USA provides a wide variety of cuisines which are quite interesting. Its a home to varied cultures who have preserved their cultural tastes (or so we think they have) atleast at some authentic restaurants (or atleast we think they are authentic). Staying here and having some foodie friends has led me to explore some quite interesting cuisines.

The ( Read more... )

We know that with regards to work everything can be done at the last moment. If you have to do some research before the qualifier exam, all you have to do is spend a sleepless month. Sometimes I wonder why do we work in this fashion. Its always possible to avoid those sleepless nights. Though I think those sleepless nights  provide you the kick you ( Read more... )

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The last 2 weekends have been fun.  Though I wanted to take just one of them off, I don't regret taking both off ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good day for me. We went for the regular social dance for the weekend. This one was a special social dance which had some raphel tickets. So there were 2 prizes, a pot of flowers (I'm not sure what special kind of flowers they were) and a voucher of $250 which allows you to take 3 personal lessons from the best dance teacher in ( Read more... )

My urge to watch Harrry Potter online led me to find this site http://davidmovie.com This is a decent place to watch movies online. Atleast it serves as a good timepass for me. Some movies I saw recently and feel like writing about ( Read more... )

1. Courses: Have been good till date. Of the 3 courses I have taken, 2 are going pretty good. One is going really bad. Its just that I have not been able to put across a point in that course properly I guess. But grades have started mattering less and less. So its all cool :) Oh its nice to be flattered when one of the profs does come and say, ( Read more... )

Today we watched this play "Proof" written by David Auburn. There is something highly touching when a play talks about mathematics, mathematicians or simply the fact that people can be really really crazy about mathematics.

The story is very regular, but what gives it the effect is the acting, the screenplay, the amazing dialogues and the direction ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a fun day.. well in a way :)

We had a ski trip and I was to try my hands (rather feet) for the first time at skiing.

So as it started off, I fell 3 times in the first 15 mins causing inconvinience to a bunch of people. And just when I thought I had got a hang of what skiing is all about and was in good speed down the slope, I decided ( Read more... )

So another weekend shopping, The idea was to buy a pair of shoes for my friend, repair my pair of shoes and buy a swimming costume. Instead the result was 2 new pairs of shoes, a new sweater, a new skirt and a top, and a new ballroom dress worth $130/-

The first person I thought of when I bought the shoes was amrita, yeah I remembered the black ( Read more... )