My beloved Mumbai...Part 2

If you're straight reading this "Part 2" then i suggest you read the 1st part. Both these parts are actually the views that i've expressed on a community on orkut. But, nevertheless, these views are my views. They're the views that i feel i have the right to express, a right that the Constitution gives me, unhindered by any other citizen of this great country.

the actual post that i posted on orkut starts from here....

"to my mind the congress lacks the political will to really investigate these terror attacks or any terror attacks for that matter.

all that the congress does is minority appeasement. the congress lacks the political ability and worse yet, the will, to fight terrorism. repealing POTA was the first of its acts to concede to terrorism. then, again, failing to execute mohd afzal, or rather leading the way in his clemency appeal was the next sign of not wanting to let go of its minority appeasement tactics. (the Honourable SC found him guilty and had ordered for his execution.)

but, then, having said that, how many can really find faults with these tactics.
when sanju baba was sentenced to 6yrs of RI, many of his "fans" said it was too harsh...the man had done his time..and all the usual melodramatic crap....but i'm sorry...wasn't this man in possession of AK-47 rifles that were used by the terrorists. How ironic, or rather unforgivably fitting (not for a second do i not sympathise with the victims of, or feel aggrieved by, the acts of last night) , that yesterday night, the terrorists used the same AK-47 rifles to unleash terror?!

When, scores of (young) men and women------fans as they call themselves, of this movie-"star" and some ppl who all of a sudden changed their lives to lead the peaceful, non-violent, all forgiving life, wrote into countless newspapers as to why sanju baba had to be forgiven-----they lost the right, in my mind, to the find faults with the system collapse that took place last night.

By literally propagating his freedom by referring to the "changed man", these ppl have sown the seeds for the posterity to suffer from. As a nation, we have time and again failed to have a general sense of natural justice prevail over us. We pardon the jehadis (afzal), we free our "stars" (sanju baba), we neglect our real problems, instead focus on the non-issues really..and we're the educated ones, not the jst literate ones, mind u!

what good is education, where the will to learn and evolve is lost?we applaud the man who changed Indian Railways in 4yrs..invite him to our IIMs (of all places) to deliver lectures, yet so easily forget the involvement of the same man in a fodder-scam...yet forget how after yrs of being the incumbent of the post of CM, Bihar still remains an under-developed state. dont we then for a second wonder, how could this man really pull it off? shudn't we?

how many of our leaders are really and truly worthy of representing us in the House...let alone, how many of them face charges and etc etc...

ive seen many ppl in this community support the MNS and sighting reasons that are at best childish...with an attitude like this, how far can we really go? how can we really be secure? if all we desire is to fight the bhaiyyas and the non-mumbaikars (so to call them), why will our elected representatives bother doing anymore?

we take pride in being the voters of the largest democracy in the world...but then, well, how many virtues of democracy have we really got imbibed in us? to start with, have we (got) tolerance? and, i guess, it jst ends there, right there!

many ppl oppose capital punishments.....many ppl who say that the afzals have children, well, what bout the ones who died? these terrorists, if caught, shud be most definitely hanged. if they're not, may be months frm now, u cud have a plane hijack with a demand for release of the same terrorists!

u know, its really surprising that for an educated bunch like ourselves, its really that god-damn difficult to learn from the past, ignore divisive politics, look beyond religion, colour, caste and focus on delivering justice to the aggrieved."


PS : Portions of this post have been edited as considered appropriate. But a no point have i altered the essence of the post.

My beloved Mumbai...Part 1

we all say that mumbai is resilient and will come thru this...im sure the ppl will...

having said that fortunately ive nvr had to be at the wrong end of these acts of terrorism..but i know a few ppl in person, some family frens, who've lost their loved ones...

it happened in the ghatkopar blasts...then the zaveri bazaar blasts..then the train blasts...the best bus' blasts...now these latest...

but to say that mumbai is resilient in the fact that the ppl go to their offices the very next day is to misinterpret the whole situation in the 1st place...theres nothing more insensitive to say about them...this is not resilience...this is helplessness....given the choice (which ive had today) id like to stay home (something that the govt has advised itself...also does make sense) but not everyone has really had the comfort of stayin indoors....

some ppl jst have to go to work as they really have no choice...its what they have to do for a living and with the latest attacks, the whole security system, or the lack of it, is transparently brought out. everyday that i take a train from ccgt to my place at nsp, a 1.5 hrs one-way journey, i do get scared cos u can nvr be sure, if theres a bomb in the train or not. what confidence do we take if our 24X7 patrolled train stations are such soft targets of terrorism?

ive personally seen the metal-detectors...manned posts...but whats the use if these ppl are going to be sloppy or not upto the task?

we've got to look beyond divisive politics...for instance, look beyond the bhaiyya barrier...
politicians divide us, they win our votes on basis like the bhaiyya issue..the SCs, OBCs etc...and we pledge them our votes..
terrorism is no longer confined to the middle east or kashmir or africa...its spreading like a virus...
we have to vote for candidates based on real issues and not issues that stem or originate or culminate in divisive politics.

Road to racism and more : Part 3

To once again pick-up from where I left, well, before that, for those of you joining us mid-way, heres the link to the Part 1 in this series, and heres the link to Part 2. In Part 2 of this series, I spoke of how some people fret at even the identification of race and claim that to be racist. I do not buy that. Identification is not necessarily racism, but it surely could be terminus a quo in a racist act.

Also, as Ive said before that cultures influence ones takes towards many issues, issues that are ab initio social. Racism is no different. There are so many instances of us being racist in our daily lives as well. I mean, we can all camouflage ourselves and say that certain instances warrant the act of unequal treatments, but then, where does one draw the line? Are you a racist based on what you do and how you treat a member of a suppressed race? I would like to think not. Racism would mean nurturing an ill-will towards a community as a whole, well, more often than not.

Now-a-days you see Indians "stealing" American jobs, the BPO where you've had the Sharavaris turn into Sharons, but this was done with a purpose. So now, all Americans hate globalisation. No real surprise there, but then, now if they bad to an Indian, would that also be embedded with a tinge of racism, or is it really just racism from the very start? Would the Americans really have fretted as bad as they are now because their jobs are going to the Asians? Would they have done the same has their jobs been outsourced to their colonial ancestors? Maybe, maybe not. We'll never know.

In this part, I take a look at the men who redefined the world for the coloured people.

The Men of Honour

Another example of racism is the ICC. Yeah, Im talking cricket. With years that Malcom Speed was at the helm of affairs at the ICC no one saw a possible Australian threat, now, that a person of Indian origin is being talked of as the new ICC chief, the media just can be terrified enough! We all know what happens to Asians when they tour down-under. Remember the "no-ball" over by Mutthaiah in late 90s. Remember the "ball-tampering" incident involving the scumbag Darrel Hair, and remember his reinstatement. The Aussie crowd really grind up opposition players, though to be fair they give each player his due, but nothing then excuses the Australian media's complete ignorance of the acts of their crowd, but a complete symphony-like attack at the Indian masses. It is deplorable at mildest. I remember once when Mark Taylor and the Sri Lankan captain, Arjuna Ranatunga had a heated exchange of words, and then the Lankan came on top when he shot back at the Aussies comment about cultures, he said (something like) "Dont you talk to me about cultures. The Australians have been here for only 5 mins, our culture dates back 5000 years!" Way to go, HAIL ARJUNA!

Another instance of unbelievable racism by the ICC, while we're at it. Steve Bucknor was removed, and correctly so, because he just didnt get his act right. The Windies made all the noise about it, as much as they could. But whatever happened to fair treatment? Why was Mark Benson given a reprive for asking Ponting when that is clearly against the rules. How can a "dishonest batsman, become an honest fielder?" Why was Benson not made to sit out like Bucknor was? Im still trying to figure out. Going back to the ball-tampering, why was nothing done to Hair, when he had acted clearly without any proof, but Inzy was punished. Hair also, almost unforgivably, but not quite as we all know now, had asked for money. Im fed up of asking questions and expecting that the men who take decisions will ever answer them, cause right from our schools we're told, the teacher can quiz and question, the student can only "clear doubts".

The coloured people have often had the shoulders of people like Arjuna, Sunny etc. to bear the flags of equality for them. Outside of cricket, there couldnt be men bigger than Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., also, Tupac Shakur. If it were'nt for these men, the black in America would still have been negros, there would have been no NAS with his Nigger albums, he'd been back on some farm land of his farming, instead of earning millions.

Over the centuries of toil and hardships that the coloured race has been subjected to, many men have evolved. Men who've taken racism by its neck and broken it. For themselves, though surely. While on a visit to Hollywood, do not miss out a chance to inquire about one Mr. Sydney Poitier. Im sure you know all about the Denzel Washingtons, Morgan Freemans, Cuba Gooding Juniors. These men, and many more like them who never quite made it to the front page, or any page, have changed the way the world looked at the coloured race. Racism still prevails and will always keep on so, until we have "them" understanding that a black man has more to himself that big one(!), a jew is more than just rich, and when pronouncing IRAQ, its pronounced, E-RAAK, and not Aaye-rack!

So, who from India, other than our beloved Sunny, takes the racism to the perpetrators in the face? Dont even think of one Mr Singh, he does'nt do that well enough. He comes out as someone who has got more testosterone than brain impulses. We will never have another Luther Kings, another Mandela's, but we sure do need someone who will carry the flame that these men have lit up. But in our efforts to carry the burning flame, one must make sure that they dont fire it to the point that it spills out of the torch, for otherwise it'll burn the innocent too. We need to be cautious. In trying to "kick out racism" (as the English FA says) lets not tackle the ones who never played the game! But as for now, its game on. And may I add, we need a better referee than Steve Bennet! Ask Mascherano.

[comments expected, as always]

Road to racism and more : Part 2

Now, in continuation of my( if you did not read it, you should read it first) Part 1 of this controversial and undoubtedly delicate topic, I assume the post from where I left the previous one. I embedded a link in the blog so that you could see what the Americans really think of the N-word. So I thought over the issue, but you know if you try and tackle the issue in one go you are sure to end messed up, dazzled, tired and surely still confused. I read this article in the newspapers some months back as how the Africans who now seem to be everywhere in Mumbai complained of being subjects of racism. I wonder though, what exactly is it that defines a racist act? I mean, as I said before calling someone a monkey, whether the person actually looks like one or not, is not (to my mind) an act of racism. But then we had the whole deal of the Australian media taking digs at Harbhajan, accusing him of being a racist and what not. That was a bit too much. I mean, no one made a hue over when Hogg called some Indian players as basta**ds.

I cannot seem to understand as to how a country can actually accept the usage of a word as derogatory as basta**d--- a word that questions the relationship between someones parents; ridicules it, tarnishes it and insults the oldest institution by slam-dunking it--- yet fret, cry foul and condemn a person for calling one of their own a monkey! Now, did the Australians find Harbajan at fault because he was not one of their own? I guess only an Aussie can answer that one. But, in all honesty, this incident and then the kinda reactions the two incidents drew does make me feel that, in my quest towards racism, i should not give much importance to the reactions that these incidents drew. I mean after-all, it does seem a little skewed in the favour of one of their own. But I shall take one thing from this episode though. Thats the cultural perception.


The cultural take & identification

That one thing, which has been common in all racism accusations, calling some a black (at times the N-word), calling the guy a monkey, or addressing a customer as a jew by a waiter at the diner. That one thing is identification. This to me is a very crucial element of this whole saga of being a racist, and one small act by a man, one huge act by mankind towards racism. Surely the use of the N-word, the F-word, the C-word, well they are all considered bad, but then, one has got to understand that the way racism is looked at in different parts of the world is different. I mean, its hip to use the F-word these days, I did that on this blog, but then with time the usage of words once considered as very offensive does tend to not be offensive as before anymore. That has been the general trend. The youth today uses the F-word to denote a sign of frustration, something that was used to actually derogate somebody years back. This tells you that the way in which we use our words are surely but a matter and should always be viewed in context to the situation. So, when Harbhajan called Symonds a monkey, what should have first been seen was the baggage attached to word in the culture of the person who spoke it. In this case, Harbhajan. I mean, in India calling someone a monkey is surely not racist. May be down there it is. But the Australian media did its best to make Harbhajan look like a serial racist. That was bad. How they almost forgot about the words used by Hogg, words that are derogatory anywhere on this planet, and thought that they were less derogatory than a "monkey", a word that is not racist all over the world! For someone in the media and the Australian media as a whole it just showed exactly what they were wanting to achieve. You cannot adjudge a person as a racist just because he said something which is racist in your community, your culture. To be racist, the person has got to be aware of the fact that the word he used is racist and also necessary is that the use of such word is frowned upon in his cultural, even though the word might not be racist in his culture. Monkey is not racist in India, not even frowned upon, and for someone to take cover and shelter of that word and accuse a person as racist is surely in much worse taste because it undermines the real issues of racism and dilutes racist acts elsewhere.

As I started this "cultural take", with the whole issue of identification, I mean, with all this hue and cry over the identification of race one really wonders whether all that is required to be a racist is to be an identifier? What if you were walking down the road and spotted a black man and called him black? There, right there at that very time on that very spot did you become a racist? To my mind, HELL NO! When someone identifies some person as a black, or a jew or some other race, no racism is being initiated. Even the Oxford Dictionary defines racism as belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this; antagonism towards other races. Then how exactly does identification of race mean racism? It does not, it surely does not. Its arguably without a shred of doubt the first step in the schema of things that could be considered racist, but the act of identification on a standalone basis does not amount to racism and thus labeling someone a racist just because he distinguished between two people based on their origins and physical appearance is premature and ill-thought. Also for those who say that identification a racial difference amounts to racism, a question, a thought worries me. If someone says that calling a black man black amounts to racism, then I wanna know, how? Now, if a black man is called black whats the harm in that? How else would you describe his physical appearance. Besides, whoever believes that identification of race is racism, does that mean, that all but the white race are bad?

I mean, does that mean that you belong to a race that is so bad, that you would not even want to be identified with it? Now, Im not talking about the use of N-word, Im talking about the use of black, or calling someone a jew at the diner. Really, just because the waiter was able to identify your race and wrote it down on your bill (for reasons best known to him) he became racist? Is being a jew so bad, or any other race for that matter, that the very instance of people acknowledging your links with that race make you feel pathetic about yourself and give you a sense of injustice? If you feel so, then are you not actually saying something like,

"hey! look fellas, Im a jew (black, or whatever) and I would not like to be even reminded of where I come from and I don't even care whether you gonna be bad to me after knowing that fact. I am an equal, just like you, God created me, just that he placed me in a race that has been subject of injustice (or something that actually amounts to racism) and Im really fed up of this. All my life Ive tried to work as hard as I can to get to a point where I can be considered as an equal or one among the very limited tenants of the accepted race, and so if you identify my race of origin (doesnt really matter what you do to me after itand also something that I could not have controlled), the very instance of identifying me as a different race person Im gonna label you a racist! Whew! So, dare you call me a jew (black, or whatever). AND OH YES! I take pride in being a jew(black, or whatever)."


(will be continued in Part 3.

Drop your comments. I need to know what you people think.)

Road to racism and more : Part 1

Now I know that I'm not a social doctor, or a Phd. in social sciences, but I've got a mind. A mind that wanders here and there, every brief while. I've been thinking of racism for quite sometime now, and really wanna know what exactly it is. So, I thought that if I pen my words down, well, not exactly, but pretty much that though, I may be able to get somewhere (rather than get lost).

They say that its in really bad taste to call someone a nigger. But, then again, its not everyday that we get outta our house and let the N-word flow out. (Man its a hell of a job to keep count of, I mean, theres the F-word, the C-word...its an ever-growing family we got down there!) But, what exactly amounts to racism? I mean, if I did call you a black man (Id stay away from using the N-word, till I reach some conclusion) would that amount to racism? Those who followed the tour down under, well, the Andrew Symonds incident. I mean, to be honest, he does look like a monkey, so there it is. I just said that. Am I racist now? Does me calling a man, who in all honesty does look like a monkey, make me racist beyond the consideration of what Ive made of myself up till this day. All the deeds that Ive done, and all the good that was to come to me once I reached THERE, have I relinquished that just because I said that some guy resembles a monkey? The jury is still out on that one, ask Harbhajan Singh!

But again, they say that you cant use the N-word, to tell you honestly check out the lyrics of this song and you tell me what you think. Again there is this one thing that I came across. If you do read it closely, or well enough, you'll find a link which will take you here. Okay, so now we know (err, me thinks it should be read as "think") that not all the americans are down with it, but you gotta definitely see this one. And once you are done with, and clicking all the links I provided you with, just wait for the next part in this series which I have decided to call....Road to racism and more : Part 1

Breaking news : The great Indian disaster show

Good Morning India! Its about time you woke up. Its been a little late, but as they say, better late than never! Its approx. 6:30 am that i wake up every morning and i cant help but switch on the television so early. I just hope that somewhere across the hundreds of frequencies that ive got access to, they are airing some classic football match, or a movie that wont kill me! (You gotta admit, some movies stink, stink so bad, even worse than akshoo chobby's wide opened up jaw!). I try and avoid the media channels. They claim to be an Indian's passage to India. Exposing scams, educating the "common man", helping India and Indians in building a more aware, open society, and the breaking news part is just fabulous!! I mean, the way the India media just keeps the viewers abreast with the latest developments is fantastic!

Kudos, kudos indeed on such a massive achievement. After all, its not easy to quench the thirst of a nation with a billion people, and to do that for 6years straight as Aaj Tak claims to have done. Really brilliant. But you know somewhere amidst all the accolades, all the prizes and all the never-ending claims to glory and hurrah that these media (news) channels have claimed, some of the most disgusting and "getting-on-my-nerve" moments have also been possible due to the Indian media alone. I mean, after all, who can forget the coverage (kinda ironical term o describe her!) that Rakhi Sawant got when she dumped her "boyfriend" on air. Again, wasn't it this same female who walked out of a show 'cos she lost! Man, and the media, the Indian media, afforded her, more than 15 mins of fame that Andy Warhol thought everyone deserved!!

Is it just me or is really everyone bored, infuriated at times, of the unnecessary "coverage" the media does? I mean, really, do you really wanna know what colour shirt, or pant some "superstar" is wearing? But turn on any channel (no pun intended) and thats what you'll get. We then, or rather earlier, also had to undergo the torture of being told the colour of saree one Mrs. Bachchan was wearing on her honeymoon, where she went for her honeymoon. To tell you honestly, even if my too hot to handle neighbour got married, I still wont give a damn as to where she's going for her honeymoon!! I mean, c'mon, do you really wanna know that? And what exactly do you plan on accomplishing with the use of such secretive (for as long as it was) information? Again, one had to sit through and hope that one day, maybe one day, the media will realise that a "commoner" like me does not and wont give a damn what happens to relations between Aamir Khan and his brother. I've got my problems to worry about, my issues that this (as was the case with the previous) govt. had promised to solve, but did not. I wanna know the status of that, rather than switch on the Tv and have some guy, whose closest relatives have now dismembered him, host a Tv news show about what pissed off Salman! I don't wanna see how scores of young women, in their twenties or thirties (or forties or even fifties at times), have assembled outside of SRKs, or Hrithik's bungalow just to get a glimpse and listen to the lame ass narrator boast how well they've got the situation covered from all angles! Jesus, I'm sure there are more important things for which we need the media, but more definitively, not for such a preposterous, filthy, ill-thought and prematurely conceived and showering of iconic status on our "heroes" and "heroines".

The most unfortunate part of the whole saga is that in all of this the media has ensured diversion of truth, not by lying, but by not telling. The real heroes are left unsung, the real tragedies are never mentioned. The truth is buried under the debris of an attitude, sell what sells! I remember watching on Star News recap of Hindi serials!! Goodness me! I mean, you know what I mean right? It seems that with the burgeoning revenues and fat bottom lines that the Tv media has got accustomed to see, it has somewhere lost the track. Its not derailed though, not as yet. Thanks to the likes of Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt. but surely not 'cos of "The RKB Show". (Dear Lord, invitees on that show were not even recognised by their neighbours!). Now is the time when some clear leadership is established in this field. There needs to be someone who takes the truth by the scruff of its neck and present it to us, in as crude, rough, real for as it is. The media, one would do well to acknowledge, is a medium of seeing things. It must be ensured that this medium is as clear so as to give a distort-less view of the ground zero. We don't want someone to draw conclusions for us, give us the news, let us draw the inference ourselves.

One hopes with each passing day, the media would get even more mature and take up the responsibility. But no, all such hopes are laid to rest when you have a channel that has been the "best" for six consecutive years and it airs what is the only pic in this blog. Need I say more?



(Drop in your comments for this blog. Very thankful indeed.)

Strangers

I hate it. I must admit. I hate the fact that some jackass/jenny is lying somewhere (pun intended..this is for you, the one who asked me today) in his house and then using the internet or orkut more synonymously to project himself/herself as(s) the king/queen of the world. I just hate it. I'm sure you do too. But then, come to think of it, maybe thats what I & u do as well. I mean, we write about ourselves in the "about me" of orkut and claim ourselves to be the alpha-male, eternal beauty of the universe. But, thats what orkut, or more so the net is all about. Its about a fat-ass claiming to have washboards, its about a never-been-asked-out claiming to be Miss Universe! Worse, its about fakies.

Its about the ones we could never be, so why not be someone in this world (the net) who we can never be in real world, the real world where flesh sweats, our voice is coarse and face ugly? All this comes from being a part of orkut for the last 2 yrs (almost) now. This sheer frustration of reading profiles where girls have got "no friend requests" and boys have got "i'm cool" templates! Ah, enough is enough. I think its time these sons of bitches and bitches themselves (yes, I said that!) woke up, smelt the coffee and had a nice look in the mirror and saw what everyone else around them sees, nothing!

I hate the way people act so cool on the net. Maybe you think, I'm trying to be one right now, well i don't give a FUCK about what you think. I look like a nice boy. A nice boy I am, but get on my wrong side and Ill brush you tougher than Symonds brushed that streaker! I'm really pissed. I don't know about what. Maybe its about the fact that my friend is delaying my next blog feed....maybe its about having a lot to do, but yet not having the mood to. Maybe its about just being stuck up the whole week, the same routines, an ennui. But, Ill tell you what, stop being a net-dude. Stop the bullshit, or you'll be in it one day! I was not born to be nice to you, neither were you. But as you grow up you realise that you've gotta give everyone their fair chance, even the latest stranger. We grow up and we build friends, orkut is just a place where strangers meet, your closest friends were once strangers, be nice to the newer ones.

Step out of the net-addiction. Step into the real world. Spend time with the ones who care for you, rather than try be super-cool in front of strangers, who are most definitely trying to do the same. Who are we kidding? We're all so different in our real lives. Are we?

Tattoo mE!!

Ever sine the first time i saw a heavy metal video, Robbie Williams, and other crazy people, ive always wanted a taboo tattoo. But I never have had that kind of money chance. But boy o' boy, does Pauly Unstoppable make me feel like a lousy excuse grunting ass lesser man.

Im currently working on a blog, till then hopefully this will suffice ur appetite that has become so dependent on my blogworks!!

I want a tattoo!!

Is Saturday really a weekend?

Well, I'm reduced to weekend blogging which means that I cant blog any other time. I'm rarely home. Even on weekends, I'd say Sunday is just about the day. Saturday is like, well, I don't even understand why Saturday is a "weekend". I mean, at least not universally. So many of us have to work even on Saturdays. Is it not bad enough to put in say more than like 8 hours every weekday that you lose even Saturdays?!! Saturday, I'd say is more like a foreplay to the eventual sex, a Sunday.

I really cant understand the basic reason why Saturday is universally a recognised "weekend"! I mean, after the Pluto demotion (i feel sorry for Pluto by the way, 77 years was it?!) I thought that anything that did not satisfy the universal conditions could not be held universally correct. Now how about applying that to Saturdays for a change ha?! What is even more pathetic is when someone has weekend"s" and all you have is "a" weekend. It kinda sucks, lets face it. You work all week long and all you get in return is a Sunday. I mean, how rewarding is that after busting your butt all week long only so that you don't get thrown outta your present job? Those people, like me, who've got only Sundays, know what I'm talking 'bout. All you ever get is a Sunday, and then, well, I must say, you do feel like a King. A king in the sense that you get to choose who spends "that" day with you. All of a sudden you come in demand, I mean, as pathetic as you maybe, people are having less of your crap stuff and since each one of us is here for some reason or the other, people actually miss THE BULLSHIT YOU CAUSE WHEN YOU ARE AROUND!!! And then everyone starts asking you what are you planning on doing on the weekends, and for a moment you forget all the bonds with the person and you wish you could just yell, "I don't have weekends you ASS, all I have is "a" weekend.But you don't. I'm really frustrated, who else is? So, i must leave this unfinished and wonder if Saturday really is a weekend?!

(Some one over my shoulder) "Hey man!?"

Me : Who is it?

(That some one) "Its me, Bollywood!! Got time?"

Me : Sorry man but I'm almost done, 'bout to leave.

Bollywood : Hey, WTF, i thought you were gonna call me when you'd be online the next time. Especially after the first time. What happened?

Me : Well, I was going to, but maybe next time ha? What say? Its been a frustrating weekend you know.

Bollywood : Yeah, yeah, i know. Alright, but dont miss me next time. Hey, you there man?

(The blogger has left the blog. Catch him next time. Well what to say, he's one unreasonable chap!!)

When fate intervenes....

This one is purely for my Manchester United "brotherhood". As we come close to half-a-century passing by since the Munich Tragedy..i found this on the net and think that everyone would do well to take a read. I know, some of you guys are gonna say its biased, but when you take a look at what we lost, it doesnt quite look the same. I pray those men who could have changed the face of European Football, and world as well, rest in peace.

And as for Real Madrid's dominance in Europe, but for the tragedy, just like we did to Liverpool, WE WOULD HAVE "KNOCK(ED) THEM OFF THEIR FUCKIN' PERCH"!!
(Said one Sir Alex of Liverpool once!!)

Take a look at this article in the Telegraph.