After a (mostly) uneventful journey, I’m here in Volendam, about 10 miles northeast of Amsterdam, attending my first ever conference. Volendam is a quaint little town-village, the weather is cold and windy, our hotel faces the sea and our room’s got a view! So life’s good :) The only complaint, so far, is the lack of proper internet access here. Its kind of weird actually, since I wasn’t expecting it to be this way.

Of course, our room has its drawbacks — its almost like a mini castle with a dungeon :) Sadly, we still haven’t explored the “niceties” that Amsterdam has to offer. Well I have been there once before, but that was mostly a touch and go visit, as I’m afraid this one is turning out to be too. Meanwhile, I’m trying to finish my distributed systems assignment, finish God of small things and go through the reading assignments for CSE291 — I already love that class! Well, so long from Netherlands, I’m missing San Diego already…

Finally, the day is here. I’m leaving for India tomorrow and shall be gone for 3 weeks. YAHOOOOOOO!!! Too less time, I realize only now. I wish I just had a week more. [sigh] neways, thats life.

Depending on my connectvity there, this blog is probably going to be inactive for the next few weeks (as if it was all that happening while I was here!) Somehow everytime I travel I get this strange sinking feeling. I guess some of it is due to my numerous travel ‘accidents’ (which reminds me, I should write up about them sometime here).

But this time I’m travelling light (well, almost); carrying all the regular stuff, nothing unusual, all the documents in order; so I just hope that all goes well. So long then, and thanks for all the fish :D (for those who don’t know, the above line is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And if you didn’t know that, you don’t deserve to exist — go read it today!!!)