Cool Sunday

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I woke up late not expecting anyone to play cricket today and didn't do much; just sat watching tv. I noticed a missed call from Gullu, me still unsure of cricket. While ammusing "could it be that everyone has already reached ground", my phone rang up, it was Bhallu and we decided that we'll assemble in ground by 10:00. As usual i started out around 10:00 fearing of being the last one to bat. Finally reached mamu's house to find Prabhakar waving and Bhallu trying to pump air into the football. I stayed back to surprise bhallu, but it took them a full 10 minutes to pump it up and by the time all my enthu was over. Found out that some guys have occupied the ground and won't be leaving soon so after reaching the ground we played football for a while and waited for them to finish off. Meanwhile Prabhakar tried a vain attempt to return home but failed and Mirza finally made it after having a long tea with his friend.
We started our game around 11:40 and decided to play match by dividing ourself into teams. Me, Bhallu, Mirza and Prabhakar were facing Gullu, Mamu, Murali and this new guy. After some thinking Gullu's team decided to bat based on the conclusion that they were good at defending. Mirza decimated half of their team and Mamu's attempts to put up a good total went futile when he got out with his trademark square-shot™. A target of 13 runs in 12 overs was easy for us and we won. The second match was a bit different with scale tilting on both sides. We chose to bat this time and Prabhakar thrashed them all around the park setting up a target of 37 which looked good compared to their previous score. Murali saved the day for them by hanging in there and scoring runs regularly, luck did favour him thrice. Result: we lost and Murali became man of the match ;-) and according to our team tradition; man of the match pays for the treat at maradugu. Freshened up, took lunch and slept after returning from play at 3:30. Nothing special in the evening; slept early.

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Today i was supposed to play cricket but had to come office early for JKC Drive and two interesting things happened. One i broke my own record of reaching office by making it at 8:15 and next our visit. We started out around 8:45 and for the first time saw Golkonda from another side, it was a good view. Finally we made it to the campus by 10:00, five minutes here and there. Working with our HR team is fun specially being around Prasad, Karuna, Aarthi, Praveena and Seema. I sat and listened them talking and i was all laughing. Anyway we were in our designated rooms for the written exam. I was given the task of explaining the rules to the students, got help from Praveena and Prasad. Anyway we were done by 3:00 with all the work and to our surprise, lunch was being prepared again for us. My head felt heavy by the time we finished lunch and on top of that we had to wait another 2 hours before reached back to office. While waiting for the college staff to type the names and publishing the results. We strolled around for a while checking out chicks. While chatting with Prasad, i found out that he played state level cricket as an opening batsman. I enjoyed the recruitment drive so much that i requested him to invite me everytime they go out. After returning i stayed back for a while and composed this blog and left around 8:00.

Murky Clouds

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Today's shot looks interesting coz i get this feeling of being under murky water and looking up. It's been like that all day and rain showered around 5:00. My day started as usual with no hope of going to gym but i disliked the feeling so much so that i went ahead and did 2 sets of pushups just to feel the pump; it was heaven. Quality Day finally arrived and Applabs was full of activity with Quality buzz going all around. I didn't like one thing, the surprise gifts part where in only the QA guys were quizzed at random and we developers were left out kinda unfair. Quality lunch was good compared to the usual and it seems new section opened up for cakes and pastries. No sports today, i do wonder why we were not allowed coz all the tables were in place not an inch moved. It's now 9:00 and we're still at office finalizing the use case document and got listed for JKC Drive; head hunting for our company. Tomorrow i have to be here at office by 8:30 am, only god knows the outcome ;-).

Gloomy Day

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Today had no hope of going to the gym, coz running drenched in the rain gave me cramps. It was the heaviest rainfall for this monsoon and looking at yesterday's pic, it's a childs guess. Today it took me a lot of time to figure out what to put on and finally got out my old pair of shoes with huge soles. I had packed them safely for the rainy season but thought these might never come out but lo i had my totally sogged formal shoes and these came to the rescue. Use Cases were mailed back to us with modification and we had to make a few changes in the old format. Lunch as usual and some pool playing afterwards. We've been receiving mail about Quality Day being held here at Applabs Technologies with all sorts of quizes and white paper presentation, food and so on. A recent mail stated that our Gym and Recreation area will be used for the purpose, that meant no play for 2 days. Anyway went outside to take this snap and found clouds covering up the sun almost completely and gloomy everywhere kinda looking like a moonlit night.

Cloud Blanket

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Today woke up around 7:00 after switching off the alarm at 5:30 as usual. Checked out the download stats and upgraded the client with a newer version. Refreshed myself and moved out early to reach office in time. Fortunately the telecon was posponed for some reason and i was there when the meeting happened. Tried to use my phone as a digital voice recorded and to my surprise the recording time went up from 9 minutes to 30 minutes after covering the camera lens. The recorded voice is good enough to make out the conversation. I'm thinking of using it to record the upcoming debugging techniques workshop and share among friends. Lunch was uneventful as ever and somehow i seem to lose in TT when i'm playing Pool well and vice versa.

Looming Monsterous Clouds

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Was not sure if i would make it to the gym so no alarm, woke up late around 7:00, checked out the download status and tried a few previews. Got up freshened and mailed the pics shot yesterday to everyone and prepared for my shave. Don't know why but i always end up moving out late no matter if i goto the gym. Anyway reached office and had this small meeting about the approach and temporary tasks delegation. Got these very helpful ASP.NET videos from Varma and went thru them. Played pool after lunch lost twice and won thrice, came back to continue with the videos. Left back for some pool, but played TT instead. Got thrashed by 2-7 (i'm not telling his name) but got to learn a lot. All sweaty sat 4 a while and moved for some snacks. Remembered the dayily sky shot and took this one with dark clouds converging. I'll stay back 4 a while and update a few more blogs.

Cloudy with some Blue and Silvery

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This was the most eventful day, starting with me calling up Gullu not sure of playing cricket but to my amazement he was ready and me expecting Gullu with Naren coming for the game. Interestingly on reaching Mamu's home, Prabhakar and Mirza came down to join the game and the unexpected part was Bhallu making up his mind to play irrespective of body pains. We had a lot of fun and i pushed myself to bowl a bit faster, not sure whether i succeded or not but did bowl out a few. After the game we moved over to Maradugu around 2:30; forget the chicks even the sabji walas were gone. Mamu announced his home coming party at "Mainland China". Now that we were supposed to meet at 6:30, everyone left after having the usual. Reached home by 3:30, refreshed myself, had lunch and slept upto 6:00. I Started out around 6:30 and noticed nice sunset, took a few shots and around the same time Bhallu called up about my arrival after confirmation i asked him to take a few pics of the sunset. Reached his place by 7:30 and we reached "Mainland China" at 8:30. After the "Nan king" incident i was not sure about Vidhya appreciating the food and truly speaking i wasn't sure of it either. The food turned out tasty and our peeking expectations were shallowed by the servings even though the guy tried to explain stuff which we didn't really care anyway coz we were expecting a Nat Geo episode style peeking duck roasted and served full right on the table with the chef slicing and serving. The party was over with the concluding deserts and we were out by 10:50. Finally gullu dropped me at home around 11:00 and i went to bed after booting my pc for the scheduled downloads.

Alternate Updates

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It's boring to use same words over and over again for describing the day anyway i've decided to make this blog as my diary and keep posting the sky as usual. To start with i woke up late after silencing the alarm around 5:00. Remembered about cricket and called up Gullu/Bhallu and the game was to start around 9:30 but we were in the ground by 10:00. Recorded our bowling action after our regular play and moved out to our favourite hangout (Maradugu, K.K Tower). After cooldrinks/fruit juice returned back home and rested till late evening. Woke up with a heavy head, watched tv for a while; slept immediately after dinner. It was cloudy all day and rains poured down around mid night.

Dry and Sunny

Well the day was average with a cool start in the morning. Stayed all day in office and now leaving our building around 7:00. This pic was shot today at 5:44; our snack/pool/TT time. Ocassionally i do go the gym to check my weight and chicks as well.

Good Sunny Day

Well today the clouds don't seem to be in a raining mood, and the sky is mostly clear and the blue is as beautiful as ever. This was shot around 5:00 from our office terrace. Played a few matches, amazingly very satisfying coz we won all.

Cloudy and Humid

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This pic was shot around the same time as the one shot yesterday, almost under the same circumstances. Heavy lunch, woke up late and ran towards the terrace and found clouds all over. It rained in the night and the power outage made me shutdown my pc scheduled for the regular downloads.

Sunny and Humid

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Almost forgot to take the pic but managed to get a good one around 6:30. Playing cricket on such a day gave salt marks on our T's. The sweat was awful and cool drinks were good for the much needed relief. Hmm..., this seems to be another reason for chicks not coming out for shopping veggies near and around K.K Towers. May be someone of you might help me on this theory...

Partly Cloudy Sky

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Today it was partly cloudy and partly sunny but on the whole it was an average day. The picture i shot came a bit differently and it's worth examining. I'm assuming that the lense caught up sun glare or something even though the sun was partly behind the clouds.

Bit Gloomy but Cool Day

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Today it's cool and the heat isn't bothering much. Sitting in an AC room and working won't make u sweat anyway. A fair amout of Table Tennis might give u a wet shirt but apart from that the cool breeze flowing is a relief. Since the sun is behind the clouds, a stroll outside could be a nice idea.

Hyderabad SkyView

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Today on i'll be uploading pictures of the hyderabad sky everyday and write a few comments about it. I'll shoot the pics using a 1.3 Mpix Nokia 3230 phone and let's hope the pics look good.

For a start i'm posting 2 pics out of which one of them were shot with a 2.0 Mpix Nokia 3250 phone from the Cafeteria of Applabs Technologies.