tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168050132011-04-21T17:32:06.383-05:00Random ScribblingsPrakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-72072532175401031462009-01-01T16:23:00.003-06:002009-01-02T00:18:20.877-06:00

People in South Africa, India and every other cricket playing nation must be rejoicing at the good times ahead. Yes, the Australian Cricket team has well and truly fallen from the lofty heights reached by them over the past several years. I don't think the rest of the pack has made significant improvements in their levels and caught up with the aussies. But it has been a combination of aussies

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-50071537024086337452008-12-31T14:00:00.004-06:002008-12-31T14:57:56.608-06:00

Snow is NOT beautiful. It is bitterly cold when it snows and I can't see how everything covered in white is good looking. The only time snow is better or acceptable is when compared to rain. Give me plentiful sunshine any day !If the Sun is out in all its glory and it is nice and bright outside doesn't necessarily mean it is hot outside. Heck, it need not even mean it is warm. You could have

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-9604023149177265152008-12-28T07:39:00.007-06:002008-12-30T22:19:03.312-06:00

Yes, it's over. Done and dusted ! Phew ! People said Grad school was no joke and that it can be quite tough. People also said that Texas is very hot and on the upside, winters are much more tolerable (for someone used to Indian winters). I realized late that I had absolutely NO clue about the severity of both the things. But then again, I don't think anyone would realize that till they experience

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-26859581340751443602008-08-21T20:03:00.005-05:002009-01-01T20:25:06.408-06:00

I had written most of this stuff for people back home in India. Guess it makes for a good excuse to bump up a rotting blog through some C&P stuff. ;)I am finally getting proper internet access here from Austin. So far, whatever I have seen of this place and America in general has more or less convinced me as to why this place is everyone's dream (at least for Indians !). The places are just

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-69401009939545526252008-01-07T11:25:00.000-06:002008-01-08T03:04:51.998-06:00

People back home, here in India, would have seen the spate of new, innovative ads from Vodafone advertising to "Make the most of now". Vodafone took over from Hutchinson-Essar in India. Orange network was also a part of the Hutchinson network (not sure about the current status) and I guess Orange operates in Australia. My point is, am not sure if the same ads or similar ones appear in Australia,

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-23795969015734645432007-05-18T00:47:00.000-05:002007-06-11T10:17:37.369-05:00

The farcical showpiece tournament of ICC is well and truly over. They keep moaning about globalisation of the sport. For any sport, capturing audience in US is monetarily, a huge boost. So, here we go, let us try and explain this wonderful game to the dummies :P, in US who think baseball is way better (haha hehe huhu - gilli is way better than baseball). Credits for most of the ideas to the

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-21300908292707850472007-03-07T05:19:00.000-06:002007-03-07T12:32:37.901-06:00

Have you ever stuck to a principle/value/viewpoint in life for long and been in a mode of denial towards all those in disagreement to that viewpoint ?Have you then, over a period of time, ever wondered if so many are against my viewpoint, is it the fault of the majority or my value system ?? :-O :-??If so, how do you deal with such situations ?A lot of us spend most of our time laughing at '

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1160839904792263792006-10-14T10:19:00.000-05:002006-10-14T11:03:47.743-05:00

So says one of my company's initiatives. With someone 'talking' on a topic either related to the domain or something in general which could be applicable to a wider audience and people from other location tune in (am sure, there would be just one or two apart from the main person who is dialling in).But this is not about that Terrific Tuesday. This is about my own Terrific Tuesday - Oct, the 10th

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1156444589626422352006-08-24T12:31:00.000-05:002008-01-08T04:20:46.549-06:00

I decide to blog after quite a lengthy break and guess what...the topic once again revolves around racism and cricket !!!So, everyone has had his/her opinion on Umpire Darrel Hair, Pakistan, Inzy et al. Its a very unfortunate incident for cricket as a whole. But who is really at fault ? Could we possibly pin-point just one person or a group as being at fault ?? I think everyone involved with

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1141145208554764692006-02-28T10:45:00.000-06:002008-01-08T04:20:46.549-06:00

Recently there was a furore down under when a small section of the aussie crowd targetted few South African and Sri Lankan players with 'racist' chants during the VB series. Was the issue really as much as it was hyped to be ? I thought it was somewhat blown out of proportions, especially by the South African team management and i would think the reason for that would be the fact that they wanted

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1141072923229995422006-02-27T13:23:00.000-06:002006-02-27T14:43:51.276-06:00

Finally after a long long break, i decided to blog after hearing an interesting account of my friend's recent trip to Junagadh (hope i got the spelling right).Junagadh is a place in Gujarat near Diu. Its supposedly famous for its temple atop a mountain (10000 steps :O) and a fort. Recently there was a 'shivratri mela' and apparently tens of thousands (if not lakhs) of people throng to that temple

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1127593991938807912005-09-24T14:34:00.001-05:002008-04-28T04:43:52.669-05:00

I recently attended a seminar at Pune conducted by Ankit Fadia. It was my first visit to pune and the city seemed quite lovely, there was a calmness about it (compared with the ever hectice life in mumbai) and also quite lot of greenery. But the roads were extremely bad in almost all the areas in which i went during the day. It did not take me long to guess the reason -> it must have been the

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1127485958153627082005-09-23T09:31:00.000-05:002005-09-23T11:18:39.773-05:00

Am just going to list out some of the incidents faced by few friends of mine over the past few years that i came to know only recently and needless to say was quite shocked to hear about them.3 of my friends had decided to go back home at a very short notice and hence did not have reserved tickets. Since the number of trains from mumbai is much more than from here and also as mumbai isnt too far

Prakashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17369856536531092327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16805013.post-1126885029133017572005-09-16T23:07:00.000-05:002008-01-08T04:22:39.066-06:00

Resisted the temptation to register in blogspot for so long. Actually i started blogging just a few months back at Yahoo! 360. Was quite impressed by it and started writing my thoughts there. But the problem with 360 is that it is yet to really take off. So my blogs werent getting read or even if they were getting read they werent getting commented upon. Over a period of time, no matter how

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