"Watch" in the washing machine and other tales

Strange heading ??? well the incident was stranger than the heading. I had been searching for my watch for the last two days without success.  I finally find it today of all places on earth inside the washing machine (one of the miracles that I can attest to in my life).  If only I could find a million dollars that way ...

In other stories ... a hurricane just went through my house ... not a real one ofcourse but I am trying to pack to go to California to get a job and am being restricted by the amount of luggage that I can carry on the flight. I need a miracle to stuff 400 pounds into a 100 pound limit.  If only I could figure out what is real important and what is not. Though the more important worry for me now should be how and when I am going to get a job ... oops got to go ... laters ...

Natural born killer ... er ... shooter

This weekend was very satisfying, I got to do (only for the second time) something that I loved to do - Shoot. Perry is a small town an hour from where I live. There lives the Owens family who were gracious enough to take me to their shooting range.

The weather was a little too hot but I can't complain after the fun I had. I tried shooting my hands at shooting three targets with deadly accuracy. Mr. Owens pumped up my ego by giving me his stamp of approval as a natural shooter. I even had something called "snakeeye", which in shooter's jargon means hitting the same spot with two or more bullets. I also had a chance to try out a "1911" / Colt 45 . That gun can kick up a big recoil. I did get tired with the shotgun, its heavy and can hurt your shoulder. Well One of these days I am going to get myself a few of those guns. What am I going to do with it? I have no clue, but who cares I am in America and I can have them.

You can have a look at the pictuers and a short video soon at my website.

Till Laters

 

Graduated ...

Well I have officially finished all my Master's requirements after successfully defending my project yesterday. Ready to be baptized with fire and enter the big bad real world. 20 years of education ... That's a lot I should say. 

The first two years was spent in New Delhi India, at a school called Cornel Central Academy where my mom was a teacher.  Probably the only time in my life when I was on top of the class in academics :D. This was followed by a year of home schooling by my mom who is a certified English teacher.  Then spent a year at Holy Angels Madras.  The primary schooling was done at Loyola Matriculation school. Moved to Don Bosco, Egmore for the rest of my schooling. When I graduated form High School I was so frustrated with studies I didn't want to continue further. But continue I did,  with my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Thangavelu engineering College. Those were some of the best years of my life.

Followed that up by flying half way across the world to pursue my Master of Science degree from Florida State University. And now I am out of it... Ready to go on to the next level . 

Till later

Tubing, rollercoasters and fireworks

After a hiatus of almost two weeks I am back. The last week has been pretty busy. There was the July 4th weekend and the visit to Wild Adventures in Valdosta not to forget tubing down the Ichnetucknee.

July 4th was good as usual. There are two things that have really over awed me in the US, one is the monuments in Washington DC and the other is fireworks. There is nothing to beat them. This year I spent it at North wood Baptist church.

Tubing down the Ichnetucknee was also fun. It was a flying start with the raft flying of the back of the truck. The tubing itself was wonderful, I got to see the log that I almost drowned under last year (it had been cleared from the river this time around). I did try my swimming expertise but had to give it up due to the onset of cramps. It was really fun to watch me struggle with a cramped leg trying to find a log to hold onto. The fact that I am here and in some aligator's stomach is due to Whitney, my snorkeling friend who was at hand to get me back on track. That experience has encouraged me to take a swimming class.

The visit to Wild Adventures was marred by rain, though I did manage to ride on my first rollercoaster. I think I'd like to try some more. Maybe the worlds biggest rollercoaster at Cedar Point...

Ciao

Incoherent ramblings .....

The start to a new month and hopefully the begining of the end of my college life. Its been a long harduous one but I think I have lost as much of my bran cells as I could in the last 20 years of scholastic life. I just can't wait to defend my project and get out of it. Right now I am waiting for a professor who is on vacation in europe to reply to my eamil sent a week back.

For those of you who are interested in the paranormal this is a good site to visit. It was sent to me by a friend who will need me by her side if she goes there ;)

ciao later

NoViCe