PS: Courtesy Churumuri for the image!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sporadic posts!
The one and the only reason for my posts becoming very sporadic and almost nil, for the past few months, is that i am very busy. First, let me explain my schedule for the past 4 months.
1) Started from Seoul on 4th May.
2) 4th May ~ 30th May in Dallas
3) 30th May ~ 12th June in Seoul
4) 12th June ~ 15th July in New Jersey
5) 15th July ~ 20th July in Seoul
6) 20th July ~ 5th Aug in New Jersey
7) 5th Aug ~ 15th Aug in Dallas
8) Back to New Jersey on 15th Aug
When someone has such a schedule, then something takes a backseat. And also, i was slogging, as though am batting during the 20th over of a twenty20 cricket match, putting in more than 14 hours a day, and 6 days a week on most weeks. Now, if we look at the famous project management triangle, we have three variables, the cost, time and the quality.
One can only have two of those variables favorable to oneself, while the third variable suffers. So, in my case, because of the lack of time, i did not dare venture into blogging as its quality may suffer. A cursory glance at my site meter suggests me that i cannot risk losing whatever minimum readership that i possess :)
Here is a modified triangle, which depicts my current situation.
Cross Posted in : http://randomtechbytes.blogspot.com/
1) Started from Seoul on 4th May.
2) 4th May ~ 30th May in Dallas
3) 30th May ~ 12th June in Seoul
4) 12th June ~ 15th July in New Jersey
5) 15th July ~ 20th July in Seoul
6) 20th July ~ 5th Aug in New Jersey
7) 5th Aug ~ 15th Aug in Dallas
8) Back to New Jersey on 15th Aug
When someone has such a schedule, then something takes a backseat. And also, i was slogging, as though am batting during the 20th over of a twenty20 cricket match, putting in more than 14 hours a day, and 6 days a week on most weeks. Now, if we look at the famous project management triangle, we have three variables, the cost, time and the quality.
One can only have two of those variables favorable to oneself, while the third variable suffers. So, in my case, because of the lack of time, i did not dare venture into blogging as its quality may suffer. A cursory glance at my site meter suggests me that i cannot risk losing whatever minimum readership that i possess :)Here is a modified triangle, which depicts my current situation.
Cross Posted in : http://randomtechbytes.blogspot.com/
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Happy Independence Day!
"Vande maataraM
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||
Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale
koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
abalaa keno maa eto bale
bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM
ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||
Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma
tumi hR^idi tumi marma
tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||
Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale
koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
abalaa keno maa eto bale
bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM
ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||
Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma
tumi hR^idi tumi marma
tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire
Baahute tumi maa shakti
hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti
tomaara i pratimaa gaDi
mandire mandire ||
TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii
kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii
vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM
Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM
SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||
ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM |"
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Tamaacha Tamaasha!
Seeing Sreesanth's face filled with tears on all the national tabloids, i became nostalgic. I remembered those scenes when i would beg my father "appa, appa, innondu ice creamu!" - Dad, Dad, one more ice cream. My Dad would say "Saaku, seetha aagutte!" - Enough, you will catch cold. And the look on my face would resemble that of Sreesanth. Or those instances when i would ask for more chocolates, toy guns, toy cars etc.
Sreesanth, when he is bowling, never misses a chance to stare or say some nice stuffs to the batsmen. Now, when he is hit, he starts crying like a child. Everybody has a soft side, no?
To be very fair to Sreesanth, the guy has been controlling all his emotions in the recent matches. Remember his antics after hitting Andre Nel for a Six in South Africa? The guy had been trying his best to remain calm and composed on the cricket field and trying to stay away from the controversies. Now this incident happened. Bhajji slapped him, and all his emotions poured out like the monsoon rains. Poor guy! However this is a festive event for all the media people. They have been happily running around poking mikes at everyone's faces for comments!
One can see on the Television, Cricket Commentators, Politicians and even the common man near the road side Paan-Beeda stall, seriously answering questions like:
"Do you think Bhajji hit him hard?"
"Was it the right cheek or the left?"
"Did Sree call Bhajji a 'monkey'?"
I really feel sorry for the guy. However, for all his antics on the field, if at all there is a guy who is well deserving to receive this kind of treatment, then it is Sreesanth. And there is no better guy in Intl Cricket than Bhajji to meet out this treatment! This type of incident, involving these two guys, was bound to happen and it is BCCI's duty now to discipline these two guys!
Sreesanth, when he is bowling, never misses a chance to stare or say some nice stuffs to the batsmen. Now, when he is hit, he starts crying like a child. Everybody has a soft side, no?
To be very fair to Sreesanth, the guy has been controlling all his emotions in the recent matches. Remember his antics after hitting Andre Nel for a Six in South Africa? The guy had been trying his best to remain calm and composed on the cricket field and trying to stay away from the controversies. Now this incident happened. Bhajji slapped him, and all his emotions poured out like the monsoon rains. Poor guy! However this is a festive event for all the media people. They have been happily running around poking mikes at everyone's faces for comments!
One can see on the Television, Cricket Commentators, Politicians and even the common man near the road side Paan-Beeda stall, seriously answering questions like:
"Do you think Bhajji hit him hard?"
"Was it the right cheek or the left?"
"Did Sree call Bhajji a 'monkey'?"
I really feel sorry for the guy. However, for all his antics on the field, if at all there is a guy who is well deserving to receive this kind of treatment, then it is Sreesanth. And there is no better guy in Intl Cricket than Bhajji to meet out this treatment! This type of incident, involving these two guys, was bound to happen and it is BCCI's duty now to discipline these two guys!
Friday, April 25, 2008
IPL Coverage
IPL has been underway for almost a week now. And going by the opinions of the fellow bloggers, it has been fairly successful. I can imagine Lalit Modi and Sharad Pawar smiling in glee with their mouthlines extending from one ear to another and dancing on their toes when in private, even though they present a sober figure when they are under a public gaze!
Lalit Modi had been hell bent on not providing the rights to the media for publishing the images shot during the matches. Only the print media were allowed and even they had to pay hefty sums and also need to provide a copy of the images to the BCCI. Check out how pissed the media were - http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/10/stories/2008041055681000.htm . There are a lot more such opinions of the pissed-off variety and threats of total media pull out from the event.
However, one just needs to search the youtube for the amount of IPL videos available on it. Media boycott or not, one can watch all the highlights on youtube. Three cheers to the free world and the open-source and open-market protogonists!. Even the Live coverage is available through the peer-to-peer broadcasting. One just needs to install Sopcast and search for the available channels. And Lo, you have soo many sopcast channels broadcasting the IPL matches from CBN and Set-Max. Sitting here in Korea, i do not miss any action!
Even though i got high quality videos of IPL from sopcast, i am really pissed off about the cricket coverage from Set Max. Reasons are a plenty:
a) 5 ball overs are a norm for Set Max. Either you lose the first ball of the over or the last ball and it is entirely Set Max’s prerogative!
b) Immediately after a ball is bowled, the screen becomes L shaped to accomodate an embedded advertisement. And the worst of all is that the audio of the advertisement is not muted. So, you miss out on the comments of the, supposed to be expert, commentators.
c) Ajay Jadeja. He seems to be more intent on chasing the Cheer Leaders than catching up the action on the actual cricket field.
d) Where the hell is the dumb noodle-straps Bedi? The import of the redskins from Washington may have had her running for covers!
There is an online petition here - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/savecric/ . If you are also a pissed off viewer like me, please sign it. I have already signed it.
Bring me ESPN or Star Sports anyday. Their coverage is so polished and professional. A team of Harsha Bhogle, Ian Chappel, Tony Greig, Geoffrey Boycott and Ravi Shastri is anybody’s dream.
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