DreamingAway

Generally I don't play computer games but somehow I got addicted to Windows® Spider - card game, just finished 1000 wins at 40% success rate. Losing 12 games in a streak is very simple as you just have to keep losing but winning 8 games in a streak is never an easy job. I am glad I did it. 39% success, that is the lowest score so far. I don't think I will let it go below that as I am becoming an expert. Sometimes it really tests your patience, 4325 moves, surely more than an hour, I won't think of doing that again. You know, I play only "Difficulty: Four suits". It takes about an hour to finish four games and I have played over 2500 games, the realization hurts - the amount of time I have spent, especially after following lots of time management techniques. Kovil Pillai P.

"Indians are very good at playing spinners..." - It is a comment passed by one of the commentator during the Asia Cup 2008 final between India and Srilanka. I was laughing because he was referring to the current Indian ODI team. I don't think any of the players, including Yuvaraj, is capable of handling good spin bowling. I am so curious to see how our OLD people are going to play the Srilankan spinners, especially the new magic Mendis. It could be a wonderful fight as we are meeting the lions in their homeland. Dhoni has taken rest (Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that he couldn't read Mendis bowling). Can Dravid , Ganguly, Laxman and Sachin, Shewag - on his day, do it for India? Or Will Murali and Mendis prove that they are the best spin combination? Though I love to see Sangakkara scoring few centuries (if not double) I should admit that the Indian bowling attack is also not bad. This should be a good series to watch. P.S.: Sachin's quote: I do...

If you had a bus travel experience in Chennai, you would be able to get what I am going to say! I don't generally look for a seat in the moderately crowded bus while coming to the office. I prefer standing (that is equally comfortable one for me) for about 40 minutes, in the fresh morning. I know there are lots of people who get annoyed if they don't get a seat as soon as they are in the bus. This is an unwritten(?) rule: You are the owner of it, if you are standing near the seat which is going to be freed. There are professional people who could break this rule if you give them a little bit of chance. The simplest trick is to give your lunch bag/etc., to the person who is seated. He takes care of your bag (of course, will return it!). It is a 'compulsory help' that one ought to do for his co-passenger. When he needs to get down from the bus, your bag books a seat for you. Whom should you give your belongings is where your professionalism shown. Another trick is to look...

This post is not for you, if you can't understand Tamil without translation. I prefer to read Haiku sort of poems because they are * Short * Simple * Full of imagination * Worst case, tend to be a good joke I have read this poem (given below) recently. After reading the first four lines, I thought he is worried about the environment. After reading the next four lines, I felt, he is also concerned about the fellow people. And then he surprised my 'read ahead' mind with his next four lines, especially the last line because I was expecting something to show his 'social responsibility' but it was something else. What kind of person is he to have this kind of thought flow? Kovil Pillai P.

I took the photo yesterday (May 10, 2008). I was thinking why I did this, because I am taking coffee everyday from the pantry? What is special about this cup of coffee? Now I realise it is because of the book I am currently reading Pour Your Heart into It . Good one! Kovil Pillai P.

I am writing this - limiting myself to what I trust is our tradition and taking what I believe is the best of it. Thinking of the various relationships that exist in our lives, I tried to say what could be the best of relationship that I can get from a person belongs to the other sex. Without thinking anything I could easily restrict myself with just three: friend, wife, and mother. Though I thought it is unfair to ignore a friend, I prefer to escape by giving the neither pure nor fully poisoned culture of ours as a reason. It wasn't as tough as I had imagined - between wife and mother, I find I can easily choose wife as the best - especially when I see my life in its full length - And fortunately I have not asked "Whose love is the best?". My wife is the one who brought me back to the family life. Me: an average young man who believed and enjoyed the pleasures that are outside the family life and I hoped to continue that forever. I trusted no one as I trusted m...