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Highs for the week gone by:
  • Kirti (finally) came on friday after lot of plane cancellations and delays.
  • Had a great time at Mukesh's place on a rainy friday night.
  • Had a superb time at Mithil and Pallavi's new house on a clear saturday night. Had a fun time with the potluck food and the games.
  • Had a fun time playing volleyball on a bright and sunny sunday afternoon.

Lows for the week gone by:

  • Kirti left for Chicago on monday morning.
  • Work not getting completed because of factors not under my control.
  • Not much work to look forward to in the coming months. Boss is trying to get more work our way but if the nature of the "new" work is the same as this, then it is not worth the time and does not add to the knowledge gained.

In other news, Samrat completes his work at BSC this week and moves on to Peoria, IL to work for heavy industries giant Caterpillar starting his work there on the 19th. Good luck to him. Harsha celebrated her birthday on the 5th. May 5th is one date where few people known to me celebrate their birthdays.

Is it just me that it seems that IPL is already getting boring and it is not even close to the halfway mark yet. With too many matches being played at the same time it is quite confusing to understand who won and who lost and who is playing for which team. I do manage to take a peek at the current matches for the day just to divert attention from the work, or rather the lack of work.

Harbhajan Singh should be banned from all kinds of cricket for the manner in which he treated Sreesanth. No one in professional sports should act the way Harbhajan did and I hope Sudhir Nanavati comes up with a strict recommendation for BCCI to ban the offie. This is not Harbhajan's first offense by any stretch of the imagination.

22000+ people dead and lots more counting in Myanmar (Burma) because of Cyclone Nargis. The photos from the destruction are very heart-wrenching and I hope the military government does the right thing by allowing international aid to come to Burma.

As I write this blog, the price of gas is $3.45 /gallon and most Americans here think the country is in recession. Yet, all the NBA playoff games being played are sold-out. IRONMAN earns more than $100 million in 3 days in the USA. Most MLB games played during regular work-hours are viewed by millions of fans in the stadiums and on TV. On the way to work, there is only 1 American in a gas-guzzling SUV or a car. Traffic has not slowed down a bit, neither has air travel. Come september, NFL stadiums will not have a single empty seat and will be packed with close to 60,000 fans each game, each paying through the nose for a ticket. Even after all these fears of an economic breakdown and job losses, did some one in America say Recession?

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