I find life strangely funny and am about to get on my philosophical hobby horse theories.So hang in there!! I understand Machine Learning better after i completed my exam and finished off the semester. Yes , so i actively advocate that no exams and merely understanding of the subject is important :P

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I truly absolutely loved the 1:00 a.m Cajun fries we had.

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Amazing lady! Makes me go "Wow!" whenever i hear her. - http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html .

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Winter break and i don't get to go back home?Grump@%&*^

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Someone actually told me Thodi raga is over -rated !! Grrrr ...Have they even heard the Morning raga fusion."Thaye yashodha"

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Will never stop marvelling at the feel- good factor of eating free food at seminars :D

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I shall soon be back to the jobless state and for the first time will not crib about it :).



Rush

 Why does everyone who come from India to Cornell be from IIT?When anyone sees me all they want to know is "India?IIT?" and i go "No , NIE from Mysore" and they are like "Still,You could make it here could you?".

I know IIT's are a brand name , a force to be reckoned with but give some credit for people who didnt make it to IIT and struggled doubly hard to make it here :D!

 I actually saw an openly gay man (to make matters worse he was a hunk :O) and its such a waste! (nope i don't have  anything against gay men :D) . One common argument that i have is that since all the Mr Rights seem to be somebody else's husband/boyfriend/deadly committed to career /too drab , i think gays are significantly reducing the choice set available for women. My roomies say so too!

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I felt so claustrophobic in the Columbia fair.I am almost about to clinch an interview and finally they say "U.S Citizen?" .Arrrgh!

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Being a vegetarian is very costly! Sigh me! I can't be anything else !!

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I am redifining the word hectic more and more accurately these days. :D

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I haven't prayed in ages and i am not even guilty!! My iyengari ways are in such a bad shape :P

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I found one another person who actually writes smileys after every package they label.So cool:)

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I am actually waving at flights returning back to India :(.God how i miss home and pati.

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Why do people ever have to grow up? I utterly and totally second this cliche.

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Men and polygamy !! Sri Rama is definitely valmiki's fiction or is it that i am stuck with a rat?

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Adore this song - Kelis "Lil Star"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWzrr__wYMQ

Yes,
 
       Two of my most cherished dreams have taken into one shape in the form of Pakdandi (A bengali word which means "The Road Less Taken"). I can finally combine what i am learning in Masters (Machine Learning) to help build a software that helps people with learning disability.

My dream of becoming a part of an entrpreneurial venture is almost there , although it isn't yet profitable :).

In my further posts i guess ill be talking more about Learning disabilities.

Here's one for now :

For a hemiplegic child it takes a lot of effort to type out even something as mundane as "I am hungry".Yes makes me conclude world is not really a easy place to live in for many people and i count my blessings every time i read one such disorder.


-Rush

P.S: Any information about LD (Learning Disorders) and predictive softwares is welcome.

I hate MAC , it's too smooth ,too irritating and too perfect to be liked!! And everyone i know thinks i am crazy to like Windows more than Mac. I guess i am a creature of habit.

 Well, this is a Hi-I-Am-Back kind of post.

Cornell AWESOME-AWESOME_AWESOME.(BTW i retract the IIITB post : It didn't really happen due to some big time pep talks with family and friends).

$1 *50 = Minus Rs50   NIGHTMARE -Oh GOD-NIGHTMARE!

Highland Apartment : I-LIVE-THERE-DEERS-VISIT-US


[This one's pretty regular around my place :):) ]

Hunting deers on campus :BAD- BAD-GRRR

Campus : HUGE-REALLY HUGE- REALLY REALLY HUGE

AT&T: COSTLY-450 minutes plan$#%^^ - GRRR

Food: TASTES-LIKE-GRASS

1 year MS : HECTIC- NO LUNCH- HECTIC

SSN:  YAAY-GOT IT- YAAY

-Rush

P.S: I am finally in a place where i can do what i want and there's no restrictions.Well , feels real good!

 Microsoft's  Searching  (Bing) and Google's out to get Windows(OS-Chrome ).This is one technical battle that i would enjoy seeing. 

-Rush

              I just can't understand why celebrities crib that they want privacy the most .I mean fame has it's price tag too.It's like wanting to have the cake and eat it too.


-Rush.

P.S: I am unable to upload videos to LJ .Any suggestions to do that will be appreciated.

Experiencing every possible anger /hurt/irritation/sadness at a certain someone !! :X:X:X

WTH?They expect they can waltz back anytime into my life and expect me to listen ?!!!


-Rush


P.S:I request everyone who reads this not to comment to this post :(. I was venting out.

 


My neice :):)

-Rush

OMG! I still can't believe it . MJ is dead :(:(:S. I grew up listening to his songs ! I don't give a damn about his personal life and controversy , his voice was magical.


I have lost the count of times i have heard his 'Heal the world' . 

   "Heal the world" .


These words in the song move me to no end.

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me


:(:(:S

The entire lyrics for the song

I get more and more impressed with IIITB everyday .It's their industrial advantage and the fact that i will be completely funded. A HP research scholarship is too lucrative to pass-up.No more dependence on anything. Yaaay :) .

Cornell offers zilch assistance to it's Masters students :( .Also the main financial recruiting firms don't recruit there anymore thanks to TARP and recession.
-Rush!

I brought Carl Sagan's "The Dragon's of Eden " today .Mighty excited about reading it. I totally recommend his "Contact " book [ It was made into a film also].He taught in Cornell .I'll never get to meet him.I'll never have a chance to talk about Astronomy with him.I am half a century late in being born :( .

Another book by a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom called "In the land of Invisible Women" .I am reading a lot of books by Islamic women these days. Feel really sad for them. The rest of us are unable to do anything that can make a difference to their continued oppression.

Another Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates J2EE and Servlets book.They are so much fun !!

-Rush

P.S:My visa is issued and i haven't got my passport  yet.I have developed a few gray hairs waiting for it :(

P.P.S:Braved a gathering of 100+ people in Chennai where i didn't even know the host ( who was a supposed acquaintance of my dad) and my jaws are aching silly with the inane smile i had to sport the entire event :D

It is but natural for people to desert a sinking ship , or atleast panic to the extent of causing others' to conclude that it is definitely sinking.Is this what is happening to BJP now? When a senior partyman like Yashwant Sinha quit as party VP , a serious division of interests is apparent.

But for the greater good of the country , it is necessary that we have two power blocks - Congress and BJP [ignoring the smaller regional factions] .No single party should have unrivalled power.Even Mr Brajesh Mishra has rightly pointed this out in his interview.

The problem with BJP currently is two-fold. One, no one is willing to take responsibilty for the defeat [I know it is really idealistic of me to suggest accepting responsibility ] and steer the party towards a better outcome in the next elections. Second, the negative campaigning and hindutva being rammed down people's throats haven't gone down well.

I urge Mr.Advani to show the strength he is often praised to have. I expected him to become the party president instead of acepting the leader of pposition in LS. I totally agree that he is a strong man , but why isn't he a strategist?He should be taking a leaf out of Rahul's book - Build the party first , power will follow .

As i remember -"Defeat is a defeat as long as you allow it to be".If i were in Mr Advani's shoes i would have thought of ways to turn this defeat around .I would have ensured publicity for all the right reasons.Spoken more to fellow party men , motivated them ,consoled them ,held rallies where BJP suffered dismal defeat, been a part of positive developmental process .I age is a factor , they should make the younger leaders  do this .Why isn't BJP doing this agressively ?I am mystified...


-Rush

P.S: Another attack in Australia!! :X

                        [Lamborghini Gallardo]


Drool ,More Drool , Big time Drool ...


-Rush!

I get very angry whenever i see reports of Indian students attacked at Oz. These kids from India who leave their family, friends and everything dear to them behind to pursue higher education and a better standard of living need to get more courtesy. We are a country which follows the dictum "Athithi devo bhava" [Guest is god] and it is very sad that we get this kind of treatment elsewhere.

Oz should not be forgetting that education is it's 3 largest exporter ,a  15.5 Billion AUD industry and alienating Indian students who form a major chunk  , is detrimental to it's own growth. I doubt if parents or students want to send their children there anymore. I know several juniors and friends who have dropped their plans of going to Australia after these racist attacks.Australia may be congratulating itself on avoiding recession but the current incidents are not going to help it any further .

Stabbing a student with a screwdriver of all things ,how much more mean can you get?! India needs to be more firm on this.We do not tolerate any harm to our citizens , anywhere in the world!I appreciate Mr.Bachan's gesture and many more such incidents will follow , if appropriate steps aren't taken.

I have never been to Australia and now i don't think i'll ever want to go there.

Does it even matter what the color of your skin is? Isn't racism  a substandard impulse and mocks at everything human ?