My first friend in USA!

Assignments, tests, homework, quiz, journal club etc etc....all these not-so-exciting things are very much a part of every graduate student's life and i am no exception to that! But how well one manages to study hard and party harder is a skill in itself!

My whole week was spent solving test papers, attending lectures till 10 in the night and screwing my brains doing molecular biology homework! Gosh, it's such a nerve-wrecking experience!

But after all that hard-work (*patting myself*) I deserved the much awaited break..n ya i did have a kit-kat! :D However apart from that chocolaty n delicious kit-kat i did devour myself in other heavenly delicacies, thanks to my chef friend!

I am talking about this new friend of mine, who was perhaps destined to become a part of my life, especially after those repeated coincidences! :)

Actually, in my opinion, people are always strategically placed in your life....there is always a reason why people may enter or exit your life! Until now I was contemplating on how empty my life had become and then suddenly, out of nowhere, I found a person who could complete this blank!

Divine intervention perhaps! Just when you become low in life so low that the whole world seems to be coming to an end....something good happens and then bang! You boomerang back once again full of life and energy! I guess here's where to concept of God has arisen!

After all that pondering session, it was time for delicious supper! To end the day I had stone cold ice-cream! Aah...heaven! :) Now I know why people are mad about that ice cream!

So here I am happy and content in life, a big thanks to my new friend who also happens to be my first friend in US! :) I hope this friendship continues to blossom forever! :)

So all in all, a great weekend and now hopes are up for an even better week! :) Amen!

time n tide wait for none!

Blink n the moment simply passes by! "Time flies", "time and tide wait for none"......It's a Cliché, agreed but that one inane thought keeps spinning in my head these days! It personifies my state of mind!

Until two months back my favorite thing was "NOTHING" :), when me and my "vella" friends used to sit and wonder what to do next and we could never come up with anything constructive! So we used to spend the whole day window shopping in some random mall and have gossiping sessions day-in and day-out! Aah...those were the days! *Sigh*

I believe that I am an over-thinker, and people with this trait in their personality tend to get carried away too easily, the wave of emotions and thoughts simply sweeps them and when reality hits you, you go "whoa! what the heck just happened?" :D

So during my free time all I do is DREAM.....dream about what had happened, what can happen and what should not have had happened!

As I was day-dreaming today morning, it suddenly hit me that this day last year I was struggling with my bacteria and yeast! On the day I completed my graduation, I was asked by my favorite professor: "So what's next?" and all I could reply was "errr....perhaps a job? or may be post-graduation?" Instead of answering the question, I began questioning myself!

I had absolutely no idea of what I should be doing after getting a b.tech degree! Within six months everything materialized! The path which seemed so hazy and blurred to me suddenly cleared and I knew what I wanted to pursue!

It's already been two months since I started my new life and when I look back in time contemplate the change, I simply smile to myself and say "time flies!"

Perhaps one should not always plan things in advance, at least that's what I have learnt!

Life's full of surprises, you never know what's in store for you in the near future!

Simply enjoy the present, because whatever you have today, might not be there in the future...remember: Time flies! :) So Just live every moment!

New life...new home...new friends!

After the response and encouragement I got from all my friends on my first blog, I have decided to pursue writing as a serious business. Not because i like hearing comments from others, but simply because I like writing! I realized, I enjoy doing this. I strongly believe that in life do what you enjoy doing, don't simply follow others. :-)

Yesterday i finally got a phone connection and that feeling of being "connected" with the rest of the world was simply overwhelming...so much so that i spent 300 minutes of talk time in about 48 hours! :-D Do your maths and figure out how much time i spoke for! I am bad in arithmetics!

After 45 days I got to hear my mom's voice, thank you technology for making this a smaller world!

Sitting on my new dining table (which we bought for 30 bucks..I love USA!), I started retrospecting, which is a risky thing to do! :P

My life in India and life now= poles apart! But i ain't complaining! change is good! Perhaps I am also just another species who is fallowing Darwin's theory of evolution and adapting to the changed environment! Some science trivia for you guys! :)

But is change always good?

My friends back in India tell me that i sure would be having all the fun and enjoying my freedom and independence! However, independence, can be both a boon and a bane! Two sides of the same coin! So one has to be cautious of which road to take....to exploit my independence or to be a good girl? well i think a mix of both, i like to have a best of both worlds, you see! ;)

As random thoughts cross my mind, my roommate cracks another of her stupid jokes and all of us burst into laughter! My mind wanders to gather all these arbitrary feelings, but no time since we need to prepare dinner now!

Yes I cook now! another "change!"

I just leave it at that, and get back to cell biology! I have to remind myself about the stupid test!

But before signing off another point to ponder on:

have i changed as a person? or is transform a better word? :)

Why do I crib for something that I don't have?!

you always crib for what u don’t have…

Here I am sitting alone in the room, with my dear laptop for company! The only thing I did today was browse through the convocation pictures! CONVOCATION! big word eh! Simply put, it's

a day when every graduate student is rewarded with the degree, a day when u feel thrilled to finally get the pay back of having slogged your asses off to complete every single assignment, or to score 60+, or for some nerds to get that much awaited gold medal! :)

It’s the culmination of all that hard work! After all 4 years of all that "torture" ain't a joke! :P

it’s day when u feel a sense of achievement, when u can see that pride in your parent’s eyes as u walk down the stage with the degree in your hand! it’s day of celebration! day to be with your loved ones, day of reunion, day to forgive and forget all those bad memories and just be happy!

And suddenly reality sinks in, because I missed being a part of all that!!

All I can do is sit with my laptop and reminisce those good times, comment on other’s albums and say to yourself “I so wish I could have been there!”

Irony of the situation:

I still remember the day when I got an admit from Johns hopkins university and I knew I will have to depart very soon and will not be able to attend this happy day. But then all I cared about was getting a US visa and reaching this dreamland as soon as possible! Now that I am here, I so want to go back to my mother land, to reunite with my folks!

It may be a transient phase that every person perhaps goes through. what they call as being “homesick”. But all I know is today I so wanted to be “there”.

Today’s convocation “officially” marked the end of my undergraduate life! D.Y.Patil, BBT batch of 2009, end of an era!

For all u guys like me who are away from home, my heart cries out to u! I know how it feels to be amongst the crowd and yet be alone!

why is it that you always crib for something that you don’t have, why is it that when u have it then you don’t realize it importance?