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Teri ummeed pe thukra raha hoon duniya ko.. tujhe bhee apne pe yeh aitbaar hai ke nahi .. jhuki jhuki si nazar ... Jagjit Singhji: You will remembered as someone who brought life to poetry. And gave us such beautiful songs!!

Finally!!! Returned from a fabulous trip to India! And got this good news!! Wuhooooo!!! Feels super good!!! I am loving it!!!

I had just started thinking that things are falling in place, but now I realize its the wrong place. Such a disappointing day!

A 45 minute bus drive from the Aveiro city took us to this beautiful little town called Costa Nova! We went there along with Vikram (the photographer) and Ganga and Sujit. Had home made idlis and Dibbe rotti made by Ganga and some "Bundi Pulav" which I managed to cook that morning. A nice lovely trip. Date : 26th Feb 2011

Not that its any different day for me, but well its always worth a mention. I guess this day holds a lot of excitement for the college-goers, teens, just engaged or freshly wed couples. Else I really doubt, from my perspective that there are many Indians who really celebrate this day. Well, couples who generally are too busy may find a good way to reconnect on this day but for the aam-aadmi and the common junta like us, its another day, in passing. Except for the moral policing guys --remember the Pink-Chaddi campaign --hahaha.These self proclaimed guardians of our culture must be really waiting for this day to get out, bash up some innocent teenagers and get some media coverage. Or the shopkeepers for which any festival is a money making venture! :) ! Well reading my own post reaffirms the fact that age makes us cynical.. In any case Happy Valentines to everyone! Its been almost 4 yrs of mrg and touch-wood its lovely to be in a beautiful relationship. So To love! Cheers ! --D

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

Have to pen this! We have been having these special food-festival weekends together with our Indian friends whom we met at the university and who love making food and are really good at it. 2 weeks ago we had the Pasta day where we had 3 kinds of Pasta for lunch at our place. The weekend after that we had the Paratha day and the day before yesterday we had Dosa day (Rava Dosa, Plain Dosa, Masala Dosa and Cucumber Dosa) !!! The next weekend is a south indian breakfast item day! With poha upma,sabudana khichdi, and shavige bhaath (may be idlis and wadas but we have done that many times already). We are planning to have an all rice day :) spread over two weekends. More later .. -D

About finally submitting the paper! Getting my residence card .. And the super unhealthy cannelloni with spinach and loads of ricotta cheese ... which i ate ... yummy! Too bad the university residence apartment doesnt provide an oven ..

Got the FCT grant. So am happieeee!!! And so some decisions have been taken for me! I hope I can make most of it! Definetly the best news on the career front since I have landed in Porto... Am so thrilled!

2010 had its share of ups and downs... Had some really wonderful days and some extremely bad ones.. Well, thats whats life about! Well am looking forward to a happy year ahead!!