*Sniffle* *cough cough* *wheeze* *die*
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Hello all. Its been some time since I last updated but as you know I simply cannot find time out of my very busy schedule to update. With all the "nothings" that I have to do before I can sleep at night, there's hardly any time for real work :).
W. Laf is keeping up with is stupid weather and thus with the constant heating and cooling a wave of flu has hit Purdue. I got on the bus first thing possible and conveniently got sick during last weekend. It was horrendous. I know it seems very selfish but I missed my family most during my illness. Atleast there are nice soups and bucket load of pampering to look forward to if the family is around. Here I just had to feel miserable for two days and move on...meh I'll live :).
University is in full flow with the first round of midterms just rolling around the corner. Hopefully I can study hard enough to save my ass. Out of the EE courses that I've taken this semester, I only completely understand one single "lab" course. Taken Fibre optics and digital signal processing, as EE electives, both of which hurl gibberish at me and in complete sportmanship I hurl back a giant load of "zzzzzzz's". Well actually only at Fibre optics, DSP scares the living daylights out of me, literally. If anybody could look into my head while I sat for a DSP lecture a picture of a train wreck would slowly rise out of the noise made up of "its so cold" and "what should I eat for lunch?"...
One of my friends, Vivek, just graduated last semester and didnt manage to catch a job before doing so. And due to technicalities he cannot leave this country until end of febuary or something. So he wanted a place to stay and since me and Shiraz are a bunch of mean looking, mocking and sarcasm loaded jerks from outside but really candy soft-hearted from inside we allowed him to stay at our place. Big Mistake. Our living room now competes with our garbage can for the smelliest item in the apartment. There are suitcases all over, papers, juice boxes, clothes and what not. Its not like we dont trash our place but this has gone to a new level.And it's not like we're taking this sitting down. We have means of making Vivek work (which includes a tree stump i found outside now used to scare him into cleaning the place). One good thing that has come out Vivek moving in is that the fridge is more 'filled' and there is more stuff to eat around the house and the fact that he owns a car so trips to the "outside" world are made simpler.
What else? Yea Rang de Basanti...watch it..nuff said.
From the world of 'ODD'...I saw a boy no older than 11 drive a truck at an intersection I was waiting to cross and whats more a cop passed the truck without even giving it a second look...hmmmm...streets are not so safe anymore.
Havent used my camera in a while and its buggin me...but the weather is so cold outside that I simply dont have the courage to walk around bare handed.
On a much sadder note, India got their asses handed to them in the test series against Pakistan. Thus for the upcoming One day international matches I'm rooting for Pakistan...they're a much less disappointing team anyway :)...
Thank you and move on....
at 18:06
"India got their asses handed to them" that's weird cuz Mehreen described the game to me in the EXACT same words a few days ago. A new roommate?? How interesting. Why don't you name him Oscar (as in the grouch that lives in the trash can...) hehehe.
Well, India didn't fare any better today. Pakistani players were firing four after four and sixes as if there's no tomorrow. And they were chasing! I'm sure they must've won. When I saw last, they needed 80 to win from 85 balls.
Cool, DSP, you can figure something better than Dolby Prologic II for your DP. Hey, shouldn't you have started on that already? What're you doing?
keith I dont have DP until next sem...Purdue has just one sem of DP...