Dr.Susan Xiao -Ping “Su” was arrested last week at her home in Pleasanton, California bringing one chapter in the entire sordid Tri Valley University scam to a close. UD had covered this earlier here.

From the Pleasanton patch newspaper:

Susan Xiao-Ping Su, 41, of Pleasanton, founder of Tri-Valley University, was arrested Monday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on 33 counts relating to student visa fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, alien harboring and making false statements, among other violations   ( link)

If you visit the Tri Valley University website, it displays a final message from Dr.Su:

The final message from Ms. Su as TVU’s President is an ENCOURAGEMENT to you all to MOVE ON! Let me give the closure by reminding and ensuring you all that: after the darkest moment is the dawn— a new day with the sun rising and shining!

In His Service and Grace!

I paraphrase an old saying  “Religion: The last refuge of scoundrels!”

As for the students, an ICE spokesperson told India – West that several of the students have been placed in deportation proceedings.

Kice confirmed that several former TVU students have been placed in deportation proceedings, but could not confirm the exact number by press time  (link)

The Boulder Court office where the so -called University operated is now closed. Presumably, it will be seized by the government and auctioned off.

I passed by the other day and took a photograph to show you all. Its closed up and abandoned. A gentleman from the neighboring unit was smoking outside and as I took the photograph he gave me a wry smile.

“When the truth is like a stranger, hits you right between the eyes”
Def Leppard certainly did not have Osama bin Laden being offed in mind, when they penned those lyrics but strangely, the lyrics of a sappy 80s hair-metal ballad fit the description of one of the most historically significant events of this young decade.

By now even the most ardent of the below-the-rock dwellers, know how Osama got his comeuppance from the elite US Navy Seal Team 6, one round above the left eye and one in the chest, in a harmonic rendition of the double tap. Random tip (100% free desi ishtyle): always use the double tap when dealing with zombies.

And while we’re at it, let’s call his assassination, ummmm, an assassination, not a killing, slaying or death. Not that it matters anyway, but there’s no shame in this assassination, the bastard deserved to die. I would’ve personally derived great pleasure in doing it myself and I’m not that violent of a person at all, but I digress. The other option would’ve been to capture him and hand him over to his buddies at the TSA as test dummy, but again I digress.

Now that everybody and their uncle has analyzed “the incident” and conspiracy theorists notwithstanding, it’s time for the questions to flow more freely than Osama’s brain matter on the floor of his million dollar mansion, a mere stone’s throw from what can only be described as Pakistan’s version of the West Point.

Questions abound:

Q. How the hell did they track him down?
A. Osama was fond of making tapes no one really wanted to see and sending them using a personal courier. Track the product, find the source. In software terms, we call it reverse engineering.

Q. How do we know that Bin Laden is dead?
A. The more important question is, will be pull a Tupac Shakur and continue acting and rapping long after his death. There is no convincing the non-believers, look at the moon landing conspiracy theorists for instance. So screw the non-believers and lets crack open an ice-cold desi tharra instead to celebrate this mosht wondrous occasion.

Q. Pics/video or it didn’t happen
A. This is one of Barack Obama’s shining moments as President of the US&A. Surely, you want him to wait till the elections for the multimedia ppt presentation of Osama’s death?

Q. Why did they bury him at sea?
A. Feeding it to the sharks as opposed to maggots? Good question. I guess at least the sharks have fricking lasers attached to their heads.

Q. Are we any safer?
A. This question was filed from the chronicles of the clueless and the naive. No, not really. But the revenge curry does taste yummy.

Q. Did the Pakistani army know Bin Laden was living in their midst?
Not that Osama being in Pakistan came as a big surprise, in fact far from it, it would’ve shocked me if he had turned up anywhere else. But to me the biggest, pardon my Hindi, WTF question stems from where he was found, as stated earlier, a mere stone’s throw from what can only be described as Pakistan’s version of the West Point. Did the Pakistani authorities not know he was living in a million dollar piece of property with high fences and barbed wires and killer Afghan hounds, to quote a cliche, right under their hirsute noses? As CIA Director Leon Panetta rightly asks “Involved or Incompetent”? On an unrelated note, the same people apparently handle nucular weapons.

Other random stuff:
-Can we have an elite Indian commando team gatecrash the Dawood Ibrahim compound in Pakistan? He’s another candidate full worthy of the double tap love.
-How cool is the story of Shoaib Athar, a Pakistani IT consultant, who accidentally live-tweeted the entire incident? **Insert shameless plug for the Über Desi Twitter feed**

A desi guy proposes to his girlfriend in San Fran (via @supremus). One of the more original ones we’ve seen in a while. If anything, the trends of flash mobs seems to be inspired by traditional song and dance sequences from Bollywood movies, so desis popping “the question” in this manner shouldn’t come as a surprise. Thoughts?

What is the black patch on the leather skin of either side of the Mrdidangam.

Paint? No.

From wikipedia -

“The bass aperture is known as the “thoppi” or “eda bhaaga” and the smaller aperture is known as the “valanthalai” or “bala bhaaga”. The smaller membrane, when struck, produces higher pitched sounds with a metallic timbre. The wider aperture produces lower pitched sounds. The goat skin covering the smaller aperture is anointed in the center with a black disk made of rice flour, ferric oxide powder and starch. This black tuning paste is known as the “sAtham” or “karanai” and gives the mridangam its distinct metallic timbre.” Link

Fascinating little entry.

Interesting video below via a friend’s Facebook update.

Having spent the better part of my evening yesterday in watching the snoozefest that was the 83rd Annual Oscar Awards, I thought I should at least get a blog post out of it. I watched the red carpet arrivals on E! and was sore that there was no sign of our very own Mrs.Aishwarya Rai Bachhan.This morning some internet trolling had me find the pics of  Aishwarya’s appearance.

Ms. Rai Bachhan at the Oscars 2011

( Image from www. redcarpet-fashionawards.com where you will find details on her outfit)

As the site helpfully points out : She carried a Jimmy Choo “Lana” bag. Other accessories included her husband Mr. Abhishek Bacchan. As you can see from this photo:

Abhi and Ash at the Oscars

( image courtesy : www.altfg.com )

Mr.Bachchan Junior cannot be bothered to get a nice shave even for the Oscars. What can one say? This is the guy who couldn’t be bothered to shave for his own wedding! Aish looked glamorous if safe . I am thankful she chose to wear her hair down and not in a beehive.

Also in attendance were A.R.Rahman and his wife.

AR Rahman and wife at Oscars 2011

Image from www.pinkvilla.com

Mad props to ARR’s wife for sticking to her  ethnic style in the face of all the cameras and heaving bosoms!

I may have missed a memo on this but did AR Rahman change his name for the western audiences? Why does every presenter ( starting with Alicia Keys 2 years ago ) call him A.R. RACH- MAN? Did I miss some name change announcement?