In July I was given a rare chance to combine work with personal leave, attending conferences on magnetism close to home. The first of these conferences was at UC Davis, and was attended by a lot of students from the theoretical unit I work with. This put me in an interesting position, as both traveler […]
As I mentioned in December, I have begun taking some photos with my father’s Canon A1 film camera. The experience has taught me to savor every photo and to have patience with drafting each photograph as a memory, instead of taking pictures blindly and sorting them afterwards. A little more thought before the shot leads […]
Just like last year, I made my brief trip home in May to see my family and get back in touch with my American lifestyle. Having been away from home for over a year, the transition was jarring to say the least. Among all the aspects of home I missed, one of the biggest was […]
For the past 15 years my family along with our close family friends would retreat into the mountain of California for a weekend of camping. The goal initially was to rekindle in my parent’s generation the lost memories and feelings from their time in Kashmir, before they had to leave. Eventually it grew to have […]
Normally, January is a slow month for me. Winter break ends and school slowly gets back up to speed, but nothing much really happens until the final week. Not so this year. Immediately after returning home I was busy meeting one friend or another, watching plays and movies with my family, and even traveling to […]
Christmas is a time to gather with close friends and family and celebrate the past year. While I was unable to fly back to California in time for Christmas, I did have a wonderful time up in Newcastle. It was a nice way to prepare to return to my family back in the Bay Area. […]
Greetings to everyone curious enough to visit my blog. Over the next six years I will be pursuing my Masters and PhD in Physics, the former at the University of Cambridge in England and the latter at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan. I did not intend to travel the world […]