The current India-SL series is a big yawwwnnn.. Any series with Sri-Lanka evokes as much excitement as seeing Hillary Clinton in her birthday suit. Honestly, what was the BCCI thinking - SL is easily the most boring side in the world to watch, Ajantha Mendis apart their brand of cricket can be described as gully cricket at best. Jayasuriya has been playing since I was in my diapers, when the hell is he going to retire?
Oh wait, I digress.. Has anyone seen an ass disguise himself as an expert commentator - called Dilip Vengsarkar - the man cant string two lines in English - if you can't just say it in Marathi you idiot. His glib quotes were : "we took wickets and they lost wickets and... we won.. which is a good result for us" I was goot Woooooot the FuC#@@#$#@@$#!!!! This guy was writing in TOI probably a decade or so ago, I recall him write in Mid-Day when I was in Mumbai. Fricking moron. Javagal Srinath is no better. These cliche toting dumbasses who had the privelege of playing for India just because there was no other talent simply meant that we are now saddled with such cliche ridden idiots on the telly..
Meanwhile I just see Ishant outfox the Lankan Ravan sena - and its now 7 in a row - Looking forward to the New Zealand tour though. Time to get roll over the Lankans 5-0 and demoralize their ass - getting all cocky after beating the LTTE are we?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Responsibility - its more than a word
The Satyam ex-CFO Vada-curry Vadalamani professed ignorance with the book doctoring charges and claimed he "blindly signed" what he was given by the brother Messers Chor and Lutera Raju.
Wow - that is the world's worst defense. People kill to get to the CFO position, I know I would - and all you can coolly tell us, after a few Enrons, Worltels that you never saw an excel sheet? Sir, you are get paid for what, may I ask? Sit on your black ass and play Solitaire, while your employees work 25 hr days, while you bill client like World Bank for 26? Tsk tsk, "responsibility" isn't just an non-andhra word, Mr-ex-CFO, it means you take charge for what you do, and you say - It happened under my watch, and what I did was unpardonable, now punish me.
If your employees used that defense you wouldn't get any of your projects done - "I dont know who wrote this code, I just compile it". You and your andhra-money-grabbing ilk make me sick. Go to hell, all 3 of you, you brought all of Indian IT down with your money grabbing filthy hands... I hope you feel the pain of every investor each night you try to sleep you filthy animals...
Wow - that is the world's worst defense. People kill to get to the CFO position, I know I would - and all you can coolly tell us, after a few Enrons, Worltels that you never saw an excel sheet? Sir, you are get paid for what, may I ask? Sit on your black ass and play Solitaire, while your employees work 25 hr days, while you bill client like World Bank for 26? Tsk tsk, "responsibility" isn't just an non-andhra word, Mr-ex-CFO, it means you take charge for what you do, and you say - It happened under my watch, and what I did was unpardonable, now punish me.
If your employees used that defense you wouldn't get any of your projects done - "I dont know who wrote this code, I just compile it". You and your andhra-money-grabbing ilk make me sick. Go to hell, all 3 of you, you brought all of Indian IT down with your money grabbing filthy hands... I hope you feel the pain of every investor each night you try to sleep you filthy animals...
Saturday, January 10, 2009
The best damn cookie...PERIOD
American cookies are shit - I hate Oreos and the store cookies - European cookies are too bland, expect for the French ones I haven't bothered trying - But of all the biscuits I've tasted my favoritest is : Britannia Pure Magic Vanilla :
It was launched back in the 90's.
They stopped this somewhere down the ages, and relaunched it again some time ago - the vanilla filling and the cookie exterior blend in this awesome goodness... I can't wait to get up each morning and dunk a handful of them into my coffee.. MMmm mmmm mmm delish!!
It was launched back in the 90's.
They stopped this somewhere down the ages, and relaunched it again some time ago - the vanilla filling and the cookie exterior blend in this awesome goodness... I can't wait to get up each morning and dunk a handful of them into my coffee.. MMmm mmmm mmm delish!!
Wings of the Bird..
Haven't taken the bird out on a long ride in a long while. Planning something for the following weekend, once my document comes back from insurance renewal. In 4 years she has done almost 20,000 kms mostly in moribund city traffic. Have kept her safe so far, and have been no accident save one bit of lunacy from an oncoming auto rickshaw driver way back when the bike was 8 months young.
The little dot on the front of the petrol was the indent when the front of the handle jammed against it and I skidded.
I want to get my hands on a good Lightning 535 in Bangalore, so in any case any one is interested in selling one, they can get in touch with me through this blog.
Friday, January 09, 2009
Slumdog for the Oscars? Hold on...
How would you feel if a rape offender surfaced a few years down the line to pursue a victim for her beauty, but ended up castigating her for being "used-good"? Not only is that highly offensive but you'd probably say what the hell is the rapist doing out in the open anyway? Lock him up and throw away the key - and of course the victim is entitled to some form of restitution.
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the movies I was curious to read about in review before I spent my well-earned 200 Rs at one of the shameless extortionists called PVR cinemas. I've read enough, and I don't care 2 hoots for cinematography as some of the erudite white-skinned readers of CNN etc. have professed. Especially when you film human excrement covered all over a little boy. And pass it off as a patently Indian thing to do.
Britain's love affair for India started almost 500 years ago when a band of the white skinned brigands set shore up on the shores of our native country. To trade, and then to enslave. The enslavement part came partly because the armies were of predominantly Muslim Mughal conquerers who sat on their fat-asses watching Mujras while certain Englishmen on boats were piling up on the western shores. To anyone who thinks Britain did a favor on us to bestow the Queen's lingua france, think again - nobody robs a piss-poor country, so the counter argument and the argumentee both get thrown out the window. And the Brits didnt' simply put all the goodies on a boat on the midnight of August 14th 1947. They did so over 300 years, since the set up of the East India company.
For the same bunch of ragged ugly Brits to come to India, and film - nay - exploit India's "ugly underbelly" for commercial purposes of the white-west who lap it up like a starving dog - with the samy pithy quotes - "moving", "human spirit", "rags to riches" - its just inane I tell you - Yes there is poverty in India, yes there are people who take a dump on the Western Express Highway, but that is the prerogative of the people who take the dump, and the folks who keep populating the slums with kids who take a dump in the open.
I don't intend to watch the movie, and I call up on all self respecting Indians to refrain from doing the same - in fact I support pulling down the movie from Indian theatres as well [violence would be morally justified] - If I wanted to see poverty, I'd just take a little walksie outside of my apartment complex, and watch the kids relieve themselves.
Coming back to my argument earlier - rapists of the native land, coming back to exploit the ugly side of their victim - doesn't sound appealing, it is nauseating.
As with every thing western, take an angle, blow it out of proportion - especially with anything eastern - By the same yardstick if America were Micheal Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and George Bush, that would collectively be the dumbest nation on planet earth - okay just one notch above Pakistan.
A few things India is not:
1. Amitabh Bachchan fans - I find him annoying at times and an over actor..
2. Live in squalor and poverty - Take a trip down to the Bronx - London was the largest slum until the turn of the 19th century.
3. All Indians do not work in BPO's - the few that do annoy the rest of us.
Self-respect is not in the purvey of left-liberals - which is why they will sell their mothers to go watch this movie and get a "new insight into India" while yapping over their iPhone and avoiding the kid scratching the window of their petrol-guzzling luxury sedan.
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the movies I was curious to read about in review before I spent my well-earned 200 Rs at one of the shameless extortionists called PVR cinemas. I've read enough, and I don't care 2 hoots for cinematography as some of the erudite white-skinned readers of CNN etc. have professed. Especially when you film human excrement covered all over a little boy. And pass it off as a patently Indian thing to do.
Britain's love affair for India started almost 500 years ago when a band of the white skinned brigands set shore up on the shores of our native country. To trade, and then to enslave. The enslavement part came partly because the armies were of predominantly Muslim Mughal conquerers who sat on their fat-asses watching Mujras while certain Englishmen on boats were piling up on the western shores. To anyone who thinks Britain did a favor on us to bestow the Queen's lingua france, think again - nobody robs a piss-poor country, so the counter argument and the argumentee both get thrown out the window. And the Brits didnt' simply put all the goodies on a boat on the midnight of August 14th 1947. They did so over 300 years, since the set up of the East India company.
For the same bunch of ragged ugly Brits to come to India, and film - nay - exploit India's "ugly underbelly" for commercial purposes of the white-west who lap it up like a starving dog - with the samy pithy quotes - "moving", "human spirit", "rags to riches" - its just inane I tell you - Yes there is poverty in India, yes there are people who take a dump on the Western Express Highway, but that is the prerogative of the people who take the dump, and the folks who keep populating the slums with kids who take a dump in the open.
I don't intend to watch the movie, and I call up on all self respecting Indians to refrain from doing the same - in fact I support pulling down the movie from Indian theatres as well [violence would be morally justified] - If I wanted to see poverty, I'd just take a little walksie outside of my apartment complex, and watch the kids relieve themselves.
Coming back to my argument earlier - rapists of the native land, coming back to exploit the ugly side of their victim - doesn't sound appealing, it is nauseating.
As with every thing western, take an angle, blow it out of proportion - especially with anything eastern - By the same yardstick if America were Micheal Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and George Bush, that would collectively be the dumbest nation on planet earth - okay just one notch above Pakistan.
A few things India is not:
1. Amitabh Bachchan fans - I find him annoying at times and an over actor..
2. Live in squalor and poverty - Take a trip down to the Bronx - London was the largest slum until the turn of the 19th century.
3. All Indians do not work in BPO's - the few that do annoy the rest of us.
Self-respect is not in the purvey of left-liberals - which is why they will sell their mothers to go watch this movie and get a "new insight into India" while yapping over their iPhone and avoiding the kid scratching the window of their petrol-guzzling luxury sedan.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Disproportionate Retribution
So the Israeli troops have made a ground incursion into Gaza to get rid of Hamas. One of the top commanders of Hamas have been taken out in the earlier air-strikes.
This has been Israel's dis-proportionate response to the dozen odd people killed in rocket attacks made by the terrorist organization by the name of Hamas. It is anyone's guess how many more Palestinians are going to be steam-rolled in the new offensive in the name of "defense of Israel".
One of the most unthinkable but doomsday scenario aspects is that Israel's disproportionate response every time to each act of terror is aimed at, according to Israel, aimed at shutting the other side up for a while, but could very easily back-fire in the kind of radicalization and polarization of the non-Arab countries against it. To expect any friends of Israel in the Arab world would be insane. However the over-the-top reaction is not winning it any sympathy in Europe and other countries with minority Islamic populations.
Coming back to the doomsday scenario I was talking about. Its always possible that the only Islamic country with nuclear weapons - Pakistan - would and could support the detonation of a dirty-bomb on Israeli soil. However, if the Pakistanis had anything they would already have forked it out to their jehadi brothers in Palestine. Detonation of a dirty bomb would definitely leave its fingerprints which would be almost impossible to get rid of - However if the same were to be used against a neighboring nation - say India, in the event of a conventional war, it would be justified in the name of self-defense - the same illogical reason used by Israel. For the same reason the detonation of a nuclear dirty bomb would most probably never happen on Indian soil, because that would mean an almost immediate response from India, and if there is mobilization prior to this by Pakistan to save itself, India's ears would be up for a possible act of war.
There is every possibility that nuclear weapons, if at all they are in any sense of maturity level for delivery, would be used against India - in fact they would probably throw everything including the kitchen sink against their neighbor, very well risking complete annihilation. That's their doctrine, its not the no-first-use as purpotedly espoused by Zardari on TV.
This has been Israel's dis-proportionate response to the dozen odd people killed in rocket attacks made by the terrorist organization by the name of Hamas. It is anyone's guess how many more Palestinians are going to be steam-rolled in the new offensive in the name of "defense of Israel".
One of the most unthinkable but doomsday scenario aspects is that Israel's disproportionate response every time to each act of terror is aimed at, according to Israel, aimed at shutting the other side up for a while, but could very easily back-fire in the kind of radicalization and polarization of the non-Arab countries against it. To expect any friends of Israel in the Arab world would be insane. However the over-the-top reaction is not winning it any sympathy in Europe and other countries with minority Islamic populations.
Coming back to the doomsday scenario I was talking about. Its always possible that the only Islamic country with nuclear weapons - Pakistan - would and could support the detonation of a dirty-bomb on Israeli soil. However, if the Pakistanis had anything they would already have forked it out to their jehadi brothers in Palestine. Detonation of a dirty bomb would definitely leave its fingerprints which would be almost impossible to get rid of - However if the same were to be used against a neighboring nation - say India, in the event of a conventional war, it would be justified in the name of self-defense - the same illogical reason used by Israel. For the same reason the detonation of a nuclear dirty bomb would most probably never happen on Indian soil, because that would mean an almost immediate response from India, and if there is mobilization prior to this by Pakistan to save itself, India's ears would be up for a possible act of war.
There is every possibility that nuclear weapons, if at all they are in any sense of maturity level for delivery, would be used against India - in fact they would probably throw everything including the kitchen sink against their neighbor, very well risking complete annihilation. That's their doctrine, its not the no-first-use as purpotedly espoused by Zardari on TV.
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