Pratik

University of Cincinnati, University of Maryland Smith School of Business, The Ohio State University (weekends, '93 - '98)

University of Maryland - College Park, Attended 2001 - 2003, Class of 2003, Master's Degree, MBA
University of Cincinnati, Attended 1993 - 1998, Class of 1998, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Loha Ka Nawab, Observer of the Random and Obscure

Mittal Steel, The Indian Mafia (a.k.a the CinCity Crew), Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter, UC Alumni, Smith School of Business Alumni Chapter, Liberal Secular

Go Bearcats! from UNC, Blue States, Working Out, Cooking, Mountainbiking, Reading, Salsa, Sleep, Astronomy (Really!), trying to win my money back at Poker; My Bearcats, Buckeyes (06 is our year, again), and Dolphins, and Bengals (yes, in this instance I am a fair weather fan); Espana y Miami tambien, Becoming a Bollywood Actor, Watching Hindi Flicks, quoting lines from Anchorman, throwing pumpkins

Currently Reading: Age of Turbulence by Greenspan, Thousand Splendid Suns, How Soccer Explains the World, World is Flat; Favorites: Kite Runner, Bill Clinton: My Life; The Celestine Prophecy, Tortilla Flats, I enjoy techno-thrillers like Crichton (Timeline, Airframe, Prey...) and more recently Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code); Most Grisham, Angels and Demons, Jack Welch: Straight from the Gut;

Top Gun, Dances With Wolves, City of God, 7, Anchorman, Pretty Bad Things, O-11, Dead Poets, Old Skool, Swingers, Shawshank, Bronx Tale, Mafia (Goodfellas, Casino, etc..), Anything Pacino (Scarface, GF1 and 2, Carlito's Way), Anything DeNiro (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, etc.), DIL

Currently getting overplay on my iPod: Ben Watt - Buzzin' Fly V.4, Miguel Migs - Those Things, New Tracey Thorne (Finally!! but no EBTG), latest Killers, U218 - The Singles, My musical tastes are diverse but first and foremost for me are U2, and House - music most genres - Deep, Disco, Latin, Progressive, and Electro, also trance (circa 1998-2001!); and then there is everything else..rock, hip-hop, jazz, Bollywood, and even country (from the Midwest yaar!), Favorite artists: Ben Watt, Everything But the Girl, Blondie, Jay Hannan, Naked Music, Kascade, John Mayer, Live, David Grey, Wallflowers, Tribe Called Quest, P'Jam, Fleetwood Mac, Counting Crows, The Police, Old REM, Oakenfold, PVD, Moloko, Thievery Corp, Sade, Lazy Dog, DMB, 2-Pac, Jay-Z, The Killers; Favorite Albums: The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Ten, August and Everything After, Under the Table and Dreaming; Temperamental, Transport V1.

Rescue Me (on DVD), What About Brian, 6 Degrees, Rome and Entourage reruns, Mind of the Married Man (Best show not on tv no more), Telemundo, Univision, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Friends, Growing up Goddi, American Choppers, SportsCenter, Seinfeld, Cosby Show Reruns, Law and Order

Virgo

Anything is possible!

Just trying to MAINTAIN balance in my life right now between family, friends, work, and the things I like to do. Other than that I am trying new things out like mixing my own music, indian cooking, and golf.

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die tomorrow."
- James Dean

Good people...with a goofy, sometimes(no often stupid) sense of humor (like mua) who don't take themselves seriously...that is pretty much it!

Famous people (past and present): JFK, Bill Clinton, MJ, Dan Marino, and Edge (I want to ask him if he is really making those ridiculous guitar sounds all by himself and if he ever gets sick of Bono's messianic speeches:))