Resurrection ?

Resurrection for zirakzigil, my laptop. After a hurried flight down to Madras due to the untimely demise of my grandpa ( a great man) who is to some extent responsible for me being the kind of hu"man" that I am , I discovered that I had suffered another bereavement, that of my laptop hard drive being slowly eaten up by bad blocks . Other than a couple of things being lost, nothing much since most of it was backed up in office spent the whole of Friday in resurrecting my laptop installing ubuntu and possibly setting up a mirroring system with another usb hdd that I acquired in the past. Also in this I must give due credit to IBM who got me a new hard disk in no time whatsoever.

A tale of 2 minute hands.

A clock in Bristol , UK has 2 minute hands. Why may I ask ? Apparently there exists a Bristol standard time which is 10 minutes behind London . http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/bristol-time.htm. That certainly calls for multiple minute hands in a lot of clocks here in India. Very very interesting and truly brit thing to do . I am pretty sure us Indians would also do the same thing considering all that we have inherited from them :)

The deep end can be fun.

Its been a good weekend. Slept most of it thanks to a drill of 2 hours in the pool on Saturday . The deep end usually has been a lot of fun as far as my work has always been concerned, but saturday was literally spent in the deep end of the pool . The feeling of floating with just a tube supporting the many tubes around your waist ;) was real good fun. Cycling across the pool, figuring out how to keep breathing and kicking in turn to get the breast stroke right was also rather good fun.The good part of this whole exercise has been that for a week I have successfully managed to do some physical activity to stretch the parts of the body that I had kind of forgotten totally about for a week in continuum. (Mom are you reading this ?? ) Well I certainly hope so :) ..

Anyways thats that... Sunday is over, spent the evening watching Munna Bhai MBBS a rip off on Patch Adams though Boman Irani, Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi as Circuit were awesome and spent the whole time laughing my head off. Tomorrow's Monday and the day beckons. ...

Hello World 2006

Hello World 2006. The first post in the new year and it has to be a hello world :) . Spent the New Year weekend playing Monopoly which was a classic game replete with diabolical strategies, mergers & acquisitions, meeting threats to the existence in the game. Wow ! it was a blast. Also spent some time watching the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings (ROTK) on a friends HDTV . That was also awesome.

The other things I did was to catch up on 3 crappy Tamil movies, one great Tamil movie by a new director called Cheran who seems to come up with one hit after another. This one was called Thavamai Thavamirundhu and Raj Kiran and Cheran himself essayed among their best performances. I expect this should win some more awards. It really was well made. The other thing I did on the last day of last year was to enroll in a swimming course. Right now learning how to kick in water, and float so that Mulshi (circa 2003) does not repeat itself. :)

Other than that, the same old work in a new year . Nose to the grindstone ....