My room..

I have shifted to a new house. So far I am liking it. Haven't bought a lot of furniture though. Only a bed, a table and a chair. For now this is sufficient I think. Life has been hectic for the past few months. I was doing lots of random things. And it hampered my work and day to day life. Now I am quite settled and hope can focus on my work.

Some pictures of the room:

No more social networking

Yesterday I have taken a big decision. I will no longer spend time in social networking. So I deactivated my facebook account. Opted out from all mail notifications from friendfeed, orkut, linkedin, twitter. There is so specific reason to do this. But I felt like "OMG.. I am spending so much time in just browsing those sites. It cant go on like this". After some time if I feel the urge to come back then I will re-activate those. But right now, full stop. Its like hiding inside a cave. I dont want to see the sunlight anymore.

Whoever wants to reach me, contact me through mail or phone.

bye

Arif

Life in Mountain View, California

Hi all, I am here again after a short break.

I have moved to mountain view on last 24th august. So far things turned out good. Currently I am staying at the corporate guest house. Still looking for a place to live. Last saturday we saw some apartments. Next week also I will look for some more apartments. Hopefully by then I will find something.

cheers

Last day at Bangalore

Today I am leaving Bangalore. My next destination is Dhaka. Later I will fly for Mountain View, California. If all things goes well then I will be flying to USA on 15/16th of this Month. I still don't know what will happen with the visa process. But looks like all the processing has been done and the embassy guys asked for the passport for further processing. They said they will take at most 1 week to do that. I am going to submit my passport there on next Sunday. So if everything is ok then I should get the visa by 10.

Right now I am waiting at the Bangalore airport. My flight is as usual delayed. Waiting at the airport is one of the most boring job in my opinion. Nothing to do. But today I am not feeling that bored, as Bangalore airport has free wireless internet access.

I have been staying here in bangalore starting from march, 2007. Its almost been one and half years here. I don't know about others, but I feel really sad when I have to leave any place. When you stay at one place for long time, It becomes a part of you. Leaving that place is like you are leaving one part of you. Its so hard to describe. I feel really sad. All the good memories, friends, my roomies.. I don't know when I will see them again. I hope that is not forever. Every time I have to say goodbye to any of my friends, it breaks my heart. I never lived in any place where I was alone. I thank God that I am always been blessed with wonderful friends.

I don't know what is waiting for me in USA. A little bit scared too. New culture, new locality, new friends. Hope everything will turn out good.

How I spent this week..

Another week pass by. I was just thinking what are the things I have done so far in this week. I can't remember all the things I did, but few I can summarize.
1. Movie Watched: The Dark Night, Kung-fu Panda, Wall*E
2. Watched several episodes of How I Met Your Mother
3. Gone for trekking
4. Got the basic ideas of origami creation. I can do the crane, duck, lily & rose.
5. Did shopping for myself & my brother in law
6. Cooked for myself twice
7. Went to gym for 2 days only (punted the other days)
8. Spent 4 hours in Self Defense Session (Yes its all about unagi)

Thats it. Nothing else is done.

Skandagiri Trekking

Yesterday we went for trekking in Skandagiri hills. It was our official monsoon offsite. Almost 30 people was there. Actually we were heading to Savanadurga hills but due to heavy traffic we decided to go here. I was pretty much happy about this. I trekked in skandagiri earlier and was looking for another chance since then. The journey was a little bit boring because of heavy traffic. Other than that the whole day was simply awesome. Everything was perfect for the trekking. The weather was terrific.. it was windy & cloudy. The view was really stunning from the top. I tried to capture it with my camera. Best of all when we were almost down, it started raining. It was simply awesome. We played soccer at the downhills in the muddy & watery field. We were so drenched into water that our driver said he wont take us in his bus. Today I feel like every muscle of my whole lower body is aching. But this ache is nothing compared to the joy we achieved yesterday.

Few photos:

My Origami Creations

I tried to create few origami things.. like duck, lily, crane. I wanted to learn the tricks when i saw the serial prison break. Creating this kind of stuff is not hard but also not trivial. But its always fun. So far I managed to create duck, crane, lily and few airplanes. Right now I am trying to learn how to create origami rose. This one seems a little bit trickier and harder also. I haven't taken any picture of all those things I have done so far. Mainly because all those things I tried on normal papers. When I create them on colorful papers I am going to take some pictures and upload them.