A quiet birthday...

I had decided yesternight before sleeping, that I shall not be celebrating my 21st birthday. I didn't have the interest for celebrating my birthday when people most dear to me aren't near. As such, I was expecting today to be just another day.

I woke up to the appetizing aroma of delicious upma today morning. Suresh's mummy had woken up at 7 today to prepare breakfast for all of us! Wow! A wholesome breakfast after such a long time- a welcome break from the cereals and the omelettes. So I went to my office early today, glad to start the day with a nice breakfast. Sylvia was already there (Man I can never beat her at coming early to work :P ), and since there was no one in yet, and since we had pretty much nothing to do, we discussed on which laptop she should buy, as she was quiet unsure of which config she should go for. Then I started reading up some book on the ARM architecture out of sheer curiosity and also I had nothing else to do anyways - We were to present our ideas in the group meet today, and were sure there was a bug in there somewhere, but weren't able to notice it.

Then Prof. Apsel came in and started her usual cheerful talk :) Later we all proceeded for the group meet, where we had ordered Chinese food today (quite good I must say). Xiao as usual had something fodu to talk about his work on his PLL. Most of that was pretty much a bouncer for me, and I concentrated on my chow mein and egg roll as Xiao went through his talk. Then it was our turn to talk. Prof. Apsel said I needn't talk yet (since I am still a noob here :).. ) and so Sylvia presented our idea. It seemed pretty convincing and Tony and Prof. Apsel also hinted at where the bug might be; then it was just a matter of attacking that in our MATLAB simulation. Sylvia, the stud that she is, managed to get around that pretty peacefully (but still gives me the credit too for this), and we were more than happy to note a 10 times improvement in the circuit as opposed to the value of 2.8 we were getting earlier. Sylvia rightly said that this is enough of a motivation to start working on the circuit, which we shall start tomorrow.

Came back home, and still wasn't in the mood to celebrate today. Vivek wasn't home yet, and all others had gone for shopping @ Wegman's; so I pretty much had the TV for myself. Watched it till the other junta returned. Then Sheetal Tai called up to ask about my Texas trip - it's high time I start planning and blogging about that :P. Later, Krishna came back from his lab, and noted that it was my birthday today! But it was too late for any celebrations (and bumps); so Suresh's mummy cooked a special dinner tonight - fluffy rotis with Chole and an Aloo sabji - yummmmm - tell you what, we make the same sabjis on our own, but that aroma is something that is always lacking in the food we cook. Also the taste is no where close to what Suresh's mummy had prepared today. Shashikanth had also come over, and was surprised at why there was no celebration in Duffield today. Well, he has promised me a belated celebration tomorrow at Phillips, and Krishna has promised me booze (which would be after Suresh's parents leave :P). Had a long chit chat session with the guys and Suresh's dad later; all while watching the Eastern Conference finals of NBA, which Detroit pistons won quite closely.

Well, I didn't intend to celebrate today, but I guess unknowingly I might have ended up doing so; well at least I have more to celebrate now :P.

~Ta tas.