World Cup Preview

So the cricket world cup is underway. it seems more like a media event than a sporting one but who can blame them, in these days of scams and revolutions nothing is better than watching a sport where the results are almost unpredictable (there are exceptions). i know i'm a week too late to write this preview but hey you'll probably be reading this post the world cup so it makes no difference. so what are each teams chances in this world cup? well after no research and thanks to the 48 hour bandh in hyderabad (JAI TELENGANA) i have a lot of free time to come up with this crap.

1. Australia: three time defending champions and a team seemingly on a mission (so is everybody). you can never write them off but trust me this time they are not winning the world cup. i don't care what the pundits say but australia will NOT win the cup this time around. and after this ricky poiting will be dropped as captain and he'll probably never play again.
2. South Africa: well the tag 'chokers' is not a mistake really. it's happened always and this time around it's bound to happen again. it's a question of when they are going to choke. i think they'll sail through the group stages and beat India as well and top the group. however they are going to end up facing australia or pakistan in the next round and then they will implode handing them an exit in the quarters or semi's
3. England: if they manage to get though to round 2, KP will fire esp if they play the aussies and then they will lose in the semi's. they have to be one of the most overrated teams in the world at the moment. and their performance against the netherlands proves this point.
4. Sri Lanka: the only real team i think thats superbly balanced and you would be an idiot to think that they wouldn't win the whole thing. sanga and mahela will be the men to watch out for.
5. Pakistan: your guess is as gud as anybody else's. the most talented team in the world but they are just so confused and troubled at all times it's like if the pakistan team has no problems you'll know that there is an imbalance in the world.
6. India: well objectively speaking, we won't win this cup. it's as gud a chance as we'll ever have but still we might end up losing in the semi's or finals. dhoni is a coolest captain around but with sreeshant in the team he's going to screw it up like zaheer screwed it up in 2003.   

so what can we look forward to from the meda?

1. Crappy songs meant to motivate the team. every noticed how badly we do in WC's when anybody makes a song for India? i'm sure they didn't do it in 1983 and we won. they didn't do it when we won the T20 world cup coz no one really thought we would win, but guess what we won. so DO NOT COMPOSE A SONG YOU IDIOTS!!!
2. Rajdeep sardesai screaming on TV about cricket. Arnab interviewing someone about how india won/lost a match and then just talk till you want to throw something at him.
3. A new 'special program' named something like 'field of dreams' launched buy CNN-IBN during the knockout stages of the competition.
4. A stupid 'sting' operation by some news channel exposing how players went drinking the night before a match.
5. offers for tv's, video players and any possible thing you can think of.
6. new zoo zoo adverts thats going to annoy the crap out of you. (move on vodafone, we are fed up of it)
7. advertising between the overs will be so gud that you'll miss the first ball of the next over
8. horrible commentary from sanjay manjarekar, ravi shastri and the likes with incessent talking about useless things.
9. interview with kapil dev on all channels if india reaches the final
10. tarrot cards, fortune tellers and all the other voodoo you can think of where ppl are paid to say that india and sachin will do well before evey match.

well this is going to be a fantastic extravaganza can't wait for it to end the IPL to begin. GO INDI COMMANDOS :P

Resignatory Bliss - Part 2

why the cartoons? well firstly just exploring the Picture upload function and secondly both the cartoons sum up my state of mind. i'm going to give you shit back if u give me shit, and i'm getting out with my common sense before even that is sucked away from me. (psst: i know people that lost theirs in 5 mins after they joined here)

so i think i'm on day 5 now after the 'talk' it's a Friday so obviously there is no work being done by me or others for that matter. so what to do what to do. yesterday i spent the day listening to online radio and watching YouTube videos'a and reading wikipedia (damn do they have a lot of random information). but this situation of bliss was brought to an abrupt when i get a call -

ring ring

me: hello

hi this is idiot calling from DNOC (it's an abbreviation that no ones knows). we are witnessing very high usage from you machine. is it work related usage? (sure listening to absoluteradio and reading wikipedia is part of my JD) we request you to please stop.

me: okay sure. sorry for the trouble

Damn now what do i do? all options revolved around the usage of the internet, so what i did was to first download a bandwidth tester. just to be sure. last thing i want to get fired for is using the internet too much. that can be taken in so many different ways. so ya. and then i ended up reading the entire sporting regulations for formula1 (strange it's called 'sporting regulations', it's not a sport). although, if someone asks me what my favorite sports to watch are i would say F1, Cricket and to some extent Golf, the choices do reflect my style, cricketers get ppl to bowl to them, hit the freaking ball and then 11 ppl chase it down for them. F1 drivers drive around the same place 72-73 times over an entire race weekend and get paid upwards of $20 million to do that 19 times a year, and golfers? well do i need to say how cool their 'sport' is. hit the ball - walk/take a buggy - hit ball again - repeat process till ball goes in hole. the payoff? close to a million for every major tournament won. nice!!! before u fanatics beat me up, there is immense skill required to actually play/part take in any of these sports.

but as a television viewer, this is the easiest sport to criticize ppl on. i mean when have u not driven down a road in bombay thinking - if i had to race against Michael Schumacher in traffic i would beat him hands down? when have we not screamed at the TV saying, "bastard, why the hell did he have to play that shot, the run rate was so achievable." and when has a golfer ever sunk a putt that u know u would have made with your eyes closed.

sorry that was a long side bar from the topic. anyway coming back to the point. so i sit and read the rule book, and that kinda finishes my day off. well i did go to the cafeteria and walked around the place randomly throughout the day so ya. day 4 completed. day 5 started with b'fast and then plannin to go out for lunch and lunch gets over and now i sit and try and kill another 3 hours or so.

so what have i learnt in the last 1 week after 'the day' well, here goes

• there are some people who have immense skill to seem to work when they do nothing
• i still care about work, i.e. if other ppl don't have work i don't intend giving it to you. i want to look busy at well.
• there has been only 1 semi effort to ask me to reconsider my decision (makes me feel so valued)

what awaits the next week? well the big boss is in town. might have a meeting with him. will tell u how that went. but more importantly, i'm one week closer to October 16th.