ishant and zaheer

ishant and zaheer are beginning to become a fantastic fast bowling pair. getting breakthroughs early on,keeping the opposition under check in their opening spells and then coming back to use reverse swing with the old ball.

its a pleasure to see that the 2 quickies have 16 wickets between them within the first 2 tests. and this on supposedly flat indian wickets meant only for spinners!

way to go guys. stay fit so you can entertain us as you've been doing in the last few games.

an hour at sushantlok police chowki

so you're moving into a new apartment.everything has gone as per plan and the only thing that remains is your police verification.

in all the roaming around looking for flats, finalising one, dealing with brokers, i did not feel the trepidation that i felt while going to the sushantlok police chowki today. and guess what, the folks at the police chowki did not disappoint. the treatment meted out was nothing short of criminal-like.

when will our public servants have some sense of public service? why does our police force have to treat all citizens as if they're criminals? doesn't my tax become the policeman's salary?

last but not the least, when the private sector is talking about a paperless world, i did not see one computer in the police chowki. the only technology element in the chowki was an almost-broken walky talky transciever. oh, i forgot, there was also a TV in the barracks (no wonder most policemen were hanging out there - leaving 'public' like me waiting for 'sahabs' to find some time from watching kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi........

bah! i expect too much...........!!!!

27!

Someone will turn 27 tomorrow. Easy to digest? No choice!

I think I've had a good life for my first 27 years. Great life experiences.

What are my unfulfilled dreams for the next 27 years? Well, here's a list...

1. Travel the world. Even though I'm fairly travelled, there are still places to go. And now I have someone nice who I can go with :)

2. Work abroad for at least 3 years

3. Learn more salsa.

4. Get back into shape(this is perpetual and is a regular on all lists).....lol

5. Start out on my own.(This will take considerable guts and determination)

6. Buy a home

7. Buy a vacation home(something close to a beach......)

Anyone has matching items on their lists? Get in touch....we could get a couple of beers and discuss some of them...

Crests & Troughs

Well well well! Not surprising is it? What went up has come down.

The markets have faltered as a cascading effect from the US sub-prime crisis. Not unexpected if you've been reading your news for the last 7-8 months or so. Bomb blasts, upcoming elections, and anti-Nano andolans have not helped the matter at all..

What would be interesting to see is how this affects the real estate sector. Realty in India has become very expensive in the last 3 years and places like Borivali(my home town) have apartments now running at 8000/- Rs per sq foot! Just for perspective's sake,that was Cuffe Parade(prime South Bombay) 3 years back!

Banks will definitely cut down consumer lending and narrow their risks for the next year at least. And that's why the real estate boom should slow down in coming times....

Its a good time to invest. Now where did I park my last million? ;)

It starts from the top

It is amazing how 'issues' in a organization can resolve themselves once the direction from the top is clear.

When the guy at the top has a clear,unwavering direction - 'issues' tend to resolve themselves. Work gets done without having to ask.

Its amazing to experience such a transition - from 'every issue is a discussion' to 'every issue warrants discussion but ends in a decision and direction'.

This is the one reason why smaller companies move faster and quicker than bigger ones - the time taken on getting decisions made is a lot lesser in smaller organizations than bigger ones!

Male,committed

Wow...these days I log on to orkut and everytime, there's someone in my friends circle who's changed their status to 'male,committed' or 'female,married'.

and it kinda hits me....my day is not far....i'm not too far away from officially becoming a ' married uncle' myself!

there's something in that status, though. its a statement of change.... change in your life...change in the way you think, the way you do things.

i think the change comes with being ready for it....it comes from asking yourself a few questions -


1.do you have friends of your age who have kids?
2.on a weekend, do you plonk myself in front of the tv when you could be out somewhere getting sloshed?
3.do you look forward to getting home after work?
4.when you stay alone without company for 2 days do you get bored?
5.when someone says 'did you have it yesterday', do you think about food and not about sex?
6.is your idea of 'fun' to sit at home and have a couple of beers?
7.do you have people in your family asking you dumb questions like - 'do you like slim females or 'healthy' females'?

Have i had enough of the single-guy-roaming-about-flirting-with-anything-remotely-female status? I dont know.

But when I ask myself these questions, I know i've started answering yes to a few of them.

And that means its coming. Soon....