Caught Texting!

I chucked a Shane Warne last week! I have been having some problems with texting! :P

One of my students - Alan, is 50. I am teaching him how to read. The thing with my new phone is that if I lock it its a real hassle to unlock and so I don't lock my phone. The other thing with my phone is that once I send a message, it retains the last sent message in the display...

NOT A GOOD COMBINATION!

I got a call from my students coordinatior today and he said, "Hi... you have been messaging Alan. I am sure it was an accident. I justhought I should let you know..."

So basically I have been accidently sending all sorts of wierd messages like, "I need to buy Srini's pressie", "you should sleep on the photoframe" and "I'll take care of the lymph tom" to a person ho probably thinks I am testing his reading!

I felt like a complete moron! I called up Alan, and spoke to his wife and said, "I AM SOOO SORRY!! I have been accidently messaging Alan and I really didn't mean to!! I am really really sorry."

She was so nice about it! "Its ok Lydia... accidents happen. We are not worried about it."

How much of an idiot am I??? DONT ANSWER THAT QUESTION!

And this is for Shobhsie!

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
- Vidhu
- Gayu
- Veg
And there is many more! :P

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
- Veg_v
- "When you breathe you inspire, when you don't, you expire"
- "Banga Banga BAnga. OI OI OI!

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
- hmmm...is this a trick question??? :P
- I have been told that I have a "straight" nose - that cant be taken too badly!
- My teeth are white!!! (I brush them :D)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
- Not so much "don't like"... but my eyebrows annoy me!
- My arms are weak :(
- I have frizzy hair

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
- I don't get what this qu means... I guess it means "Things that are one with me..."
- My uneven eyebrows, my glasses and my "pottu" / "bindi".

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
- I get scared by just about anything and everything!!! At the top of the list... Snakes, Babies and live animals...

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
-Watch
-Glasses
- Sneakers

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
This is a hard one!
- Want it to be lasting
- Ability to be myself
- and just be comfy...

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
- I sleep with a teddy
- I was in this terrible accident that caused me to acquire selective amnesia, a high IQ and loose the ability to count...It also lead to several issues with with uneven eyebrows...
- I nearly drowned as a kid.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
- Tall is good
- a smile that wont make me feel like the only colgate advertiser!!
- a straight nose! (Sounds like I am just waiting for a taller version of me doesn't it???:P)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
- Go home!
- Have chocolate!!!
- Gather motivation to go to the gym!

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
- If this whole PhD thing fails, I reckon I wud just become a science teacher.
- If I get stunning results and my research is simply awe-inspiring and nobel prize winning then I might just become an academic. :P
- If the above two don't happen, then I'll just be a student for as long as the uni will let me.

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
- India - now that my daddy will be there!
- NewZealand
- Sweden - and actually travel around Sweden!

THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE:
- I used to have a huuge list! I don't anymore.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
- GRADUATE!!! :P
- Learn to cook - properly!
- Construct a detailed Family Tree

The people I would pass this on to...

I would like everyone who reads this blog (all 4 or 5 of you:P) to do the above questionaire!

A moment in time...

I have been wanting to have a proffesional photo of the family taken for a very long time now. It finally happened yesterday!

We had a family photo taken with everyone, plus one with just my grandparents, one with just my parents and one of my two brothers and myself. My family is impossible in situations like this! They have to make every little thing difficult! I don't think that I am asking for much when I ask them to wear decent clothes! *Breathe in breathe out* - I have whinged enough about that... I will put that aside and move on now.

It was quite funny when the photographer asked my grandma to place her hand on my grandpa's shoulder and bring her face REAL close to his. My grandma simply wouldn't do it because it made her very consious. She was sooo embarassed! It was sooo cute to watch though! After finally getting her to stand as close as we could dare ask, we told the photographer that that would have to do!

After the photos were all taken my grandpa told the photographer, "After Forrty Eight years of marriage, this is our first photograph." I think she was quite shocked - as was I!

Overall, I was quite satisfied with myself for organising it :D - even if everyone else seemed to consider it a painful chore!

In news this week...

• I cooked stuff and noone died!
• My cheesecake was a hit!!!
• The stuff I did at the hospital last year is FINALLY going into a publication (eventhough I am like the 9th author in a 12 author paper!:P)
• Three out of four of my students cancelled on me this week - am I really that mean?? (The fourth didn't have a choice:P)
• I was intimately involved in the thesis binding process of a friend
• I know where to get my thesis "bound" (thanks Ashwin!)!!
• I am addicted to "hexic"
• Have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow about my progress
• Both my parents are leaving for Bangalore in two weeks - my mum is going for two weeks and my dad for three years :(
• I am planning a trip to NZ and India at the end of this year
• Going to uni today
• Going out to lunch and dinner with family
• Started Cross-stitching again

AND FINALLYYYY

BANGLADESH BEAT AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I COOKED!!!

One of my friends at the hospital is leaving for Boston on Sunday and we are having a little farewell morning tea for her. I said to some of my lab members "One of these days... I am going to cook and suprise you!" - never say something like that! I have been asked to cook "from scratch" (i.e. - no packet food) and also been told not to ask for assistance from my grandma or mum.

I cooked today:D I have made TWO cheesecakes and a potato cheese pastry thing :D How good am I??? I tried the pastry - it is quite bearable! I haven't tried the cheesecake yet - but with that much fat in it I can't go wrong on the taste (the texture and shape is a whole other thing though!)

Anyways, I'll let you guys know if I get asked to cook ever again or if my colleagues just say "Ask your mum to make something!"

I also have to get some digital photos printed tomorrow morning and then make sure everyone has signed the farewell card then I am taking my colleague who is leaving for Boston to get her thesis binded!

Tomorrow should be a fun day!

Lab Wars

I have told you all before that I absolutely love where I work. I honeslty do love the people I am working with. I did however have a bit of an issue with one of my colleagues last week. I guess I am quite sensitive and so the issue probably seemed larger to me than anyone else.

However, things are fine now - I still get along with everyone in the lab and I have learnt that if you know you are going to have to spend the next couple of years with someone, then you might as well learn to accept them for what they are.

Its interesting how knowing how long you are going to be around certain people really affects the way in which you act towards them.