johnny cash lyrics

On Christmas eve, I was watching "Walk the line." This made me post lyrics of johnny cash here on the blog. Check out this link for the same.

Watching this movie reminded me of a close friend with whom I had watched the movie earlier this year ! This is the only movie I must've watched thrice in this year.

Xmas prep

On Monday evening, I went to Bal&Val's place for the additional Xmas tree prep. Val had 65 extra ornaments and bought a 9' tree to use those up. The ornaments suited well with the wall color in their room where the tree is put up at. The color of the ornaments is non-traditional - but who cares as long as the whole set up looks neat - and it did !

I also received couple of gag-gifts from them after I told them about an incidence with one of my roomies. I also received a costume - yipee ! I will post a picture with the costume later.

Bal&Val are a cute and caring couple and have never let me miss my family - though I do long to visit India and visit parents and meet my younger bro !

A ribbon will go around the tree and I will get to see it when I visit them on Friday. On Sat morning, we start on our drive to Virginia, where Val's mom has invited me. (I had met her the last time during Thanksgiving day.)

So, now they have 2 trees: one upstairs and one downstairs !

apocalypto

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto has been nominated as the best foreign film in the Golden Globe awards and I HAD to go and watch it. His earlier flicks such as Braveheart, etc were good enough to impress me and put up $8 for the tickets.

Rudy Youngblood, a valiant hunter is hunted by the Maya kingdom's organized force for the human sacrifice ritual. This reminded me of the olden days in India....

Veggie delite ?!

Well, is veggie really a delight? Ask a vegetarian like me who is mortified now because of this piece of news regarding Taco Bell's breakout of E.coli.

cricket

played cricket yday ..I was holding the bat yday after a very long time ...and in front of my was intimidating bowler - Abby. I dont know if suddenly my defense mechanisms sprung up and I played well. I started hitting boundaries and it was one of the most rewarding overs for us - made good runs out of it.

Later, due to the circulation, I think the boys got fired up and asked if we must play another game and I said - ok. It was still daylight and we played another game - similar repeat success - same bowler - same boundary hits - but this time, I could hit to the other bowler too - so it wasn't a bowler issue - it was my play ressurecting. hahahhaha, lol....kidding - I was barely in control of the bat as compared to my earlier days. I haven't held bat since last year now.

Below is a picture of some group of people playing cricket at the same place that we did yday. This was taken earlier during the summer.

btw, my body is sore now and I plan to do sauna bath in the gym before I start working...oops, studying.

Mumbai to host 2011 Cricket World Cup

Check this piece of news - I am already in-the-money for this ! World Cups for Indian games are not like for those of US sports (where the national championship is called World championship ...lol).

I wish to see some top game in Mumbai and I wish to see the pitch of the Mumbai's stadium being developed in that light - If my guess is correct, this will be in the Wankhede stadium and not the Brabourn one.

I am a hardcore Mumbaikar to the core and it gives me pleasure to bring this piece of news to my readers !

armageddon

Killer asteroid.... I was slightly taken aback to check out that news - 2036, yeaah ...that's the year they have mentioned that it will hit a few thousand miles from west coast of US.

Who can save us?
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman ....

They said that it will take atleast 7 years just to plan a mission of this scale.


On a sidenote, for project management profile, the recruiter from Raytheon had selected me - but 100% of their projects are of classified nature. It could've not given me the money - but I would've been a specialist.

....another one bites the dust...

Suchi, a good close friend, once reacted on another common friend's engagement - "I dont know why ppl get engaged n all. Buttameez (shameless) bacche - desperation mein aakar they get engaged n all ..."

I remembered this when ...one more friend intimated me that she is getting engaged this month. I was thinking - well, how can ppl commit for life at age 25?

Reasons for not making the decision favor you more than reasons for making the decision:

1. If you date more you can explore more choice. More choice helps you make better decision - just like shopping. There is a risk of losing out on an earlier better candidate but there is also a risk of getting tied to something (or someone) without doing market research (I am talkin business now...:P check out my earlier post on Marriages as mergers/takeovers...) I agree marriage is about love and what you like and things like that - however, it is also about spiritual growth of both the partners when the initial attraction (blame Cupid for that) is over. With age and experience comes maturity and hence, enhanced judgment capacity for making a better choice.

2. There is a threat of getting older while taking time to make the decision - well, marrying till 29,30 is perfectly fine - given the fact that the life-expectancy is increasing and that kids start earning at earlier ages. However, this risk can be mitigated by focusing on checking out the options in the right range of age !

3. There is no need to retire early because you make more when you are older ....

Reason which someone gave me while advising to get married early is that one gets freed of material obligations earlier in life. But, with my points above, this is countered already !