Monday, August 29, 2005

Aargh!!!!

Been in office for about 3 hours and have done nothing useful...I am in no mood today to do anything... Want to sleep.. Had less than 3 hours of sleep yesterday. Moving into my apartment took the life out of me.. SLept only at 5 in the morning.. It was fun to sleep with a roomie.. and its an exciting time for somebody who hasnt been in hostel till now.. So coming back to our house.. ITs pretty well furnished now.. we have tv, music player, microwave and other BASIC essentials.Got a stand for TV and Mplayer too yesterday.. Spent some time with roomies.. it was dam fun when 4 boys get together in a cacophonous melange.. we spoke everything from Rubik cube to the best cereal available.

Came to UMBC in the morning.. Missed the TA training session due to yours sincerely waking up late. went to UHS to get PPD test. Some ppl feel palani is a long name. so they shrink it and call me Pal.. wierd!!! Headed to the lib to get a book on gen stuff,, couldnt lay my hands on it.. so settled for another.. lets see how it turns out to be..

Let me see if i can read anything useful today..

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Moved in

We have finally moved into our apartment.. Its been a long 2 week wait for my roomies.. Atleast I had my brothers place to refuge in.. Anyway, the wait is over and we signed the lease. Soon after that the excitement on my roomies face explained it all.. they ran and grabbed their stuff.. while me and achuth(one of the roomies who was temping nearby) got our act on and started moving stuff from his basement to our living room..we stored things we got from our moving out seniors and hid it there .. just like rats do.. atleast we remembered where we put our stuff.:p It was fun moving things like beds,TVs(yup.. we got 2), lamps, microwave and stuff down the road.. it was an experience enough.. THanks to my NCC camp life i have done things which are more demanding than this one.. So once the moving out activity was over, we all cherished that well deserved rest.. resting our heads on the wall and feeling the newly cleaned carpet.. After that stint of inactivity,we got back to work soon.. we made a list of things we have, need to buy and so on.. My bro and sis have been pretty much our only access to transport.. he he ..he brought in some essentials ..Hurray!! i have my own bed and reading desk.. think the desk will most probably be used for the TV in the living room.So we went shopping and spent nearly 3 hours getting the bare essentials.. Dunno how to define bare essentials if it requires 3 hour shopping.. Well then dropped my roomies at our place and went to my bros place for the night..

Today Morning i moved in my bed and a box.. will move the rest in the evening.. Back in UMBC and like every grad stud.. first thing first .. Checking Mail i mean..

Let me get back to that paper i need to finish..

Friday, August 26, 2005

One more week went past

Well its been another week.. Quite eventful though.. Gave ITA test on monday.. Passed the dum thing but still been recommended for some American diction course.. Spoke to the co ord and she said that i spoke very fast.. Well, my speech isnt fast for most people(read as World population -1).. ANyway will give the thing a try.. says it will help me to do things better.. lets see.. this week has just been quite administrative.. had to get some forms filled and stuff.. Attended a meeting of the group and finally have been assigned some work by my advisor.. not concerned with the group project though.. Spoke to my Management and we should be able to move into our house by this weekend... hopefully before the sem kicks in.. This is going to call for some muscle power though..

I am trying to read a paper now.. but just cant keep going.. Need to get back to focus soon..

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

A new life

Well i have landed in the USA and after umpteen(actually 2 till now) orientations on grad life.. I am getting grip of what to expect. one thing i have been hearing is As a grad stud i belong to the field of CS rather to a class.. he he.. thats a big ideal now... Life here in the US hasnt been very different compared to India.. coz I am going from home right now.. like a school kid.. being dropped and picked by my brother.. Real life as a grad will come in another 2 weeks.. till then ... I can wait ....