No more midterms

Hi,

I am so glad this week is almost over. It was so stressed and hectic that I don't even remember half of it. To begin with, I was stressing too much on the 2 midterms that I had this week. Implications: Did not study as I was too busy worrying. Then as always 2 nights of 3-4 hours of sleep continuous 7-8 hours of studying before exam, which includes on the train, in the shower, in my dreams, (yes I do that, and pretty soon some freak PhD student will prove it).

Finally I am a free man, no more midterms for a few months now, I am done with all of this semesters. Yay!! But I want to get into trading, and I know there could not have been a worse time, especially since I am based in NY right now. We are on the brink of recession and the stallwarts of wallstreet are peeing in their pants and I want to get into the game. Oh well the world is a strange place.

So, to get more of my wallstreet experience I am sitting here at my internship which I came I did not come for on Tuesday and seems like my boss has forgotten that I was going to come in today, since I have been waiting here for almost an hour, ok ok 45 mins, but its still a significant amount of time, given that I come for 3 hours only.

I think this blogging thing is helping both my english writing and my typing skills so I think I am going to continue with it for a long time to come.

Computer Crash

Namaste,
The worst thing that could have happened in my life, has happened yet again. I know I am not naturally tech savvy but this is ridiculous, my computer crashed. Yes, it did, its like the nineties all over again, and this time also, like always, I have no back up of data. I am trying, actually Ravi Bhaiya is trying and I am pushing him, to recover the data, but chances are dim at the end of the road.
Anyways keep you updated
Varun

PS. I won 10$ again Pakistani on a cricket match played in Guwahati on Monday India time, (feeling really happy and relieved) YAY!!!

Work procastination

Ola,

I am back again, dont worry thats all the Spanish I know, and this will not turn into a hispanic forum.
I am at work and my boss is on a break, tell me how does that make me feel? Real loser especially as I am paid less than 5 $ an hour, this is child labor man. The sad thing is I am doing it voluntarily and I can not compaint because of that.
In reality I enjoy this work, it is so different from working in the silk business though as of now that seems more exciting, its a welcome change to see another work place and to be in front of people who do not look at you and think he is the boss's son, because in this place I am not the boss's son. The cool thing is, in National Securities Asset Management, where I am working, no one is the boss's son. I am the unfortunate enough to have a boss but all others are independent workers here and do not have the boss-employee relationship thing going on. Also I think office politics is minimal as they do not cross their paths everyday, but I might be wrong as I have been here for just 3-4 weeks and do not have informal discussion with anyone.

Ok I have to go back to work.
Peace

Update 3

Hi,
I am sorry for being lazy. Developing new habits is not so easy for me especially when I am not sure the habit I am getting into is a good one or a bad one, since I have been doing this so infrequently I dont know if I enjoy this or think its a waste of time. I guess time will tell...

Life is really slow and sad when you promise yourself you will not party and actually keep it. Well I didnt tell you guys about my promise right? So here goes... I had taken World Cultures Africa last semester which was when I was stupid enough to try thinking like white kids and chose something that I thought was interesting and I would enjoy. Bad idea!! Not that the lectures were bad and the prof. and the TA were both really nice and good speakers which was pretty useful in the sense that it could have been worse than it actually was. But the point is the theme was overtly depressing, Africa, subjects covered included diseases, female circumcision, politics, neo traditional societies, war, etc. All important and go a far way in defining the state of Africa but not very exciting. Especially nothing like the movie Blood Diamond which was my iniial inspiration anyways. To make things worse my professor was the head of anthropology department at NYU and has been teaching for over 40 years, he was convinced that his subject was not taught through exam. That implies that we had to write papers almost all the time. Something, that you are aware, I detest.
So ending up, I wrote my final paper 3000 words twice but was not happy with it and ended up deletign my files thinking I will screw my way out of class, as I knew he was not teaching this semester and I could easily lie saying I had turned it in. So I dug the hole even deeper. Recently my professor contacted me and told me to turn them in, so I promised myself no partying till papers are done. So that was that.

Thats all for today,
Peace