’s sort of like saying, ‘Gogol drank a lot of coffee growing up, I drank a lot of coffee, therefore I relate to Gogol,’ ” he says. “Gogol to me is interesting because he’s tormented by being named after a Russian author who died a virgin. I mean, his being Indian isn’t interesting in the least.”

I think one of my friends put it well when she said:
"there's something to be said for not wanting to be an actor that can only play roles with the south asian/cultural part emphasized, but gogol's character is the wrong role to overemphasize that him being indian doesn't separate him out as much as his love of architecture blah blah"

The architecture comment was from his appearance at the NYPL talk when he expressed a similar sentiment as in the NYMag article and stated Gogol's love of architecture as one of the things that drew him to the character.

Thoughts?

here in South India, QT3.14159 is treated like a total goddess

The Pythagorean cult was founded on the belief that numbers are the ultimate level of reality, from which all gods and demons emerge. And Pythagoras himself had strong ideas about reincarnation, ideas probably derived from Hindu thought.

What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

And Pythagoras himself had strong ideas about reincarnation, ideas probably derived from Hindu thought.

And he was a vegetarian, which means he had a high sperm count.

As for Kal "I played a terrorist" Penn being a professor of "Images of Asian-Americans in the Media," I'm reminded of something Roman Jakobson once said.

In response to the proposal to give Vladimir Nabokov a faculty position at Harvard, Jakobson quipped: “I do respect very much the elephant, but would you give him the chair of Zoology?”

What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

Haha..Mr. K, we know who you really are. Don't be frontin homie! Keeping it real!

ANNA, such a contrast from your post about growing up with the Greek Orthodox church, but still just as awesome!

Hmm... I was thinking Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai.

No, yes. :)

Hmm, is there a bit of A Fine Balance in there?

And he was a vegetarian, which means he had a high sperm count.

Wrong thread! (See here.) But Pythagoras was also male, which means he couldn't have got pregnant. Back then anyway.

i think ill date white girlz until i get wat i deserve from some desi bitch. then ill cry some more in some guava orchard b4 my arranged marrage with some chic in cheetah-print heelz who smokes which ill agree to bc now ive returnd to my rootz and shit after living with some widow n a bunch of lower cast peepz in the motherland

1. hullabaloo in the guava orchard
2. the namesake
3. a fine balance
4. ?

Kal Penn would teach me if i got into PENN!

OMG, PENN is releasing decision tomorrow!

And Anna, It's PENN and not UPENN

And Anna, It's PENN and not UPENN

Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it's going to be a miracle if you actually get in...

NjDe$iQTpie: FINE. ok u know how ur parents wanted u to go to penn soo bad n u were all, “hellz no, i aint goin to college n livin at home” n they were all sad n shit?

NjDe$iQTpie: fine. but jus so u know, kal penns gonna teach at penn nex yr. c ya.

Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it's going to be a miracle if you actually get in...

Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it's going to be a miracle if you actually get in...

Chachaji, PENN is the preferred name.

Thanks, I was there, you know.

Mr. To be banned and Deleted,

Did you really intend to boast about your writing skills with the essay you linked to? Adding to what chachaji wisely said in #71 it will indeed be a miracle with your writing as well as comprehension skills.

I used to use a screen name ironically like the ones we're mocking, I did it as a goof. But I had to drop it when 15 year olds started IMing me. I intend to resurrect it when I get called in as a creative consultant on To Catch a Desi Predator.

Terrific. This is what I have to look forward to in 10 years when Little Asha is texting her friends
HalfDesiHottie17:OMFG LOL ROTFLMAO....

Random off topic comment by my mother-in-law regarding "Inheritance of Loss"
"She won an award for that? I grew up with all that stuff. What a boring book. I could have written that. Now the DaVinci Code..."

So who will be the Desi version of Chris Hansen?

What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

Mr. Kobs, you are one hilarious mofo.

yindeed. i bow to such awesome nerdery.

Awesome nerdery? Anna, clearly the kid is an underachiever and your standards aren't high enough (Exhibit A1, Exhibit A2, Exhibit B).

OMG, Anna, this is beyond brill, plus it's lovable-- how? I bow at the altar.

Mr. Kobs, you are one hilarious mofo.

kekekeke

gvn ax^2 + bx + c = 0, if b^2 – 4ac > 0, thr r like 2 dstnct rts. lol!

gvn ax^2 + bx + c = 0, if b^2 – 4ac > 0, thr r like 2 dstnct rts. lol!

but the prof sed somethn abt like 2 dstnct REAL rts right??? i soooo h8 this math $hIt.

but the prof sed somethn abt like 2 dstnct REAL rts right???

duh. course its REAL.

(u say u h8 math, but ur email is @math.iisc.ernet.in, math totally pwns u. LOL on that!)

QT3.14159

only aznz r gud @ math. not ndnz.

Bookfiend- so close. :) 3/4. Do you want me to put you out of your misery? Here's a hint-- four books, only three authors. :D

To everyone else- you are all so kind. It's scary to try stuff like this and I was convinced you'd all hate it, so this comment thread is like a pedicure-- delightful, blissful, fantastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)

GujuHottiee120586: this isn funny. my mom so said that i’d regret pickin columbia…n now I do :(

Nothing to regret.