Darth Chatri

Well, when you want to do things that look smart, you must make sure that they are done smartly. Coz when people realise that what you have done is smart from the outside, and not so smart from the inside, you end up making a fool of yourself. Such is the case with the Infosys billion dollar day watch. For the uninitiated, Infosys distributed a T shirt and a watch (along with a hefty cash bonus) to all its employees on the day Infosys crossed the billion dollar turnover mark. The watch is pretty good, looks good too. But then, these people tried to do something really smart which unfortunately came under my scrutiny and now, my criticism. The watch was custom made by Titan for Infosys employees with "Infosys" engraved on it on it on the front and back. Now, on the back, I found something engraved in binary. So I decided to read it. Turns out, the binary reads "001010100 01001001 001010100 001000001 01001110 0101001 01101110 01100110 01101111 ...

Final result 0-0. A very discipled performance by Zensar to take it to a draw; a big cock-up by Infy. I don't think I should be saying anything more right now.

I'm nowhere close to my full fitness. Thats alright at other times, but not alright when you have to play an important football match tomorrow. And especially not alright when half the regulars of the football team are missing. Lets see ... Sam M is in USA, Prakash Thadani is in Japan, Sandeep wont be there (don't know where he is going), Munjay is in Europe (as always), Raji has left the company and now Kapil is threatening to go to US over the weekend as well :( All these nitwits had to leave right in the last week, just when the tournament begins :S

Yesterday Manas and I got down to discussing some DSP. And I realised that I had forgotten almost everything! The difference between DFT and DTFT, spectrum leakage, periodicity of the DFT and its causes. I had everything at the tip of my fingures a year ago ... and now it's all gone. I am left with vague memories of all these concepts. The underlying reasoning and logic just completely eludes me as of now. And it's just so damn frustrating. Urggghhhhhhhhhh ....

Today was the first day of the inter-IT football tournament. The opening match was Infosys vs Kanbay. Having seen Kanbay's game before, we knew how we had to play and what exactly we had to do to win. The good part is that everybody stuck to their task and stuck to the plan. The plan was really simple. Choke up Kanbay's supply options. One way to do that was to mark Sam Chauvhan. Having tried that many times before and failed, having seen others try that before and having seen them fail, that option was just disregarded. The other way to do it was to prevent him from making his trademark passes and supplies by choking off the rest of them. And we did that pretty well. The first goal for Infy came via Peeyush who capitalised on a great through ball by Rajeev. The second was a penalty which I converted. I was a bit nervous when Sam C himself decided to keep for the penalty. Nervous because he has seen me taking penalties quite a few penalties before and he knows my style. The thi...

The Sunday morning football game is something I never miss. And I didn't miss it this time round even though it was pouring. Unfortunately the others decided to miss it. The only idiots to turn up on the ground were the two Sams, Ranjit and your's truly. So we came, we had tea at a tapri in Sakalnagar and we left. So much for the much awaited Sunday game.

Had been to a place called Shisha Cafe in ABC farms. Great ambiance with great food and pretty good taste of music as well. And if you want a 'hukka', you get to sit on a very comfortable diwan. One of us wanted the hukka, so we had dinner on the diwan, and I settled into a nice cozy corner. This phenomenon happens frequently with me and has been described before as 'The Settling of Aditya' by some friends. I had a shot at the hukka ... but I didn't see what was so great about it. I sucked on a pipe, something went in through the mouth (though I didn't realise it) and I blew out smoke through the nose (that I realised). So in effect, you suck on something and smoke comes out of your nose - those are the only sensations you are aware of. If that sounds very exciting, hukka is for you. Just be sure that you dont try one in any village. Authentic hukkas have tobacco. The one I tried was just flavoured (?) smoke. Other than the hukka, the food was really good. I had...