Get connected Kahi bhi, kabhi bhi...

6:30 in the morning, I sitting in stands of the Volleyball Court of the DC School in Khandala listening to 1930 generation trucks as they attempt to take on the ghats. In front of me are a bunch of guys (and two girls) who are here for a Karate Camp that is also going on. It's also about the only time in the day that I can get time to use the computer.

Not today (when it's absolutely clear), but yesterday with the mist rolling gently past the grouds and across the valley was the image that the Reliance guys need to use to promote their get connected anywhere data card. Not that I am complaining about ther absolute cutie that they use. Sometimes I think that I log in to te system only to get a glimse of the guy. (I seriously need to start returning those calls and meeting real people soon)

I am actually hoping that this digressive rant has taken ypour minds off the planned site upgrade.

With restricted computer access, the launch of the upgrade to the blogsite has been indefinitely postponed. Rescheduled date of release Q3 of 2006. What the users (and some abusers) of this amazing product will get in short duration is a pre-release beta version of the new product. (Old patrons of my posts will probably recognise the fact that the closer I get to my Birthday the more I begin to sound like a Microsoft Press release.

Get back to Bombay by afternoon. Last night the older kids were given the traditional exemption from the bed-time curfew and as usual I got caught up by a bunch of them who wanted to know whether I would be willing to dump the Senior Citizen volunteers into the bus and take a few of the Rocking kids in the car with me. Lets see...

Has been a great camp actually. Managed to get to stay in the swimming pool for a couple of hours yesterday for the base game. Had planned what I thought was a pretty interesting task for them but the idea got vetoed by the Gestapo chief that runs the camp.

So instead we ended up having a dumb thing which involved timing the kids getting down to their swimwear getting across the pool, drying themselves and getting into their regular clothes again. It's really odd but these guys and girls managed to get their clothes off in a jiffy but took ages to put them on again.

Managed to get myself a great tan though. and a stupid bright band on my wrist where the watch had to be.

Anyway thought I should try this on some of the more worldly wise guys out here so lets see if anyone out here is cleverere than the kids at the camp.

"The task is to get two members from the team to cross the pool from the deep end to the Shallow end WITHOUT getting their clothes or any other articles from their camp kit wet. At any point in time during the task the only persons allowed in the pool are the two members who are attempting the task."

Let's see who manages to give me the solution to this one.

It's 7 in the morning and the old hag from the Kindergaten teachers Training camp has just slithered into the court. I absolutely hate that woman. She does not even posses one molecule of passion of creativity. How can one even contemplate someone like her teaching kids. And worse training others how to teach kids.

Next year I think we need to check up and make sure that our camp dates do not clash with theirs. Chances are even if the volunteers behave in a restrained fashion some of the kids who are equally peeved with her attitude may not be so considerate.

Anyway the whistle just went off and the kids are going to be trooping down any minute now so I need to shut down this rant. More later (with pictures!!!)