Civic Sense
Its been quite a while since I last blogged. Well nothing much has happened in-between except that I got irritated once by the kind of "Civic Sense" shown by a few people. Thats exactly what I am going to blog here.
Last week I went to Coimbatore through 3 Tier AC coach. When I got into the coach I got a big shock. Near my seat the people who had been travelling in that train from Mumbai to Bangalore had spilt snacks, curd rice, cake, chaat masalas and what not. I cant even step inside and sit on my seat. I would imagine people coming by AC coach are reasonably well off and never expected this kind of a behaviour from them. I wonder what sort of "Civic Sense" these fellows have. They never consider public properties as those that will be used by others too. They have treated that entire area in that coach as though its their home and the floor as a dust bin. I could only think of an Anniyan style punishment for them. Thank god finally the TTR sent some folks to clean the mess.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Air India, The best flight I had taken so far
After three months of boring tenure at Petaluma, CA and Boston,MA returned home on 24th April. I travelled by Air India from Chicago to Bangalore, a single flight with two stops in between. This is the first time I am flying in Air India. All my previous trips had been in Lufthansa and Cathay Pacific. Like many I too had apprehensions about the services offered by Air India. But having travelled 23 hours in the same flight I could say that its the best flight I had travelled so far. It has far better leg space in the economy class than Lufthansa (Cathay pacific is comparable to Air India in this regard), good Indian entertainment and above all good Indian food. The only thing that one needs to bear with Air India is the pathetic english in their in flight announcements. But that is one thing thats of least importance to me. All I care is better leg space to move around, good food and entertainment. Air India satisfied performed very well in all these.
After three months of boring tenure at Petaluma, CA and Boston,MA returned home on 24th April. I travelled by Air India from Chicago to Bangalore, a single flight with two stops in between. This is the first time I am flying in Air India. All my previous trips had been in Lufthansa and Cathay Pacific. Like many I too had apprehensions about the services offered by Air India. But having travelled 23 hours in the same flight I could say that its the best flight I had travelled so far. It has far better leg space in the economy class than Lufthansa (Cathay pacific is comparable to Air India in this regard), good Indian entertainment and above all good Indian food. The only thing that one needs to bear with Air India is the pathetic english in their in flight announcements. But that is one thing thats of least importance to me. All I care is better leg space to move around, good food and entertainment. Air India satisfied performed very well in all these.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Eating up other's time in the name of Direct Marketing
Finally I got a chance to visit MIT and Harvard Universities and go around them at the end of my stay in Boston. Me and my friend Arun went to Cambridge yesterday and took a long walk around MIT and Harvard and along the banks of the Charles river yesterday. But the happiness of that trip was almost spoilt at the end in the name of Direct Marketing. Before I go on what happened, a disclaimer: I dont have anything against the technique of Direct Marketing but its when they intrude into your privacy and eat up your valuable time it frustrates me.
While returning from Cambridge me and Arun decided to go to Burlington Shopping mall and just go around it. When we were about to leave the mall, two desis were approaching us. These two were totally strangers to us. One of them just keeps walking but the other guy just stops infront of us and opens up his talk by asking in English
"Excuse me I am quite new to this place. Is there any other outlet mall in this area other than this?"
Me being a stranger to that place too, I diverted the question to Arun. Arun gave them some directons to some other mall which were little far from that place. After getting them (I think he was never interested in those directions) he introduced himself and asked our names. We told him our names. Hearing the names "Sridhar" and "Arun" he curiously asked "Names sound South Indian to me. Which place are you from?". I said Coimbatore and Arun said Chennai. Immediately that guy in an effort to get more closer to us and start marketing started his Tanglish like this.
"Naanum from the adhe Chennai place dhan. Chennai-la endha place are you from?"
Hearing this something immediately struck me this guy is going to bore us for sometime and I felt as if slapping for this half baked Tamil+English. I was telling myself - "Dei !@#$%%^ onna tamil-la pesu illa english-la pesu. Ippadi rendayum kola pannadha"
My friend said he is from Ambattur and the guy continued like this.
"Naan from AnnaNagar. Its funny chennaila we never met but inga naama we are meeting paadhi world apart. Idha pesumpodhu I remember a story. One day some of my colleagues summa asked me and my friend, where you guys are from in Chennai. Naan, I was telling, naan Annanagar, SBOA school-la I studied. My friend also sonnan he too is from Anna nagar and avanum studied in SBOA. Then they asked, where do you stay? I told naan staying in some XXX apartment (I didnt hear this name, as I was never paying any attention to this brutal murder of 2 languages). He too sonnan that he is stayin in same apartment. Then my friends told us that dont tell us that you too are neighbours but still never met in Chennai. "
At this time the other guy who continued his walk before comes back and joins him. He too starts to ask Arun about some places to visit around there and continues his crappy Tanglish.
Finally thinking that as though they have become good friends of us they asked Arun if he can give his phone number so that they can contact him to get help on places around that area as they dont have anybody else to help. Arun by this time guessed where these folks are coming at and avoided giving his number. Then they opened the "Business" talk.
"Naanga, we are doing a kind of indha Amazon, e-Bay maadhiri business. Will you be interested to join us?"
Arun just cut them now saying that he knows where they are coming at and told he is not interested. Thank god I told them initially itself that I am just a visitor to that place and am on a Business visa and never paid any attention to their talks. Otherwise they could have asked my opinion on that business to and continued the crap. We left that place cutting their talk mid-way.
I had seen in Bangalore, about this direct marketing through people who are known to me. This is the first time I am seeing a total stranger coming and marketing to me though I have heard from some of my friends that they have been approached by total strangers in Bangalore too. One interesting tactic that one of my friend told, followed by the person who approached him is, first day he met my friend in Murugan Idly shop coming in normal dress and came walking. Second day he met him with a good jacket and came in bike. Third day he came and met him in a car as if to show he has become rich so soon through the direct marketing of Amway products.
I dont know why these people never realise that in the quest for money what they end up is losing good relationships. I am sure none of their friends would like to talk to them once they approach them for direct marketing. In the name of direct marketing what they end up is eating valuable time of others.
Finally I got a chance to visit MIT and Harvard Universities and go around them at the end of my stay in Boston. Me and my friend Arun went to Cambridge yesterday and took a long walk around MIT and Harvard and along the banks of the Charles river yesterday. But the happiness of that trip was almost spoilt at the end in the name of Direct Marketing. Before I go on what happened, a disclaimer: I dont have anything against the technique of Direct Marketing but its when they intrude into your privacy and eat up your valuable time it frustrates me.
While returning from Cambridge me and Arun decided to go to Burlington Shopping mall and just go around it. When we were about to leave the mall, two desis were approaching us. These two were totally strangers to us. One of them just keeps walking but the other guy just stops infront of us and opens up his talk by asking in English
"Excuse me I am quite new to this place. Is there any other outlet mall in this area other than this?"
Me being a stranger to that place too, I diverted the question to Arun. Arun gave them some directons to some other mall which were little far from that place. After getting them (I think he was never interested in those directions) he introduced himself and asked our names. We told him our names. Hearing the names "Sridhar" and "Arun" he curiously asked "Names sound South Indian to me. Which place are you from?". I said Coimbatore and Arun said Chennai. Immediately that guy in an effort to get more closer to us and start marketing started his Tanglish like this.
"Naanum from the adhe Chennai place dhan. Chennai-la endha place are you from?"
Hearing this something immediately struck me this guy is going to bore us for sometime and I felt as if slapping for this half baked Tamil+English. I was telling myself - "Dei !@#$%%^ onna tamil-la pesu illa english-la pesu. Ippadi rendayum kola pannadha"
My friend said he is from Ambattur and the guy continued like this.
"Naan from AnnaNagar. Its funny chennaila we never met but inga naama we are meeting paadhi world apart. Idha pesumpodhu I remember a story. One day some of my colleagues summa asked me and my friend, where you guys are from in Chennai. Naan, I was telling, naan Annanagar, SBOA school-la I studied. My friend also sonnan he too is from Anna nagar and avanum studied in SBOA. Then they asked, where do you stay? I told naan staying in some XXX apartment (I didnt hear this name, as I was never paying any attention to this brutal murder of 2 languages). He too sonnan that he is stayin in same apartment. Then my friends told us that dont tell us that you too are neighbours but still never met in Chennai. "
At this time the other guy who continued his walk before comes back and joins him. He too starts to ask Arun about some places to visit around there and continues his crappy Tanglish.
Finally thinking that as though they have become good friends of us they asked Arun if he can give his phone number so that they can contact him to get help on places around that area as they dont have anybody else to help. Arun by this time guessed where these folks are coming at and avoided giving his number. Then they opened the "Business" talk.
"Naanga, we are doing a kind of indha Amazon, e-Bay maadhiri business. Will you be interested to join us?"
Arun just cut them now saying that he knows where they are coming at and told he is not interested. Thank god I told them initially itself that I am just a visitor to that place and am on a Business visa and never paid any attention to their talks. Otherwise they could have asked my opinion on that business to and continued the crap. We left that place cutting their talk mid-way.
I had seen in Bangalore, about this direct marketing through people who are known to me. This is the first time I am seeing a total stranger coming and marketing to me though I have heard from some of my friends that they have been approached by total strangers in Bangalore too. One interesting tactic that one of my friend told, followed by the person who approached him is, first day he met my friend in Murugan Idly shop coming in normal dress and came walking. Second day he met him with a good jacket and came in bike. Third day he came and met him in a car as if to show he has become rich so soon through the direct marketing of Amway products.
I dont know why these people never realise that in the quest for money what they end up is losing good relationships. I am sure none of their friends would like to talk to them once they approach them for direct marketing. In the name of direct marketing what they end up is eating valuable time of others.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Staying Positive. It should be a collective thing
So many books on personality development talk about staying positive. But many of them miss the point that staying positive helps you achieve things or solve issues only in matters in which you are the only stake holder. In issues where more than one person is involved (typically in a team environment), its the collective spirit that matters. The same positive energy should be radiated by others. Imagine arguing something with a person who always turns you back with negative comments or doesnt look at the arguements with the right spirit. That will frustrate you at some point and will make you feel totally negative. I havent come across any experiences that suggests a better way to handle these kind of scenarios. Any magic formula for lifting the spirits of people surrounding you? Till I find one, let me continue to search for one.
So many books on personality development talk about staying positive. But many of them miss the point that staying positive helps you achieve things or solve issues only in matters in which you are the only stake holder. In issues where more than one person is involved (typically in a team environment), its the collective spirit that matters. The same positive energy should be radiated by others. Imagine arguing something with a person who always turns you back with negative comments or doesnt look at the arguements with the right spirit. That will frustrate you at some point and will make you feel totally negative. I havent come across any experiences that suggests a better way to handle these kind of scenarios. Any magic formula for lifting the spirits of people surrounding you? Till I find one, let me continue to search for one.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Thoughts on how technology can help encourage voting by all
I was wondering what makes the educated people not to vote. Though they are the first to follow the current affairs and comment on whats happening through the media there is something that makes them not to vote in elections. He gets first hand information from the media and has the oppurtunity to analyse things in the right perspective. Thinking about this issue one can see that there is a distinct gap between the information that an educated person gets from the media and an average Indian villager gets the information from the media.
The way Indian media is heading sounds both encouraging and and alarming. The opening up of Indian market led to the mushrooming of private TV channels and of late many news channels. In their competition to make a difference each news channel is doing some sort of investigative journalism, exposing the corrupt politicians and law breakers. The recent exposure of bribe acceptance by MP's for raising issues in parliament, Media pressures on the failure of judicial system in convicting the culprits on the Jessica Lal case verdict etc.,. are examples of the positives that the media is bringing in India. At the same time most of the print and visual media are owned by people favoring some political party and the political views exposed by these channels and newspapers are biased.
For an average Indian who doesnt follow the different news channels and their investigative journalisms all he gets is the biased reports from papers and the prime time news telecast in the channels owned by people favoring some political party. Its these people who really vote. The educated Indian who follows the current affairs and analyses things in the right perspective almost never votes. All he does is express his views like me in blogs like this and give reader feedbacks in news website forums.
The election commision should take some major steps in encouraging the educated to vote. The present day educated, executives, are mostly the floating population. Most of the time they dont stay at the same city even for the period of a government. They will have their name in the voter's list at one location but will be residing at another location at the time of voting. Introducing a social security number kind of scheme in India and giving an identification smart card for every-citizen of India will solve this problem. Whenever the citizen migrates to a city he can go to a goverment installed kiosk and swipe his card and update his present details. At the time of voting all he needs to do is just swipe the card as a mark of identification and vote. Public kiosks can also be installed in cities for voting, instead of having to vote in polling booths. This removes the necessity to put the indelible ink mark on index finger and tracking of voters list in a polling booth. However India being a vast country with 80% of it being remote villages there is significant problem of feasibility in achieving this. As an initial step this scheme can be introduced in cities alone, where most of the migrating population live and step by step this can be introduced in the villages.
The I.T industry can think of coming up with products for these kind of requiements which will help India in the longer run. The government needs to fund for these kind of research and product development. Hopefully some educated bloke in the parliament / election commission hears this.
I was wondering what makes the educated people not to vote. Though they are the first to follow the current affairs and comment on whats happening through the media there is something that makes them not to vote in elections. He gets first hand information from the media and has the oppurtunity to analyse things in the right perspective. Thinking about this issue one can see that there is a distinct gap between the information that an educated person gets from the media and an average Indian villager gets the information from the media.
The way Indian media is heading sounds both encouraging and and alarming. The opening up of Indian market led to the mushrooming of private TV channels and of late many news channels. In their competition to make a difference each news channel is doing some sort of investigative journalism, exposing the corrupt politicians and law breakers. The recent exposure of bribe acceptance by MP's for raising issues in parliament, Media pressures on the failure of judicial system in convicting the culprits on the Jessica Lal case verdict etc.,. are examples of the positives that the media is bringing in India. At the same time most of the print and visual media are owned by people favoring some political party and the political views exposed by these channels and newspapers are biased.
For an average Indian who doesnt follow the different news channels and their investigative journalisms all he gets is the biased reports from papers and the prime time news telecast in the channels owned by people favoring some political party. Its these people who really vote. The educated Indian who follows the current affairs and analyses things in the right perspective almost never votes. All he does is express his views like me in blogs like this and give reader feedbacks in news website forums.
The election commision should take some major steps in encouraging the educated to vote. The present day educated, executives, are mostly the floating population. Most of the time they dont stay at the same city even for the period of a government. They will have their name in the voter's list at one location but will be residing at another location at the time of voting. Introducing a social security number kind of scheme in India and giving an identification smart card for every-citizen of India will solve this problem. Whenever the citizen migrates to a city he can go to a goverment installed kiosk and swipe his card and update his present details. At the time of voting all he needs to do is just swipe the card as a mark of identification and vote. Public kiosks can also be installed in cities for voting, instead of having to vote in polling booths. This removes the necessity to put the indelible ink mark on index finger and tracking of voters list in a polling booth. However India being a vast country with 80% of it being remote villages there is significant problem of feasibility in achieving this. As an initial step this scheme can be introduced in cities alone, where most of the migrating population live and step by step this can be introduced in the villages.
The I.T industry can think of coming up with products for these kind of requiements which will help India in the longer run. The government needs to fund for these kind of research and product development. Hopefully some educated bloke in the parliament / election commission hears this.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Afghanistan in Sports
I came across this link.
http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2006/mar/27deep.htm
Afghanistan doing well in sports is an encouraging sign. Given a chance I think they will come good in Cricket/Hockey/Squash due to thier close proximity to Pakistan and many north west frontier pakistani's are in fact of afghan orgin (The Peshawaris). Time has to answer if this will continue.
I came across this link.
http://ia.rediff.com/cricket
Afghanistan doing well in sports is an encouraging sign. Given a chance I think they will come good in Cricket/Hockey/Squash due to thier close proximity to Pakistan and many north west frontier pakistani's are in fact of afghan orgin (The Peshawaris). Time has to answer if this will continue.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
It happens only in Tamil Nadu
One news in a tamil website says that Rajnikanth fans are forcing him to come to politics, after his announcement that his fans can vote for any party they like and he will not influence them. The reason the fans give,
"Other lesser popular actors are already into politics and the fans of Rajini cant face the fans of other actors already in politics."
This happens only in Tamil nadu. Looks like nobody is interested in getting a better governance. All they want from Rajnikanth is just come to politics so that the fans can answer Rajini's critics. Nobody respects Rajini as an individual and at the end of the day he has the rights to do what he wants. If he is not interested in politics that his decision. Only in Tamilnadu people see stars as GODs and when they do something which the fans dont like they start cribbing that the stars are not interested in people's welfare. They never realise that all these things look idiotic for an outsider.
One news in a tamil website says that Rajnikanth fans are forcing him to come to politics, after his announcement that his fans can vote for any party they like and he will not influence them. The reason the fans give,
"Other lesser popular actors are already into politics and the fans of Rajini cant face the fans of other actors already in politics."
This happens only in Tamil nadu. Looks like nobody is interested in getting a better governance. All they want from Rajnikanth is just come to politics so that the fans can answer Rajini's critics. Nobody respects Rajini as an individual and at the end of the day he has the rights to do what he wants. If he is not interested in politics that his decision. Only in Tamilnadu people see stars as GODs and when they do something which the fans dont like they start cribbing that the stars are not interested in people's welfare. They never realise that all these things look idiotic for an outsider.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Technology Startups in India
The last two years lot of software and chip design start-ups have sprung up in Bangalore. Glad to see India slowly moving in the direction of product development from the Services sector. But it would be interesting to see a statistic of how many such start-ups suceeded and compare that with the success rate of Silicon Valley start-ups in the late 90's. Something tells me that India's supply of quality talent in the technology sector is very less. Though we have so many Engineering colleges churning out young graduates every year I doubt if 10% of them are coming out as quality engineers that the industry demands.
For start-ups to be successful, in my opinion, they need to have really good and dedicated people who dont get bogged down by failures and fight till they succeed. The next few years will be interesting to see how the product industry and SMEs develop. If we can fight against the odds and bringout products from our country it will be a major leap in-terms of projecting India as a country capable of producing technology products of international quality rather than just be a services garage.
The last two years lot of software and chip design start-ups have sprung up in Bangalore. Glad to see India slowly moving in the direction of product development from the Services sector. But it would be interesting to see a statistic of how many such start-ups suceeded and compare that with the success rate of Silicon Valley start-ups in the late 90's. Something tells me that India's supply of quality talent in the technology sector is very less. Though we have so many Engineering colleges churning out young graduates every year I doubt if 10% of them are coming out as quality engineers that the industry demands.
For start-ups to be successful, in my opinion, they need to have really good and dedicated people who dont get bogged down by failures and fight till they succeed. The next few years will be interesting to see how the product industry and SMEs develop. If we can fight against the odds and bringout products from our country it will be a major leap in-terms of projecting India as a country capable of producing technology products of international quality rather than just be a services garage.
What is going wrong with Team India?
Just before the Pakistan series I told some of my friends(when we went to Coorg for New year) that Team India will no longer be Team India without Daada. I am not a Bengali and am not a Rahul Dravid hater. In fact am a great fan of Rahul for his batting. The reasons I told were that
1. The youngsters will no longer get the kind of support that Ganguly gave them and hence that will lead to a feeling of insecurity.
2. Dravid is a gentleman cricket. Captaincy requires a different character. You got to be agressive and be a person who stares at the opposition straight at the eye. I love Ganguly for this character itself. The way he tackled Steve Waugh in 2001 series in India by deliberately walking late for the toss showed that he is quite a character.
Now the results are showing up. And I found it interesting when Times of India came out with the same reasons. Read this link.
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/msid-1462632.cms
One thing is sure. Appointing Chappel cost India dear. He is expecting to bring in the Australian work ethics in Indian team. That will work in Australia but not in India for the following reasons.
1. If a player doesnt perform in Australia and he is shown the door there are dozens of quality players waiting in the reserves. But in India we dont have that many quality players. So we got to live with whatever we have and we need to slowly nurture them and build a team which Ganguly did a really great job.
2. Indians are emotional when compared to Aussies. So if a player is dropped he feels emotionally drawn back and he gets a sense of insecurity. This further affects his performance.
All I could say is that Kiran More, Chappel and co did the greatest dis-service to Indian cricket by dropping Ganguly. He should have been persisted with a little longer though his personal batting performance was bad. He would have atleast made sure that he created a core Indian team for the future before he left. With Sachin, Dravid and Laxman already nearing the end of their careers India hasnt identified the core team for the next generation. Hopefully we dont go back to the dark days of the pre-ganguly period.
Just before the Pakistan series I told some of my friends(when we went to Coorg for New year) that Team India will no longer be Team India without Daada. I am not a Bengali and am not a Rahul Dravid hater. In fact am a great fan of Rahul for his batting. The reasons I told were that
1. The youngsters will no longer get the kind of support that Ganguly gave them and hence that will lead to a feeling of insecurity.
2. Dravid is a gentleman cricket. Captaincy requires a different character. You got to be agressive and be a person who stares at the opposition straight at the eye. I love Ganguly for this character itself. The way he tackled Steve Waugh in 2001 series in India by deliberately walking late for the toss showed that he is quite a character.
Now the results are showing up. And I found it interesting when Times of India came out with the same reasons. Read this link.
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/msid-1462632.cms
One thing is sure. Appointing Chappel cost India dear. He is expecting to bring in the Australian work ethics in Indian team. That will work in Australia but not in India for the following reasons.
1. If a player doesnt perform in Australia and he is shown the door there are dozens of quality players waiting in the reserves. But in India we dont have that many quality players. So we got to live with whatever we have and we need to slowly nurture them and build a team which Ganguly did a really great job.
2. Indians are emotional when compared to Aussies. So if a player is dropped he feels emotionally drawn back and he gets a sense of insecurity. This further affects his performance.
All I could say is that Kiran More, Chappel and co did the greatest dis-service to Indian cricket by dropping Ganguly. He should have been persisted with a little longer though his personal batting performance was bad. He would have atleast made sure that he created a core Indian team for the future before he left. With Sachin, Dravid and Laxman already nearing the end of their careers India hasnt identified the core team for the next generation. Hopefully we dont go back to the dark days of the pre-ganguly period.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
What makes Inventions happen in the US
Sometimes I wonder how the US manages to have so much information and they pioneer in most of the inventions. One of my colleague told me the other day during a lunch that the US goverment funds to research about every damn thing. You ask them a statistic how many people below the age of 18 have too much of potato chips a day, chances are that they will have the information available in a mouse click.
Its exactly these kind of statistical analysis that points out a pattern and shows certain necessity. When the necessity is identified it leads to an invention - as the saying goes "Necessity is the mother of all inventions". Hope India grows to have such kind of statistics taken in the future.
Sometimes I wonder how the US manages to have so much information and they pioneer in most of the inventions. One of my colleague told me the other day during a lunch that the US goverment funds to research about every damn thing. You ask them a statistic how many people below the age of 18 have too much of potato chips a day, chances are that they will have the information available in a mouse click.
Its exactly these kind of statistical analysis that points out a pattern and shows certain necessity. When the necessity is identified it leads to an invention - as the saying goes "Necessity is the mother of all inventions". Hope India grows to have such kind of statistics taken in the future.
Interesting Link on Product Beta
As I struggle through my work pressures on getting our beta product out, I came across this interesting article on beta. A nice read.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/dont-blow-your-beta/
As I struggle through my work pressures on getting our beta product out, I came across this interesting article on beta. A nice read.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/dont-blow-your-beta/
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Daada Dropped Again
Daada is dropped for the England series saying that youngsters ought to be given chance. I am also one among the umpteen Daada fans got shocked by this exclusion. What is baffling is the reasons given by the bunch of jokers. Kiran More says that the same yardstick cant be applied to Sachin. Guys watch out. Sachin will score one hundred in the series against England and rest all scores will be less than 30. Even that hundred will come in a match that is of least significance. Media will jump up and down saying Sachin is the greatest of all and he is able to comeback in adversities. If Daada does the same thing the statement thats given is scoring one hundred in 10 matches is not enough and he should show consistency. This should be the joke of the millenium. Hope the media stops over rating and over hyping about Sachin. Lets wait and see whats going to be Daada's future.
In my opinion he should consider the so many fans he has won and the so many people who care for him as the greatest things he earned in his life and peacefully retire now. Its no point in fighting against a bunch of jokers.
Daada is dropped for the England series saying that youngsters ought to be given chance. I am also one among the umpteen Daada fans got shocked by this exclusion. What is baffling is the reasons given by the bunch of jokers. Kiran More says that the same yardstick cant be applied to Sachin. Guys watch out. Sachin will score one hundred in the series against England and rest all scores will be less than 30. Even that hundred will come in a match that is of least significance. Media will jump up and down saying Sachin is the greatest of all and he is able to comeback in adversities. If Daada does the same thing the statement thats given is scoring one hundred in 10 matches is not enough and he should show consistency. This should be the joke of the millenium. Hope the media stops over rating and over hyping about Sachin. Lets wait and see whats going to be Daada's future.
In my opinion he should consider the so many fans he has won and the so many people who care for him as the greatest things he earned in his life and peacefully retire now. Its no point in fighting against a bunch of jokers.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
On Cricket
Missed the whole Indo-Pak series as I was dropped into a country that doesnt know CRICKET. These people play a funny game called NFL. I could only watch some clippings of this series, thanks to CNN IBN and its free video service. One of my friend sent this Wikipedia link about street cricket. Brought back the nostalgic memories of the childhood days and the street crickets. I would say I had used almost 95% of the terms described here. Read this at leisure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_cricket
Missed the whole Indo-Pak series as I was dropped into a country that doesnt know CRICKET. These people play a funny game called NFL. I could only watch some clippings of this series, thanks to CNN IBN and its free video service. One of my friend sent this Wikipedia link about street cricket. Brought back the nostalgic memories of the childhood days and the street crickets. I would say I had used almost 95% of the terms described here. Read this at leisure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_cricket
A Post to Show my Absolute Vetti-ness
I am getting bored to death here in Boston and hence started to scribble something here. Today being a holiday here on account of President's day (BTW who celebrates that here !!!!) I had to sit out whole day vetti infront of my TV and my laptop in my hotel room. What can I pen here? Mmmm. I am not even getting a topic. Watched Idhaya Thirudan over the weekend. The least I talk about it the better. Charan's direction is going deep South I would say. How could he come up with such a crap movie? Well till I get my next topic to blog and show my vettiness here, keep waiting.
I am getting bored to death here in Boston and hence started to scribble something here. Today being a holiday here on account of President's day (BTW who celebrates that here !!!!) I had to sit out whole day vetti infront of my TV and my laptop in my hotel room. What can I pen here? Mmmm. I am not even getting a topic. Watched Idhaya Thirudan over the weekend. The least I talk about it the better. Charan's direction is going deep South I would say. How could he come up with such a crap movie? Well till I get my next topic to blog and show my vettiness here, keep waiting.
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