Football at TAMU
Howdy,
Nothing beats the aggie spirit. Despite all odds, the home team shall always find a stadium full of students dressed in maroon shirts, standing, and cheering until the end of the game. Consequently Kyle field is ranked as the #1 college football stadium in the nation.



The thrill and excitement in the air at each football game is worth mentioning. It just cannot be expressed in words and has to be experienced. Further, to see a world cup sort of match, you need to witness a TAMU Aggies vs. t.u. Longhorns* game.
* "Varsity's horns are sawed off"

At the actual football games, Aggie fans stand throughout to signal their willingness to serve as "12th man" on the team if the coach should need them enthusiastically waiting to barge in when the eleven men on the ground need assistance. That spirit of readiness for service, desire to support, and enthusiasm helped rouse a flame of devotion among the entire student body; a spirit that has grown vigorously throughout the years. The entire student body at A&M is the Twelfth Man, and they stand during the entire game to show their support, and always ready in the stands waiting to be called upon if they are needed.

That’s football at TAMU.

Gig ’Em Aggies.

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Aggie Spirit: From the outside in, you can't understand it. From the inside
out, you can't explain it. That is why others do not understand.
# posted by Hemal Modi @ 2:49 PM  -   0 comments

 
Bonfire

The spirit of Aggieland - Can't say it any better than the these 4 links.

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Kyle Field

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Thunderstorm

Yesterday when I left for home to take my dinner we had a nice grumbling dark sky and suddenly it was all flashing thunder and few big bangs and hard wet big-drop downpour. It reminded me of my days in Bombay. It was truly impressive. Sitting there on the dry side, listening to the Jagjit singh and recollecting a few old shayaris I spent a few moments at peace with myself. I had a few impromptu feelings that I captured in my diary during those inspiring moments with the rain dancing across the street and the grand flash-and-boom effects in the sky.

Again it was an amazing sight with wispy clouds and clean blue skies, when I returned late in the night after the thunderstorm had subsided, but was too late to call anyone, but I wished I could talk to someone special ;).

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the rain too – though I hate the chilly morning that followed. Its not that cold, but its clouded and windy.
# posted by Hemal Modi @ 1:55 PM  -   0 comments

 
NOT Multiple Personality Syndrome

Most of the time I am obedient, kind, and more concerned about others than me and usually apathetic, indifferent, laidback to the incidents that transpire around. But sometimes I get this feeling. Or should I say feelings? Angry, mad, upset, hurt, confused, lonely, sad, depressed, all in one, deep inside. Nothing in particular has happened, but it just appears out of no where and I just wanna hide. Seldom out of those unexpected feelings a wrathful manifestation comes out and I get hurt and my heart breaks.

I'm sure my friends & family thinks it’s just me being silly, no one really understands that I hate this feeling. They'll never be able to actually see. I don’t blame them, I only snap, during those situations, when they ask me. I don’t mean to, but I can't help it. Later I feel empty and so sad and guilty for doing that. It's like a circle. I just can't win!

It's like I've lost my old self, the person I knew I was before; someone I liked. Now I'm just someone else and I'm not sure who. It scares me. I don’t know what I'll do or say next. I'm a different person and the old me has just gone, disappeared somewhere. I get so angry sometimes, so full of rage and it comes from nowhere! I don’t understand it. It really scares me. Though it’s not chronic, I am not sure what instigates it. Anyone else get that feeling too?

Is it possible to feel like a different person every so often that sometimes it makes you think who you are?!

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Words that cannot be said, stream down the face :(

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Telemarketers

Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers:
Three Little Words That Work !!

(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off(instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there,is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times,as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!

(3) Junk Mail Help:

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea ! If enough people follow these tips, it will work---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.


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