great weekend

First FEM class. Professor seems to be good and also having a sense of humour. Bought one book from Tata Book House. Got another from library. First exposure with ANSYS too.

Had Dosa in lunch and noodles and omlet in snax. Went with Akash and his tree-loving professor.I find it hard to believe that a guy can see a tree and come up with its name instantly. Any tree. But he was doing it. I also saw a tree of Chalta which also has an english name "Elephant Apple".

The professor also talked about Indian Economics in general. Talked about condition of poor. I got totally inspired. I am still inspired by that word "Simple life" which is so impossible to maintain today with ATMs, Colleague's car, foreign trips, lots of undeserved money and half naked girls on MG Road. But I really want to lead a simple life when I will know names of all the trees, all the flowers and all the butterflies. And help some people to live their lives in a more comfortable way.

Then I went to Bengali freshers welcome with Mowghli or Amit. He has benn a good friend of mine of late. He is my IISc connection. Though Aditidi is there too. The IISc bengali association Spandan was showing two films. "Subha Maharat" had a great starting but there was some problem with the DVD player. We also couldnt finish "Dhanyi Meye" and went to sleep at 1:30 after seeing a little of "Tin bhubaner pare".

Woke up late Sunday morning. Had Dosa for Breakfast and went for a walk in campus which soon became a tree watching session. This is all due to Akash.

Then I met a Saurabh Rakshit who came to IISc for doing his MTech from BARC. Had an interesting discussion with him about different profs and different subjects.

In the evening went to a far away place 30 km from IISc. Sri Sri Ravishankar's temple at KanakPura Road. Had a nice experience. Saw some good and inspiring stuff specially the singers there. They can beat all the Indian Idol contestants any time for sure. Great vajans. Great Melodies. Great temple.

That was a good weekend. wasnt it?