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!

Unemployement a thing of the past????

Bangalore
18th May, 2020.

Winfosysh Technologies, India's highest software exporter has now gone a step ahead in the recruiting process by recruiting 25000 students,who have just cleared their Higher secondary examinations."This is part of our long term strategy to make Winfosysh self-sustaining,so far as the software needs are concerned..",Mr.Thanigaivelu,the CTO of Winfosysh was quoted as saying.

Mr.Thanigaivelu,a mining Engineer who graduated from Govinda Institute of Technology,Chennai is really wary about the future of Winfosysh, should they continue with their massive recruitment process of snatching engineers by the lacks across every engineering college in India.

"The quality of engineering students is going down by the year and this strategy(the engg recruitment one) required serious brooding as it could have had a very negative impact on our acheiving of our long term goals which is securing atleast two foreign contracts a year.Hence we decided to supplement the workforce with "more" fresher brains.",he said.

This decision has resulted in many a smiling face across the households in the states of Tamil Nadu,Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh,not the least because the parents now need not concern themselves with the until-now-eternal question of "which engg college to admit their wards in so that their placement into the software companies at a lesser cost will become a certainity..".

"All that is needed to get into winfosysh is that u must have an excellent academic record(35% or above in all subjects) and know the basics of how to operate a mouse and how to use a keyboard for the purpose of typing and typing only. If you have these qualities, then crackin the interview is a piece of cake!", says a newly recruited Winfosyshian.

Spurred on by this move by arch-rivals Winfosysh , Papa consultancy services is now involved with their "Anyone can become a software engineer campaign" wherin literates who know what a computer actually is are also considered for jobs that were once reserved only for Engg,Science,Arts and Litt graduates.

So is unemployement a thing of the past now???

RESULTS...

My god!! If ever there was much ado about nothing,it was wen our results got published.Since, this semester is supposed to be the last one before our placements, the profs are supposed to be tangibly lenient in giving away the grades. So wen people started saying that 'tronix everyone above 8 and stuff, the above mentioned fact i slowly started to beleive that inspite of my terrible perfomance in xams, i got above 8. And i started preparing myself by choosin wat companies to sit in and stuff,which wud depend on my CG.

But fate, is something that always renders a completely unlooked for upshot. I can quote many instances and this will increment the "many" by one. My grades hit a real low. I cud still not forget that moment, wen i stared at that evil scrap saying ur sg-7.04...my god!,what ll become of my plan?? everything will need manifest overhauling and the stage that requires me to tread on a thin rope is back to haunt me.The usual tussle with fate which i always relate to a soccer knock out match is back with a bang.For how long shud i keep fighting hese things, will i ever improve?? will i ever win a match in normal tym...wwhy is this fate always pushing me through golden goal xtra time and then onto the dreaded penalties....

This reminds of Chuck Berry s lyrics: ""C'est la vie!" say the old folks,it goes to show,"you never can tell"".

3 yrs and still counting...

Today i chanced upon a NDTV news report,in which they gave a report about the various Editors appraisal of the incumbent DPA ministers. So this as good a topic to post as anything else,i thought and here i am in front of my monitor trying to organize my random thoughts.

So here goes, my personal appraisal of the DPA and its ministers:

Three years prior to this day, i was one of the many political observers who had serious doubts on how far this alliance will go.An alliance between the political "Toms and Jerrys",they called it.There is no questioning the above fact, as an alliance between the Left and the Congress was and is not far from what was mentioned in the previous sentence. My dad, being a leftie, was fairly convinced and was pretty sure that the alliance was going to last and can and will be more efficient than the previous government.He had reason to think so, not the least because he felt ,the alliance between the capitalists and communists had saved the world from the most venumous peril that has hit the earth so far, in the form of Hitler, during WWII. Thinking the centrist way, i t would seem that my dad was inordinately harsh on the BJP by comparing them to the Nazis.Yeah! , very true.

Today my dad reminded me that his words are coming true.He said "The alliance will last and it will have a greater efficiency".Last,it will, but with greater efficiency,i have serious doubts. This is primarily because of the implementation of the 27% reservation for the OBC s in Central institutions for higher education, and the controversial SEZ policy.

VT or wud it be VeTTI

Whenever i refresh my orkut scrapbook, i always encounter a scrap which asks me as to we am i doing my VT(Vocational Training) and dat the senders VT has been nothing short of very boring.From the beginning , i ve been told by my seniors that the VT period albeit boring can be onw of the most serviceable periods in ur engg carrier.
They said:
"You can use this period for restructuring your fundamentals, prepaing for upcoing competetive xams whilst getting a handy practical experience at the company...".


I am supposed to do my VT at Bharti Airtel, india s lagest mobile servie blah! blah! from today . With some respect in mind for AirTel , i ve planned a wealth of things .Hope! my plans become succesful.

HEARTBREAK!

Yes! , i am referring to United s defeat in the hands of Chelsea in the FA cup final today.Defeats pain.And a defeat after fighting hard till the very end incurrs an incurable excruciating pain.This past season Utd have been giving a lot of this "difficult-to-digest" pills.Twice against Arsenal and once 2day to name a few.

The first half didnt have anything noteworthy, and it was textbook cup final types.The second half had chances for both sides.Especially united were able to get their rhythym rite but Essien played uniteds villain on more than one occasion.Roone, for reasons unknown couldnot get his act together when the team really needed him the most.Giggsy had a goal disallowed in my view.(and that esteryears Giggs wud hae finished the same ball in an astounding manner is a differnt issue).

The extratime was a joy to watch until the nefarious 25th min came.United were going full throttle and squandered a decent amount of chances.Little did these players know,that they ll wistfully want those moment back. When Drogba struck the goal i was still hoping for a miracle to happen.But united never looked like scoring, all their earlier charm, their aggression seemed to have evaporated.The last five mins chelsea kept it tight and did what they do best.

Taking the match as a precurso to the next season, there are se serious problems to be addressed.
1. Utd need a more influential striker.Berbatov or torres or someone lyk dat.
2.Giigsy shud be replaced.Ribery would be a good inclusion.

The rest seem to be in place for united.


Hard luck United...and until next season..

The aftermath,i thought,it would be...

After Team India s dramatic exit from the World cup 2007 , i thought the cricket craze in the egion would subside and the TV channels would give in their wont of aeonian telecasting of cricket programs .The craze did subside but theTV channels are telecasting even more cricket than even before. The usual respite ,that i get between two interminable cricket programs, also seems to have shrunk.To whichever sport channel i tune in to,i either see an Ex-Indian cricketer praising a 255 ball gavaskar century or India battering the Zimbabwean might in a 2001 series.I dispensed with all the ideas that i had for that afternoon and went about brwsing various channels.

Today while browsing thro various channels in search of some football,i deemed myself fortunate as i ploughed on a "DD Spots football update".Unable to conceal my excitement, at the prospect of watching something related to football in DD , i increased the volume.The report was supposed to update people about Korean footballer Park Ji sung s move to Manchester United and also Asier Del Horno s move to chelsea.

Park has now completed three full seasons at United and Asier Del Horno has left Chelsea for Valencia.And the update couldnt have come at a better tym, i thought and switched the TV off and went off to sleep.

Seriously, these Sport channels must have some mercy on other sport enthusiasts.

Well i think i am back...

After a not so brief hiatus,Vishwa is back to blogging ways.And this has more to do with acheiving personal ends than any other pass time "bulla" i usually give.

In the past week, i beat my own personal record for the number of books completel read in a week category.I reached a personal best of three.The reason, a short holiday and the ennui that Tata Allapey trips result in when you are all alone.The list of books that i completed included Delhi by Kushwanth Singh, Nick Mason s PINK FLOYD inside out and Goalkeepers are crazy a football stories collection collected and compiled by Brian Glanville.

Of the three books that i read last week, Delhi stuck out as my personal favourite, not the least because it had history of delhi embedded in it.Any history enthusiast in this country will always be enamored by the history of Delhi,i am no different,more so because i think i am the greatest patron of the fact that Delhi is second only to London in richness of history.

Narrating the history of Delhi from the times of Nadir Shah to his time, through the eyes of Mr.Singh a historian, a part time guide woking with the embassy,Kushwant Singh easily makes strong inroads into the mind of the history hungry reader.The "riveting wit" which invariably accompanies many Kushwant Singh's books and articles forms an integral part of this book.Alternating between fiction and fact the book also gives a unclouded account of the present day Delhiites. His account arguing for both sides of the coin on serious moot points does not leave any space for serious controversies. Especially the one which alleges a builder to be a boot licker of the English has been well executed.

A thoroughly enjoyable read if you are an history enthusiast.

UNCOMFORTABLY DOWN!!

It s been a while since i wrote somethingl.Now my hands have started typing involuntarily.
The prime reason being the amount of emotional stress that i am undergoing in this period of my lyf tym.

A string of failures in things in which i thought i am good in has taken almost 90% of self-beleif.
I pause(and to an extent hate) wonder if i am good at anything,anything at all???

This is without any hint of doubt the worst period of my lyf.I seriously do not know how to get a cure for this ailment.It is as explained because i myself ,really ,do not know why i am feeling this way.Probably because i overestimated myself or am i incapable of performing.I'll leave this to GOD....

So again the pursuit has begun to dentify wat i am good at....the usual never ending pursuit..shud i say...