It seems WBCs have decided to take a breather this weekend. After all their host diligently observes 5-day work schedule, so why should they be discriminated? :) They have a lot of work to do in the coming week and so the rest is well-deserved.
I have been keeping myself busy seeing a lot of TV these days, especially movies. Here are some movies that I saw this week from which I thought couple of them were worth discussing for one or the other reason.
- The Jane Austen Book Club - I saw only the last 3/4 th of movie. It is about a bunch of Californians who decide to study works of Jane Austen. They pick a book for the month and then discuss it. A time comes when they realize that their situations in real life relationships can be compared to similar situations in Jane Austen's books.I liked the movie because I always wanted to be a part of such a book club. It's such a wonderful concept. Who knows I might start one or participate in an existing one after I am out of here. And I don't mind starting with Jane Austen's books since I must shamefully admit I haven't read any.
- Cool Runnings - This is a movie based on true story of four Jamaican sprinters who could not qualify for the Olympics sprint event and hence decide to become the first bobsled team from Jamaica in Winter Olympics game. It was quite entertaining and inspiring movie.
I saw quite a few movies this week but most were forgettable. Besides movies I watch "Whose Line is it Anyway?" quite regularly. Aren't those guys brilliant?! And how could you not watch the legendary battle between two great cricketing nations - the Ashes?
I hope to catch up with some lost reading in the coming week. I left Mr. Paul Theroux midway when he had just started his wonderful narrations on Bed and Breakfasts in Europe.
As always thanks for all the encouraging words you all are sending me. Believe me they are helping me big time.
Hi Kartik,
ReplyDeleteIf your WBCs are anything like programmers, you know that they will be lazy and spend their time "waiting for the compile to finish" and "refactoring some mess that someone else created" only to wait until the last minute and get all of the work done, in this case creating new WBCs. Of course, I would never work like this (nor admit to it) but between you and me (you and all of the blog readers can keep it a secret right?) they will probably get their work done at the last minute. If blame must me assigned, ostensibly it would be assigned to the programmers themselves, but we both know that in this case (like most) clearly it is either a technology or requirements issue, or both, and it will be resolved at the last minute. Hopefully they are following an agile methodology, and either way hope you are feeling well yourself, and we know you are doing the best possible and you are a tough dude so perhaps there is not much to say, but nonetheless take care and you are in all of our thoughts and prayers (good ones in both cases). Be well and take care.
Grant - LOL! You know state of my body couldn't have been clearer after having read your reply. After all you spoke in our lingo :).
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