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ssible to see through that is more than easily made up for by the several hours a week spent teaching basic dynamics a task which in itself can be quite tricky partly due to the vast disparity in mathematical aptitude amongst the undergraduate students in these parts the rest of my time and almost all of my mental capacity is occupied by my research and freed most effectively by the time spent in the kitchen this is the story of fall 2011 the end of last semester also involved an renewed interest in instrumental music thanks to the virtuosic guthrie govan a terrific musician whose weapon of choice is the guitar a renewed interest in the guitar itself followed soon after and i have since been trying a more systematic approach to learning guitar than the one i had previously employed a chronological study of the beatles being my first non pedantic undertaking the arrival of migrants from warmer parts of the world made the semester break very enjoyable indeed although at the cost of my guitar regime a small price to pay for the profits that were reaped winter was anything but wintry i felt very much at home after a month long break my fourth semester here begins today research wise i find myself quite comfortable high on some fresh home grown stuff on eigen modes of bubble oscillations a meeting with the other tas is in order to smoothly accommodate the new masses of unenlightened sophomores in addition i intend to transfer to the phd program around may not to mention the spring birding which which i must strive to wake up in time for the overdue travel that better happen this spring break the bicycle that i must build and then ride and the camera that i must explore in detail add the guitar to the mix and i m looking at a semester that is far denser than its predecessors it s time i got cracking no posted by bhargav at 12 38 pm no comments wednesday august 10 2011 home and back most of my posts over the last year or so have been closely associated with travel maybe it s because a change of location brings with it a change in mental state of a strength that contrasts only too well against the relative insipidity that has come to be associated with my daily routine a thought that i ought to keep in mind and develop in the interest of more fruitful time management bangalore is the same as it was a year ago namma metro work still occupies most of the city s major roadways and now sports an additional layer of cinema posters and advertisements traffic hasn t gotten any better though i can t say with any level of certainty that it s gotten worse either the visit back home was near perfect time with family a week long escape to the countryside meeting friends over weekends some decent birding and the great food and drink read masala dosa and filter kaapi the trip to surathkal i so badly wanted will have to wait for next year but that apart there are few things i would have changed about this visit having arrived questioning whether home would feel the same as it used to a year ago i m now preparing to leave thankful that those qualms were unwarranted and wishing i could stay for another month to me this has been more than a holiday it has been an affirmation of my sense of belonging to the place i call home posted by bhargav at 9 33 pm 3 comments labels bangalore travel saturday january 8 2011 birds south florida is a terrific place for birds this time of the year here s an incomplete list of birds i spotted there there are tons more that i have been unable to identify for completeness sake i ve also included the ones i ve seen in illinois i ve tried grouping similar or related birds together in this list credits to en wikipedia org www whatbird com and www allaboutbirds org all three of which i used extensively laughing gull non breeding plumage key west fl muscovy duck cairina moschata mottled duck anas fulvigula common moorhen gallinula chloropus snowy egret egretta thula great egret ardea alba cattle egret bubulcus ibis little blue heron egretta caerulea great blue heron ardea herodias tricolored heron egretta tricolor white ibis eudocimus albus glossy ibis plegadis falcinellus anhinga anhinga anhinga american white pelican pelecanus erythrorhynchos brown pelican pelecanus occidentalis belted kingfisher megaceryle alcyon sanderling calidris alba common tern sterna hirundo royal tern thalasseus maxima laughing gull leucophaeus atricilla black skimmer rynchops niger osprey pandion haliaetus black vulture coragyps atratus turkey vulture cathartes aura sharp shinned hawk accipiter striatus il red shouldered hawk buteo lineatus american kestrel falco sparverius loggerhead shrike lanius ludovicianus white winged dove zenaida asiatica rock pigeon columba livia il fl eurasian collared dove streptopelia decaocto mourning dove zenaida macroura common grackle quiscalus quiscula boat tailed grackle quiscalus major red winged blackbird agelaius phoeniceus red bellied woodpecker melanerpes carolinus yellow bellied sapsucker sphyrapicus varius canada goose branta canadensis il american robin turdus migratorius northern mockingbird mimus polyglottos brown thrasher toxostoma rufum northern cardinal cardinalis cardinalis il blue jay cyanocitta cristata american crow corvus brachyrhynchos il fl monk parakeet myiopsitta monachus blue grey gnatcatcher polioptila caerulea house sparrow passer domesticus il fl white ibis boca raton fl brown pelican on the way to key west fl royal terns key west fl sadly enough i didn t have a camera in boca raton where i spotted most of the birds on this list the decent ones were shot with varun s camera the most exciting ones for me were the great blue heron which is probably the largest bird i ve ever seen and the belted kingfisher the skimmers at key west i was quite excited to see freakishly heavy bills what the hell they were all pretty amazing posted by bhargav at 12 08 pm 2 comments labels birds friday january 7 2011 flying south for the winter deciding to visit my uncle in florida is probably the best decision i ve made in a long time i was quite pleasantly surprised as i looked out the window the morning after i arrived at my uncle s home after a bit of googling i discovered that right across the street was the loxahatchee wildlife refuge i knew i was in for a treat all i was missing was some fellow birders and a camera my uncle didn t have one either so i had to make do with my mobile phone and a notebook which in fact worked quite well the several walks in the warm south florida sun were quite rewarding tonnes of birds most of them lifers but more about that in the next post my hosts showed me a great time around the region the knicks vs heat game at the american airlines arena that featured some giants from the nba was pretty sweet the first live professional sporting event i ve attended now that i think about it no i have not been to a cricket match before the impromptu new year trip with the uf baays and vatal was terrific new years eve on south beach miami and the the killer trip to key west that included some a very scenic drive through the everglades and over bridges connecting the florida keys snorkeling at what is supposedly the world s third largest reef system some 8 miles off key west was absolutely superb a parrotfish and several yellow tailed snappers were sighted amongst the many coral formations i could have hardly asked for a better vacation after a semester s slogging the general wothla the time with family at home the wildlife and the company amongst other things turned this into a very memorable trip indeed now i m back home in urbana with a new guitar cothas coffee and two weeks before the next term begins all is right with the world again posted by bhargav at 4 47 am 6 comments labels travel wednesday december 22 2010 escape sometimes it just feels nice to have a break some sort of escape today turned out to be one of those days as usual i was running late and the buses were running even later hence the need for a cab credits to hari and co the cab ride to the station was pretty eventful in itself the cab driver was new in town and had trouble finding the parking lot and the ten minutes we spent searching for parking space turned out to be quite em colourful and he didn t charge me nothin extra neither the train journey was pretty nice as well for one it was unlike any other train journey i ve been on the terrain was quite plain pun intended but it offered some pretty interesting sights tons of new birds none of which i could identify of course although i spotted something that could have been an american kestrel there were certain moments where i could see just white and nothing else through the windows snow covered fields against a foggy dull white sky an eerily beautiful sight which gives the impression that one is floating around in nothingness very inspiring it was superb fun walking around downtown chicago to the somewhat poorly maintained subway station and even better riding the lightning fast subway station i witnessed my first subway jazz performance it s amazing how talented these people are and yet how hard they have to struggle to make a living o hare is a little cookie cutter but absolutely massive whoever designed it must ve been out of his bloody mind the flight to memphis was delayed by half an hour which meant i had just ten minutes after i landed at memphis to board my connecting flight to fort lauderdale i did make it just in time not failing to notice on my run to gate 38b that the airport at memphis is fact pretty neat what with its own jazz bar and all right now i m halfway between memphis and fort lauderdale sitting in between some ten eastern european types who speak not a word of english the other passengers seem somewhat uncomfortable with their presence i wonder why we should land in about half an hour s time from now and if the wi fi on the plane wasn t being leeched by the other passengers on the plane this d go online right now on a completely unrelated note the pixies are a pretty cool band it s funny how you yearn for specific company sometimes and it s frustrating when you don t get it but one day of solitude in someplace new makes for a nice escape this cartoon i made seems appropriate to me at this moment ps i m posting this from my uncle s home too bad the whole posting from 37000 feet above sea level thing didn t work out damn wi fi leachers posted by bhargav at 12 47 pm 14 comments labels travel saturday december 18 2010 long overdue my last few attempts of putting something up here have proved futile and so several unfinished starts later i start yet again to write with the hope that this will go public i suppose this post should be about my new life over the last four months but first a bit about grad school quite simply put grad school has changed is my perspective of science and how one approaches it i love the research i m doing which is on acoustic streaming due to oscillating bubbles and i ve been lucky enough to find an awesome advisor but maybe more about that later something that s appreciable here is that there is focus on learning rather than doing well in examinations as far as coursework is concerned a stark contrast from what i ve been exposed to so far this fact coupled with the variety of courses on offer means that one can learn exactly what one wants to this is possible of course only after one scrapes off some of the rust that inevitably accumulates through engineering but once that s done it feels great to have a bit of the shiny old steel back again at a personal level things have been far more dreary and emotionally quite intense for one i sorely miss the company that made nitk what it was i also know why long distance is such a big deal and trust me it is skype being the only saving grace public transport in the us is absolutely appalling which means one is more or less restricted to the limits of chambana which is fairly dry in general the weather doesn t make it any better of course not having a guitar here is somewhat vexing as well and not being much of a reader doesn t help you never know what you have until you lose it is probably a nearly accurate description of my life here except that there has been no real loss just a very large extent of dilution the things that one takes for granted at home from the people that make you who you are to the street food are all sadly quite out of reach on the brighter side things seem to be looking up from here onwards i m packing to florida for a couple of weeks a welcome change of place and weather a guitar should follow suit if all goes well and my restlessness should be assuaged for the greater part hopefully i will acquire camera too sometime the coming semester and then i can find my solace in technological goodness if nothing else of course the trip back home i ve almost decided upon in summer should do me loads of good but right now i am content with the strange peace i feel finally writing this just having watched yojimbo blackwater park currently playing in my ears and confident that for the most part the next semester will be much more fun that the last posted by bhargav at 2 21 pm 4 comments labels grad to self location urbana il usa saturday may 22 2010 change home has hardly been like home the past few days i ve been inducted into a house with one man who tells me how he was a punter in school and how i should do management and not science one woman who always wants to order pizza and one child who destroys my house in the most chaotic of manners as i shirk away my familial obligations by running off to watch movies and then staying away from home for the rest of the day i am visited tirelessly by my memories of college amidst the more imposing loom of the coming years finances leaving nitk has not been the smoothest of changes for me it seems ironically enough i seek peace in another older man s talk about how he was a punter in school a man much nearer to me than the one featuring alongside the woman and child a long drive through the city in the cyclonic showers and i have my laptop back working and in spite of being very strongly skeptical of the authenticity of the innards of my machine i feel comfortable at last that comfort of familiarity that i had not enjoyed since leaving college tomorrow i am told will be different from yesterday and today there will be no talk of mbas or pizzas and i will not be awoken by the sound of shattering glass and then home will be home once again posted by bhargav at 12 50 am 3 comments labels nitk rant older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2012 1 january 1 a year and a half 2011 3 august 1 january 2 2010 10 december 2 may 1 april 2 january 5 2009 8 december 1 august 1 july 2 june 1 may 1 march 1 february 1 2008 11 december 1 november 1 october 1 august 1 july 2 june 5 about me bhargav urbana illinois united states view my complete profile labels bangalore 1 birds 1 boredom 1 bus 2 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