After a long time.....

So, it was a good day! I got some time to speak with two of my friends whom I consider very close.....One's my "bestest" bud in India (the one I'd talked about in the previous post) with whom I voice chatted in the morning....Something about this guy. He loves to laugh as much as I do...and I guess thats one thing that we enjoy the most in each other...The entire chat session was great and was totally refreshing..Brought back a lot of memories! After which I got back to work. Something about me too! Well, I am a kind of person who wouldnt want to share about my personal life with anyone easily...There are just very very few people with whom I do that...All my emotions, feelings and thoughts have always been a guarded fort.

So, after that voice chat session, in the afternoon, I had one more good chat with another guy who's in the US. We did our Masters together....Among the lot in our group of friends here, I have always felt a special bonding with him, but have never really got a chance to get closer with him...And today, after a very long time, we got a chance to chat at length....one talk led to another and finally, before I could realise, I'd talked a lot about some of the good and bad incidents that happened in the past to him....It was a long time since I'd spoken like that to anyone and this just came out naturally.....In the end, I felt very happy about the chat.It did a lot of good to me. But, we still have a lot more left to talk....

I was just thinking about how time heals everything in life. "Time is the best healer of all rifts in life!" So very true...There have been some sad incidents in the past and still, life has moved on! Taking inspiration from this, I started working towards my thesis and it was indeed a very very good day!

The first gruelling session!

Today was the first "official' gruelling session from my thesis advisor for my thesis....Last night around 11:00 PM he'd sent me a mail saying he wants to look at the 1st draft of the complete thesis this morning.....The good girl that I am, had completed the draft by then and took printouts of the thesis. (Ok, a little something about my advisor here.....My advisor is a kind of a person who's very particular about the references and citations in the thesis and wanted me to use a software in Linux (Latex) for writing references. But, I'd used MS Word for doing the references inspite of him telling me so many times because its so much easier to do it in Word....)

I wasnt confident at all about my style of writing and the content because this is the first time in my life, I'm writing a document of an entire 50-60 pages, all by myself....I hardly slept last night, and in the little time I slept, I had nightmares about the session with my professor. Finally, around 2:00 AM this morning, I thought to myself, "I am prepared for the worst, and if the best comes, let it be a pleasant surprise!"....So, with these thoughts, I slept finally...And soon,my day dawned. The session started around 9:30 AM and was at its best until 10:00 AM. He seemed to be impressed with my writing....I couldnt believe it myself...I was the happiest person in the world...Suddenly, he noticed a reference somewhere in the middle of a chapter which did not refer to the correct reference and "looked" at me!. So, there ends the story and there started the REAL session....But in the end when he finished reading the entire document, this is what he said.."Ok, I think its a pretty reasonable document, what you have now". I dont know what this means! But, I was satisfied with the entire thing today inspite of his acid remarks on my references, probably because I was expecting something worser than this to happen! And it didnt....I thought to myself, "Thats ok....Its a part of every professor's life and part of my life too"....I learnt a good lesson....So, after all these, I started converting the entire document to Latex Form...and that took almost the whole day and damn! Its just totally the opposite of the easiest way of doing it in Word....In the evening, a very tiring and long trip to the Walmart. A long day it was....But at the end of the day, what a surprise! I got a lil something from my best bud in India through one of my friends who just returned back to the US after an India trip...In case he's reading this post, I'd like to say "Thank you so much....Its beautiful and I just luv it!"...This came just at the right moment and was the only thing that cheered me up today amidst all the pressures.....

Ok, am literally dozing off....Yet another big day ahead tomorrow!

The first one!

Phew!!! Finally I am here too! I've been wanting to do this for quite sometime now.....to pen down my thoughts, incidents and day-to-day encounters with people......or write about moments which I never want to forget in life....be it the best ones or the worst....For some reason, that was the last thing I ever thought about at the end of every day! But, of late I've found, writing gives so much clarity of thought and helps you bring out so many emotions and feelings which go unsaid otherwise.....

So here's my first post and I hope I continue this for a long time..I'd like to dedicate this first post to a person who's my best friend...We did our Masters together here at Lafayette and he's literally seen and shared every moment of my joys and disappointments....He recently got a job at "The Mathworks Inc" at Boston and has started his career today. So, here's to him! Thanks for all that you've been to me in the last 2 years. Your mere presence has kept me going and has inspired me a lot. Hearty congratulations to you.....
Miss you so much!

PS: The person I'm talking about is Santhosh (aka Sandy) for people who know him.