What have I been doing for the last two years?

A group of friends were bragging about all the techi stuff they have been doing after passing out and wished to share their knowledge. Someone then dragged me too in the process. And following was my response.

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I too have lotsa badges to show-off. And they aren't like the usual boring stuff..

I am in bangalore for the last two years and have been part of quite a few research teams and hopefully will have a few papers published though I haven't really made much progress . The best part is I enjoyed and am still enjoying it all, though in research there are times of setbacks. But, overall it is fun to work on so many interesting topics simultaneously. Status updates on my research interests are as follows.

o boozing: can't say much on the boozing part as i can't remember much .
o niteouts: just had a great one last nite with some frens (including some females too), wud surely be posting pics and haan m still to take a nap since 0900 hrs yesterday.. will be fortunate enuf to get to bed bfore 0600 hrs (though alone yet ).
o biking: since funds are scarce and a good bike isn't really affordable now, so decided to go for a good indian bike (bought a karizma) and since then bangalore roads are fun. m likely to go for some more perf mods in a couple of months.
o accidents: had eight of them in the last 14 months, including two on 100+ kmph of speeds (ankur is fortunate to experience a rare 110 kmph one without a helmet as a pillion). I have developed several techniques on how to survive such accidents. how to go for hard-braking at high speeds and several other how to's..
o <snip>...</snip>: <some masaledaar chatpata stuff here> (proly not the right place to discuss).
o bollywood: in the last 1.5 yrs I have rarely had a weekend without a movie at pvr.. most of the movies were done away with on their first weekend itself. Ankur being one of my most important team-mates and shashi (a friend of mine from iitk) being the other. Both of them have been a great motivator and great team-players.
o sleeping: hmmm.. my fav.. but unfortunately am yet to make any significant improvements on my previous record; 17 hrs. i have been facing several problems when nearing this limit. Though I am yet to consult a pro but enough thought has already been put in. i would like to have a cool support system to fulfill my 36 hrs non-stop dreaming dream. but, since that would cost a bomb, m planning to build one. but that too make take some time.
o stock-market: won't like to report this one as of now (can't actually survive a look at my balance sheet), but yeah m confident to get thru in a couple of months.
o office-office: Though am supposed to be a java-coder but my office desktop rarely gets enough of it. I have enjoyed quake/cs/nfs at oracle, qwest and now at trilogy in the last two yrs. At, the same time I have been successful to get my resume a five-star ranking by the so-called job-consultants and recruiters and moreover i have also been successful in blowing-off some of my interviewers with my 'seemingly' terrific hands-on/practical knowledge of java, ds/algo and other web-related technologies.
o shikaar: The newest of the lot and yet to be a serious research topic, shikaar is the 'in-thing' at our flat. bought a rs 2.6k sexy rifle (airgun) and since then no dogs in our neighborhood at night. yes u got it right, if u find a dogless street in bangalore at night u are sure to be somewhr near to our place. Planning to get a new pistol (again airgun) to carry along while going on night drives. No concrete plans yet to upgrade to real guns.


There are many more topics that I would like to share knowledge on. Please come up and let's have some discussions on topics of general interest.

Cheers!
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missed some really cool ones like horse-riding etc but this one was more than enuf to shut the discussion off :)