Finally its June. The weather seems to have made up its mind to stay warm. However, the Philly summer usually means extensive rain. Last night was incredible. Around 7:30 PM, as I walked back home from a final, the overcast sky lit up for a few seconds. Thunder rumbled soon after. Uh-oh, I thought to myself and picked up the pace. I stopped briefly at the 7/11, and unfailingly was asked by the guy outside to spare some change. I didn’t. As I entered the gates of The Courts, a drop of rain about the size of a compact-disc fell on me. I scampered into my apartment, and settled in front of the computer. Even though I faced away from the window, the next surge of lightening was enough to completely light up my monitor. A warning jumped up on my screen, “You are not running on the battery back-up.” “Great”, I thought to myself, “just what a need – a power outage when I have an exam in twelve hours.” But it must have just been a surge, as none of the lights were affected. In a few minutes the trees were bent sideways, and the rain was falling horizontally. Kelly exclaimed that it was like a mini-tsunami outside. I wouldn’t have disagreed. I peeked out the window of my third floor apartment, and could actually see the rain that had fallen on the street being blown sideways. Ten minutes later, it was all over.

Now, I just hope that my Business Law final doesn’t hit with the same intensity as that storm. It is one of the few classes that I’ve really detested at Drexel. I’m very ill prepared for it. I’ve got 2 hours to go.

BLAW 201 – Final Exam
PHSY 480 – Research Paper, Final Paper
ISYS 426 – Presentation
INFO 630 – Final Exam
INFO 638 – Assignment 4

That is a list of all the work I have left to do this term. As compared to the Winter, the Spring has definitley been a lot easier. Only 5 classes, the two grad courses don’t require massive projects or implementations, two undergrad courses are electives so I don’t really care. The only course that I knew would be hard from the outset was Senior Design. And it was. Took a lot of work, but it felt good to be doing this kind of work. I don’t really care for the other four courses this term. There is no motivation. I think the only reason I’m still persisting in Senior Design is because I have a point to prove from last term.

The amount of lethargy, dislike and allround hatered for education has reached a peak this term. It is quite like the frustration that I felt during some periods in high school, where the education was rather irrelevent and not in the least bit challanging. I sincerely hope that this is a passing phase. I have another year of college left (50 credits over 3 terms) so I can not afford to feel this way come the new academic year. I need to snap out of this over the summer.

As it comes closer to graduation, and a lot of the kids I started with are graduating, it is only natural that I think forward to mine. Not too long ago I was fascinated by continuing with further research and seriously pondered it. The MBA idea is still there and crops up every now and then. But before I pursue either of these though, I need a few years in the industry. The prospect of that itself terrifies me – not because it is difficult, but because I know I’ll be bored to tears. And even then, there is another obstacle that I need to over come before I can make either of those options a reality.

Just a year ago, I was so sure where I was going to be in 15 years, what I was doing to get there and how I would achieve these goals. Now — it is all I can do to create and follow a goal for the next week.

It is the beginning of May. It shouldn’t be this cold. The current low outside is 4 centigrade. I’m ready to be done with winter. A few weeks of nice bright sunshine, and less rain would agree really well with me. Although, I’m sure that as soon as I go to Bangalore I’ll be complaining about the incredibly high temperatures.

I’m the proud owner of a Sony Vaio T140P. It is a 3.1 pound light, ultra-portable laptop. And I bought it myself! As I did my Treo 600 Phone and my Athlon64 desktop machine. I think as far as computer equipment goes, I’ve reached the pinacle. Currently, there is nothing more I could want. Well, actually, let me change that:
1) Wireless keyboard & mouse
2) 19″ or 21″ flat panel monitor
3) Creative Audigy SB Live
4) A high end video card
5) A nice set of computer speakers

The long term plan is to, howerever, connect a home theatre system to the computer. Music from the PC will be connected to the home theathre system speakers. The home theatre system will consist of a a projector and screen which will be connected to both a cable box and the PC(s). The laptop will always remain an ultra-portable system, while the desktop will a power hungry monster. The desktop will have one of those awesome 21″ HDTV displays that is made by Sony. I will have good dreams tonight.

From my dream, though, the only things I should get soon are the keybouard + mouse and the monitor. Everything else will have to wait many years as they are not unrgently necessary. Neither was the Vaio though, but it is just so sweet!

I am going to recap the hardware specifications of all my machines. It is partly to boast, and partly so that I can read this entry 7 years from now and marvel at how silly I was to be excited at owning new gadgets. Who am I kidding, I will never tire of owning brand spanking new electronic gizmos!

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The desktop is an Athlon64 2800+ (1.8 Ghz), with 1 GB of RAM. It has 180 GB of internal HDD space and a 160 GB external firewire drive. It also has an 8x DVD writer (52x CD). It currently has Mike’s ATI 9200 (PCI) video card, and the audio is built onto the mother board, which is an ASUS K8V-SE. That covers the basics.

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The Treo, is a PalmOS powered PDA/phone combo. The phone portion is provided by T-Mobile. I have a cradle that allows it to charge, as well as sync with my desktop. It’s process is nothing great, but it is enough to run a few apps, a few games, surf the internet when I need to, as well as to check e-mail. Sure, it is larger than a regualr phone but it sure beats carrying around two devices. The fact that it syncs with Outlook allows it to put all my contacts, tasks and reminders on there. This is extremely useful.

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The Vaio…aaah! What can I say about it. I could just go on. It is 3.1 pounds light, comes with 512 MB of RAM, a built in DVD/CD-RW drive, 40 GB of HDD space and a 1.1 GHz Centrino processor. The built in Wi-Fi is an absolute boon. The screen is only 10.6″ but the XBRITE technology that Sony puts on there is just awesome. I got a port-replicator with it, which makes it easy to just place on my desk without worrying about the hassel of wires. I just need to get an extra AC adapter.

That covers the boasting/recap for the future. Seeing these three on my desk just makes my sigh…with happiness.

CO Geoff

Apprently he scores very high in the sex category. I, on the other hand, kick ass in kissing. Too bad I’ve got no one to prove it too. I should hang up an sign around my neck proclaiming this 😀

This is obviously a bogus test — it generates its answers as a function of your name, age and genger. My score improve in some category and fall in others depending on whether I include my last name or not.

But it’s always fun to kill a little time on stupid stuff like this.

What Is Your Best Sexual Skill?
Name:
Age:
Sex:	MaleFemale
Sexuality:	StraightGayBisexual
Flirting Skill Level – 13%
Kissing Skill Level – 99%
Cudding Skill Level – 27%
Sex Skill Level – 42%
Why They Love You	You know exactly what they want.
Why They Hate You	You won’t take your socks off.
This Quiz by lady_wintermoon – Taken 2102718 Times.

New – Kwiz.Biz Astrology

More than a month has passed since I last updated. End February and March were awful months. But April has come, and has brought with it the sun. This means cricket, girls in small tops, sun shine, and me cribbing about how warm it is. But it also gives me an excuse to drink cold, cold beer.

Towards the end of March, A road trip down to Myrtle Beach is what 4 friends felt we deserved. So Myrtle Beach is where we went. I got a taste of the good ol’ southern hospitality. A nice relaxing time after the stress of the previous term hit the spot. Like Jayesh put it on one of his away messages:
Hotel: $350
Car rental: $270
Souvenirs: $50
Spring break with friends: priceless!

The new term so far seems decent. The only really hard course I think will be senior design. The others should all be rather manageable. Of course, I’ve got the left over from last term. I’m at my wits ends as to what to do about it. I’ve made some time to play squash, DUST has been fun (I’ve got spring jam to look forward to), so overall things are looking up. It will be even better once I can finish the paper. Also at the back of my mind is the wind down and move back to India for 3 months. I’ve got a lot to do before that!