Sports. Technology.
Alright, so the whole of the past two weeks have revolved around arguments over sport. Since cricket fever is around in lieu of the Champions Trophy. I am tipping Lanka to win - they do have a good chance except for a couple of issues that they may wish to fix - i.e. the firepower in the middle order to finish an innings on a high. I think they got the combination spot-on for the game against the black caps - the only glitch being that the end to the match, albeit a forgone conclusion, as soon as Jaya had dug in with a quickfire 20, was delayed due to Tharanga and Jayawardene fell in quick succession. While Jayawardene has really come good, and this is recognised by him being nominated by the ICC as one of the four runners for Captain of the year 2006, he still does play irresponsibly - at times. If he could just maybe play with a little bit of circumspection...
Anyways, tempers are flying helter skelter with regard to each individual gunning for a different team. So far, I think, Australia, Sri Lanka would be my top three choices; I would give India an outside edge but I feel that they will be exposed in their bowling. Their batting has looked good on paper forever - they usually deliver but we will have to wait and watch whether it can carry the weight of their bowling.
On the note of technology, I spend every Sunday evening religiously watching CSI. CSI is a good series even though it may not accurately refelect the life of a CSI - for instance, a good buddy of mine, who studied in Texas - Forensics something, told me that a forewarning for the course was that in real life, CSIs specialise in a particular thing - such as say DNA analysis. Can you imagine how boring that would be? Never do you on the field to see all the gory stuff; interviewing the bad guys. Nothing. Just sit and analyse. So it is glorified - but in terms of entertainment value - it is kick-ass.
And to relate this to technology - the importance of them having good Management Information Systems. For real - I mean, they traced a suspect through a tatoo. Jeez. Can you imagine that? With just one obscure piece of info. and poof - it pulled up the suspect.
And technology is loads of fun too - of course, we all hear this cliche about how things have changed over the past 10 years - with the advent of email/internet. It really has. The internal mails at work give all of us respite and help us bond; so even if share physical proximity, email serves to act as something that accentuates that.
Anyways, it is also Eid and a few of us are looking to have a good time tomorrow; cricket - watching the match (at the very least) and maybe even playing some, and lunch at a good spot.
Yep - that is about it really. And to top it off, I had a fantastic lunch partly because I was catching up with my colleagues and we ended cracking each other up.
The weekend was spent between sleeping and playing PlayStation; it will become more constructive as I begin my quest to self-study for ACCA. Haiz.
Anyways, tempers are flying helter skelter with regard to each individual gunning for a different team. So far, I think, Australia, Sri Lanka would be my top three choices; I would give India an outside edge but I feel that they will be exposed in their bowling. Their batting has looked good on paper forever - they usually deliver but we will have to wait and watch whether it can carry the weight of their bowling.
On the note of technology, I spend every Sunday evening religiously watching CSI. CSI is a good series even though it may not accurately refelect the life of a CSI - for instance, a good buddy of mine, who studied in Texas - Forensics something, told me that a forewarning for the course was that in real life, CSIs specialise in a particular thing - such as say DNA analysis. Can you imagine how boring that would be? Never do you on the field to see all the gory stuff; interviewing the bad guys. Nothing. Just sit and analyse. So it is glorified - but in terms of entertainment value - it is kick-ass.
And to relate this to technology - the importance of them having good Management Information Systems. For real - I mean, they traced a suspect through a tatoo. Jeez. Can you imagine that? With just one obscure piece of info. and poof - it pulled up the suspect.
And technology is loads of fun too - of course, we all hear this cliche about how things have changed over the past 10 years - with the advent of email/internet. It really has. The internal mails at work give all of us respite and help us bond; so even if share physical proximity, email serves to act as something that accentuates that.
Anyways, it is also Eid and a few of us are looking to have a good time tomorrow; cricket - watching the match (at the very least) and maybe even playing some, and lunch at a good spot.
Yep - that is about it really. And to top it off, I had a fantastic lunch partly because I was catching up with my colleagues and we ended cracking each other up.
The weekend was spent between sleeping and playing PlayStation; it will become more constructive as I begin my quest to self-study for ACCA. Haiz.
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