Goodbye and R.I.P. to my good friend Navin Parthasarathy

This Saturday morning, August 5th, 2006, as I was waiting for CalTrain at the Lawrence station in Santa Clara, I received a very devastating voicemail from a friend of mine. This friend told me that our mutual buddy Navin Parthasarathy had drowned while swimming in a lake near Cornell University in Ithaca, NY on Friday. I was crushed. Navin was a very good friend of mine. During the 2000-2001 school year, we studied together in the electrical engineering graduate program at UC-Santa Barbara. We hung out together all the time. I took him to Las Vegas for his first time. We went camping together at Big Sur. When he used to call me on the phone, he would always say to me, "Ass, what's up." This was our typical greeting as I had taught him how to say this. But no more.

Navin I will miss you sorely. You are gone, but not forgotten.

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