Was just back from my friend’s marriage in what is a long list of friends’ marriages this month. Couple have got married already and couple more in the coming months. I was just wondering what the effects/side effects on me are.
Not many to make fun now.
No ones for a lunch outside. “Hey da… I have got my Dubba” would be the reply
Can’t sit and talk nonsense for hours anymore.
No more watching some hopeless movie and laughing at everything on screen (Veerasamy, Bose, Yaarukku Yaaro Stepney comes to my mind).
No more last minute Bike trip plans or rather weekend trips.
No weekend booze party and drinking the s*** out.
No company to bars and pubs.
No company for window shopping.
No more getting into trouble with the landlord.
And of course most important of all - No Roommates.
With my parents in no hurry to get their son married, my search for a roommate continues.
I wear formal shirts and tie…
Carry the electronic tag around…
Wallet full of cards…
So do others…
I talk about Issues…
Bugs, Meeting and Reviews…
Never happy about the Hike and Appraisals…
So do others…
I change my looks often…
Pubs, Bars and Restaurants…
Nothing but branded stuff…
So do others…
I’m lost… I’m lazy…
I’m getting used to what I’m…
Nothing but a tiny speck…
I call myself a Software Engineer… So do others…
Where’s My Identity…?
Carry the electronic tag around…
Wallet full of cards…
So do others…
I talk about Issues…
Bugs, Meeting and Reviews…
Never happy about the Hike and Appraisals…
So do others…
I change my looks often…
Pubs, Bars and Restaurants…
Nothing but branded stuff…
So do others…
I’m lost… I’m lazy…
I’m getting used to what I’m…
Nothing but a tiny speck…
I call myself a Software Engineer… So do others…
Where’s My Identity…?
Got up late...
Brushed, bathed, dressed, combed...
Glanced at my mirror... Looked As usual...
Grabbed the paper...
Locked the door...got a taxi...
Paid 100 bucks... As usual...
Had a coffee...
Checked my mail...replied a few...
Lunch came... As usual...
Chit chat...
Out for meal...smoked a Cig...
Had a nap... As usual...
BBC, CNN...
Football and Cricinfo...
Time for tea... As usual...
Got back Home...
Beer and snacks...
Egg and Noodles... As usual...
Laid in Bed...
Swapped the channels...
almost 4... As usual....
Am I Unusual??
Brushed, bathed, dressed, combed...
Glanced at my mirror... Looked As usual...
Grabbed the paper...
Locked the door...got a taxi...
Paid 100 bucks... As usual...
Had a coffee...
Checked my mail...replied a few...
Lunch came... As usual...
Chit chat...
Out for meal...smoked a Cig...
Had a nap... As usual...
BBC, CNN...
Football and Cricinfo...
Time for tea... As usual...
Got back Home...
Beer and snacks...
Egg and Noodles... As usual...
Laid in Bed...
Swapped the channels...
almost 4... As usual....
Am I Unusual??
Last week I and my friends went to The Anjappar for a regular weekend booze. We ordered for a pitcher. Anjappar famous for its Authentic Chettinad Non Vegetarian dishes, we ordered a few Non vegetarian side dishes. Few rounds in and feasting on the Non-Veg dishes I happened to glance at the TV in the bar. They were playing “The Animal Planet” on big screens. What an idea sir ji.
Are they hypocritical or am I.
Are they hypocritical or am I.
I recently read an interview of Brian Lara about how cricket is a dying sport... and I for one felt how true it is...
You dont need to look any further than the ICC world cup qualification.
Bermuda......Canada......Ireland......Kenya......Netherlands......Scotland UAE......Oman......Namibia......Denmark......Afghanistan......Uganda
Many of these teams are just there to make up the numbers. Except from Kenya, I could hardly name a few players from the rest of the teams. Denmark, Netherlands, Canada combined has a total of around 12 players of Indian subcontinent origin. Hardly you can say it as a growth at grass root level. After 30 years since WC inception, this is the state of the world cup.
Lets take the crickets development. In the affiliate and associate countries listed under ICC,
I feel of all those countries, the ones that could be game changers are US and China... US with the money it could bring in, and China for its population. But unfortunately, Football is one of the highly followed game in China, and Basketball is slowly gaining hand(I assume due to Yao Ming).
In US, even football finds it difficult, even though they have a good national football team. They tried it with Beckham, and earlier with Pele to little effect. It would be a hard race for cricket to succeed in these countries.
What about cricket in the established nations...
Football is pretty popular in Australia, with them doing good in the last world cup and are sure to qualify for this WC. South Africa is the host nation of this years world cup and surely will see increase in reach/popularity (http://www.safarinow.com/cms/sport-in-south-africa/irie.aspx). England of course is one of the biggest footballing nation. Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa are all rugby nations too...
Carib, once the place of great Cricketers are still a struggling nation to create the same pool of talent they once had... I would put England and New Zealand in the same category.
http://cricket24x7.today.com/2009/01/10/crisis-in-west-indies-and-new-zealand/
India is surely catching up in football. Few years back I never knew anyone following football, but I follow it fanatically now and I know a few people who do follow EPL. I don't have stats on it, but if you look at the EPL fantasy premier league registered 37313 out of 1920659 are Indians. Pretty good number, I would say, and all EPL/Champions league matches are live in India, if u will take it as an indicator of the growing popularity.
And if reports are true, any of these players(16 young Indian footballers to train at arsenal camp) could provide a spark for the sport to be a hit in India.
Cricket is very much dependent on Indian subcontinent... Unless drastic measures aren't taken to make it a truly global sport, it would become a more localized sport than it is now...
You dont need to look any further than the ICC world cup qualification.
Bermuda......Canada......Ireland......Kenya......Netherlands......Scotland UAE......Oman......Namibia......Denmark......Afghanistan......Uganda
Many of these teams are just there to make up the numbers. Except from Kenya, I could hardly name a few players from the rest of the teams. Denmark, Netherlands, Canada combined has a total of around 12 players of Indian subcontinent origin. Hardly you can say it as a growth at grass root level. After 30 years since WC inception, this is the state of the world cup.
Lets take the crickets development. In the affiliate and associate countries listed under ICC,
I feel of all those countries, the ones that could be game changers are US and China... US with the money it could bring in, and China for its population. But unfortunately, Football is one of the highly followed game in China, and Basketball is slowly gaining hand(I assume due to Yao Ming).
In US, even football finds it difficult, even though they have a good national football team. They tried it with Beckham, and earlier with Pele to little effect. It would be a hard race for cricket to succeed in these countries.
What about cricket in the established nations...
Football is pretty popular in Australia, with them doing good in the last world cup and are sure to qualify for this WC. South Africa is the host nation of this years world cup and surely will see increase in reach/popularity (http://www.safarinow.com/cms/sport-in-south-africa/irie.aspx). England of course is one of the biggest footballing nation. Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa are all rugby nations too...
Carib, once the place of great Cricketers are still a struggling nation to create the same pool of talent they once had... I would put England and New Zealand in the same category.
http://cricket24x7.today.com/2009/01/10/crisis-in-west-indies-and-new-zealand/
India is surely catching up in football. Few years back I never knew anyone following football, but I follow it fanatically now and I know a few people who do follow EPL. I don't have stats on it, but if you look at the EPL fantasy premier league registered 37313 out of 1920659 are Indians. Pretty good number, I would say, and all EPL/Champions league matches are live in India, if u will take it as an indicator of the growing popularity.
And if reports are true, any of these players(16 young Indian footballers to train at arsenal camp) could provide a spark for the sport to be a hit in India.
Cricket is very much dependent on Indian subcontinent... Unless drastic measures aren't taken to make it a truly global sport, it would become a more localized sport than it is now...
Not during free time... Time pass during office hours ;)
Gtalk:
What else… chat with friends… family… Every time the network guys put on a show blocking gtalk access, some guys will find a way to make it work… I’m not the one to find a way... I’m one of those privileged who get to use… :)
Market:
If you talk market… you will be respected in office for sure… There will be lot of guys who follow market and a good time pass too… Also none of the sites will be blocked in most offices as everyone does it.
What else… you can even arrange opening bell coffee break… closing bell break and so on
Stumbleupon:
Install Stumbleupon plug-in and start stumbling… you get to hit some really good sites… Have you ever stumbled upon the same site twice… I have… :)
e-books:
All hail the forwarders… Lot of e-book sites and lot of e-book mail forwards… I finished 3 Harry potter books sitting in office. And also it will look like you are going through some document from distance. ;)
Flash Games:
Form helicopter to drunken driving lot of fun games to time pass with.
Blogging:
This post was written in office only :)
Football:
I’m really mad about football... as it is 365 days a year game ,there’s lot of news/gossips/transfers to track... Starting with BBC, Mirror, Sun... to my favourite club website... hell a lot of sites to time pass
606:
BBC’s forum for football and others... Lots of banter and WUMming...
And of course.. sight seeing.. bird watching... napping... etc etc... :D
Whats yours???
Gtalk:
What else… chat with friends… family… Every time the network guys put on a show blocking gtalk access, some guys will find a way to make it work… I’m not the one to find a way... I’m one of those privileged who get to use… :)
Market:
If you talk market… you will be respected in office for sure… There will be lot of guys who follow market and a good time pass too… Also none of the sites will be blocked in most offices as everyone does it.
What else… you can even arrange opening bell coffee break… closing bell break and so on
Stumbleupon:
Install Stumbleupon plug-in and start stumbling… you get to hit some really good sites… Have you ever stumbled upon the same site twice… I have… :)
e-books:
All hail the forwarders… Lot of e-book sites and lot of e-book mail forwards… I finished 3 Harry potter books sitting in office. And also it will look like you are going through some document from distance. ;)
Flash Games:
Form helicopter to drunken driving lot of fun games to time pass with.
Blogging:
This post was written in office only :)
Football:
I’m really mad about football... as it is 365 days a year game ,there’s lot of news/gossips/transfers to track... Starting with BBC, Mirror, Sun... to my favourite club website... hell a lot of sites to time pass
606:
BBC’s forum for football and others... Lots of banter and WUMming...
And of course.. sight seeing.. bird watching... napping... etc etc... :D
Whats yours???
It’s almost a year and half has passed since I reached Philippines… I always wanted to do something in my free time… learn some language … Japanese my favourite … or some new programming stuff in my laptop… or at least Blog... Something interesting... or at least finish my GTA game in which I’m only half way through...
Looking at things right now, the bookmark in my Jappu book has moved just 2 pages... and nothing installed in my pc to learn stuff... and I haven’t blogged for almost 4months... It wasnt that I didnt have any free time... but
all there is, is…
110 Beer caps… Couple of bottles… and a wine cap... :(
Looking at things right now, the bookmark in my Jappu book has moved just 2 pages... and nothing installed in my pc to learn stuff... and I haven’t blogged for almost 4months... It wasnt that I didnt have any free time... but
all there is, is…
110 Beer caps… Couple of bottles… and a wine cap... :(
Some said I can’t do it… Some asked me “WHY..?”… After two weeks of trying, I did it at last, dedicating my time at office as well as my leisure time to the cause.
“Luck kaal kilo Loss kaal kilo
Labour kaal kilo saethukko
bakthi kaal kilo Hope kaal kilo
Talent Kaal kilo
yellaam dhaan saerthu kattinaal
periya pottalam
Secret of success”… as the secret of success song goes
A brief overview of what I was upto is HERE
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Come-on guys, u know by now, that talent is ONE and HALF Kg in my case ;)
* Kaal kilo (1/4 kg) , periya pottalam (Big mixture)
“Luck kaal kilo Loss kaal kilo
Labour kaal kilo saethukko
bakthi kaal kilo Hope kaal kilo
Talent Kaal kilo
yellaam dhaan saerthu kattinaal
periya pottalam
Secret of success”… as the secret of success song goes
A brief overview of what I was upto is HERE
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Come-on guys, u know by now, that talent is ONE and HALF Kg in my case ;)
* Kaal kilo (1/4 kg) , periya pottalam (Big mixture)
Our module was supposed to go live after months of UAT… and of course, as usual, there were lot of last minute things to do. Meeting was called for. It was attended by heads of many teams from client side, project coordinator, senior manager and us.
I just happened to attend that meeting as it was a high level decision making meeting for GO Live. Various things came up and one that was the sticking point was the OAT. I swear I knew what is UAT and SIT but never heard about OAT. I just assumed it has to be Operations Acceptance Test.
Suddenly the senior manager shouted “Which Idiot Planned it”… “Who is that Idiot…? I want to Know”… No one answered her. No one seemed bothered. None got offended with the words she used. Just a passive look from every one of them.
My First Project Management Workshop…
I just happened to attend that meeting as it was a high level decision making meeting for GO Live. Various things came up and one that was the sticking point was the OAT. I swear I knew what is UAT and SIT but never heard about OAT. I just assumed it has to be Operations Acceptance Test.
Suddenly the senior manager shouted “Which Idiot Planned it”… “Who is that Idiot…? I want to Know”… No one answered her. No one seemed bothered. None got offended with the words she used. Just a passive look from every one of them.
My First Project Management Workshop…
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