The story of my Laptop...

After I reached U.S, I realized that a Laptop was an absolute necessity. I found that I had a lot of free time and I liked to watch movies/series online to kill time. An Internet connection with unlimited download was the motivation I needed to buy myself a new laptop, with a minority of its time being spent for my studies (Grinning...).So Finally I got a new HP 14'' laptop with 12 cell battery and a 128MB Nvidia graphics card. It was an awesome piece of technology that I used daily to play games like Crysis I & II, CoD: MWI & MWII, AOE & CS to name a few. Man... I used to spend more time playing games and watching movies... than studying with that laptop. The minuscule amount that I spent for my studies were also productive [Big grin again...] . It has withstood my continues barrage of buggy code and never had it given up on me. The laptop trusted me. But after 2 years... four semesters down and I am trying to finish my Thesis...my laptop just shutdown's down one fine evening.

The screen flickers for a few seconds and then it goes blank. I am thinking either the OS crashed or my program crashed, so I do the most efficient way to restart a windows machine.Give is a hard reboot!!. And so it starts to boot up and then the screen freezes again. I am like keeping my fingers crossed to hard reboot again. This time even the BIOS does not execute. F***, I am screwed. All of my data regarding my Thesis is on this laptop. I am cursing my self for not taking the backup.

Like any self-respecting Computer Engineer, I try to fix it by myself by removing battery, HD and even the RAM and I stop myself there, cos I couldn't go further than that. Since the warranty had expired , I can't ship it to HP for fixing it. So I paid an expert to check on my laptop and the diagnosis: "MOTHERBOARD, kicked the bucket!!".

It looks like, it can take only so much abuse...As I am writing this, my laptop is in the corner of the room stripped of its stomach( Hard Drive) waiting to be scrapped.

I am so attached to that laptop that I am refusing to give it up, even for scraps now. It has been there with me through a lot of tough times...(:D).

And that is the short & tragic story of my Laptop.

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

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