I think it was sometime after our Mid Term Exams got over at TAPMI, that I started counting the days left for the holidays!  Time moves so fast - it's quite surprising when I think about it... the Mid Terms got over, days went by in speedy succession, the End Terms came, and they got over, and I am now home!  One-sixth of my Management Course at TAPMI is complete!

I started from Manipal on 13th afternoon (1:30 PM), by bus - and reached Hyderabad on 14th morning (11:15 AM).  By afternoon (12:15 PM) I was at home.  That day I was able to use the computer, but after that there was a bit of a problem.  You see, the hard disk in the computer at home (an 80 GB one) had failed, and had to be replaced.  My parents and Varun made sure that there was a temporary hard disk installed by the time I got here, but as things turned out, that hard disk also failed on 14th night.  Some days passed and it was only today that we got a new hard disk (20 GB).  The replacement 80 GB one will also be coming in a week's time.  Anyway as a result of all that, I'm only getting to update my site now!  Anyway, all that aside, it is GREAT to be back home (could it be any other way?)!!

A strong feeling of déjà vu...  Lots to do and not much time to do it in!  The second term at TAPMI starts on 24th morning.  That means I will most probably leave Hyderabad on 22nd night (by bus to Bangalore, then to Manipal).  That leaves me with just a few days to do all these things -

• First order of business is to rewrite some PHP code on Varun's site.  Then the whole site has to be re-uploaded.  This I am planning to do tomorrow (I have to first install PHP, MySQL and Apache on this computer).
• There are several songs and videos that I have to take back with me on CD.  Notably, "Zombie" by Cranberries, many Linkin Park songs, and a song and video by Evanescence.  Also, I have Star Trek Voyager: Endgame as a DivX clip, which I also intend to take.  Then, there is the matter of a whole CD of Hindi songs (mostly) which I wrote at TAPMI.  That was written at 48x, I am leaving that CD at home.  I need to make a copy for myself at a lower write speed.  Also, a lot of Pablo Dictter's stuff has to be written!!
• Then comes some modifications for my site.  Some of the pages have to be updated and re-uploaded.
• I have to upload some images and thumbnails to my site.  These are for movie reviews that I will write later.
• Yesterday, I made a new drawing: a picture of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (done with a ballpoint pen).  I have to scan this and upload it.
• I don't know whether I will have the time for this, but I wanted to also compress some Video CDs of mine into WMV clips, put a number of them on a CD or two.

Let's see how things turn out!  Today, I got Pulp Fiction on VCD and tomorrow I am going to get Minority Report.  These two movies are basically a gift from my father (also, part of it is from the Rs. 150 that I won as prize money in events at TAPMI).

The summary updates for all the events from August 11th are still pending.  They will be attended to tomorrow.  I would have written those right now, but it's already almost 3:30 AM!

I checked my Guestbook today and was pleasantly surprised to find two entries from my TAPMI Professors - Prof. Sivakumar and Prof. Chowdari Prasad!  It was nice of them to take the time to write comments for me, and I thank them for that!  Also, thanks to Amrita of E-lusion.net for her comments.