One should be well-versed in either Telugu or Punjabi to interact with desis in Bay Area.

Ahh..Wednesday....weekly status report day..and I wish to send this along with the report.

As expected it turned out to be best match in recent history. But unexpectedly climax script went wrong for die-hard Federer fans like me; He was supposed to win the title though not easily but in not more than 4 sets.

He was little scratchy in first 3 games of first set, in second set for first 6 games he was back in rhythm but in 7^th game some ‘noisy audience’ disturbed his concentration and he handed a easy volley into net and also ended up losing that game and next 3 games to lose the set.

It was hard to choose a winner in 3^rd set, and in 4^th set again his first serve started to trouble him and at the same time rescued him in 4^th set tie-break (also Nadal’s double fault at 5-2 helped), and in final set his first serve TOTALLY deserted him, he also looked little tired n jaded after splitting 12 games, and ended up losing.

In my opinion, he played at least 1 gear below his potential, whereas Nadal is in form of his life and played exceptional tennis.

In all, it turned out to be heartbreaking especially after his French open beating; here he was expected to win, and in spite of not being in his best form he still took it to last set and lost from there.

And on the same day, India lost another final, this time to SL, and again same story; from past so many years either Jayasuriya or Murli or Vaas do something special and this time along with Jayasuriya this Mendis fellow destroyed them.

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Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, turned out to be routine college-romance kind of GOOD movie, with a very very silly ending, though people say there can’t be better end. Huh.

Names in it are really bad or dumb e.g. Rats/Meow/Bombs…..very irritating, and also who calls their parents peachy or pumpkin??

Songs are misplaced, but they are good enough to make you sit through out.

29-June-2008- Somewhere in North Cal.
Rarest of rare photo where we both are laughing in a same frame

buahahahaha

Today, I bunked office for couple of hours to play tennis B-)

Now the feeling of coming back has started to sink in. But still when some friends or relatives ask “ab kab aaogey” makes thing little tough.

Anyway, part of life. Chalta hai.
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First 2 days at court were miserable, I lost on both days, plus buggers (my friends) misplaced my racket, so I had to play with some stupid racket.

Also I’m a bad loser. But yesterday normalcy restored and I won both sets with ease, and also I got my beautiful blue racket back.
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It’s been ages since I had my 1-to-1 with my boss, and I really want to talk to him about couple of issues that have been bothering me and have started to affect my personal life as well. Though nothing major but still I feel like making him aware about how I feel about certain things. No worries, will handle it.
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Today morning again I got late coz of Ana – Dechy game, it was a fantastic duel that lasted some 3 and half hours, though in end Ana won but she lost some respect as she disputed one of the points won by Dechy at a crucial stage and convinced umpire to go for a “RE”.
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These days my brother-in-law is with us, he is here to explore possibilities with some universities for his MS, and he has this amazing quality of killing lyrics ,of any song without even realizing it. Yes any song, he cannot sing a line correctly, wait a line is too big for him; he can’t sing even two words correctly. I don’t know how he manages to bring weird words in between…for example yesterday he was singing “Khoon Chala” from RDB as “Khoon jala” and other day it was “Dheere jalna” from Paheli as “Dheere chalna” .
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Its better to say nothing about ongoing Asia Cup.
Boss, yeh kya mazzak ho raha hai, Hongkong, UAE ko kyu bula liya, B’desh kaafi nahi tha kya.

I'm back, I'm back, I'm back..imagine that with echo effects just like any of K' serials.

Man, its tough, I mean real tough to even think about work after 40 days break at home, though I worked for almost 100 hrs from home, but this feeling of sitting in office surrounded/hounded by boss and colleagues is a different thing altogether.

B'day was strange as expected , till 4 in evening we were busy doing shopping (buying gift for wifey, (shouldn't it be other way round; lets leave that for some other day) ), and we had to leave for airport at 9pm, so did packing in record 1 hour (although later on did lots of reshuffling of stuff)
Whole journey was uneventful, and that was a good thing.

Now, each n everyone is asking about my trip and all, and I'm tired of talking the same thing again and again.

Last year 28 days past like 2 days, and this time 40 days vacation flew past like 40 minutes, and now after spending 2 hrs in office I feel as if I never left this place.

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Yesterday, Turkey's win over Czech Republic was fantastic, somehow I had that feeling that they'll win, they looked very determined in second half specially their captain, and also world's best goalkeeper choose a wrong day to go off colour.

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