Noun: A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

This is my mood of the day. I know envying is not actually a good thing for your self morale or esteem. But today I don’t care. 

 

I envy people who have all the time in the world to even travel

I envy people who take amazing photographs

I envy people who don’t have to think twice before doing anything

I envy people who have the determination to pull themselves up everyday to the gym

I envy people who have 6 packs

I envy people who drive muscles (200 + bhp cars)

I envy people who don’t have to walk with the weight from the previous generations

…..

When will I be the object of someone’s envy

Read this on the spoiler of a modified Honda City

“I don’t drive fast ….. I fly low”

I know, the IPL has kept us all occupied. With the last few games going down the wire till the very last ball, the excitement is sure to make us glued to our seats. But quietly at the mecca of tennis, was an event that seem to be rarity these days. In fact the probably it was the first time I saw a sporting couple play lawn tennis. It was the inauguration of the newly constructed roof of the center court in Wimbledon and the inauguration had bought some of the worlds best all time heavyweights of tennis. The exhibition match saw Mrs & Mr Agassi for one last time on Wimbledon center court take on Kim Clijsters and Tim Henmen.

It was a visual treat for all the Steffi and Andre fans and I thoroughly enjoyed the show. The powerful baseline strokes of Andre and the still lethal forehand of the Steffi made me nostalgic. Why did they even retire? The backhand slice which Steffi made popular got Henmen in trouble in more than one occasion. Still

At 25, Kim Clijsters still could return to the circuit and give the serbs a run for the money. 

Overall it was a fun filled and an animated session of good tennis that I believe many would have missed only to not get another chance to see them play. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them play.

It was the turn of another movie to make me feel good all throughout and then disappoint me at the end. The first was Kallori and now Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu. Both the movies made me feel good throughout but when the curtains came down, I was disappointed with the ending. There is one thing that was common in both these movies. There was no strong plot in both these movies. They were sequence of what happens in every day life, but just to give a jolt to the audiences, I believe the ending was made negative. Because, till the end in Kallori, you would feel that Muthu and Shobana would declare the love for each other and get married. But thats when director decides to give the audience something else and in turn ends the movie with the demise of Shohana. The same thing happens in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.

Probably the end jolt bring the audience back to reality that all well may not end well. They put a smile in your face all throughout and then make you frown at the end.

Really happy. Almost more than a year of hard work and finally I get to see the results in Adobe Labs.

The Flash Lite Distributable Player technology is finally available on  Adobe Labs. What is more is that, the solution found a place in the home page of the Labs. I am really happy. I still remember that it was October 2007 when I started to prototype this solution and here it is today available to the end user.

The distributable player solution enables developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Adobe Flash Lite and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones, providing a better on-device user experience.

For more on the technology, visit labs.adobe.com