Out of the Comfort Zone

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Out of the Comfort Zone

"Out of the Comfort Zone" will be a documentation of my experiences in the United States of America, away from my family, friends, home and my country as I pursue my Master's of Science in Computer Science.

I also have a blog on my website.

Country Roads, Take me home

Cross posted from http://varishm.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/country-road-take-me-home/
Country road, take me home by Varish
Country road, take me home, a photo by Varish on Flickr.

A very good song by the same name can be found here

Spring Break 2010

Politics

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A politician grows at the grass-root level. He learns the trade of tricks at young age at the grass root level say at the college or university level, and what he learns carries forward when he moves on to higher level like city, state and national level politics. Looking at the way things happening in the Indian Student's association elections in UMBC and some other elections that took place in Indian Universities recently, I am not surprised at the state of Indian politics. The future also probably remains dim.

Quantity Matters

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This is a conservation that I had with a friend, just before going to India for the winter break in December 2008.


Me: I am going to cook when I go home in the winter break
Friend: You will have to be careful. You will probably mess up. You cook in larger quantities here as compared to what you would do at home


And how correct he was, this I have been realizing in the past week or so.

With time on hand today, I decided to cook for myself in the afternoon (as compared to cooking for 5 persons (+ 5 i.e the evening meal + next day afternoon lunch at the same time)). I almost messed up the amount of salt and masalas that I needed to add. I ended up adding a little more than what it was needed for a one person meal.

Conclusion – So even if in my wildest dream I had imagined that I had become a “good cook” (good is a very relatively term! bigsmile ), I have realized that there is a lot more to learn …
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