Sanjay

I first met Sanjay in 1991 while visiting David D in Hayward.  Man, Sanjay was
always funny.  I always used to amaze him that to this day, I could remember
what he was wearing that first day we met. 

 
I remember the video that he, David, Greg, and Rodney made for school - don't
remember what class it was for - but Sanjay played Popcorn King Pin (or
something like that) pretending to be a drug-lord but instead of drugs, popcorn
was his deal.  I remember the red classic Mustang he drove in the video.
 
Sanjay helped me pick-out a suit back in 1993 - right down to the shirt and tie
- for a Christmas party I was going to.  His mom even pressed it for me so I
would look great - well, as good as the suit could look anyways.  There's only
so much a suit can do.  He also introduced me to the person I took to that
Christmas party.
 
I remember Sanjay coming to work at Costco with us.
 
I remember we always used to bet that you could not go ANYWHERE without someone
recognizing Sanjay.  One night at the Edge in Palo Alto, we bet that someone
would recognize him.  Sure enough, someone came up within five minutes of our
arrival and said "hey Sanjay!"  So many people knew him - people I knew that I
didn't even know they knew him.
 
I remember the first time I ate at Sanjay's house - OH MAN could his mom cook! 
Meat that would just be so full of flavor that you didn't want to swallow it. 
I'd have kept eating all night long if I wouldn't have embarrassed myself.
 
I remember at my wedding, my wife's purse disappeared.  We thought perhaps it
had been stolen.  Sanjay went around the hotel grounds looking in the bushes, in
the parking lot, and even in a suit and tie, jumped into the dumpster to see if
someone ditched it there.  That was the kind of person Sanjay was - he'd do
anything for a friend at any time of day or night, any day of the week, all you
had to do was ask.
 
My prayers go out to Sanjay's family.
 
I'll miss you, Sanjay.
 
Dean