IPL4 confusion

Uff. A post after a long time. This is for the IPL4, rather my feelings towards it. I watched the previous three series with ardor, supporting Bangalore in all its matches even when it played poor. Remember, I walked to a Reebok store and bought their jersey when they had lost all the matches and had to win their next three matches with the top three teams(in points up to that time). I got another t shirt free for probably supporting RCB at that time.

What changed in IPL4 that I need to think so much? Dravid has moved to Rajasthan, even Kumble was not retained. I am a sentimental fool and find it hard to support the team which did not stand by them. I will support RCB for it having Bangalore in its name, but definitely not against Rajasthan.

Why in the blog, cos people get irritated when I bring Dravid in my conversation and wonder at my claim that I am following him for long. But seriously, I adore and love him. Too many thoughts and too few words. I rest my case, to be taken later.

Luv ya.

Celebration

What do we celebrate?
From the most recent to the earliest, we celebrate an Oscar. We celebrated when ARR won for an English movie. It would be unfair to say that it is great to win an Oscar. Its much more than that. But why did he have to wait that long? What becomes the criterion for the nomination? For the music to be nominated, should the movie also be classic? To be recognized, should one be a part of a winning group? The last question is a general question, not pertaining to just the Oscars.
We celebrated Bindra's gold and Vijender's bronze. What after that? They got a few brand endorsements and the country moved on with Cricket. Why is this celebration so short? Years back we celebrated Karnam Malleshwari the same way and then she faded into the oblivion.
We celebrated Sania's rise in the rankings' ladder and will again do that when she climbs again, since she fell down in between somewhere. We criticized her for things outside tennis and blamed her for loss of concentration!
We celebrated Kalpana Chawla and Sunitha Rao's excursion out of the planet. We celebrated Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize. We celebrate every success as our own, though they might not have stepped on this soil for decades.
Why do we count our celebrations? Why don't we have enough reasons within to celebrate? Why don't we continue on the celebrations? Why?!!
The author partly shoulders the blame for these whys since she hasn't done anything but ask these questions.

Jane austen

Finished all her novels. They have the charm and lightness of the English period, having the perfect ending, which makes one smile at the end of it and sometimes throughout. It makes one sigh at the gallantry and the chivalry. And the women holding on to their pride. Perfect story.
The central character is always a girl with a free spirit and very gay. Except for maybe Pride and Prejudice, she is very impulsive and doesn't budge against her view of the world. On the way, she makes a lot of mistakes and learns it the hard way sometimes. But there is always that knight to rescue her, whom she doesn't recognize in the beginning. PS- i actally remember only sense n sensibility, pride and Emma at the moment.
My likeness to them is particularly with the likeness to the main character, or my belief of the likeness. Foolish at times, repenting sometimes and correcting herself after some event.


Again, one more in the drafts.

Invisible mode

Gtalk and the invisible mode!
I think people should not be given that chance of staying in the invisible mode. If they want to be hidden from people they don't want to talk, let them remove them from the list. Why is that mode needed where you can see everyone online and ping them at your will? It basically is the center self important status. When you are not respecting others' will.
Too much into just a feature in messengers. But there are many who agree with me. All the angels who stay online, not being invisible.
PS - one could argue about the busy status and chatting. :D

payroll team outing

An outing of different sorts.Actually so, since none of us, other than Ravi and Nita knew where we were going. When I got to know at Leela palace entrance that we were to go to Nandi hills, it was accompanied by reminiscing my previous visit and wondering what we could ever do there! Ravi promised it wasn't the usual way and told about this guy who was accompanying us for our trip.
Got into the bus at the Manipal Hospital. The history lessons began from there. Go back to 1790, when the British followed more or less the same route to come to Bangalore, after getting on to the Madras coast by sea from Calcutta, which was incidentally their capital at that point of time. Atleast for my part, i did close my eyes as was asked and could imagine the English walk those roads. Why Bangalore? For the obvious closeness to Mysore, where Tippu ruled. one of the real warriors in the Indian history who didn't succumb to the English, and like the rest gave up due to the internal bickerings. I suppose the only history where freedom struggle to have prolonged for centuries owing to the politics within.
The English had lost the first two Mysore wars to HyderAli and Tipu. I believe the last time when an Indian king dictated the terms of the treaty. The third Mysore war ended in Tipu accepting the treaty terms put forth by the English but his Army was able to repel the British army owing to the Maratha help coming in late for the Brits. The fourth war is when Tipu was dethroned and Mysore was returned to the wadeyars, the initial rulers of the state. They gave Shrirangapatna to the British, who fled from the place because of mosquitoes. They were then given what is Bangalore now. And Nandi hills was first captured by British since it was at a strategic location to attack Mysore, capuring which, every other province bowed to the English supremacy, since Nandi was considered to be impossible to breach.
Now the streets of Bangalore. We started from ulsoor, which is the lowest point in Bangalore with respect to sea level, which is why the Ulsoor lake is where it is. And where I stay now, gets flooded with a rains just more than showers, because it was a part or near the same lake long back. PS- kempegowdas one tower is in ulsoor. i knew the southern one, because of a history lesson before. ;)
Cubbon road was where the English used to march. And that place is actually so English even now. Just that the Indian Army uses it now. So MG road was always the place to party in Bangalore!!!!
Just put whatever I could remember. Maybe just for myself. Whatever that is, it was a nice trip. Seth thought we were a great group with not much fussing. And we thought he was a sport to climb those 1000 steps with working shoes. We had lunch at this farmhopuse at the foot of the hills and it tasted just heavenly.
And the next day, we all had stiff calve muscles accompanied by a sense of accomplishment. Comments on this, not welcome :D

drafts

what happened was a good thing but what follows is an act of
meaningless politics. Bindra has made all of us proud and the
flag going up for the national anthem would get tears in eyes.
But whats the point in conferring rewards to the guy after he is
recognised outside? Atleast now, they gotta realize the need for
funding on infrastructure. What TZP brought to the screen, the
parents attitude towards evrything other than studies woldn't
take us anywhere in the medal list even after decades. Hope this
changes.

learn the life lesson of how to distinguish between what is worth stressing over in life, and what is better left to the birds.
brilliant quote by no one, but so true..