As you like it...

Its not yet 5 posts and finding appropriate titles has become quite a daunting task. Will probably remove the title part...or better still decide on the title after I have completed my rant for the day! :-D

Happened to see a deserving Czech republic crush the helpless Danes and roll on the the Euro 2004 Semis. Would be interesting to see how Greece fares in the semis. All ye fans of my sporting views,donot despair - no matter what Visu says, my commentaries on current sporting events will continue unabated. Not sure how many had the chance to see the drubbing Pakistan got from Germany in the Rabobank Hockey cup.(Note people, I donot even mention about the Netherlands-India Encounter). Sadly enough, I missed both the matches and could only see the highlights.

Saw Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban over the weekend. The movie was screened in a tent-house named Sterling. I happened to get seat number 13 (forget the unlucky part) which is the last one near the left wall. The theater was 'designed' in such a way that, from my seat the left quater of the screen was hidden by a bend(!) in the wall. The AC (air circulation, not air conditioning) system convienently ignored me. I felt that the movie was the worth the stuffy two and half hours spent on it. The prisoner of Azkaban is much better made the earlier movies, still reinforced the feeling that the books are much better than the movies. Right from Pet Sematary, Jurassic park, Congo, Sphere till harry potter- the books provide a much wider scope for imagination than what could be picturized in a movie. The notable exception to this would be The Lord of the Rings series. Wow! The way Helm's Deep and last battle were picturised is just too good.

As my good friend and colleague Sai has observed, most of the blogs are essentially cribbing about one thing or other, with a dash of humor. Wonder why this trend? Has the world become so cubicled that people are not finding friends to crib to? Hope I am going easy on the cribbing part...I have enough friends who always have lunch with me to hear me crib.

Too tired to decide on the title now..as Shakespeare put it..

Hooray! Another weekend.

Its yet another weekend and I am at office as usual.. Trying to solve some issue at an Argentinean Gold Mine. hmmm...If only I got some of that Gold as my pay :-D Tried submitting a story to slahdot and it got rejected. One of my favourite sides in Euro-2004, France is out of the race. My Saturday of learning is spoiled by some unseen Argentinean conspiracy. How low can it get... Good that I didnot watch that silly football match yesterday.

Yahoo reports that a PC maker in the USA expects the patriotic citizens of USA to buy their brand of PC just because they donot outsource! The business sense behind such a marketing campaign beats me! Would people pay more just because its 'Made in the USA'?? This does remind me of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company started by shri.V.O.Chidambaram pillai during the days of British Rule in India.

Strange that I have not got any proper comments till now. Am thinking of announcing a cute little e-gift for the first proper comment. (Thanks Visu for that wonderful idea) Let me see if that inspires any of the gazillion readers of my blog out there to comment. I would have to do some serious introspection, if the above flame bait and/or the gift does not motivate anyone to post a proper comment.
PS. The definition of Proper is not subject to discussion and the desicion of the blogmaster is final and binding. :-P

Guts!

Portugal Vs. England - Euro 2004 - It a was good football match. I very much wanted Portugal to win and they did. Somehow, I am always against England...(Probably got to do with my hate of colonization). Even in their last match, wanted Crotia to win - unfortunately that didnot happen.

Portugal was clearly the better side, mainiting possesion for more that 60% of the match. Yet, they lacked the strikers to convert the wonderful passes from the midfield into goals. Ronaldo clearly disappointed - concentrated more on irrelevant dribbling tricks rather than converting passes to goals or giving good crosses to the center. Figo was always hitting 4 feet above the top bar.

Too much attention and pressure on Rooney and what an anticlimax! Poor guy. Always liked his style of play - doggedly chasing the ball and playing his heart out.He does look a hefty guy for a 19-year old! (anything to do with the german super-baby?)

It takes guts to take a penalty shoot, just after you have saved one. Hats off to Ricardo's bravery (or is it foolhardiness?).Beckham and Rui Costa lived upto their superstar billing - missing both their kicks cleanly.

My manager is again behind me to get results..gotta work..

Off for the day....

Off for the day. The little success I had today was properly using Hello
to upload my photograph to this site, so that its sits there nicely in about
me.

Most Irritating!

Its 2300, I am one tired programmer
Folks in the next cubicle are having a call
with the phone on the speaker....
Very irritating!