Monday 22 October 2007

Perfect Weekend for the Reds....

Itz been fantastic for the Reds this weekends, For Man-United in Football, For Kimi & Ferrari in F1, For India in 20 - 20, So was it for me.

Man-Utd having started the season in a timid fashion winning 1-0 earlier in the season, broke the shackles to come victorious in their Away match against Aston Villa 4-1. Wayne Rooney took his goal tally to six in the last five matches, Rooney recently scroed his first Goal for England in the last 3 years, awful lot of time for the striker. It wasn't easy coming back 0-1 as Man-U conceeded their first goal in 600+ minutes on the field to Aston Villa.

It was another day of Drama, unexpected things on the Brasilian Formula one Circuit. Kimi has a bleek chance of winning the Championship as it was not just that he had to Win the Race but also Alonso and Hamilton had to loose in a big way, but belive me it happened, with Hamilton's luck running out and Alonso unable to keep up the pace with the ferrari, finally Kimi Raikonnen, also called as the Ice-man won the World Championship for 2007 after coming close twice in the last 4-5 seasons, It is the Dream come true for Kimi and his Fans, like me :-)

It was unbelievable for a moment, I was screaming shouting and enjoying at home.

In Cricket it was time for Young Indian team to show their worth against the mightly Australians especially after the T-20 World cup victory. They stood the kind of expectations and did it again, some sort of respite after losing the one day series.

Wednesday 10 October 2007

Change.. sometimes not so good

As I sit at my desk in office peeping outside the window, I realise that itz been one long year now since I am in UK.

Turning towards the window from my desk, I see a clear sky, may be the sky just read my mind and trying to immitate me, all the trees have gone quiet which normally keep speaking to me from a distance, things have changed quiet a lot in the last one year.. big noticable changes

The window in bangalore office would reveal vehicles buzzing all around, people running around, If I wasn't busy at work, I would rather go out with my friends to have a drink or to have some evening snacks and table tennis at office which I used to enjoy.

But in here, the window doesn't say anything, silence all around, nobody on the roads only CARs all around, if I were to go out probably have to drive a few miles and eat what "a burger or finger chips.. ", not of my choice really.

From the guy who used to work hard enough and hardly had time to think of something new To somebody trying to find new ways to pass time, trying to search for new interesting things to keep himself busy.

I dont know if I can call it a progress or a regress, a conform or a deviate from the target, whatever it is it is not very satisfying for now. Hope to have better days hope to have more cheerful days.

Hanningfield Resorvoir

It was another weekend, I just couldn't drag myself out of bed this morning so must be the case with everyone, but we ended up in Hanningfield Reservoir an Essex Wildlife Trust reserve with our big gang.. Our “Vivid Bharathi Gang”

8-10 Miles from Basildon, near Stock, this 200 acre reserve offers woodland walks, four bird hides, The Reservoir is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to its wildfowl population of coot, pochard and tufted duck as we heard about it.

We stopped by causeway, expecting the usual collection of ducks and gulls but to our surprise we couldn’t really find many of them, although we found a few on the way through the walk but the babies ( moon / yadu ) had already slept so didn’t bother much about it.

It was a bright day as we started to walk in the woods .. a very relaxing one after a heavy meal for all of us, we had already made small groups not intentionally but as we walked, with men leading the way and the women lost in their own world walking slowly but steadily and as always.. it was Ramu who was trying to capture the scenic beauty and us, occasionally we stopped by to check if the women were still following us or lost in the nature.. no offences please..

As we were half way through, there was a “bird hide” , we went in to see ducks but we did not carry a binoculars to really enjoy it, luckily the babies got up by then and were happy to see some ducks… and then the enthusiasm came alive as both Bhavya and yadu started jumping hoping and running..

The clock was ticking towards 5 as we remembered that the gate would close very soon, we stopped by the canteen to pick up some ice-creams and decided that Ramu / Manju / Srinivasji would get the CAR to here so that remaining of us don’t have to walk back.

As they went to pick the CAR some of us started playing cards to pass time until then, I am sure Manju didn’t like the idea J

And at around 6, we drove back to Basildon to call it end of the day.

Thanks to Ramu for organising.

As I sat to write one fine day

At last I made up my mind to write first of the many blogs to come by, sitting at my office desk having a hundred thoughts with no clear answers. Many of these thoughts were all like HOW, WHEN, WHY, WHAT, doesnt mean I am not satisfied but only trying to find what else can be done, am I doing too little or am I going behind instead of going ahead.

although so many questions were arising, there is a sound deep within trying to say that I was in the right direction and more good things to come by.. more happiness to surrond...

Caption of the time

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”