And the week is racing to a finish

It always intrigues me how a whole week passes by so quickly and I barely seem to feel the passage of time – of course, the onset of Friday makes me sit up and take notice of how I don’t seem to have done anything of consequence during the first half and that I better make up in time for the weekly lab meeting on Friday I have to say that a Friday meeting is a terrific idea – it ensures that one actually works from Mon->Fri and does enough to talk about during the meeting too. I wonder if Ron had this in mind when he set a Friday date. If you had a Monday date, for instance, the tendency would be to promise yourself a lot of hardwork over the weekend and that tends to put pressure on your social life – which is precisely why I like to do steady work during the week

Something else I have recently been upto is go back to singing Carnatic classical music. When I was much younger, my brother and I, showing a lot of promise, learnt Carnatic vocal for 2 years – but that had to be cut short because of studies becoming increasingly more time-consuming Sometimes I wish I never had stopped learning – I could have learnt much more and perhaps become even better at singing than I presumably am now. The sad thing was the getting into IIT was more important and perhaps rightly so – you can always go back to music The best part about being classically trained is how much of an edge it gives you over others who are not. All the time I was singing for my colege band [rock music and stuff, mind you], my classical training made it that much easier to pick up a whole lot of things – good rhythm sense, singing to scale and being able to transpose etc.

Anyway, the bottomline is that I recently started re-learning music from Vidya, who happens to be an extremely good and very well-trained classical singer and violinist, and I am enjoying learning so much more than I learnt the first time round.

My ‘Advanced Multi-Paradigm Software Development’ class is coming along pretty well. I really like the concept of Design Patterns very much – brings the element of engineering to an otherwise, in my opinion, very scientific discipline. Our next assignment aims to teach us the use of the Interceptor pattern so here I come !

Today’s Calvin and Hobbes strip is absolutely priceless