of colors and midterm madness

Its been a while since I wrote the last one. Post mid-sem break, things have started heating up so much that I can't imagine the last 4 weeks flew by. With the sem being so bloody short here (mid-jan to apr end) why on earth do these people even have a mid-sem break. 1 week completely off...phew..
I have cut down on my jogging...played soccer once for 2.5 hrs with a persian gang...and never looked back...never played again that is... :)

having fared pretty well in the modules that I have taken, feels a li'l confident to take on these in the finals... machine learning was one module which is scary..not because it is difficult but because there are far too many things clubbed under one subject called 'decision making technologies'.huh...to list out the stuff covered under this banner.. linear/non-linear prog, genetic algos, neural net, svm, decision trees etc.

Holi 2008.

We somehow managed to squeeze some out of our busy schedule to play holi.. and we had a blast or what..you can find the snaps here.
it had rained all day...but it should have rained, it did not when we were playing. with the outfield being so slushy, it was a new setting for folks to experiment..there is some bhojpuri society which had organized this ( i thought only gujju societies are the ones which organizes events). There were quite a few ppl from other countries..they sure did enjoy this event but they weren't sure why do people still throw colors at each other...well..I dont have an explanation for that..rather..all i know is..thik hai..holi hai to..range se khelne ka..bas..usse zyada poochna mat..why bother. missed the bhang tho.

one month to go before I shift to the new house...the problem is...i still haven't found one.will have to go full steam now..so that I am not in a crunch situation towards the end of this month..cant afford to hunt around for places when I should be busy studying...

Second Life

The grounds here look fabulous and thats the reason for me take up jogging again. Feels good to jog under the flood lights.















Another view of the ground in the evening...well actually on a weekend.

Of languages and friends

Have taken Natural Language Processing as one of my modules. Got to do a lot with english and its grammar. I can speak pretty good english but I never knew how pathetic I am in grammar. I cant differentiate between a preposition and a interjection. Surprisingly most girls who speak english are better at grammar than I am. fux...what an insult...

_M has been a good find as a friend for me. The conversations revolve around philosophy, romance..with Maths that is and of course with little incidents and titbits we know about famous mathematicians and scientists we know. The conversations with him and others in the lab is very stimulating. With all PhDs sitting around me, this is a reason enough for me to continue studying here.

Now that I have mentioned one of my new found friends her..let me make a brief mention of friends and acquaintces.

S is from what is known as the land of Aryans is doing the course with me. A very pleasant chap who considers me as his good friend for I correct his english :) and for me, he is a good source of information about his country which I am fascinated about as much as people from there.
His sibling Y is just an acquaintance seem to be a pleasant person too and lies somewhere between strange and weird. J is the smarter of the two tho and seems to have multitudes of talent. Both of them might end up sharing the same roof as I would.

My roomie A, a PhD student here gives me some information about his state and about chemistry :) I had never found a person who works on chemistry before.
And of course there are other who research on Maths, Physics and Sociology..and yeah I am jealous of them for the subjects as fascinating as they are working on. And then come the few dozen students in my department who seem to know nothing beyond computers and the likes.

The rest are not worth mentioning :)

Madness all around..

I am not sure what should I worry about the most..
home loan
my studies
exams/assignments
research
a different flat to move in
haniya coming here - logistics involved

Its madness all around
If tooth fairy did exist, I am ready to give a few teeth of mine for some money :)