30+

I recently turned 30 years old (fsck!!!) and a thought crossed my mind about what were the best thirty things that happened to me in my life so far. I think following make up the list

1) Spending summers at my grandparent's place
2) Dad taking Snigi and me to the movies
3) Standing 1st in my school for my 10th grade.
4) Spending evenings with my Naka (best) friends
5) Spending college summers at Vinayak's place in Panchgani
6) Mahableshwar trip with Amit, Makaad and Sameer
7) Trip to Goa with SPCE friends
8) Time spent at Bangalore for my first job training
9) Walks on Juhu beach
10) Mom and Dad's 25th wedding anniversary which was a kind of mini-wedding
11) Getting my US F1 visa
12) Landing in Chicago and going nuts over the US
13) Getting assistantship at Clemson
14) Working at PARL (Parallel Architecture Research Lab)
15) Barbecue parties at Will's place
16) Clemson weekends at the pubs with Ankur, Bully, Bonda, Matt and Korade.
17) Raquette ball and Frisbee games at Clemson
18) Writing the script along with Matt for the desi play at Clemson
19) Mountain biking at Los Alamos for 3 months during my intern ship (which I hated)
20) Tanu and me spending time at Harvard square in Boston
21) Tanu and me hiking chimney top (the tallest peak in Tennessee)
22) Watching "Before Sunset"
23) Weekend cooking and drives to Wilkesboro
24) 2006 4th of July camping trip
25) 2006 New years at time's square with Salil and Pritam.
26) Showing Mom and Dad around in the US
27) Tanu and me kayaking at lake crabtree
28) Poker nites with Morrisville friends
29) Buying our first home
30) Most important of all, Shlok arriving in our lives.

Shlok one month old

Shloky will be a month old tomorrow....It's hard to believe that it has already been a month since he arrived....Waiting for him to grow up a little more so that we can go camping and kayak-ing together in the summers.

Lawn mower

Everyday last week as I drove back home, I hated to see the crabgrass grown on our lawn. The problem was, last year Tanu had convinced me to use a push mower instead of gas mower. The push mower cuts the lawn grass well however it sucks at handling weeds. So today morning when I woke up, I decided to use my old gas mower however it did not start as I had not used it since two years. The fuel tank had two year old gas and the spark plug seemed to had gone bad as well. So I spent most of the afternoon running to stores to a buy siphon bulb, a spark plug and some new gas. I then used the siphon bulb to remove the old gas which had turned charred brown, replaced the spark plug and poured in the fresh new gas and voilà the gas mower was up and running again. Spent most of the evening mowing the lawn and trimming the edges. I am damn exhausted now and want to simply have some food and crash into bed, hopefully Sholky will let us sleep a bit.

Sunday Evening....

It's green outside and is drizzling a bit, I am working on my laptop while listening to Celtic music , with Shlok sleeping besides me on the bed, Tanu and her Mom are cooking food downstairs....At times Life just seems perfect...

Spring is here

Tanu had done some gardening last fall and I could not understand what was she planting. I thought she was wasting her time and effort working on our flower bed as it was looking extremely barren. However her efforts seem to have paid off as the flower bed now looks extremely neat this spring.

Outliers

Saw Michael Gladwell's interview with Fareed Zakarai on CNN and was really impressed. Hence have decided that the next book for me to read will be Outliers. However I don't know when will I get to it.