Kumble takes India to brink of historic win
Indian team is so close to winning the first test match with Pakistan. It may end on the first ball of the last day. Impressive performance by Kumble and what about that triple century by Sehwag…. Excellent.
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V and I sneaked out to get lunch at a chinese restaurant near work. At the end, the freakiest thing happened… Both of us got the same fortune in our fortune cookies.
You will be travelling and coming into a fortune
Is this a sign of things to come???? Is this a sign that we are perfect together????
How many times does this happen? I have never seen cookies with the same fortune even in a big group of 8-10 people.
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Saturday night was our first night out without Ashwini. It was also our first experience with babysitting. But, it was at her daycare with her usual teachers, so, not a big change for her and she was comfortable being there. That is what we liked about it.
The last time, V and I went out to a restaurant for dinner was sometime in Feb2003, i.e. before Ashwini’s birth. We dropped Ashwini off at around 6pm and our dinner reservation was for 730. So, spent an hour at Borders to do something we like to do: browse books. Predictably, walked out of there with a couple of kid’s books for Ashwini.
Dinner at the ‘Real Seafood Company’ was excellent. Here is what we had:
Me: New England Clam Chowder followed by Sashimi-grade yellowfin tuna, grilled medium-rare with a sauce made from wasabi and soy sauce. It was heavenly. V didn’t appreciate the pink-red stuff inside the hunk of tuna, but, that was the best part in my opinion.
V: Crab cake appetizer followed by grilled Mahi Mahi with Mango Salsa. Her crab cake was tastier than the Mahi Mahi.
We had a bottle of Brancott Estates 2002 ‘Reserve’ Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough region of New Zealand and we liked it a lot. Should buy a case of it, if I find it at a local store. It was not very dry and was full of fruity flavours with high acidity and a lingering finish. I would recommend it to anyone, who is looking for a change from regular Chardonnays.
We wanted to get desserts at another place that has great desserts but, it was full and we didn’t have enough time to wait. So, ended up eating a cheesecake at a small little chocolate shop that was not that great.
Picked up sleeping Ashwini at around 945pm. That was the end of our first dinner date after more than a year. Hopefully, we’ll go out and do this more often now as we know that Ashwini is OK with babysitting in the evenings.
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Bob Edwards dumped as host of NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’
This will be a big change in the mornings of many people. Although this may sound weird and my wife wouldn’t agree, I’ll definitely miss waking up to the rich baritone voice of Bob Edwards.
“Morning Edition,” which is broadcast live from 5 to 7 a.m. and is rebroadcast throughout the morning, is the most listened-to morning radio program in the country, with 13 million listeners weekly
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Watched ‘ab tak chhappan’ last night. It is just awesome. Nana Patekar plays an officer in the special operations division of Mumbai police that ‘deals’ with gangsters. Nana is great as a cool and calculating cop. He seems so unpredictable throughout the movie. It is hard to figure out what he’ll do next. Nana’s interaction with a new officer on his first day reminded me of ‘The Training Day’, another great must-watch movie. Denzel Washington in that movie is also a special operations cop who is as unpredictable as Nana.
‘Ab tak chhappan’ is a very well scripted movie; no loose ends. Again, no idiotic songs. I think I am going to watch all Ram Gopal Varma movies at least for that one reason. The story moves at a fast pace and it is over before one knows it. A nice completely unpredictable ending. There is some violence but it is not gory. No long drawn-out fight scenes or torture of prisoners. It is shown in a casual way, like ‘Pulp Fiction’.
I highly recommend it to everyone. A must-watch for Nana fans like me. Finally a director who has used his talents properly. He is so much different than his crappy streak of ‘Krantiveer’-like movies.
P.S. This must be some kind of record. First of all, watching 2 hindi movies in 2 weeks. That doesn’t happen often… And liking them both. This is the first time ever.
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Finally, it is time to celebrate for the Indian Cricket team. It is such a sweet sweet victory. Congratulations!!!!!
Laxman and Pathan lead India to series win
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Some of my work from a long time ago got published in Biochemistry recently. My name on a paper after 3 years. Drastic reduction in ability to publish results in scientific journals is the biggest disadvantage of leaving academia for industry. Here is the abstract of the paper if anyone wants to know more….
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