an Amazing weekend

I have done enough ranting about it raining heavily in Bangalore. Now, on the brighter side, the weather on this weekend (and today as well) was marvelous, amazing…To top it, we had a corporate 5-a-side football tournament on both Saturday as well as Sunday. We came out as the topper of our group winning over all the other 3 teams; faced progeon (an Infy company) in quarters and beat them too to eventually loose in semis by 3-2 and our nemesis Tesco went on to loose to Infy by 7-0 in finals!!!
Kingfisher had sponsored this event. It was total fun. On the first day, there were lots of people with kids, girlfriends, wives etc…their were tarot-card readers, caricature artists, magicians etc..a DJ was also there….we sang Buffalo Soldier (on mike) while the song was being played on a big screen displaying lyrics of the song…
Beer was flowing free and all in all, it was fun. Once in a while, a train passed by on the elevated railway track giving us a feeling of being a part of a scenery frame…

You can also see Charu Sharma in one of the photographs.

Belated Mother's day

Vinci da code

couldn't resist putting it here...me burst out laughing....

The wizard of Id

a metaphor...

You can find scores of these written on trucks and auto-ricks in the North...took this one from oktatabyebye.com

Scientific progress goes boink boink

I finished reading Calvin and Hobbes comic book- Scientific progress goes boink boink, which I had borrowed from a friend. It’s hilarious.

First things first: It is definitely not for kids. I don’t think kids can understand humor at that level…Whenever I read this strip, I find myself in one of the characters, most of the times in Calvin; at other times in Hobbes.
It is amazing that Calvin hardly gets into depression- almost every time, he blames his inability on other’s inability to understand him.
I think if I had been a part of this comic strip, I would surely be a club member of G.R.O.S.S.

I particularly like his turning into a kind of super man and going on ego trips…
Do read this junta…

Stock Markets + Reservation + Cricket

Stock market in India witnessed a fall of 1100 points yesterday- the worst fall till to date in its history. It was caused by announcement of intentions of levying tax on FIIs.

Many medical students/doctors in various cities are on strike followed by an announcement by Mr. Arjun Singh that there will be 50 % reservation for OBC etc. in all educational institutions. In some cities IIT students have also joined hands with medical students. Vote bank politics is again raising its head. Our reverent Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh went on to justify quota/reservation and said Corporates have 2 years to implement it.

Saw a young guy carrying this plaque- I turned eighteen 5 years back. I have not voted since this. This time, I will. Congress, you will have to pay.

Indian cricket team ended its record chasing win run in West Indies losing by 1 run. Eleven runs were needed in last over. Yuvraj Singh hit 2 boundaries. 2 runs were needed in 3 balls. He ended up losing his wicket to a slow delivery by Bravo- right on to wicket dislodging stumps! Aha moment for the West Indies. To win 17 times chasing is a feat (and a record as well!) in itself. Sehwag is failing consistently (except for a score of 76 or so against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi ) but has somehow managed to stay put in the team!

My blog entries are becoming more of news entries these days…

Volvo buses in Bangalore + rains

As I have written in my previous post and it persists, it is raining consistently in evenings in Bangalore every day. Someone up there has set up a rule: When ‘evening’ in ‘Bangalore’, send heavy rains…Infrastructure is crumbling again.

We again played in rains on Tuesday. We had a match with Samsung which we manage to win by 2-1.

I like these big red AC Volvo buses plying in Bangalore. It is a positive change after a long time. I haven’t managed to travel in it. It reminds me of how red line buses in Delhi were all painted blue after the bus accidents became a common thing on Delhi roads. One had to watch for the buses even while walking on the footpaths or while being inside the shops :-) The change in color was triggered by superstition that red is also color of the blood. So, now you don’t find any red line buses in Delhi: only blue line buses.

I have suspended reading for some days now because of very busy work schedule. I hope to resume it soon and write a lot more book reviews on my blog.

i can't think of a title for this post...

Life is passing by in a jiffy. There is so much of work that I hardly get to do anything else on weekdays….
Finally it’s raining in Bangalore and very particularly in the evenings when you either want to go back to your home or want to venture out for an evening walk. As a result of rains, traffic in the city becomes horrendous and the roads that were laid recently are giving in and giving way to potholes…

All this apart, we managed to play football in rains last Thursday and it really felt good afterwards.

On Saturday, i met an old friend- ‘old’ both in sense of age and friendship- who gifted me a cd of movie ‘fanaa’. We had dinner over vodka and rum in an Andhra restaurant (Avvakyal or something ) opposite corner house on Residency road. One thing I liked about this restaurant is the open space…

Baddie over the weekend

Played baddie over the weekend at Citinest club in Indiranagar; got up at 5:30 in the morning y’day. The only hiccup was that we reached the place around 6:45 and by then, it was a little late and all the three courts were occupied. Played 3 games- all doubles. An important thing that I realized is that one uses different muscles while playing different games. My butts are aching which is usually not the case after I play football...

Bloodshed in India

Militants killed 22 people (hindus) in Doda district of Jammu & Kashmir early today morning. Taliban abducted and killed an Indian engineer, Mr. Suryanarayana, in Afghanistan in retaliation to which our government simply said for the umpteenth time, ‘we will not bow to terrorism’. Maoists and Naxalites are abducting and killing scores of people everyday in Orissa and Bihar…In midst of all this, some Indian ministers like Arjun Singh are busy heating up the cauldron of reservation again.

Last month, star icon Dr. Rajkumar died peacefully and hundreds of his followers plus some anti-social elements in Bangalore ran amok in the city and set hundreds of vehicles on fire, destroying crores of property. Business in the city came to a complete stop.

What the hell is happening?? When will this bloodshed and mayhem end? It is agonizing to switch to news channel these days!