Buying a Cam - 03. Finally buying a cam

I had gone to my office earlier than usual today, since I woke up early today surprisingly. Had nothing much to do today, as Sylvia was busy with a project submission, and I am yet to get my ECE account, which I need to log into the ECE server to run my simulations. So I was reading Razavi and enjoying my groupmates arguing over their projects. Soon it was 12, and we moved to the Phillips lounge to attend a talk by Prof. Sandip Tiwari, who is a very respected prof out here, and is considered by many as the studmax prof in ECE here. It was a wonderful talk, where Prof. Tiwari focussed on the last 25 years of electronics, and the future of electronics. I was amazed at his insight into this topic, and was quite impressed at how he presented his views on the future. His talk had an amazing flow, and I shall devote a separate entry later, about my interpretation of his talk. So we returned refreshed from the talk (the refreshments served too had a hand to play in this :P), but again, were in no mood to work. So, as seems to be the routine now, Sylvia and I set out for a walk, today's discussion mainly about how useless orkut and facebook et al. actually are and why we feel they are a serious waste of time (Hmm... seems our thoughts match on most topics :P) We then went to put up the poster (which I described yesterday) for Tuesday's presentation, and later went to the Cornell IT centre, where I had to collect my NetID (finally got it after 10 long days :P)...

Returned to office where soon Shashikant walked in, and invited us all for a picnic to Stewart park (a great place as I hear, yet to actually see it for myself). So I came home with Shashikant to collect my jacket before going there. Krishna was at home, and suggested we better go to the mall instead. I felt that would be nice, as I finally get to buy my cam. So off we went to the mall, but to my hard luck, all good deals were sold out, and I wasn't in the mood to shell out $200 for a Canon powershot. So we returned home, where Krisha began searching for laptop deals online (Well, the trip to the mall aroused his interest in laptops you see :P), when I thought I should also look for deals for cams online. Finally got one, a Canon Powershot A460 - 5 megapixel, 4x optical zoom for $140... a good deal I would say, as I feel a resolution of 5 megapixel is quite good enough for me, what's more important is the zoom, and 4x is a wonderful spec for me). I believe I will receive that by 24th, good enough for me :)

Well, a weekend coming up... no specific plans as such. 20th might be big though ;)... and most probably, Bhatnagar may come over on the 21st... hope he brings me a nice birthday gift :P

~Ta tas.