Did you read today's(31st Jan) deccan herald on the net?
This was the description for DH photography.
"Sachin Tendulkar, who won the man of the match and the man of the series award raises his bat after completing his 41st One day century against West Indies at the 4th ODI in Vadodra on Wednesday. India won the match by 160 runs clinching the series 3-1. PTI "
But the picture they displayed was this:
That's Ganguly! I saw this picture in the morning and was thinking it would be changed soon but I don't think they took notice of it.
Well, good thing is India won the series. I feel it's been a long time since the team won in such a convincing fashion or may be it has been a long time.
Spam is actually a canned processed meat made by Hormel Foods Corporation. Spam is a mixture of pork and ham meat. It is an abbreviation for SPicedhAM. It is also believed it was an abbreviation for "Shoulder of Pork and Ham" because it is shoulder meat.
The name spam has derived it's name from the Monty Python comedy show which was set in a cafe where in almost every item on the menu includes SPAM (apparently when you write it in capitals letters, it refers to the meat product and it is a trademark) meat. I have never seen Monty Python shows so I wouldn't know. World War II saw abundant use of SPAM as it a was widely available food. Also because it was difficult to provide fresh meat to the soldiers.
Spam emails that we receive every day are totally unwanted. Does that mean the SPAM food is unwanted or has it got so bad taste? I have seen SPAM cans in the superstores and there may be many people who would like it. Any sort of food can never become unwanted. There are always peopIe who would like any given particular food. I think "junk"term suits better instead of "spam" to the unwanted emails. Well, what's in a name! spam or junk, they are all unwanted emails.
I have been seeing sudden increase in the number of people at the gym after the new year's. It's becoming difficult to get onto thread mill and few other equipments. It used to be busy before new year's too but I could easily get onto thread mill. I enjoy swimming once in a while but the swimming pool is also getting very busy. Looks like lot of people have made new year resolution to shed off the weight gained during the holidays. Or it could be that the gym staff are doing good marketing. It will be interesting to see if the gym continues to be busy for the next couple of months!
I had posted photos of my two guitars in my previous posts and I said one of them is actually a cigarette lighter in the shape of Guitar. But it looks like it was not very clear from the picture. So I decided to post a new photo with both guitars together.
See the red coloured lighter on the top of my acoustic guitar.
I seem to have forgotten or don't know exactly why we celebrate most of the festivals! So I am making an effort this year to find out more and then I thought it would be good to blog it. I will make an attempt to blog as we come across each festival. Since today is Makara Sankranti, it's time to find out more about it.
Makara means Capricorn and Sankranti means transition. As you all know Sun revolves around Earth and as he revolves, he moves across the different zodiac signs. When the sun enters Capricorn zodiac sign, it means that he has started to ascend and has entered the northern hemisphere. From this day, the days will start to become longer and warmer. It also marks the start of "Uttarayana", six-month northward journey. The other six-month journey is known as "Dakshinayana". Sankranti is also the start of harvesting season.
As Sun is a Hindu God, the day he enters Capricorn is treated as auspicious occasion because of two important things: 1. Brings more light into our life 2. You attain higher goals as Sun starts to ascend
Wish you all a very happy Makara Sankranti. Ellarigu Sankranti habbada shubhashayagalu.
I was watching a Hollywood movie recently on TV and I was thinking the story sounds familiar. It was the story of 'Baazigar' - a Bollywood movie. Only then I came to know that Baazigar was a remake of Hollywood movie - 'A Kiss Before Dying'.
Anyways, the movie was great, all songs were good and I enjoyed watching it. Watch the title song (with subtitles). Don't miss the subtitles, it's funny.
Back to work today after two weeks of holiday. I couldn't stop yawning for first half of the day. I spent an hour or so going through all emails and then sorting them out. Had a cappuccino. Then spent some more time planning my work and trying to recollect the stuff I was doing before holidays! After lunch it was back to normal work... it was not as bad as I thought would be.
It was a good break for 2 weeks. Although we spent the holidays at home, it was fun and relaxing... watched lots of movies. We wanted to go to London initially but then dropped the plan thinking we will go to Aviemore for few days and try skiing. We had booked accommodation and skiing lessons at Aviemore and we were looking forward to it. Had a nice new year's eve dinner party at Prasad's place. We were due to go to Aviemore in the first of Jan but sadly had to cancel the plans as there was not enough snow for skiing...Global Warming!
If Bryan Adams got his first real six-string in 1969, I got mine in 2006. Yes, I bought a Guitar couple of months back. I was always crazy about guitar but never had a chance to learn. It was when Chandra went on holiday to India, I decided to buy a guitar and start learning. After some advice from a colleague and the shop guy, I bought Yamaha F310 from Sound Control.
My first six-string, it's a cigarette lighter.
Getting started - tuning the guitar I left the office half-an-hour early that day to collect my guitar and was eager to start playing it. I came home and opened the box, it came with spare set of strings and also a beginner's DVD. The DVD was very handy and I started watching it. After the introduction, it tells you how to tune your guitar. I didn't have a tuner and I started turning the tuner of upper E string. There was a loud sound like bursting a balloon and the string was broken! Bad start...
Fixing broken string I was disappointed but then I had a spare set of strings so I decided to put the new string. I had no clue how to do it but I thought it should be simple. I started putting the new string, pulled the string hard into the tuner and tried rotating around the tuner. But it wasn't getting tight enough. It was looking like it is going to break too so I decided to give it up for the day.
Next day I told my colleague what happened and he went "oh no". But he told me that it is easy, just rotate around the tuner. I told I tried it... He offered me help to fix it. But I decided to give it another shot in the evening when I go home. I went home and tried to fix the broken string. I pulled the string too hard so that it is tight and then tried to rotate around the tuner and broke the spare one as well. Very bad...
Next day I went to the Sound Control shop in the evening and told the guy who sold me the Guitar what happened. He asked me to get the Guitar so that he can fix it and also teach me to replace string. Some relief...
Next day I went to the shop and the gentleman at the shop was kind enough to give me another spare set of strings for free. He also taught me how to replace string. I decided to buy a tuner as it makes life easy. And then I started learning the chords and tunes using the DVD. Finally...
By the time Chandra was back from her holiday, I was able to impress her a little bit with a catchy hindi tune "tujhe dekha to yeh jaana sanam".
Watch the wonderful "Hotel California".. the song that inspired me to learn guitar.
The apartment we are renting now is called riverview gardens. We didn't actually have any view of the river until they recently destroyed the old building that was blocking our view.
Below is the view we get from our kitchen...isn't that good?
And below is the view from living room...
I hope they don't construct anything else to block this nice view.
The other day I was watching the "Friends" episode where Rachel turns thirty and she is really worried about it. It is shown as a big deal not only for Rachel but for everyone else(Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross). They all remember when they turned thirty and they are all sad or not so happy about it. For girls, I agree it is a big thing but is it so for guys as well?!
I turned 30 about 10 months back and I didn't think it was a big deal for me. I did feel a bit strange entering 30's but may be I never thought about it so seriously and just got on with life just like any other birthday. But now I feel good and enthusiastic because there were so many first's that I did after I turned thirty. I didn't really plan for these to happen at this age but I am glad they happened now.
I changed my job for the first time after 8 long years in my first job after my graduation. Although the job switch wasn't smooth, I did land up in a good job and good domain now.
Been trekking for the first time. I had been on Scottish mountains (Munro's) twice. Fantastic experience...more about it later
Started learning Guitar... more about it later.
And now my first blog!
It's been an exiting year and I can't complain about it. So I guess age really doesn't matter!
