Rahul Dravid

Everyone around me, everyone I know or everyone who knows me has been asking about why I haven't written anything about Dravid after he retired on March 9th. My story with Dravid here goes:

I was in 6th standard and that was time we had only doordarshan at home. That meant I watch every program that came on tv. That made both my Granny any me to watch cricket, tennis, gyan darshan and everything. India's favourite sport had to be telecast the highest as well. Dravid became my fav cricketer just for his smile I guess. 1999 world cup and I had begun to understand a bit of cricket I could appreciate that us being kicked out in super six and Dravid was the highest run taker of the tournament. I did not understand why he was called slow.

I went to Surathkal and then came to Intuit. Constant companion were those matches and the support. I have argued, fought with people over Dravid. WHy I like Dravid? Dravid is what I want to be, but am not. That patience and concentration is what I want to see in me one day. The way he handles pressure, criticism is how I want to be some day. IN coding area, he is like Randhir who goes to see the code, the design and tests before jumping onto the coding, the implementation. Dravid understands the ball and then decides the merit of it and plays it. I cannot write sweet or poems, but end of it, he is a role model.

Some old ones

When prose has has rhyming words in the end, they become a poem for me :D

Some like the rain, some like the sea..

I like this guy who went to WIMIWI

It seems only yester

When Sam told shez going to Leicester

If time flies any faster

Tomorrow she ll celebrate Easter

Feels very bitter

These days, 2de and yester

Makes no better

Thinking I shouldn't deter

iLived

I hope I can tell that one day. Steve Jobs was for me was just the CEO of Apple, the company for which developing apps was a biig process of the reviews and intricate details. Oct 6, when we had a holiday and I open my FB page, it is filled with RIPs for Jobs. And then I read his life.

I crib and remember every single bad day in my life, a proof in my blogs. I rant and gossip. I am not comparing myself with Jobs, but ...

http://www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi/no-goodbyes-steve/

iShalltry.

:)

People back in India!!

Seen this trend of posts in FB.

Well, most of my classmates went to US, for myriad of reasons. There is a theme in their statuses and comments.

'@People of India...'

'From what I see in India...'

'so difficult to picture tht street in India....'

etc etc..

Worse is when they get back for a month of hols here. The traffic and the pollution takes the life off without the kerchiefs and hats. And the gyan for fight against causes in India.

An intelligent year in foren land probably has this effect. I don't find anything wrong in them not getting back. The rate of exchange is too high to leave. But come on, 25 yrs here wasn't as bad :)

Damn.. I dont understand myself some of these days, or maybe I am beginning to get to know. I feel I am what I dint want to be.

Evrything seems to be wrong, whereas I know de r wer de shud b. I say doomed.

WC?

After one about IPL, here is another on cricket.

At the start of this tournament, I hadn't predicted in my dreams that India would lift this cup. Another thing was I wasn't following ODI for a while(or so I thought). But cricinfo is my best friend and my not following wouldn't be true.

Trivia: I read avg 3 articles per day

So they beat Bangladesh, but allowed them to hit a 290. Come on, which team's bowling is worse than this?

Found it in drafts.. Had written in my onward journey :D

Going to be as abstract as possible. Without any explanations:)

When you like something a looot and feel u both grew up 2gether and feels incomplete and al that, it mostly would happen tht u wouldn b at a great day in d former's life but evryone else is.

Frustration and anger results, which might anger your near ones. I am trying to take it out on the blog and forget(forgive is nt d word for something this abstract)

I will have a day. I will. I shall.