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Happiness is going on a trip/picnic to Long Island's very own Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay. It was organized by GWISE, Graduate Women in Science group. I went with Ankit to Mr. Coe's estate or Planting Fields Arboretum. Mr Coe lived in this estate around 1913. It is a huge garden with horticulture and plants. It felt like Cubbon Park of Bangalore in Long Island. It was a beautiful day with Fall colors in a Halloween season or the pumpkin season for me :P. I think pictures are a better way to describe my trip. Cheers to some awesome pictures we clicked.              

Happiness is trying something new. I graded midterm papers of an undergraduate Database class. It was fun. It was Tarun's work. I helped him out. I had to correct questions 4,5,6. They were ER diagram, SQL query and definition of theta join, equi-join  and natural join. It was total of 108 papers. Journey through first one-third was jittery. Got lost in their ER diagrams. After that got the hang of correcting the answers. Then exchanged papers with Shouvik, TA with databases. Also did totaling of remaining two-thirds. Over-all it was fun being on the other side of grading. A happy red pen holder correcting papers. Two-third set of mid-term papers

Happiness is painting after I think 7 years. It was part of an event by SBU Creative Arts. It really felt accomplished. I tried acrylic paints for the first time. It was awesome and different. Couldn't figure out how to get uniform color over an area then figured out its thickness and texture. It was awesome. Loved acrylic painting. Final look and brightness is I think better than poster colors and watercolors. Yeah I understand every type of paint is for different use. But, in my opinion, acrylic paintings would last long and overall the painting looks brighter. So, lets see how does my sugar skull painting look? Sugar Skull hanging on my apartment wall. This is the room where I painted. All set with required materials. Thanks to SBU Creative Arts. This is how I started. My first few strokes with acrylic. Yes did it. After 2.5 hours of playing with acrylic paints. Meee... Happy me posing with my sugar skull :) :) :)  

Happiness is when your petition is approved for the course swap and you get your refund in your bank account. I had completely given up that I would get any kind of refund. But I thought why not just file a petition. So I sent a mail to www.studentbilling.com explaining why did I get a fine. Today I got 1080 dollars I paid refunded to my account. Yipiee :)

Yes, it is always a perfect happy day when you get to dance. Tried something new, Latin dance it was. It felt like Salsa for me and I also understand that there must be differences. I love to dance. Though not good at doing at girly kinda moves but I am learning. Best part was when a trained professional ball dancer told me you have danced before. His name was Jamie. He was too good. My first learning step was with him. It was a sheer coincidence. I also danced with several people after learning a few steps, most of them were trained ball room dancers. I could follow their steps and their lead. It was awesome. Next time no spectacles. Only lenses <angry>. Finally, my favorite was the last dance with Jamie. I can never ever forget that. I wish I could get the video. Anyway, I got the picture. #DanceIsLife

Happiness is when you go for a head-shot photo in the CS department and finally get a high resolution picture. Frankly I didn't like it but Aashu liked it! :P Still learning which picture looks good and which doesn't, which human being is beautiful and which isn't it. My god, when will I learn all these. Actually, do I really want to? Answer is no, not really. Well, here are the two high resolution pictures with filters. :P How I wish I wore something formal rather than a t-shirt. Time to go shopping. And dumb girl, check yourself out before you leave home. Definitely that is not a t-shirt bra. grrr <angry>. Anyway here it is.  

Happiness is finally seeing a revised salary. Yuhu 4000 dollar increase in base and significant increase in bonus.