I am excited today as I have completed five years of Professional life on 23rd Jan. Time just flew by and I still feel like a Fresher :).
Happy to grow in Career!
Happy to grow in Career!
Jan 24, 2011
Jan 16, 2011
The Eleven
I wanted to post this on 11th of January but due to lack of time and resources I am posting this today. Hope you all like it.
The Eleven
Today being a special day (11-1-11) I attempt to bring in on memoirs, those wonderful moments of a Game, which is loved in each and every part of the Country. After all, Cricket is a game played by eleven players a side, isn’t it? Nice coincidence to start this topic I must say. I know most of you, like me, are obsessed with Cricket. For a few it is just another game played by eleven fools and followed by eleven thousand fools (as said by John Bernard Shaw). For the rest, they just ignore it. Cricket is a passion especially in India and nobody dares to deny this fact.
We started watching Cricket when Kapil, Gavaskar, Pataudi, Ravi Shastri, G Viswanath and the likes were at their final stages of their Cricketing career. Most of us were born either a couples of years before or after the Glorious World Cup triumph. Then we grew up watching Sachin, Manoj Prabhakar, Srinath, Prasad, Raju, Azharuddin etc in action. Some of them were the reason for our motivation to play this great Game. We loved batting all the time, didn’t we? More than bowling, batting was a matter of Pride for us. We wanted to hit the ball all around the park.
Most likely most of us would have started our playing Cricket with the tennis ball. When the ball was new we loved to bowl Pace bowling with it and when it was considerably old, one or both sides of the canvas was torn, we used to bowl spinners. We started learning to hit the tennis ball only on on-side. Off side runs were prohibited those days due to space constraint/players constraint or weather constraints (due to wetness in ground on one side). We learned the trick to hit the ball out of the park even when the ball was bowled wide outside off stump, the very scene would have made Azharuddin, G Viswanath and Laxman proud of.
When there were too much of water in the ground, we would fight against local fellows to get some space in the Basket ball court. Even the Basket ball players would be obsessed to play with us instead of playing their game. We drew stumps using the slippers of players, piling one over another. The scene, the drama would be so amazing. Two teams hardly a meter away from each other would be playing so close to each other and cause chaos. Most of the hits which are so important would be prevented from crossing the boundary by someone from team ‘A’. And he would throw the ball to his team’s bowler, who would wonder who hit him like that and throw the ball further down the line to some other guy who is waving his hand 10 meters away for his ‘B’ team mate to throw the ball for a run out. Apparently the ball would take a 360 degree round trip and come back to the original team ‘X’, by which time the batsmen from team ‘Y’ would have run more than 6 runs.
It would be fun to watch the strategy when people play using rubber balls instead of tennis balls. The bouncers that they bowl would keep any batsmen under threat. People would think even Aussies or Proteas can’t handle our bouncers, such fierce bounce they produced using the rubber balls. Moreover, with rubber balls the pace bowlers would seem faster than B Lee, even fiery. Batsmen would run to the offside when the ball is bowled on the leg stump to prevent the ball from hitting their butts.
Back home, at 4 o clock children would gather around their streets to play Street cricket, popularly known as Gully Cricket. Children would play so interestingly that any disturbance in the form of Vehicles movement would be severely dealt with. Either the motorist would be hit or chased. Apparently children prefer playing with tennis balls here; it is the best for the tar road pitch. At least the chances of breaking the glass windows are less when tennis ball flies. When the climate is not conducive to Gully Cricket, Children played Cricket inside their house in a room. Yes in a room, if your memory takes you through, good, else I will project that also in the coming paragraphs.
We used ping pong balls, tennis balls, softy balls, paper balls. Each one was best in its own way. Play with ping pong balls when you are planning for a one-pitch catch mode of dismissal. Play with tennis balls when you are playing in a relatively bigger hall or something and with your brother or sister. Play with softy balls when there are babies around. Play with paper balls when you run out of all the above options. Paper balls were the best innovative finding I have seen so far. So innovative which my mom thought me :). Take some old news papers which you consider as useless, take say 3-4 pages and then crush them between your hands making a round shape. Once done, take one plastic cover and put this paper rolled ball inside and make the round shape and burn one end with fire in order to make the plastic cover stick over and prevent the paper from falling outside. Your paper ball is ready in less than 2 minutes. Even noodles preparation would lose in front of paper ball preparation.
If there were no company to play with, we used to take a tennis ball and dash it against the wall in the room and with a bat in hand. Our reflex action needed to be amazing. Between the time the ball is thrown over the wall and it returns, you were supposed to clasp your bat with both hands. This was one way to keep us occupied and increase our forearm strength also. You would speak Cricket, play Cricket, discuss Cricketers and emote cricketing events like Four, Six, and Out etc whenever you are bored and playing alone. And when we grew, we bought our own Cricket bats, specifically Oil bats those days and seasoned them using Cricket ball inside a sock hung by a rope in your verandah or balcony.
Those were the days, we lived and breathed Cricket. This great game has come of age, new inventions in the form of IPL, T20 have evoked heavy fan following all over the world. The tradition may age, but the passion for the game will never age. We will still be finding innovative ways to make Cricket interesting and one day we will all watch only Cricket in Olympics events. Such is the charm of Cricket.
The Eleven
Today being a special day (11-1-11) I attempt to bring in on memoirs, those wonderful moments of a Game, which is loved in each and every part of the Country. After all, Cricket is a game played by eleven players a side, isn’t it? Nice coincidence to start this topic I must say. I know most of you, like me, are obsessed with Cricket. For a few it is just another game played by eleven fools and followed by eleven thousand fools (as said by John Bernard Shaw). For the rest, they just ignore it. Cricket is a passion especially in India and nobody dares to deny this fact.
We started watching Cricket when Kapil, Gavaskar, Pataudi, Ravi Shastri, G Viswanath and the likes were at their final stages of their Cricketing career. Most of us were born either a couples of years before or after the Glorious World Cup triumph. Then we grew up watching Sachin, Manoj Prabhakar, Srinath, Prasad, Raju, Azharuddin etc in action. Some of them were the reason for our motivation to play this great Game. We loved batting all the time, didn’t we? More than bowling, batting was a matter of Pride for us. We wanted to hit the ball all around the park.
Most likely most of us would have started our playing Cricket with the tennis ball. When the ball was new we loved to bowl Pace bowling with it and when it was considerably old, one or both sides of the canvas was torn, we used to bowl spinners. We started learning to hit the tennis ball only on on-side. Off side runs were prohibited those days due to space constraint/players constraint or weather constraints (due to wetness in ground on one side). We learned the trick to hit the ball out of the park even when the ball was bowled wide outside off stump, the very scene would have made Azharuddin, G Viswanath and Laxman proud of.
When there were too much of water in the ground, we would fight against local fellows to get some space in the Basket ball court. Even the Basket ball players would be obsessed to play with us instead of playing their game. We drew stumps using the slippers of players, piling one over another. The scene, the drama would be so amazing. Two teams hardly a meter away from each other would be playing so close to each other and cause chaos. Most of the hits which are so important would be prevented from crossing the boundary by someone from team ‘A’. And he would throw the ball to his team’s bowler, who would wonder who hit him like that and throw the ball further down the line to some other guy who is waving his hand 10 meters away for his ‘B’ team mate to throw the ball for a run out. Apparently the ball would take a 360 degree round trip and come back to the original team ‘X’, by which time the batsmen from team ‘Y’ would have run more than 6 runs.
It would be fun to watch the strategy when people play using rubber balls instead of tennis balls. The bouncers that they bowl would keep any batsmen under threat. People would think even Aussies or Proteas can’t handle our bouncers, such fierce bounce they produced using the rubber balls. Moreover, with rubber balls the pace bowlers would seem faster than B Lee, even fiery. Batsmen would run to the offside when the ball is bowled on the leg stump to prevent the ball from hitting their butts.
Back home, at 4 o clock children would gather around their streets to play Street cricket, popularly known as Gully Cricket. Children would play so interestingly that any disturbance in the form of Vehicles movement would be severely dealt with. Either the motorist would be hit or chased. Apparently children prefer playing with tennis balls here; it is the best for the tar road pitch. At least the chances of breaking the glass windows are less when tennis ball flies. When the climate is not conducive to Gully Cricket, Children played Cricket inside their house in a room. Yes in a room, if your memory takes you through, good, else I will project that also in the coming paragraphs.
We used ping pong balls, tennis balls, softy balls, paper balls. Each one was best in its own way. Play with ping pong balls when you are planning for a one-pitch catch mode of dismissal. Play with tennis balls when you are playing in a relatively bigger hall or something and with your brother or sister. Play with softy balls when there are babies around. Play with paper balls when you run out of all the above options. Paper balls were the best innovative finding I have seen so far. So innovative which my mom thought me :). Take some old news papers which you consider as useless, take say 3-4 pages and then crush them between your hands making a round shape. Once done, take one plastic cover and put this paper rolled ball inside and make the round shape and burn one end with fire in order to make the plastic cover stick over and prevent the paper from falling outside. Your paper ball is ready in less than 2 minutes. Even noodles preparation would lose in front of paper ball preparation.
If there were no company to play with, we used to take a tennis ball and dash it against the wall in the room and with a bat in hand. Our reflex action needed to be amazing. Between the time the ball is thrown over the wall and it returns, you were supposed to clasp your bat with both hands. This was one way to keep us occupied and increase our forearm strength also. You would speak Cricket, play Cricket, discuss Cricketers and emote cricketing events like Four, Six, and Out etc whenever you are bored and playing alone. And when we grew, we bought our own Cricket bats, specifically Oil bats those days and seasoned them using Cricket ball inside a sock hung by a rope in your verandah or balcony.
Those were the days, we lived and breathed Cricket. This great game has come of age, new inventions in the form of IPL, T20 have evoked heavy fan following all over the world. The tradition may age, but the passion for the game will never age. We will still be finding innovative ways to make Cricket interesting and one day we will all watch only Cricket in Olympics events. Such is the charm of Cricket.
Jan 1, 2011
2010 - A Past Preview
2010 - A Past Preview
2010 had been a fascinating year for me personally. I am recalling all the important events that happened in my life in this entry and will try not to miss out any significant event.
Though there were major scams running all over the country, 2010 by far was the best year for India too. I will also list some major events that had happened all over India since New Year's eve of 2009. If you find some data is incorrect please let me know. Similarly if you find that I have missed some major event please inform me.
Personal Front:
1) I became a proud father of a Daughter, feels great to be a father and take the responsibilities in running a family.
2) My previous company got acquired by a major corporation and our Chennai operations were terminated. Luckily thanks to my Daughter, I ended up in my 3rd Company.
3) Watched the first 3D movie of my life this year only.
4) I stopped playing Cricket completely, did not even appear near practise nets.
5) Went to Subramani Swamy temple at Swamimalai second time in my life only after my Mundan and Ear piercing ceremony. Ofcourse I went for my daughter's Mundan and Ear piercing cermony!
6) My elder brother also became a Father this year.
7) Moved away from my home place, T.Nagar to Guduvanchery for the first time in my life. Since my birth I have not even moved an inch outside the house either for education or job purpose.
8) I bought a touch screen phone. First ever touch screen phone in my Life.
Indian Front:
1) India conducted its first international event - the XIX Commonwealth Games successfully amid huge corruption charges.
2) Attempt to replace INSAT-2E satellite with GSAT-5P failed horribly due to snapping connectors.
3) Indian Cricket team climbed to No.1 status in Test rankings for the first time in the second half of
2009. This is since the introduction of ranking system. They did not lose the spot in the year 2010!
4) Indian atheletes grabbed 38 Gold medals, this is by far the best result in atheletics for India.
5) In the entertainment industry, India had produced a big budget film under the Sun pictures banner,
starring Super Star Rajini & beauty queen Aishwarya Bachan and directed by Super director Shankar.
Budget of the movie was 162 crores. Interestingly, the GSAT satellite that was flopped by ISRO costed
150 crores only.
6) World Classic Tamil conference was held at Coimbatore for the first time in which prominent writers and Tamil Linguistic experts were invited.
7) Scams ran all through India - a shame shame year for India!
8) The last native of India's Andaman Islands fluent in the Aka-Bo language dies, rendering the language extinct.
9) Russia signs a nuclear reactor deal with India which will see it build 16 nuclear reactors in India.
10) India test fires two short range missiles, the Dhanush and Prithvi II.
11) The Indian government initiates The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 years, making education a fundamental right for millions of children.
12) India launches its new 2011 biometric census, the largest census in the world.
13) The Indian government unveils a solar power touch-screen laptop, cheaper than America's iPad, expected to be on sale next year.
14) 20-year-old Nicole Faria from Bangalore, Miss India, wins the Miss Earth 2010 crown in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam.
15) First ever International Kabaddi World Cup was held in Pujab. Winner was India beating Pakistan in the Final 58-24.
PS: I have made references to Wikipedia in trying to list out a few important events.
Wi-Fi over LED
Wi-Fi over LED, isn't the word itself so interesting and gripping? It sure seems to be a reality, because LVX System has launched visible light communiation in the US municipal office at St. Cloud , Minnesota
Soon we will all be working over the Internet in our Wi-Fi enabled Laptops whenever the LED Lighting in our bedrooms are on and they the connection gets disconnected as soon as the lights are switched off. Ideally the LED lights would be placed on the roof above our head for better lighting and reflection free environment. Refer the below diagram which was used by the Chinese Scientists for the demonstration purposes.
Soon we will all be working over the Internet in our Wi-Fi enabled Laptops whenever the LED Lighting in our bedrooms are on and they the connection gets disconnected as soon as the lights are switched off. Ideally the LED lights would be placed on the roof above our head for better lighting and reflection free environment. Refer the below diagram which was used by the Chinese Scientists for the demonstration purposes.
If you are interested to study about the Chinese scientists demonstration, then please read the article - Chinese scientists demonstrate 2Mbps internet connection over LED
If you want to read the news regarding the LVX System's rollout of Wi-Fi via LED, then please read the article - LVX System launches visible light communication in the US, finally
Happy reading and happy future!
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