Darth Chatri

It's not often that music can bring a smile to your face ... just like that, out of the blue. Hats off to Indian Ocean for 'Kandisa'.

I think I gave myself the proof that my dumbness is unparalleled. There are two independent queues in our canteen for getting food coupons. After waiting in the first queue, for some reason, I decided to spend another fifteen minutes in the second one. I realised my stupid mistake when I reached the counter and the lady asked me what I wanted. I said 'nothing' and proceeded to the food counter, leaving the lady wondering what the hell had just happened. It going to be difficult to beat this act of stupidity!

It was a pretty scrappy game by Infy. We tried out a lot of combinations in this game, since the result was inconsequential. After being up 1-0 in the first half (I scored!!! :)), we went down 2-1 early in the second half. We went back to our regular combination then, and finished the game winning 3-2, with Mukund scoring both of them. Mukund had this big itch of playing forward sometime. Hopefully he was provided with the scratch and he should be back to his rightful position next game onward - the reliable sweeper back. Actually I hope everyone goes to their regular positions. But most of all, I hope Abhishek and Rajeev recover soon. We might just miss them in the next round.

What a birthday present! A Dell Inspiron 1150, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard drive, Wireless Lan Card, Combo Drive, 15 inch screen. Not to mention a wireless router along with that!

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 ...

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...

Scatter approach to convolution is communism. Gather approach to convolution is capitalism. Go figure :) (Yes, I'm attending Udayan's seminars)