- No ! I wasnt about what happened today, but rather how today happened.
I simply woke up laughing in my bed, triggered by some really funny event in a dream that I dont remember now. And I just checked the time in my phone and it was 7.29 sharp, and an instant later the alarm started to ring out one of my favourite songs (the alarm tone was a Mp3 file in this case).
- Compare this to the average day, where I always switch off the alarm, sleep for 30 mins more, and wake up hurriedly and groan " Oh! S*** ! " , and let out a few more curses before getting out of bed.. SOMETHING was seriously right today..!
Just continued smiling and giggling my way to office, and attended some training. And like every other classroom , my circadian cycle turned upside down and started feeling sleepy. Thats when I unleash my best anti-dote to slumbering during a lecture or a meeting..And thats Not a cup of coffee..!
- I just watch someone else dozing off, and struggling to stay awake. This is bound to make you laugh, sending in those crucial pints of blood to the brain, and you are back again. Today it was my friend, who slept exactly the way , the guy advertising for some Airline company does- well stretched out and completly relaxed posture in the chair.
The day ended with a showtime premiering the old comedy movie- Taxi (original french version). And here I am , armed with a smile to goto sleep, instead of a sleeping pill.
Now tell me how many people get to smile from the moment they wake up, till the instant the fall asleep ??
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Happiest day in my life...! -- May 30, 2005
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Bowling & Bowling..
Just mused about Bowling, after participating in a tournament on May 07..
To all those who know the game of cricket, and those who would like to know...
A bowler has to bowl a hard ball, with a core of cork wound with string and covered by leather, weighing between 156 and 163 grams(slightly larger but a lot heavier than a tennis ball). The ball is directed towards 3 stumps (cylindrical wooden post, 25 mm in diameter and 813 mm high) arranged in a row perpendicular to the bowling direction with a maximum separation of 228 mm apart from the edges ...I omit the detail about 2 little bails, sitting on the gap between 3 stumps.
The aim is to unsettle this combination(wicket) by directly bowling at it from a distance of 22 yards. To top it all, you could bowl inswingers,outswingers,yorkers,bouncers,fast,medium pace,gentle medium pace, leg spin,leg break, off spin ,chinaman,leg-cutters and other species of balls.
(note if you are feeling dizzy about the statistics given above, you are not fit to listen to a standard cricket commentary..You need to work on your appetite for numbers before you read on. start befriending the 'deep blue'..)
Thats not all..To prevent the bowler from achieving this aim of hitting the stumps, stands the guardian of the wicket..A Wicked Batsman with a dangerous weapon simply called a bat, whose dimensions are well specified, but not the maximum weight. This guy's job is to despatch the ball you just bowled, to the farthest corners of the playing field, and send your teammates on a leather hunt..
I barely had a happy moment in my bowling career, and mostly left the field demoralised and dis-oriented. Now you can understand why a failed bowler like me, would readily love the friendly conditions of an Bowling alley
----------------One fat heavy ball, 10 fat little stumps, tame rolling the ball on the lane will do, and most importantly no batsman to prevent it from reaching there. Though you could never flatten all the 3 stumps in cricket, you could strike down all the 10 pins in Bowling.
Getting a strike, could be quite gratifying for normal cricketers, and absolute bliss for sloppy bowlers(in cricket) like me. When I still see other novices bowl and miss all the pins, I cannot imagine how they would fare if they were playing cricket. Now dont ask me how I fared in that tournament..All I can say is I scored centuries in almost all the games I played..(well, that last sentence is intended to wow a cricket batsman, who has never been Bowling !!)
Last heard that our team could been selected for the finals..A big thanks to my 3 teammates, for triple-handedly taking me along to the finals on June 04..
To all those who know the game of cricket, and those who would like to know...
A bowler has to bowl a hard ball, with a core of cork wound with string and covered by leather, weighing between 156 and 163 grams(slightly larger but a lot heavier than a tennis ball). The ball is directed towards 3 stumps (cylindrical wooden post, 25 mm in diameter and 813 mm high) arranged in a row perpendicular to the bowling direction with a maximum separation of 228 mm apart from the edges ...I omit the detail about 2 little bails, sitting on the gap between 3 stumps.
The aim is to unsettle this combination(wicket) by directly bowling at it from a distance of 22 yards. To top it all, you could bowl inswingers,outswingers,yorkers,bouncers,fast,medium pace,gentle medium pace, leg spin,leg break, off spin ,chinaman,leg-cutters and other species of balls.
(note if you are feeling dizzy about the statistics given above, you are not fit to listen to a standard cricket commentary..You need to work on your appetite for numbers before you read on. start befriending the 'deep blue'..)
Thats not all..To prevent the bowler from achieving this aim of hitting the stumps, stands the guardian of the wicket..A Wicked Batsman with a dangerous weapon simply called a bat, whose dimensions are well specified, but not the maximum weight. This guy's job is to despatch the ball you just bowled, to the farthest corners of the playing field, and send your teammates on a leather hunt..
I barely had a happy moment in my bowling career, and mostly left the field demoralised and dis-oriented. Now you can understand why a failed bowler like me, would readily love the friendly conditions of an Bowling alley
----------------One fat heavy ball, 10 fat little stumps, tame rolling the ball on the lane will do, and most importantly no batsman to prevent it from reaching there. Though you could never flatten all the 3 stumps in cricket, you could strike down all the 10 pins in Bowling.
Getting a strike, could be quite gratifying for normal cricketers, and absolute bliss for sloppy bowlers(in cricket) like me. When I still see other novices bowl and miss all the pins, I cannot imagine how they would fare if they were playing cricket. Now dont ask me how I fared in that tournament..All I can say is I scored centuries in almost all the games I played..(well, that last sentence is intended to wow a cricket batsman, who has never been Bowling !!)
Last heard that our team could been selected for the finals..A big thanks to my 3 teammates, for triple-handedly taking me along to the finals on June 04..
Just Another Movie ?
It became a rather unsatisfying week to the not-so-much movie maniac in me..three of the latest Tamil movies Chandramukhi,Mumbai express,Sachien seen within a week, and here I am yelling at myself.."Why dont I just learn to, see only the movies that i really want to ??".. And thats what i did..
I have heard from my old Rwandan friends, back in college days about the civil war in their country in 1994. When they told me about a million lives lost during that war, I might have said "Oh ! my god ! thats terrible", and probably continued eating my dinner after a 30 second pause.
And there was a scene in the movie Hotel Rwanda, where the lead actor Don Cheadle exactly predicted the way most people in other parts of the world would react, when they come to know about such a massacre.
I realised that a million lives is about 5 times or so the number of lives lost in the tsunami(Dec 26,2004). No natural phenomenon, or force of nature can take away as many lives as the weapons of hatred or men at war can snatch. So tell me who is our greatest enemy ?
This inspiring movie is about Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager from Kigali, Rwanda who saves more than a 1000 people from certain death, at the hands of the opposing militiamen. Watching the movie , made me feel a lot more connected with the brutality and pain endured by the survivors, and also a few good lessons about resoursefulness and hope.
Having watched Schindler's List last week for the first time, and this one now, you can guess the state of mind now..
If you are of the kind who looks for much more than just entertainment in a movie, watch this one.
And for Nshakabatenda Ramadhani , Nzamutuma Ismael, and Nyandwi Alphonse who narrated the happenings of the war to me... I now understand..!
I have heard from my old Rwandan friends, back in college days about the civil war in their country in 1994. When they told me about a million lives lost during that war, I might have said "Oh ! my god ! thats terrible", and probably continued eating my dinner after a 30 second pause.
And there was a scene in the movie Hotel Rwanda, where the lead actor Don Cheadle exactly predicted the way most people in other parts of the world would react, when they come to know about such a massacre.
I realised that a million lives is about 5 times or so the number of lives lost in the tsunami(Dec 26,2004). No natural phenomenon, or force of nature can take away as many lives as the weapons of hatred or men at war can snatch. So tell me who is our greatest enemy ?
This inspiring movie is about Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager from Kigali, Rwanda who saves more than a 1000 people from certain death, at the hands of the opposing militiamen. Watching the movie , made me feel a lot more connected with the brutality and pain endured by the survivors, and also a few good lessons about resoursefulness and hope.
Having watched Schindler's List last week for the first time, and this one now, you can guess the state of mind now..
If you are of the kind who looks for much more than just entertainment in a movie, watch this one.
And for Nshakabatenda Ramadhani , Nzamutuma Ismael, and Nyandwi Alphonse who narrated the happenings of the war to me... I now understand..!
Digital Frustration !
There are a million reasons why one should compose a blog, or write a poem, or scribble something in a diary, or just scream aloud. But nothing can come out as suddenly or as passionately as the expression of pure and unparalleled anger & frustration.(did you think i was abt to say something abt love ?)
I have been lazy, hesitating, unimaginative or just plain disinterested to write my first blog ever. But the day has come... for a spontaneous outburst of annoyance ..
Electronics is my study and profession. But today I would like to deep fry the brains of the people who invented transistors, batteries, integrated circuits, CDs, DVD players, and even cables. and pulverize the lousy fellow who imagined great wonders could made out of silicon instead of leaving the mud(silica) alone... How can so many things fail at the same time ?? How far should I go to listen to just listen to one nice song ?? How could one of my favourite CDs gets stuck in a brand new branded DVD player ?
It only proves my theory about the existence of a Goddess of Circuits- Electronica , who simply decides for or against any user on a given day. Most users of electronic equipments,circuit debuggers would readily agree that certain inexplicable events/ failures would have left them puzzled on one day, and the very next day, they start up the system and lo! it works as if it always had. At such a moment look above , and you would find Her smiling to glory.
Having typed all this, my anger seems to have been dissipated. But thinking again, I might have made Electronica throughly unhappy...I hope I can save this blog, post this entry..and the PC does not hang up before that or a disruptive power glitch ruins this already wonderful evening....or a ....."Pllunkkkk"....................................
I have been lazy, hesitating, unimaginative or just plain disinterested to write my first blog ever. But the day has come... for a spontaneous outburst of annoyance ..
Electronics is my study and profession. But today I would like to deep fry the brains of the people who invented transistors, batteries, integrated circuits, CDs, DVD players, and even cables. and pulverize the lousy fellow who imagined great wonders could made out of silicon instead of leaving the mud(silica) alone... How can so many things fail at the same time ?? How far should I go to listen to just listen to one nice song ?? How could one of my favourite CDs gets stuck in a brand new branded DVD player ?
It only proves my theory about the existence of a Goddess of Circuits- Electronica , who simply decides for or against any user on a given day. Most users of electronic equipments,circuit debuggers would readily agree that certain inexplicable events/ failures would have left them puzzled on one day, and the very next day, they start up the system and lo! it works as if it always had. At such a moment look above , and you would find Her smiling to glory.
Having typed all this, my anger seems to have been dissipated. But thinking again, I might have made Electronica throughly unhappy...I hope I can save this blog, post this entry..and the PC does not hang up before that or a disruptive power glitch ruins this already wonderful evening....or a ....."Pllunkkkk"....................................
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