Mom’s visit: A blessing

Any amount of "thank you (s)"? and words will not do justice to the amount of gratitude I have for mom/dad now. All the restlessness and frustration of the past few months seem to have vanished into thin air now. Moms no doubt are a true embodiment of patience, sacrifice and selflessness when it comes to their kids. Any physical ailment of hers has little or no significance when it comes to taking care of me now. She works herself tirelessly packing my lunch at 6:30 a.m. to making hot dinner before I get home that I say to myself what a selfish brat am I who craves for food incessantly. Sanity is just returning but craving for good food still stays at priority #1. She tolerates my tantrums through the day instead of spanking. I had a great time talking non-stop with her after all these years for the past 2 weeks. Am so sad she is going to leave in another 4 days. But I'?m also so looking forward to October when I get to spend another 4 months with her at Trichy! Moms are the best!

Categories: pregnancy, family

Dude, where's REC Trichy?

I just stumbled upon Google’s University Search. To my surprise, NIT/REC, Trichy does not find a place in the list whereas some Pune Institute for Computer Technology does and also the lesser known Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar among other premier Indian Institutes such as the IITs and Anna University.

Categories: google, university, REC

India: Blogs Blocked

Every Indian blogger has been harping about it since Monday that their ISPs have blocked all the blogspot, typepad and geocities blogs and how frustrated they are. This is true. As a result of a directive from the Indian Government to block a few sites, the ISPs have extended to blocking the entire domain or atleast it seems that way. A lot of discussion, protest has been voiced against this on TV channels like CNN IBN and an armchair analysis from every TDH on how democratic India is. I believe this would have something to do with the investigations of you know what so lets wait..until there are always aggregators such as Goggle Reader or proxy avoidance sites to get past this.

Blog traffic analysis

Its “starting college” time of the year. With the results for professional entrance exams out, admissions are around the corner. For the past 3 weeks or so, 75% of the traffic to this blog is by the search term “NIT Trichy”. I can visualize anxious parents googling away for information on prospective good colleges they can get a seat in for their kids. Ofcourse, the post is least informative about college or admissions if that’s what parents are looking for. I hope they are not put off by all the gory details in there of what students are upto..

What’s also interesting is that the remaining traffic is due to the search for “Java Interview experiences”. With appraisals done and the suspense of salary increases out, the Pandora box is open for some organizations – attrition rate moving northward. And most of these job hops also seem to be happening around Bangalore.

The party is over

Cans of beer was the only thing missing last night. (I don’t drink before you start getting ideas!) Week after week, V and I have watched almost all the FIFA World Cup 2006 matches. Even the late night matches, after I’ve gone to sleep I would wake up around 2:00 a.m. and wander around in the drawing room like a zombie looking for the TV remote to see who won! Now that it is over, evenings from today are never going to be the same. There is an empty feeling in the head and all the programs on TV don’t seem worth spending time. Last evening was special, it was the Wimbledon finals and the clash of the titans – France vs Italy.

I didn’t get myself to stay up for the whole game last night and crashed out after the first half. V was barely awake until 15 mins into extra time. We were in for a rude shock waking up this morning to the “headbutt” replay of Zidane. I stared at the screen in utter disbelief what Zidane had done…and to see clips of Italy lift the World Cup. I don’t know if Zidane’s exit cost France the World Cup..but it definitely demotivated them. Not a staunch supporter of France, but wanted them to win because of Zidane, this being his last game!

Most of my predictions turned sour with Argentina losing followed by Brazil. The over confident and the arrogant lost. Memories of Rooney being sent home flashed back as Zidane was shown the red card. What a shame for a final to end this way. No doubt, Italy have proved themselves to be #1, but a penalty shootout win in a final is something hard to digest. The party is over and the memories remain.