Cricket after soooo many years..

Man, it was wonderful... we left by 12. reached the play ground by 12:30 by bikes and cars. We were around 20 out of which 4 were enthusiastic girls. :)

It was bright hot day. Boys already started to practice catches and bowling.

Dinesh and others installed the wickets.

We took around 15 min to form 2 teams. Manoj and Rajesh took the initiative of becoming captains.

I was in the Fielding team and took the short midwicket positions.

Here am I


It was a 10 over match. I bowled 6th over and got a wicket. Other team was cheating in counting the runs :).. shame shame.. I remember how we used to fight if someone tries to manipulate the numbers. The term for manipulating number was 'Dubba'.

We took 7 wickets. I caught one down. By the end of 10th over they had scored 79. Good score right.. err.. good Dubba


Here is the ground and pitch



Our game started. Phani alias Funny started very good innings. He scored well. around 10 and got out in 2nd over. It was 16. We were playing good game.

As we planned such that everyone has to bat.. some guys had to leave the crease even before they getting out. One of such victims was I. I went 5 down. First ball full toss hit to long off. It was four. heeeeyyyy!!!! Over ended. Had to change the strike. It was last ball of the over. Took 2 runs. So that I can play next over. Manoj was the bowler. Very good bowler. Could not take the first ball. He was perfectly bowling just in front of my feet. I decided to go for another full toss. I took it.. It was another four on the midwicket.. Captain Rajesh called me back.. Alas... my innings ended with 8 runs..

It was last over. We needed 5 runs to win the match. Ramesh and Machireddy were playing. Ramesh was on striking position. Took a run. Manoj was the bowler. Bowled wonderfully. Machi could not touch even a single ball. Stats was 2 balls, and 4 runs to win. Machi came fwd and swept the ball for a four. We WON ... Hurryey..

Then we came back to office. We were all hungry like pigs.. Pizzas from Pizza hut were waiting for us. All had pizzas and back to pavilion .. err I mean workplaces..

Yummyy...

Inspired by Niki :-)

All in One..
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

Niki captures a lot from her Cam Phone. I thought why shudnt I ?

Yellow Flowers Coconut Tree Blue sky with white clouds

Team event

Today we are having Team Building activity. We go out to Srinivas Stadium- JP Nagar for a cricket match and from there we go for Lunch. Hope I am in the team and play good game.

My preparations for it:

1. Wearing White Shirt
2. Brought a cricket cap to protect me from Hot sun
3. Brought my cam to capture all events to blog 'em :-)

Another Blogger to the Blog World

One of my friends, Kiran H S, has started his new blog.. Take your short time to go thru it..

Multitasking - Ha ha ha

CSQA Results !!!

Do you guys remember I had taken an exam called CSQA.. ( Certified Software Quality Analisy) ?
I am very happy to say that I have cleared it..

Next Incarnation - Ha ha ha

Me and my manager were discussing about different kinds of job in IT and non-IT. His opinion was that women need not worry too much about their job, career and all. He was envious. Then asked whether he wanted to be a woman in next incarnation, if at all he has one.

You know what he preferred... ( controlling laugh ...)

He wants to be a Dog in richman's house. He tells as its rich man's house, he would get everything and also he would be pampered. I was laughing like hell...

What you want to be in next Incarnation ?

~ * ~ Went shooting ~ * ~

Last Sunday (13-Feb):

At around 3PM I went to Goutham's house. We were planning to meet since long time. At last we could make it. I mean I could make it.

He showed all his albums.. My God.. he is really good Photographer. Very skilled..

Here are we:



Goutham has a Canon RebelTi Cam.. This is the same Cam our Sisya also has. But Goutham 300MM lens bought for it. :)

Here is the SLR..


His fav place for shooting is his terrace. We spent around 2 Hrs for shooting birds. Lots of birds flew.. I was so immature that I could shoot not even one properly. One was kinda ok..




This is what Goutham Shot:

Sangaati - Partner

Sunset - Silhouette

Moon_Coco_Sunset
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

I took this shot from terrace of my building on Friday ..

I loved the sky colours..

Surya Kiran

Surya_Kiran
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

Sowmya and I had gone to Air Show on Saturday.. I was really amazing.. Surya Kiran Show was the Best ..

Engagement - Ring exchange

Egagement - Ring exchange
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

We got engaged on Feb 11th 2005.

Sowmya's Mehendi

Sowmya's Mehendi
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

This is how she decorated her hands. Can u see the ring also ??

Mehendi

Mehendi
Originally uploaded by Karthik1.

My niece Shipa's decorated hand.

Substring search algorithms

I found this pretty cool algo in one of my frnds' blog.. Check it out

The adda: "Substring search algorithms
Yes amigos....
I am a little free today :-)

I am on a mailing rampage today :-))

My colleague showed me this about searching substrings and they were pretty clever !

ANy ideas abt implementing KMP algorithm anyone ?

:-)"

You know what !!!

You know what .. I am getting engaged this Friday..
And marriage is scheduled in May.
She is Sowmya, Bangalore girl.. Works in Bangalore.
I am excited .. :D ................

<~ Go Shooting ~>

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Originally uploaded by Karthik.

This is fantastic shot taken by my friend Goutham.

This weekend I am planning to go Shooting with Goutham.. Excited about that :))

~ In class ~

Attending a training on SAP - XI.

XI --> Exchange Infrastructure... its a 5 days course. Its an internal training.


Not too much of my interest. But loads of hype on it.. Hmmm

Dr. H N

Today its a biggest loss to Educational field. We all lost one of the greatest educationalist, Dr. HN.
He was the President of National Education Society (NES) , which comprises of National Higher Primary School, National High School, National College and variuos branches.

He was one of the greatest personalities who had dedicated his complete life to one Goal.
He was one of the greatest personalities who used to live in 10x10 Hostel room for the entire lifetime with his students
He was one of the greatest personalities who din't have anything of his own, no family, no house, no car nothing
He was one of the greatest personalities who used to eat in Hostel mess like a simple student.
He was one of the greatest personalities who encouraged even 4th Std child to think scientifically
He was one of the greatest personalities who used to imbibe science into every drop of his blood
He was one of the greatest personalities who lived like a philosopher, being a science prof
He was one of the greatest personalities who followed Gandhian rules for the entire lifetime
He was one of the greatest personalities who wore only Khadi for the entire lifetime

He was Vice Chancellor of Bangalore Univ.
He challanged Sai Baba many times for his "Pawadas"
He used to walk everyday in Lalbagh
He used to listen to melodious Music.
He enjoyed our group song, One of his fav.s was " Baaro saadhana kErige, maraLi ninnee bhoomige", by Da. Ra. Bendre


I bow my head to him and touch his feet, for all the dedication, simplicity and achievement he has done for educational field.

Desire and Expectation

Hmm.. Welcome back to Bloggers world Karthik....
Uffffff it was really hectic week... Loads of work...


Some days back Sachin, a colleague of mine and I were having another tea-time dicussion. During ythe course of conversation he told "Expectation is root cause of Misery" and he related that to one of the Kannada saying --> " aaseyE dukhakke moola", which translates to " Desire is root cause of Misery " . Then started our actual debate..

Sachin says --> Desire and Expectations are same..
Karthik says--> No they are different, however they might be related..

Sachin thinks for a while and says --> hmm.. may be you are right..

Sachin tries to relate them --> When ever you have desire, you have some expectations..
Sachin relates them with another exmple --> Airplane and Its wings.. where Airplane is mapped to Desire and Baggage is to Expectation.

Karthik gives an example contradicting Sachin's statement--> My desire is to get married with Aishwarya Rai.. but I dont expect that to happen..

Sachin thinks again ang gives another Ex: --> Airplane and Baggage. Airplane is mapped to Desire and Baggage to Expectation.. Airplane can contain a Baggage but Baggage can exist without Airplane also.. So they are related in a very loose manner..

What do you think .. ??