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Keyboard pads anyone?

There are some things in life that we take for granted. One of them is the keyboard. And when it stops working, it frustrates the hell out of you. The keys on my keyboard progressively stopped working today. So I decided to open it up. You see, electrical gadgets start working when they are opened up and repackaged. So after opening it, I looked around inside for any obvious flaw. When I saw none, I decided to put it back together (the original intent was to drop it from a height of 15 cms or so after putting it back together, but I didn't need to get to that step). Now, the keyboard has some soft pads on the keys that look like contact lenses. While assembling the keyboard, I found that three of these pads had vanished. Well, its sort of expected, with the third law of thermodynamics messing with our lives. No process is perfectly reversible. So right now, three of my keys are sunk in and are not working. I shuffled the missing ones for the least used ones. One of them happens to

Infy win again

I'm amazed by the way we keep pulling rabbits out of hats. Our regular team has been reduced to less than quarter of its strength. But everytime, we find come up with something new, something better. If the other day, it was a well coordinated series of ruthless attacks on the opponents, this time is was the way we built up our game and our moves. The defense as usual, was rock solid. But with Abhishek and Rajiv also bowing out to injuries sustained in the last game, there was the question of filling up a huge void in midfield ... and that too central midfield. I'm very proud to say that Dheeraj and I coordinated well between us and did a very fine job indeed. It was a new experience for me. I've tried to play in the center midfield position a few times, but without much success. Now, I have something to look back upon in content. The goals came from Samrath who was brought in with about 15 minutes left as a striker. He scored with his first touch of the tournament. He foll