Whats the fate of week end, if you have an unpleasant friday night? - Continued

Wondering! This was my facebook status, there is lot to continue. There is no "Lost" season 6 on netflix to kill my time. I don't wanna booze and don't wanna watch movies as well.

It has been long time since i updated my activity though there was lot of activity. I entered Seattle and my immigration was smooth, my flight was smooth and my baggage was on time.

Had a smooth start @ Job. My tasks were defined well before i arrived. Its not easy, believe me, i am working :-)

This is my third visit to US. It will be a different activity every time i visit. Like first time, i was more into movies and drives kinda stuff. It was more about exploring. Second time, It consisted of Movies, TV Seasons, tours, pubs...it was more of balanced activity. This time, i don't know yet but yes, i should plan it well.

I am expecting the fillers to be sports, books and movies. No tours and other activities. But hell ya, its just thought for a moment, you never know :-).

But will be updating blog regularly as self analysis test :-)

Books, Media and Internet

They have been tremendous entertainers and good pals for me during this long n slightly boring vacation.

Books - Though i love books, i need healthy n crowded environment to read books..like television should be occupied by some one and internet by other. Thus, i will be left with only option and not dark/alone. I cannot read on travel as well.

Book#1 "3 Mistakes of my life" by Chetan Bhagat: An Indian Novel. Story was localized to Ahmedabad. 3 lead characters of the book were scripted very well and are interesting. Australia tour and Climax were very much filmy and takes you away from book. Fate cannot be called a mistake, It is a poor justification to the title. Strong characters and localization doesn't stand strong before mistakes made in the book.

Book#2 "Kane and Abel" by Geffrey Archer: Its a big book contrary to earlier book. It takes a while to make it gripping because the very child hood doesn't interest me. Second stage of the book picks up the pace and makes it too interesting to keep the book away for a while. War episodes and love story (which brings quick ending) doesn't really justify their presence and weakens the 400 pages narration a little. To summarize, a very well narrated book.

Book#3 "Associate" by John Grisham: "Gripping" and "Clean" Novel. Anticipating interesting move, you will flip pages till the end just to realize that there would be no filmy climax in real world. It was so good being in a big law firm and handling shady part.

Book#4: "One Billion Customers" by James McGregor: China. China is the focus and viewers getting some business knowledge on China is the end goal. "China is the neighboring country". I have more knowledge than this fact now. My extract is: "China is a super power", "China will destroy itself one day" and "i hate China". Very interesting book.

Book#5: "Five Point Some one" by Chetan Bhagat: One word "Excellent". Any Indian student can easily replace him with one of the 3 IITians. There are few books, which you tend to complete every time but couldn't for some reasons. This is one such book for me. I tried to start it many times, but couldn't. But this time, book was a gift from stranger for dropping him at airport when he needed much. All the lost impression with "3 Mistakes of my life" is gained back and prompted me to purchase "One night @ Call center"

Book#6: "Other side of Mid night" by Sidney Sheldon: Revenge, Love and Hate. Tale of two women, one betrayed by family n boy friend, who takes strange path to get her love back. Another wonderful virgin, who thinks a lot about wonderful men and gets trapped by a play boy. Every chapter has its own steamy bed room scene you would love and then an interesting twist. A good book.

Now started "Client" by John Grisham, which should be followed by "Street Lawyer" by JG and then by "One night @ Call center" and "Fifth estate" by Jeffrey Archer.

In media, IPL and Hungama TV (kids channel) were most watched.

Internet: Lot of activity on facebook. Farmville occupied first half and poker the second. Also finding some new friends in poker. Now in twitter as well (Following a lot)..

Braboure Stadium, Mumbai

So making it clear, i am not writing about stadium..Its about my visit to stadium.

Though not the oldest in India, i visited "one of the oldest" stadium in India yesterday. Stadium got decent seating capacity with old kinda infrastructure.

So the fight was between Mumbai Indians(MI) and Delhi Dare Devils(DD), an IPL T20 match. Really not interested in supporting any team, But Delhi losing will open chances for Deccan + match in Mumbai + Sachin Tendulkar...Something to cheer MI...

Got to know on April 12th 11 PM that we got tickets for this fight next day. But will have to collect tickets at 11 AM next day. So me, bhabhi, nephew and niece started from Pune around 8:30 AM, will be joined by my brother in Mumbai.

My brother asked me to call "Robin Singh", coach of MI and collect tickets. Oh yea, remotely my contact. My brother's friend helped us get these tickets and contact. I called Robin and inquired. Later i was stuck thinking, should i add "sir" tail to his name. After all, he represented India and now helping us. I can think of no better qualification. I was about to get tickets from Robin Singh Sir, but traffic thirsty Mumbai roads, you must have your own chopper flight to plan things.

So i got tickets from reception of Trident hotel leading to "missing opportunity" of meeting Robin.

Now its 4 PM and match and match started. I was waiting to pick my brother, who started 150 minutes prior from a place "15 minutes" away from stadium. 15:150 sucks any time.

Finally there he iz, now we have to deposit his baggage back in our taxi. So i asked my brother to take my niece in and i took baggage back to our taxi. You cannot curse roads every time, Its your right to get stuck in traffic. So curse yourself and contribute to some illnesses in such situation.

When i entered stadium, it was strategic time out and Sachin was playing. So thought enuf lucky. So break over, got that whistling music instrument to cheer Sachin. I dont know if bowler took my encouragement, he got Sachin the very 2nd ball after i entered. Dont know whats wrong with bowlers some times.

Got to settle with Ambati Rayudu and Saurabh Tiwary for some time. IPL turned into ranji match now. Finally Delhi managed few wickets and Pollard joined Duminy. Now IPL is back and action is back. We needed it. My nephew and niece dancing on chairs along with crowd, though some times cry for unknown reasons.

Thanks to Dinesh Karthik, who made it worse for Delhi. A thumping win for Mumbai. Mumbaikars had enough fun with the performance. But wth is that match...no tight fight, Sachin didn't play, not my team..Just that kids enjoyed the match.

Cheer Leaders were good though :P, But wth is this Cheer Leading concept...Dancers will be dead by the first quarter of the match. IPL is nothing but series of wickets and boundaries. something happens for every 4 balls on average. Bloody owners wanted show up at every stage. I pity cheer leaders though they should be earning decent money. And crowd, they are always charged, dont know how.

College Trip

Lately all the vacation has been spent at home and i missed many occasions last year. So it was my friend/class mate's marriage, which brought an "occasion" for a nice get-together.

Initial plan portryaed it as an inexpensive trip because i thought of visiting my parents after this marriage. But a sudden appointment on Monday changed the scope. If i had to come back my monday morning using inexpensive transport, i will have to start on sunday evening and whole purpose of the trip (attending marriage) will be tossed. So tried to think a little about expense and fun involved, but finally made decision with an absent mind and decided to go.

By friday evening, 2 of us were at Bangalore and headed to my friend, later took more than air time. We had 2 hours time in Bangalore and we know every minute has to be counted. Food was totally ignored that night and i was surprised to see Gobi masala on my plate (with no naan/roti/chapathi/rice) instead of Manchurian - the ultimate side dish for any vegeterian involved booze party. We had enough fun with an intoxicant friend disturbing neighbour.

Landed in Chittoor by Morning in a famous lodge. It is always exciting to recollect old memories (good or bad) and that too in a place where we spent our first four years of maturity (Engineering college time).

We headed to college to keep the pace and college trip was a disaster meeting single professor and arguing with him for restrictions imposed during our engineering. It was totally unnecessary but the "clarity" factor in answers was amazing. After all, he is one of my fav professors.

Afternoon - we visited our town's best theater to watch "Leader" and it was a satisfactory investment for us.

Evening - We planned kanipakam, which didn't happen and we started our party with 2 more people joining us. Saturday night was amazing with few people completely out of their mind and generating humor. We got them for atleast few years :-).

One more interesting part is money shortage, i was expecting a deposit on Saturday, which didn't happen. Not sure if it is coincidence, no body got money. We gave some business to Vijay Mallya due to the shortage, but never got convinced and spent what ever we had.

First half of sunday was almost dead with hangover around room. Afternoon, we visited Kanipakam and had good darshan. Again, we were accompanied by few more people and party followed and all of a sudden our pockets were full :-).

We headed to function and met few of our old friends..shared where abouts...dispersed later at night ending the trip with a walk on famous road :-)

An expensive though but a satisfactory trip.

A long vacation

What ever circumstances lead to this vacation, its turning out to be a good one. After joining Accenture on March 16th few years back, i was into shifts. Shifts brings week end in the middle of the week, so better to forget about vacation. After leaving the first company, with in a gap of 0 days, i joined another company and same with next company. If i look back, there was no term called "vacation" all these years.

Now i have 3 month long vacation, though circumstances which brought this vacation is little odd. But a fact that, i have a secure job after this break makes me feel happy.

Though planned to make some part time teaching out of this vacation, it didn't happen.

But my nephew and niece, they occupy nearly half of my time. Their commitment to break every thing at home, kicking and jumping on me (its so hard to secure few places, they can't understand it), envy among each other, exploring all electronic items, playing, singing, rhymes, games....etc....its fun, real fun.

I never play games, but for a change, i am playing few facebook games. Reading books, its going on rocket pace..completed 3 books in 3 weeks (books are heavy enuf)...

So altogether a good vacation.....

Stamping experience at Hyderabad consulate.

As soon as i landed in India, i made an appointment with Hyderabad consulate for January 19th 2010 8:15 AM.

At Hyderabad Consulate:

I dressed myself in formals to make a professional impression. I would have seen atleast 100 members for stamping at 8:30. Considering this figure, Hyderabad is a well deserved place for consulate.

After completing Biometrics and waiting for some 45 minutes, I attended visa officer. Discussion was simple and here is the transcript -

Why are you going to US? To complete a technical assignment assigned by my employer.

Have you ever been to US? Yes

Who is your client? xxx

Do you work for xxx? No, i work for YYY

Have you gone through the Booklet provided? Yes

Your visa is approved and you will be receiving your passport in couple of days sir.

Thank You.

It took 7 working days for them to stamp and print visa on my passport. I got my passport back on 29th January 2010. My extension for another visa was in process and i got approval on that extension very next day after my interview. So i guess USCIS will clear all records on your name before stamping.

My employer is desi consultant and type of visa is H1B. i used "counter passport collection at Blue Dart" as my option to collect passport.

I called consulate during this process and i was educated that it takes minimum of 2 working days and maximum of seven working days to complete processing. So guys, don't be panic if it takes long time and forget the rule "VFS will get passport immediately after interview", atleast with Hyderabad consulate.

I wont say every discussion is this simple. I witnessed next counter officer checking LCA, Client letter, Pay stubs, I94 cards, previous visit details etc etc. But few confident Yes or No's would make it easy for both visa officer and you.

With new memo and few rumors on Port of Entry issues, I would say entering US got another tough step ahead.

Lost @ London Airport

I am back home. Started at Seattle on Jan 5th and now in India on Jan 8th. Its a long painful journey.

Jan 5th @ Seattle

I was expecting shuttle express at 3:40 PM. I planned to reach airport prior 120 minutes at the least. Max reached apartment at around 4 PM, i was little tensed. It was limousine in front of me, Wow...not bad. He dropped me at 4:30 PM at airport. Though appreciated, i didn't tip him as 10 minutes delay was unacceptable for me. It was smooth till London.

London - A Geographical error

If not for London at the center of the globe, There is no largest airport called Heathrow and British Airways would have suffered for Business.

Lot of airports around London are closed. There is snow. But BA 277 is expected to start little late after cleaning the ice on wings. It took 6 Hours for Airlines to announce that flight is canceled. Infrastructure is not proportional to Business, It is not the first time i witnessed.

Pathetic Airlines

All other BA flights were canceled. It took 4 hours for us to collect Hotel vouchers (Hotel@ Central London, more than an hour from Airport..you must be kidding, we didn't use the voucher after standing in line for 4 hours), Immigration check - Another 4 hours (4 counters for thousands of passengers). 8 hours for re-booking (Surprise, British Airways cannot arrange staff late hours when thousands of passengers were stuck. 8 counters were helping passengers at a slow pace. I got lucky to catch my friends at Lane 1, Its tough just to think about last row, i guess they are still waiting). Counter for re-booking opened at 8 AM or around in the morning. Very regular time by staff on an irregular day.

My flight BA 119 got delayed for 5 hours without notice. After reaching Bangalore, i realized my baggage missing. Here is the good news, Around 75 passengers had similar problem. Airlines doesn't have enough infrastructure to take our complaints real fast. Is it unexpected? You don't know that you didn't board our baggage? Shouldn't you be arranging some thing at destination to make it fast for passengers?

This is the second time my baggage is missing, they did not reimburse claimed amount yet.

Globalization @ Heathrow:

Everyone had same grief, They wanna go home. Everyone tried same tricks, Calling travel agent/Friends/Family to book tickets, trying online, sharing mobile. So you gotta talk to next one for sure, You gotta talk about your country and you a little for sure. You gotta scold BA for their poor organization of work. It was fun.

Acquaintances

One big guy asked me, do you work for microsoft (i had microsoft bag)? I said, yes i was and yes i will. Emily also works for Microsoft he said. Whoz Emily? My daughter. Hmm, after some time, his wife expressed her love to India. She said i wanna visit Taj Mahal before i die. These words filled me with joy and was energy booster. Incredible India.

There is another girl. Interesting, talkative, simple, good-looking. Her name is also Emily. She connected to every passenger around and brought cheer on everyone. She would listen to everyone, which makes her interesting. She must have saved her energy without talking much (Like i do), but she didn't. She was grouped with an old lady Robson, whose passport is filled with a stamp by every country and an young boy reaching out US to complete his graduation.

There was russian old lady, who missed Birthday party next day and Bolivian, who wanted this delay in New York instead of London so that New York can be toured. One Italian, who least bothers about situation and doesn't pity himself for whats happening or doesn't scold any one for situation. He got his tickets re-booked my travel agent. One Italian couple was still on lane.

Indian Intruders - I am from this group :P. Rule is, you have to intrude into nearest lane. Thats what we did and thats why i am back :-).

Next?

Trying to keep my head up on next 3 months. I left the job for good, i joined some other company for good, i was fooled in an easy way.

Alright its almost over now, what next?

I am holding discussions with client about opportunity in India, which was an easy thing till some time back. Client provided me with hand full of options and i was damn positive about getting into India team and coming back. Now the process is on, but something in my mind says, No.

Should i come back to US? This is certainly a hasty experience for me. With my financial freedom, I could not think of leaving all these mess in the middle and going back. But i was not getting what i am here for. But little greed says "stay here, take money you should get and go home". With this thought process, i prepared myself to sacrifice few qualities and stay back.

Few people say am very cool, few say i am hard, few say i am incapable...i call myself "forget everything and stay, you can fu later when u get a chance"...

I will get a job in India in about 3 months if client doesn't show any immediate opportunity. But for future, sacrificing some important quality for money is no good. I am sure, i will be hard enough next year (haa, my hormone growth has been good with all these unstable events.......awful joke)...

Lets see if i can grab opportunity at Infosys, India or come back to US in another 3 months or travel some other country as per my wish :-)

Telangana Identity or AP Brother hood?

Argument sake, Telangana supporters may call it a struggle for identity. Looking at the leaders, i call it a dirty political struggle to keep "Divide and Rule policy" alive for popularity and higher ministerial posts.

On November 29th, KCR started his "fast unto death" demanding separate Telangana. To no one's surprise, He took juice on the very first day of his fasting. Not to hurt the sentiment of separate Telangana, everyone should agree that "KCR was reluctant and Doctors cheated him".

To make it loud, you must continue this struggle in state capital and create havoc there. Due to the health conditions (who is on "fast unto death" is worried about medical facilities and need super class treatment), party demanded moving him to state capital Hyderabad.

Osmania University students along with TRS activists went on creating havoc in city troubling public life.

Incompetent Government have chosen silent pause as their action for all the havoc in city. KCR was having VVIP treatment at NIMS with saline and all. Media spare no situation for their TRP ratings. Their breaking news contributed major chunk of chaos in the city.

Central Government, who is known for capitalizing vote bank on sensitive issues by supporting them announced "We are going to initiate separate Telangana process considering its sentiment and struggle" all of a sudden.

Ironically, this issue is taken care by 2 central ministers from competitive states. It is an easy assumption, this separation would take out Hyderabad from competition.

Now representatives from other regions started opposing announcement. Incapable and Incompetent representatives, who were supporting separate Telangana just for the vote bank couldn't digest it. Now they blame center of making some abrupt decision. Ironically, they do not remember the fact that their party has been supporting the cause.

State has lost its glory. It has gone for dogs now. It has no proper leader to lead them in crisis situation.

Even then, short memories of people keep them alive in politics. Students are on roads now. I never saw single student revolting their constituency representative for not working on development.

Finally few good quotes -

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery

"It makes no difference who you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing 4 percent of the people." - Gore Vidal

India Shining

"Great Jharkand Robbery" hero Madhu koda campaigning his party

26/11 tragedy's first anniversary is not yet complete...ousted home minister is back to his seat

Convicted killer Manu Sharma spotted at Delhi Night club while on parole

Contradictory deals by Microsoft on Black Friday

Click on them to see clearly

Its my gadget on Win7



Its MSN Money site

Gimme another chance, i wanna grow up once again

I

-> wanna make changes to my mark sheet in a perfect way so that my Mom wouldn't have doubted that i morphed something.

-> want to stay calm rather than giving a crap answer when my English professor asked me for a definition there by avoiding the punishment of standing on bench. .

-> wanna stay more days in short term hostel.

-> wanna smoke with my intermediate friends.

-> wanna play more games with my engineering friends.

-> wanna take care of all release day activities pavan kalyan movies during engineering like getting more tickets showing my college ID and pushing all my college mates to movie theater.

-> wanna do more extra curricular activities during my engineering like music and all.

-> wanna slap a guy and say, you are the most fucking idiot i have seen in my whole life. No, not slap, kick his ass hard.

-> wanna enjoy last day of college

-> wanna inhale hookah with my college mates.

-> wanna take drugs.

-> wouldn't have slept like a drunkard on december 31st after having alchohol.

-> wouldn't have trusted some one in July and made this decision.

-> would have trusted some one else atleast in August.

Can't help....

Halloween @ Bellevue Square

Friday (10/30) was a long day at work. I was late to office. I had to deposit very little amount at bank and buy stamps from post office. I visited Commons @ Microsoft. Me being less informative, their fancy costumes, balloon spiders (best among what i have seen, whole roof of the bank was decorated with it), pumpkins made me think that Halloween is on Friday. Later i headed to work and my work kept me busy till 6:30 (little over board of friday, couldn't help). I was slightly disappointed when i saw candies at every corner and couldn't find any kids around by that time.

But i lately realized that, it is on Saturday. It was at 7 PM we visited Bellevue Square and we tried to capture all kind of spooky kids and of course few adults as well. This is my first Halloween, though didn't reach my expectation, it was a good one. Here are few pics -

Missed 2 important marriages...

Engineering life is more or less a matured stage for any person. For 4 years, you have to see each other in the class room. You like or hate or you have no feeling, you will spend 4 years sitting next to them. may be to the next bench or next row or next seat. You get to know in and out of every one. You will miss it lately.

Coming to my engineering life, i was enough closer to every one. But as every one, i had a circle :-). post engineering, i speak to many people and i am close to many people, but there are few whom i speak regularly. i find them easily available and find it very easy to talk to them.

3 people, Seenu, Rakesh and Sunil. I talk to them every morning, every night. The only thing we love to do is laugh out loud and we do it regularly.

One more person is Bhavani, this girl falls into same category. Though i will have some serious fights some times with this girl (Should i call her lady? may be).

I need at least one among these people regularly to talk and share some nonsense.

Coming to actual marriages:

Seenu got married this month 23rd and Bhavani on 25th. Both are must attend things for me if i was in India. I miss the bachelors party before night in hotel room and obviously their marriages :-).

Can this be considered as one flip side of staying away from friends and family? Oh Yes, i knew this thing during the planning (to US) phase that i am going to miss few things. For that matter, every one who travels knows it. But such events knock every time that you are missing something here.

sacrifice this for that. that's it :-) Happy Married life guys.

I am only talking about my engineering fnds whom i talk regularly, there are few others whom i love to share things :-), but out of context here.

Count Down # Null & Void

What happened?

Extension has been applied.

Is that Contenting?

Straight answer *No*. Conveniently avoiding If's and But's, *Yes*

What's the prayer to God?

No status should be obtained till January. so that the next step will be *Pack it in*.I am tired of praying for positives, to make it a reasonable deal, i started praying for non-negatives rather than positives.

Thats all for now about status.

Getting Closer: Day # 4

Lack of sleep makes my day dark and uninteresting. I was worried about bad sleep yesterday, but it was a fine one.

I woke up at around 7 AM today, my regular time. Being fall, it was complete dark. I opened my gmail to see if there are any updates from Thomas Cook and my employer. It is no surprise that my employer didn't mail and there was an update from Thomas Cook. I managed to get ready by 8 AM.

Picked my phone and called my employer, no response. I called my brother to get some contacts here. I know situation is getting worse. But while explaining him the situation, i am feeling it. After phone call, i couldn't keep my head cool.

I didn't feel like going to office. I sent across a mail at around 9 AM stating "Not feeling well, Couldn't come to office". After some time, a message popped up on my mobile. It was from my employer "will call you in 30 minutes". That was a welcome message.

All my room mates left to office, i felt constrained at home. I left to office. I got few emails from employer and there was some movement in extension process. So rest of the day was better than expected.

Though the process is not complete yet. Its certainly some kind of relief. So fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Getting closer - Day # 5

My visa validity (of stay) expires on 24th of this month. Still now no update about extension to current visa or new visa.

I am covering conditions off with various stuff like movies, shopping etc etc.

Few hours back i completed shopping, which was followed by "Zombie Land" in United states of Zombie land :). Movie was real fun and the rule # N "Enjoy all the little things", i loved it.

I know, it was 3 hours escape. Those girls at mall, romance at parking place (not by me, i was spectator), shopping, movie...everything served the purpose.

Now i reached home, i called Thomas Cook to postpone my flight to 24th. There is no availability on 24th. My agent is checking other possibilities. To reissue ticket, need money immediately. But money is in the air now traveling from my US account to Indian account. So i had to borrow money.

whats plan for tomorrow? Call my employer again -> If not received -> Call back after 2 hours, this time leave a voice message that you are so tensed and situation is going out of control -> Still no reply -> Leave a message and all other possible feat.

But planning to talk to some attorney as well tomorrow to seek some legal advice. Lets see how it goes.

Pre conceived notions

Not talking about my notions towards any gadget or towards any person. Its exclusive about others notions towards me.

Alright, now that i traveled across oceans and i have a job, i am the happiest soul in their circle. Few weeks back, i was having conversation with Friend1: As a thumb rule, we started with Hi and How are you? Instead of giving a formal response that "i am doing fine", i gave a honest response "i am little above Ok". His unacceptability dumbfounded me.

This is happening again and again (i have many friends ;)). This response took me different phases, Dumbfounded -> got irritated -> got frustrated -> Smiled myself. During the last phase, i decided not to exhibit self pity any more, I started responding "I am good". I decided to keep it plain.

Now it was about me, i wish to write about a "fraternity" as well -

Yesterday i have been to a temple, there was an announcement about a Swamiji visiting Seattle next month. A lady was sharing her experience, She was so excited about Swamiji's program and her speech revolved around "i am greatful to swamiji, you can see that in my face. After attending that program, my life is beautiful and Blissful"

whats wrong lady? Do you think others life has no charm? She is not the first lady(person) i am seeing, who ever attends such a program makes a statement "my life is beautiful now". I was never convinced with these "Subtle" sentences. I just wonder, will these programs bust all my problems? I will try my best not to allow any problems to over take my joy. But these guys never listen to me, they are never convinced with the fact that "Others life is beautiful without any programs"

Now talking about me,

I have a problem. My curiosity overrides my patience and purpose many times. He is taking care of my visa processing and it got denied once and we applied it again. Now when ever, he wont pick my phone, my thoughts crosses boundaries and i cannot stand on that. I become more n more curious and i wish to be loner. when some one invades my privacy, i get more frustrated. Now i will make an impression on this guy and it adds fuel every time i face similar situation.

I am trying to avoid it, let us see if i can avoid it without attending any "bliss engineering"

Wow...Bing visual search

I cannot encourage Bing for now, as i still have several google search pages around my head, but MS is releasing updates and add-ons to Bing every now and then. Recent update is Bing Visual Search.

http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

It is fun searching with the help of images rather than typing. Its a beta version, available only for US region? Not sure, i do not have answer to this Question.

One problem is, Make your computer MS. You need Silver Light installed on your system to use this coolest feature.

Image quality is good, Search is fast and effecient.

Go Bing. I Bing, you Bing :-)

Update: Yes, its Only for people in US region. ASDF...

Cricket screwing me again?

Come on you lazy game, you brought in so much trouble during my engineering. Now, you are all set to bring back some more trouble?

I am not the umpire for today's game, but some one from my team should do the umpiring. I voluntarily agreed to do this job for a match.

It is a sunny match. Final 2 overs to go. Team - B is chasing the target of 78 and have to score 11 runs from 2.1 overs with last wicket in their hand.

Batsmen has chosen a quick run and was almost run out. But there was enough confusion whether keeper handled the ball while hitting the stumps or not? I was about to have discussion with leg umpire. No team allowed me to complete decision and they group me, they shout at me...they do all possible nonsense there. Some one else from fielding side will say that "i am captain, talk to me" ...

It is now 2 overs, 10 runs situation...

One over completed with out any issues. I felt like moved to little comfort zone. Now 1 over 9 runs.

Again it started, batting side re-visited the score and said, it should be 8 runs and we are mistaken. Everything started again, Every fielder was coming and shouting " we will not play if this doesn't favor us" and one comes and asks other team captain to get off the field...

Now i dropped a complaint to League management about the rude behavior in a rude way. Is it going to put me in one more trouble? I give a damn, lets see..