Wednesday, December 28, 2005

kin(beer)garden rhymes

ringa ringa beerrssss.....
pocket full of cheersssss.....
hussha busshhaa....

and we all puke it out...

Sunday, December 25, 2005

damn

we lost today....started off well....1 over 3 runs conceded and a couple of wickets......Dhi bowled well..but then it all started goin wrong for us...i could have taken that catch....damn y didnt i jump...have got too heavy...gave away 8 runs in one over....scored jus 1* and we lost by 6 runs....

so much for a merry chirstmas...

Monday, December 19, 2005

Decade....hence

10 years down the line.....

a humuliated australian player, who has been dropped from the team in a spectacular fashion, breaking his oath will inform the media how they(australians sportspersons) made fools out of the other countries by using performance enhancing drugs along with camouflaging drugs. and how only one of them was caught because he ate too much of fried chips, which by the way kill the camouflagin effect of the drug. he however was reinstated a year later on the basis of his performance......lol...ok so it may not happen in the said fashion....but i am so sure that one of them is gonna snap and puke away the secret.

sergio's grandson will tell the world how ferrari found loopholes and used it to their advantage for years, before 2005 season. how they flouted the rules, by throwing wads of greenbacks at some big shots, who would be dead by then.

Wasim Akram on his death bed will reveal how that he took some PED...........(performance enhancing drugs....u aint paying attention) along with his diabetes shots and so did the rest of his lethargic team mates.

there will be agents/agencies cropping up everywhere to help the B School aspirants with their form filling....right from circling the stupid OMR sheets...(dont ask me the full form)...to speedposting it.....to checking whether the institute received the piece of paper...for this thing to happen, one may not have to wait for a decade, might see it happening from next year itself.

Mumbai will have 69.5689741% of its populations staying in slums and the candidates for the 2019 assemble polls will all be locally bred slum hero's. People staying in apartments and bungalows will constitute the minority community.

India will enter into a strategic alliance with Serbia and Montenegro.

In between, China will have unleashed 5 more deadly virus on par or worse than SARS, while conducting some Chemical Warfare Weapon trials in the Guangdong District. Dont worry...none will in anyway affect India, whose citizens by then, will have developed immunity to Typhoid/Malaria and AIDS....OK i went to far.....Only Typhoid and Malaria.


As you all can see i am moving away from reality and also that my fingers are paining....so enough predictions for the day...time to meditate

team work

The Human Resource manual(the one i have) defines 'team-work' as, 'individuals working together and Cooperating within the group, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation,to create an enhanced combined effect and achieve the over all oraganisational goal'.

does one need to learn this wicked definition to understand what teamwork is...

Absolutely Not.

one can play a cricket match against the neighbouring societies and lay a bet, to witness the panache with which the uncalled for rivalry makes an appearance .

And how the 'At War Cousins'(Dhi and Sur) for once stop swearing at each other and suprisingly egg the other fellow on or how the 'Heavy Footed slow coach'(Ra) starts sprinting faster than Maurice Greene. all this to acheive the common goal....A GLASS OF COKE. (the goals differ depending upon....the mood in the camp) and also respect of being mentioned when Cricketing topics crop up.

or even better.....Sit on the last seat of a BEST ( Mumbai public transport Bus) as i realised today.

i met Sur in the line, we got in and took the seat near the rear entrance(people usually sit there to check out the ladies who enter...i sit there to minimise my negotiating the evening traffic in the bus). Sur was sitting next to me, and the bus was moderately full when the Conducter signalled the departure with the tug on the string bell. i was emptyin my wallet for some idiotic reason and Sur was generally trying to check out the ladies out of the window. I normally am aware about the kind of people around me in the bus, but not today.

Then all of a sudden, 10 mins into our journey we heard a big thud. My first impression was that someone had fallen off the bus. but i couldnt see anyone through the rear window....maybe someone dropped his bag....well there was nothing on the road.

then i saw an old man...out of his wits....as if he had jus been transfered into this eon from the biblical times.....

then it occured to us...rather to sur....who told me that someone must have flicked his wallet or his bag...and bag it was.

After the 'post mortem' which is synonymous to the Mumbai, as Bush is to nincompoopism....Sur explained that there were 6 guys, who boarded the bus at the first stop....2 of them sat next to us....2 stood in front of the unfortunate victim...and 2 on his side. All this is near the rear entrance.

2 mins into the ride, the 2 sitting next to us, offered their seats to healthy individuals, (i mention that to suggest it was not out of respect) and stood behind the Victim. Then all of them lunged forward as if the Bus had breaked hard. And thats when they made their move. Dont ask me how the poor man didnt realise that his bag was being snatched....he realised it later when this guy standing next to him told him what had happened.

He got down, all shaken up and crossed the road on being directed by a good samaritan. Whether he was yelling or not, i donot know. But he sure was hassled.

Sur, so well versed with these harsh realities of life....told me that the good samaritan was infact part of the gang, and directed that man in the other direction(Damn it sur...u are tellin me all this now).

Hows that for a freaking pull off...!!!

Team work jus couldnt have gotten better.

.........Maybe second only to ours in a cricket match.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Aint doing us a favour

i am sure about inviting the wrath of the IIM community.

But i could not help forget the comment made by an IIM student., on NDTV.

While arguing the case for Manjunath, which i may add, hold true in any scenario, he went on to say that he was contemplating a decision to move to "CHICAGO".

He might not be speaking for the entire student community of IIM, but then nobody interuppted him as well.

His statement sounded more like a 'threat' than a comment. I absolutely stand by anyone moving out of India to pursue his/her personal goals, but when a person make himself sound like hes doing a favour by staying back, it irks me.

IIMites are truly creame de la creame of the society, but then they aint bigger than the country that they are residing in.

With all our problems, with all the corruption, with all the red tapism, the country sure is in doldrums, but it aint knocked out. I am in no way belittling the sacrifice made by Manjunath. It takes guts to stand up to all that shit, and i myself would have backed out. He has set an example for everyone, please dont make it a case study for attesting the cause of leaving this country.

But what baffles me is, had it not been an IIMite, but an average family man,(capable of getting an overseas offer at the drop of a hat) in this situation, would reaction have been the same.

An IIM community has the 'beef' to get NDTV make a show on it, i am sure it can wrestle a lot of other problems in the country.

For all you know, had Gandhi backed out at those trying times, all of us would have now been vying for a place in the prestigious IIM....Indian Institute of her Majesty.