Happy New Year

…so arrives 2006, and I thought its time to change the location of blog and wordpress looks cool enough. The Yahoo 360 thing can still be accessed here

2005 has been one of the better years ( the best after 1997 when I last left her )

• Met lot of good people at GE scholars meet at Bangalore, found some comfort with the fairer sex finally (The first half of 2005 had little to report….R & D showcase, acads…regular stuff…the eventful period started with the GE meet)

• Went out for shopping for the first time in Hyderabad (with Parry, Vardhman)…now dont laugh at me

• Contributed about 1.5 lakh to Sis’s marriage thanks to GE + Prathibha scholarships (Sis’s marriage removed all responsibilities on Dad n he wishes to retire in a couple of years…so the time for me to take over is very close)

• Went to Jogging and Gym for the first time in my stay at IIIT (thanx to Vardhman )

• Worried about a JOB (of all things) genuinely for the first time

• Went to my first and last ACM – ICPC…Comibatore & Bangalore and screwed it up grandly but the experience was good…meeting lots of friends and ‘birdwatching’ so eagerly for the first time

• Participated in the placement ‘rat-race’ for the first time : Adobe – written gone, Google – interviews still going on , Sarnoff – yeah…RCA, SRI, Color TV, CMOS….this was good!! Gave my first party at IIIT (money still to be given to Vardhman)

• IEEE-SB secretary, X-mas with family, making lots of frenz in and out of IIIT, IEEE workshop,studying business….lots of new things in 2005

• Added lots of things to resume this year : ICCV contest, ACM-ICPC, CSI-programming contest, IEEE-SB secretary