Days of my life!!

We had an interesting game of tennis today. Amongst the players, two of us were playing the game for the first time and the other two for the second. Yet, even before we got on the court, our confidence was sky high. As we stepped on the court, we could feel the Rafa Nadal or Roger Federrer within us raring to go. But soon we discovered that we were far away from those superstars.....so far, that we would have to climb great mountains and the seven oceans before we reach the 'M' of Mahesh Bhupathi ............ Our first seven or eight shots all ended at the nets. Finally a few shots crossed....and after some 15 minutes we actually understood how much power we needed to get the ball correctly across, to the other side. After a while, we decided to have a rally. One easy shot was followed, from the other end, by a great one..Whooosshhhh...... "Good shot macha.....but we are playing tennis, not cricket. In cricket this shot would have been a six for sure!!!.......Nonnn-sens...

Day 1 ended with the decision to have our Saturday lunch at the Barbeque Nation restaurant in Thane. The suggestion was given by Roshni and after much delibration and discussion, I called the restaurant at 8pm on Friday and made a booking at 1pm, the next day for 15 people. The Shanbhag brothers' were to depart from Ghatkopar. The Parabs' and Mehtas' were to be picked up from Mulund, while the Bhatt brothers' and Tanvi were being dropped by Mihir mama to Mulund. We had arranged for two cars to be driven from Ghatkopar, but Vasant kaka managed to arrange for a Sumo which could accomodate us all. At around 12pm, we decided to leave from Ghatkopar. Vasant kaka told us that the Sumo could only take 10 -12 and asked us to take a car which could accomodate all. However, Nitin and me cleverly insisted that we would manage everything. I guess both of us must get used to use our brilliant heads and amazing ideas, less often.....cause as it turned out.....not all of us could fi...

I was really looking forward to my first visit to Mumbai in 2009. Nitin was due to get married on the 15th and all cousins and relatives had descended to our home base, after almost a decade, to bless the couple. This was my opportunity to not only catch up with my relatives who stay abroad, but also get a real first-hand experience of a typical Konkani Wedding..... Part 1: Shanbhags' visit the Fish Market I had chosen a late evening flight out of Bengaluru to return home and a slight delay during take-off and a even greater delay, due to air traffic, during landing, meant that I only reached home at 12:45am. As per our family custom, I still ate a couple of pieces of fried nagli and slept off. I woke up at around 8:30am the next day, only to find that my dad was already off to Pune and sister off to college. Mom had woken me up before she left and instructed me to atleast have breakfast that she had prepared for me, before I headed off to Ghatkopar. I first called Vasant uncle a...

Saturday, 31st January 2009, marked an important day in the life of the Open-Silicon cricket team. The team was to debut in a friendly 20-20 leather ball cricket match against Philips/NXP team, which was organized to co-incide with the visit of our CEO, who is a big fan of cricket. Yes, we won the match by 8 wickets.....but this blog is not about the match. Infact, I just wanted to note down a few interesting excerpts from my conversation with our CEO to and from the cricket ground. A little bit about our Boss, before I begin - He hails from Pakistan and moved onto the US to finish his studies. He holds a PhD and was a professor for quite a while in the University of Nebraska. He worked with Intel for over a decade before co-founding Open-Silicon in 2003. Unfortunately, my knowledge about my boss was only limited to things that I had heard about him and from his corporate profile on Linkedin.com. The ocassion mentioned above gave me a unique oppurtunity to know him a little better. I ...