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Nishanth reached TT Semi

Nishanth has done it for us. He has reached the Semi finals of the Sasken Jamboree Table Tennis tournament after winning a thrilling quarter final match yesterday. He is the only one from Nortel EN group to reach this far. He will play the semifinal on Wednesday.

The quarter final match position was 3-3. The match lead to the final game. It's now or never for Nish. It was tight, the opponent was a good fighter, he was not going to give it easily. It was getting tougher, couple of mistakes would have been the end of the road. But Nish's face told me "Hey come on, I have not finished, just started it, and I need that proud Sasken T- Shirt after winning this". I trusted him with my fingers crossed.

He took his best game out when it really mattered. His favorite serves did not let him down. His smashes were darting towards the opponent like the arrows from Karna's bow. Even Shane warne would have been proud of his spin. Yes, he was at his best. "Take it mate", the final smash from Nish had his signature on it. Yes. He has won it. He has made us proud.

As he is preparing for the big semifinal on Wednesday, I wish him all the best and just tell him that "I am with you and my prayers are with you".

posted by sreejith @ 7:09 PM 0 comments

Destiny

I am in my office, trying to fix a bug in my project. I have been going through the code to find the cause for the bug. But found an interesting thing; this code was written on 08-12-1997 by one Mr. Paul Martin. Exactly 9 years ago. I checked my PC calendar and found that 8th Dec 97 was a Monday.

I was a college student in 1997 and I would have finished my semester exams by 8th Dec. I would have been at home when he was writing this code. I do not know what I was doing when this guy was writing this code. May be I was fighting for TV remote with my brother, or I was having rice and sambar for dinner with my parents or was dreaming about the girl next door or I was sleeping. Whatever it is, I did not know then that somebody who was sitting 1000s of miles away was writing some code for the BCM project, which would introduce a bug after 9 long years and would come to me for a fix in Bangalore. I think this is called destiny.

This bug is destined to reach me and I am destined to fix it.
I think now I believe in destiny.

posted by sreejith @ 4:22 AM 3 comments