Post #153

This post was typed a few days ago sitting in my home when i had nothing to do. I think I'll jus post it as it is. ;)

First day at my native starts with no power! And thus i get a a very "warm" welcome on a supposed to be winter morning in the northern most part of coastal Kerala. In the era when we [read as our democratically elected government] are speaking of computer engineering penetration and rocket science [If you remember the much debated Chandrayan], there is shortage of power. I don't want to make/take political stand here. But it is quite debatable topic if we think of the consequences we as a nation would have to bear in years to come. I'm not sure how the GDP is projected by the authorities when there is such a challenge facing us that will surely eat into our success.

Now after all this and a "couple off" couple off days later, the state of the electricity on an average day, reminds me of my digital electronics experiments in my engineering days. The ON/OFF states off the electricity is practically annoying when they alternate every now and then causing enormous amount of pain. By the way when it is happening inside every chip of my computer successfully, it is something that is pleasurable than annoying! ;) He he..

And as i type this, i see rain drops slithering down the roof of my house and forming a sort of sweet lullaby. This, makes me want to stay indoors sipping to hot cup of tea and watch this interesting match! But i decided to hold on a interesting read by Chetan Bhagat, "2 States". I suggest you buy it from here if you are looking forward to it. Flipkart has given me good service whenever I've ordered books through them. :) Now let me get back to finishing the book. It's cheesy... :)

Post #152

On a ten day long vacation starting today. Reminds me of the winter vacations i used to have as a school going kid. Feels like life has come one full circle after leaving school. The employer i work for has a Christmas break and there won't be any work carried out for another ten day. So all the employees have some peace of mind knowing that no one would be calling them on their phones even on vacation. This is bliss for another ten days. I plan to do "nothing" for another 10 days other than lazing at my home. Ah!.. I've to stop.. ;)

Post #151

It's been quite sometime that i've really posted anything other than cricket. Let me promise that this is one post that will end posts on cricket if not for ever but for a while.  ;)

We won the quadrangular series that was held over last month and this! A close 15 run victory meant that we'll cherish the hard earned one for a long time to come...

Chasing our target of 155 in 20 overs, Zak solutions our opponents in the finals, fell short of 15 runs when they lost all of their 10 wickets. Thereby giving us reason to cheer in a year that didn't go well in terms of cricket all through out the year. First we had to fight the fact that our teammates were going through a lean patch all at once. Then we had to do away with the fact of "no budget" for our cricket team from the employer and play a series on our own. And then at last we get some good returns for all the hard work in the nets to end the year on a high as a win and to everyone's surprise, we get the budget for the series approved by the employer. Now the hopes are high for the upcoming series starting January second week in the new year. A big 16 corporate teams based event. I'm looking forward to it as much as my eager teammates.

Here are a couple of snaps of our winning team





Cheers!

Post #150

I gifted myself a Macbook on Sunday. So, here i am typing away my 150th post into my blogger account on my newly acquired "cool" piece of hardware. It's been quite sometime that I've waited upon to get my hands on my own Mac hardware. Though i have earned every penny till date working on Mac, it took me a while to actually think of owning one. Well, thanks to a annoying OS maker which lives mostly beside the doors on the wall, i was motivated to buy a Mac.

Right now the battery seems really amazing. Though i have not yet performed any processor intensive work, I think it is close to living upto the tall claim of 7-8 hours made by Apple. Awesome boost to the mobile users if it so. The multi touch sensitive trackpad is something that amazes me as much as i use it and it always brings that happiness whenever i use it. My heart felt thanks to the original designers of this amazing piece of feature. And yea a thanks to Apple too for getting it on Mac from the iPod/iPhone platform. Other than that it is the same old piece of the mac hardware that i've always laid my hands on. It's fine fit and finish makes it a class apart and i never can stop admiring it's every detail.

Now let me stop at it for a while when i enjoy computing on my Macbook....