Oooh....what a drama!

Its spring break in Univ of Kentucky and I am travelling home...as home to India.I am in the garden city even as I write this.The trip started with my name being called on the public address system as "Humes".It was the TSA guys..they were interested in know what I was carrying!So I ended up coughing up the code to my suitcase lock. Then spent the next few hours at Newark.This is the first time I am travelling by Air-India and I really was not sure about how the experience would be.Newark airport is not closed ..what i mean by that is you have to go to a different concourse and I had to have the security check again.To add some spice to the wound..AI had its own secondary security system.Thank You!:-( i had to deal with disturbances caused by a big Patel family which was travelling to Ahmedabad for a wedding.Then the drama started.I had my first meal.After sometime I had started throwing up and i used up almost 6 sickness bags.I was afraid to tell the stewardess I was sick because I feared they would keep me back in Paris.So I had to suffer the agony for almost fifteen hours.Tired,I took the next flight from Bombay to Bangalore to discover the loss of my luggage.It had been 16 hours since I had eaten and was really weak.I almost had to draw upon some invisible strength to stay up.After lodging a complaint with AI I came out to discover that the driver who was supposed to pick me up was gone and had to take an auto.Then accompanied by a cousin I had to go to a Nursing home for IV Fluids.Well,the doctor turned down my requests for the IV and I had to make a frantic call to my Family doctor.The drama was to stop with me consuming two spoons of sugar in half a glass of water.Hmm...more did happen.I couldnt bear the smell of the vomit and I dont know if I will ever travel AI again.By the way on the trip from Bombay to Bangalore there were mosquitoes on the aircraft..So much for being International.I had much more surprises in store for me...In the end it just ends up making me a better man!

Words of Wisdom!!

A really quick one. I enjoy listening to good talks,whatever it is on.However the only constraints that i place are
(1) The speaker should be dynamic.
(2) I should understand atleast the first 10 minutes of the Talk.
(3) There should be cookies and tea..haha..i am joking on this one!

Recently i was giving a mock talk.At the end of the talk my advisor told me something which made great sense.Here are the words straight from the horse's mouth:

The first quarter of the talk should be understood by the Secretary in the Office.The second quarter by the graduate student.The third quarter by any faculty member.The last,more advanced stuff,by the members of that particular scientific community.It never hurts to tell people what they already know;atleast for the first few minutes.It helps to make them comfortable and give them a sense of worth for the hour they spend listening to your talk!