Raiders of the Lost Ark

According to a Movie Personality Test that i took today My Movie Type is supposed to be
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" and I live for "Adventure Fortune Hunting and Danger". In case u stumble upon this post Do take a moment off to take this test and Let me know what ur Movie Type is in the comments section.

What Classic Movie Are You?

Last Weekend

Weekend after weekend of tiring strenuous and thoroughly enjoyable cricket welcomed me back into the United States. Except for the lone weekend I travelled to the Outer Banks in North Carolina (in the midst of some serious Gas prices..Thanks to Katrina) the rest of the weekends saw me clad in white pitting my wits and arms against other cricket teams from around this area. The fact that our team continued to register win after win kept us all focussed and motivated. But just as much as it was all these things it was also getting tiring. So I was really looking forward to last weekend when I had no match scheduled. So what did I end up doing when I have no cricket match to play that weekend.

Friday was spent playing some Squash. Saturday began with some light Tennis with Abi, Lavi and Shyam. Both Abi and Lavanya were quite good with the racket and their follies were quite different. While at times Abi refused to react fast enough and run towards the ball, Lavanya in all her enthusiasm to get to/at the ball just did not focus enough on looking at the ball. But all said and done, it was a nice couple of hours of Tennis. After Tennis and lunch it was time for some hard Volleyball. Volleyball is really a FUN game with all the jumping and the diving that it entails...(Seriously even when there are no Bikini clad women playing Volleyball with you its just as much fun:) )

Later that evening we visited Buvna and Prashanth at their new house and watched a thoroughly entertaining movie "Arindhum Ariyamalum". Any Tam's out there starved by the really low quality movies being churned out by the movie industry Do take some time out to watch this flick. It was the second good movie I have seen in a recent while...the other one being "Salaam Namaste".

Sunday saw me Gaurav Vijay and Jishnu play some serious hard Tennis (doubles) and it was as tiring as it was fun....Courtesy all this I woke so late on Monday that by the time I was awake it was already 11:00 AM Monday......What a way to start a refreshing week :D

Car Stolen

After shopping for most of the day, a couple returns to find their car has been stolen. They go to the police station to make a full report. Then, a detective drives them back to the parking lot to see if any evidence can be found at the scene of the crime. To their amazement, the car has been returned.
There is an envelope on the windshield with a note of apology and two tickets to a music concert. The note reads, "I apologize for taking your car, but my wife was having a baby and I had to hot-wire your ignition to rush her to the hospital. Please forgive the inconvenience. Here are two tickets for tonight`s concert of Garth Brooks, the country-and-western music star."
Their faith in humanity restored, the couple attend the concert and return home late. They find their house has been robbed. Valuable goods have been taken from thoughout the house, from basement to attic.
And, there is a note on the door reading, "Well, you still have your car. I have to put my newly born kid through college somehow, don`t I?"

Veena Virtuoso !!!

World Routes

A must hear programme for obvious reasons :))

Eerily close to home !!!

To open a news article in Rediff and find places close to home like "Collge Park" and "Fairfax" etc is one thing but to find the same places in such context as I found today is quite another thing !. Reminds you that there are all kinds of ppl all over the world !

Lashkar suspect released on bail in US


What says u ppl?

Positive signs in India

Having been away from India for (I really dont want to count this) 3 years now, it has become a sort of a routine to read news about India from one of the online news sources. And the last year or so has seemed to be a good period for the country. The sensex is rising and rising and rising. All seems to be well with the economy. The only concerns seems to be the lack of adequate infrastructure in big cities like Bangalore and Delhi and Madras, especially the transportation infrastructure. But I am sure that will really only lead to internal relocation with smaller cities like Coimbatore and Tirunelveli and Trichy and Madurai and Mysore getting more of the investments and growth. This is only to be expected and in fact good too....

But of all these positive signs that I have read about, the one positive sign that really brings a smile out and makes me feel real good is
The Quiet Revolution

I hope we are paving the way for an educated informed and a sensitive tomorrow.

On the subject of growing up

Today one of my friends from school Dwarakanath got married in Chennai. The Dwarakanath i knew was a quiet calm and "energy conserving" chap with moderate views.

Add to that three close friends from College Park who are also doing their PhDs at the University of Maryland are also getting married sometime in Dec-Jan. Suddenly it feels as though all my friends and people around me are "GROWING UP". Another pointer to the fact that ppl around me are growing up is the fact that a friend of mine was complaining about loosing hair....

So I sat about thinking whether I was "Growing up" too..."As if u know Growing up was some sort of bad word !!!

I will tell u what i have been doing the last 2 hours and u tell me whether I am growing up....

I have been making several pointless actions like squatting, jogging in place, front foot defense, pushing, slapping, picking up an object etc several times and recording myself on multiple video cameras synchronously :))

Anyway i need to get back to doing crazy actions in fromnt of cameras....

A neat story on science in the media

Dont dumb me down

This is a neat writeup on science reporting in magazines and newspapers...Personally some of the unbelievably horrendous tales of such reporting have been left quietly unpunished for a long time now.... Such bad reporting has its consequences including higher taxes so that public money funds exactly the wrong enterprises....

Take good care of your health my dear readers

So that you may never think this

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
- Mickey Mantle


Theres hardly anything ever said in a serious note and hardly any importance attached to maintaining ones health (except of course the daily routine of my parents in my case)....and I think this quote deserves to see more light than it has.