Last Week.....

1. I missed 2 days of lab...(back to my usual self!!)

2. Sushanth, KLN and I went to KC to pick up new dudes and dudess'. There were 11(??) of them altogether.

I had fun. I was driving a truck after a very long time. It's always fun to drive a truck.

Sushanth ditched us (KLN and I) finally....people who know him well will figure what I mean :)

3. Read Harry Potter- 8th part. (Oh!!! I just read the last 20 pages. I just wanted to know if Harry dies...and he did not. Sorry dudes. I revealed "THE secret".

4. Prasanna graced us with his presence last weekend. He was visiting Manhattan after more than a month's stay at Colby. (We came to know that he is the most educated guy in Colby!!! True??)

5. Ganesh, Harshit and Radhika defended their Master's Thesis successfully.

6. Saturday morning, it was Ganesh's Photo session. I was happy with the end product. More importantly, the customer was happy.

6. We went to an Indian Restaurant for Dinner on Saturday. It was awesome (I didn't pay..so it tasted much better..hi hi!!!).

7. Saturday night, we were (Label)led. Some of us were (Label)led Gold and Red whereas some were (Label)led only Gold.

On a whole, It was a great week.

Sushanth's prophetic comments!!!

"I have always maintained that the first n foremost thing the present ISA committee has/had to do was create a platform where the 2 C's (Community and Committee) can interact directly. A platform, which could be a forum or a blog, through which any comments/criticism/opinions/suggestions can be exchanged transparently (the censors and brokers could be excused here). I wonder how the present ISA committee members get feedback from the community regarding the various events the ISA plans? It would be interesting to hear the answer from the horse's mouth.

All said and done i understand that each of us can come up with different ideas and opinions about how the ISA could be run better but its not possible to incorporate all those ideas and suggestions and more importantly i don't think anyone here in manhattan has the time to sit through all those ideas (unless he's a varun or a sushanth.....or a satya, who have nothing better to do than browse the internet ALL THE TIME!!!)

PS: Looks like these days EVERYONE is picking on the ISA for its faults (its becoming a hobby, i guess). Its so much easier to find faults than to try and do a job properly. Why don't we give those poor chaps a little break and let them do what they think is right."


This comment was made by Sushanth last November in response to an article I wrote in this blog. At that time when he made the above comment, he was neither planning to contest in the ISA elections nor he was too enthusiastic about working for ISA. Things took a different direction and Sushanth found himself being ISA prez.

"..When I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."-- M.K. Gandhi

The first thing that Sushanth commented was that the Indian Community does not have a platform where they can share their ideas. ISA has started creating separate webpages for every event that they organize, created a new forum where people can post their views and started (will expand this idea) involving more people for organizing events.

I believe his 2 C's (Committee and Community) idea will succeed eventually. (By the way, why can't the ISA make "2 C- Committee and Community" as their new motto!!!).

He also made a comment about people not having time to go through all the comments and feedbacks from the community. From what I have seen and have heard, the new ISA committee spends almost all their time going through the comments and feedbacks...(Most of the viewer hits in the forum is because of ISA committee's frequent checking of posts :))

The last thing he said was to support ISA, which we will...

"We will support ISA...but we will also criticize!!!"

Enjoy your tenure!!!

Good Luck!!!

Best of Luck!!!!

Ganesh, Harshit, Radhika and to all the guys who are defending their thesis this week..... Best of Luck!!!!

Defend well!!!...and hold your fort!!!

And meanwhile, don't get hurt while defending....some post- defense work needs to be done....

Rain Saves India!!!

It's been exactly 9 hours since I had written my previous blog....And it is in fact rain (and with a little help from Dhoni) that has saved India at Lords . Amen!!!

Last Week......

It was a great last week. Had loads of fun overall.. top 5 moments I had last week....

5. Reading "The Third Reich in Power" by Richard J. Evans.... I bought this book a long time ago but was too occupied to go through it. Finally, I was able to browse through its pages. I Just read the first few chapters and my early impression is that "the book has got it all".

4. Going to Lab on all five days. It's been a pretty long time since I had done that!!!!

3. Eating in Panda Express after almost a month.

2. Attending dinner parties hosted by Ganesh (who happens to be my roommate!!!). Since I had not helped him in cooking, theoritically, it was infact hosted by Ganesh.

1. Super Sunday. Watching Alonso win European GP and Padraig Harrington winning the British Open. It was one of the best final rounds of Golf I had seen in a very long time. I felt very sorry for Sergio. It was not exactly a "Van de Velde" type crash of 1999, but it was infact a dissapointing finish for Garcia.


***** Last Week's Best Interview:

R&A press: "There's no easy way to say this, But I know you're bitterly disappointed."

Garcia: "No, I'm thrilled. Happiest man alive."

***** Good Bye, Dr. Kalam. It was great to have you back at Anna University, my alma mater.

***** India did pretty good in the first test against England. They had infact pushed England into the fifth day at Lord's. May rain save India!!!!

***** One of my friends went to the mall this weekend. He asked for a polo t-shirt (with collars) which was neither plain nor striped. It was pretty much the last time he was given a welcome at Dillards.

***** Sania Mirza won the doubles title at Cincinnati. Heard 10000 more bottles of Sprite had been sold!!!!

***** Heard Sachin is planning to tour England again the next time around (after 3 years) and is planning to score a hundred at lords. He really wants his name engraved up on the honors board.

***** David Beckham was on the field for 12 minutes against chelsea. He was present at Tom Cruise- Will Smith Party the next day for a lot more time. MLS' future is very bright indeed!!!!

***** Hoping to see A- Rod hit his 500th Homer this week against KC Royals. All he needed was one season to change from K- Rod to H- Rod.

Finally, Its green everywhere!!!!! Congrats Padraig!!!!