Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Recent happenings

Officially my classes are gonna start tomorrow! Yipee so finally I am attending my first Master's Class.One of the professor has already released his course contents along with his exam Schedules.The Best and the worst part is that the midterm and Final exams are open books.So I can take my text book in and write my test.Now that would be a challenging one cos,then the Questions are not gonna be direct!!

The Project work carries only 15% of the grade.Looking forward towards the project so I can start coding again :).Missed it a lot since the day I resigned from Ericsson.

Well It is time for me to start studying and learn stuff.I am yet to give up on Campus jobs and the chances are less due to the high influx of Indians here.SO the opportunities are like long gone.

Digging into the facts now,gotta learn to wake early and sleep late.My aim is to sleep the required hours and not the extra so I can concentrate to studying.

Well I update regularly regarding this then.

-Alphy

Saturday, August 16, 2008

My Saturday Night mix

It is Saturday evening and I am relaxing on the couch with my roomies laptop browsing online.You could hear the Eminem's "Without Me" in the background and as the beat starts to kick into my veins ,I smell something really hot!.It was my roomies trying to cooking Beef fry.Boy was the smell good.

This is our first time.Believe it or not,we found the number of whistles required to cook beef in the cooker online.Isn't is really cool that NET comes to everyone's aid...I hope that we can try to eat the Beef after finishing the cooking else it would be real waste of $5 down the drain... :(

Will let you know regarding the results in my next post.

-Alphy

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Physic at work

So...
After fours years of gap ,I am taking up my Master's .Would this be a uphill task or a cake walk? I assume only the outcome can decide on that.Hmmm... One thing is for sure! After watching guys fresh out of college here,I can view that my way of doing things is bit different and slower ( surely I don't say mine is more mature!! so no laughs).Have to gear up and put on my thinking hat.It is really needed cos I am plannin on completing my Master's with thesis.So all high funda stuff but will I have the heart for it first? then the brain part comes in.( which I have assumed so far that I have!! :))ok,Moving on...

The university seems to be a really good place to learn and conducive to think,but I seem to be going towards the other direction.Just Kidding not yet started any!!

Well enough rambling for one day .Paid for my medical insurance this semester and it cost me $582( That is a huge sum ).It also seems that I have missed out on some of the shots required for Immunization ,so have to take on two more shots and that is gonna cost me another $100 ( It ain't covered in my Insurance :-( ).I think that I have never spent such a huge amount in one day in 10 minutes without giving much thought to that.No other option.

Well that kinda completes my day today.Forgot to add that today is my second day @ the Kitchen.Cooked some ladies finger fry.It had all the required elements to make it edible,but was not something that everyone would crave for.Well I think that would come with practice :).Don't laugh yourself to death,I was not the only one who ate it.

My mom had said that I would be a better cook than her,by the time I finish my Master's. :)) LOL. Pretty neat huh.Well I think I should start reading my textbooks for the courses from now onwards.

Well catch your guys later.

-Alphy

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

It ain't what I thought it would be!!

Always wondered how my stay in US would be?It ain't different from the fact that I have to cook,clean and wash my clothes myself.Now is that good or bad... Dunno?

Well It would help me to make myself into a responsible adult ( I hope... ).Cos My Parent's ain't spending money to become a sluggish rat!! Having said that..let's move on...Everything here is planned and built and not just at the moment structure.I saw a fire hydrant built at a place where there was just a road but no buildings nearby.Now that is forethought working for you.

The population seems to be less here @ the place where I stay and there are so many Indians,the Americans seem to be tourists here. Well atleast at my place.

Other than that everything else is same.The craze to reach America is really due to the hype and nothing else.But people here are really courteous and they say "Hi" on the road to a person who they will never meet in their life time again,but yet they do it....

That is really different here.Well logging out now.

-Alphy

Thursday, August 07, 2008

New Place

I have finally arrived @ US.Well I did think that the feeling would be different, but it ain't!! It is clouded with facts related to my study as well as my desire to search for an on campus to reduce the load on my parents...

I always felt guys once they reach US they do not have to bother about these stuff.But I was wrong.Think about the fact that u need to cook,clean,wash and study at the same time.Man it is gonna be tuff.Additional to that would be the fact that I need to work.

Hope this experience would help me to understand and become much more useful to this world.

anyway's c u guys later need to run to catch the bus.

-Alphy