It was Saturday, 9th May 2009 – and the weatherman had predicted mostly cloudy weather with highs of around upper 40s and Sun was expected to make a guest appearance or two. About halfway through our first practice session, weather conditions made a fool of weatherman’s prediction and fairy tale like snow flakes gave our [...]

4:30 am – the iPhone alarm goes off. I continue to fight the thought of continuing the blissful sleep induced in part by Holy Sheet and the thought of waking up to see the Men’s Finals of Australian Open on ESPN. Well, the fight lasted only 15 more minutes and the latter won – I [...]

As weird as it might sound, none of the men’s team from my school, Michigan Tech, had ever beaten a men’s team from our arch rivals, Northern Michigan, when I was part of the audience. I thought it had to do with my physical presence in the gym but apparently watching them over the internet [...]

For those that have known me for last six years or so, my obsession with softball is nothing new. I love this game so much so that holy spirits have been taking a back seat from early Spring till late Fall for the last couple years (thanks to a dear someone who solved the mystery [...]

The Days (Years) Leading Up To The Day
It was the mid 90s – while much of our community was enjoying the new found concept of Satellite TV (Star Sports, BBC, CNN and Chinese Entertainment were the only satellite channels on the menu), the concept of TV itself – as was everything else that [...]

As much of the human kind (at least those who follow NFL – a.k.a. the American Football) has come to learn, the New England Patriots became the first team (since the league went to the current 16 game format in 1978) to go undefeated during a regular season. Except for folks in the New England [...]

Did someone say History repeats? Almost a year after to-date, things shaped up in such a way that I got an opportunity to be 1265 Lombardi Avenue in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Wondering what this address refers to? It’s The Holy Lambeau Field – the home of Green Bay Packers. What brought me here again is [...]

OK – only 5 of my 11 picks for the ongoing NFL Playoff season turned out to be right, and more importantly, my favorite team – New England Patriots – played uncharacteristically to loose another Super Bowl appearance. But no regrets – Colts played really really well in the second half to win the game. [...]

Hmm… Well, this NFL regular season flew past in a jiffy and play offs begin in just a few hours from now. Following is something I have never done before, at least not in this format. There is some football logic behind what you see below, and needless to mention, there is some favorism involved [...]

Warning
OK, before I go on to write anything about my experience on this day, I am obligated to warn you that the much (or almost all of the material) contained pertains to National Football League (a.k.a. American Football, Pile-Up Game, or whatever else you may know it as…) and that you may not appreciate the [...]

Much of preparations from my side for the upcoming trip to India – tickets, I-94, travel letters, transcripts, proof of Fall semester enrollment, and of course some packing – are done. That leaves me to do one last thing – keep counting days. Less than two and half days to go before first leg of [...]

What should I begin with? Keeping with my own old tradition, let me start school and research related things. School’s been going pretty fine and let me repeat – having no classes to take is really a great feeling. Part of Tuesday was spent in tryiing to compile ICECAP on Räma – it didn’t work, [...]

Last seven days or so have been quite busy and most of the busyness had to do with school/research work. After exchanging few emails and reading few manuals, I finally managed to run Atomistix Tool Kit (v2.0) on our beowulf cluster. It wasn’t easy by any means and I still have some work to do [...]

If you did read my previous entry, I had quite a few things on my weekend’s ToDo list – most important being to prepare myself (laptop, camera, lenses, batteries,…) for Saturday’s game. It has been a while since I got out of bed before 6 am on a Saturday and it felt good getting up [...]

I do not remember attending so many parties in a row – Malaysian Monday, BBQ Wednesday (both at Leroy’s) were only the beginning. Thursday was the culmination of a great softball season for our Team FIZIKS – we have been undefeated in the league stage – defeated MSE in a fighting game (Semi Finals) [...]

I have been on this Fiziks team for about three years, played nearly 50 games, watched another 50 or so but had never seen something like this before – An Intentional Walk! Game was between Fiziks and School of Business – what had been termed as the clash of titans by many (lot of other [...]

This is something that I had never experienced since I started playing softball, thanks mostly due to the people who introduced me to this wonderful, democratic game and taught me to be patient. While I still was bragging about my in-field home-run, this strike-out, in my 100th plate appearance, against a not-so-powerful team brought me [...]

I have been trying to hit a home-run (in-field, not over the fence) for last three seasons and I did it at last. It was one of the Church League games and I charged towards third-base (while my base-coach was shouting to stop at second). Throw from outfield was wild, helping me get an extra [...]

Semi-Finals, against MSE : Lots of people, players and supporters alike, showed up at the ball-park and my throwing arm felt lot better. After a brief warm-up session, the much awaited semi-finals started off, with Metallurgy scoring 4 in the first innings. We replied equally well, scoring 8, with 7 coming after we were two-down! [...]