Sh*t! I did it again...

The dream of any software engineer would be to spend the weekdays working less than 8 hours a day and have a blast during the weekends.

Alas! This weekend is a complete sh*t (as if all other weekends are great). This is how I typically spend my weekend and am sure is the case with many bachelor software engineers.

Sat:
11am: Wake up
11:30am: Thinking of brushing my teeth but there's a nice movie is Star Movies
11:50am: Advertisement. Dammit! Okay, will brush.
12pm: Munch on something while watching that movie. Wait, ftv is showing 'photographers', interesting programme! To learn photography, that is!
1pm: Lie on the bed, doze off reading a novel/magazine while also watching TV. The programme 'Megastructures' is awesome! It even beats 'photographers'. What happened to the movie? God knows.
4pm: Wake up realizing that I'm yet to take bath. Watch some Sun TV or some other regional crap
6pm: Get ready to take bath. Switch on the geyser.
6:15pm: Promptly switch off the geyser
7pm: Gosh, I haven't had anything since morning. Let me take bath. Water is cold now.
7:30pm: Not knowing where to have food just gaze around the town in my car (or motorbike).
9:30pm: Back home heavily filled
10pm: Do some soul searching by watching some more AXN (Poorman's!), SS Music, and some Animal planet/Nat Geo stuff.
2am: Worry why I don't get to bed early.
3am: Doze off after forcefully switching off darn the tubelight.

Sun: (It's already sunday in my previous post!)
Worse than Saturday. Get up even late. Call up my friend to see if he wishes to go out. A much lazier bum than me, he wants to sleep. I curse myself and decide to "freak out". Not knowing where to hang out, my car automatically cruises towards office. Play some pool, argue with people in Orkut, haggle with the credit card company over late payment charges, and update this blog at such an unearthly hour! Sh*t, I did it again. I'm sick of it.

Craters

After a long day’s work, I was leaving for home yesterday night at around 12am. The drive is on a 4-lane highway, which merges onto a 6-lane highway. Driving to my home is a breeze and takes less than 5 minutes to reach my home, which is at a distance of about 4.5 kms from my office.

Enter the nuisance.

En route, there’s a big township (Hill Ridge Springs) and as I was leaving for home, I saw someone, with the bandobast of a police, erecting a crater of a speed breaker just before the entrance of this township. Goddamn. Why in the world will one build a speed-breaker in a highway? Speed breakers are the biggest nuisance in India; not even pot-holes. Even the slowest of the slowest driver is harmed by these speed breakers. The need of the hour is *active enforcement* not passive enforcement like these. Given that human labour is far cheaper in India, I can’t just believe why we can’t do ‘active enforcement’.

Here’s a link from Chandigarh traffic police (regarded as the best & stringent in managing city traffic) if you’re interested in reading further.

IND vs WI

I was in tenterhooks watching India coast to an unbelievable and much awaited victory against West Indies yesterday. Can’t believe India managed to win with a minuscule total. Razor tight fielding, precision bowling, Dravid-Dhoni combo catching, and what not!

But this also got me into thinking why India can’t be as clinical as yesterday in all the matches, especially when the score is 300+. Contrast this with the first match against WI, who won the same. India’s performance can be characterized by wayward bowling, ordinary fielding, etc. What’s wrong? Why the complacency when the score is comfortable to defend?

The best way to tackle this is by making sure the Indian team, while defending, assume that the score is 20% less than the actual score and bowl accordingly. Make the opposition team to struggle to get past 80% of the score and even if the opposition does it, India could still win due to the 20% buffer. On the other hand, if India wins, it’ll be a HUGE victory! I know this is easier said than done but my wild guess is that Australians are already doing something of this sort. Are Greg & Rahul listening?

So, what’s up with me?

So many things happen around me/with me. Have lots of things to talk about other than India! Thought I’ll make this blog my personal public online diary!!

Ciao,

Shiva