WAITING FOR SACHIN !

As I’ve said earlier that IPL is a big hit. Also that many big names did not live up to the expectations. A lot was expected from Dravid, ganguly,Laxman. But Sachin Tendulkar, the captain of Mumbai Indians hadf to sit out for the first round because of a groin injury. Sachin is yet to feature in a T20 game and this leaves me enthused about how he fares in this format of the game.

Once upon a time I was a huge cricket fan of Cricket and Sachin Tendulkar. During the 1999 world cup,I was in my 8th standard, and Sachin was endorsing Pepsi ( and he still does) . There is an Advertisement of Pepsi featuring school students of rural maharashtra wearing masks of sachin, drinking Pepsi and emulating their hero, none other than Sachin. When they distribute Pepsi among them, they realise that Sachin was with them. The Ad had a ,marathi background music with a few marathi catchy lyrics( catchy bcoz Ive learnt those lines) which goes like this.

AAEEEEEEEEEEE   Ghumad Ghumad kar………….

Arey Ghumad Ghumad kar cheera garje dil ye bole jhoom ke bole taare choole

Pyaar Bhari hai..aur bhi badle…….;

Arey tol ke bandhan tol ke taale yeh dil maange more…….

Just hoping that I got it right.

A surprise for all the Indians who watched the movies Rang de Basanti, Taare zameen Par .

Who proposed the caption  ” Yeh Dil Maange More ” for Pepsi..

Its none other than the lyricist Prasoon Joshi.

Just a trivia..Iam not aiming to teach anyone……..

Indian Premier League - 1

The first edition of IPL has been a tremendous hit. The brain child of Lalit Modi who struck the chord at the right time when most Indians enjoy their summer vacation . The tournament has become extremely popular with the biggest names playing with each other. On the whole its pure entertainment. This is the period when the box office fares well with big budget releases lined up with carrying the burden of enormous expectations from the fans. During this vacation, most people go to watch movies. Because of the advent of IPL, the profits sunk by 40 %. On the other hand, the cash rich BCCI ( Board of Control for Cricket in India) is becoming richer.

IPL had its share of controversies and the first one that comes to my mind was the Sreesanth Bhajji slapping incident when Sreesanth broke down on the field . The video footage showed that former Indian Team manager Mr. Lalchand Rajput clapped when Harbhajan slapped Sree. Another reason was that Preity Zinta , the owner of Mohali franchise refused to hug Sreesanth after their win against Mumbai Indians. But Harbhajan and Sreesanth were always in the news, mostly for wrong reasons.

The first round of matches have come to an end and the big names like Dhoni, Ganguly, Dravid didnt justify their price tag. The much anticipated domestic players like S.Badrinath and few others did not live up to the expectations. But it was the Pathan Brothers both Irfan and Yusuf who came good when their team needed them the most and delivered the goods when it mattered the most.

The high profile teams like Kolkata Knight Riders, Deccan Chargers, Mumbai Indians didnt show their real mettle. But surprisingly, It is the much underestimated and low profile Rajasthan Royals team captained and coached by spin wizard Shane Warne that stood ahead in the Race.

Ganguly’s attitude was again questioned when Shane Warne blasted a few verbal blows in front of the media and added to the wrath was Umar Gul making statements against his captain. Time for franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan to sit with his guys and settle the matter rather than making frequent visits to France, UK for his personal obligations.

But the atmosphere in each match is electrifying with loads of entertainment. IPL I believe will go a long way . The next edition promises to be more entertaining as BCCi is coming to terms with ECB regarding Player agreements.

Hail IPL.

EVERYONE HAS GOT TO PAY FOR HIS DEEDS

Everyone has got to pay for his deeds. This is what people call karma. Another definition of karma was given by my meditation teacher, a bank employee who said that gratitude is what you call karma. From both , what i got to interpret was that karma is nothing but Balance of deeds in life. One has got to admit that everyone had their share of highs and lows in the brief stay on Earth. Most people are ruled by their wishes, egos, desires etc; And eight out every ten try to show their importance when they are needed the most. This is what Ive seen from majority of people and I’m no different. But at the end of the day one need to understand that neither success nor failure is permanent and its the journey that we need to stick on .

I believe attitude has got to do a lot under these circumstances . And most people who speak freaking attitude lingo only show or exhibit attitude. I reckon they really don’t have one and nor do I. But why don’t these people realize that whatever we do is the best of our strengths and play the blame game.

I think one who has tasted success has got to deal with failure at a later point of time and he who has just failed ( failed is different from failure - failed refers to failing once and failure is failing everytime) is going to relish thefruit of success at a later point of time. This is a cycle called the KARMA CYCLE .

FAILURE

Of late, I have been into blogging and after repeated attempts to change the look ( of course with the few themes that wordpress offers), my blog is still looking awkward. But more than the look , its the content that needs to have a kick. I feel I’m posting some useless posts as dumb as I’m and I still expect readers to peek into my blog regularly. This is nothing but mere perspiration from inspiration.

I’ve read quite a number of blogs that can be read and at least one post which makes the readers interesting , but my content looks like absolute shit. You may wonder why this muter is writing all this shit? Just because I wanted to be more clear about what I write in my blog.

I think this is the second time I’m yelling about substance and content of writing and I still feel like a writer.

Of late Ive realized that I came close to being a leader in a group of fools rather than being an idiot in a group of if not greats atleast good fellows.

Thats what failure means to me not clear about what someone does for himself as I do , but still think of myself as a champion of game.

This is shit …absolute shit

Really felt p***ed off.

EDUCATION / AUCTIONED / CAUTIONED

The above anagrams are very synonymous as far as EDUCATION in India especially, in a state called Andhra Pradesh is concerned.
I’m a soon to be graduate studying in India, said to be the biggest democracy in the world. My area of study happens to be mechanical engineering which happened to be accidentally. Most people talk of education as a means of sustaining socially and financially and I’m no different.
But what if a person who has a fleet of degrees but no humanity. Because what I saw with people around me with extremely good academic performance was they were not THAT GOOD humans. Most intellectuals say education must instill the qualities of sincerity, honesty, obedience and to name a few. But the present education system leaves no scope for such development.I see many students of class X burning midnight oil right from the beginning of the academic year because of their grade hungry parents and educational institutions craving for admissions.

Education is AUCTIONED as a good amount of money spent on buying degrees or certificates( I mean it).So educational institutions have turned out to be money spinning organizations with the emergence of corporates in the field of education in a move to improve the infrastructure of educational institutions.

As far as CAUTIONED is concerned, the present generation young kids going to school are a very pampered lot and if such is the case, a lot of care has to be taken to instill some moral values to these kids because as time passes, we see these school kids becoming another American generation who meet their parents on Thanks giving day.

PSYCHO’PATHS’

Last week , In Vijayawada, a town in Andhra Pradesh , notorious for student criminals and caste based discrimination has been in the news once again after a psychopath brutally attempted to kill his former girlfriend after he was betrayed by her. The convict , Sandeep a 4th year engineering student who is a senior to the victim Meenakumari tried to cut her neck with a knife and also attempted a suicide by cutting his nerves on the wrist citing mental trauma after the victim betrayed him after their relationship.

The victim suffering from severe cuts was confirmed to have no risk to her life after sufficient treatment from the doctors. It is during this time that the media exploited the incident to its full benefit as the regional channels utilised their creative skills in the best way possible to picturise the incident and remake it again in their own version almost like a hands on tutorial to budding criminals. Also the picturisation includes a masala background music which one could identify with the hit films.

The root cause I believe for such instances to occur is the lack of proper education among the teenage and youth which is a MAKE OR BREAK time for every one. When a guy or a gal doesn’t have anything to do and has no worries, I would rather say when he/she doesn’t have any avocations to get involved , then they think of some pleasures and the first one that strike their mind is flirting as it is the fancy of their age as shown in most of the films. You see many men in their teens or early 20’s sitting on their bikes along with their friends in front of many colleges or coaching centers to make a pass at the girls. Even some girls are to be blamed for dressing up in very unparliamentary clothes that attract the opposite sex. But one must try to live in society with peace and harmony as our so called fundamental rights support whatever people do. Though a number of measures are taken up to curb eve teasing, its of no use as more such people come to light after the regional channels air such incidents repeatedly. Now a days, the frequency of such incidents has increased I believe only after seeing the rush in the TV channels. And in Bangalore,a street near a womens college has been named LOAFER LANE as most male students pass their time near the college.

NON SENSICAL ATTITUDE

What is the most irritating thing that makes you go nuts when you go out? For me its Hyderabad Traffic.

We live in Hyderabad, a city which is a leader when comes to IT and Infrastructure with some revolutionary projects cropping up to make the standard of living more comfortable. But on the other side, it is a city with people who has a very diffident attitude towards most trivial, yet important things. Most educated people in Hyderabad lack Civic Sense. I really don’t understand why people don’t follow certain rules that are intended not only for their safety , but also towards others like traffic rules. Six of ten people cross the white line when at a traffic halt and ninety percent people skip the red signal causing chaos on the road. And motorists in Hyderabad are to be given an award for driving in a direction perpendicular to normal traffic and touch speeds as if they are in a grand prix, not to mention the autowallahs who crop up from nowhere and are ready for a brawl any time on the road. And next comes the traffic authorities who target students and youth to get that extra penny. So , when is it going to be organised ? I see not in the next ten years.

My experience a few days back was I was near Bottles and Chimneys , Begumpet where there was a traffic junction and the red signal was displayed. I stopped there , even though the traffic was very sparse , But a gentleman behind my bike,a person who seemed to be around 50 yrs blew my ears out with the horn of his car as if his spouse was running away with someone.

But there are some nice initiatives that Hyderabad Traffic Police have taken up like awareness among school children and even Corporate Bigwigs are into traffic awareness programs. But it can only see a positive change if people work collectively and even the vigilance discharge their duties accordingly.

A typical traffic jam in Hyderabad looks a follows

MBA - MOST BANKABLE ASSET

Everything in the world has a reason behind its functioning. In good olden days, when there was no rat race in getting good ranks and high grades , the main motive of education was to develop a good character and later good and quality education meant well settled careers with very good pay packages followed by white collared jobs. The present generation has access to very good source of education and the awareness the present generation has without any arguement is very good when compared to the previous generations. The emerging corporate culture and increased globalization meant further improvement in the standard of living , which is not beneficial to everyone. Now a days ,most of my friends are opting for a management degree after some work experience which in my opinion is a very good career. And I’m happy to say that most of my friends have a valid reason to say so. But the way one of my good friends advocated it was that the return of investment on MBA degree was very high and I felt he really thought the MBA way. And the weirdest reason I heard was that he/she did not want to work for(under) some other person.

And I really felt my friends are on the right path of success as the annual average salary for the ISB ( Indian School of Business) at Hyderabad was a whopping 57 Lakhs and therefore, there’s every reason to go for an MBA.

After all this I feel the definition for MBA has changed.

MBA - Most Bankable Asset

Source : The Times of India

(UN)HAPPY DAYS

    I finally got to see the much acclaimed, fun filled and said to be the most coolest movie last year i.e; Happy Days  and I got to tell you that all the talk surrounding the movie was really worth it.  Somehow I ,as a student related many incidents in the movie and I could identify the characters among my friends (of course, everyone did that). But  I really felt  left out  as it was a movie which had to be seen with friends. Today evening, I heard that our entire class had been to the movie together and I really felt missed out. The period when Happy Days created waves were the most unhappy days for me. I had to be quarantined for a good period of time because of my illness and I really missed out on all the happy moments.

Somehow I get attracted to anything that reflects student life. Five point someone was a very good example and a rare accomplishment. I heard about another novel ” Anything for you ma’am” which has a similar story to that  of a few scenes in Happy days .Iam really looking forward to buy the novel and read it. As the title reminds me of something I cherished in my life.

UNSUNG HERO

” Deliver the goods when it matters the most ” doesn’t hold good for maximum number of instances. But the person who delivers the goods when it matters the most doesn’t get the credit . Why is this so? There are a number of personal experiences where the Deserving Candidate did not get any credit. But others who are not good enough ( in my opinion) hogged the limelight. The same holds true for Indian Cricket. Eight of every ten in India say that Sachin Tendulkar is their favorite cricketer. But one has to admit the fact a number of times, when it mattered the most , sachin failed miserably. I admit he has produced some extraordinary knocks during his career, and also saved India from some extreme lows.

But one guy who has come good almost everytime when India was in a danger was VVS Laxman. Tendulkar also played some super knocks in times of necessity like 139 vs Pakistan in Chennai, 1999 and his century against the likes of firce pace attack of Pakistan in Perth, 1989, but those knocks unfortunately did not help India save the match.On the contrary, VVS Laxman delivered when it mattered the most like his 281 vs Australia in 2001, century Vs pakistan in ODi series final in 2004 and also Vs Australia in VB series and not to forget his 58 in his debut match vs South Africs where he had tail for hius comapny , but still managed to score a decent 58 that helped India clinch the match , Of course, Srinath’s 6 wicket haul also helped. But most people don’t care what his contribution to Indian Cricket was . There are some other dark horses who seldom got the credit they deserved such as Anil Kumble, Mohd.Kaif and to name a few…