SRI'S Blog

I was travelling last week and used one of the call taxi services to get to the airport.. Not always you get this kind of a driver -- who was very courteous , had tons of innocence on his questions and happy and contented . He called up well ahead of his scheduled time to be at my residence and indicated he knew how to get to my place and that he will be on time. That was reassuring since it was early morning and other transport options may not be available so easily. Drove steadily , stopped at signals although it was early morning and kept me engaged. As he just got in to the airport his two questions made me go back in time. How long have you been flying ? That was easy.. I said "close to 25 years " . The next question was " do you remember your first flight ? " I stuttered and said yes.. He asked " was it exciting ?" .. I said I flew with lots of tiredness and did remember the first flight.. Rewind .. I was in my last couple of months of my Industrial...

The week end that went past ( Feb 11/12 ) was one of those hectic ones but I did have a good time. Plenty of things to do but I managed to do all of them and enjoyed doing so thoroughly. As I wrote down my week end check list of things to do during the mid week , I was overwhelmed with the things that I wanted to accomplish over the week end. The list had family lunch/ Dinners , visit to a temple, celebrations etc etc. It needed lot of planning , energy and enthusiasm , stringent timelines to be met , support of family and others. Here is the list that I went through over the week end. Saturday Morning beach walk with colleagues for one hour ( give another 45 minutes to get to the beach , yank , limber around ) Banking work post Breakfast - Enroute drop / pick up daughter from her class Noon - Lunch with In laws ( Acid Test ) at home so no travel time or ordering and waiting. All ready at home done by Mom and Wife ( how nice ) Post Lunch -- Fuel the car and do shopping for next week t...

The time it took for the match to complete was aptly summed by Nadal's address to the crowd post the match -- He addressed them with " Good Morning Everyone ". The final that lasted five hours and fifty three minutes ( a five setter ) was a thriller with demonstration of strength of physical stamina of both the Gladiators (Djokovic and Nadal ), missed chances ( more to Djokovic than Nadal in terms of break points converted ) , support of support staff of both players who sat through this period of time and the crowd. It was early morning on Monday when Djokovic came out as winner defending his title. Both the men gave nothing away and when it looked like one player was taking the match away , the other one will bounce back with greater energy . Both men traded ferocious strokes trying to out power the other. Rallies lasted longer but none of them ever gave up chasing the ball in their side of the court. Their physical strain was visible only at the presentation cer...