A New Week

Last Friday, I wrote a draft entry which I just erased and started writing again. Today is Sunday, the first day of the week. It is quite natural that an individual will feel demotivated to go to office, after the weekends. However, I had mixed emotions when I arrived at office today. My home net connection is giving me a lot of trouble, for the last one week or so. I haven't felt it's absence that much, as I have internet access from my workplace. Moreover, I got my new graphics card in order to hook myself up. But yesterday was different. I was at home, all day long, and after a point of time, I was really bored. I have a number of good games installed, but for some reason, I was not feeling like playing any of'em. I played Call of Duty, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, C&C Generals: Zero Hour, Fifa 2005, etc. I did enjoy playing those games, but I'd like to see more games. I am eagerly waiting for "LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth", which will be released tomorrow. This will be an RTS game, using the C&C Generals engine. From the reviews I have read, the game will be an RTS fan's heaven. Even if the campaign sux, hopefully I will be able to derive pleasure from the skirmish game. There is, infact an RTS game based on the LOTR trilogy; but that game is soooooo bad that I uninstalled it just after playing a skirmish game for 10-15 minutes. The graphics is ancient, and the gameplay is archaic. By the way, ancient and archaic are synonymous :p

Just came back from visiting www.wwe.com. WWE used to be one of my passions. I remember, when WWE was WWF, there was only one show per week. Nowadays we have Raw and Smackdown in Monday and Tuesday, and both shows have different rosters. But in WWF, Raw and Smacdown was actually the same show, with the same roster, and these shows were aired on alternate weeks. Every 4 weeks, there would be a PPV (Pay Per View) event, where all the titles were put on the line, through several gimmick matches. Anyways, I became a WWF fan just because of Undertaker. My IRC nickname, Dead_Man_Rollin is dedicated to the dead man himself. Back in the 90s, 3 of my cousins were really crazy about wrestling. They would not miss a single match. I liked watching wrestling, but I never regretted missing a show; nor did I check the TV schedule for WWF shows. But one day I saw undertaker single handedly demolishing a 3 man tag team. Both the partners of Taker were exhausted and beaten up mercilessly, Throughout the match, undertaker was standing silently. Atlast, when he was tagged in, he beat up all three guys, and pinned all of them using his signature pin (the darkness pin)--crossing two hands of the opponent on the lap and pressing his own hands on the opponent. After that, I became a taker fan, and started following WWF more enthusiastically.

My relationship with wrestling roots back even farther. My dad used to watch wrestling when Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Jake The Snake Roberts, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, etc. individuals were at the peak of their careers. Now my dad denies that he used to enjoy wrestling, and was a fan, stating that "I didn't have anything else to do". This logic has some truth in it. This was the time when we lived in KSA. The male group of the small Bangali community of Dammam was pretty much hooked into wrestling. My dad claims that the group was responsible for making him watch the shows. Now in what context did this come up from? Well, when I first started seeing WWF regularly, my dad was indifferent.

Getting back to a previous link, when WWF was aired once a week, there would be a delayed transmission on Thursday. The show started at 8:30 PM, and went upto 9:30 PM. Ironically, at around 9 PM, a show called "Amanaat" was shown on Zee TV. Now my mom (later on, my dad, too) really liked this show, and there was no way for me to make her miss any episode. So what happened is, that I ended up missing the main event, and most interesting matches which would take place between that valuable 30 minute. And all this time, my dad would be absent from the scenario, because he stayed in his home office in the evenings. I used to listen to songs and study in the evenings. This wouldn't have happened if my dad stayed home in the evening. Looking back at those times, I now realize that I was quite afraid of my dad at that time. Maybe I'm still afraid of him, and maybe the level of fear has intensified, too. But why? Things changed a lot when my dad experienced his 2nd stroke. When was that? In 2002, as far as I remember. No, no..don't look at me like that! I had nothing to do with his stroke(s).

This Friday sucked badly...had to come to office twice, and though I enjoyed the pizza @ office (brought from Pizza Hut), it was actually detrimental for my health and obese body. The only good thing about the day was having a chat session with my abroad living chat friend T. It's been a while since I talked to her. Our friendship is funny and peculiar, and it's always fun talking to her. And whatta coincidence, she just logged in to msn. Later on, she called me in the evening and we talked for a while on random topics. And she got signed out just after 2 messages (one from me, and one from her).

Yesterday I received a phone call from Stormy bhai. He is in town now, and I am really looking forward to meeting him. He took a lot of phone numbers from me, and he sought an advice from me regarding the purchase of a mobile phone. In order to give him the best of judgment, I had to play a treachorous role and I suggested an Aktel connections :$

The fact is, our organization doesn't give the users a low cost solution towards TNT connectivity; not untill now. This is sad and unfortunate, but this is the reality.

After Ten Sports arrived, we got the opportunity of viewing WWE again. There was a year long interruption, as Star Sports decided to stop showing WWF. They started showing WCW instead, but it also stopped when WWF acquired the rights to WCW.

This time around, my dad stopped going downstairs, and he spent his evenings watching TV instead. So I had to fight for a piece of the whole TV watching Pie, where there were a number of strong competitors. Dad wants to watch sports (excluding WWE), mom and sis wants to watch hindi programs, etc.

I got 18 people online, in my MSN, but I don't seem to have anything to say to anyone. Isn't it weird? Not really.

Oh, one point to note. I don't really like people who have too many mood swings. To be more precise, even if I like someone, I don't like it when he or she has a lot of mood swings. An otherwise respectable/adorable person may turn ugly, when her or she has less control over his or her mood. And too much subtlety isn't good for anything.

So when I started watching WWE from 5:30 to 7:30 PM on Mondays and Tuesdays, I had to face a lot of problem. Moreover, the PPV events would go up to 8:30, which annoyed my other family members a lot. The automatic solution to this arrived, when I started going to HSBC for my internship. I'd arrive at around 6:30 due to immense traffic jam, and most of the time I was too tired and exhausted to gain the share of the pie. And not surprisingly, no one ever offered me a free show; that is, I would always have to ask for it. Okay, that's a lesson. No one will give you things unless you ask for them or gain them yourself.

Since I joined GP, things got even more difficult for me. Now I arrive at 8 PM....at times. Anyways to cut a long story short, I don't feel like watching WWE that much, nowadays. Once again, the point has been proven. Out of sight, out of mind.

But does this theory remains applicable, for people who never came within sight? Hehe....I won't elaborate. I don't wish to. Maybe some other time.

I miss AG a lot. I miss my AG, blog, too. It was quite different from the one I am writing here. Let's hope AG will be back again.

Signing off, till the next time.

Bye N Tc.