So as we welcome the new year of 2009, it’s time to look back at 2008 and see what all I did.
Jan 1 – As usual, woke up and did nothing during the day 
. This was during my vacation back home after a grueling semester at Carnegie Mellon.
Jan 4 – Met some old buddies back from college days and reminisced of our good old days.
Jan 11 – Unfortunately, my 3 weeks of vacation had ended and I had to fly back to Pittsburgh to start the spring semester.
Jan 14 – Begin the grueling spring semester, and promptly get yelled at by the client. That was one of my biggest lessons, do your research and do it damn well. The next few weeks were spent revisiting our documents and research.
Jan 25 – Began a new project involving software cryptography for sensor networks. Had a really good time on this project.
Feb 14 – Interviewed with Green Hills Software. The phone interview, in their words, “went very well” and they scheduled me for a flight out to meet them at their Santa Barbara campus.
March 6-9 – Had a good time in Santa Barbara, if not successful at clearing the interview. Left for a short vacation in the Bay Area.
March 13 – Interviewed with Redback Networks in San Jose. This interview was set up in just 1 day, as I was flying back to Pittsburgh the next day.
Apr 23-25 – Set up our exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. It was a very simple game but attracted plenty of attention.
May 6 – Big bunch of presentations for the CenSCIR symposium at Roberts Hall, CMU.
May 8 – Gave a big presentation for our project. All that we had done over the past two semesters was condensed into a half hour presentation. This is what I call the Reverse Kolangal Effect.
May 13 – Gave another presentation for another project, the one we did for the Children’s Museum. This was a much less formal one and a simple exit to end the semester, and the course.
May 18 – Graduated!!! And it was a really long and tiring day, but worth every second of blood and sweat.
May 20 – Flew back to San Jose to get ready to join work.
Jun 3-6 – Flew to Vegas, and visited the Grand Canyon.
Jun 6 – Left Vegas and flew to Los Angeles.
Jun 8 – Visited Universal Studios, LA
Jun 9 – Returned to San Jose.
Jun 20 – Moved to a new apartment near work.
Jun 30 – Began working at Redback Networks.
Aug 28 – Got my US driver’s license.
Sep 1 – Now that I had a US license, I rented a car for the Labor Day weekend. Went and visited my cousins in the area.
Nov 22-29 – Flew to Dallas for the Thanksgiving break. Met up with old friends.
Dec 21 – Bought my first car, a 1997 Mazda 626.
Dec 31 – Worked my butt off all day, and spent the evening on a space simulator 
. The usual story, loaded with work, blogger’s block, yada yada yada…
