'The Winning streak' & 'Mix of pace'!!!

On this fine day, when I read the reviews on India winning the first T20 World cup, one thing that hit me about the 'Man of Mane'...the current skipper Mr.Mahendra singh Dhoni is his attitude to handle pressure situations. Be it match or work or anytime, handling a pressure situation is not everyone is good at. It's a positive trait that this captain has. I remember that I voted for Saurav Ganguly to be the promising skipper in a web poll sometime back. After that, I happened to watch matches in web simulation (Nothing can beat the live coverage though!) where I could visualise some of the good aspects of this young Jharkand lad.

When I heard the thrilling win by Indian team today through one of my friend, I was rushing to read the snippets and look at the images of the team's win. Although I was happy on the winning part, I was the most happiest when I came to know my favourite Irfan Pathan bowled a good spell and grabbed the 'Man of the Match' award. Although Irfy had a lean patch for the past few months and struggled to find a place in the team, this match had proved his worth. I am always inclined to bowlers rather than batsman. Being a huge fanatic of Srinath (The bowling legend) from the days I started watching cricket till now, I am a fan of Irfan Pathan too. This is because I always like people who show their calibre not only in particular area but try to do something in other areas too. Sri and Irfy belong to this category as they both not only bowl but also can bat and mark the match with a thrilling and scintillating win (@times :)).

And here is the youtube video of IP after receiving his MOM award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8SKLmmRaM
I am at cloud nine when I watch this moment and hence I chose this one among the rest of the videos to post here. Man, I am jumping out of joy!!!

Kudos Irfy for your wonderful comeback and 'Chak de India!'

Silver Jubilee of :-)

Can any of you deny the fact that :-) had become a part of the email/chat room emoticons? Nay.. A gist on its history here...

Carnegie Mellon's prof Scott E Fahlman is the founder of this emoticon. He was the first one to use the three keystrokes a colon, a dash and a bracket.

Most of us know that this symbolises a smiley face. Basically these emoticons act as a channel for emoting oneself when you don't have the voice.

Almost in all the mails I use this one. Even my blogs have them.
To mark the silver jubilee of :-), am ending this blog with a series of .....
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

I wish everyone get atleast one :) today. Do you have one of them in your emails??? Check it out!!! :)

This is Chemistry!!! - A Balancing equation

Although I loved Chemistry as a subject during my high school classes and wanted to crack the exam by scoring a centum (which I din't :(), this is not what I am gonna talk about. Conical flasks, chemsitry labs, Litmus tests, chemical equations, Organic compounds...that, this and then watttt???? These are out of my mind but not the TITLE here! After a few tech posts, wanted to deviate a bit from the track and here is how...

Y'day, I invited some of my friends here for dinner and suggested to watch a movie at home. Wat a junta mix? We were people of Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam origin - basically mixed bunch of friends. So, selecting a movie of everyone's taste was a question but finally ended in a tamil movie called 'Kanda Naal Mudhaal' (We, tamilians won :))

Baseline of the movie is 'online chemistry'...Wait! not the chemistry that I was talking in the opening few lines. I meant the chemistry between two people to fall in love :) I have heard lotsa real life love stories from friends and after seeing the movie, I wondered none of them had mentioned about this chemistry...Yeah! they dint mention this word but they called by different names like spark, tingle, happy feeling...Laila and Prasanna has done a splendid job proving their natural acting ability. Especially I liked Prasanna in this movie. Although I have watched this movie before, this time I could relate what they call Chemistry as.

The climax and ending line from Karthik (second hero) 'This is Chemistry!' - I like it :))

And a balancing act indeed!!! The picture says that...

All about M...

Top 10 in descending order. Read more below...
10. Kim Polese - CEO, Spikesource
9. Susan E Sheskey - CIO, Dell
8. Padmasree Warrior - CTO, Motorola
7. Shona Brown - Senior VP, Google Business Operations
6. Ann Livermore - Executive VP, HP Tech Solutions
5. Susan Decker - President, Yahoo
4. Pat Russo - CEO, Lucent
3. Meg Whitman - CEO, eBay
2. Anne Mulcahy - CEO, Xerox
1. Diane Greene - CEO, VMWare

Who are all these people???
eWeek has published the '10 Most powerful women in IT'. Although I have read about only few of them in the above list, this triggered me to read about the rest whom I am unaware of. I always dream big (most of us do :)) and now I am thinking 'Atleast after a decade, will I be in this list?' :):):)

This week has become a 'Management week' for me. With piles of Management magazines (Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Entreprenuer, Smart Business) at my desk, I did get a chance to read a book (apart from the Magazines galore) called 'It's your ship'. It's simply superb...It's a book that I would suggest people who like leadership and Management (I'm one among them) There's a saying - 'Leaders are born and not made' but I don't agree with this. There are exceptions in each case. And the strategies that Captain Michael Abrashoff has given, is worth reading.

The best thing that I enjoyed reading it is 'Knock out the standard procedures' - This is one of the mantra that I follow. I could relate most of my ideas with whatever he has written. Obviously then, I am supposed to say 'It's a damn good book and guide to grassroots leadership'.
I cherished being in the captain's crew by reading it and felt 'It's your ship' an interesting and insightful one.

Apart from all these M-strategies, I've started writing my own favourite topic called PDP (Sounds like GDG (for Mainframers :)) and GDP (for economists)) . I don't want to give details about it now. Check that out in my coming blogbusters :)

+1...

After a hiatus, am back to Blogging.

A series of calls and a bunch of ecards in your inbox from your dear and near ones is what one expects on a B'day. Isn't it? I am not an exception in this case :)

Adding a year to my personal profile and counting how many years I had spent in this world is the first thought that came to my mind. I have had celebrated my Bdays in different ways and this one was different too...One of my close friend and his friends had come home with this cute little flower pot as a Bday gift. These flowers smile like me always :):):) As I expected, few of my friends and sis, cousin called to wish me.

One thing is for sure...whether u forget your Bday(I won't :)) or your friends do, but your parents will never.