Intra apartment Tennis Tournament After a gap of nearly 7 years I took part in a tennis tournament at my apartment community in Bangalore. Unlike the younger days when I used to participate in league matches, I was a bit rusty on the tournament front. The funny thing is I do not find many women playing in the community. Hence to have a separate women’s tournament at the community is impossible. Therefore I persuaded my tennis male buddies to allow me to participate in the tournament when the idea was first mooted. They did not need much persuasion as they know I am a certified tennis lover like all of them. This brings an important point, most minorities just want to be treated equally and get a seat at the table. Game,set and match I knew my shot of winning a tournament like this was a long one. There were several disadvantages like weight, an average serve, weak backhand and inability to have a good court coverage. The thing that was going for me was my enthusiasm with the game ...
January started with a bang being busy at work as soon as the month started. December was a forgotten dream and it was really tough to hit the ground running. However, there were moments of bliss and one such experience is what I am going to write about today- The coldplay experience!!! A music concert like no other that warrants a blog post . I was a bit worried when I received a midnight call from my cousin Hrishi. "Was everything alright??" was my immediate thought and picked up the phone with fear. This feeling quickly turned to happiness when he said “Hey Papu do you want coldplay tickets, only catch is you have to fly to Bombay”. I leapt out of bed and did a merry dance and said yes I will confirm in the morning. My husband who had just returned from the US from a conference trip and was suffering from jet lag remarked “Not me I am not a fan and don’t know their songs but I know you are a certified nut. Take your girlfriends”. Earlier in the year when bookmyshow opene...
My last day included visiting salesforce, juniper networks and VM ware. Salesforce was beautiful. It is located in the heart of san francisco. That city is so beautiful. From the eight floor, the view of the company was breath taking. As usual we got a warm welcome. The chief architect gave us a detailed presentation. It was good. What worries me though is the security issues. Basically the service is open to whole wide world. Any prankster can play hanky panky with the service. Of course on the contrary I think the on demand model is superb. Who would have thought 5 years back that internet was going to change people's lives like this? The valley is such a trend setter. It's the best place to be if one wants to live and breathe technology and truly be high tech. The next company we visited was VM ware they are into virtualization software. It was again a great technical presentation by an MIT guy. It was too technical for me though. One would have to be interested in OS progra...
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