Team Work Works!T20-world cup

What a match!nail biting, thriller. Sherlock holes, Fredrick Forsyth, jeffery archer and everyone in a single day, in 30 minutes time, Twist and turns, see saw.. and many more words. But in the end of the day, it is not only winning all that counts, but the performance as a team. Pakistan also put up a great fight, but that day and this series is a win for Indian teams TEAM WORK. Look at the charge everyone is on, each infusing that to the next guy and it was spread like fire. Dhoni has right said, he has not seen such a dressing room for years. The ups and down of individual was observed by the team and in totality they won, if in one match Yuvraj scored, then in another Gambir scored, but Pathan ,RP,Srisant, Sharma,Utthapa completed equally. At the end of the day, we were not able to associate the win to one guy, but has to give it to the team. That is team work, we should not be able to single out. we can only say the team works and different people may give the credit to different people, this is an indication of the Teams total strength.

Failures should be in curriculum

I have been thinking about writing about failures for quite some time. I am wondering why we were not taught or encouraged to fail in school or college. (Or has it been taught to us indirectly)- No body would recommend there children to fail in any subject and even children are afraid to fail. I remember failing in my classes once I think I got 27 marks in social studies when I was in 4th or 5th standard and I remember a long preparation to disclose this to my parents( right time to deliver so that you will not be thrashed, tough nothing like that happened) This is one of the most important learning we all need in our work or domestic life as we all know we cannot succeed all the time. Thinking back may be we should encourage kids to experiment and fail, that way they will try to venture in new domains. And even if they fail in the subjects, we should teach to cope up rather than admonishing. I also think there may be some statistical evidence that people who have failed in their schools and college may have the courage to take risk and do well in their profession. They have better experience in failing and learning than the person who has scored good marks always. List of personalities who have failed..Edison, Lincoln.. I think we can list all the great people in the top, each would have failed many times. I think that’s what experience is all about, it does not mean an experience person will not fail, but he knows it is inevitable and how to cope with that. Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Harry Potter and the Indian Connection

Like many i was also Harryed. It is a great book especially for kids and those enjoy magic. I feel there is lot of Indian Connection-few.. The Deathky Hallows(The three Brothers-questioned by Death) - In Mahabharath Pandavas were questioned by Yama(The Hindu God of Death). The Silver Doe- Reminds me of Maricha(In Ramayana) though in Ramayana the deeer form-Maricha tricks the Heros. And Nagini(Ofcourse we all know about Nagas ,in many of the Indian Stories). Least of all - people can remember Sridevi's Nagina.

Die Hard - Federer vs Nadal

"You don hv any idea what i am capable off" - this is the dialogue by the Villain in Die hard 4.0. It seems like that was the message Nadal was conveying to Fed. on the Wimbledon finals. Though Nadal is not the villain, his message was very clear- grass is not my favourite but i will make you "Cry".. thats what exactly he did to Fed. made him cry(Huge relief for Fed, the match is over.). Nadal unnerved Fed., the guy who is so cool, at one point was so unnerved he uttered to the Chair Umpire " How in this World this point is in?" (The Challenge point which Nadal got on his favour). Rest apart - what a match... both of them at their best, except for the last game... the match was evenly poised.. at many times it was like Nadal is Winning. There is no meaning of Unforced errors in this match, the % for both players showed 45 , 46... but what is "unforced"..both of them were forcing the other player... though it looked like a open court... unless the ball is dead, no one is sure.you play a drop the other guy comes from the base line and hots a winner...so you are forced to think extreme and play extreme to win a single point. Great rivalry and we are going to see more... if Roger is not so exhausted.. Nadal is ready. Comaring with Die Hard if Fedex almost got hit by MIG.

Great Banyan Tree- Calcutta

Visited the botanical garden on 10th June and saw the great banyan tree.Amazing , there are more than 10,000 branches and each one is like a tree in itself, we will never know which is the mail tree(my relative told me the a main tree has been removed).A must for anyone visiting Calcutta.

Calcutta

After a fortnight in Calcutta- Calcutta is the link to know the evolution of cities in India. Unlike its reputation Calcutta is neat only.Its is like a city which has been planned and shrunk, but in retrospect, this is how city could have been planned 100 years back. I think Calcutta has the wide variety of transports: rickshaw,auto,taxi,buses,metro train and the unique Tram. We find sweet shops at every few yards.The weather is like Chennai.

Books To read

The Mythical-Man Month-Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.,

Men are from Mars women are from venus