Graduation and beyond

heyya all.
I am back:). Kinda. I got to San Francisco on the 26th and today is the 6th...sorry...7th(12:10pm) in california. I am now at my uncle's place, leaving for Indianapolis in less than 24 hours. Then...onto Purdue for a week. And then... Chicago. Well, anywayz... This post will be an update of the past week or so... and some thoughts that have been troubling me for the past few days. Meanwhile...I just looked at the stats and overwhelmed at the ppl who still check my blog regularly. Thank You. I will add the radio blog and the tagboard sooon...

first...the update..

The 26th ...I landed in SF where a friend's cousin picked me up. This was a high school reunion. 6 classmates....and good friends meeting up in warm weather to enjoy. Well...it rained most of the time...but we got some excellent photographs that I will put up soon. And we had fun times.....
So... we stayed at my friend's cousin's friend's house. These ppl had gone to india for a vacation.. and so we had the house to ourselves. However, our base of operations was my friend's cousin's place. She made some awesome food for us... and her husband was DA man. He showed us around san francisco... planned our trips.. and basically made sure we all had a lottt of fun. Ramesh Bavagarandi and Neelu akka... three cheers to you!!!
26th.. we rented a car and went to a mall. 27th, we went to roaring camp and the mystery spot and came back. I had to return the rented car while we booked a minivan. 28th, we picked up the minivan... and then the reall fun began. Thanks to Chris Welch at Enterprise, Newark, we got a really good deal. 8 of us packed into the minivan meant for 7 (and no lightweights I tell you)... and we basically went all over San Francisco.. and nearby areas.
some of the best places: Monterey bay, Oakland/berkeley downtown, 17 mile drive, Spanish bay inn, half Moon Bay, San Francisco Downtown, Napa Valley (famous for it's wineries), Old Faithful geyser, Fisherman's wharf, world's most crooked street..etc. We even tried a guys night out and went to a nightclub..... but 2 of my friends didnt have the right ID's even though they were 21. So...no entry...and we came right back.

The first day I was there, I got so excited that I lifted up a chair...smashing the chandelier that was hanging pretty low :(. Saaaad:(:(:(. But they were sooo sweet about it. Then.... there was the snoring. 2 of my friends were snoring 70% of the time at night. One guy would be watching a movie with us...fall asleep halfway through...and then jussst SNOOOOOORE!!! GAH!!!
And then...the incident where I got pissed off as one friend was too self centred (as is my conviction)... but ....as I said....I decided to have my fun and I did. Then... One day..was my frenz cousin's husband's b'day. So... we got a cake and chocos and wine (from a local Napa Valley Winery) for him. And had a party.....(not really surprise... but still). And then....I decided to go meet my mom at my uncle's place. Unfortunately, we got delayed as we went to the temple... and had to drop off a friend halfway there... and then got lost as we were given the wrong directions. TWICE!! (both times...we were told to go South when we had to go North). Anywayz... we ended up reaching my uncles place pretty late. And the return was supposed to be on a treacherous road (State road 17 from Santa Cruz region)....so we had to leave within half an hour. .... and the anecdotes can go on forever and ever.
My friends all left on the 5th. One to LA... another to Illinois, another to Kentucky, another to Pennsylvania and the last one to Idaho. It was great meeting all of them... and we had an especially great time because of 2 very special ppl in SF. Thank You once again:)

Well.... then...I met my sis for a few hours and then came to my uncle's place where I have been relaxing. Tomm, my mom leaves for india .. and I leave for Indy. Interesting ehh? My uncle also gave me a few books to read...
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza
Relatively Speaking by Eric Chaisson
The God partice by leon Lederman
and Catastrophe by David Keys. He is more of a science buff (Not sci-fi... but science)...so these books should be interesting reads. I started on the first one...

I have also been catching up on blogs....slowly.. as I have my ibook with me. I have also begun a bit of chatting. mailing.... getting work done. And now...as I delay sleeping and I upload some 250 of the 1000 odd pics that we took, I feel like pouring out some feelings to this blog that I so love and yet hate.

I have been thinking as to what to do after my graduation. I want to try for a job... but another part of me just wants to go to india.. meet relatives and travel. A friend who graduated with me is making plans of trekking in the himalayas and also going to some nature resorts (tiger reserves, rhino reserves...). All of that seems like fun. But I have spent soooo much money these past 2 months. On car rental... flights... just food.... and treats... and on myself. The money just disappeared. :(. What more can I say:(. Maybe I can get a part time job. I dont want to get an internship as I want to go to india in feb/March. Life......is so full of decisions:(. Meanwhile...I want to get down to work on getting an internship. or maybe a job. As for graduate school...I am just not sure. I am just going to keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best:) I have been sooo lazy in my applications...I should be shot. But what could I do... so many things to do....so little time...

Well.... after all that buildup... my feelings came down to only one or two points. But these points are big for me... as they make my life seem sooo unpredictable and so .... I dont know.... immature maybe? or so... unsure. Well... anywayz.. thats my life. it's 1 am now and I better sleep now if I intend to wake up early....

P.S. Pics from my trip are up. 250 or so that I liked...
Linkie for pics

Take care ppl and have an Awesome day:)