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her hands, my hair and a new haircut :)

You never really know, what's going to be special each day. So I got up in the morning realizing that it's high time I get a hair cut. I got up late and headed off on foot to look around San Jose and find a hair saloon. I asked a couple of people, but each of them seemed even more lost than I was. Tired, and famished, I started looking for a restaurant instead. Usually I end up eating not so good food, when I eat randomly like that - ok maybe that's not totally true but.....So anyways I get into this nice empty restaurant seeing falafel written outsid. Long story short- because this is one about a haircut- I had the most fabulous tandoori chicken "sandwich" i've had in the US yet :) - I'm going back for dinner there! So I stroll outside aimlessly after that lovely meal and to my surprise as I'm passing by I see a hair saloon. So I walk in and there are three guys waiting. I have some time to kill, so I sit down and start reading some mind numbing rubbi...

those small moments ..........

You hear so often that the joy of life lies in small things but how often do we get to experience the joy of small things ? I don't know about you, I don't get to do it very often. Try to think back the last time you enjoyed something really small, when you smiled spontaneously, when the sun seemed to shine just that little bit brighter, when you felt the world was smiling with you, when you felt joy in being a small part of the life of this planet ? didn't even realize I would remember them so much, so fondly. When I try to think back, a few priceless moments that immediately come to mind are: 1. Place: Sherwood College: Time: Afternoon The time just before founders and after the hectic house PT competition. Just lying in my cubicle - the dorm 4,5 cubicle - perhaps one of my best places in sherwood :) - feeling the may sun shine down on my face as I lay on the counterpane, my eyes closing dreamily, looking down at the front quad, thinking about my 10 years in school, s...

Tough times don't last, tough people do ......i hope :)

What a week! And I have an ever more hectic one coming up! I spent the entire day sitting at one placing trying to finish up all my deadline material for this coming week. I have an assignment due on Monday. A final presentation and a big assignment due on tuesday. Wednesday I have two interviews - for practice really - since I'm pretty sure where I'm going to be going. Thursday I'm traveling to Redmond, i'm a little excited and a little overwhelmed by the burden. I'm going to be presenting my project to a group of hotshot designers, and they quite casually agreed that they love asking questions :). That's quite a relief - just something I needed after a week of looming deadlines. I found the quote "I love deadlines, especially the whoosh sound they make as they fly past" funny once. Not any more.... :). Either i've lost my sense of humour or the quote has changed! Either way its not too funny anymore. Also there was a time at IIT where I would wai...
आज मैंने गूगल कि नयी रूपांतरण सुविधा के बारे में पड़ा और इसलिये आज अपनी मातृभाषा में पहली पोस्ट लिख रहा हूँ। Google's new translation service to hindi rocks! This was the first time I was using it and I was typing as fast as I type in english (ironic eh :D ) but that's a thumbs up for google usability. Maybe by writing a new post in hindi everyday I will manage to improve my hindi, ummm I mean revise my hindi. I got 92 on my class 10 boards in hindi. And my essays were religiously read by the masses - ok at least by a few people including my professor :) ! yaaaaaaaay for the new translation feature!

Google Free ISP : haha!

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