Google's Innovation

Google comes out with those Special Day pages every time there is a special day; say for example like New Year or Christmas or Halloween etc etc. Today it is "The Day Human's Set Foot on Moon", so what can great innovation can Google come out with?

Well there isn't anything great on its search page but if you go to GoogleMaps and then try going to street view, you can find an ASTRONAUT instead of a normal YELLOW MAN !!! I think it is really cool way to pay tribute. And the Astronaut kind of walks as if he is really on the moon. :-)

India Awakening

My younger brother made this movie. Its a small documentary about what every Indian can do to make India a better place.

Music is obviously copied from some albums & some scenes too. The idea and concept are just amazing. I also love the fact that he doesnt want India to become a super power but he says "If we do small small things correctly and take part in every way to make India a better place, then surely India will become a better place".
Good work Amrinder & friends.

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Change in History !!!

Well last week was quite dramatic with loads of things happening.

Michael Jackson Died - Yes he was my first hero. I mean I never liked him like would cut my nerve when he died but yes I always tried doing moon walk when I was a kid. My eldest cousin brought home the Thriller Cassette and it was just so much fun listening and dancing to it. When ever there was a new music release it was followed on Doordarshan and I was there watching it on The World this Week. It was fun and respect to Michael, he was an inspiration. He did make History with his Thriller !!

Legalizing Gay Marriages in India - This is a big attempt by India (a country as whole) to control the population explosion problem. I see new webistes coming up, like Tamil Shaadi.com or PunjabiMatrimony.Com; we are going to have Samesex.Shaadi.Com or Samesex.Matrimony.Com. Way to go India !!! Actually it doesn't bother me much, as long as anyone makes love to the other with his/her concent. Its a small step to change the way we look at gays and lesbians, as we should stop looking at them as different; THEY ARN'T. Obviously you now don't go ahead and legalizse sex with animals. Poor cows on the Indian roads might be living in fear now. History was made surely !!!

Rakhi Sawant is Marrying some bloke on live Television: Now this is what I call making of history. RAKHI KA SWAYAMWAR is the biggest thing to happen to Indian Television. She comes on TV and says "jaise Sita Mata ka swayamwar hua tha, jaise Draupadi ka swayamwar hua tha, is yug mein mera swayamwar hoga."

Rakhi was called “divya roopi sundari nari” by a contestant. Rakhi Sawant to Indian is what Jade Goody was to UK. She is monitored 24X7 by media and every Tom-Dick-Harry-Mika want their share of the sad fame she has got. She was in Big Boss and there she gave her great English dialogs "oj Geegas Please halp me, meri madad karo !!"

She slapped her boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi as he apologized her on a knee. She thinks "I have been under the scanner all my life, it is time I also get married under the scanner."

The contestants have come from far of lands, and rakhi has been asking each one with a sweet twinkle in her eye "aap mera dil toh nahi dukhayenge".

• One dude is from Canada whose Hindi is as good as my Swahili.
• Another one is a police officer from Kashmir. It looks like the terrorists are busy watching Rakhi Ka Swayamwar and this gives the officers in the valley to visit Bombay.
• Some bloke is from "Ganga maiya ke kinare humara des hai", looks like he is from some village in Bihar or UP.
• Best was when some guy came up to her and said that "yeh lo kangan meri ma ne bheje hain aapni bahooo ke liye". Bloody hell I didnt know I should cry or laugh !! But I did get cramps in my stomach & aansoo aa gaye meri aankhon mein.
• One guy is Luv Khanna from Delhi. Where else could he be from?? Look at his pickup like "yeh Ram aur Sita ka putr aapka dil jeetne aaya hai aur jeet ke jayega"

Anyways history was made last week and way to go Indian Television !!! Bobby Darling you got your rights !!! Jacko RIP...

I Love Tuesday Evenings

Since moving to UK, I wanted to do a lot of things and on top of those was join a Hockey Club. Half of those plans have either been forgotten or I plan to do once I get a decent job but I couldn't stop myself from joining a Hockey Club, as soon as we setled in Cambridge. I go for regular off-season training on Tuesday evenings at South Cambridge Hockey Club and its real fun.

My Old hockey stick was giving me trouble and hence thought of changing it with a new one.

This was being used on and off since past 4 years and it was time for it to go.

Even the Color Started fading.

Got a Slazenger stick and it was pretty costly too. But there is no value for passion. Got the one which the English Olympic team had in 2008, just to boost the passion to play. Sad that the British team defeated India in the Qualifying.

The Grip is pretty soft and there isn't any jerk when I take the Hit.

The Hook's good for scoop and drag flicks. Would cost you 60 quid in the Slazenger website try getting a bargain if you can

South Cam has 4 mens teams and 4 girls teams, casual trainings involves playing in mixed teams or mens teams. Last Tuesday the second team captain came and asked me if I was intersted to join them for the season starting in October, looks like I impressed him. I was thrilled at that invitation. :-) So till October I would like to train lots and then put fight to find place in the regular team.

Tata... It is time...

Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda & Samantha - My new worst friends!!!

What does a girl want from her guy? They want you to listen, "Are you even listening to what I am saying? I think I am talking to the walls!!!"

The point is that they want you to listen, see and do everything their way, even girly stuff. So I have been watching SEX & THE CITY since past few weeks on the computer while my dearest wife & I have dinner.

Why I cant tolerate it:

1. Because its like 30 GB of data downloaded, illegally & forcefully. I was forced to download it.
2. because it took a week to download. The WiFi was kind of slow, so it took a week to download. As soon as it was downloaded the WiFi was back and running. Did the Virgin Broadband guys kind of give me idications & hints of what was coming?
3. Because it starts with these lines every time: In a city like New York with 8 million people and 4 million being men, cant a girl ask for nothing more but a decent handsome, rich, smart & funny man??!!!
4. Because it is predictable. Since we have been watching from season 1 to 6 I kind of know what each girl does and wants from the other guy. Do girls just want to say, "My name is Ivana Humpeu!!" everytime they see a smarty? I dont think so.
5. Because it was clashing with the world cup matches timing. Tell me honestly whats more important "4 girl friends trying to figure out how to get a guy or 11 men playing with their bat & ball" ?
6. Because I can't tell my wife I hate this nonsense or else she will say I HATE YOUR CRICKET, FOOTBALL, FORMULA 1, HOCKEY, ETC ETC SPORTS!!! NO SEASON FOR ME MEANS NO SPORTS SEASON FOR YOU TOO, DEAL?? I don't even want her to have those thoughts , so just waiting for season 6 to get over.
7. Because its taken 30 GB of hard drive space.
8. Last but not the least, I am sure Trupti's going to have a re-run of all the seasons for next 6 months.

So if any guy is reading this and his girl wants "Sex & The City" movie DVD or Seasons DVD, just find a great great reason why you forget to buy it everyday or why the download can't happen!!!

May Lord have mercy on Carrie's soul !!! Amen !!

New Look

Well it was time I changed the look of my weblog, the old one was getting boring now and wollah here I am.

Wanted a picture of me playing hockey and hence this "HOCKEY SLAP HIT" picture up there. I also wanted a links thing on top of the weblog rather than everything on the right side, so changed that too.

Actully I didnt know how to do all the changes, so I consulted meri pyari biwi and the expert that she is, said "I will do everything for you but but but, you won't question me, 'why this?' 'why that?' OK? You will take the colors I put on your site, no questions asked, OK? You will not say, 'hmmm this looks fine', you have to say 'This looks the best!!!', only then I will touch the HTML code for new look, OK?"

Actually it does look good and I was smart that I didnt ask her too many questions and left all to her. This thing looks great. :-)

Thankssssssssssss Dulingggggggggggg !!! And she got a present for this. Well she now owns a brand new car. Congrats on your new car, latest model Austin. ;-)

Why is cricket a game of glorious uncertainties and controversies???

Greg Chappel says "Smart work & Quick thinking" that's what all the cheats do don't they? You can't cheat someone if you are dumb jackass yourself.

The cricket law says "You can't hold the ball and touch the rope at the same time, and if you do so it will be 6 or 4"

Fair enough.

But in this video we see Mathews doesn't touch the rope but goes beyond the rope, outside the boundary line, he then stays outside, jumps in the air, pushes the ball from outside the boundary line (while he is flying in the air like super-cheats-man) and throws it in. And suddenly all of a sudden it becomes a "smart thinking, good work, great job, well done, etc etc cock-a-doodle-doo!!"

Think of this. Its the last ball of 1986 Sharjah Cup, Pakistan needs 6 to win. Chetan Sharma is bowling to Javed Miandad, as usual we know Javed will hit a six and we ask Kapil Dev to keep all his fielders in the boundary line. Now as soon as Javed hits the ball, the first fielder run outside the boundary line, goes 15 rows into the crowd and jumps in the air, catches the ball and throws the ball to the second fielder who is standing inside the boundary. The other fielder catches it and its OUT!!!

Javed Miandad hit the ball outside the boundary line and still got out!!! Should we say "smart thinking, good work, great job, well done, etc etc cock-a-doodle-doo!!" or should we say "thats cheating"

So from this video we understand cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties and needs 1 billion rules every year for fair play. But here the fielder should have just not thrown in the ball, it looks like he is a cheat. Sorry Mathews, good effort but you cheated.

Just incase you want to have a look at the video again and just the catch check out the following video without any of the cheezy Australian or Indian comments.

The commentators of Indian sub continent are riding the success of the Indian Cricket team, specially Harsha Bhogle should throw away his wig !!!