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Friday, August 13, 2010
Robber Dad
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You never know what thought processes get triggered by some of your routine actions.
Friday, August 6, 2010
PTM's and Camels
He seems to be decent at studies so the teacher had nothing untoward to say about him.
Just was wondering about this concept of having computer science for kids. I have'nt gone through what they cover in this subject . Possibly define the parts of a computer, and maybe give a tour of windows.Probably.
How does it help the child ? What does he learn? And spending more than a period every week on something which might not even exist when they pass out. Forget passing out - we might not have computers the way we know them even in the next 5 years.Atleast the pictures of computers seem to filled with CRT monitors and CPU and the odd laptops.
Would you like to have your children study about cars, bikes , the various parts or how about cycles. Why not music systems - or why not mobile phones? they have more computing power than the computers shown on the books of these kids.
Who comes up with such ridiculous curriculum? Beats me! One can easily see the work of a committee here. Leave a committee to come up with a design for a Horse - they will come up with a Camel. I believe theres a quote to that effect.
Talking of camels - few of them were seen outside the school - taking children on short rides.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thou shall not covet thy enemy's wife
Well, atleast that is one moral you could take away - after watching Mani Ratnams latest offering - Raavan(Tamil).
Good to see Ratnam in action after a long wait. Wonderfully engrossing movie. Locales(wow), the camera, and acting. Vikram's facial expressions literally carried the movie.And Aishwariya was at her beautiful best and well within her acting capabilities. That alone speaks volumes for Mani Ratnam.
Wonder, what the location was - could be Coorg or Kodai. But, such original locations never before seen on screen - I haven't. Almost the entire movie has been taken in rain.
If you want a proper movie review you could read this, and don't miss the comments.
I would not like to comment on the hindi version, because I have not seen it, and well , I don't intend to.
Wonder, what the location was - could be Coorg or Kodai. But, such original locations never before seen on screen - I haven't. Almost the entire movie has been taken in rain.
If you want a proper movie review you could read this, and don't miss the comments.
I would not like to comment on the hindi version, because I have not seen it, and well , I don't intend to.
I guess that can be taken as a comment.
Just for the records - I am a great fan of Abhishek.
Just for the records - I am a great fan of Abhishek.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Runs
Talking of Runs - my morning runs have been steady the past 2 months. I must be doing over a 120 kms per month. Every day I am running 5kms now - barring the days it rains or when I travel.
have wanted to raise it to 6-7 kms atleast once during the week - but the route is so set - that once I start its habitual for me to take the same turns.
Yesterday an interesting thing happened. I met an acquaintance and made a positive comment on his dress. He took it as a comment on his fitness and remarked that his daily morning walks of 5 kms are the reason for it.
I didnt want to tell him about my schedule - wonder what he would thought. Perhaps that I was pulling his leg.
I guess its about time I ran atleast one Full Marathon. Been running half's for quite sometime now. Raise the bar..
Friday, July 23, 2010
Trip tp Velankanni
Generally I manage a trip every once in six months - this has been over a year I guess. Its going to be very short just planning on an 8 hour stay before I start back.
If the weather happens to be very good I will stay one more day probably.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Peas and Carrots
Last week we attended a Rock show by Peas and Carrots a local rock Band from Bangalore. They were playing at reliance Time out at their annual Rock Fest. .
Tried placing a comment for the above article but coudl'nt do so. Captcha kept returning invalid. So am pasting my comment here
I was their at the show with the Kids. They enjoyed it to some extent but I enjoyed it more. Especially the older numbers from Beatles & Simon & Garfunkel.
Siddarth has a great voice and he came up with some excellent guitaring. One of the renditions by sheela was supperb. dont remember the song. Claude was great on the Keyboard - providing some cool accponiment.
Want to Thank Reliance Timeout for coming up with this format. Great to get to listen to some wondeful home grown talent.
Peas and carrots - Wish you all the best
Hope to catch you guys at your next show.
Dadomatic
Was going through the blog Dadomatic started by chrisBrogan .
wondering if we could start something like that. I personally know people who would love to contribute.so what if they were in different parts of the world.
We could share situations we face as Dads. About the episodes we have with our kids. The challenges we face with our respective "better halfs".
Would be fun no doubt.
wondering if we could start something like that. I personally know people who would love to contribute.so what if they were in different parts of the world.
We could share situations we face as Dads. About the episodes we have with our kids. The challenges we face with our respective "better halfs".
Would be fun no doubt.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar
Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar: "thing that made the study different from others is that the researchers didn’t"
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Talent is Useless
This post is from my wordpress blog. Harsha Bhogle on Excellence.
Yesterday I was watching a video of a talk given by Harsha Bhogle in IIMA a few years ago. Wonderful talk, longish, but worth the time. Here is the complete video Part1 , Part2 .
He mentioned that Indians are big on glorifying Talent. And he was primarily talking about the Indian cricketers. Talented stars in India are feted till they get turned into arrogant Divas who make big dollars but no runs. ( He didnt say all this – it was my addition, its my blog yaar – come on) .... readon
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Driving in Rain
an emergency trip to chennai turned out to be quite eventful.
while on the way the tire blew up - first such experience for me and I thought the car would disintegrate. I was going at around 90 kms/hr when this happened. But, could I believe my luck when the car stopped right next to a automobile garage.
I just couldnt beleive it-here I was somewhere near ranipet - and apart from this garage for atleast another km on either side there were no buildings. But, I just got it repaired right away and moved on.
The real challenge wqs while we were returning. It was a night drive with rains from Ambur onwards. the rain was not torrential , but bad enough - the visibility was bad. Infact a few times I felt the car slide sideways maybe a few inches not more - but that was enough to bring down the speed to around 60. There were quite a few cars whizzing by at 100 even in that rain.
I guess they had very good tyres.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Dhoni
But, I hope before the next tournament starts - the Indian team is able to bounce back. The team desrves it - on a good day when even 2-3 of our batsmen are playing to their potential we can beat any team in the world.
I guess the one reason for this supreme confidence in the Team is - Dhoni.
The way he leads the team is like a running lesson in Leadership. The various learnings that can be had and more are listed here . Dhoni is truly and inspiring persona.
One of the things which stand out are
- The ease with which he accepts the result. If its a win - he is gracious in his praise and if a loss he accepts the mistakes takes the learnings and moves on.
There is no blame game.The match is over buried - another match a different day start afresh.
How has a manged to distill such traits at such a young age. He is not 30 yet.
He doesnt mince words and takes his critics head on at times but mostly he sticks to being a cricketer - without getting distracted by the entrapments.
Here is what Albie Morkel his csk team mate mentioned recently about dhoni “He is calm and relaxed. If he is upset with something or any player, he doesn’t go out and rebuke them, but goes to the coach. He soaks pressure and brings the best in every player.”
He soaks the pressure. Not many cricket captains come to mind who deal with on field mistakes the way dhoni does. The max is a glare. Thats about it. Time just move on.
The ability to live in the present even in the pressure cooker situations. At any given time it almost feels like he has an aerial view of the cricket field while still being in the thick of the action.
The volume of praise coming his way is not going to end soon . A loss in one tournament is not going to make any difference. Infact, it was just a week before that Dhoni and his men finished a marathon 45 days plaing 59 games amongst themselves as part of the IPL. The players in the indian team were pitted against one another as part of different teams. It would take some time to get back the right dress room atmosphere. Coming into a 2 week event where loosing 2 games in a room can mark an end to your chances .
So lets say it was good the Team got out . Gives us a much needed break from cricket for sometime. Before we again get immersed in the next tourney the championship league - whenever it happens.
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