Hmm … come to think of it, it’s quite surprising that I don’t blog often as I don’t have a lot of work hanging over my head. Well, probably it’s more because I have very less to speak about rather than trying to find free time.
Firstly, I broke my New year resolution (it took a record breaking 122 days to break!) and installed Arch Linux with KDEmod. Well, Arch felt the same, the good old sprighty little elegant thing 
. But, KDE came as a surprise to me as I was seriously unhappy after using KDE4.1 on ubuntu when it initially released. This build is quite smooth and fast and I find it a decent change from my LXDE on Debian. And, above all this Lenny seems to coexist for the first time with KDE happily as I have not yet seen my gpu temperatures soar.
Geeky part aside, the number of improvements that have been happening this year are quite significant when compared to my usual kind of static life. I finally completed my 16 course long graduate school coursework and am for the first time working full-time on physics that I find interesting and not something I am forced to do. Apart from this, I have become a regular player 
and have been pursuing my badminton avidly though to reach a level that I would call good, it might take the duration of my phd . Next plan is to buy an Armotec racket 
(doesn’t that sound like a pro?!)
Spam, I did! But, I still miss CMI and it’s awesome sense of spamming and I do not mean the fall of quality after “some” people left the place! Above all these, I miss the terrace of Hrishikesh apts. Well, it’s a fact that of all the things that had happened in cmi, these are the memories that I remember most vividly. These are the times that I don’t need to force myself to remember, but rather I have to force myself to forget temporarily so that I can get a few hours of sleep at night if I were to ever walk onto the terrace of any building (that sounds quite unlike me !). vra still is the best 
After all the pleasantries, there are a couple of problematic issues also. Well, that’s obvious. I have not yet been able to get over that fact that “certain-section-of-Indian-population” are hypocrites (i guess whoever got whom i am talking about will agree with me!). (This does have an extension which I prefer not to mention!)
Finally, I have started the work on tabulating the restaurants that I have been to in Chennai and in mUmbai. So, hopefully, I can get all that up here soon!
