Aha ! Finally after a gruelling 30 hr journey, i’ve landed here in the US ! There were no surprises and everything went on well … I got my baggage back without any glitches and got a pickup too from Houston airport !

Couple of Indian guys picked me up, and gave me a ride back to college. Am staying now in a place called the French quarters… Seems ironic for a huge group of Indians to stay at ‘French’ quarters but ahem, with the swimming pool right outside, i dont care about colonisation 😉

Really tired with the jetlag adding up its part to my sleep account .. Slept for almost 2 days continuously .. not much to do here since i’ve got an assistanship already .. The new students here are running around trying to get a student worker position but i am sitting around reading crappy novels and stories to pass my time … Went to the Recreation center once and played TT and Racquet ball .. Was awesome ! more about that soon !

Nothing more. will continue …

In the abysmal depths where the mind pines ;For the delight of knowledge without which it dies.The unreachable truth, unhindered, incessantly shinesAmidst the plethora of impeccable lies.

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Nothing specific as such but i was just curious on something that happened recently while downloading a huge file from a site. Here goes …

Basically, i was downloading a video file of size 80MB when my system had something about 100MB left in the hard disk. I felt it was fair enough to store the file for now, view the video and then delete it to reclaim the disk space. 

But here comes the catch. When i finished downloading the huge file, the system had actually downloaded it to a temporary internet directory and then tried to copy it to the destination directory which was specified. Now why would it want to do that ??

Doing something like that would require 2 times the size of the file downloaded to be present in the hard disk. Why impart such a constraint ??? All it needs to do is to download it directly onto the destination directory. Or what could have been done is to download the file to the temporary directory and then move it, not copy to the destination directory. We know that copying a file takes much longer a time when compared to moving a file, if the destination is in the same disk. So why copy ?? But the actual implementation does neither ! Why so ?

Are there any specific security or any other implications for doing the implementation the way it has been done now ?? Any ideas ?

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The long awaited India Tour is finally happening !!!

Wahoo … I’m going to start the trip from here, Bangalore. Will be leaving from here to Mangalore, hopefully and roam around like a crazy haggard with nothing to lose and nothing in mind !

The plan is to roam around without a plan 😉

The route as of now is Bangalore->Mangalore->Pune->Bombay->Surat->Jaisalmer->Jaipur->Agra->Delhi…. The whole thing is still fragile and for all i know, i might stay in Goa for 10 days and come back but hey lets not get anymore ideas.

So for another 10 days, i’ll be completely busy. Its going to be great and i havent done something like this for a long time ! What cometh ahead, I shall face and enjoy 🙂

I know it sounds really abstract but that’s a question I’ve been contemplating on for sometime now, after coming to Coimbatore from Bangalore. Life has not been the same and its become dull, boring, monotonous and sating. All the things I hate !

Apart from the dreaded monotony, the family makes so much of a fuss about every miniscule issue and i am really getting tired of this game. Is actually going for higher studies in the US such a big deal after all ?? Why don’t they consider my passion in nuclear as opposed to considering that I’m using higher studies as an opportunity to go to US. Why can’t they get it ?

I’ve been growing fat all these days. Lots of food at the right time adding weight at the wrong places. I know I’m gonna regret this later and seems like my legs are already troubled. Gotta do a checkup on that too. As of now, i need something interesting to keep my mind occupied. Reading books, browsing and roaming around to keep myself busy but am sure running out of options.

Well until next time, I’m going to vegetate even more…

The blissful silence in the depth of the night
Illusion of the mind in control, touching greater height
Peace descends all around in absolute serenity
The concentration opens and reaches the Universe in pure sublimity.

This joy that lingers ; Will it stay ?
All crutches to raise to that, haunts night and day
Tomorrow chaos shall return but memories do remain.
But that something touched feels pure like a elixir’s rain !

Life, this bitter sweet symphony
Still plays its tune amidst ruckus in complete harmony.
Every action, reaction perfect to its end
And so shall it be until all the energy is spent.