Centre Court

For as far as I can remember Lawn Tennis was one of the very first sport I started watching and actually understanding. I remember at the age of 4 or 5 watching with my grandfather a Steffi Graf match and it was Wimbledon. Since early teenage I have had this dream of watching a match at the mecca of tennis "Wimbledon Centre Court".

Last time a British man won the Wimbledon championship was way back in 1936 but even then the British come out every year in rain and heat to watch the game, such is the love of the game. My dream seems to be realizable in the distant future but I have it in the back of my head and someday in this lifetime I will definitely be there.

Wimbledon Centre Court I shall come.


Ciao

P.S. If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two imposters just the same.

Tired, down and out !

I am mentally tired of this bullshit. For the last 20 years of my life I have worked for this day and when it comes its not even a day its actually the dawn of an era and I am supposed to make daylight for my career out of the setting Sun. I did nothing wrong enough to deserve these times, well not in this life.

Anyways I do not wanna become the cribbing baby, I am very much up for the GAME even if I am on a side which has zero chances of winning. But I guess the time has come to stop for a moment and refresh the mind. And there is only place on Earth where I think that can happen and its back home, well not literally but its GOA. The best vacation I ever spent in life was in GOA, the place has a sound of tranquility about it, its not expensive, has beaches and of course barrels of liquor. Anyways my motive behind the trip would be peace of mind and relaxation. I am starting one last phase of trying really really hard to find a job and if it does not work out then its gonna be Viva La Goa.

So by 15th August either I would be in Goa or I would be employed and playing games on PS3 and honestly that sounds a future to look forward to either ways :D.

Adios

Maths

I am missing Maths in my life, with time I have started appreciating Maths more and more to the extent where I wish my career revolves around Maths to some degree.

I liked a Calculus from the day I got into it but attributed to pure laziness I never scored well in exams though I feel I understand Calculus better than a lot of my peers. If someone knows about interesting programming jobs or open source projects revolving around Calculus then please suggest those to me.

If I had to choose between a pretty girl and Maths I would choose Maths as everything that is TRUE is apparent on paper whereas with a girl everything apparent on a paper is FALSE.


Ciao

Neo

This is my new blog, for loads of reasons I chose to get a new address and let go of the old one. Welcome to the new world.

Ciao for now

Shantanu Mishra

Hai Apna dil to awara !

hai apanaa dil to aawaaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa

haseenon ne bulaayaa, gale se bhee lagaayaa
bahot samazaayaa, yahee naa samazaa
bahot bholaa hain bechaaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa

ajab hain diwaanaa, naa dar naa thhikaanaa
jameen se begaanaa, falak se judaa
ye yek tootaa huaa taaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa

jamaanaa dekhaa saaraa, hain sab kaa sahaaraa
ye dil hee humaaraa huaa naa kisee kaa
safar mein hain ye banjaaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa

huaa jo kabhee raajee, to milaa naheen kaajee
jahaa pe lagee baazee, wahee pe haaraa
ye yek tootaa huaa taaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa

Master of Science

Mom I love you, this would not have been possible without you.

With all honesty I put forward in pictures my two most cherished possessions, and I think they will stay the most cherished for the rest of my life.

That cap

The Degree

From here on whatever good happens to my life will in some way depend on these two. It feels like I am bragging too much but WTH I have bled for three years for these bragging rights. Not that I bought my Undergrad degree but it certainly feels a joke when compared to the Graduate School. The last three years have been a journey of transforming myself from being a no-ne to being a someone. When I was giving job interviews in college almost anybody could rip me apart with fundamentals only and that is when I promised myself Graduate school is going to be totally different. Three years later I can claim that every interview I have given has been a battle where I have fought like a Gladiator, I have lost quite a lot of them but with respect and dignity. I may not be the best thinker and problem solver but I have earned my degree to every grade I have got and not just walked through it. Apart from academic and technical knowledge MS has taught me a lot of life lessons as well which will stay with me forever even though I might forget propositional calculus. As an example I got an A which i totally did not deserve and I also got a B which again I totally did not deserve, in short life is not always fair but then it would not be fun enough if it was always fair.

I have not seen my family for the last three years, walked more than a mile in the middle of snow storms, lived on Maggi and Pizza for weeks, spent days without a single hour of sleep, spent a lot of my dad's money on the tuition, sacrificed all kinds of recreational interests but in the end it totally feels WORTH IT! I am totally blessed to have been able to achieve my degree.

Adios for now...

Life is a Bitch.

Times are really really bad for me. 2009 is turning out to be an absolute disaster. On top of that staying in America in these wretched times is taking its toll on me in every possible way.

Everything I set my eyes on or I aspire to achieve is being taken away from me for no fault or mistake of mine. Job opportunities, Money, Friends, Partners, Materialistic goods etc. You name a thing and I can assure you I have lost that or about to loose it in a span of 15 days around today.

I hope this loosing streak comes to an end soon.

Ciao