Waamax

Italy are knock out of the group stage in WC ’10.
I hate surprises.

Here’s to the Italian supporters.

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This was funny. I mean I looked an idiot at the end of this whole incident but it can happen to anyone.

I got a call (it was from “Anil” and I never looked at my phone while it was buzzing) while I was busy at work. I was about to complete the task and decided to call back later. So “Anil”. Ok here’s the catch. What happens when you see a missed call from someone who happens to share his/her name with 3 of your other friends? You randomly pick up one.

Here were the options – the three Anils I know.
Anil Bhari – Fellow batch mate at IOE
Anil Maharjan – Senior at college and co-worker at Nepasoft
Anil Somraj – Senior fellow MBA

The order here makes sense. Coz that’s how my brain prioritized when I saw “Anil” in my missed call. One more thing, I can hardly remember a phone conversation with any of those. I just have an entry “Anil” in my phone contacts.

So I called back.
Mistake no. 1. As soon as one of the above Anils, picked the phone (at this point I was still thinking it was Anil Bhari) I talked in the way you talk to a fren you haven’t talked in like for a year (The second and third Anils are my senior, so the talk wouldn’t be as informal).

Mistake no 2. I kept on pouring questions before I got any reply from the other side.

Now, after some moment of awkward silence from the other side I finally paused (Till this point my mind thought there is only one Anil in this world – Anil Bhari). The voice sounded different and I heard something like “Dude I can’t speak Nepali here”.

Snap. In a split of seconds my mind out of no where made up that it was Anil Maharjan (well when I later retrospected my thought process, I guess my mind made conclusion based on this fact – Anil should’ve been working on some companies here in US and during work time he should be speaking strict English).

So I shifted my tone from Anil (friend) to Anil (my college senior). I was still talking in Nepali. But the conversation still made no sense.

Finally, when I heard the confused laugh from the other end, my mind finally made the right guess in the last 5 minutes. It was Anil Somraj. When he said “He can’t speak Nepali here”, he really meant it. He is from India.

Funny.

Moral: Save the full names of your friends in your phone contact

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Today somebody disappointed me. But I let myself sulked and got miserable all day long. In fact I should have spent sometime assessing and reflecting that incident and move on.

Is it always so hard to move on?

Moral:
- Spend less time focusing on things you can’t control.
- Accept, don’t Expect.

Get Real.

Some of us decided to explore the Tech’s outdoors at Huckleberry trail with our bikes. It was an awesome experience.

Clearly, Cycling is a flight from Sadness.

There’s no big story nor a big cast. Infact you hardly know anyone. But still the movie managed to awe you with its little details and originality.

There’s a guy who has been living in pills almost all his life, been a quasi Hollywood success and seems to get lost in his own world until he returned back to his home (Garden State) and things seem to fall in places. He finds all his boyhood friends messed up completely with their lives – different from what they have dreamed about themselves. He meets a gal who is everything he isn’t and that changes his world. Cliche but this is done is an impressive way.

My best moment? – When the guy takes her out for the first time to his weird friend’s house who pulls that fire arrow in the air. They run for survival until that arrow touches the ground. And immediately after that, the gal pulls her ear (a signal they agreed upon to – Get the hell out of here). Awesome.

Garden State (2004)
Written/Directed: Zach Braff
More details @ (IMDB)

Of course this is in reference to the west coast based high tech companies.

What I was used to was an attitude that management is just an annoying, mundane chore someone has to do so that the smart people can get their work done

Joel Sposky on Twitter:

It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying

He’s partially Right.