Blogging is Bluffing
Its been real long... Primarily, I din't have anything to blog on and secondarily, no time... believe me, there is one professor in the EE dept at TTU, who has made ME work :(
Today I had to attend a class at 8:00 A.M and I feel like, as me and my roomie always say, I have the time to move the Alps to Australia..
Attending class, come back home, eat what your room-mate has cooked... Its all a real nice feeling, when you don't have to do a thing... In this period of timelessness, I have played close to 90 games of Yahoo Chess!
Nothing interesting happening otherwise, except for the leaps India has been taking towards becoming one of the fastest developing countries in the world (well, it has been a developing nation for decades now, but please don't count the Congress era)
Nothing much to blog, only have one of my friends' sob-stories and disappointment with his pay-slip, and to him, hey, you'dn't believe, I got half of what I was told as my salary for one full year... Now, do you feel better?
Other than this there is only a feeling of shame, for I couldn't find out a mistake in my C++ code for 3 full hours and had to go for someone else to fix it... Real bad, when I had worked 2 years in a software company, only I know what I did there, though...
neways, enuff boring with this blog, shall try to get something worthwhile next time, no guarantee though....

a r rahMANIA
A few days back I'd have been reluctant to talk so highly of the most successful music director in India today. For, I still feel, Isai(laya)Raja has given us more diverse stuff, but, the last few days, I've been sleeping to BOYS.. Wasn't very impressive the first time I heard it (not unlike any other Rahman composition), but, now, well he has made me eat my words...
BOYS, Shankar couldn't have done so well without Rahman, and Rahman cannot have this kind of music so big a hit if not for Shankar... well, we know what happened to that movie called Kaadhal Virus or whatever....
I start listening to Ale Ale.. and then go on to Rahman's cameo in Kannichaami pudhusa malai erum naalappaa..., even before I come out of that hallucination, he drowns us in the next delusion of Arasiyal thirudargal pugalidama? and as I keep humming it, there comes sowcarpetta paandi anne..... well, too many tricks up his sleeve.. (when Vaali has excelled in the first two, he shows his poverty for words in the last one)
I don't think I'd get critical of him hereafter, even if he fails to give real good songs, as he experiments a lot, only it takes real long time before you start listening to him time and again, and not longer from then, do you discard them as old...
Whatever it is, I'ven't seen Bradman bat, but, I've listened to 2 geniuses scoring music... Only then comes Lara, but, there's nothing after that... Kudos to them... Who's next? Our next generation needs somebody to pur encomiums on...

Kalavum Katru Mara...
The one adage that we have followed from childhood... Atleast, I've learnt everything and experienced most of the things in life.. left a few to happen if iam lucky enuff ;)
I still remember flicking 25 paise from home to buy a bubble gum (that was the name in which it was sold then, BIG FUN came a li'l later) and followed it up sooner with Rs.4.50, for hiring a MOFA for my first ride on an engine vehicle.. Infact, I was caught that day and that was the last day I attended my mrudhangam class :(
When I watched the full of BOYS yesterday, happened to recall so many past memories, only, Shankar had slightly overdone it here and there, like the overly done special effects in BoomBoom and ofcourse...
Not really sure if this is going to have a good impact on the Indian (atleast tamilian) youth, who want to model their careers based on films (Cricket and movies have biggest following in India). The good thing about the movie is, it instills that self-confidence in every lad, but, it also gives that presumptuousness to fight your parents and go out of your house, only, can the climax be so fruitful in everybody's life?
When I say I've experienced most of it, you'dn't believe me, I've bunked classes, I've tried my hand at smoking and drinking (fortunately, the former was really bad for me to stick to and the latter din't help me in anyway), had a real good job and earned a good name and lost a friend in a real bad accident...
Iam in no great position now, but, atleast, Iam happy Iam better than so many others... Sometimes, I really get to feel that I have no reason to grumble, for I have lots that others don't..
But, the one thing I have realised in life is, its your parents who are everything for you.. If not for them, you are nothing... I for no reason (and please god, don't give me any) would go out of home...
Its been a lot boring.. Learnt a few things from the movie too... neways, Inpromation is wealth... makes a nice SOP caption, uh?

LIAR LIAR
Really no time to stumble on this... But..........................
Yeah, happened to watch a part of BBBBBBOYSS today, thanks to my roomie....
Again, was time for Shankar to come up with sometihng sub-standard (to his levels), which he's, so far(I"ve watched only the first part of it) done pretty well..
My attempt is not to review the movie, well, I only opine even otherwise, but, this time Iam not going to touch on it.. But, it so far shows a very practical happening in a guy's life.. The metamorphosis (can't call it adolescence though...) into a MAN.. I should say, I hate(d) girls... Honestly, I"ven't had ONE girl friend till my Master's and now not more than one, but, she's a very good friend of mine, trust me, she's a GREAT friend in fact, I've never thought of her as a GIRL friend...
Anyways, I happened to see a new blogger on the blo(g)ck... He touched on lying and din't want to name the liar...
As most of my friends should now be knowing, I really get irritated, when people lie, not on petty issues though, but, something like, they say, they'd call back, or come home or reason out some evident lie for not picking our call or responding or coming out somewhere with you... It really hurts... (Not that I don't lie, but, I try with my fullest conscience that I don't hurt anyone with that) You don't know if they don't like moving with you (well, I know the same ppl moving pretty well with some guys and tell behind their backs that they're irritating and boring) Doesn't that hurt? For this reason, I have stopped talking with many of them..
Anyways, that's one reason why I wake up with lesser friends every morning... Is that a relief? Or does that add to my miseries? Well, I atleast have one friend who always understood me and would come back to say sorry and get going together... only that he's gone to India now and Iam waiting for him to come back.... Hopefully, he comes back soon, when, hurraayy, he'll be in Lubbock for sometime... Pep up VS, you're going to have a nice time in October ;)

Early Enthusiasm
The semester has begun and my early enthusiasm has got me trapped into it again. As I had mentioned before, I have registered for two courses and auditing two more.. Still, confused which my second registered course should be...
I have put myself in a triangle, with Grade, Assistantship and Interest as three vertices. Taking three courses is only going to make my situation tougher. One course - a cakewalk, another - need to adorn my resume and third - apparently would be useful for my thesis, taking all three will make it a Bermuda Triangle............
The other course I audit, well, it 'd be better if I talked less of that.. Not a great professor, not a great class either, only the contents of the course are toooooo good and something I had wanted to do... It makes even more irritating when there is a Monica Seles playing tennis by your side (NOI)...
To add to all these, I need to grade a course, where even before I know what the course is all about, there are students with competed assignments :((
Anyways, I would overcome all this someday... Not very far from today, I'll lose interest in a few courses and stop attending these audits...
There's something heartening though, pakistan might lose to Bangladesh in the test, giving the latter their first Test victory. Good Going, Keep it up Bangladesh. Still, Federer lost... not that Nalbandian is a bad player, but, I wanted to see Federer vs. Agassi final:((

Its been quite sometime...
Well, its been quite sometime, not I was busy all these days, only I din't have time to blog.
Went to Carlsbad Caverns last weekend... Had a real nice time, it was a place worth travelling to, particularly when compared to the useless Paloduro Canyons we had been to last week.
So, that's what marked the end of long, boring and still much needed summer break. Now, Fall has started again... One year in US... Wasted part of my career...
Looking back this one year has been the most wasteful stage of my life... Did not do anything useful, made nothing new... In fact I have lost the ability to think... Banked on some people thinking they'd make good friends... Got cheated more frequently... Anyways, now I have decided to keep myself busy with four courses and grading another, that makes it kinda-sorta 5. Well, the sem has just begun, GOK how long I'd continue to have more than one... Let's see

Number of things to get busy - coursework, thesis, football games, cricket and refreshing some C knowledge....
Hope to have a better semester