Day 189 - 29th January 2011

Today was the last day of the CS workshop. It dealt with the fear psychosis that the media creates in the minds of the general public. We were asked to research on any topic of our choice and present on the same. Our group chose swine flu. One of the slides was trying to put into perspective how many deaths were caused by other diseases, just for one we slipped in an extra line at the end. Here's what the slide looked like -

Every 3 seconds, a person dies of starvation.

Every 34 seconds, a person dies in a road accident.

1 child dies every 30 seconds of malaria.

Every 3 days, an innocent, unsuspecting girl is attacked by the Malayali Marauder.

After class had to go to Motera stadium to submit the forms for the accreditation. Its a pretty nice stadium with good facilities. Had a chance to explore the pavilion. There some really good pictures out there. The one that stood out for me was Gavaskar being the first Maruti car in India :-) Geeko also came along to give me company. Went to Subway after that. Made an impromptu plan to watch a movie - originally wanted to see 127 but the show was too late, tried for Nobody killed Jessica which we learnt wasn't being shown, so settled for Yamla Pagla Deewana which we couldn't sit through more than 45 mins of :-S Moral of the story - dont make compromises when it comes to watching movies, if your choice of movie isn't there it always makes sense to do something else :-P

There was no response paper to be written today so it felt like the last day of exams! Saw a couple of badminton matches, it really is a beautiful game to watch. Im considering trying my hand at it sometime soon. In the night made a complete list of all the players in the DCP cup and mailed it across to the batch. There are 41 players in the league now and quite a lot of them have changed their profile pic on fb to that of the player they are assigned to in the cup. :-D