If you are an Indian and you are having a conversation, 65% chance says that its about cricket. In that 85% probability says its about Indian cricket. In that 85, 35% would be about actual cricket, rest, everything off the field.(1)

No wonder, IPL can have such a huge effect amongst those Indian cricket crazy fans. But if you follow the above statistic, you can very well understand what’s the post going to be about.

The (in order to avoid whoring of traffic by using the keyword, let me refer to the “sensational-inside-out” blog of one f’u’ke ipl player) blog has caused quite some consternation amongst the team management and not to mention, the bechara Mr. Baazigar.

Whilst going through the posts, you can understand this is more masala than you can get in any Mallika Sherawat movie, or for that matter any typical  bollywood movie. Then move onto the comments.

You will now see why I call cricket India’s favorite pass-time. My Mom and myself (incorrect grammar brigade, sod off for now), often fight over cricket. She louuuuuves Sachin Tendulkar, and me, even though I love his cricketing shots, not a huge fan. So, when Sachin scores, it’s always for the records, which is enough to provoke her, raise her BP (I hope my sister doesn’t file an FIR against me for “intentionally causing bodily harm”). Many of my friends (especially school ones) always had issues with me, not “TOTALLY” supporting the Indian team. Or for even not showing enough liking.

Ok, enough banter. Now, please go through the comments. I reckon people actually love that blog. It’s not about cricket. It’s not about bats or balls, or heck even cricketers, on the field that is.

People are flocking to it for the juicy bits. Some think its true, some think its not. Either way I hate comments. They like it for the non-existent/existent rumors and things that are called so. They want to see the inside-view. Some. I guess others just want to dig up some dirt. Few, to feel that everybody is like them (even the Gods of Cricket).

Ok, seriously, having a chat conversation, a phone conversation has seriously ruined my train of thought.

But you get it right? People are digging up for dirt. To read dirt. Which was exactly the media/tabloids been dishing out so far. So, now this blog is doing it. So??? Point not taken.

Oh by the way, sometimes, reading those blogs make me feel alien to the cricketers I adore so much. Does anyone else feel this way??

Or I am just confused?

 

I have been upgraded from Medical Research Technician to Medical Research Assistant.

It will be 3 months tomorrow, yet, I think my hard work paid off (or my Prof’s generosity!!).

People can be really happy, except me, who can dig up something to mourn here too. My experience with rapid rise in ranks hasn’t been too well. “The faster you rise, the greater you fall”, couldn’t have been more appropriate in my case, with reference to my job as a student assistant at one of the dreadful places in …. a university.

But, then, things were taken out of hand. Here, not so.

Ok, for those wondering if the position names actually mean a demotion, here’s the thing;

Med Res Tech: All hands, no brain.

Med Res Asst: Hands, brain and a mouth (to supervise students)

Let me explain in detail. While I was a technician, I really didn’t need to use my brain a LOT. It was kinda manual labor that people do, you know like fixing pipes, or laying roads or masonry, things like that. There is a technique behind it, a skill, but you don’t need to develop the idea behind your skill.

I do experiments, as instructed, as required. I thought I was giving my brain a well-deserved break from having to read journals, research papers, etc etc. Things went well in the first month. By the 2nd, I was getting bored. Not to forget the fact that I was worried I might rather end up dumber than before.

So, things moved, now I need to read up on papers, stuff, come up with ideas, analyze results and stuff, you know, kinda a step higher, using my brain. And also, I get to take care of the students (summer and otherwise) in the lab. I won’t of course mother them or baby-sit them, but … you get the point…. right?

I willed myself to post this. Don’t wanna let things flow past me again.

Now, IPL’s around, so I gotta take it on.

Either bashing it up for ruining Shane Bond’s, Craig McMillan’s (etc etc) careers or for the cricket played.

This time, I am not going to be so harsh on it.

Deccan Chargers won. Hyderabad is excited. Hyderabadis are charged themselves (weird, in spite of all those power cuts!!), and of course, the official newspaper, Deccan Chronicle, just can’t stop filling pages with anything and everything related to our pyara DC.

Ok, lets see. Bangalore Royal Challengers (BRC- wait, shouldn’t it Bengaluru Royal Challengers?? where’s the frigging PIL against IPL!! Come on no-work-offended-time-passing-money-wasting-wannabe-headliners do your thing!!!), 1st match against defending champions, Rajasthan Royals, won. Sorry, trounced the latter.

Next, BRC was trounced by Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who in turn were defeated by Mumbai Indians, who by all means, would lose to RR, who in turn would register their first win, after being defeated by BRC, who lost to CSK, who lost to MI, who will lose to RR … wait.. didn’t I just say that. See, the vicious cycle?

So, DC, who beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), will lose to BRC, who lost to CSK, who lost to MI.

So basically, the ultimate match to watch is the 6th match of IPL between KXP and KKR (the battle of losers).

Hmmm, interesting. I like Ms.Zinta, but I also like McCullum, who unfortunately, is the Chief Rider in the stormy (K)night.

 

I know, I know, the analysis is incomplete and not to mention ludicrous. But, if RR win against MI and BRC over DC, you know where to come for your predictions.

 

So long, enjoy your IPL.

 

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It’s really great that I could actually retain this idea even after conceiving it like 2 weeks ago.

Ok the inspiration for this idea came from my Professor’s question. She came into the lab and pronounced an Indian name as best as she could. I did get what she was trying to say (so she was good).

She had received a resume for application towards a post. And, as is the case nowadays, it was from an Indian. She didn’t know what the particular applicants’ gender was. So she asked me.

So?

She did address me as Ms.B… at the very beginning of our conversation about my job. So I know how it is. And this happened before too, and I was in a similar predicament of addressing a potential HR manager whose name was given, and I had to choose between, Mr. or Ms. I went for the tested but unsafe Dear Sir/Ma’am, in cases where even Google couldn't help me.

Anyway, so the idea is a website which basically searches from a database, what gender a given (user entered name) name is. Simple. Right?

Then, I thought, how am I going to compose such a database. Well, for one, all you need to do is ask (mass-mail) your friends and their friends, and their, to go to the site and enter their name, and the gender (as one of my friends tried to do with her surveys).

Hmmm, fair enough. What makes you think there won’t be spoil-sports? Well, this is where another idea fits in.

What my end of work would be is to compile the list of names, and to analyze the repeats. This works on the principle that not everybody is an a**hole to spoil the database. So when a user enters the name, and searches for it, there will be a statistic showing how many in database have been marked as male or female by the contributors. Simple.

So that leaves the decision to our hapless global user who wants to know whether “Anantaraman Lakshmi Narsimha” is to be addressed as Mr. or Ms.

If you actually noticed, the example in itself presents a new problem. Names that involve multiple words of possible different genders. What do we do in that case.

Well, I haven’t thought about it my shower yet. But I guess now I have things to wonder about while showering.

Any suggestions and eager-beavers are welcome with their comments. Please help.

 

Oh by the way, if anyone knows that there is already a site that covers this issue, let me know. I really, honestly, didn’t do my research.

 

EDIT: http://www.gpeters.com/names/baby-names.php

Free database for finding genders. There are couple of paid ones and one site where I encountered some error.

 

Really, how many of you (if there is a ‘many’) actually thought, why do the name and url point to two different things?

I am willing to bet that no one did. Actually, I doubt if people even paid attention to them.

Anyway, after probably spending close to 3yrs online with respect to maintaining a blog, fancy usernames and fancy names for the blogs reflecting your mood, I think I have started ignoring these “finer” details about it.

What matters is the content. Right? Fact-free is for the fact that there are no facts being dished out here (well, not always, mostly). It’s clearly an “opinialog” and opinions are not to be confused with facts. There, I have justified the URL.

Coming to the untitled part, well, it’s simple. This blog has no fixed theme. It’s basically the untitled.*** file that’s created when there is no fixed content. (Random was used way too often to be repeated here again)

and Lyf just happened to be the perfect 3 letters, attributable to a filename extension (usually, there is always .mpeg/.divx/.docx extensions with four letters) and also that this is my lyf.

What you usually don’t find here is the internet-english lingo that’s common in this part of the world. Hopefully, full formed sentences, with full words will be the flavor (don’t bank on ‘full grammar’ though)

Now, the real question. Why, if at all, am I clarifying this, so late?

Hopefully, after the numerous false starts of the past, I hope, now at least I can start on a clean slate and most importantly stick to it.

Reasons for not blogging (though no one wants to know)

1. Lazy
2. Avoid cribbing
3. Unnecessary public display of affliction
4. Work

Reasons for returning to blog

1. Can’t change few things in my life
2. Though I don’t exactly have any ground-breaking new stuff to blog about, I am confident I will get there
3. Just for fun
4. Random

 

 

This must be the biggest loser comeback entry ever.