mind=body=soul

Today, 8 years have passed since I joined my college on 9.9.99(not surprisingly I still remember laughing about the reporting time-9am.)
Sure most of my friends and me, have changed a lot in personalities (for good, I believe). Heck, even the college has grown to an University awarding doctorates and MBBS. Although Im sure growing to a deemed univ has reduced the "quality" of students very much. Anyway, Im happy I met some interesting people in college who have impacted my life in many ways. Still in touch with most of them through IM,phone,orkut and what not. Some of us came to same grad school co-incidentally. Apart from endless philosophical talks we had back in Tucson, now Im responsible for dragging them and they are responsible for dragging me in all directions. (most recent is last week).

How can a college memory post be without a picture? Heres the only digital photo I got, taken during college.
(College tour: Ooty 4th sem.)

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None this year. Not that I make lists every year.
Nearly most of the things in last year's list will be carried forward this year. Even worse(real worse), thinking about what I did useful(on a personal or career level which is more important than places) in 2006, makes me feel bad!
The problem, is poor self assesment. Its like the survey where 80% of the people rated themselves in top 20% drivers. Its funny but shows a serious physcological problem most people also have(like me). Being average kind of sounds bad. But 50% of people have to be below average(ok,medain).
I always think I can do more than what I really do.This always led to disappointments throughout right from school days to me. Its like after the exams, promise myself that I will make better use of study holidays in the next sem.
After every single thing like an exam or interview, I always feel I could have easily done better and I strongly believed that. There wasn't even one till todate, which I was happy about after its completion. Perhaps, the actual truth (which I started to believe) is that Im no good as I think Iam. It took so many years for me to realise that Im a fool. But it was a good revealation though.

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Today I got an email from a guy (who claimed was my neighbour in Chennai). His name doesn't ring any bell to me. He sent his resume asking to refer him. He also left me a voicemail, in which he said "I had sent my resume, please forward anna". I think it indeed came from India.
Sure, I can understand his need, but I was surprised he did actually try to *call* me. Im also surprised whether he had assumed people will interview for positions in US from India? His resume shows that he is a fresh college grad. He never said where/how found my contact info? Web search? univ page? orkut? blog?

Sure, whenever I remember or hear about any friend(esp if not close), I immediately lookup on the web or orkut to see if he has any homepage and see what he has been upto or any interesting info happenning with him? (Btw, any guess on the success rate?:) ). But making an international call is little over the limit, especially since I still couldnt recollect his identity :)
But I think he really wanted me to fwd his resume(otherwise just an email could have worked). So, I did.
[UPDATE : No fun,pun etc intended ]
Moral of the day: The world is sure smaller than u think.

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Today was my mum's birthday. When in India I used to try to do something to make her
happy, as I would have troubled her for the rest of the year :) This year I couldn't do anything. Asusual my mum told me "You neednot do anything, if you are good in life and work, that will make me happy". Till date if there is one person on earth which I share all my things, its my mum. Happy bday to all the moms in this world :-)
Today also happened to be Arvind's b'day. He is also reaching the darker side(25) of life this year.
Btw just noticed Vijay's blog description . It reminded me(once again) of one of my all time favorites!

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