It has been raining here for sometime now. Today we had a lot of rain too. And the best was when there was a dramatic formation of dark clouds in the evening. The sun's rays were adding more drama to the visual extravaganza.
2 Canadian Geese have made our plaza (the open space surrounded by apartments) their home (temporary?). A little grass lawn is where they spend all their time. They seem to be a couple. The male generally looks out on guard while the female feeds on the lawn. They also cackle a LOT! Its one of the few sounds which almost wake me up (wish my alarm clock could cackle!!). I can see them partially from the partial view I have through the room window. A nice couple.
Earthworms are almost everwhere in the school sidewalks (foothpaths). Lone ones, short ones and squished ones are the most seen! Its tough to avoid stepping on them, but I manage most of the times.
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Monday, March 28, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
First day of Internship and job fair
Today was the first day of the internship and job fair. Out of the many many companies that came to the campus, there were not many who were for Grad students in the IT sector and among these few quite a lot of them were looking for students who were US citizens.
Stood in long queues, along with the other desis to hand "1 or 2 page only" resumes.
Typically the conversation would start:
company official: "Hi, how are you today?" and then his/her name.
we respond: "Hi, how are you?, my name is..."
then a brief exchange of words relating to the company and the work, perhaps a few questions. Then after handing over the resume,
company official: "Thank you for visiting us. It was nice meeting you".
we respond: "thank you for your time, appreciate that. It was nice meeting you too".
-END-
go to next company's table.
-REPEAT-
that was it, a tiring day!!
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Stood in long queues, along with the other desis to hand "1 or 2 page only" resumes.
Typically the conversation would start:
company official: "Hi, how are you today?" and then his/her name.
we respond: "Hi, how are you?, my name is..."
then a brief exchange of words relating to the company and the work, perhaps a few questions. Then after handing over the resume,
company official: "Thank you for visiting us. It was nice meeting you".
we respond: "thank you for your time, appreciate that. It was nice meeting you too".
-END-
go to next company's table.
-REPEAT-
that was it, a tiring day!!
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Spring is here
Although it is still cold, but for sure the spring is here !! :)
Last week after a loong time heard some birds, the Canadian Geese are heard honking as they fly overhead back to Northern destinations, the days are warmer (though the nights are still cold!!) and calendar wise, the spring break is over, so for sure the spring is here !!
It has also been raining here. The first rains!
Typically after the spring break or around that period, the days are warm and so one is tempted to wear light, but then the nights are so cold that if one wore only light clothes thinking that the day was nice, one would freeze! So in the mornings I carry a big jacket which looks so incongruous since it is nice and warm at that time, but then the same incongruous jacket helps me from shivering in the night and becomes such a life saver.
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Last week after a loong time heard some birds, the Canadian Geese are heard honking as they fly overhead back to Northern destinations, the days are warmer (though the nights are still cold!!) and calendar wise, the spring break is over, so for sure the spring is here !!
It has also been raining here. The first rains!
Typically after the spring break or around that period, the days are warm and so one is tempted to wear light, but then the nights are so cold that if one wore only light clothes thinking that the day was nice, one would freeze! So in the mornings I carry a big jacket which looks so incongruous since it is nice and warm at that time, but then the same incongruous jacket helps me from shivering in the night and becomes such a life saver.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Evening...
It had almost happened so smoothly that one would have to strain to notice it. Late evening had faded into the semi-darkness of the dusk. The light was very low, just little to suggest that the sun somewhere down the horizon, had perhaps stopped for a while, confused and lost as it looked for its lost path.
A few red streaks across the sky went well with the shadows of the clouds. A lone star somewhere shone. I was left alone, watching this as I sat on a rocky outgrowth of the little hill. Above me now and then, a few parakeets would fly, excitedly calling out, announcing that they were on the path to home.
Light faded a little more. All the colours were now gone save for the redness of the skies. Everything now looked either gray or black. It would soon be night, the end of another day.
The sun accepted it, the stars accepted it, the birds and the animals too accepted it. Even the little breeze changed itself to go well with the dusk. But all across the horizon, little lights went up, we were still trying to continue the day farther into the night, while the rest of the world accepted that it was time to rest.
I moved back homewards.
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A few red streaks across the sky went well with the shadows of the clouds. A lone star somewhere shone. I was left alone, watching this as I sat on a rocky outgrowth of the little hill. Above me now and then, a few parakeets would fly, excitedly calling out, announcing that they were on the path to home.
Light faded a little more. All the colours were now gone save for the redness of the skies. Everything now looked either gray or black. It would soon be night, the end of another day.
The sun accepted it, the stars accepted it, the birds and the animals too accepted it. Even the little breeze changed itself to go well with the dusk. But all across the horizon, little lights went up, we were still trying to continue the day farther into the night, while the rest of the world accepted that it was time to rest.
I moved back homewards.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005
strays....
somehow a poem of mine strayed in here....
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"...
no shackles, nothing chained,
the vastness of the lands,
the free blue skies,
existing from here to infinity,
existing continously.
in a moment is a life time,
a life time is a moment,
leaving just a dizzying trail,
deep into the blue.
"
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(c) Deapesh.
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"...
no shackles, nothing chained,
the vastness of the lands,
the free blue skies,
existing from here to infinity,
existing continously.
in a moment is a life time,
a life time is a moment,
leaving just a dizzying trail,
deep into the blue.
"
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(c) Deapesh.
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Monday, February 28, 2005
Digital cameras, impressions, memories....
Digital cameras are very useful in making memories permanent, BUT do not allow us to form impressions.
The Eiffel tower looks great, especially in the night when the yellow lights suggest that the entire structure is made up of gold. BUT, instead of looking at it and reflecting upon its grandeur, all that I do is to click photos.
This is the bane of digital cameras. The owner shifts focus to making memories that perhaps last longer than the owner's lifetime, but suffers from a lack of personal impressions and memories. A price too great to be paid. It would be better to go and look at it, to wonder, to form impressions than to look at it constantly through the camera's lens and click photos.
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The Eiffel tower looks great, especially in the night when the yellow lights suggest that the entire structure is made up of gold. BUT, instead of looking at it and reflecting upon its grandeur, all that I do is to click photos.
This is the bane of digital cameras. The owner shifts focus to making memories that perhaps last longer than the owner's lifetime, but suffers from a lack of personal impressions and memories. A price too great to be paid. It would be better to go and look at it, to wonder, to form impressions than to look at it constantly through the camera's lens and click photos.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
SHARCS - Paris
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
philosophy.......
S wrote this to me:
"theres something in Bhagawat geetha that says "Everything that happens, happens for the good" ....so not to
worry!"
I replied back:
I like the weakness in being
expectant, of having expectation.
for perhaps, perhaps, the joy in getting the
expectation fulfilled compensates the sadness in it
not getting fulfilled. moreover it provides that ray
of hope, to which we can cling on. and though we might
slip and fall down, we again perhaps look for another
ray of hope to cling on.
if everything that happens, happens for the good, then
I should have been a very happy man now.
so the Bhagvad Gita gives a simpler way to lead life, to
leave all expectations and all thoughts of the fruit.
yes, I agree, if one sacrifices the joy of
expectations being fulfilled, then how can there be
sorrow? that is also my complaint with that philosophy
(though I TRY to follow it), that, I have to sacrifice
all joys so that I do not feel sad.
while my aim was to not have sorrows only.
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"theres something in Bhagawat geetha that says "Everything that happens, happens for the good" ....so not to
worry!"
I replied back:
I like the weakness in being
expectant, of having expectation.
for perhaps, perhaps, the joy in getting the
expectation fulfilled compensates the sadness in it
not getting fulfilled. moreover it provides that ray
of hope, to which we can cling on. and though we might
slip and fall down, we again perhaps look for another
ray of hope to cling on.
if everything that happens, happens for the good, then
I should have been a very happy man now.
so the Bhagvad Gita gives a simpler way to lead life, to
leave all expectations and all thoughts of the fruit.
yes, I agree, if one sacrifices the joy of
expectations being fulfilled, then how can there be
sorrow? that is also my complaint with that philosophy
(though I TRY to follow it), that, I have to sacrifice
all joys so that I do not feel sad.
while my aim was to not have sorrows only.
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Sunday, February 06, 2005
The new apartment
when I landed here, went straight to the new home. It is block of apartments, high rise buildings with many people living, a representation of people in this city.
Its an ok place. Though not as good as the earlier wherein I had a BIG window for myself, where there were trees and lawns and benches (I had planned many a time to go and sit on them, but alas never could), where there were nice little streets with trees growning, ya that was a better place in terms of nature.
Here we dont have the dryer not the washer in the apartment. Have to go to the ground floor to get the clothes done. But that is not a big hassle.
Its been a week only and I haven't seen the whole place yet. But for sure one complaint is that my room (which I share) has a little window which anyway is where my roomie sits. So I dont have a window, no access to the sky, no exit from where I can fly.....
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Its an ok place. Though not as good as the earlier wherein I had a BIG window for myself, where there were trees and lawns and benches (I had planned many a time to go and sit on them, but alas never could), where there were nice little streets with trees growning, ya that was a better place in terms of nature.
Here we dont have the dryer not the washer in the apartment. Have to go to the ground floor to get the clothes done. But that is not a big hassle.
Its been a week only and I haven't seen the whole place yet. But for sure one complaint is that my room (which I share) has a little window which anyway is where my roomie sits. So I dont have a window, no access to the sky, no exit from where I can fly.....
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Friday, February 04, 2005
Life twists and life turns.....
As I sit and brood endlessly on the direction of my life. worry about what I want and where I am going, I suddenly see that there are a lot of people in the same boat.
Troubles and worries haunt many.
Be it the late night talk in the car with a friend or the talk to a junior in the lab, I discover the strifes of my friends.
Life surely keeps us on our foot.
And so,
Cheer up, life is ALWAYS a struggle, ALWAYS.....
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Troubles and worries haunt many.
Be it the late night talk in the car with a friend or the talk to a junior in the lab, I discover the strifes of my friends.
Life surely keeps us on our foot.
And so,
Cheer up, life is ALWAYS a struggle, ALWAYS.....
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Ruskin Bond
When did I read his first book? What made me a big fan?
Going back in time, my memory serves me to the days in school when I must have been in the 9th or the 10th standard and I picked up a copy of "Panther's Moon" from my school library. I guess that was my first Ruskin Bond. But I completely fail to recollect if that was the reason for me to become a Bond fan.
From recent years, just a few years back, in a II hand book shop, I chanced upon the compilation of all Ruskin Bond's works (which Penguin had brought out). That led to many a satisfied afternoons of reading. And undoubtedly since then, the passion for his works has continued and even increased.
Last month, one of my friends, C presented me with an autographed Ruskin Bond book!!! Ruskin Bond had written my name on it!!! Its a prized possession of mine.
Sadly now, when I find myself short of time to read his books and more sadly out of reach of his books, I will surely miss him, perhaps forget him for sometime in the hustle and bustle of daily life. But then, on some glad holiday afternoon, I shall remember him again, remember the hills, the forests, the trees and the drama unfolding there again, long to read another book of his again, yes, that I am sure of !!!
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Going back in time, my memory serves me to the days in school when I must have been in the 9th or the 10th standard and I picked up a copy of "Panther's Moon" from my school library. I guess that was my first Ruskin Bond. But I completely fail to recollect if that was the reason for me to become a Bond fan.
From recent years, just a few years back, in a II hand book shop, I chanced upon the compilation of all Ruskin Bond's works (which Penguin had brought out). That led to many a satisfied afternoons of reading. And undoubtedly since then, the passion for his works has continued and even increased.
Last month, one of my friends, C presented me with an autographed Ruskin Bond book!!! Ruskin Bond had written my name on it!!! Its a prized possession of mine.
Sadly now, when I find myself short of time to read his books and more sadly out of reach of his books, I will surely miss him, perhaps forget him for sometime in the hustle and bustle of daily life. But then, on some glad holiday afternoon, I shall remember him again, remember the hills, the forests, the trees and the drama unfolding there again, long to read another book of his again, yes, that I am sure of !!!
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Monday, January 31, 2005
Back in the US
Australia trip got over a long time ago. The blog pages have still not been updated though :( Then was the India trip. That got over too and now here I am in the US, in the coldest time of the year.
It was snowing yesterday and that looked pretty neat. But then to enjoy it, one needs time and leisure, that is something I dont have now sadly.
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It was snowing yesterday and that looked pretty neat. But then to enjoy it, one needs time and leisure, that is something I dont have now sadly.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
The First day of the conference.....
The first day !!
Rain in Summer !!
Although the weather web site had mentioned that there wont be any rain till Thursday the first thing around 8ish in the morning to happen was rain. And I hadn't packed an umbrella ! Well it had rained the previous afternoon too and my Prof and me had to share 1 umbrella as we tried getting back dry to the dorm from our afternoon visit to the nearby marketplace. Anyways, today morn it was heavy. While I ate a sumptuous breakfast in the canteen, the rain picked up intensity.
the dining area needs more explanation. It was a place of contrasts. The entry was very mundane, it was through the kitchen where we had to show our passes for free breakfast. The chefs were making nice stuff while the manager served us onto our plates. After filling the all the plates that could hold in the tray, we moved to the dining area which is a big room with a huge glass wall overlooking a green patch, while the rooms interiors are predominantly made of wood. Pretty round tables with nice chairs around. There was also on a platform a special grand chair with the emblem and such stuff on it which perhaps was for the president. The walls were adorned with the paintings of people whom we assumed were presidents or men of such high posts. It was indeed a very pretty place. There was also a large keyboad there, perhaps to play music on special dining days.
A quick hurried breakfast got us back to the rain. We had not much idea as to where the conference centre was. I had seen a sign earlier in the morning and so we went that way. The rain was pretty bad now, and as we were sharing an umbrella, one sleeve of mine and of Prof. started getting wet. It was a 5min or so walk, and pretty soon enough we were joined by other people going to the conference venue. All of us had not much clue which way to go. The signs stopped after the first 2 or 3 boards !! Asking people here and there, we managed to get to the centre. Then we realised that the registration desk was in another building!! So again in the rain (a drizzle now though) we managed to register ourselves. And then back to the conference center again.
The conference center was more like an Indian auditorium. Nothing much special about it. That was where we spent the rest of the day listening to some nice and some boring talks.
Lunch and short tea breaks were served in the registration area and we would every time walk to that place and then walk back.
Till evening there was nothing much interesting. The first part of the evening saw us attending the reception. It was a dull affair. A few eats and a few drinks. Perhaps I enlivened it up a bit, by making the interesting observation that the Australian glasses are quite strong and bounce atleast 2 times before shattering to pieces !! The multitude of bags that I have, ensured that one of them tipped off a glass placed on the edge of the table. In the evening, my Prof another Prof, a student from Finland and myself decided to go to the city area. Things started happening now. We made our way across to the riverside where a boat was to take us to our destination. The boat was a good means of public transport here as a river runs by. The river itself was quite broad and seemed deep. Hopped into the the boat, and the river cruise began. The lady manning the ticketing counter was quite a personality. She spoke a lot with us and then also gladly referred us to the best sea food hotel in the place where we were going. That done, we took pictures of the city from the boat. As the evening got darker the city looked prettier and prettier. There were these skyscrapers with lots of glass windows because of which each of them was very much lighted up.
The stop we got down at was called the "riverside"!! Well, all the stops could be called that I thought !!
It was a beautiful place. There were nice buildings, lots of lights and a loud party going on in a club. We made our way to the hotel we were in search of. We got ourselves a table for 4 and settled down. The lady/girl serving us was called Amanda. She turned out to be quite a personality. She would get angry at our questions !! It seemed to us that our normal routine questions were not the routine in Australia. Anyway after a lot of "that is also excellent, this is also excellent" the rest settled for the dish of the day while for me she asked the chef what could be prepared as I would eat only a vegetarian dish. I was offered some potato based dish without the fish ingredient in it.
The salads arrived, then the main course, then the desserts and then the bill. All the while we enjoyed a conversation with Amanda who was actually from Melbourne and had been in Brisbane only for the last 5 weeks and was working full time here. She was of the opinion that Brisbane was not mature enough, was a fast city and was nice.
Late in the night it started raining again and again I put my Prof. to discomfort. We got to the ferry place and then after a ride back got to our stop while it rained heavily now. We managed to walk for some time in that heavy rain. A gym which was open at that time (10ish) made me try to get an umbrella. The girl behind the counter turned out to be not so helpful. She only would recount the notes in the cash box and that seemed to be on her mind. Just a few paces ahead was a campus security car. I tried my luck again and this time just after a little explanation of our situation the gentleman asked "Are u trying to get a ride from me?" A quick yes to that question ensured us a ride back to Emanuel college, which is actually a dorm.
that was it. End of the day. I hit bed straight after realising that my laptop would not recognize the camera straight away from the USB port and needed some software. Luckily I was carrying the CD with me. Installed the software, started copying and hit the bed.
Now at 6am, it is raining again. Today we intend to skip some lectures and go a little sight seeing. Imagine the Profs suggested this !! A Prof could suggest skipping lectures and visiting places instead...I thought that wouldn't happen...but I am not complaining :)
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Rain in Summer !!
Although the weather web site had mentioned that there wont be any rain till Thursday the first thing around 8ish in the morning to happen was rain. And I hadn't packed an umbrella ! Well it had rained the previous afternoon too and my Prof and me had to share 1 umbrella as we tried getting back dry to the dorm from our afternoon visit to the nearby marketplace. Anyways, today morn it was heavy. While I ate a sumptuous breakfast in the canteen, the rain picked up intensity.
the dining area needs more explanation. It was a place of contrasts. The entry was very mundane, it was through the kitchen where we had to show our passes for free breakfast. The chefs were making nice stuff while the manager served us onto our plates. After filling the all the plates that could hold in the tray, we moved to the dining area which is a big room with a huge glass wall overlooking a green patch, while the rooms interiors are predominantly made of wood. Pretty round tables with nice chairs around. There was also on a platform a special grand chair with the emblem and such stuff on it which perhaps was for the president. The walls were adorned with the paintings of people whom we assumed were presidents or men of such high posts. It was indeed a very pretty place. There was also a large keyboad there, perhaps to play music on special dining days.
A quick hurried breakfast got us back to the rain. We had not much idea as to where the conference centre was. I had seen a sign earlier in the morning and so we went that way. The rain was pretty bad now, and as we were sharing an umbrella, one sleeve of mine and of Prof. started getting wet. It was a 5min or so walk, and pretty soon enough we were joined by other people going to the conference venue. All of us had not much clue which way to go. The signs stopped after the first 2 or 3 boards !! Asking people here and there, we managed to get to the centre. Then we realised that the registration desk was in another building!! So again in the rain (a drizzle now though) we managed to register ourselves. And then back to the conference center again.
The conference center was more like an Indian auditorium. Nothing much special about it. That was where we spent the rest of the day listening to some nice and some boring talks.
Lunch and short tea breaks were served in the registration area and we would every time walk to that place and then walk back.
Till evening there was nothing much interesting. The first part of the evening saw us attending the reception. It was a dull affair. A few eats and a few drinks. Perhaps I enlivened it up a bit, by making the interesting observation that the Australian glasses are quite strong and bounce atleast 2 times before shattering to pieces !! The multitude of bags that I have, ensured that one of them tipped off a glass placed on the edge of the table. In the evening, my Prof another Prof, a student from Finland and myself decided to go to the city area. Things started happening now. We made our way across to the riverside where a boat was to take us to our destination. The boat was a good means of public transport here as a river runs by. The river itself was quite broad and seemed deep. Hopped into the the boat, and the river cruise began. The lady manning the ticketing counter was quite a personality. She spoke a lot with us and then also gladly referred us to the best sea food hotel in the place where we were going. That done, we took pictures of the city from the boat. As the evening got darker the city looked prettier and prettier. There were these skyscrapers with lots of glass windows because of which each of them was very much lighted up.
The stop we got down at was called the "riverside"!! Well, all the stops could be called that I thought !!
It was a beautiful place. There were nice buildings, lots of lights and a loud party going on in a club. We made our way to the hotel we were in search of. We got ourselves a table for 4 and settled down. The lady/girl serving us was called Amanda. She turned out to be quite a personality. She would get angry at our questions !! It seemed to us that our normal routine questions were not the routine in Australia. Anyway after a lot of "that is also excellent, this is also excellent" the rest settled for the dish of the day while for me she asked the chef what could be prepared as I would eat only a vegetarian dish. I was offered some potato based dish without the fish ingredient in it.
The salads arrived, then the main course, then the desserts and then the bill. All the while we enjoyed a conversation with Amanda who was actually from Melbourne and had been in Brisbane only for the last 5 weeks and was working full time here. She was of the opinion that Brisbane was not mature enough, was a fast city and was nice.
Late in the night it started raining again and again I put my Prof. to discomfort. We got to the ferry place and then after a ride back got to our stop while it rained heavily now. We managed to walk for some time in that heavy rain. A gym which was open at that time (10ish) made me try to get an umbrella. The girl behind the counter turned out to be not so helpful. She only would recount the notes in the cash box and that seemed to be on her mind. Just a few paces ahead was a campus security car. I tried my luck again and this time just after a little explanation of our situation the gentleman asked "Are u trying to get a ride from me?" A quick yes to that question ensured us a ride back to Emanuel college, which is actually a dorm.
that was it. End of the day. I hit bed straight after realising that my laptop would not recognize the camera straight away from the USB port and needed some software. Luckily I was carrying the CD with me. Installed the software, started copying and hit the bed.
Now at 6am, it is raining again. Today we intend to skip some lectures and go a little sight seeing. Imagine the Profs suggested this !! A Prof could suggest skipping lectures and visiting places instead...I thought that wouldn't happen...but I am not complaining :)
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Sunday, December 05, 2004
Brisbane Australia - FPT conference !!!
7:38 am dec-6-2004 Brisbane, Australia
Its just wonderful here in Australia. All that I wanted seems to be here. Got up at around 4am due to the jet lag. Had the exam still pending so worked on if for an hour or so and then it became just impossible to sit inside while many many birds called out from outside. Had to go out!! The exam could wait.
The birds perhaps knew that I was interested in seeing them and so called so often. I walked out into the open with my camera and binoculars. Professor was still sleeping. He didn't seem to be jet lagged and was following the time of this place. But I was sure feeling good about being jet lagged which enabled me to get up at such early morning hours. Given my life style I surely wouldn't have got up at 5am.
Anyway, as I stepped out of the guest house, the first bird was a white and black bird, slightly larger than a Myna. It allowed me some nice snaps. Further ahead, I saw some beautiful parrots/parakeets (?) lush green with red and yellow, to match them, there were a few red all over!! A few ibis like birds, a sure yellow wattled lapwing cousin, many crow like birds, with different eye ring colours and a few other birds kept me busy.
The other nice thing was that now a group of cyclists would pass me by. That was so cool! This is what I wish to do, watch birds, cycle a lot and be in an academic setting. Queensland Univ of Technology was offering me all this ! A little water body some steps ahead had rowers rowing furiously in sync. People having walks in the morning, pretty gals running by, oh this is heaven on earth I suppose :)
The conference starts today. Its around 7:45am. Hope to get some breakfast before we leave for it. Will carry my camera and the binoculars along so that I can make more use of this great opportunity. Already I have more than 10 new birds in my list :)
Yesterday, on a nice sunday afternoon had lunch on the street ! Wel, not on the street, the hotel extended upto the street. A tiny place called "Tidy". Had some long named veg dishes which I ordered while my Prof. thoroughly enjoyed a fish. The setting was nice, a drizzling afternoon, good food, hot coffee, on the street watching life, people around..yes this is how sunday afternoons are meant to be.
And.....the exam, yes, gotta work on it too. Perhaps the best time would be night, when the world outside does not beckon me any longer to come and explore its charms.
Australia at this point of time seems great !!!
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Its just wonderful here in Australia. All that I wanted seems to be here. Got up at around 4am due to the jet lag. Had the exam still pending so worked on if for an hour or so and then it became just impossible to sit inside while many many birds called out from outside. Had to go out!! The exam could wait.
The birds perhaps knew that I was interested in seeing them and so called so often. I walked out into the open with my camera and binoculars. Professor was still sleeping. He didn't seem to be jet lagged and was following the time of this place. But I was sure feeling good about being jet lagged which enabled me to get up at such early morning hours. Given my life style I surely wouldn't have got up at 5am.
Anyway, as I stepped out of the guest house, the first bird was a white and black bird, slightly larger than a Myna. It allowed me some nice snaps. Further ahead, I saw some beautiful parrots/parakeets (?) lush green with red and yellow, to match them, there were a few red all over!! A few ibis like birds, a sure yellow wattled lapwing cousin, many crow like birds, with different eye ring colours and a few other birds kept me busy.
The other nice thing was that now a group of cyclists would pass me by. That was so cool! This is what I wish to do, watch birds, cycle a lot and be in an academic setting. Queensland Univ of Technology was offering me all this ! A little water body some steps ahead had rowers rowing furiously in sync. People having walks in the morning, pretty gals running by, oh this is heaven on earth I suppose :)
The conference starts today. Its around 7:45am. Hope to get some breakfast before we leave for it. Will carry my camera and the binoculars along so that I can make more use of this great opportunity. Already I have more than 10 new birds in my list :)
Yesterday, on a nice sunday afternoon had lunch on the street ! Wel, not on the street, the hotel extended upto the street. A tiny place called "Tidy". Had some long named veg dishes which I ordered while my Prof. thoroughly enjoyed a fish. The setting was nice, a drizzling afternoon, good food, hot coffee, on the street watching life, people around..yes this is how sunday afternoons are meant to be.
And.....the exam, yes, gotta work on it too. Perhaps the best time would be night, when the world outside does not beckon me any longer to come and explore its charms.
Australia at this point of time seems great !!!
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Thursday, November 25, 2004
Thanksgiving sale...
This is the Thanksgiving weekend. Loads of deals are gonna be out.
BUT......
either
1> one must have a car to go to the stores to buy products
2> have a lot of time so that the items bought through the web can arrive and lots of time to follow up the mail in rebates.
Unfortunately, this Thanksgiving I have none of these.
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BUT......
either
1> one must have a car to go to the stores to buy products
2> have a lot of time so that the items bought through the web can arrive and lots of time to follow up the mail in rebates.
Unfortunately, this Thanksgiving I have none of these.
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Monday, November 22, 2004
VHDL assignment.....
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Photos in an exhibiton !!!
VHDL late nights....
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
"What are those drawings on ur website?"
After seeing my newly renovated website, most of my friends are asking me the question:
"What are those drawings on ur website?"
The popular opinion is that they have something to do with Cryptography.
Honestly when I was making them with Gimp I had not much of a theme in mind. Was just creating something which perhaps would look good. But then there is always a theme running in the sub-conscious mind and so perhaps there was something running in common between the first set of images.
Balaji came up with an extended explanation as to what that could be and here are some parts of his analysis:
--whats that pattern on ur page?
--XXYX...
--the next line has alternate horizontal 3 dash and vertical 3 dash patterns
--hmm...looks like u try to extract the hidden "natural beauty(art)" from the paraphernalia used in the area of science.....like in the misc page, it looks like a picture of chromosomes viewed thru a microcope....so guess the first page is also inspired by X and Y chromosomes...
--the other two,,,i could not make out much
-- perhaps the one used for "me" page....that is more abt u...rather than any topic(science)....the brown figues in the picture look like old paper pieces(scroll) ....so maybe u like to read and wite a lot.....u seem to consider urself as more of a creative writer and u like literature...rest of the picture is just some colored patterns....perhaps ur favourite color is blue......Thats all for me
On retrospection I think that there was a Biological theme running in my mind when I made those images. Hope to make better ones.
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Tag: Miscellaneous
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"What are those drawings on ur website?"
The popular opinion is that they have something to do with Cryptography.
Honestly when I was making them with Gimp I had not much of a theme in mind. Was just creating something which perhaps would look good. But then there is always a theme running in the sub-conscious mind and so perhaps there was something running in common between the first set of images.
Balaji came up with an extended explanation as to what that could be and here are some parts of his analysis:
--whats that pattern on ur page?
--XXYX...
--the next line has alternate horizontal 3 dash and vertical 3 dash patterns
--hmm...looks like u try to extract the hidden "natural beauty(art)" from the paraphernalia used in the area of science.....like in the misc page, it looks like a picture of chromosomes viewed thru a microcope....so guess the first page is also inspired by X and Y chromosomes...
--the other two,,,i could not make out much
-- perhaps the one used for "me" page....that is more abt u...rather than any topic(science)....the brown figues in the picture look like old paper pieces(scroll) ....so maybe u like to read and wite a lot.....u seem to consider urself as more of a creative writer and u like literature...rest of the picture is just some colored patterns....perhaps ur favourite color is blue......Thats all for me
On retrospection I think that there was a Biological theme running in my mind when I made those images. Hope to make better ones.
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Tag: Miscellaneous
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