A look back at 2007

It was pretty much a very boring year, as usual, with nothing much happening except me getting a job.

Jan 2007- June 2007:
It was not that eventful, i mean there was no sine die or strike or something like that. There was only one arising a considerable amount of interest, Jennifer's suicide attempt. It was real fun to hang out with the lads in F-Hostel talking bull shit, perfectly knowing that nothing untoward would happen. Then there was this Durgapur Trip and the our college's very own Tech Fest named "pravah". The B-plan experience and of course , the IT-quiz shit. How am i forgetting Utkarsh over here?? Nelson and Sai Kiran's excellent perfomance on the stage for Mr.Utkarsh and the "Sweet Child of mine"'s and "We don't need no education"'s. Real fun!...Man Utd title win, champs league exit etc.And then there was this excellent performance in my VLSI end sem exam. Then Maddy calling me from Vijayawada to tell about his conquest of Ashok Leyland. Then the AirTel V.T where i practically went to read newspapers and drink coffees.

July 2007-Dec 2007:
Was eventful upto an extent. Getting placed. Then trip to Bhubaneswar and Puri. The CAT. Vasco Subin accident.Playing three card brags before exams. DSP rapes like i ve never been raped b4.Learning to ride the bike near Pulicat lake. the remaining time it was booze booze and yeah ! more booze.

1001 books...

1. 2000s
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
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71. 1900s
70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World – Pat Barker
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes – Will Self
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable – John Banville
101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
112. The Information – Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
123. Land – Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
138. Complicity – Iain Banks
139. On Love – Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
152. Indigo – Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
164. Arcadia – Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
169. Typical – Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
206. Libra – Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
246. Queer – William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend – David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
261. Shame – Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names – Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining – Stephen King
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless – Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
349. Sula – Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
351. The Breast – Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
353. G – John Berger
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
396. Chocky – John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
409. The Magus – John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
414. Things – Georges Perec
415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector – John Fowles
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road – John Barth
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss – Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
560. Back – Henry Green
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
567. Loving – Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit – Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught – Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
577. Embers – Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going – Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years – Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis – David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
665. Living – Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
679. Quartet – Jean Rhys
680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja – André Breton
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
688. Amerika – Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness – Henry Green
691. The Castle – Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
711. Cane – Jean Toomer
712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
713. Amok – Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
733. Summer – Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
757. Martin Eden – Jack London
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
762. The Iron Heel – Jack London
763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother – Maxim Gorky
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
768. Young Törless – Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
.
. 1800s
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802. Born in Exile – George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
806. New Grub Street – George Gissing
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
819. She – H. Rider Haggard
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal – Émile Zola
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
836. Nana – Émile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
838. The Red Room – August Strindberg
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
841. Drunkard – Émile Zola
842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
875. Silas Marner – George Eliot
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
.
. 1700s
943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
944. The Nun – Denis Diderot
945. Camilla – Fanny Burney
946. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
952. Vathek – William Beckford
953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
954. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958. Evelina – Fanny Burney
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
970. Candide – Voltaire
971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia – Henry Fielding
973. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
978. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
.
Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Player ratings Man U vs Sunderland

Kusczak (6.5/10) -It was an average performance from the keeper. He did well, when called into action. But he seems to be very uncomfortable with back passes, and he very nearly screwed it up on a couple of occasions.

Brown(7/10) - He enjoyed a good game. Finishing the game with an Assist ,Brown had a decent game defending also.

Ferdinand(7/10)- A solid performance from the England defender. He marked his man well during opposition free kicks, a rare sight.

Vidic(7.5/10)- A good performance. Dived in and made a few important challenges and was consistently winning important headers.

O'shea(6/10)- An average performance. Combined well, when Utd went forward, but defended pretty poorly. Giving away balls in the form of poor clearances.

Nani(7/10)- A good performance. Gave the opposition defenders a hard time on a few occasions.Won a penalty for the side. But needs to improve on his vision and finishing to become a regular fixture in this Utd squad.

Fletcher(7/10)-Played his part of being the lungs and legs of the side without much fuss. Didn't look too comfortable handling the ball.

Carrick(7/10)- An average day in the office for Carrick. His pass to Ronaldo was vital in the run up to the second goal.

Ronaldo(8/10)- Involved in two of four goals, getting one himself. Played his part really well. Proving to be a match winner again.

Saha(7.5/10)- Apart from the miss in the 12Th minute or so, he looked decently comfortable on the ball. Ended the match with two goals. Needs to build on this performance.

Rooney(8.5/10)- A really good performance. Playing deep he scored one and set up one and was all over the field today. Except for his miss of a Nani cross, he never disappointed the fans anywhere,

Park(7/10)- Good to see him back. Had a decent run out. Made some good passes and gave the defenders a hard time with his quick feet. Good job. Hoping to see you return to your best form.

Boxing day Bonanza!!!

Boxing day matches have the reputation of always pulling an upset out of the bag .So much so that "upset" has become a byword of these boxing day matches.Yes! there were upsets yesterday. But we have also to bear in mind that, in the context of the EPL one can define upset only after some careful perusal.Such is the competitiveness of the teams in the league. Okay, coming to the point, this years boxing day matches did provide us with loads of entertainment and excitement.

Stamford Bridge hosted a thriller featuring Villa and Chelsea which had 8 goals and three red cards in 'em. Then White Hart Lane hosted a beleaguered Fulham in a match which ended in a 5-1 win for the hosts. Roy Keane got a sound drubbing from his ex-manager at the Stadium of Light, while Arsenal lost points at Fratton park.All in all, it was a very satisfying Boxing day for me.Not the least because Man Utd now are at the league's summit a point clear of the league-leaders-so -far Arsenal.

But for the Man Utd fans it is too early to celebrate. Given that the tough trips to North East and London(The Bridge and White Hart Lane) are ahead of them, it is important that they do not get carried away by yesterdays results. Hoping it is all for the good.

REFRESH!

I am updating this blog after a considerable amount of time. Lot of things have happened since my writing of the last post, the least of which was my maiden CAT experience. Whilst have a lot to write about that, i am using this post as a quick recap of my experiences in the penultimate semester of my under-graduate study.

The seventh semester of my engineering was as significant as it was hopeless.Significant because it proved to me and the world, of course, that even an hopeless prick like the writer is useful for someone or something in this wretched planet, my getting a job was testimony to it.
Hopeless because, i never really got going with what i really wanted to do. I am referring to the CAT incident here. After having spent the first two years of engg pretending as if i was born for CAT and stuff my maiden CAT experience was a bloody stinker.

Bad feelings apart, these happened to me in the sevventh semester.

• The initial placement worries. Sitting in TCS for no particular reason and getting rejected for the heck of it.
• The "WIPRO" day.
• Ranjit's maruti endeavour and Harish's Let us C experience.
• Me reminding a chimney to many people.
• I am officially a "Mama", with my sister giving birth to a son.
• Schlumberger coming to college, and Siddhant getting the axe in the interviews.
• Back to Back F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
• Man Utd's nightmare start to the season.
• The DSP scare.
• Fear and Loathing in Bhubaneswar.
• Tevez's first goal for united and Mourinho getting the sack.
• Man Utds 20 goals in 5 games.
• Going with Prasanna for his TOEFL.
• Oscillating between M.S and WIPRO.
• Project under S.N.Singh with Nelson Davis.
• The RELIANCE ENERGY DAY.
• The CAT.
• 6 on 30 in DSP.
• Attendance short in SSP.
• The "Jhooa" days....
• Losing 100 bucks on a daily basis..SHiT!.
• oPERATION GuDur.

Overall it was one of my most memorable semesters with me taking many things with me to the future to cherish. Importantly the chimney one.Key points on my passionate things.

Man Utd:

New signings proving awesome.Anderson and Tevez are wonderful in particular. Arsenal are playing extremely well and am happy that it is back to Utd-Arsenal dayzz.

Movies:

Never really got around to watch a lot. In between this sem, i had lost interest in movies. But cud still watch a handfulla 'em. The best ones being.

1. The prestige.
2. A good year.
3. Snatch(finally saw it).
4. Chak de India!.

The worst ones.

1. Unnale Unnale.
2. Zerophilia.
3. Om Shanti Om.

BOOKS:

As usual i left a number of books incomplete hoping that i ll complete 'em one day. Favs

1. Hannibal(Thomas Harris).
2. The Road to Mars(Eric Idle).
3. Breakfast of Champions(Kurt Vonnegut,Jr).

The fans expect.....

Now that the season is falling into an understandable pattern, the Utd Gunner match cudnt have come at a better time. Words around that the winner of this tie would become the champion of the league.The last time i was as excited was when i was in my 11th standard and on a not-so-cold February night. That match of course ending in a 2-2 draw and the season ended with Utd snatching the title. The next four seasons did provide nailbiting encounters but never was the word "title" mentioned in them.Fast forward to today we have situation very similar to that february night. Except the fact that Utd were top then Arsenal are top now.

Everytime Man Utd beats Arsenal or vice versa some piece of history is re-written.This tym again the stage is set for a rewrite of History. I am at loss of words to comment on the match so close to the kick-off. But my gut-feeling says a good 2-1 to the reds. Lets wait and watch.

Untitled crap.

These boring afternoons at home are driving me nuts. I generally watch a lot of movies to beat this boredom. But now the activity of watching movies itself has become boring. So i am spending a lot of time in Connemara public library in Chennai.

I walk in to the library in the afternoon and start reading some random book on some random topic. Most of the tym the random topic being football. I was reading a book which had columns by a Bengali columnist(I am forgetting to recollect the name here) . He was drawing parallels between Soccer the sport and Socialism. He seems to argue that the U.S,a capitalist nation in all respects, rejects soccer.He says it is a very apparent upshot of ppl being very non-socialistic.

It s a fact worth noting that soccer is the 84Th most famous sport in the U.S . In 1998 ,when the U.S hosted the FIFA World Cup no English channel was broadcasting football in the U.S. The citizens of the U.S-if they so desired- had to follow it in Spanish channels. The number of Bengali viewers of the World Cup was more than the number of American viewers.
Strange facts.eh??!!

Being aligned towards the left on many issues in politics, i was against their stand in the Indo-US Nuclear deal. But after going through some of the works of the above mentioned columnist i whole-heatedly support the Left's stand.

The concept of use of Nuclear energy for power generation is not entirely a novel concept for India . It has been in the minds of Raja Ra manna when he pioneered India into conducting her first first nuclear test. The chairmen of AEC make it a point that they set of target of "x0000"MW within ten years from the second they release this statement. They all lean heavily on the bad memory power of the Indian public. None of these promises have ever been fulfilled.
This is because going closer to set targets is not viable.Co-operation with the U.S wont make the situation any better.

It is also worth noting that about 67% of the money spent by GoI on research and development finds its way to Nuclear research which has helped India to produce a few weapons of Mass destruction and nothing more to aid the countries power situation or for any civil reasons. So the concentration on this must be shifted to something more viable and more useful to the Indian in the present context.India should may be concentrate more on other sources of energy closer to nature and invest money on it by allocating lesser money to nuclear research.

EPL so far...

Three months have passed since the new EPL season kicked off. These are my reflections on the season so far based on my observations in the past three months.

ARSENAL:
Capitalising on a bad start from their other three competitors for the title, Arsenal went off to a flyer to lead the league table. Their direct passing and aggressive style of play multiplied by their phenomenal midfield display are bearing desirable results surprising football pundits and fans alike.

While there own form has been good and their style of play captivating, there ll be no denying the fact that Arsenal have had the easiest fixtures to kick start the season among the big four.

CHELSEA:
Its been a turbulent season so far for the blues not the least because they lost Jose Mourinho, a man to whom the current Chelsea strength is to be attributed. Their new manager
Avram Grant apparently was not able to fill mourinho's shoes. Struggling to get his tactics rite went on a four match without-a-win streak.This is something that a side challenging for the EPL cannot afford.

Drogba has been their chief source of goals in whose absence the team more or less does not threaten the goal. Shevchenko is these days warming the bench and this seems to have worked wonders for the side. Considering that the away trips to Liverpool and Old Tr afford are over the situation at Chelsea can only get better.


LIVERPOOL:
One of the two undefeated teams in the EPL. But more than the teams players it was lady luck that played a significant roles in helping them to achieve that feat. Rafa's policy of squad rotation has visibly not worked. This had a very powerful hand in Liverpool's poor European showing. But one thing is going rite in Liverpool's way Torres seems to combine well with Dirk Kuyt.

If eliminated out of Europe in the group stages itself, and Rafa gets his best 11 on the field my money ll be on Liverpool to win the title.

MAN UTD:
A disastrous start to the season saw the champs go without a win in the first three matches of the season. Then a string of 1-0 wins made Utd look small and unworthy of title challenge. But just when you abandon all hope the red devils bounce back with great intensity.
This was precisely wat happened and Utd made amends to their terrible performance at the start of the season by scoring 16 goals in the last 4 matches.

Tevez and Anderson who were only physically present entities at the start of the season have now improved a lot, with Anderson playin like a left-footed Fabregas. Tevez is combining well with Rooney which is a good sign for Utd. But their ultimate test is at the Emirates next week.With the team lookin in good shape, it s become good ole days with Arsenal and Man Utd gunning for the title.

CHAK DE INDIA!

I am of the opinion that promotion of hockey in India is just as important as conservation of wildlife.So when i heard that this movie was about Hockey, i was itching to go and watch the movie right away!.

Yash Raj films, "Chak de India!" ,starring Shah Rukh Khan,Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge is the story of a Kabir Khan(Shah rukh),ex captain of the Indian Team,sufferer of an unceremonious exit from the game , prove his mettle and love for the country by coaching Indian Women's hockey team to glory.

Although not a comprehensive sketch of the current hockey scenario, the film throws light on many key issues. Sponsorship , lack of training facilities to name a few. The makers of the movie, have tried to be logically consistent wherever and whenever possible without stretching things too far. The movie is monotonous in a way that, it treads on the same path that most of the earlier made -sport movies trod on. If you discount romance, the movie complies completely with the earlier mentioned blue-print.

If you are making a movie to help the cause of hockey promotion, one important factor that one has to take into account is how far-reaching it will be. With an element named Shah Rukh, all qualms on the above issue are dismissed. Brand Shah rukh is, in fact, the most important ingredient in the movie, because very large is the number of people who throng to the halls only to see what this guy has up his sleeve in his movies. Shah Rukh, did not disappoint his fans, and has given a flawless performance as Kabir Khan. As was the performances of the artists who played the members of the team.

The movie starts, it rolls on, and when it does that it throws light on the hurdles facing Indian Women's hockey in particular , it ends by making India the world champions. And how do they do it, with a dynamic, aggressive and most importantly patriotic coach and sponsor. Does it really work out like that?. How far is this movie from reality? .I don't know. But for a decent attempt at promoting the national sport i will accord this movie a 6 on 10.

60 years and still counting...

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity."

J.N.Nehru.

Its 60 years now,since these illustrious words were uttered by the First Prime Minister of Independent India. The above speech was reflective of the vision that Nehru had , a vision with which he was able to see a fledgling become a super power, a vision with which he was able to see the complete realisation of the meaning of the word "Independence" in all respects .But sadly for Nehru,India did not progress the way he thought it would and his speech, even if delivered today shall still fit the present India in many ways.

Poverty, unemployment ,caste systems, child labour, illiteracy still haunt the nation. Programmes are underway to alleviate these social-ills but they seem to proceed at snail's pace. I still walk into my college mess to see three kids,with an age less than 10,cleaning plates and serving tea. 27.5% of Indian population still lives below poverty line, a mammoth 37% still are illiterates. These figure dont make a good reading at all, considering what Nehru's vision of India was 60 years later. Hence my message to the nation is as follows.


"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity."


JAI HIND!

Man Utd vs Reading

The devils kicked off their title defense with a goalless draw against a hardworking Reading. This was unbecoming of the reds who scored the most number of goals last season. It was a disappointing start for the new season,no doubt, but given the fact that the best part of 50 mil is yet to invade Utds starting set-up, it can be said that things can only improve.

Utd started with the same team that started against Chelsea last week,except Scholes came back into the team in lieu of John O'shea after recovering from a knee injury. New signing Nani was on the bench but other new signings,the likes of Tevez,Anderson,Hargreaves were left-out.Utd did not have the best of starts with Wayne Rooney's first touch letting down the team on a couple of occasions . Man U lacked a striker strong in air as plenty of crosses went unmet . Rooney and Ronaldo's threats were kept at bay as Reading players surrounded them as soon as they got the ball, and by not allowing even a yard of space to run in to.On other occasions they had their keeper to come to their rescue.

The team which already looked passive due to the lack of strikers also had to lose Rooney during half tym due to an injury. Seizing this opportunity Reading started getting more people behind the ball and committed 10 of their players to play inside their own half. So Man Us attacks went in vain even as Reading were reduced to 10 men,Utd could do nothing but despair about their ill luck, as shots were either saved or blocked.

Overall United,although disappointing, showed signs of brilliance in all depts of the game, except finishing.So not much can be blamed on the players.

Full credits to reading anyways!!.

Key pts to be addressed

• Utd had many oppn through set-pieces but wasted all of 'em.So having a good free kick taker is imperative. Tevez shud bridge the gap.
• A striker strong in air is needed.Saha,if fit should be deployed against a side like Reading.

Hope things will get better.

"You cant win anything with kids!" this season at least.

I have partially arrived at a solution to the question that was nagging my mind since the beginning of this summer.It is the Arsenal question. Can the current team of young gunners make a mark in the EPL? Will they be competent without Henry?,How far will they go ? and many questions on a very similar line and on the very same topic.But the answers for these questions,when posed to football pundits, coincide on the well-known soccer cliche "You cant win anything with kids!".

It was the 1995-96 season, a Man Utd team, which disposed Paul Ince, Andrei Kanchelskis, Mark Hughes the seniors,who formed the backbone of the team off .It was a team which was very less experienced when compared to its peers in the league,a team which had lost its most influential player Eric Cantona for around the first half of the season. You could hear the words "You cant win anything with kids!", whenever there was a mention of the words Manchester united. The enraged supporters of the club had to settle with names like Gary Neville,Phil Neville,David Beckham, Paul Scholes,Nicky Butt on the team -sheet.What ensued was there for everyone to see.The so-called kids were able to win a double and proved Alan Hansen's quote completely wrong.

So will the current squad of Gunners be able to repeat Man U's feat?.Let us just analyse what was the case then and come to what it is now.Although the then Man Utd squad were called kids.It wasn't essentially a squad that contained only kids.Experience in the form of Steve Bruce,Peter Schmeichel, Gary Pallister, Lee Sharpe and McLair and of course Eric Cantona was present in the squad. That definitely had something to do with their winning the double. Let us see what do the Gunners have for filling the experience clause.Gilberto silva, Jens Lehmann, William Gallas,Kolo Toure. The three of them are experienced, no doubt, but in all probability they wont be able to inspire like wat the experienced lot in 95-96 Utds team did.When you compare the youngsters Arsenal with the young bunch of 95-96, there is not much you can say about it.You have fabregas,Utd had scholes.U have a denilson,Utd had a Butt.Utd had a Beckham,who do u have?..Hleb??,van Persie??.The had a decent finisher in Andy Cole.who do you have? an Eduardo??,a Bendtner??.

Everything done and dusted.As we await the new season to start,i conclude that Arsenal wont win any noteworthy trophy this tym around.I think a fourth place finish in the premier league would be the thing for Arsenal to fight for.And if Wenger wishes to do a Fergie in his own way, maybe he is forgettin something,there is only one way to go about and it is
the FERGIE way.

about me finally!

Well! I think i ve had it with Orkut.After having been in this god-forsaken thing for around 2 and a half years and changing this spiteful column a little less than a million times, i think it is not worth changing at all.So here i am writing all i can think of about me.

I was born and bred in Chennai.I belong to a family which consists of a very conservative mother, a very liberal father, and a not-political sister.No wonder in my being perenially confused.I am possibly the worst decision maker you can ever think of.i think i was born with this handicap and no amount of hard work is lending desirable results for the above mentionedd thing.

I always live life in a messed up way, although i dont prefer doing it that way.I wanted to do commerce and i suddenly ended up in Engineering.I never got to where i wanted to be.Hionestly,the place where i want to be changes with a frequency greater than the thing-with-the-greatest-frequency in this universe.

I am preparing(once prepared,u kno i am not gonna change it!) for a management entrance test.I am sure i wont make a good manager.But i am trying.Isn't that testimony to my in born talent of remaining confused all the while.

I am possibly the last guy who you would expect to keep his words.I seldom keep my word.I promise around a thousand tyms daily both to myself and others.But there has been no occasion in which i d stuck to my word.

I am doing things that i never thought i'd do.I ve become a movie freak, i listen to loud music, and my tamil has more English than my English has English.I ve lost beleif in Demcracy,i ve lost the respect i had for the nation.I've started to hate cricket.I am not feeling hurt when people around me say "You're changed!".

I have very little by way of own ideas.I copy others mostly.If i ll have the freedom to say,i am not at all shameful in agreeing that, i am like the greatest wannabe in the world.I have no specific reasons for it.

I am very fond of football,Mathematics,PJs,Criticisms,Dreaming alongside a song,thinking that i am gonna make it big one day.

I hate
selfish people(although i am one), Wannabes, show-offs, and Cricket ,Communists,Racists,Centrists,Conservatives,Religious Fanatics,their superstitions and GOD sometimes.

I am good at
nothing at all.

I am weak in
everything in life.TO name a few
i d name drawing(the worst painter),singing(although i am better than a "chota" population in my college.), CHemistry,Eucledian Geometry,keeping my glasses straight,starting a conversation,keeping a conversation going,making friends,maintaing friendship,immediate retaliation for a banter,etc...,

well!...no matter where i go none of these will change.That was about me!

Season Preview-a Man Utd specific scan.

After what was a really long and very eventful-in both the personal and the footballing fronts- summer i finally caught up with some football action involving Man Utd,live. It was Man U vs Chelsea,for the FA community shield.Here i am summarizing whatever i could surmise on the perfomance of Man U,based on Yesterdays game.


I wasn't too much worried about the result at least not as much as i was intrigued by the mere thought of how Man Utd's new team will perform. This is as said because, Man Utd s new signings suggested a change in their playing style. But Man Us formation for the game,suggested that there will be very little for my cause.The formation did not have a single new-signing.It loked more like a formation,that an injury hit Man U would have employed mid season.The team had Silvestre,Brown as full-backs.O'shea and Carrick in centre midfield with Evra and Ronaldo on the left and right wings respectively, and Rooney and Giggs playing up front. The only respite was that the ever reliable pair of Vidic and Ferdinand was present, which suggested that Man Us defence was not to be dealt with lightly. Nani was on the bench.

The match started and it lacked the usual tenacity that acompanies all ManU-chelsea encounters, save the latest FA cup one,in the initial periods. Then the game really started accelerating and both teams had their chances, and squared each other in all departments which was evodent from the score line a 1-1. Then the match went to penalties and VDS made amends for his error in the fA cup final by putting in a wonderful performance saving 3 penalties in a row and ensuring a sweet revenge was in place at the right time.

Pointsto be noted:

• First and foremost, Rooney's first touch was pathetic in most parts of the game. It is not the Rooney that we once saw.
• We need to have Gary Neville back as soon as possible because Gary Neville's shoes are too loose for Wes Brown.
• Evra,in both,the community shield and the friendly against Inter looked outstanding.His dangerous little runs,his excellent work rate suggests that he has become an excellentplayer in that position.So dispense with Heinze.Hope Evra sustains his recent form.
• Man Utd s dependency on low crosses have increased, and there is a need of a clinical finisher, a penalty box poacher.Tevez would be an excellent inclusion.
• Nani looked good.He dribbles well and his corners swirled in dangerously and his passing is good and when it combines with his ability to run into space , he can be mightily dangerous.
  

After all my inferences, my conjecture is that Man U will play a 4-4-2,with Tevez and Rooney up front ,with Ronaldo and Giggs on the wings.Hargreaves and Carrick in the central midfield and the back four ,the same as last season.With Nani and Anderson on the bench.Everything said now let s wait for the season to pan out.

Bye! Bye! TITI

Any EPL follower, no matter which club he supports, never fails to recgonise the excellent gunner that TiTi was. When henry touches the ball, its a ray of hope for the gunners ot it is a cause for a shiver down the spines of anti-gunners. His immaculate dribbling ability and the aptitude to read the game like no other and his unparallaled finishing abiliy have made him unarguably one of the best strikers in the world.

His role at Arsenal was more than a striker's role. It had too many responsibilties clubbed in it and an Arsenal sans Henry is equivalent to any other not-one-of-the-top-notch french clubs is an open secret. Now that Henry's move to Bacelona is a certainity,lets discuss where will all these latest developments lead to.

Arsenal has consistently been losing experienced players in the past two years, Patrick Viera,Pires,Bergkamp. This had a pronounced effect on Arsenal's fortune s in the league. In the seasons that ensued the best that the gunners could manage was a fourth in the EPL,thanks to Thierry Henry. In europe , in the first season into the post-viera era they made it to the champions league finals. Again thanks to Henry. Last season Arsenal did not perform as their brand name suggested they d perform. Reason : Absence of Henry. By selling Henry, Arsenal have now lost the only bit of expierence that they had. Whoeve comes to replace him will now face an insurmountable task of filling Henry's shoes at Arsenal which is a near impossible task. This could have a serious impact on the gunners performance next season. Having said this, one should also keep in mind the fact that if the young gunners really did show glimpses of what they could actually do last season. So it will al come down to how well the players apply themselves on the field. Wenger makes an excellent scout but not an outstanding tactician. SO the chances of the later happening are very low.

The EPL,in my view will now become a two horse race betwee the two richer clubs. Liverpool, in my view, are never contenders for the EPL. The new owners are just saying that there will be a string of new arrivals but unfortunately Liverpool are still wont to going behind prem failures. Fine, i stop here because we are not even half way through the transfer window. An Arsenal with Henry would very certainly have been Title contenders infact potential winners. But the latest developments all but rules out the above possibility.

In sofar as Spain is concerned, if Barca does not let go of Ronnie or E'too, they will most certainly be on the way to join Madrid and Chelsea as the most ineffective engines of European football by wasting talents by a miraculous technique that no one would dare do to the newl signed superstars "Benching!". If al of them stay then either of Henry,Etoo ronnie r messi will have to sit out. Which, in my view , is a disgrace to the sport.

Henry s move to spain is certain to affect European football and there are no two ways about it. Thank you Henry for giving some of the best moments of EPL and entertaining soccer followers in your own way.

FROM "LA LIGA" TO "L.A GALAXY"

It is very hard these days, being a David Beckham fan. It is even harder to move away from the original GALAXY...the galacticos to a club which is a Galaxy only by of the nomenclature, exactly when the former has stuck form and shown strength to cap what one can call, one of the greatest comeback chapionship wins in the histoy of the sport.

As i said earlier, it is hard defending David Beckham being arguably one of the best footballers, these days. Many people wite him off has an over-rated prick who can be better off as a model or an actor.This constant "over-rated player" allegation has,in my view,made beckham an under-rated player.Many of his individual perfomaces have always been pushed to the second page as the inablilty of the "boys-worth-millions" to play well as a team overshadowed it.

It seemed to many of his critics that Beckham was the inhibitant in Madrid being unable to perform better let alone win trophies season after season. Beckham's arrival did not see Madrid win any major silver.There is no denying it. But one has also to look into the fact that the madrid team was not a constant thing and it had a floating coach,floating stop and what's more floatin squad.Of which only the galaxy form the constant part.If the team is in such a disastrous state, how can you blame an individual for Madrid's failures.

Beckham is not of the calibre of Maradona,Pele,De Stefano Expecting him to play like that is foolish.Beckham does what he does best,create chances from every possible situation.He has been doing it.But the lack of reciprocation fom the other end had cost madrid the silver that the wud have been winners of.

Beckham has been an inevitable member of the Madrid squad and without him madid wud not have acheived as mush is a well hidden truth.This was evident during the months of january which saw Beckham made o sit out,when his departure became imminent, for most of the matches and suffer painstaking defeats. Now finally Becks was able to prove his worth by being one of the most vital reasons for Madrid's triumph by providing for van Nistelrooy who was a benifactor of Beckham's contibution since their days at Man Utd.

So the stage is set.He is moving to the U.S. Where he still will continue to be what he is today,David Beckham.

THE SEARCH HAS SERIOUSLY BEGUN

I am wont to spending excessive amount of time contemplating about things that are never really important but these things really really really bother me. One of those things is fighting competetion. It is natural for any sane human being to have this urge to become the best in the business that he/she takes up.I am no different. But the crux of the whole issue seems to be, in whichever road i decide to tread on, the fact that an alarmin number are also treading on the same road and they are far better than me and still very far behind the leaders deflates my initial entusiasm.That i cannot ever win is all but a fact. Could there possibly be a solution?..

The solution given by people are more or less effort-centric.They seem to say a diligent human being putting in a lot of effort in a particular field is bound to hit the top. Some say find a field in which you are the best....but finding itself is a field in which i have to compete with every individual on this earth!!..what a paradoxical situation....A philosphical quagmire....

A humorist's school of thought....

Mention the word "Reservation" to any Indian student in his college years, the first thing that would come to his mind would be, the drama that is staged by various political partys that is reflective of the igorance of the government to formulate a concrete policy therby hampering the nations progress. Although, I dont much agree with the latter part of the sentence, i came across a very interesting and humorous comment on "New avenues where reservations can be provided."

The author notes that the strongest points that act in favour for providing reservations in India are
1) Equal representation from all the stratas of society.
2) Compromise quality for equality and development of the society.

With this in mind he has an excellent sugestion to make..

He says why not implement the reservation policy on the Indian Cricket team instead of implementing them on Private sector jobs and Central Institutions. He notes that this would be expedient for the government in two ways.

1) The question of quality deterioration does not arise.
2) The people who get reserved would earn more from one match, than what they would earn in a lifetime if they go the governments way.

This rule will be best served only if you implement it on a series to series basis.The BCCI must give everyone who has applied for those reserved posts a chance to play thereby providing for their development .


Cheers,
Misnomer.

The Trio, Invincibility reality...

Today , i woke up to the news that the deal between Man U and Bayern Munich for signing Owen Hargreaves is complete and that Owen will join the devils on Jul 1. Considering that i am a Man U fan, this is good news . This officially marks the end of a year long tussle between the reds, whose desperation to sign was an open secret and the germans, who for so long would not let him go at any cost. After whiling most part of the season on the injured list he could do no good to the chances of Bayern , who for the first time in a decade did not qualify for the Champions league. This neccessiated a major shuffle of the team ,which has currently taken the form of an exodus of players. As a consequence Bayern decided to dispense with Owen by getting the best deal out of the whole situation. If you except the fact that he has not put pen on paper, you can consider him as a red devil.Welcome Owen!, to what is, in my view, the greatest club in the world. I hope u ll enjoy greater successes at the Theatre of Dreams.

If you think this is all about this post, u are wrong. Man U have also agreed "in principle" a deal for Porto's Anderson and Sp.Lisbons Nani,who has been touted as the next Ronaldo. I checked the videos concerning these two on youtube. I could infer that both of them as wingers can potentially replace Giggs. There dribbling was a shade above excellent and their speed and passing will add a new dimension to United's game. Alongside Ronaldo, if they strike a good partnership,then mark my words, Man U will become incvincible. Welcome home boys!!.
I am really looking forward to see how the season is gonna pan out.

Let me examine how important and consequential are these three siginings in satisfying todays needs of Manchester United. Owen can and will be seen as a replacement for Paul Scholes.His passing is equal to, if not better than Scholes but lacks in vision as compared to the guy who he is supposed to replace.He also has this aptitude to convert defense into attack at precisely any given moment and he can also play as a defender and his pace can be very handy during counters.Having said this, he does not give that extra thing that scholes gives to the team , the ability to lurk forward and score goals. Except for the pace part,Carrick is more like hargreaves. And scholes if made to sit out will create a vaccum in todays Man U team. So they need to re invent themselves and play like they played with a keane,butt,beckham,giggs midfield.Scholes can be added for that extra aggression,if need be.

Say i become devoid of football for the next month and no transfer news reaches me. I come back to football and someone says that Man U have spent 47 million in all on transfers this summer. I d be led to beleive that there would be a striker(like ruud) worth at least 6 million.
But just by the look of things it appears no striker would feature in this years purchases and it also appears that Man Utd are content with Rooney,Saha,Solskjaer and Smith. Rooney has nowadays started playing like Keane.Giving more importance to his tackles than his finishing skills. Saha is either injured or out of form in 340 of the 365 days in an year.On other days he is fine.Smith s finishing has detiorated after his career threatening injury and Solskjaer is too old to start. In this situation Man U need a striker otherwise scoring goals could always be a problem.
So instead of buying two prodigal wingers, i d say buy a striker(Huntelaar, preferably) and a winger(Nani or Ribery). But who knows wat the great scot has in mind.Lets wait and watch!