http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/ Life's like that Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:30:06 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/68.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:26:40 GMT Had a whirlwind trip to India. It felt like I'd never been away. And now that I'm back, feels like I had never gone away...My desk in the basement awaits, the (dysfunctional) laser awaits and it's freezing outside. Actually, make that way below freezing. There are stories to tell, but I've decided to move my blog here. For now, it's time to run to class. Ciao... http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=68 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/67.html Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:51:33 GMT Every end is just a beginning of something else, apparently (until finally one gets to *the* end and hands in their dinner pail, as someone else quaintly put it). It started with, "Study hard and just get into IIT and then no more worries!" only to be followed by, "Did you stand first in class in the exam?" (I've grown up and come to grad school, but my mother unfailingly still asks me this after every exam, I guess it has something to with my being the only child of a schoolteacher :P). Anyway this is not supposed to be a rant because I passed my first qualifier yesterday! After a... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=67 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/66.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:16:19 GMT Two wrongs never make a right. Ever. My hair is falling out and turning grey. But the grey hairs stubbornly refuse to fall out. http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=66 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/65.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:21:51 GMT It is the small things that bring home the fact that I am growing older. Like having to punch my age into one of the machines when I go to the gym. Or when someone said, "I will love you forever", and I knew that nothing really lasts forever. I did find the poem I had been looking for - Time Zones I willed my love to dream of me last night, that we might lie at peace, if not beneath a single sheet, under one sky. I dreamed of her but she could not alas humour my will; it struck me suddenly that where she was was daylight still. --Vikram Seth http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=65 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/64.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:43:49 GMT I have been having entirely too much to do with skewers over the last couple of weeks. Three barbeques in the space of roughly 10 days. And lots of playing around with wooden skewers. I have a big gash in my thumb to show for all my efforts. Had a 'How to start a fire in a grill without setting the entire park on fire' lesson yesterday. It was a wonderful picnic yesterday, sponsored by the South Asian Grad/Professional students association (SAGA). Perfect weather, good food and lots of fun. Ended the day watching the movie 'It's a mad mad mad mad world'. Quite crazy, but being a movie... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=64 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/63.html Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:27:56 GMT I am tired of being bitten, poked, prodded, compared (and found wanting as likely as not), and having things hurled at me by way of sport. <I think Facebook is slightly driving me up the wall with it's million and one applications.> http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=63 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/62.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:10:52 GMT I just had dinner with friends where I rolled my own sushi. I was a disaster pretty much because I put in too much rice so the roll was rather plump. But the bamboo mat that is used to roll the sushi is an extremely neat looking device. That's on my new wishlist (I seem to have a new one everyday), a sushi making setup. No raw fish though, we played safe with smoked salmon, avocado, peppers, sweet potato and cucumber. No wasabi either this time. But I get the feeling that sushi night is going to be a regular feature from now on. As will be Thursday night 'Office' parties. And Sunday homework... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=62 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/61.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:56:26 GMT The song 'Bicycle Race' by Queen has been going through my head on and off for some time now. Though I think I overdid the sentiment and underdid the preparation for my bike tour in New York City yesterday. 55 miles, 7 hours, 4 bridges and countless traffic lights - it was pretty gruelling. I can't decide if running over those flyovers at the Mumbai marathon was tougher or the biking over the bridges. I wish I could remember all the places we rode through, but it is sort of a blur. It was fun biking through Times Square, thrilling to cross the Brooklyn bridge and good to see the Verrazano... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=61 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/60.html Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:01:10 GMT Note to self : Never make plans to leave lab early on a weekday. Some calamity will inevitably take place 15 minutes before I have to leave resulting in said plans getting messed up. With that out of the way, it has been a crazy weekend. And it feels like I've been sitting on a bike for ever and ever (I think that mostly had to with the fact that I had not been riding my bike for a while now, there are reasons for that also but this sentence is getting too long now so never mind). Since I signed up for a 55 mile bike tour for next weekend, I decided to finally haul myself outdoors and... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=60 http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/archive/59.html Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:51:03 GMT I did it! Survived a year here without a computer of my own. And as soon as the year ran out, succumbed and bought myself a macbook. I love it! Not that I am sufficiently computer-savvy (yet) to appreciate all it can do. But while checking out all the options in the Photo Booth, I realised that the Squeeze feature makes me look disconcertingly like one of my classmates from college. The summer has gone by. And I spent 6 weekends in a row in New York City. Well, not exactly. More like took a ride on the Metro-North train 6 weekends in a row. Of which, the train broke down twice. Met some... (more) http://cuttingchai.blogdrive.com/comments?id=59