31-01-2010

Paes managed to win one more Grand Slam .. (Aus open - Mixed Doubles) ..
Dunno where does this guy get his energy from..He has been winning for well over 8 years now ..
Federer as usual did it again ..
But this time he was pumping his fists for the first break of serve in the first set ..
Something seems different ..
Is he getting aggressive/impatient or is it that he is no longer worried about displaying his emotions ..
It seems Process (as opposed to Result) is the key word ...
So should we as Fed fans be worried about these pump fists and these late line calls...
Dunno ...

25 - 1 - 2010

The old year ended on the wrong foot and the new one started on the wrong foot as well ..
Suffering from leg injuries for over 6 weeks ..
I aimed at going -5 ..And I managed to reach +5 ..
BTW the Spartan seems to be upbeat nowadays .. No idea why ..
Just realized that I am no longer following any sport .. Got stumped in questions about Cricket , tennis and football on the same day ..

I am still speculating on moving North in my career ...More updates later

Mobiles !

Me and Mobiles dont seem happy with each other ..
Whenever I buy a mobile ..I think I should have bought the next piece ..But I still try to make the relationship work . But somehow my partners in this relationship dont think so ..
I have had 4 partners till date ..Each one sexier than the one before .

My first love was a 6600 ... Seen her lookalikes with a lot of ppl ... and was crazy about her even before I bought her ...
She stayed with me for a goood 2 years ..
Then one fine day she fell in love with a yellow taxi rooftop and didnt leave him for quite some time ...
I tried searching for her .. for almost 2 days .. But she wouldnt come back ..

The second one was an N-73 ..
Another black beauty ..
She stayed with me for a month or so..
On that fateful Saturday .. I first saw "Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer" ..Then tried to top it with another gem .. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom ... She came out with me during the interval ...but then decided to go with someone else .. That b***d stole her from my side .. How I missed her ...

The third one was the most faithful of the lot ..I saw her one day and got her the next ..
She came with me to Moscow and to Dallas ..
She even survived a 50 feet fall albeit with a plastic surgery and face liftup ..But she survived..
But then one fine day she just passed away ..
I kept looking at her ..but she didnt respond .. I was heartbroken... crestfallen...

Then came the fourth one .. the sleek ..size zero ..wieght zero N-79 ..
She drowned in a bucket of water and didnt survive the attacks after it ..


Now I live with a used 6030 which I hate .. But she doesnt seem to go away .. One day it seems her keys have stopped working ..but the next day she is fit and fine ...
I have no idea how long she will last .. But I think I need to get her a substitute ...
Any suggestions ???

Reservations for the Marathi/Maratha

I recently started reading 'India After Gandhi'.
It speaks about the reservation for SC/ST that are currently prevalent in India.
The claim was that in 1000s of years of oppression the SC/STs have been made so weak that they cant easly mingle with the society .So it was decided that the Government will provide positive preferential treatment in allotment of jobs and access to higher education, as a means to accelerate the integration of the SCs and STs with mainstream society.
So the question that comes to mind is that whether the domicile Maharashtrian (this includes the Lungis , the Pagdis and all the other non "son of the soil" people) is so lame that he cant compete with the Cowherds that he is being protected from .

Keep Off The Grass

Was busy with a lot of BS ...
Read this book : Keep Off The Grass
Is a quick read .
Makes you realize a lot of things .
What ,why and how would probably be different for different people ..
But it is this openness that I love about the book.

From then till today

Not much has happened .
Still waiting to get motivated . .
My reach is growing day by day and I rot in office for 12 to 24 hours .
Sarcasm seems to be my first language ..
Is it the effects of life in office or something else I don't know ...
Wonder how long this will continue ...
Neways ...
maybe you will see more posts on this blog ..
I might even use it to twitter .

2008 12 02

Hmm ..
Missed the bus to Hyderabad..
Dunno why ..
But seems I am getting lazier by the day ..
Is that good bad or plain me ..
Thats the eternal question ..aint it ?

Ghetla .. Lagla .. Padlo

Hmm ...
I took one more gruelling two nd half hour workout ..
And like always before I thought I left with something less ... (unfortunately not my paunch :D)
Meri pahunch aaj kal bahut badti jaa rahi hai ..
And no I am not proud of it ..

09-10-2008

The story so far ...
Seems that the essay into writing failed...
Trying to follow a few time management principles.
Does help me save some time ..
But I realized what I knew earlier
'Its the human element that matters ..'
All that matters is that you be aware of what you want and what you are doing ..
Don't be a Zombie and probably you will make your way to where you want to be ..

But with the human element comes intuition ..which usually fails me ,when I am under pressure ..

On a personal note the Spartan says exercise is the cure to all illnesses ..
But I am too ill to exercise ;)

25 08 08

Bangalore ..
That's the last place I had been to ..
My partial observation
1. Lots of chinkis
2. The Yediappas don't know much of English but still want to use it ..
eg : "Baby, I care of you no ,that is why I getting parcel for you to home no .. but I will have to give company to my friends no .."
3. A lot of Mias around ..didn't notice many of them on my last trip ( 10 years back)
4. No SALE signs around ..
This is the one that shocks me ..
Seems the depression or its fear hasn't hit the city yet ...
Wonder why ?

18 08 08

Now or Later seems to be the eternal question :)

14 8 08

hmm ..
Another task to be taken up
Got to essay into getting motivated :)

12-08-08

So finally after so long we do have another Indian Olympic gold medalist.
I suppose googling him today might get you atleast 10,000 results ..
Three cheers to India .. and Abhinav Bindra !!!!
Will we win one more ..
There is Rathore ..
The old pair of boots .. might run faster and hit harder.
Saina might end up with a medal ..
Maybe the boxers get some more glory ..

BTW .. Tendlya is once again out of the Indian team due to an elbow injury ..
And MSD is still riding on his luck ..

GHEUN TAKK!!!!!

The first time I came across the term "Taking the Test" from an old Caesar from 840 BC. ,who albeit his Roman outlook is quite candid about italicizing his English swears ( and even reducing their font size) I kinda felt awkward about it.
Somehow it didn't sound right ... Like the sentences "It was I who did it " and "Whom did she ask out for a date?" I chose to ignore this irregular sounding "TAKE".
I was again corrected for the same phrase/idiom/irregularity/mistake by a lot of people like "The one on the net" , "the speed demon who defeats sound" and "the Bossssss".
Finally when I TOOK the test .. I found that I was taking nothing away ...
Bloody hell ... I would have done bally well to say I say took good scores or the score sheet .. but what do you take in a test ..
I firmly believe you give a test .. Because at the end of each test you know that you have left a bit of you in the test that will be evaluated electronically or otherwise .
Its like saying I took life imprisonment.
So after appearing for this test, all I have to say is "Gheun Takk"
BTW .. If you are wondering what's Gheun Tak ....
Check this out .... "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HXadehySU"

08-08-08(2)

On a lighter note ...
The Olympics begin today ..
888 has 6 circles instead of 5 olympic rings ..
I know where the sixth one ... came from ...
Its India's medal tally ...
India's best hope is a pair divorced and remarried so many times that they resemble a torn shoe :)
So enjoy ...
If India end up adding one more ring to make it 8 i will be on cloud 9 but I know thats not possible ..

And the IITs have done it again ..
They have found new lows :) ( from the so called lower strata of the society )

08-08-08

Back after a long hiatus .
A few updates ..
The elusive lappy was finally caught napping ..
The bugger ate biscuits worth 730 dollars.
I gave the test ...Yes you read it right .. I said I GAVE the test ..
I dont take test ..
I can take / accept gifts ..
But taking a test .. Its like buying tickets for a train you wont travel in ..
Got to go..
More rants on TAKING ... in the next post ..
GHEUN TAKK ...

18-6-2008

Saw Dasavatharam ..
It is a movie in which Kamal wants to show all he has ..
His writing skills , his ideas,his ideologies,his acting (over), his singing ..
Maybe it was his effort to do all that he can..
Dont people try to do that when they reach the end ? ...
Maybe he has decide to retire from movies ...
Neways too many tongue in cheek jokes , out of place sleaze and foolish graphics make the movie a bit unbearable ..
Although Oscar changed to Aascar still the director has to show his face at the end of every movie
Life per se is pathetic ..but this friday I am going home ..
PS Lappy ne mujhe ullu banaya

15 - 6 - 08

There seems to be something absolutely wrong in my planning .
Not a single a timeline met ..
Life's in a mess ...
Btw I finally configured a comp ...but dont know how I am gonna get it ..
Lets see ... banking on some one i know and trust ...
It took me 1 whole year to decide on whether to buy a laptop or not ,...
The story after it was quite straight forward coz I knew what I needed ..
It had to be an HP ...
But on the sadder note it's a Vista ...
But if I really have the guts I might rip off the Vista and put XP ,.. or even one of those Linux GUI versions ..
Thats it for now ..
Unfortunately .. again in office today ...
Some time down the line I will write on the weekend experience ,,
Not like I loooove it or hate it ..
But there in the lies the fun ..

Birthday paradox ...

In probability theory, the birthday problem, or birthday paradox,[1] pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. In a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%, tending toward 100% as the pool of people grows
(Source Wiki)
But the paradox f0r me on this day was the birthday of many people including my friend was whether to be or not to be .. Meaning whether to be there or not to be there ..
Also it involved a home - coming so things would have been even more fun ..
But then I decided against being there as the Cosmos would miss me otherwise ..
On a lighter note :
They say that the tradition of birthdays started in Persia and spread throughout the Roman Empire ..
So no doubt that the able guys from Sparta would have been celebrating June 1st as Julius Caesar's bday ... There was no July before he decided so !!!But how about 1st September ..

21-5-08

Hmm
Back after two days of vacation .
Relived the days of college when you had to worry about nothing for 12 hours a day ...
Unlimited PJs ..
Still singing : "Judaa ho ke bhi ... Tu mujh me kahin baaki hai ..."
But for sure we did miss Santa Claus ..
I hope we have him as well for the next trip ..