Diary Entry for 30.03.2011

Before getting into the entry for Wednesday, just a brief mention of Tuesday

5:00 PM: Slight irritation in throat and difficulty in swallowing anything.

5:10 PM: Met the Doctor for diagnosis, mild pharyngitis detected. BP Check: High

Now, this BP thing can be explained with the phenomenon called “India vs Pakistan Cricket Match in a World Cup Semi final”.

Wednesday began with a brisk morning walk, after almost three months went for a walk, reason being this:  

@skptweets Went for Morning walk today to be 100% fit for the game. #INDwin

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I know this sounds pretty boring read, so let’s jump to the action scenes then!!

Missing out on the toss and first two overs, reached home, switched on the TV and saw on the Scroll 4nb 4 4 0 4, no words yet invented for the reactions.

Sachin Tendulkar being LBW, denied! Stumping Denied! – At this point it felt as if this was all just a formality to denigrate the Pakistan cricket team to have the audacity to reach the semi-finals and face India. 

Image courtesy www.in.com

All those dropped catches off Sachin’s Bat! – Belief in the supreme power [whatever name you want you can fill here] became stronger and stronger

Dhoni’s Batting – so much expectation that he would finally fire but L [may be he is waiting for the finals to peak at the right time, want a DNB beside his name]

Raina’s batting – missed out on his first few strokes because of jinx that a wicket would fall every time we tuned in to the channel, but were brave enough to hook onto the screen 45^th over onwards; he proves with every innings that he is the asset of the future!

Innings break: went out to catch up with some snacks and were forced by Mother Nature and her thunderstorms to wait outside a roll stand and watch Zaheer being picked and hit.

By the time the rain stopped and we returned home, THE MUNAF had struck, what an idiotic shot it was!!!

Have been cursing Harbhajan Singh throughout the series but had no words when he struck with his “tingli”

After the usual fighting sequence the battle was over and we emerged victorious!!!!

Leaving you with the verdict of some experts of the game: Afridi's daughter's match analysis!

PS: I had plans of tweeting anything and everything during the match but somehow because of some mysterious reason only during some dull moments caught up with the world. 

5 Things I want in my Android HTC to improve

It has been more than six months that I have been using and HTC wildfire android phone and I am simply amazed with this device. There is something new every now and then that I discover.  Earlier I used to use a Nokia 5800 phone and in almost all the departments the new once scores heavily over my older Nokia. In between I was also lucky to receive an update on my software platform the famous Froyo update (although they have moved to Gingerbread, I have serious doubts on getting the same update due to hardware constraints). Whereas I am all praise for my new phone but I miss some features which were very basic in nature in Nokia days. They are listed below

Image Courtesy www.theandroidsoul.com

5 Things I want in my Android HTC to improve:

1) Voice dialing: Well I’ve tried many apps for getting the voice search feature to work including some network based apps to help call one of my contacts with the hands free, but I have not yet found any such app which can actually do this. (I have tried many like voice actions but they don’t seem to work as long as calling a contact is required). This was something which came built in on my Nokia phones and was very useful for me.

2) Offline Maps: While Google Maps is a very nice app which I have been using since my Nokia days, the absence of the maps without a working data connection hurts many a times. As in case of OVI maps we can still access the already downloaded map. Such feature if provided will largely help users to at least check the available map in the absence of network for any reason.

3) Market: Although the Market is very rich in terms of the apps and is getting populated every second but I would be very happy if I could see the apps that relate to my phone model. It was easy to choose and install apps in the Nokia phones. I very much like the idea of browsing through apps on my computer and selecting to install from there. Since this has started (here), feel great.

4) Contact Management: While I loved the idea of saving contacts into my Google account which helps to create a backup and manage with other android phones, I am still on the lookout to copy my SIM and Phone contacts to my Google account. (In case you have any app please drop the name in comments section)

5) FM Radio: Indian market was once filled with cheap FM radios (China was happy about it). But now we have FM built in on almost all phones irrespective of the cost, color, brand etc. Now the FM quality is very good no doubt about it, but a certain record feature would be very much appreciated (although come may argue it to be a type of piracy, we have many a models which support this function). Also when we have keys to change between the stations it need not scan every time.

I am sure as an avid user of the Google platform phone many would have suggestions and expectations. I just thought of listing them here (If some developer someday has look and helps out may be!!)

Budget, Awards aur Cup

“Bhaiya ice-cream stick me nahi cup me chahiye, chai glass me nahi cup me chahiye” goes the Panasonic Radio Jingle to promote the brand in this mega cricket season. In between you have the year’s most sought after video footage of the lok sabha where an annual budget is looked upon to be bringing the big change in a decade; that too on a day when Hollywood is showcasing its Mega Oscars event!! What an eventful day you would say, at least for the newspapers it surely turned out to be few more extra pages, creative illustration of the Oscars and budget combination like this:

In the morning it was about catching up with who is winning what award, which movie got how many of academy awards. People these days also carry notes of saying thank, so that they don’t miss out someone for they want more work.

As the day progressed, budget took the centre stage, expectations of 100 million people to be met. I am not going to judge how the budget fared as nothing is going to change about the way things will be implemented as promised.

Among these events, two World cup matches were scheduled, all four countries involved were more or less marked as minnows and general expectations were that theses matches will be full of competition, rather what happened was boring one-sided matches, but with some brilliant performance with the Bat and Bowl (I Know I sound like Ravi Shastri here; but we all have positive and negative Chi, don’t we?)

So much of events in day gave that strange feeling at the end. The famous dialogue from the Movie Jab we Met: Bas bahut ho gaya Babaji, boring bana do is raat ko ab!! How a day progresses can be easily tracked these days thanks to the twitter trends.