| A Tribute to Aashish: The Top 10 Moments
 <-- Ladies and gentlemen, this man here is one of my best friends. His full name is Aashish Tejprakash Kabra. He also goes by several nicknames including: A-Kab, AashKab, Hashpipe, and Hash-brown. You'll commonly hear him say words like "daw", "shiest", "leet", "ownage", "unf", "blah", and several curse words. When online, you'll often see Aashish "mash" with the letters o,e,i,f,w,and u (oweifuoiuwefoiuwefoiuweoiuwofei).
This entry is dedicated to my dear friend of over 8 years and counting. Because I have read many long entries and top 100 lists in other xanga entries, I felt that it was time for me to write a long entry. Below I have compiled a list of 10 moments that I have shared with my comrade over the years of our friendship. I stayed away from incidents that would embarass or insult the name of Aashish. Also, these are moments that I have shared with Aashish, so if I have missed your favorite moment, chances are I was not present. So here we go, The TOP 10 Aashish Moments:
10. Aashish and Jesse- We'll go back to my 6th grade English class. This class was of course taught by Mrs. Smith (excellent teacher). One day I was asked to be Mrs. Smith's helper by passing out papers. Not knowing who Aashish was I got him confused with Aishu (man those Indian names). So I passed Aishu's paper to Aashish and vice versa. I continued to do this several times and I began to notice that Aashish would always give me a WTF look. Something like  . I then realized it was not Aishu. This is how we came to know each other, through misunderstanding and odd facial expressions. This is how we came to be Aashish and Jesse.
9 1/2. I felt that moment #10 was not such a great moment, but it was the first time that we met so I decided to add another moment, hope you dont mind. This leads me to moment #9 1/2: El Venado. We go back to junior year and a school tennis tournament in Houston. Aashish and I played on the same tennis team for 6 years! Anyways, it was cold and we had nothing to eat for a good 4 hours after being left by our coach to fend for ourselves. Along with us was fellow comrade Angela Hsiao. We were located in a place I would like to call Tex Mex. Many hispanics were located in this area of town and we were obviously the minority. Hungry, we went searching for food. We noticed many Mexican restaurants across the busy road. Desperate, Aashish flings his tennis bag over his head and starts to scream "LETS GO, WE'RE CROSSING THE BORDER!!!!!!" Not noticing the hispanic public staring at him, he dashes across the street to a local restaraunt called El Venado. Upon entering the empty restaurant, Aashish yells again, "EL VENADO, WHERE ARE YOU EL VENADO!!" At that moment an elderly hispanic lady enters the room with a sorrowful look on her face....<sigh>
9. Bubble Bath- It was senior year and we were tired of not getting enough eprops on xanga. Aashish and I were contemplating on how we could get as many eprops as we could. Brainstorming for hours, Aashish came up with an idea. Without me knowing, A-Kab posted a picture of his father taking a bubble bath on his xanga and simply titled it: The Entry You've All Been Waiting For. I saw it. It was genious. We immediately sent it out to all our friends and they eventually sent it to their friends. By the end (a week or so later) he had received the most eprops I have ever seen anyone take in. He later took the post down in fear that adults would soon read the entry and think poorly of him. That moment would forever stay in my heart as the best xanga entry... UNTIL...
8. Celia Khuu- (sorry Felix) It was a time in our lives when mothers were the main topic of discussion, whether it be at lunch, practice, or just plain after school gossip. We knew every mom's name except for one, Felix's mom. Felix would continually deny any identity to his mother (for good reason). One day, I came across the tennis roster which listed the names of the player's parents. I thought to myself, "How should I get the word out about Felix's mom's name (Celia Khuu)?"...Aashish. After hearing, Aashish immediately made a xanga entry about this incident. I believe it is still there if you would like to read it (www.xanga.com/wtfhash on the 8th of January, 2004). The next day, Aashish and our fellow friend Tarak plotted against Felix. Upon Felix entering the tennis study hall, the two had made everybody chant "Celia Khuu". Even those who were utterly disturbed joined in on the action. And when Felix entered the room, Aashish yelled "WHO DO WE LOVE?!?!?" and the team responded.."CELIA KHUU!!!!"...Ahh, its moments like these that make me want to shed a tear.
7. The Notorious Hashpipe- By mid senior year, Aashish had already been known as the blunt Indian who played tennis for Clear Lake. After all...we were seniors...we ruled the court, especially our home court. Aashish has been known to scream things like "COMMON", "LETS GO!", and my personal favorite "NICE SHOT AASHISH!!" He had also pegged people with the tennis ball while serving and started laughing. OK...we all did that. And Aashish always made it clear to the opponent to respect him or else... Well one day the father of an opponent decided to test these waters. He secretly talked to his son during the match (this of course is illegal in UIL tennis). Infuriated, Hashpipe yells at the father, screaming curses and things kids normally don't say to adults. Eventually the coaches had to calm down the fighting between the two. Aashish made it clear what the rules were and who was to be respected that day. After intense fighting, Aashish went back to the match. He won the match very solidly. Nicely done my man.
6. The Midnight Masher and Disaster- This moment takes place in our dearest Art History class of senior year. We never paid much attention in that class b/c the teacher taught through television from a neighboring high school. The lights were turned off and everyone was tensely quiet taking notes while watching a video. All of the sudden, we hear laughing and screaming. I knew this was Aashish because the noise he made sounded like when he mashed on AIM....(oewoifiowoeifowiefowifoweifiuiuweofiuwue, just imagine someone saying that). He began pounding the cabinet behind him like a mad man and no one knew why. Then we hear a collapse of some sort. Something had fallen from the top of the cabinet and we heard loud cursing everywhere. We turned on the light and found out that Aashish had made some heavy wood blocks fall on our friend Brenton. BTW, Brenton is probably 6 foot 1 and well over 200 lbs. At the sight of Brenton's face, Aashish immediately dashed to the front of the room screaming "oweifiouewoiufewoiufwoeifuwoiefuwoif". Oh Aashish...
5. Coach Notis...did he notice? (no pun intended)- This moment brings us all the way back to junior year during tennis practice. Aashish was in his caveman mood and decided to peg everything that moved. He was then told by Coach Notis to stop. Very politely he did. Coach then continued to teach us a new drill we were about to practice. Then...out of the blue...POP...a ball had hit the back of Coach Notis. Coach turned around and looked directly at Aashish for he was the only one standing in that direction and the whole team was on the other side listening to coach. After 5 seconds of silence and coach's mean face, Aashish finally realizes that he was the only one on that side of the court. Very furiously, Aashish turns around to the football players who had been practicing on the field behind the tennis courts and yells "HEY MAN, WHY DID YOU THROW THAT TENNIS BALL AT COACH NOTIS, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YA'LL!!" An angry Coach Notis then told Aashish to sit out of the rest of practice. Good times...for me at least.
4. Ironing Board- It was our senior tennis trip to Corpus Christi and we had just hired a new coach on the tennis team...Coach Heim. We had to break him in, we had to show him who ran the team...we had to show him who's boss... So over the course of the night we (Me, AKab, Felix) decided to bother coach Heim. We did a series of prank calls to his room and knocked on his door. After 30 minutes we decided to put an ironing board against his door so that when he opened his door, the board would fall on him. Now all we had to do was try to get him to open the door. We began throwing tennis balls at his door (our room was right across the hall from his b/c he knew we were the trouble makers). Then we quickly crawled back into our sheets to pretend we were sleeping...Little did we know, Heim was watching the whole thing through his peep hole. So when he came in he started yelling at us. Innocently Aashish said "Coach wtf are u doing, we're trying to sleep". Coach responded with a cherry red face, "I KNEW IT WAS YA'LL, I SAW YOU GUYS THROUGH MY PEEP HOLE!!" We then laughed at what he said and went back to bed. Later that morning, Heim threatened to send us home and tell our parents. With Aashish's persuasion, Coach decided to give us a second chance....Thanks Hash.
3. Legolas- Back to the Art History classroom. Even though we were taught through the television, we were supervised by Ms. Monroe (to this day one of my favorite teachers). Aashish was being Aashish again and Ms. Monroe finally told him to shut up b/c we were watching another video and we needed to take notes. Aashish then told Ms. Monroe, "Ms. Monroe, BE QUIET, I'm trying to learn here"<-this was Aashish's reply to everything when told to shut up in this class. Finally she threatened to give him a d-hall so Aashish replied "ok ok, I'll calm down" (note: this was already the second time Aashish was told to shut up) He was good...well...for a minute or so. Then he looked over in my direction (we were on opposite sides of the classroom), turned his cell phone music on (at the time it was the theme song to LOTR), put on his green hoodie, and said, "yo Jessman, look at me...I'm the elf from Lord of the Rings"...I couldn't help but laugh and neither could Ms. Monroe, although I knew that she badly wanted to give him a d-hall.
2. Italian Pay Phone- Aashish and I took a field trip with our Latin class to Italy during our freshman year. It was arguably the best week of our lives to date. We toured the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel, and we even lost ourselves from the group in the ancient city of Pompeii. There was great site seeing, delicious food (gelato..yum), funny tour guide, and an awesome phone booth.."Phone booth?" you ask...Yes, phone booth, Aashish's phone booth. Aashish was missing his mom (Rani) at the beginning of our trip so he decided to call her...at 2 am. But the hotel room we stayed in didn't have a working phone. So Aashish decided to run outside and use the pay phone at the corner of the block. At this time it was about 40-50 degrees outside...very cold, especially if you're in ur boxers and beater. Aashish, wearing nothing but his boxers and beater, not even his shoes on, ran outside to the payphone. All of the sudden I hear a scream. I ran to the window to open it and find out what was going on...Out of the corner of my eye I spot a little brown spot running across the street in extremely cold conditions. I laughed and decided to go down the elevator and who is in the elevator nonother than our tour guide, Franco. It was quite a long elevator ride with about 30 seconds of awkward silence. He then shakes his head. I look at him with concern. He asks me "was that your little Indian friend that I just heard?" Trying to hold back my laughter, I say "yessir". He looks at me and says.. "You have a very hungry friend" and leaves the elevator...WTF, I decided that was too funny and fall laughing...by then the elevator had closed and I was going up again. I never had the chance to join my comrade in the cold weather but I was with him in heart the whole way.
1. Kirolos- Finally we've reached number 1. If you've read this far I thank you greatly, I have never written a xanga entry this long and I appreciate that you took the time to read it. Now let me tell you something about Kirolos. He was a foreign exchange student from Alexander, Egypt who just happened to be placed in the same Algebra 2 class as me and Aashish. This man was not a bright one... He wasn't the best looking character either. At the first sight of him, Aashish said "DAW" with a disturbed look on his face. This was the origin of the word "daw". As said by Aashish, "daw" is defined as the immediate reaction and noise one makes at the sight of Juan Carlos (this was what we called Kirolos because whenever he told us his name he would mumble...and it sounded like Juan Carlos). When asked where his bookcover was Kirolos would go as far as say such things as "dis mine" pointing at a bookcover right under the teacher. Poor child recieved a 0 on the first assignment simply to cover his book. Aashish and I couldn't help but to laugh. I know it sounds mean but man was it funny. One day the teacher worked out an algebraic problem on the overhead and even written out the answer...which was 4. BUT, Kirolos had other plans for himself, upon working out the problem Kirolos screams "YES!! NEGATIVE 18!!" Oh this did it for me and Aashish. We just started to burst tears of laughter as the class joined in. But don't worry, Kirolos just didn't understand English all that well and was later put in another class. We aren't that mean...But to this day Aashish and I have been associated with Kirolos since our sophomore year. This was the highlight of our friendship. This was the best Aashish moment to date. Oh the good times.....
If I have left out your favorite Aashish moment or if you would like me to create a top ten list for you feel free to let me know. I'll do the best I can.
Until next time, enjoy my entry and continue to let the good times roll...
-j.shen |
...u might wanna try to look as much as u can like me...i know its tough but thats how this world works....