I was waiting for a table at Decibel with a friend in East Village last Saturday when in walked a guy that looked just like Tobias from Arrested Development (played by David Cross). He has a pretty distinctive look:

but I wasn’t exactly sure it was him. Then I saw that he was with a really beautiful brunette and figured it either had to be David Cross or a rich guy that looked like him. They ended up sitting right next to us and were really into each other so I didn’t want to bother him.  I waited until he was about to leave and then told him that Tobias was my favorite character on Arrested Development and that the show should have never gotten canceled.

The funny thing is, had this been most celebrities I probably wouldn’t have cared. Although I am still hoping to run into Larry David one day, or even be involved in some sort of humorous situation with him.

I already live in my favorite place in the world, New York City, so I’d have to say my favorite vacation spot is my family’s house in Rochester Hills, MI. It’s hard to beat hanging out with my little sister, talking with my dad about world events, technology and other random things, and bothering my mom in the kitchen and eating ridiculous amounts of her food.

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Like most people I get asked this question often, but sometimes my answer is a bit complicated. Some people when they ask me this question are wondering what my ethnicity is. This happens a lot after I tell them my name or they read it off a list. In my experience these people are usually in an older generation than me.

I usually answer with something like, “I was born in Michigan and my parents are from India.” I can’t really answer their question with “India” because I’m not from there, and if I say “America” it’s a bit strange as well and not really answering the intent of their question. If I say, “I’m an Indian American from Michigan” they’ll probably be confused and think I’m Native America (damn you Columbus, you thought you found India you lazy bastard!). So I’m stuck with the awkward answer in between.

However, I’ve noticed that nobody in my generation or younger really asks me that question with the intent of finding out my ethnicity. They’re really asking which part of America I’m from, to which I can easily say Michigan. I wonder if this is because they’ve seen enough Indian people to realize my ethnicity or if they just don’t care.

Does this happen to any of you second/third generation in-betweeners?

Also, I can say without hyperbole that Columbus is history’s greatest monster – not for killing thousands of Native Americans but for thinking he found India.

Every once in a while I check out my footprints in Xanga. A couple of days ago, I saw that somebody reached this post:
http://weblog.xanga.com/vikas/643904168/a-happy-ending-to-a-filthy-night.html

from here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Manhattan+chinese+massage+happy+ending&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org

Unfortunately, I think whoever he (maybe she?) was ended up disappointed after being tricked into reading my post with it’s somewhat misleading title. However, I like to think that they found happiness eventually, if only for a little while.