~~Chit Chats~~

  There are some awesome places to sit and talk in the college campus but most of our academic year we never had the time to do that. So today after having dinner with my Korean and Japanese friend we decided to sit in the college main campus. There was the summer class for the high school kids going on the campus and they were playing some team games like catching the flag ,since I look so young, some kids started chasing me.
 

  We decided to sit on a 15 feet high wall so that we wont be chased again. The place turned out to be really good with an awesome view. We talked about lots of  stuffs happened during this year ,we called few friends who were working in DC and rubbed salt by describing how great the college was during the summer which led to few people disconnecting the call. When we looked at the watch we saw were there for more than three hours and without heart we left the place.

~~1 year~~

  Its been one year I landed at the Newark airport, I wouldn't have remembered it had I not filled in the arrival date in the SSN form and then when I picked FEDEX door tag receipt I saw it was 28th today :)
  Last one year was one of the most enjoyable years of my life and I hope coming years will be the same where I meet new people , explore new places and  learn new things.

~~My summer job~~

   Today morning I got up early in the morning thinking of  stuffs to get done for the day, since getting there sooner the better I got ready quickly.I went my administration office to get a form then to student office to get an attestation then I took metro to Social Security office,waited almost two hours in the queue and finally submitted my application for getting my Social Security Number. So what brought me here...
   Last week I had telephonic conversation with a research scientist who was asking whether I could assist him for the summer.Since I have never worked under a scientist nor worked in a research institute I accepted that offer. The research institute is situated about 15 miles north of the city in a scenic location and there is a college shuttle which picks and drops from our college campus to that place. To take up this summer job I need to apply for the SSN which took my today's morning!
  So life is back to a full circle getting up early in the morning, catching the bus to go to the institute ,waiting in the traffic, talking with buddies all the way and also doing little bit of work :)

~~Afternoon lunch and pride parade~~

 My Japanese classmate is leaving home next week and this is his last weekend in the city. He invited me and Chinese girl for lunch in spicemarket an Asian fusion restaurant located in a nice location is Chelsea. They had Chinese Japanese and Indian food. They gave papadams for appitizers and I had fried rice for lunch. After good lunch we decided to have walk.

  The city was crowded and for more colorful for the weekend. I realized it was the pride weekend in the city and since the New York state has passed same sex marriage law two days before people were celebrating crazily. One of the person looked at me and my Japanese friend and said "Congratulations you can get married soon" , we then made sure to put our Chinese friend in between us. We got lots of goodies all the way like my Chinese friend collected 2 to 3 beads from the people. We had coffee at local coffee shop then came back home.

~~Another Indian Restaurant~~

  My mobile's display is not displaying anything so I took to the service center to replace it ,the mobile shop was located around 82th street and there was a new Saravana Bhavan (the second branch in the city) started in 80th street. So I thought I will give it a try. Went to the mobile store first booked for the replacement and then walked from that place to HSB.
 There were those typical south Indian foods and I had mysore masala dosai. Being a Friday night I met few of my Indian friends having dinner there , chatted with them for sometime and just now coming home.

~~Sometimes things repeat~~

   Getting up early in the morning to catch a bus , waiting endlessly in traffic to reach the destination ,having a nice buddy to chat with all the way, all  in order to reach a place in middle of no where. This was my day to day life last year. Sometimes things tend to repeat.
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~~Meeting people~~

      I went to a conference on world economic outlook with one of my Chinese classmate. There were people from different countries. I met a women who said she is from Ireland, I asked her whether she is from Northern Ireland, quickly realizing where I am coming at she replied back we consider Rory Mcllroy as Irish. Indeed they must be proud of their countryman who broke number of records last weekend.
   Then I met a person from Sweden we talked about the wonderful companies that Sweden has given to the world and talked about how efficient they perform. My Chinese classmate found a person from her small home town in northern China , she was very happy to see and told me it was the first time she met a person from her home town . Yea world is a small place and much smaller when you are in New York city.