Hard way

Some times I like to do it the hard way. There is no reason for it. Is it okay to do it sometimes? I dont know. It really pushes you to the brink sometimes to the limits of frustrations. But somehow it seems ok when you wind up everything and what they call connect-the-dots.

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to all of you. Hope you guys are celebrating this day live-on not video-conf.
Ate a lot of cookies in the department seminar today in the name of Diwali sweets. But to my good I have befriended a very nice guy who knows to cook all kinds of sweets on his own. So I got one full sweet box tonight. I am obliged to him for innumerable times he has offered pineapple halwa, sweets, cakes.

You can get ankle sprain while jogging, running, playing and so on. Did someone ever get ankle sprain while studying? I did yesterday when I was studying for exam and having an apple for breakfast. The trash can was some stairs up and with the book in one hand and apple core in another fell down the stairs somewhat. Slight ankle sprain. Not much

exam

How does it feel when you fall behind in schedule. It feels like not to make scheduled task ever. Whatever. I need heads out of computer and heads-in on books. So much to plan. So little to turn out. How could I change!

I had exam after almost 2 years. Two months shy of two years. But it was good. The exam. Not me in the exam. 2 out of three questions.

Finally after much hunting and speculating I have my advisor and research topic in place. I will be working on thermochemical reactors to produce fuels from Solar energy. I hope we make this technology work some day and make it cheap. I am fed up with oil debate of all kinds.

Bar

Bar in America = Railway platform in India.
Except with a lot of sleaze. Or with a lot of 'freedom' in an another perspective which lot of us would like to have. Interestingly they call them The Library. Best trick for teetotallers that I learnt online and which matches my taste was to ask the bartender for 'non-alcoholic non-carbonated drink'. And the closest I got was lemonade which happened to be carbonated. And it did not match my taste for sure. No mock-tails, no soft-drink in the menu. Heck! Wrong bar for starters!
I liked it for the same reason as I like train journey. It is so rare to see crowded places in USA. When I recall my initial days, it would look like Section 144 in our place. This is the second time I saw this large crowd in this country. (First was in the state fair). After an initial interval T it became more monotonous than lively. So I was kind of bored and enjoying both. And sleepy too. So teetotallers should not go to bars or should not stay after time T.

On an unrelated note Rahul Dravid said in an HT interview: "I try not doing things that I’m not comfortable with."

Very well said

“If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances”


"If you have embarrassed yourself and are going to laugh about it someday, you might as well start today.”