Blogging from work.......

Oh well..This is ultimate..Till yesterday Blogspot.com was banned by websense.And today lo....The ban has been removed.Guess the IT department in my company has come to terms with the ground realities.......Well back to the point...So here i am blogging for the first time from My work place...A good cure to a deadly disease named boredom....Work has never been broign just because of the wonderful colleagues i have here.....Beautiful Girls are not a rarity down here ,though a deep knowledge of Chinese is needed to find your way through to them.....As for me the only words that come out are 'Tabole tahan"(which translates as a kind of expression used when people are sick of something) and few choice abuses that i guess everbody in singapore wld be well versed with .They have a good balance here of various races which is indeed amazing,given that it is not the same at other companies.And the people here dun forget to switch from Channel 8 to Channel 5 when you are involved in some convo.That is something that truly amazes me.I cant imagine back in kerala, me or for that matter any 2 malayalis having casual conversations in English .Oh well i guess there might be some Trademark or IP rights violation if go on and blog about the work that s done at my company...So i wld raather cut short this blogpost.Hope the Diwali goes well with some much needed heavy dose of partying and makkanand not to forget Om shanti Om and sawariya...

T-20 and All the Hype

Sad to see one great player by the name of Andrew symonds being subjected to racist taunts and monkey chants by the hooligan Mumbai Crowd. For all the top brass of the BCCI being Mumbaikars I would bet more my last penny on the fact that there will be much more of the same happening at Wankhede again and no action will be taken.We,indians including me are poor losers. And we have to admit it. We were trashed big time by the aussie juggernaut in the one-day series. The worst thing to have happened for Indian Cricket was its T-20 victory .Overnight Indian team was regarded as world beaters. The seniors were regarded as unwanted, and the young team was touted to be one that would take India to gloried heights. With all due respect to the T-20 victory, a 20 over game ball is as different from a 50 over game like baseball is from football. The differences were all to clear to be seen. None of the T20 heroes managed to score something more than a 40-50, barring yuvraj and dhoni.Indian bowling was always good in breaks. Barring a few good spells of 4-6 overs Indian bowling lost its way big time. Take this into a t-20 game and you have a winning combo there. A good spell of four overs,a quickfire40 and you are home.Yuvraj ,was is and will remain yuvraj Singh. The Agarkar of Indian Batting.he was always touted to be a great batsman. But with the kind of inconsistency showed by him at a position where his aussie counterpart Symonds scores runs for fun.He has always spoken abt the frustrations of not breaking into the test mould,and with the kind of batting he shows it will remain a distant dream.He is nowhere near replacing Laxman or Sourav in the Indian Middle order.
And for rahul dravid,it seems the curtains are falling slowly. Hopefully he is given a good chance to go on a high.The best world beating batsman India had seen since Mohinder amaranth and Sunil Gavaskar retired from international cricket.The above made statement might sound exaggerated but then records and statistics speak the truth na.Take all the major Test Victories of the past decade or so.When I say test victories ,I wld like to mention test victories abroad,There hasn’t been one without any significant contribution from the master Player.


And for all the racist taunts by the Mumbai crowd, I would like to add ,that as an indian i am ashamed and digusted.But for once are we surprised that this has happened in Mumbai.Cmon Mumbai is the same land from where movies ridiculing fellow Indians are made.Punjabis despite all the sacrifices made for the country will still be shown as Loud and stupid. South Indians, people with more literacy and education and the Infosys’s and Satyam’s,will still be shown pronouncing the SIR’s as Saar.A Malayali Captain Harshan Gunned down in Kashmir and winning an Ashok Chakra will never be major headline news in a Cnn-Ibn or a Ndtv.The least said about the north-east people who will never be more than goorkha’s, for the ChannelV and Mtv Vj’sWe are used to this ..aint we..Poor Symonds got taunted for his skin colour.Welcome to India Symonds...Hope this doesn’t lead to any repercussions to the Indian diasporas in aussie land....