GodCatch - Caught on the wrong foot!

Today I interviewed with the world's no 1 software giant - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Feels awesome to blog this on Google's own - Blogspot!

As the title of the blog goes, I was "caught" on the wrong foot. Mera bad luck hi bad tha! I messed up the once in a lifetime opportunity. All my hard work on preparation for the interview went in vain; even my thesis stuff didnt seem to click this time and I was unable to impress him. It was one of those evil days in my life.

The evening was spent drinking Dr.Pepper to add "jale pe namak" (already have a sore throat still). The night was wonderful though, with a call from NetApp for an informal session at PK's.

My resolve now is stronger..i will complete the scheduler this year. going at this rate, the file system, memory management, drivers and UI wud take another 4 yrs. Including the time to integrate all this together, I will be ready with my GodCatchOS in 5 years from now..and maybe will do this as my PhD from Berkeley or Stanford!

Shud I dare to say this: Microsoft, u have another Google coming in the next 5 years.. BEWARE!

God Catches Cold!

I caught a bad cold and even worse sore throat infection yesterday. That too when I had a thesis meeting with my prof and another paper discussion and research at VBI and HW due the next day and IBM info session and my cooking turn. Oh what a bad timing to fall ill!

I somehow managed to go to campus and do ALL of this pretty well in fact. But at the end of the day, I fell in bed at 10pm, too early as compared to my normal standards these days. I got up today morning felt a bit better and as the day passed, I almost forgot that I was sick at all.

Was this bcoz of Valentine's day effect?

Cooking is Fun!

One good thing I learnt here is cooking is fun!! I dont see the reason why most females (especially wives) complain about the pain of cooking. Well i agree, its a bit difficult in India, bcoz you need to actually cut vegetables, knead the dough, etc. In the Americas, everything is packed and frozen..(may not necessarily be healthy, but who cares when u r already eating a lot of cheese and chicken to compensate)so much easier to just cut the packet and ur done!

I have become an expert in most Indian recipes like the famous Maharashtrian zunka eat it with tortilla and u will keep eating, rajma, moong dal are my other delicacies. Want something real quick, fried rice and Maggi taste awesome.

I must admit that i havent tried a lot many breakfast recipes like upma, pohe...so thats still an OFI.

Happy Cooking guys.. enjoy it and u'll like it!!

Beautiful February

Its a beautiful Saturday morning in February, my favorite month of the year. I feel like going out for a long walk, but assignments which are due next week hold me back. I start working on them and soon find them pretty interesting. I am solving this Networks problems and one of them was "whats the width of a bit in meters?" and i am like what??, am i reading it correctly?..i confirm that thats what is asked and soon find out what it means intuitively.

I had a voice chat with kary and we had fun using traceroute finding where the common web servers were "physically" located. I had a cup full of Butter Pecan icecream too. The night ended with a movie "From here to eternity" one of the oldies (black and white) based on Pearl Harbor. It was enuf to put me to sleep.

More when I wake up!