Well the other day we had a great day at office...or rather out of it! day started with taking a couple of folks from India to our factory, then we went for team lunch followed by bowling! Now, it has been ages since I went bowling...there was a time in engg when we used to frequent the mecca of Jahndus...BoCoS!! The next time you are in Bombay, I would recommend it as a must-go place :-D
Anyways, back to the story(?!), I had expected myself to be rusty...but boy was I out of form! Not one throw was going as I intended it to! Somehow labored to a 91 in the first game! :-( The next one I thought would be better, but the nightmare continued! I tried all kinds of balls, but nothing seemed to work...in fact ended up hurting my thumb in the process! And towards the end I gave up and switched to bowling with my left hand! Now, I have always wanted to be ambidextrous, and I do use my mouse with the left hand (courtesy RSI), but that is as far as I have gone! So with the sole intention of doing TP (time-pass), I continued to bowl left-handed at the top of 3rd and the result again was as expected....first 2 throws - gutter! The next 2, I did better and managed 3 and a 5, but next 2........back to gutter :-D but by this time, I was having fun and mid-way through actually managed to get a spare! Then for some reason, for our team-mates in the other lane, their time limit got over and they decided to leave and so did a few from our lane....for some reason a few of us stuck around and we resumed playing...and I managed my first ever strike bowling left-handed :-D The game continued and I ended up with the highest score - 93!! :-D It was a wonderful sense of achievement :-p so much so that I think I shall switch loyalties while bowling ;-)
some of the famous men of India are ambidextrous too...The Big B, Sachin Tendulkar, but they are genuine left-handers, who I think might have been forced to use their right hands...something to do with some Indian myth or something, I guess :-p...even Mahatma Gandhi was, IIRC, in the same league....not that I am counting myself in the same league as these great gentlemen! but no harm in aspiring to ;-)
-uv.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Another close call!
Looks like I am living life on the edge these days:-D Yesterday had to go to our un-official HQ and on the way back had a repeat of 2 weeks back! Only this time, it was not as close :) Like last, started to change lanes and a lady in the far right lane, for some strange reason, just swerved to the centre lane, where I was planning to move to! The good thing this time round was that I had just started my move and so had ample to time to back out!
sort of reinforces my view that there is a higher power above after all looking after all of us :-)
on a much different note, the GoI has gone a step further and is planning to introduce reservations in private institutions as well...and the IITs may be forced to lower their criteria for the "reserved" folks! wonder if people are still feeling good about the country's future?
-uv.
sort of reinforces my view that there is a higher power above after all looking after all of us :-)
on a much different note, the GoI has gone a step further and is planning to introduce reservations in private institutions as well...and the IITs may be forced to lower their criteria for the "reserved" folks! wonder if people are still feeling good about the country's future?
-uv.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Last Hope Vanishes!
The worst has come true with the Supreme Court approving the 27% reservations for OBCs :-( This takes the total reservation to 49.5%!! And as if doing a favor, the SC has asked the GoI to draw guidelines to exclude the creamy section from this! (any guesses how difficult it would be for the "creamy" layer to work around this? :-D )
Don't want to say much, since IIRC, I have already vented my anger at this whole nonsense in an earlier post!
All that is left to say? Good luck to the "open category Gen NexT!!"
-uv.
Don't want to say much, since IIRC, I have already vented my anger at this whole nonsense in an earlier post!
All that is left to say? Good luck to the "open category Gen NexT!!"
-uv.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Trivial Weirdness
Read this nice thought!
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.
-Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
And the trivial weirdness?
Well on Sunday I lost my SIM card in the weirdest possible manner! Had gone to Chandu Trojan's place to meet him since he was leaving for India the next day. On reaching his place, saw he was playing around with an i-phone. Apparently it was the other great man's phone and CT was trying to unlock it which he had managed to do but he was not getting the menu! So, me being the ever nice guy (:-p) decided to help and gave my phone's sim card to try and see if we get the menu. The result was expected, but when he removed my card to give it back to me and he dropped it on the sofa (i had a funny feeling he would do it!). Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but you know who's law kicked in (sadly the law is preventing me from remembering that guy's name!) and the card decided to go and park itself in the micrometer gap between the sofa arm rest and the sofa seat (if you can imagine that!). All we could see was the tip of the card! (and just remembered, it is Murphy's law! :-D)
Then us 3 enggrs (bro was also there) got down to the task of trying to pry out the card. CT got 3 different knives, one being big enuff to chop a human being, and we tried to push the card down, then up and poke the knife in what ever gaps we could but the thing refused to budge! And alas, our last ditch effort saw the card sink into an abyss and I have been with out my phone since :-(
Moral of the story :- your worst fears come true when you least expect/want them to and 3 enggrs cannot retrieve a teeny weeny SIM card!! :-D and then again, going by the above thought, nothing is small or trivial :-)
-uv.
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.
-Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
And the trivial weirdness?
Well on Sunday I lost my SIM card in the weirdest possible manner! Had gone to Chandu Trojan's place to meet him since he was leaving for India the next day. On reaching his place, saw he was playing around with an i-phone. Apparently it was the other great man's phone and CT was trying to unlock it which he had managed to do but he was not getting the menu! So, me being the ever nice guy (:-p) decided to help and gave my phone's sim card to try and see if we get the menu. The result was expected, but when he removed my card to give it back to me and he dropped it on the sofa (i had a funny feeling he would do it!). Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but you know who's law kicked in (sadly the law is preventing me from remembering that guy's name!) and the card decided to go and park itself in the micrometer gap between the sofa arm rest and the sofa seat (if you can imagine that!). All we could see was the tip of the card! (and just remembered, it is Murphy's law! :-D)
Then us 3 enggrs (bro was also there) got down to the task of trying to pry out the card. CT got 3 different knives, one being big enuff to chop a human being, and we tried to push the card down, then up and poke the knife in what ever gaps we could but the thing refused to budge! And alas, our last ditch effort saw the card sink into an abyss and I have been with out my phone since :-(
Moral of the story :- your worst fears come true when you least expect/want them to and 3 enggrs cannot retrieve a teeny weeny SIM card!! :-D and then again, going by the above thought, nothing is small or trivial :-)
-uv.
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