(umm)

(busy at work)

JH to the room: (chuckles) Hey do you know why the chicken crossed the road?

room: uhh...to get to the other side

JH: the other side right? .... whats the other side ??

room: uhh..i don't know , umm hell?

JH: no dude ! death... death is the other side... I just thought of it... that chicken crossed the road to get killed...

room: wow! that's intense

JH: yeah ?

room: yeah !

(back to work)

In reply to FB status msgs about the weather...

you know, I'm much more amazed at the earths ability to sustain life for billions of years than I am mad that its been a few degrees too hot for a couple of days...

http://library.rpi.edu/

And enter my first/ last name

Second, I googled my name, and it took me to

http://www.mendeley.com/tags/network+sciences/

which is another relevant link !

I was soooo excited !!!

Added to my "daily" dictionary ...

this past week, are the following terms

Chinook sprint 2, scrum lead, sanity testing, cdet, dijit, widget, portlet, scriptlet, liferay, rally, hudson, recommendation engine, mainline build, portal-ext...

poking

I like poking people....even though it is sorta stupid...

the ugly truth

One half of the world is filled with tiny little sorority girly, in petite jeans, with loud giggles, shiny hair and permanently active Facebook and IM clients.

The other half is filled with chirpy desi girls, in Disney princess themed, decorated cubicles.

To win, you have to be a man.

lunch

Aug 2009 to May 2011
Go down to the Union. Get yourself a nice Burrito/Sub/something.
Go back to your empty office.
Fire up a nice podcast.
Peace.

June 2011 to Present
Scramble around, look for a new group to go out and have lunch with.
Pile into one car.
Go to a new place everyday.
Order the wrong thing (cause the script on the menu is tooooo small for you to see clearly)
Make a lot of polite conversation.
Come back feeling full and late- to a crowded workspace, stressing about saying/doing/eating the wrong thing.
Blog about it.
Peace?

choices

20th January: this city of that?

10th June: this house or that?

13 th June: this boy or that?

20th June: This roommate or that?

22nd June: this Business Unit or that?

27th June: Authentic chinese noodle for lunch or that?

a life of passion

some people aren't afraid of uncertainty.

they give up their stable jobs, as engineers and go off into the unknown to become publicists, entrepreneurs and musicians.

Trusting their talent to keep them away from poverty.

I sometimes wonder if they have ever felt the feeling. The feeling of wanting what they cannot have. The feeling of poverty.

That's all it comes down to in the end really.

Are u afraid of being poor?

Yes. Very.

YEAH we do !

Artwork from the construction site.

Dedicated to PHAT people everywhere....

Cheers my brothers and sisters !

:D

Road rash

I funked my Road Test today.

what a waste of money/time/ PRIDE...

last look at the bulletin board

Fall 2009, Graduate Assistant days, What pain this picture taking used to be.

Glad I'm not going to be around to see them take it down.

Location: Level 1, Lally, RPI

Maybe I deserve better !

Yea you do.

Story of my life !

Next?

My last class. Today. Done. I had no one to say that to. Sad. Wired.

Last class ever? Probably.

Another thing about growing up is that you realize that you are running out of second chances.

Like a thousand piece puzzle of a clear blue sky..

Night at the Opera

If you saw 'Phantom of the Opera' on Broadway in New York City and put up pics of it on Facebook, titled "Night at the Opera", you are pretty stupid...

the difference

Lately I've been bothered by the fact that 'people' do not seem to know the difference between the words "marriage" and "wedding"...

If this is you, I'm sorry ! ;)

"Please attend my marriage"....grrr !

Ref:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070616224335AAI4BXQ

The wedding is the ceremony. The marriage is the life the couple leads afterwards.

March 31st

Somewhere, someone is laughing so hard it hurts :)

untitled

when you are all grown up, you will realize that you cannot have everything you want.

The cost of living

It was a little cold. A little wet. A little quiet. The Air.

But what else was left to say?

Anything is possible in human nature after all.. Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

Of the four things that are possible in human nature, Infinite Joy sounds the saddest.

... Courtesy Rahel....

pangs

10.35 am. I'm proctoring a two and a half hour midterm.

I am so hungry right now!

BC just walked out saying he cant do the quiz right now because his grandfather died on Monday. He probably just made that up.

JS has been smirking frequently. I'm relieved, given that I promised him it wasn't going to be too hard, yesterday at the office hours.

AB on the other hand seems to be struggling as usual. I have no faith in that one.

AZ is sitting with TK. Seems like they're really good friends these days.

KP is alone in the back and looks worried. Typical Indian Grad Student.

monopoly

the curvy one, the fat one, the funny one and one more...

Holly Golightly: Cat! Cat! Oh, Cat... ohh...

Its my parents' 28th wedding anniversary... and they're going to Breakfast at Tiffany's, which is actually the name of a restaurant !!
Trust my mom to come up with something cheesy like that ...

love, love, LOVE it ....!

house training a dog

I was going to write a long nasty blog post about how difficult it is to teach a certain someone how to not push me to my limit and compare it to potty training a full grown dog... but well umm no!

i'm onto you !

alright who s the wise guy who came by my office ten minutes ago n pushed a bag of skittles under my door, and in the process nearly put me in cardiac arrest ?

AT, AK, SR... i know it was one of u...

and FYI, I hate skittles...next time it better be MnM's...

hiya panda!

apparently, my black and white jacket makes me look like the kung-fu panda.. sheesh ! n here I though I was lookin so fly' in it...

trying to make plans to go see AS in Texas for some girl time..fingers crossed .. i m so psyched but have to go on a diet and buy some makeup be4 ending up there.. we cant have Kung-fu Panda(me) standing next to some Gisele Bundchen type(her) as her next FB profile picture !

Feb11.2011

I really am the poster child for "women who love boys who love boys"

u kno what i m talking about !

Feb07.2011

Washington DC. The westfield marriott at 7 pm

me: table for one please

host at the wellington's diner and pub : would you prefer a table or a seat at the bar ?

me: a table

host: how about that corner?

(...boring one hour playing with my phone, texting, and forcing dinner down...)

Washington DC. The westfield marriott at 9 pm, room number 144.

I'm back in my $ 300 a night room, with its silk drapes and Egyptian cotton sheets.

(....Yes I am showing off...)

Feb05.2011

Moments.. one of those days i hope to remember for ever... "dumb and dumber", u guys made me feel so brave...

frozen toes, karma taxis, henry to the rescue, "the hood", the Audrey Hepburn doubts, THE amazing Standard, the 2.40 show, the mugshots, mohan and the double thomas, the hot lava, and the slippery slope.

Feb04.2011

lab folks and the union, free pizza, mexican food, a wine bistro , downtown schenectady, a shady conversation, and rescuing a friend with lal duphattas...

felt like such a grown up today..

Feb3.2011

I watched 127 hours after an entire day of being alone in my room !...talk about a nasty awakening !

love love LOVE-ed it !

"You know, I've been thinking. Everything is... just comes together. It's me. I chose this. I chose all this. This rock... this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. It's entire life, ever since it was a bit of meteorite a million, billion years ago. In space. It's been waiting, to come here. Right, right here. I've been moving towards it my entire life. The minute I was born, every breath that I've taken, every action has been leading me to this crack on the out surface."

on happiness...

Clarissa Vaughn: I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

life lesson

people always surprise u.

build ur walls strong and high , when the weather is good, because its only a matter of time before they show u who they really are, and u ll be sorry !

complications

we lived with it. each of us lived with a separate awareness, of the same thing; that between the four of us, we may have loved a man to death ..

i really need a win right now too

best thing anyone's ever said to me:

"I made you sound super-interesting

all enigmatic

and conflicted and flawed and whatnots"

Thank u .. best thing anyone s ever said about me, to me . You made my day !

updates from Pittsburgh

Wednesday

ORA->File->Open Meta Network->Select All->Union All meta networks -> sum

Time it should take = 10 secs (two ticks)

Time it takes ppl here = half hour

seriously?!

Thursday

Oracle VM Virtual Box ... what would i do without you !

Friday

I went to the three rivers art festival today. I got to see art exhibits from all over the country, and then finished the evening with chicken on a stick and an outdoor concert (Justin Townes Earle). Yiran and I took the Holiday Inn shuttle which saved us a lot of stress !...

Saturday

PCANS and CONSTRUCT theory. I am so sleepy!.. I should pay attention.

Letter 1 from CMU

I reached safe and sound ! .. after waiting around for a couple of hrs
at the baggage carousal, i got my checked in bags.. phew!... Took a
cab from there to ****** House where I had to check in. The cabbie, a
friendly dude from Trinidad, told me all about the city (& his life)
in his typical sing-song Trinidad accent.
The place is so freakin beautiful.. set on a hill with CMU at the top
of the hill,, and U of Pitts and two other universities as you go on
down the valley. There's a main street, brimming with students. All of
this is a little away from main steam Pitt in a place called Oakland.
The actual city of Pittsburgh is lights, glass, and sky scrapers...
So, main street oakland has all these clubs n eateries n
quintessential indian restaurants & indian ppl, and used book stores
and bars and people standing arnd wearing fabulous clothes (the
beautiful ppl) and museums, and theaters n modern art stores n street
musicians and libraries...
SO anyway I checked in and moved to ********* house. All the rooms are
connected via the bathrooms...
Creepy thing.. the bathroom doors dont have locks !
The view from the dorm room window is that of a forest...(PS I hate
forests .. they creep the shit outta me)... the trees of the forest
are so close u can touch it by merely extending ur hand out the
window.. at night u can hear crickets and all the other crawly forest
insects !
The dorm is deserted... I think i m the only one in the building... I
had weird flashes of a serial killer in a trench coats with a hook
keep me awake half the nite... People should be checking in today ..
"fingers crossed" .. classes start monday...
I didnt have internet yest... apparently the workshop has to start for
them to give us accounts...

Last night, I got in late so I didnt get a chance to investigate, which left me eating Vending machine goodies for dinner...

the main street is quite a walk from the dorm
This morning, I managed to walk down the hill and find a starbucks and sign in to
the network.. thank god
Should get less lonely from tomorrow.. havent met anyone, worth
writing home about, yet.. just some women at a symposium (on post
racial america ..which was a tad bit racist :o), I wandered into for
lack of anything better to do..

will keep you guys posted

a lot can happen in 12 months

In 5 months I'm going to be 23 years old. 23 ! What have I done ? what have i achieved? I havent lived or done anything exciting. I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. and I see no clear possible way to change that. The one thing I wanted from life is to live with no regrets, and lately all i have is a whole bunch of regrets. whats the wildest thing I ve ever done? sat around getting bored when other people got drunk ... or is it maybe walking home alone from the library after midnite... or maybe driving above the speed limit at 7 30 am through the village streets in india... i ve done nothing. i ve seen nothing. A lot can happen in 12 months. Last May I was so sure I was heading to bigger and better things in life. and now I realize I may never be...

secrets

so many secrets .. so many secrets that are not mine to tell. Writing around them has become impossible.