Its been almost 8 months since the last post.Pretty long!! Long enough to make me forget about actually having a blog.But, I somehow remembered it.
Right then , without much ado lets get to the bits and pieces that are in a marathon in my head right now :
- 24-May-09 : Royal Challengers Bangalore were defeated by Deccan Chargers in the finals of Indian Premier League 2009.Sad! Ridiculed by many(including Bangaloreans) for following a team that languished at last but one position in the last year's tournament.I always knew the team had all the abilites to lift the cup but wasn't getting things in the right place.Was proud by the performances of the players in the team but was devastated in the end as we just lost by ridiculously low margin of 6 runs.Ridiculous because the way the batsmen goofed it up in the end.Almost got a chance of witnessing Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble lifting a trophy at an international tournament.(I know the name is Indian Premier League but still...)
- 27-May-09 : After the IPL devastation ceremony 3 days ago, I was looking forward to witness Man Utd lifting the Champions League by defeating Barcelona in the finals.Almost all pundits(including me) predicted a tight match and a close finish.That didn't happen!! Barcelona stamped all over Man Utd and made them look like School kids!! The loss was frustrating,irritating,insulting!! This lead to the 2nd loss in the finals for my teams within 4 days!! (RCB was the first if you have forgotten it already)
- 05-Jun-09 : My dear camera Canon S5 IS's flash was on strike for last few months.I begged my Dad to take it to the service centre thats pretty close to his office(well, realtively..).He obliged and got the job done.But, as the service took time, I couldn't carry it along with me in Goa trip that happened in between this post and the last one(dates, I mean).Never mind!
- 12-Jun-09 : It was 1.30am and serenity surrounded me! Then, I almost screamed my heart out when I read this on my laptop screen - "Internal hard drive not detected".I was thinking of the dreaded "C" word.The Air France flight 447 from Rio De Janeiro to Paris met the same fate and since then this word was hovering around in my head.A #^&@ CRASH!! My hard disk had crashed!!! The sys admin at my office confirmed the next day that It was indeed a crash and would send it to Dell service centre to check if the data can be recovered. I was doomed.It took me a day to regain my senses.I hadn't taken a backup of the data even once since I put my hands on the lappie and was in risk of losing all the official mails, project info, lotsa personal stuff and etc etc.As it stands today, I'm still waiting for the final word from Dell guys on the Data recovery.I'm praying day and night hoping to get the data back.
- 15-Jun-09 : Was listening to music on my Nokia 5800 phone and all off a sudden it threw some memory card error and stopped playing music.Thought it would be a regular glitch with memory cards that I had experienced in my earlier phone.I then restarted my phone to see if it would change anything.What an idea, sirjee!! I couldn't see a single piece of data that I had saved on the memory card.I turned towards "File Manager" and saw the dreaded "C" word(not the same one)!!We curse our politicians and cops and govt officials sunk in this.And now, I was looking at my phone that had a memory card whick took the same path.The memory card was CORRUPTED!! Nokia shop guys told me half an hour ago that I would need to hit the Service centre to get the problem sorted out.Lets see if I can sort this out at the earliest!
Thats the story so far! Uff, took me a while to type.
Also not to forget the disastrous campaign of Indian team in T20 WC.Its better left unsaid.They have disappointed more than a billion people, more with their attitude than their cricketing skills.
Sad but true! The last 5-6 weeks have been disappointing.Every time I look for something to cheer for, it turns sour and leaves me shattered.
Never mind!!
Hoping for better things in weeks/months/years to come.
Hope kills none as someone said!
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