My First Professional Review

Couple of days back, my first review was communicated to me. My team lead had submitted my review in the last days of July depending upon my performance. The review is carried out by the team leads after every six months. This was my first professional review. Employee is judged on 21 different parameters. My performance was not so bad as indicated by my review sheet. I also got one EE (Exceeding Expectation). In about half of the parameters, I fully meet the expectations where as in the remaining categories, I met most of the expectations (70% - 80%). The next review will be carried out in the month of January. I hope to carry out this performance but rather to improve that as well.

England Regain Ashes

At last, after 16 years, England regain the Ashes. Last time, England won the Ashes in 1989. England really played very well through out the tournament but Aussies gave them a tough time as expected from the world champs. Shane Warne, once again shown his class and picked up 40 wickets in 5 tests including an incomplete England batting innings. He also reached a milestone of 600 test wickets. Flintoff and Pieterson proved real threat to Ponting and his team and played a major role for Michael Vaughan to lift the Ashes trophy. Real disappointed performance from Aussies' top and middle order batsmen. Today after the match has ended, Ponting admits "Apart from when we won at Lord's (first Test) we were never as good as England and they deserve to win the Ashes" as well as Warne states "England were better than us; it is as simple as that. We had a great battle but we were never as good as England throughout the series."