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What the future holds !

Next week promises to be very special. Kalaam is coming to CMU on 16-17th and then on 18th, I am flying to Boston to attend a one day workshop in MIT and guess what ! Noam Chomsky is going to be there. Exciting Times !

Past two months and some

Note: The post was written 2 days ago, so please adjust the timeline accordingly. A lot of time has passed. Almost four years since I graduated, almost 1 years since I came to US, almost 1 month since I returned from San Diego/ Bay Area trip, almost 1 week since I moved into this new house, almost 1 day since I returned from the whitewater rafting trip from Ohiopyle. Somewhere along that time-line lies the one and a half months mark since I have not posted. Not that I was totally gone, I wrote somethings on wasted margins . So now you know that I have changed houses, have been on a couple of trips and read couple of books. During those trips, I visited Coronado beach and La Jolla coves in San Diego, met a lot of old friends, some of them already finishing up their PhD and staring a new phase in life, visited the famous Golden gate bridge, ate a one pound crab and learned a lot about its anatomy along the way, lost and found my phone, sat in a train after almost one year, rafted (guided...

Almost Goa !

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After numerous plans, twists and turns that included a cancelled trip to home, over the last weekend, I found myself in Karwar, a costal town in northern Karnataka, barely 10 KM away from Goa. Unlike my other trips till now, this was pretty laid back. Out of the 3 days, 2 were spent in driving across Karnataka and only one in Karwar and along the way, we also caught up with the Asia's highest falls, Jog Falls, although there was little to call it a fall really. More about the trip later.