The Quick-N-Dirty India Trip update !

Welcome back to the land of the blog. This is your friendly neighborhood blogger and I'm back in East Lansing, Michigan. A few days ago i was saying something about "enthusiastic PhD students" and someone overheard that and said, "enthusiastic" and "PhD" usually dont go together..

So i guess i'll make use of the last vestiges of leftover "cheer" from my India trip and tell you a little bit about what I did in my 20 days at home in Chennai.

Ate: Well, you know what they say.."Eat Healthy, Think Better" ...I revisited all my old favorites, New Andhra Meals, Saravana Bavan, Ascendas etc etc... One new place that i went to was "The Park Hotel" ...where me and laddu had a lunch buffet that totally blew me away

Slept: Yes... OId Room. Old Pillows. Old Dreams of Shriya Saran and Cute Mega Serial heroines who cry all the time..

Met friends: Of course. Met all my old friends. Most of them I couldnt meet much because my trip was only 20 days long. Rest assured, next time i'll be there to bug you a lot more.

Spent time with John Sebastian: He's my dentist. He took one look inside my mouth and had a heart attack. Fortunately he used a dental drill as a makeshift pacemaker.. and proceeded to ROOT CANAL the crap out of my teeth (which was not a big deal btw...ending my decade long speculation as to how a root canal procedure feels)... well.. my teeth now have enough metal filling to set off the metal detectors in the airport.

LandMark Quiz: I seem to be flying down everytime this takes place. Awesome questions yet again.. VV Ramanan and Co winning it yet again.. Dr. Naveen Jaikumar conducting it yet again.. I shall be there for it next year yet again...

Watched Kandhasamy with Families: If this movie had been made before Sivaji and Anniyan, It would 've made more money.... but i hear its already made 60 crore..so...well...

Despite the mixed reviews that this movie got, I think it was fun. The whole superhero messiah angle was nice and I think technically, the movie was brilliant. And YAAAAA.......SHRIYAAAAAAAA !!!...


Got Engaged: Yay! I have a ring on my finger and a chain (both literally and figuritively) around my neck.

I still remember the first time Lois meets Superman in Richard Donner's 1978 movie, He flies up and catches her in mid air.. This is the exchange of words...

Superman: Easy, miss. I've got you.
Lois Lane: You - you've got me? Who's got you?

So yeah.. I'm now officially engaged to the person I love the most in the world...or universe if you believe the existence of other worlds... or multiverse if you believe in the existence of other universes... or dimensions, if you believe in other dimensional planes... but well.. you get the general idea.

P.S. Wedding on June 6th 2010; be there !!!

So yeah.. that was pretty much a run through of what i did.... Will follow up with more posts as the semester heats up!

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