Mini-Accident

Forgot to tell you folks about the mini accident I had on Thursday. Damn the safety levels of this company. Came all the way from home only to skid in some loose sand on the driveway into office premises and injure my bike. Lost about 600 bucks to replace broken parts and the same again for paid servicing. Thankfully I was unaffected, save for a few bruises on my elbow.

Hmm.. got the hang of Low Man’s Lyric – from the tablature, which is the sign of a good guitarist. 🙂 Taking home tabs of other songs to perfect, like NEM by Metall-ikka [its a Muslim band, did you know?! ;)], StH by LZ, and GnR’s SCoM [go figure…] and newly – Metallica’s HotD.

Dropped Thakur off today at IIMB – he had his interview there at 9 a.m…

McLaren sux :`-(

I withdraw support from McLaren. Till their next race win, I will be a passive spectator. Poor Kimi’s car failed him again. This time it was the transmission that went phut! Well, Schumi won again… 😦 but thankfully less than ten seconds ahead of runner-up JPM. 🙂 Button finally cemented his prophesies by claiming the last spot on the podium. BAR sure is better than McLaren. Qualifying was good. Renault is awesome. Alonso screwed up the second session, but made the rest of the field eat his dust during the race, reaching 8th position at the end of the 3rd lap. He started 19th on the grid: The famed aided launch of the Renault at work. If there was someone unluckier than darling Kimi, it was poor Mark Webber, who trailed back down the order with a woeful start from P2.

Well… back at office, I’ve put DMA-related work on a hold having completed the significant part. Began work on my next device today. Yesterday was good – my BIL Arjun ‘landed’ home at 9 pm – from Hydi. Dined with him n Dejice. Argued about F-1 as usual. He left today at the crack of dawn for Hubli. 😦

All Play n’ No Work makes Jack a Cool Boy

Wuz thinking about what people expect from work… I’ve asked this question many a time. Today I put it to my fave projmate Sangram. ‘What if you were assured a constant income, equivalent to your salary, every year till you are 60? Would you still go to work?’

They all say the same thing. That they’d prefer working. Stark raving mad, I call it! Why bother?! What do you work for anyway?! Sense of achievement?! Puhleease! Be practical. Mature. You now have a whole forty hours extra each week! I would pick the constant pay funda anyday! Those loonies who don’t, don’t have anything interesting to do in life. Ah! To be able to play basketball, tennis and the guitar! I can think of umpteen things I’d rather do, than wear formals, come to work and vegetate…

Music = Life

Discovered a magnificent song – Low Man’s Lyric from Reload by Metallica. Absolutely kick-ass lyrics set to an even kick-asser tune! 🙂 Very catchy guitar lead. Tried it yesterday. Itching to play it on an electric 😉

Becoming quite a TT pro – what with playing at least an hour daily after work. Talking of work, its quite fulfilling nowadays. The last few days, I’ve been leaving office with quite a sense of achievement. More later…

Honda City

Yo! Achan bought a used ’99 model Honda City 1.3 EXi yesterday. I think its Maharaja Gold colored. Now I’m raring to go home and check it out. But I don’t think I’ll get the opportunity anytime in the near future thanks to the project. Ah! Something to look forward to 🙂 McLaren is fastest in testing at Valencia. What’s the big deal? If only they could replicate the performance during the race. But no. They will unquestionably be overshadowed by either the scarlet cars from Maranello or the blue and white ones from Grove at every race this season, depending on track temperatures, unless they up the game. I’m waiting…

Gloom

Well, scheduled project meetings seem to portend evil. Re. the revelations, I finally solved the dilemma by erasing one from my book. I declared my doing to the other, who rewarded my commitment by promptly erasing me from her book. Two birds killed with one stone. 🙂 Good going, I say! Hmm.. MCed yesterday’s Outspoken Minds meet – occupied a mere 22s of the total meet, which helped reduce the overrun, but got reprimanded for lack of verbosity! What a way to end a day! Didn’t receive the Outlook Meeting Invitation. Deepu had come over at night, so overslept… today of all days. Late by 45 min for the meeting. Cool, huh?!

McLaren sux :`-(

What with the revelations, I forgot to comment about the F-1 race. Ferrari absolutely kicked everyone’s ass out there in Melbourne. :`-( Whats worse? McLaren got mothered by more than just them. BAR has joined Williams and Renault in the list of McLaren-ousters 😦 Williams has managed to stay just ahead of BAR. Well, hopefully the dominance will decrease in Sepang, which favors Michelin-shod runners, due to high track temperatures. I’ll be praying …

The Choice

0950 hours: Thoughts hit you when you least expect them to. Usually, my mind is blank and I’m thinking of nothing when I’m sitting on the commode. But this time, its different. I’m ruminating. I think about two people who have confused me utterly. Suddenly, its cleaved! Thats it. A revelation!

Yes, I forget completely about the project meeting scheduled to commence at ten. Realisation strikes with blinding speed. The bifurcation is simple. Logical. Flawless. Its just doing Y, when you want to do X. There’s no confusion. Love is involuntary and inexplicable. Thats a basic truth. I considered myself mature for putting the question ‘Why?’ to Love. A fundamental flaw. I am an idiot. ‘cuz to Love, the ordinary rules do not apply. You cannot love someone for a reason. Screw Boyzone!

Explanation: You do not know yourself. You think you want something. But you don’t know what you need. Let Him decide what you should have, for He is the only one who really knows you.

For eg. I get to choose between a McLaren F1 and a McLaren MP4-19. What I want in a car are:
Speed, Power, Braking, Safety, Looks. All of which the MP4-19 has, in greater measure.
The F1 is street-legal. It protects me from the rain. It can be driven on ordinary roads. Even though its kinda ugly, I wouldn’t mind being seen in it. In short, its pragmatic. which one do I choose?
I don’t know…

I can’t explain. I put forth the configuration and was presented with that which showcases the best of it. But I’m not happy with it. ‘Cuz I didn’t know what I needed in the first place…

Deranged

Have begun blogging with MS Word 😉 Yeah, so the people sitting around think I’m actually preparing my API document. 😉 I’ve actually almost finished putting together this sick thing, although it mostly involved tuning what a project mate had already completed, to my device.

Well, tomorrow my best friend Rahul’s coming to Bangy for his ABA interview. Too bad I’ll have to come to work daily, but cool! He’ll be putting up at my place for no less than four days. I’m hopping with glee… I’ve never had the chance to get together with that dude away from home. So we’ll watch the F1 qualifying session together. Btw please mark your calendars for 8.30 a.m. on Saturday. Don’t miss it!

Jeez! The Blogger isn’t workin’! I mean… The page’s not loading. Strange! Hmm… My pal Ashik didn’t come to office today. His cell’s off too! Wonder why. Buddy, if you’re out there, please call this concerned ol’ chum. Hey, the Net’s gone crazy. Formula1.com is working… or maybe those are cached pages. But indiatimes.com is working too (I didn’t visit it today) tho Hakkinen.com isn’t. Neither is Planet-f1, nor ironmaiden! Looks like the Net is down, tho’ my HTTP proxy is replying to ping.

Weekend at Home

Aaargh! I’m back to making this despicable API document. But the memories of the weekend make up for this deplorable experience. I spent almost all of it playing with my adorable six-month-old nephew vaava Darshan, who looks just like I did in my baby photos. 😀 He went back to Chennai with his mom n’ dad. His granny’s quite heart-broken n will soon be here in Bangy one weekend to get it mended. 😉 Hmm… Sis n family will soon be in Tirupati, which is rumored to be just three hours away from Bangy by bike. I’ll find out the truth in that pretty soon 😉

I brought back my spare TV, a Videocon Bazooka, so that I don’t miss any of the F-1 races this season! The sleeper bus in which I returned with Vinu n Deepu didn’t afford much luxury, but it was markedly better than having to sit n sleep, taking into account the fact that I cannot sleep but face-down. They were there with me on the bus during the onward journey as well. The Puzhekadavil bus we went by didn’t go through Ernakulam City at all! I had to get down on the NH and take an auto home! Now that ripped my purse apart! Or rather my mom’s 😉 Tho’ a fare of Rs.50 is pretty ordinary in a place like Bangy, its absolutely killer in small cities. Unfortunately, being dropped off at 6.40 a.m. without a paisa in my wallet couldn’t accommodate an alternate plan of action!

Ah! I almost forgot to mention that I now sport my mother’s Nokia 1100, which I took from her after gifting her with a lovely new Samsung SGH-X100, the mobile phone which I’d certify the Best Buy in the market now. Aesthetics, value for money, features … you name it and its there! At a mere Rs.6850, its most certainly a steal… so those of you who’re planning to change your handsets, run out there and buy an X100!