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Gilly! you are the best
Wow! What an innings he played last night against Delhi in the IPL Semi Finals. Right from the 1st over in which he hit 5 boundaries, he seems to be in full control and wanted to take full charge.
He led from the front and Deccan Chargers, Hyd is now in IPL 2009 finals. I am really happy for them! After Chennai, I follow them closely. If Chennai Vs. Hyd , it will be choosing between my wife & daughter – to whom I should support!!! :)
After the match, the most inspiring incident happened during Gilly’s press conference.
Gilly showed a piece of paper which he told he had written before starting from his hotel room. The paper had “We are winning by 6 wkts.”. WoW!
Check the score card here: http://content.cricinfo.com/ipl2009/engine/match/392237.html
Gilly! You are a TRUE champion! My HERO !!!
Feeling helpless!
When the whole of India casting their votes, people like me sitting idle at home watching TV with a feeling of helplessness.
We CAN’T vote, due to the fact that we are still a migrated labours living in Chennai. Most of the fellow IT people situation across Chennai and Bangalore is the same. We are not in our home town where we have the registration and even have a Voter ID card.
Can we travel to our home town to vote? Tough, many reasons. I am not justifying though!
1. Too far away – for me it is more than 500+ kms
2. Summer vacation – already trains and buses are full: tough to get ticket
3. Mid of the week – for just one day, it is hard to travel and come back & resume work
4. At this time of recession & cost cut, we are not afford it for just one day etc.
We could’ve registered locally, but we had to cancel our home town registration which we don’t want to loose – that’s one of the key address proof. Also to get a Voter ID in Chennai, we need address proof and for many of us stay in rented houses and mansions, it is highly impossible.
I think we, IT or migrated work force is more than 30% (exact figure not sure) of Chennai population are not being allowed to vote even if we have a wish at our bottom of the heart.
Few questions to the government:
1. I can buy ticket for any train any station – in fact I can buy ticket from anywhere in the world
2. I can withdraw my money across India – any ATM
3. I can pay my mobile bill across anywhere in India
4. I can pay my EB bill online anywhere in the world
I can do many such things and the location doesn’t matter. Why not for VOTING?
I have Voter ID card and why not I walk into any poll centre and show my card and cast my vote? Is that too tough technically? I don’t think so.
Whether the politicians deliberately don’t want to do? Little clue I have.
Anyway as a citizen of this country, I have to say to my country
“sorry, I couldn’t do my duty today”.
Akshara : our world of joy
First photo of my little girl “Akshara” – For me and Anu, she is the world of Joy now. Yesterday (Wednesday, 6-May-09) we had the “Naming” function.
4 names – apart from Akshara.
1. Vedavalli (My grandmother’s name)
2. Alamelu Mangai (Athangothangudi thaayaar)
3. Ananya
4. Renganayaki
Right now she is keeping Anu busy all night and taking complete rest during the day :). I have to finish this short, anytime now she may woke up!
Feeling the heat – Indian Summer
Indian summer goes to peak in May and no difference this year too.
With high humidity, Chennai’s weather is becoming unbearable. With “Agni Natchathiram” on the cards, it is going to be tough even more in the coming days.
Weather.com shows 33 centigrade and more important, it feels like 41 C.
Today Saturday 10.30am & I am in my bed room with FAN running max., I am still sweating! Office days are better! :)
Had to go & pick up from refrigerator – I did stock couple of Limca & Coke cans. I can switch on A/C, but needs approval from my wife though! he he – recession & cost cut!!!
Election around the corner ! Felt today!!!
Chennai people were surprised today!!! thrown by the government with a sudden low fare in MTC.
It used to be Rs.4 from Keelkattalai to Velachery, today I paid using 2 two rupee coins and surprised with a return Rs.1/- from conductor.
I checked up with my colleagues after reaching office – all said the same – and in fact more than Rs.2 in few cases. I heard even in “deluxe” buses the minimum balance were reduced.
It used to be Rs.3/- minimum in M series buses – say M1 – Keelkattalai to Velachery. Today these buses carried a new GREEN Rs.2 tickets!
Election around the corner, it seems we are going to see more such surprises – without even any public notice.
“Enjoy general public!*” government says to people. * – till election??!! :)
Happy news – Promoted as "Father"
I became a father on Thursday, 19-Mar-09. I am blessed with a girl baby and Anu delivered at G.Kuppusamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore.
I know this is be a huge surprise, we just had the "Seemantham" function on 12-Mar-09 and Anu left to Coimbatore on 13-Mar-09. The expected date was only 8th May! so this came as a big surprise to everyone.
Now I am in Coimbatore and expected to be back to Chennai on Tuesday, 24-Mar-09. I will be posting about NICU and what I went thru’ in a later post. For now its a mixed feeling, but have to go thru’ a week or two before actually come to normalcy.
Thank you for all the wishes.
Satyam – Actual loss calculation!
You can see here how to calculate:
http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/company.jsp?companyCode=13020006&tabId=5
Say, If you had invested Rs. 1,000, a year ago in Satyam, you would have Rs. 65.91 on hand now!
Think those have invested large amount!!!
Courtesy: Rediff
Memorable win @ my town for India
Chennai – Chepuak ground – India Vs. England – 1st test match.
After 5-0 win over England in ODIs, India started strong favourites in this 2 test match series. England having a much better bowling attack than Aussies, bowled out India cheaply in the 1st innings and gained 75 runs lead.
In 2nd innings, England showed poor application while setting a target to India and finally managed to give 387 as target. They lacked positiveness.
Sewag showed the power of positiveness and reduced the target by 100 runs within very short period toward 4th day end.
Needing 250+ to win, India started today (final day) badly, Dravid out early. Come on WALL!, you CAN.
Sachin and Yuvi showed the brilliance, Sachin scored his 41st test century. Yuvi proved as a test player in place of Sourav (may be, more consistency needed).
India won by 6 wkts! Wow!!!
Same venue, against Pak, Sachin missed to complete the job and India lost. That moment came to my mind often, but this time luck favours Sachin.
For England, Andrew Strass and Swann are the positives.
Indians created history ! India becoming stronger and stronger after 26/11?!
