Thought of the day

On the crossroads of life, some new paths always shows up. You just have to indentify and choose the right one.

An international affair...

Yes, my birthday was an international affair yesterday. Not that it was publicized all over the world, but there were like 8 friends from 8 different countries/origin. So just wait and I will post a few pictures from the party.

Is the empire falling down ?

Those who are following the Ashes Series must be surprised looking at the recent revival of English Cricket. Don't you think that the Aussie Cricketing Empire is falling down. After all it has been on the top for almost 10-15 years.

I truly feel that it is now the right time for the English side to stake rightful claim as the best test playing nation. The character this English side is showing, one hasn't seen that from any of the English side in the past 10-12 years. Apart from a few cameo performances the English side has faltered when it mattered the most. But not now; they are indeed playing great Cricket and making the Aussies toil even for a draw is something special. The Aussie side has never been forced to follow on since 1989 and after a good 16 years the current English side has managed to do that. It is indeed a great achievement.

Over indulgence

I think the internet has played a major role in making me a loner. Agreed that I didn't have friends when I came to this town but that didn't make me loner. I must admit that it is the internet that has made me loner. So I started using internet more and more frequently so that I could be at least in touch with my old friends by "chatting" with them online. As it continued I slowly realized that I was caught in a viscious circle, that kind off prevented me from making new friends.

There are definitely many advantages of using computers and internet. I guess I need not mention it in detail as it is self evident but I guess at the same time it has made people very anxious, detached and lonely. Not only that but it makes you more and more indulgent, and to me that is the biggest concern. Because it is the over indulgence in to computers and internet that makes you more and more detached and thus lonely.To give you the best example, today I just logged into my yahoo messenger and browsed my yahoo messenger buddies list, to my surprise (or horror) I have some 62 people added to my list which are supposed to be my "friend ". So I ask myself thse following questions and I answer it myself.
"If I have so many "friends" should I feel lonely?",
"Absolutely not".
"So do I really have 62 friends?",
the answer is obviously "NO".
"Then why I have these many people in my list?"
the clear answer to this question is "Over indulgence".

And just when I thought emails and messengers were the root cause of all this malices(may be) we now have this extremely popular thing "blogging". Anyways keep blogging

it ain't over till it is over !

I thought that the verdict, I was waiting for will come finally today. But that wasn't meant to be. Now the ball is once again in my Boss' court. Nothing wrong with that and I hope that he will agree to the requirements set by the IPO. But as they say, 'it ain't over till it is over'.

I think this is going to be a good test of my patience, as this time it is my boss who is on vacation.