Rachabanda
Mood:  bright
Topic: What is Rachabanda?
Rachabanda is typical in almost every village in India. It is normally constructed in a circular shape around the trunk of a huge tree with stone or cement. Here village people sit and talk about anything under the sun. Someone might read a newspaper to the audience or discuss politics. Most of them being farmers have less things to do during off-season, they chill out and pass time under the cool shade of the tree talking, passing comments on the passerby etc. It is a lot fun and one will be amazed with the kind of things they talk.

Laptop Hard Disk Failure
Mood:  bright
Topic: Technical Stuff
One day my Hitachi 100 GB Hard disk gave a lot of weired sounds and crashed. On booting up the notebook it says either harddisk error or operating sysem not found. Tried booting through those recover cds no suceess in that front. Drove down to Circuit city and brought a 2.5 inch usb enclosure. pluged my lappi harddisk in it hooked it up to a desktop and ran a chkdsk on it. For 10 to 15 mins chkdsk laboured through the harddisk and found out few files with size and type "none". After reparing those files harddisk again started working like a charm. Even those weired scraching sounds stopped coming from harddisk. If you ask me what is the realtion between the sounds and files I have no clue. Anyway my lappi is back with life have to go to circuit city to return back the enclosure.

Beautiful Day for Cricket
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Cricket with Baseball
We found a way to enjoy cricket in US with out getting balls (Heavy tennis balls) from India and worry about broken bones by playing with traditional criket balls. We found this soft Nike Baseballs in Sports Authority for about $4.49. In a six month period we brought about 4 or 5 balls. I never saw these balls go broke except for loosing them by those mighty sixers that put them in a ditch where we did not dare to retrive them back. If you looking for some fun in weekends do try this balls even at full pace you need not worry about your limbs.