India trip May 2010

I had been to India for my bro's wedding for only 7 days (rather 6 and you will know why). The flight was from Dallas - London - Mumbai - London - Dallas with a 12 hour hault at London while going. At first i was inquiring about various options to optimize my stay at the london airport. Did not want to watch movies and sleep on the couches at the airport. i tried calling the uk embassy and also tried to read all the information about stepping outside the heathrow airport and into the city. since i am a student at the United States i though that i may need a visitor in transit visa or something similar, to visit london even for a period of 9 - 12 hours. eventually, i had to leave dallas with little or no information about stepping outside the london airport. once i got through the security check at the london airport, I was asked to visit the uk immigration control and within a few minutes i was given a stamp on my passport confirming that i can visit london and return within 9 hours in order to catch my connecting flight to mumbai. i was able to visit some good tourist places within the city.

Upon arrival to mumbai, i was greeted by my parents and was very happy to see them after a year and a half. Then while going home, i had first visited a punjabi dhaba and helped myself with some spicy food.

I was very busy meeting relatives, friends and visitors during the wedding and it went well. Again got to eat delicious home made food. after the hustle and bustle of the wedding i realized that my flight was at early in the morning at 2:30 am and not 2:30 pm (the time was in 24 hour format !). So this reduced my trip from 7 to 6 days and everyone started helping me with the packing (indian spices, sweets, clothes etc) and came to see me off at the mumbai international airport. it was a very short yet memorable india trip wherein i got to meet all my near and dear ones, rode my bike and also drove a manual car. Most importantly attended the wedding and wished the married couple a happy life.

After some "random checks" at the airport i arrived back to dallas safely yet a little tired.

Its that time of the year !

Well ...now that I'm done with all the submissions, assignments, projects, exams and work ...its that time of the year to relax for a while. Wait !! Actually it is time to do all the nice things to advance my Career.

I wish to find a job that is the most appropriate for me (a Dream job !)....one that would really fit my profile and my Career choice. I believe one should work at a company where you think your future is and where you can find personal and professional growth, good colleagues and motivational managers and leaders to work with.
This semester, I learned a lot of things especially about new technologies and new companies. Of course all the three courses that I took this semester were fabulous especially the level of collaboration and research that was needed to advance in each one of these.

AITP UT Dallas had a fabulous semester as well. We had 4 guest lecture sessions from prominent speakers. The very first session about "The Role of FBI in CyberSpace" let us know how FBI works in the cyberspace tracking down cyber crime and intrusions.

Then we had a guest lecture on "How to develop your Networking skills" and I was amazed to learn some of the facts about Networking. We got to know about the IT Infrastructure at JP Morgan and about Career opportunities for students with them. The final lecture was very interesting and we learned about creating visually appealing dashboards and charts from Chris Giametta of the AppFoundation technology group who discussed about Adobe Flex and Flash development.

Thanks to AITP UT Dallas officers, I was nominated for the best Student leader of the year award organized by the Student Organization Forum (SOF) UT Dallas.

Spring 2010 semester !

The first week of classes just got over and I am very much back to school with Assignments, Projects, Group discussions and as always what I like doing the most -- On Campus job !

December was a great month filled with Birthday Celebration, Vacation, Travel and Holidays. This time I had been to Tampa, Florida which was a much needed vacation after a long time in School.

I just have to say that the Tampa Bay area is beautiful. I had been driving along this area for most of the time and been at the Clearwater and St. Pete's beach. Ybor city is the place to be if one needs to stay up during the night with streets lightened up during the Holiday season.

Later after coming back, had been to Houston, San Antonio and Austin where I had a great time and spent the last week of 2009.

Getting ready to study Strategic Management and also some Organizational Consulting and for our first guest lecture session on Cybercrime and Cybersecurity for AITP UT Dallas.