About Ravi Udeshi

This website is my personal repository of thoughts, concerns, photography, and various other media. The site is always being updated so dont feel bad if you see it down at some point…your computer doesn’t hate you, its just experiencing some hiccups :-). Anyways, thank you for visiting and feel free to comment on my posts or contact me. And in the immortal words of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon….”Thank you, please come again!”

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About Ravi

Since you’ve clicked on this page, I’m sure you want to know some more about me. I’ll try to avoid the standard “My name is so-and-so, I love such-and-such, and I want to do what-and-ever, but hopefully you’ll gain a (probably small, but hopefully amusing) insight into my life:

Background

I’m a product of the ’80s (not as crazy as the ’60s, I’m sure, but Michael Jackson more than makes up for it). I’m currently a high school senior (ah college applications…an experience I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy) at what has been termed the “best public high school” in the nation, although its focus is on science and technology, while I’m more liberally artsy inclined myself. At said school, I am the President of a service club, Junior Civitan International, the Treasurer of the “Indian student association,” Namaste and involved in far too many activities to count. I’m now a freshman/sophomore (aren’t AP credits great?) at a large public university, living up the college life. I’m in the Indian Student Association, the student newspaper, student government, and currently President of the Model United Nations club. I relish the responsibilities, but cringe at the callousness of some of the people involved. Notice the alliteration? Yes, I have too much time on my hands…why else would I be making this site?

Personality

Now that you know about my legal requirements, allow me to describe me. I’m a second-generation Indian-American and proud of it. I’m a vegetarian (ovo-lacto for those curious), but I wont throw paint on your fur coat like certain PETA members. I’m a self-admitted political aficionado, although I sometimes like to read the Style/Sports/Business section of the newspaper first (oh the horror…Angelina Jolie over George Bush? blasphemous!). I like to keep up on the news, even if its after the fact (you know you’ve read last week’s paper at midnight over a bowl of Raisin Bran cereal with chopped bananas before too). I love to read interesting and unique articles, especially in magazines like The Economist or The Week (the best two newsmagazines, bar none). I’m also a technology enthusiast(Wired is an awesome magazine) but I dont have an iPod (currently use an iRiver DAP, but might pick up an iPhone or something similar in the future). I love to listen to any kind of music, but especially conscious hip-hop, some jazz and classical, and a little heavy metal/country/Christina Aguilera. Aside from the obvious, I enjoy a friendly game of cards every once in a while, partaking in a good movie (character films over action movies anyday) with friends, and watching a healthy amount of television (I probably know more about your favorite show than you do, although I’ve cut down a lot). Last but certainly not least (an annoying cliché if there ever was one), I’m a recreational video gamer…you know, the kind of guy that has an Xbox 360, but mostly only plays when friends are over (my gamertag is Shayde Crimson if you ever want to play). For more resources by and about me, feel free to take a look at my claimID page.

Goals

Since I’ve probably told you too much about myself already, I figure you should know a bit about what I want for my future. Most relevant to me at the moment, I’m trying to (a) get into through college and (b) make the most of my senior year in high school limited time in college (a way of making up for lost opportunites in years past). After college, I aspire to become a lawyer (intellectual property possibly), but we’ll have to reconvene some time from now to see how that turns out (10 years ago, I wanted to be a fireman. Who knows where I’ll be 10 years from now?). I’d love to be married and have 2.2 kids and the whole deal eventually, but right now I’m focusing on broadening my horizons and exploring the world (philosophically and physically speaking). In the end, I suppose I just want to be remembered — if even Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and his fictional Kwik-E-Mart have instilled a stronger work ethic in the standard apathetic American teenager, then I can do something positive for the world too. Whether that be from volunteering in the Peace Corps or Teach for America to even serving this great country, I just hope that even as a single individual, I can make an impact on the world.

The End

So….thats it. Thats me. The crazy and the even crazier. Not what you expected, I’m sure, but an insight into my life nonetheless. Now have fun learning more about me through all the other stuff I’ve made/written/done, as scattered about this website :-D. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

-Ravi K. Udeshi

PS….Random

Having given you all that information about myself willingly and explicitly, I think I should just throw out some random information and you can infer from it what you want about me, my personality, and how many cute bunnies I’ve thrown out my car window so far today:

• “A girl asked a guy if he thought she was pretty, and he said no. She asked him if he would want to be with her forever and he again said no. She then asked him if she were to leave would he cry, and once again he replied with a no. She had heard enough. As she walked away, tears streaming down her face, the boy grabbed her arm and said: ‘You’re not pretty, you’re beautiful. I dont want to be with you forever; I NEED to be with you forever. And I wouldnt cry if you walked away…I’d die.”
• Mint chocolate chip ice cream (fat free, of course =D), although Strawberry (with real strawberries!) is nice too!
• Last year (2004-2005), Terrell Owens joined the Philadelphia Eagles and took them all the way to the Super Bowl. Now that Randy Moss, an even better wide receiver than T.O., has joined the Oakland Raiders, what do you think the eventual outcome will be? =D
• Shade Crimson has a way with words like a politician.
• My Volvo has “Whiptastic Handling”!
• ‘Mahatma’ Mohandas Gandhi was a pacifist and yet history’s most famous activist; he was the utmost advocate of peace and yet he was murdered.
• Youth is wasted on the young. Life is too short. Live every week like its shark week :-).

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