RIP my friend

it seems like a distant past now...
My Room mate for years in undergrad...one of my closest pals at that time..he followed me a yr or so later to the US as well...is now dead...

Whenever I think of him, I can only say...I'm proud to have known you...for just stepping aside all that things that could have weighed u down..but rose against all odds...

He was just a yr older than me...but is no more...

And more I think of him....I can only feel that god has been very testy on him...

I feel so guilty that I kept postponing talking to him the last one year...and now I can never do that...

He moved to India a couple of years back, when both of his kidneys failed...and I can only imagine the pain he could have gone through...

My brave friend...he fought on with that for like 3 years...doing the dialysis himself...

I wish you are in heaven united with your parents that left u since you were 5 yrs old...and I hope you find peace there...

As for me...I hope to do something that is worthy of the struggle you went thro with a smiling face..

Emmanuel...God bless......

Go Kumble Go

And so finally the Indian Team gets a new captain....

Have to see if Kumble will promote himself up the order so that he can lead by example considering that he scored a hundred batting, in his last test..:-)

But I guess Kumble has finally got luck come by his side.
Not least because my luck has started to side with him..

I know u guys are confoosed, but let me explain..

When I was in my undergrad, ppl used to say, Kumble resembled me..

The point to note is, I did not look like Kumble, but rather he looked like me..

understandable, only because those guys...my undergrad friends, that is, knew me more than kumble..:-D

Anyway, where am I getting here...Congrats Kumble...Keep that battered chin up..
I'm sure this is the fastest way to retire..

Yeah come to think of it...Dravid resigned, tendulkar refused...
Ganguly ran away to kolkata and never picked his fone up when the selectors called..

No wonder they figured out this was a real plan by the selectors to hasten the end of everyone..

I guess, Kumble will be the first to retire:-))

OH yeah,....HAPPY DIWALI all...

One for the Ages

Ah..feels good to be back..
Now that Ive titled it that way, I'll have to start thinking on putting something up here..hmm..

what should I have...
The Pats Vs Colts game..
---Naah too much cheating going on out there..

The Ind Vs Pak Series or dropping Dravid or Tendulkar still in the playing XI
Naah again, becoming too boring now- I even managed to fall asleep after 20 overs into Game 1, the other day
Now ppl, ban ODI's and bring in 20-20

What else can I talk about..
Ah my upcoming anniversary..

Now that is something...I'll have to say something good, just in case my wifey pops in to take a look..

What do ppl do for their anniversary..

(1) Marry again :-)
(2) Go on Another Honey moon
(3) Buy expensive gifts
(4) Oh my god...Its just 1 yr yet..
(5) Start taking the other for granted

what do you think...

I think I'll just change jobs and work in the same company as she does..what dya ll think :-)

Assuming u ppl do stumble upon my blog, once in a while :-D

One thing I shd probably do though...is to go to each blog and leave some comment..
;-)

that way ppl will know mez back...Now now...dont think loud, I can hear u all chuckling and saying nice try..

Way to go...Tamil Rap

Check this out guys...

Pretty cool...

http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/tamil-rap/

I give up

Given my penchant for always getting stuck with the Odd thing out anywhere I go, whatever I do, this should have been pretty much up my alley..

Nopeee..I still get surprises...

Have u had some random guy call ur cell and ask for someone else...you may have..

Have u heard some hispanic call u up and ask for Jose...chances are you would have had that as well..

Have you had the odd credit collection agency and ask u about some bills u dint pay some 10 years ago...Im sure that has happened too...

Have u been in a sitn where you get calls from some sick promotional agency offering u 4 nights all expense paid trip to disneyland...I bet you wouldnt have heard the full story...but u still would have heard enough to say ' No thanks'.

You would also had some random no calling u, and if you pick up the phone but say nothing, there is no response, but the moment u spell the first alphabet of Hello, some taped message in spanish goes off.

Well brace yourself...How about this one..

Get a call from this no 866-849-3243.
I normally avoid picking such calls, but hey it was past 9, free minutes, and I just fought with my wife...what else do I do..I pick up the fone fully expecting it to be one of the above.

Who could blame me...After all I always get the odd things happening to me.. first

Naa ...I say 'Hello' and the caller goes, Hi. Sorry this message was intended for your answering machine only..

Jeez....it rambled on...I couldnt stand it any more...Just cut the call :-)

Cricket World Cup 2007 - aha here I go..

Tis' Cricket time...

Well well..are we into the World cup yet. So what will happen with Team India.

2 good warm up wins., and everyone is in a better frame of mind.

So where does our strength lie...

Batting...hmm
fielding...naah
bowling...mmmm. I guess so..

But why.

Take Aus
Mcgrath...and some no namers

Pak..
Cant even name one...

WI..
Taylor may be??

SL..
That slinger Malinga..and that one man Murali...who they will probably pat away for runs., and to a little extent Maharoof and Vaas
They could actually be a good team with the ball...

NZ..
Injured now, Injured then injured always Bond, vettori, Patel and then Other no namers

Eng..
hmmm...
Flintoff., Panesar and then sajid/ plunkett....
50-50 I guess

SA
Ntini, Pollock, and then the rest..
A little better, above England., for sure

Bdesh
Mashrafe and then all no hopers

Finally India
Zaheer, Munaf, Agarkar, kumble, harbajan and then Pathan if he gets on the right side of the bed everyday

Boy..this would be the bowling team of the worldcup...

Well guys..if there is one thing experience teaches u...

Its to not lose ur head under pressure sitns..
a case of been there, done that..

But then only if they think positively all the time..

Anycase, I think the trump card is bowling., where we have a better attack than any one else. Will we make it count?

On a scale of 1-10 I would rate the

India bowling attack a 8
SL a 7
SA, NZ and Eng 6
WI and Aus a 5
Pak a 4
Bdesh a 3

On the batting front

Aus - 10
Pak and SA - 8
Ind and NZ -7
SL, WI, Bdesh and ENG - 6

Not much difference on the batting front..

That leaves fielding
SL SA NZ on 9
WI Aus Bdesh 8
Ind Eng 7
Pak 6


Adding together

SA 6 + 8 + 9 = 23 (Defn SF)
Aus 5 + 10 + 8 = 23
NZ 6 + 7 + 9 = 22
SL 7 + 6 + 9 = 22
India 8 + 7 + 7 = 22

WI 5 + 6 + 8 = 19
Eng 6 + 6 + 7 = 19
Pak 4 + 8 + 6 = 18
Bdesh 3 + 6 + 8 = 17

My colleagues' son

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This 3 yr old kid just stumped ppl at the Chicago Auto show - He just seemed to know the name of every car on Display..

Amazing Aint it

Good Good Good....

Late as usual to work, forgetting my protective gear as usual, and running from the garage thro the stupid revolving door, that will turn every 5 sec........and I'm in for this...

P1 and P2...2 good for nothing, dumb and dumber persons that work somewhere in the North west suburbs of Chicago, yeah..along with me..

P1: Hey..

P2: Hey...Good

P1: How are you..

P2: Gooood...youu.

P1: Gooooooooood

P1: How was the weekend...

P2: Gud..what did uu doo for the weekend..

P1: was at home..

P2: good

P1: Just sitting around..doing nothing much...good

P2: yeh good..yeh...gooood

P1: you...

P2: same same..good good..

thankfully the elevator reached floor 3 and they both stepped out..


Maan...This was the day after super bowl..
and with my early morning dream...(when I woke up poor wifey on sunday at around 3 Am and said, "I just dreamt that Indiana colts are winning the super bowl"..) becoming a reality
and being in a Chicago office, where everyone else is a Bears fan, and I was waiting to see everyone's face the day after the super bowl..this stupid coversation happened in the elevator..

Good Good Good....what else can you say...eh :-)

Here I am

Back in Wonderland..
Fotos shd be up pretty soon..:-)

Ah...Vi how could I forget to send u an invite...Too bad of me :-)

But whatz with flirting..Just looked up the dictionary..and it seems at first glance that it so isnt me..

How cud ya call me a flirt:-)....

Deepa..I knw long breeakk..hopefully shud be more regular from now on:-)

Priya and Aria...I knw me been very bad with not letting ppl know properly..

Trust me, you are just 2 of the so many that are ready to bash me up at the first instance for not letting them know of this..

Just got back today from India, and there are already quite a few messages, asking wher I dissappeared, and jokingly asking if I got married!

Lolz, guess I shd be ready for some Kick in the butt, when I get to see all of em..:-)

Btw, just heard Aish telling everyone, that she is enjoying her post marriage life, with dear hubby..well well..:-)

One thing that made me real happy on this Trip to India, is that I discovered, browsing is not an addiction.

I was scared to death thinking, I'd never get over this., but then I must have probably logged on for just 2 or 3 of the 30 odd days I was there..

so whats going on ppl...:-)

AB looks like AB as well...eh

Now tht shudnt be a surprise for those that have read this one

but whus that in that red lipstick that supposedly looks like me :-$

Captains'...movie Review - Hilarious

This is obviously a fwd..
There is no way, I'll watch any of captains' movies of late, even by d/ling.

For the uninitiated, Captain..is Vijaykanth...Poor mans' Rajnikanth,..in Tamil Cinema..
****************************************************************
If you are still in Diwali mood, please don't read the following review,
After the major downfall of Ajith's tirupathi by its director..per ..per ..perarasu�.he was thinking who could he terminate next and ..yes�.he got our captain and that's the evolution of a legendary universal(tamil) film "DHARMAPURI"�

Precautionary steps to watch this film:
1.Four pieces of cotton�(2 to keep in ears�and the rest 2 will be kept in our noses after we watch the film fully)
2. zandu balm,tiger balm..if possible original time bomb.
3. itch guard (b'cos paadhi padam paarthu namaku udambellam pull'arikum').

Actors:
Captain Vijaykanth(3/4 screen�),Heroine-achacho paavam(not even 4 scenes including songs),comedy..all scenes where captain comes becomes comedy to the core.
All other vetti actors(donno what they do � time).

Moments of the film:
1.Captain's intro:----- NO ever Indian..oops..hollywood film could ever try such imagination to project his hero to this level as perarasu does.(u deserve an applause..).while all his partymen,first bench fans,wait for his entry in screen..there comes captain to save a minister's girl from a rowdy in rameswaram..rowdy threatens everyone including policemen nearby with his gun and no one goes near him(obvious..)Captain looks at him,goes nearhim barehanded. The rowdy warns him 3 times(Indian cinema rule..not more than 3) and then shoots at him ..the bullet hits vijaykanth's chest�and reflects back and hits the rowdy's chest and kills him�Please wait�don't get astonished.then he takes out the "archani plate"he hids in his shirt(what a archanai thattu..if u can get for 10 rs.it acts as bullet proof and cd save ur life).
Advice to all military forces:please dismantle all ur bullet proof shields and get archanai thattu's for them. cost cutting one.

2.most of the film people are doing silly things and no body including captain doesn't understands why they r doing such thing.if time permits captain gets his costume change and start performing exercises..iam sorry..dances.. and 30 to 40 dancers surround him and shout"neenga thaan nallavar, neenga thaan vallavar, neenga naaliku CM, morningna AM,eveningna PM"�happa horrible torture and where on earth his costumes are picked up�fluorescent coloured shirt specially and he makes to a point that in all scenes including his duet or romantic scene his party's "flaming torch"symbol is projected well.And a grand make up like rajkiran with a big crown on his head and sandal on his body(weak hearted people pls omit the scene)

3. Half the film is like assembly meetings and virudhachalam campaign speeches.and everybody including the villain praises him .
"naan adangi poravan illai adakitu poravan"
"ivaru kootani vaika maatar,thani aala thaan irupaar"
"ennai nambuna nambikai..mathavangalukku etcharikai"
ivar naadodi illai�.naadodi mannan"..

When u atleast have the peace that the director Perarasu didn't act in this film as he did in tirupathi�.after interval even that dream goes crashed..oops.here we have his entry as "Speed"lawyer perarasu.he comes and says"naan porandha edam sivakasi, valarandha idam tirupachi, pona idam tirupathi,ipo nikaradhu dharmapuri"innum neraya idam poven�.(oh god we are done for�mokkanayakanur,paanaampati,paradesipalayam..lots to come ). Soon he will become best competitor of T rajendhar.

Note:- don't miss the scene where captain hits 50 men in a row with a single kick which even matrix Keanu reaves couldn't get it right. And also the scene where captain blasts 1000 figure bombs(kanni vedi.he..he) with his small remote control which we use for MP3 players in car's.(technology drives�)

Iam sorry guys(?????)I didn't see the climax, I came away � hr before climax as I was in a mood to hit my head somewhere and cry badly seeing this.

Last but not least "Dharma puri"---poisonous pani puri. Die another day.

Don - a reviewless review.....

If Farhan Akthar might ever want to do a Thesis, He might find the references list pretty stocked as below. He would actually do well to add this title towards the end of his movie

References

Quentin Tarantino,Director of' Movie 'Kill Bill:' (2003)
John Woo, Director of' Movie 'Face Off' (1997)
Simon West, Director of' Movie 'Con Air' (1997)
Ian Flemming, writer of 'Moon Raker' (1977)
Dominic Sena, Director of' 'Sword Fish' (2001)


A multi faceted, Martial arts specialist ( Priyanka chopra) ( lifted from Killbill)is out to take revenge on Don, who actually is a impostor, with his features made to resemble that of the original Don ( Lifted a bit from Face/off, just to make the movie a bit modern). She realises that the one she wanted to avenge is dead. Then finally when the impostor is caught by the police and flown back (a la Con Air style plane prison)she teams up as in several anonymous bollywood movies, and tries to help him ( u can say, the original Don, ;-). He finally escapes and establishes who he is...only for a little bit of Travolta starrer Sword fish thrown in towards the end..


Now...watch the movie..I really liked it..:-)

Itz atleast 80% as enjoyable as Farhat Akhtars earlier hit DCH.

For that matter, think of it this way..

If u havent seen any of those english movies above, which would mean renting each one for $3 and thus costing u more than $12 bucks...u could as well pay $8 and watch this movie in the theatre..with the added advantage of watching a collage of all these movies in our 'Rashtra Baasha'

Btw, did I mention, Shahrukh rocks :-)
Have fun people :-D

Flash news..Aish' getting married

on the 27th of Nov to AB

seems like the marriage is in Chennai.....

I know..almost everyone is wondering how come u havent read this news anywhere.

Trust me...news is pukka..just that no presswala knows it yet..

Oh btw, AB aint Abhishek bacchan, itz me myself.. Arun B(fill up 14 more letters)
and yeh, Aishwaria is my fiancee's name..he he..:-D

Shd have made the announcement on Diwali day..missed it:-)

300 M th citizen

Ah., there u go and when u thought this nation has gotten rid of meaningless stats..
Here is one to add to the collection
300 Millionth citizen with the disclaimer it could after all be a Illegal Immigrant

Pray..how does that work. If he is illegal he is not a citizen and shdnt be counted.
If he gets his stay in america legalized, which the 'honorable' president is intent on making it so., for millions of immigrants then it would be quite a while before he becomes a citizen and so he cannot be counted into the 300M cap.

Now for the predictions One census bureau staff predicted that it would be a Latino boy born in LA that would be the 300 M th citizen.

lolz..to top it all comes the clarification from the Census bureau..
On an average, every 11 sec an american citizen is born. So by that time and calculation today is when the kid is born..

Hooray...The most intelligent nation..rejoice in ur 300 Mth citizen joining the other intellectualls...:-)

Enda Deiiii............

Vetti Velai

Gosh New job New place New ppl to Jollufy. More terminiology, more blank expressions, more eating out alone...

hmm. Boy, not all things work out the same way, does it..:-)

The only good thing to have happened this week was the security Screen for finger printing and stuff at my work place..

Seems they have a policy where u have to screen capture all ur fingers individually and then again the whole hand.

Waah., wat an experience., The Afro American girl....boy she was as fair as any white I have seen...with no blemishes on the skin that u wud normally associate in such mix - match...races:-)

But yeh Im digressing..I was in some other world, when she took my hand (I mean no metaphorical content, thts metaphor is reserved only for the time of marriage...:-)) and diligently pressed my finger against the finger scanner

Wonder why I made so many mistakes., Did I hear that I did that wantedly., Oh come on..how could u say that to me ppl.:-)

Sigh, I then had to do my paper work, where u had to mention a Contact person in case of emergency, and I had to put my fiancee's contact info.
And then finally after everything was done, she said "Here is my no. Call me next week"

and I looked at her as if startled with a "What ........" and with some kinda Mission accomplished expression on my face..

Which is when she completed the rest of the sentence. Here if you dont attend the info security meeting, this week, u wont be allowed to work. Call me at this no, if you have to reschedule..

Sigh...and I trouped off...

PS: Btw, for the Non tamil initiated folks, the title means 'One who works with purpose' all day..:-)

Airport Fiascos

Oh boy, I know most of you forgot that this blog existed..

But well I am, alive and kicking :-D

Before I forget, next time when u guys have to fly..check and see if Jet Blue Airlines flies in that route that u plan to do...

Even if it is just one leg of the journey, go for it.

Not only are they competitively priced to any other airlines, but the comforts are
awesome..

The one who owns Jet Blue was the one that found Southwest and then sold it over..

The benefits..
(1) Too good to believe Leg room compared to any other airline in the economy class
(2) More choice of food and drinks...gosh those ****ed up pretzels that they give now in most airlines..
(3) Comfy Leather seats that for real have padded cushions in them
(4) Almost never full :-D...so therz a better probability that the seat next to u may not be taken.
(5) CHEAP PRICES and above all, the clincher..

(6) In seat TVS with upto 36 channels
Gosh I could watch all the football action when I was travelling..

Nice eh....

But here are the cons

(1) Not so good looking Air hostesses..
(2) Not that many convenient times..
(3) Doesnt fly to many destinations...

But I hope they are improving on those 3 points.

But for the first 6 reasons quoted above. DO FLY THEM WHEN U GET A CHANCE NEXT. And yet by the same token, avoid US Air/ America west at any cost. Can u believe that u know an airline that refuses to honor its own Travel vouchers Well that is US Airways. NEVER EVER FLY them. And the are very very rude with the way they handle ur luggage. Totally uncouth Airlines.

Itz been a hectic three weeks travelling.

And so when there are flights, here are rental cars.
The pick
(1) Enterprise...*****ker, *****les
Yup., dont rent from them

(2) Thrifty..
Good choice..Can you believe the guy at the counter told me not to take the liablity
because that particular state is a No fault state.
(No-fault" laws mean that you ar responsible for coverage for your car, in case
u hit someone or viceversa and also that your auto insurance must pay for bodily injury damages no matter who's at fault in an accident)

Also another trick that helped me get good deals with Auto rentals.
Always go for the Economy option when booking. By this logic, if the rental company doesnt have one, they provide u with a free upgrade, mostly 2-3 times above the Economy( This is true in fast moving and busy airports)

Even if that doesnt happen, u can still upgrade for the usual $2- $3 upgrade per car class. So u stand to lose nothing:-D

Now now keep it a secret., will ya.

(3) National and Avis..
I dont know why these guys have high rates, when nobody goes for them..
I see their counters almost always empty and they still dont reduce their prices..
Gosh will somebody tell em...what to do...

And yeh, while at the airport u have to mention about the security...

When u have been selected for special screening..and this almost always happens
when u are running late for your flight and u are awefully close to missing the flight. This is what u shd do..

I got selected (Yaaaaaaaaaaay) twice for special screeing in a span of a 2 weeks.
and one was with a clean pair of socks other with a dirty smelly one. And guess what, the second time., it took them half the regular time to send me thro'.

So people., Wake up and smell the socks..Yikes..I mean smell the cofee., and follow the trips and.., I mean Tips and tricks.,,:-D

and last the funniest incident with the Airport Security screeners..

My last name being 16 letters long, the last name box allowed only 15 letters to be typed.

My 'smart ass' security checker saw that, dutily compared it with my name in my Drivers License and said, "Sir. This is not u. I cant let you thro..'

Granted I looked a bit puffy when I had taken that pic a few years back...and maybe a lil bit more smarter. cause the lady who took that pic at the DMV then was 'Beautilacious..' ( Ah now...how many of u remember that old contest with Dollops/ cadbury schwepps Icecream back home in India, when they had this contest of combining 2 words to create a new one)... and I might have grinned more showing my wonderful 32 set of teeth in the process to that camera..that she clicked..

but ther was no way, that dumb ass could not have a positive identification with me and that pic of mine. Eventually, in all that melee, what with me being just 10 mins away from missing my flight. I figured out he was trying to 'help me' as in his own words, the ones down the line past the metal detector are not as smart and may not let me thro, as my name doesnt have the same as many letters in my boarding pass
as in my DL..yes yes..it was 1 or 2 letters short..in 16.

He eventually saw, the 'Are u kidding me' look in my face..and let me thro. :-D

Oh yeah, and by the way...........Bye Bye Boston............Hello Chicago......:-D
I was hoping Id get to ski in the much vaunted New England Slopes..maybe I might yet make a trip sometime in Nov..hmm........

AR Rahman does music for Shrek....

Rofl...:-)

Here

Race matters

Had to endure this countrys' long and unwinding Airport queues this week, and boy was I glad that I escaped the National guards on duty at the Boston Airport because of the terror threat from flights originiating from Britain.

I travelled the day before all this happened, and thankfully was able to avoid it. you can only imagine how it would be to spend like hrs in front of the Security check point. As I discovered, the other day, it takes only a few words for everyone to reach flash point, it is funny how the security screeners, can just behave differenly with different people.

I was at the security check point, and there was this afro american lady in front of me, and the flight I was to catch, had already started boarding. So the security screener, actually it was kind enough on his part to do so,called up people who have a flight in the next half hr to form a separate queue and was sending them in first as a priority.

He was being more than helpful, something he need not be, and this Afro American
lady in front of me did not hear him properly when he asked her who was travelling. Apparently she pointed to the girl in front of her, who was actually travelling with her, and she had that persons boarding pass in hand. And then proceeded to go thro the security check herself. The screener got totally confused and started questioning her for not communicating properly.

At which point, she with her booming voice, just took him on..Poor guy, dint even have the guts to look at her. I swear, had it been a white or a Hispanic, he sure would have let something fly in return. Indians u know...will never even think of that:-)

I have had similar encounters myself, and at the end of it all had realised, its never worth insulting yourself, by trying to argue with these people.

Again, the ones that I have seen at grad school or the ones at work, they are all like too good, too classy..

Argh..the one at my prev work place comes to mind..too cute. I was so drooling at her, and trying to patofy her (Oopz , hope my GF doesnt see this one..) unfortunately, I had to run away from her, once I realised she is more of a relegious person with an active interest in church and that sort of stuff..:-)

There was actually a funny event the week before, with the same security check point. At that time it was a young Afro American kid..in his teens I guess. He checked my name in the boarding pass,and then checked my ID. It so happens that the boarding pass couldnt print more than 14 letters of my last name, which unfortunately has 15 letters. He looked at it, and said, " oh oh, thts not u. Go to the counter and get it changed". I told him thts fine. thts not a problem. He just wouldnt listen nor would he compare with the photo ID, and did not let me thro' and to compound it all I had like less that 20 mins before the flight took off.
I got so mad, at his stupidity and said, something like, this is all ur system can take they cannot type in more than 15 letters into any name column.
He gave me a quizzical look and said.." oh oh...I was just trying to help u. U might get detained at the entry point, so thought will help u. I just gave him a wry smile and said, thnks appreciate it and pushed off.

Ah...wat all do we have to endure...:-)

ESP Anyone..

Pretty interesting..wonder if any else has had something like this before..

Friday, I was looking to get hold of someone that was in another office location of ours, and was leaving a msg at his desk No.

Thankfully, the russian tht sits opp me, was off that day...and his cube was occupied by another guy

For some reason or the other, I was thinking tht he was one of these guys that I had been trying to reach that day..

And it turned out that way. Of the 5 ppl or so that I called, I was thinking he could be one particular guy that I had been trying to reach, and when another passerby called him by his name..I was like wooooooooo'...

ah yeah.Did I say that he 'looked' spooky too...:-)

More Cricket

Ishant sharma...the next of the Tall speed merchants that India seem to be getting..these days..

Munaf, VRV Singh...and now this guy..well ....good going..

He and the other guy Yo Mahesh, who has been knocking for a while now...seem to be the next of the lot..nad are making waves at the current series for India u19 against Eng u 19.

Seems like the time frame for Indian fast bowlers is really small..

Come in on the strength of domestic performances, catch some selector or some seniors eye, dazzle for a year or 2 and then fade away with Injury...

Zaheer, Nehra, RP singh and Balaji seem pretty close to the exit door, if they are not yet out already...

Pathan seems to be following them pretty close...

And yeh add to that mix...the bheeshma of our times..Ajit Agarkar...:-D

It will be fun to watch who among these will man the Indian bowling attack..for the world cup...

I see Balaji, Nehra, and Sreesanth plus Munaf and pathan to be there representing the team at the world cup...Just a hunch...but lets see....

While on it, the Indian board's decision to not have Tendulkar take the fitness test...smells of some dirty secret hidden somewhere...

I, for one, will be really surprised if Tendulkar plays thro the whole tour of SL without one flare up...or the other...

Seems like sweeping something under the carpet..Lets see...


And then Mongia...oh boy what a flawed selection this is gonna be....

Mongia has been in form, accepted..but only in the 4 day matches in the counties,in England..and his record in 50 overs and 20-20 cricket there
this season, has been pathetic...and in the last 5-6 matches he has been getting out in single digits in almost all forms of cricket...

Considering he is going to find it difficult to break in with Raina waiting in the wings, lets see whats gonna happen to him...


If recent form was a critieria, why would they leave out Zaheer..He has had some blow hot and blow cold but mostly on the hotter side..in his
performances since arriving in England..and would have been in the positive frame of mind, had he got a go..


While at it, for the last time...Goodbye Gangs..
As sehwag said, we will miss ya:-)


For more cricket, look at the links on the side...:-D