On Friday night, there was a Trilogy event at a night club called Zero G. Zero G's a very nice club. It's on top of a medium sized office building and has an open ceiling. Although it's taken me a little while to adjust to a lot of things in India, music isn't one of them. Indians listen to a lot of the same music that we listen to, except for Hindi music, but I'm starting to gain an appreciation for that too. A lot of the time, I'm in my hotel room and since I don't have any Internet access, I end up watching Hindi music videos. My favourite Hindi song is definitely, It's the time to disco. It's catchy. :) They also played that Punjabi MC song, and when it came on, I tried to dance bhangra style with all the other Indians. It was quite embarassing. :) Luckily, there are no pictures! What I do have a picture of however, is a cow crossing the street. Enjoy. :)

TU's been great. Really interesting. I think they'll be keeping me quite busy while I'm here. I've been eating solely Indian food since I've gotten here. Trilogy's been providing us lunch and dinnner (although I hear that'll stop next week). It's better than I thought it would be. I'm still pretty jet-lagged and a little bit culture shocked. I love the fact that there are cows on the road. I really like cows. I think they're very cute. When I arrived in Delhi, I saw a little boy riding one. In Bangalore they just roam around. I don't think anyone even owns them. I took a bunch of pictures which I'll post soon. Our hotel is nice, but the Internet is ridiculously expensive (I guess that's expected). Luckily, I finally got a computer at work. A Linux box. :) The Indians at Trilogy have been super friendly and nice too. I'm very anxious to get to the projects parts of TU so I'll get to see these Indian geniuses in action. :)

I'm here in Delhi, safe and sound. My flight for Bangalore leaves at 6:30 this morning. There was a big delay in Toronto. By the time I went through the monstrous lineup at the airport and got to the hotel it was about 1 am. I rather like Delhi though. In some ways, it reminds me of Taiwan, which of course I love. I'm going to shuffle off to sleep, but I don't know if I'll be able to do it. I'm so excited about the first day of TU tomorrow. I'll post more then and hopefully, I'll be able to post some of the pictures from convocation as well.

A few new goodies are on this page now.

On the panel on the left, there is a "Skype me!" button. If you haven't tried Skype, give it a whirl. It's a free computer to computer voice over IP service. Skype's the best such service that I've ever used and everyone I know who's tried it thinks the same. One reason I'm promoting it is that since I'll be staying in a hotel in India, long distance will probably be ridiculously expensive. So Skype me instead.

Also, there's a Java applet that lists the time in a few cities that I might be in on the left. The orange XML icon is an Atom feed. It's used in the same way RSS is. If you read a lot of blogs, you should try using RSS and a feed aggregator. I like Bloglines personally, but there are a lot of good ones. If you don't know what I'm talking about then just read my website as you normally would, but as I think Evan Jones once said, "Reading websites? That's so 90's."

The summer's been great so far. I haven't had this much time off since high school. I've been relaxing and enjoying myself for the most part while trying to tie up loose ends before I leave.

My aunt Jane came from Oregon to attend a wedding and we got to spend a week with her. It wasn't a very long visit, but luckily we got to spend a lot of time together. It was nice. It was like old times. I mentioned to my aunt that I was thinking about buying a digital camera and she and my uncle went out and bought me a svelte digital elph. It's an awesome camera. Thanks to them, I'll be able to take lots of pictures in India. :)

I know a few more details about my trip to India now. I'll be leaving on the evening of my convocation ceremony (June 19) and arriving in Bangalore on the morning of my first day (June 21). I'll be staying in a hotel for the duration of my stay and I'll be back in Toronto on Oct. 1 for a while before I relocate to Austin.