An internal 5-a-side soccer tournament is going on in our company. The strictest rule is that by no means a team can have more than 3 players who play in corporate tournaments as a part of the soccer team representing our company. Our internal team has 2 such players: I and captain. The team is called Beagle boyz.
We won the league round against 4 teams (it means there were 5 teams in our group including us) beating them by the following score: 4-0, 6-0, 3-0, and 4-0. In pre-quarters we beat a team by 6-1. Today, in quarter finals we beat another team by 4-0. I scored two goals today (I am a defender :) and in total I have scored 4 goals by now. The team that we played against today was some competition but only in the first half.
The team that we play against in the semi-finals is a good team with a German playing in their team. Let’s see what happens!
A friend of mine introduced me to this puzzle and I find it very good. It was conceptualized by students of IIM Indore as a part of their annual management festival held in November, 2005. Check out more details on http://iimi-iris.blogspot.com/ To play the game click on http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/ and check out how many levels you can cross…
I watched this play in Rangashankara theatre on Saturday evening with a friend. It is based on a murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. It was enacted well by the artists- a mix of Indians and foreigners.
Long dialogues become difficult to bear with especially when you are sitting through a play that spans 2 hours. The break between the scenes in the play were a kind of interruptions where you could see some figures moving around the stage in the dark trying to fill glasses of water, moving the wooden walls while we were trying hard to recognize these figures and murmured to each other, ‘hey that guy played the part of inspector?’. My friend was of the opinion that the stage was not used properly.
The accent used in the play was that used by British and it was amazing to see that none of the characters failed to recall their long dialogues.
It was directed by Bhaskar and the perfection in the play was endorsed by the physical presence of Mr. M. S. Sathyu in the theatre.
The performance of all the artists was par excellence.
The last time I watched a play was in Chowdiah Memorial Hall- Woman in Black. There, the break between the scenes brought with it a curtain that covered the stage and all the in-between scenes activities went on behind it. So, at the end of play all one remembered were only the scenes. You can visit Rankashankara theatre at http://www.rangashankara.org/ Adios.
Temperature in Delhi dropped to as low as 0.2 degrees Celsius yesterday at 8:30 a.m. Last time, the temperature dropped down to these levels was in 1935- 70 years back!! Patiala went to as low as -4 degrees. Rajasthan also shivered. Dhal lake in Kashmir and Nakki Lake in Mount Abu have frozen! 150 people died in Punjab and 100 odd in Delhi because of such an intense cold.
Television channels were showing pictures of water frozen over cars in Delhi, Patiala, Jalandhar. On TV, people- covered in shawls, sweaters, jackets, headscarves etc.- could be seen enjoying the winter by squatting around a fire, sipping tea and cracking jokes. In Shimla (pronounced as Shimle by Punjabis :), school girls and boys were dancing on folk songs in groups to make winter more lively.
I miss being in the North.
Is it a climatic change? Is Delhi (North of India) going to experience such a winter every season? I wish I was in my hometown to see ice on top of cars. It would have been amazing. The only time I have seen it snow was in Walldorf in year 2004 in March, April.
I called up a friend in Cyprus last evening and he told me that a taxi was waiting for him downstairs and that he was leaving for Australia. Hope his visit is better this time.
Last evening, I was talking to a friend (in Delhi) on mobile when there was a beep for another call waiting … I saw the waiting call number- it was an ISD call. I finished my conversation with my friend. By then, the other waiting call had also ended.
The number began with 0040…Gosh! Do I know anyone in a European country other than England, Germany or Cyprus (I am not too sure about the geography of Cyprus)? Today, I googled out to know that it is Romania’s ISD code!
Who could be calling me from Romania? Wikipedia on Romania: Romania (formerly also spelled Rumania or Roumania; Romanian: România) is a country in Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast; Hungary and Serbia and Montenegro in the west and Bulgaria to the south along the Danube River. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the Black Sea and the eastern and southern Carpathian mountains run through its centre. Romania has been a member of NATO since 2004, and is also an acceding country to the European Union. The EU Accession Treaty was signed in early 2005, and Romania is due to join the Union on January 1, 2007.
May be I will visit Romania one day.
All this doesn’t mean you start calling me from a country in some corner of the world thinking I will put up information about your country on my blog ;-)) and visit it sometime…
BTW, did you know this?
ISD code of Turkey: 0090 ISD code of India: 0091 ISD code of Pakistan: 0092 ISD code of Afghanistan: 0093 ISD code of SriLanka: 0094 ISD code of Burma (Maynmar):0095 and last but not the least, ISD code of Russia: 007...
I recd. a forward in punjabi which is worth putting up here :-)
To The Principle, Bela School, Ludhiana
Respected Sir,
Binti eh hai ki aj kal school vich dil nahi lagda te raat nu neend nahi andi kyonki school vich kudiyan ghat ne, jo hai oh sab eniyan ajeeb ne ki dekhan nu ji ni karda.Te madama v koi khas ptaakaa nahi haan.Hor ni koch taan receptionist hi sohni rakh lavo taa ki nave bache admission laan leyyee motivate ho sakan . Aap ji da bahut dhanwad howanga.
