Sunday, November 25, 2012

Today marks the 4th month of our Kolkata stay

Today marks the fourth month since we came back to India and Kolkata. I have been documenting my life ever since we came back here and it looks worth it. It helps us analyze our activity and whether we are doing things right or not.

I am now happy that life is somewhat back on track. Smaller things that makes me happy is; we can now make copies of the documents at home and at work too. The frustrations are still fresh in our minds when we landed here, and for making copies we had to run around places. The second most important thing is now we are back into our workout routines. The gym in the apartment complex serves well. I can run for 10 mins and do trademill for 40 mins followed by little bit of weight training. Although it is not as rigorous as body pump, but still serves the purpose. We have started doing yoga and pranayama. I can do zumba at home too and download music from you tube for new songs. So, I would say in a way things are going well.

Work wise few students are listed to register under me for their Ph.D program in December and I am working on their project proposals. Hope, once that is back on track, I can focus on my own work. My server is in place, and most of the software have been installed. Now I have to get back into completing my papers that were left in lurch.

Teaching and collaborations are in right speed. Met few collaborators and now finding some new ones on the way. Teaching Ph.D course work at the institute, and lined up for teaching NIPER as well as in a Post Graduate college. Then there is a workshop that invites me to deliver lectures. I am extremely grateful....

Zumba - LMFAO Sexy and I know it - by Medina from Kazakhstan

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Come 4 months and what have we done so far

It has been a while since I last posted my real article. I am now posting more slowly than ever, could mean 2 things: 1) I am getting busier 2) It is less happening. While The first point is more desirable, I would like the second point to NOT be true.

It has been about 4 months since we came here to Kolkata. Let me catalogue what all we have done so far:

Office Front:
1) Bought a digital microscope
2) Bought a laminar flow
3) Bought 3 rack servers and allocated static ip to it
4) Bought printers, scanners, copier, UPS, network switch
5) Got my office painted
6) Bought furniture for my office
7) Placed orders for glassware, wet lab stuff, some equipments
8) Placed order for students computers

Presentation-wise:
1) Made an RC presentation on 2nd Nov 2012
2) Presented encode project on 11th September
3) Teaching Ph.D course work for Bioinformatics and bio-statistics
4) Hooked in to teach Ms. Microbiology
5) Hooked in to teach in NIPER

Collaboration-wise:
1) Struck collaboration with Shanti-Niketan
2) Struck collaboration with West Bengal State University and Kolkata University
3) Struck collaboration with NBFGR, Lucknow
4) Wrote 2 ICAR pre-proposals
5) Wrote Welcome-DBT pre-proposal
6) Wrote one CSIR pre-proposal.
7) Wrote one page write out for CSIR networking project
8) Wrote a white paper on plant genome sequencing for Ayush
9) Collaborating on Arsenic work with Dr. Giri
10) Collaborating on cancer transcriptome work with Susanto Roy-Choudhury

Student-wise
1) Got one Ph.D student officially although she is not working for me directly.
2) Lined up another 5 students for Ph.d
3) Got one MTech student
4) Got 2 final year BTech students.
5) Advertised for a research assistant

Trip-wise
1) Made an invited trip to Lucknow NBFGR
2) Made a trip to Shanti-Niketan
3) Made a trip to Puri
4) Made a trip to Bhubaneswar
5) Lined up for a trip to Mumbai to sell our apartment
6) Lined up for a trip to Benaras for giving lectures on bioinformatics (Dec 10-13, 2012)

Home-wise: (Although my contribution is minimal here)
1) Found guest house
2) Got cell phones and number
3) Got internet
4) Furnished our house completely
5) Got gas
6) Got car and driver
7) Got a maid to work in our house
8) Selling our Mumbai flat
9) Taken care of bank things
10) sorting out many other pending issues

Now Pramod is all set to move to Mumbai on Bank Of America's coming back to him again

Work wise I am super excited to start my first sets of BGA sequencing sooon......




Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Jai Ho - pop routine

Monday, November 12, 2012

I know you want me-Zumba with Erika

Shhh!!! Cumbia-Dance Fitness

J-LO ft PITBULL - "Dance Again" - Choreography for Dance Fitness

Bananza Akon Zumba

Rain Over Me Zumba

*NEW* ZUMBA DADDY YANKEE "LOVUMBA"