i tripped n landed in DC... :)

DC trip was amazing.... especially.... whn i walked around DC wit a 5 yr old kid...who loves everythin about it.... there's no more happiness  i can get...!!! n d day was for to attend the kite festival in DC....ended up visitin d national building museum, and spendin worthwhile hours of watchin her do a hat, a kite, her teahouse, n finally face painting...!!! 

on our return home... took a gud 10 min slide out from d car to capture d beauty of cherry blossom and d foggy day...!!! felt like givin u d link to my album...!!! here it is...

Njoy.... n hey wait.... this was wit my family... 

probably ll go next week wit my frnz... hold tight for some amazing snap shots....

update about my campus rep thingy... :(

to those who dunno what the update is on...read the previous blog i posted... !!!!

apparently...nothin much to say about it...i am OUT... because of the restrictions to the job i can do in US being a non-resident...
nevertheless, for the cool part of it... i get to wear koofers t-shirts :) n i have 5 of them with me... :)
and a whole bunch (100 cards of different sudoku games to be precise) to play around with.. n for a die-hard fan of sudoku like me.... m sure i have the got the best out of this job :).

on the look out for the next job !!! :)

In or Out...!!! My dilemma with koofers continues....

Sounds an interesting name isn't it... Koofers is an interactive community that serves the academic needs of users through information sharing. The service provides users with vast amounts of information (instructor ratings, grade distributions, past exams, quizzes, study guides, etc) with the intention of facilitating collaboration and "leveling the playing field" for all students. For more details visit www.koofers.com

And I came to know about Koofers through my Network in Facebook. Was a blessing in disguise because the day I signed in to koofers to have some fun, there was open-positions for campus rep available. Why would someone like me wanna waste that opportunity... And hence the application.. I was not surprised when I received a mail, as I was expecting a negative answer. But to my surprise, the .... of Koofers sent me an e-mail asking for a phone interview...and I was on cloud9... The interview(wasn't much of an interview though) or rather the interaction went on for some 10 min, and he said he would send me over a packet of koofer sponsored t-shirts, flyers, sticky notes, ... for to start off my campus rep job..!!! wow....that was quite fast... 

But now here comes the real question... being an international student, can I work for this organization, who is not recognised by Mason... Well, I kinda don wanna lose a job which is gonna b total fun and has a big learning curve involved.. but on d other hand, I really don wanna step on the negative side of law and face d worst situation...My tryst with koofers continues...

updates on  my decision pending...!!!

the best picture....

Being 4-in-1....

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I dont actually understand why some people take pictures of themselves when they go travelling. Isnt the whole point of travelling to see something new? I think they need evidence to show that they were really at those places or they have difficulty identifying themselves, so they need constant reminders ;)

Being 4-in-1 - having a good eye, a good camera, steady hands and innate talent to create beautiful pictures - i prefer to take pictures of nature, good architecture, random shots of unknown people.

Thats why i have problem finding pictures of myself in my albums, and once in awhile i have pictures of my friends which i take out of reluctance usually.

And no it has nothing to do with me being fussy about how i look in pictures...thats such a silly thought! Which is why I never lose the patience to pose for a shot taken by my friends... :)

when i once had a not so boring routine...

I always like the fact that there were so many interesting things happening in my life... Things that I liked in my daily routine include :

- every morning, I get up early, with no heavy heart to go to work

- at 7:30 am every morning as I head towards the bus stop, I would bump into this cute little girl about 4 years of age, singing and giggling as she holds her grandfather’s hand to go to the nursery school

- on the bus, I would sit at the exact same seat, the 3 seater near the exit door, with my 2 other friends.

- on my way to college, I would send my morning greetings to ‘my close gang of friends’

- I see the cleaning lady, mopping the parquet floor as I stepped into my college building and we greet each other ‘good morning'

- I sit by the window of the class, giving me a clear and vivid picture of how beautiful the world is... 

- I get to walk along Olympus Road, everyday evening with pleasure from my day's class, whereas everyone else would usually drop by the road only after work to do some shopping

- my precious password to start my computer everyday...passwords give the real feeling of security.. 

- when I am meeting my friends for parties/get-together/even jus a cup of tea...

- I still have different groups (ALVERNIA, ALG, AMRITA, now GMU and lots of others) of very close friends, whom I meet regularly.

I am still here (part of me at least is...)

A few of my friends were asking me, why I don't update my blog more often...the crux of the matter is that i do not have much more to say and I feel all that i wanted to say does not really matter to others, except to me. Everything that i wanted to say, has been said, all that in my head and my heart, is already a bleak reminder of my every day...and i just want to be set free...to be given time and space to recover on my own (assuming that there is ever a chance of 'recovery') and that there is a better place for me. 

I find that life is getting harder to sustain and it gets very difficult at times. I keep telling myself, that there are many less fortunate people out there...but if i dont get to cry for myself, then who will cry for me? Its strange how your life can change so drastically, not too long ago, i would be waking up to receive sms-es from the night before and would instantly be sending morning greetings. now, i dont even want to look at my mobile, cause all that i have is a blank screen. no new messages, no sms-es to send to anyone. 

Its funny how one can become invisible suddenly...

Irony? probably... I wanted to be left alone by one group of people, but i ended up being invisible to another.

The past week has been quite eventful... There was so little I did, when there was so much I had to do...

@ d beginning of d week...on monday to be precise.. had an exam..n it was snowing cats and dogs.. was kinda hoping that the exam would get cancelled, but it turned out to b a blessing in disguise.. the exam was damn easy..n m sure i'll hit an A :) well...i always feel it's coz I spoke to my lucky charm before d exam.. d same happened last sem...

Tuesday...had a homework submission, and it got postponed to friday...that is where it all started to go wrong.. First up, didn't bother to start off with the homework @ d beginning of d week...when i knew i was gonna get strangled with it @ d very end.. n when i knew finishing it early could ve saved me from getting into so much of trouble by the end of the week... I still didn't bother.. !!!  Was a hell lot playful, into chatting, and njoyed till wednesday. 

The following are some of the events of last week... that I would remember for a long time....

On wednesday nite... I started off with the homework..of designing a simple systolic filter using DSP 48's and implementing it using VHDL.. for the technical geeks out there, u know what I am talkin about.. 

didn't spend the whole nite on it, but yeah this is where my 65 hour day started..by day i mean, i didn sleep after tat, and all my nites are considered day... I shall remember d wednesday for 1 more reason... coz of d call i made to bellevue, washington.. spoke to my frnd aparna ( who is here after her marriage ) for about 2 hours... n believe me...i hope i dont get billed heavily for that call....neverthless, i had a gr8 time speaking to her, n was really nice to get in contact wit my frnd after a long time... 

thursday n friday... work + homework deadline = m sorry for myself... really didn sleep and had 10 hours of work ( combining d 2 days)... no more xplanations...but yeah..i was dead tired on friday.. came home...had my dinner..n slept.. 

wasn't quite eventful,was it ??? ... well...it was not actually...there were only 2 things which were lingering in my mind... 

hw.............hw..............hw ==  don sleep...don sleep...don sleep

n i successfully wrote d exam, submitted my assignment... :) n also slept for almost close to 20 hrs on 48 in d weekend... now m up n running this week, but as it is spring break, i dont have classes.. m jus going for work.

i hope somethin eventful happens this weekend... wait for my update on it.

Signing off for now !!!