Hi there
It has been more than a year since I last blogged and I have been planning to break my laziness and start blogging again. I have been planning this for about 6 months now 
I am marking my return to blogging again with a quick update on what has been happening in the last year of my life.
I was doing my Master of Science in Computer Science at Arizona State University when I last blogged. I have, since then. completed this program successfully with a thesis under by belt. I moved from Tempe, AZ to San Jose, CA to start work for a networking company. I am in business intelligence and data warehousing team here. My life-style has changed a bit. I own a Nissan 35oz, a Mac mini with a 23″ samsung moniitor, have a bedroom for myself now with a queen-size bed, a very large table and a comfortable chair, all neatly arranged ((I think) in my bedroom. I have a very close friend from my undergrad in India, living about 6 miles from my house. I have come out of my sedentary life at ASU and I am hiking every other weekend. I go to my friend’s house about 3 times a week. I am reading books now. I read ‘Engineering your start-up: A guide for the High-tech Entrepreneur‘ by James Swanson and Michael Baird. I read the book ‘Emotional Intelligence‘ by Daniel Goleman. I am now reading ‘Designing Quality Databases with IDEF1X Information Models‘ by Thomas Bruce. I have ‘Getting to Yes‘ by Fisher, Ury and Patton, and O’ Reilly’s ‘High Performance MySQL‘ and ‘SQL Tuning‘ in the queue.I have formatted my Dell 1501 and have only Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit Server running now. It used to have Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 previously. Above all, I feel I have grown a lot more mature, patient and ‘understanding’ (nice people-skills to have). I stiill love gadgets and am still trying out most of the new websites that i come across (though I am not visiting most of them for a second time). Having spent about 10 months in the corporate world, I now have some good and bad opinion about it. Certainly, the speed at which things get done in a corporate environment is much slower than in a class project, thesis or a even a startup. But, overall, I am liking the transformation I am going through and I am picking up a lot of as skills in this new journey.
More to come soon!
