Full Tension Hai Boss...

Indian Hockey team is going to play the Olympic Qualifiers in few days time in Chile. The matches are very crucial for India and Indian Hockey. We must must must win the tournament to qualify for the Olympics. The matches would be shown live on Ten Sports. Every match would be around 1.00 AM IST.

If we don't qualify for Olympics, it would be like Brazil not qualifying for world cup football. Although Indians don't play the same level of hockey what the Brazilians play football as of date, but our history might be similar to what Brazil has in Football. Just for the sake of history the Hockey team should pout a fight and defeat the chotu motu teams. I am full tensed what will happen if India doesn't qualify for the Olympics.

SCHEDULE
#	Time	Teams
Saturday 1st March
1	14:30	Great Britain	:	Mexico
2	16:30	India	:	Russia
3	19:00	Chile	:	Austria
Sunday 2nd March
4	16:00	Great Britain	:	Russia
5	18:00	Mexico	:	Chile
6	20:00	Austria	:	India
Monday 3rd March
Rest Day
Tuesday 4th March
7	15:30	Mexico	:	India
8	17:30	Austria	:	Russia
9	19:30	Chile	:	Great Britain
Wednesday 5th March
Rest Day
Thursday 6th March
10	14:00	India	:	Great Britain
11	17:30	Austria	:	Mexico
12	19:30	Russia	:	Chile
Friday 7th March
Rest Day
Saturday 8th March
13	15:00	Great Britain	:	Austria
14	17:00	Russia	:	Mexico
15	19:00	Chile	:	India

Economic Growth at 8.5 % !!! So What????

Its been a terrific economic growth rate in India at 8.5 % if we look at whats happening across the globe. US and UK are facing a huge economic down turn and recession might come into the West any day. People in the US are not able to pay the house EMIs and their medical bills. Poor Americans. So sad for them. Here have a tissue wipe your tear. Now fuck off.
But in India we are doing pretty OK, when it comes to growth. The Finance Minister says it would be 8.5% for the year 2007-2008.

1. We have Indian companies, acquiring companies in the West and showing their strength to buy more.
2. Rupee is stronger
3. We have Malls all across the big cities
4. Indians have more mobile phones than the land line phone connections
   
5. Indians drive big cars
6. Indian car manufacturers have brought out real cheap cars with good innovation
7. Lots of jobs
   
8. IPOs of some companies never heard of are making the common man getting richer & he really doesn't care as long as his portfolio is 200% higher than what he invested
   
9. Sensex might go up or down but economy is stable
10. Inflation is lower than that of a poor African Nation, for example Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, etc
    
11. We haven't had any Hindu-Muslim, Sikh-Hindu, Christian-Muslim, Buddhist-Hindu - Muslim riots, in last 100 days
12. Aaah there hasn't been any killing in the school since past 1 month
13. etc etc etc

Lets not get forget we are all fucked up. We have forgotten, WE as in me, you, social reformers, social activists, politicians, IAS officers, etc etc everyone has forgotten that Indian is no less than Somalia or Burundi or Viet-Fucking-nam or any other fucked up African nation because of the following reasons :

1. Farmers are committing suicides in the states of Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhra. Why?? Because there is no rain and the irrigation system is not available for the farmers. What have the leaders done in more than half a century??? They have not been able to build canals yet !!!
2. There is bad sanitation and public transport system, not in 1 city, not in two cities but across the country. Its fucked up every where !!! I cant piss in the city of Madras in a public toilet because there are NON !!! And where there are you can only puke not piss !!!
   
3. Half the country is illiterate !! May be more!!! But the government says its 30%. Screw you Indian Government, just because a farmer can sign his name doesn't mean he is literate.
4. The government says there should be no child marriages but now they want to reduce the marriageable age of the guys to 18 years. NOT INCREASE BUT DECREASE IT !!! Question : What will the guy who gets married at 18 do to feed his family??? Or will he ask his dad for money??? Or it is NON of your concern??? अरे वह शादी कर रहा है , इस में सरकार क्या कर सकती है?
   
5. What happened to the reduce the growth rate of population??? What happened to the One couple one child idea??? All down the drain???
6. What about electricity to all the villages??? What about Roads connecting all the villages in India??? If a flood comes in Orrisa the supplies reach there after 10 days??? This is the infrastructure development in last 60 years?? People in Bombay local trains cant travel without smooching the person standing next to him. Why?? Because everyone stands so close in the local train that you have to inhale his breadth.
   
7. What about One Country??? Sala Tamilian says Tamil Nadu is for them GO BACK NORTH INDIANS, Marathi says Maharashtra is for them GO BACK BIHARIS AND UPITES, Sardar says Punjab is for them GO BACK BIHARIS!!! What is taking the asshole Dr. Manmohan Singh to not come on TV and say "Mr So & So, what you are saying is absolutely wrong. You have no right to say this. India is one nation and whjat you are saying is against the constitution. Its the fundamental right of every Individual to live and work where ever he wants to." Is he hiding behind the Pallu of Sonia Gandhi???
8. Why doesn't the Government do something so that culprits are brought to terms; Who are involved in 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984 Sikh Riots, 1992 Babri Masjid Demolition, 1993 Bombay Riots, 2002 Gujrat Riots, etc etc etc??
9. Why doesn't the government pass a bill saying "Anyone who has cases against them and are under CBI scaner or judicial probe is awaited, can never stand for MP, MLA??" Why is it so difficult for the government?? Because even the people who will pass this bill are under the CBI scanner???

Then I have few words for the government of India.

1. Don't say economic growth of India means India is developing. Say the industry is growing and the big companies are becoming bigger and rich are enjoying more. Poor are anyways dying.
2. Say that we are a failure, it is the manufacturing, IT, Finance, Textile, etc etc industry because of which the Forex Reserves of India have grown.
3. Say that we really don't know what to do with $1 Trillion. Say it, there is no harm in saying "I really don't know. I am screwed in my head!!! We are morons who are running this country. We might even screw up the growth with our horrible policies"
4. Say sorry to the victims of tragedies I have counted above. Say that "We haven't given you justice, we are sorry"
5. Say that "Just because the economy is growing doesn't mean everyone is happy. There is a lot to be done in every rural village in India." Tell us what do you mean when you say LOTS TO BE DONE.
6. And last but not the least "REDUCE TAXES!!!"
7. I really think VAT is not necessary if I eat a Burger or Pizza. Who the fuck are you to charge money from me if I eat whatever I want to eat??? Someone grows something in his fields, someone else processes it, someone sells it, someone buys and eats it. Who the FUCK ARE YOU to ask money from everyone???
   

As Indians I think we are just too tolerant against the government and are too scared of the Politicians.

Two Decent Movies

Eastern Promises

Its a story about a girl who works as a nurse in a hospital. Her life changes when a 14 year old girl delivers a baby and dies. The nurse gets hold of the diary of the 14 year old girl and tries to understand what problems she faced during her short life.
The 14 year old girl is from Russia and so is the nurse's father. She meets people and tries to read through the diary. With this she gets herself into the trap of Russian mafia working in the UK. Among the mafia is also a person from the Russian police who is trying to destroy the mafia. She finds that out and they both come close. How it all ends is a different story, but the way the story is told is bloody brilliant. It’s a must watch.

A History of Violence

This is the movie made by the same director who made Eastern Promises.
The movie starts in a small motel where two guys kill the motel owner very calmly as if they are buying a chewing gum. These two guys are now out of cash and are passing through a small town. They go in a coffee shop owned by Tom Stall and ask him for cash. Tom Stall is a nice guy, has a pretty wife and two children. After being asked for cash, Tom says, "Sir we don’t really have enough people coming to this place we don’t have much money", but they start molesting the woman who works there. That’s it, Tom kills both the bastards and becomes a hero in America in no time.
Everyone wants to come to his coffee shop and talk to the hero. But then after few days some 3-4 guys from Philadelphia come down and call Tom "Joey". There is this huge confusion what’s going on and all that. They ask him to come to Philadelphia and settle the score. Tom Stall keeps telling that they are confused and he is Tom and not Joey.
Tom's family becomes very terrified with these guys showing up in the mall and any place the family members go. These guys then show up at Tom's house and he kills all three of them.
He gets injured and tells his wife that he is actually Joey and he had left those guys long back. This Tom guy was in-fact a serial killer and used to work for a gang in Philadelphia. He had some unfinished business and he had cheated this gang and ran out of it, so that he can start a new life.

His wife gets very wild and feels like he has cheated her and had never told her this part of his life. She feels he is a serial killer who is now showing his split personality and might cause harm to the children some day. She doesn’t leave him but starts ignoring him even if he is in the house.

But even after the death of the three members the Gang leader keeps calling him to Philadelphia and wants to meet him. Tom goes to Philadelphia and meet this gang leader who is no one else but Tom’s brother. What happens during the meeting and after that is to be seen in the movie.

It is one of those movies, which are slow, but very gripping and keep you at the edge of your seat through out the 2 hours. Must watch again!!!

Hockey Players Photos

Kirti, my wife and I went to see the India Belgium match played on 31st January. After the match we clicked some photos with the Indian players.

Kirti, Shivender Singh & me, with some kids.

Kirti, me and Dilip Tirkey

Kirti with Prabodh Tirkey.

Indian team waiting for their bus.

Few Videos from the Nakuru National Park Trip in November 2007

We visited the Giraffe sanctuary and you could actually feed the giraffe. :-) This is Prateek Vyas and I am taking the video. Giraffe looks like a real girlie animal. Very calm and very sweet child kinds. But sometimes they also give the "Zidane Head Butt" and that really hurts. Giraffe has this very thick saliva and when you wash your hands after feeding them, it is like you are trying to remove Fevicol from your hand. Kind of Grosss !!!

I took this video from top of the picnic hill inside the Nakuru National Park. Now because this is a picnic hill you can find thousands of Baboons roaming around and trying to snatch your food from your hands. So if you want to have picnic then you should sit in your vehicle and have your food in an enclosed space. Bloody Naughty Baboons. But the lake looks awesome from the top. You find the white white kind of things around the shore of the lake, that is the flock of various birds which come at the lake everyday and fight for fish. Millions of them !!!

Pelicans flying around the lake. They have huge beaks and try to eat more than they can put in their belly. At the end of the video you can find a guy with a huge camera, in the earlier post where I had added some photos, if the photos are good they must be the ones taken by that camera, some Nikon D 80 thing.

There were some 5 billion Flamingos. As soon as we landed at the lake, we found them shouting at full volume. Prateek took this video but he is moving his camera very fast. It feels like I am going to fall rotating round and round. but just listen to the noise of the Flamingos. There were some 3-4 other kinds of long legs birds also. :-)

Aah this was bloody good. We found few small animals running around and then in one bush we found a leopard. The leopard crossed the road and we all got shit scared. You can find our cameras going click click and Rishi shouting "Rajan take Photo!!!", "Issac Issac start the car and lets run" (Issac was our driver).
The leopard looks like it is some 100 mtrs away from us, but because we were using pathetic cameras it looks like its very far. Actually its some 20 mtrs or so away from us. It was scary!!!
Also we were at one end of the park and if we ever got into any dangerous situation help would take around 20-30 minutes to arrive.

The whole of morning and afternoon we were trying to find Rhinos, but we found them only at around 4 Pm in the evening. From 10.30 AM to 4.00 PM one of my friends kept pestering the driver "Take me to the place where I can find Rhinos, Issac drive quick if I dont see Rhinos I am not going to pay you. Issac faster take me to the Rhinos" Oh man, what can poor driver do if the Rhinos are hiding??? I guess the driver would be the most happy guy after WE saw the Rhinos.

Prateek's hands move very fast and sometimes which watching a video you might feel dizzy !!! ;-)

Wifey gone to meet her mommy :-( Soooooper boring Ghar pe !!!

Few Movies

Been watching lots of movies lately. Few of them were decent.

1. Green Street Hooligans

Its a man's movie to be very straight. It involves football and fighting. You support a football club and support it, even if it takes your life.
There is this kid Matt Buckner, who is studying Journalism in Harvard and is thrown out because they find drugs in his room. The drugs belong to his room mate but he doesn't defend and fight back. He leaves Harvard and comes to London to stay with his sister.
Matt makes friends who are supporters of WestHam United Football Club. The supporters drink watch matches and then they fight with the opponent team's supporters. Don't ask me why? Its just like that always !!!
Truth not part of the film: WestHam was in a lot of controversy in 2005-2006 season and got out of it pretty easily. Simply, because it has a very old tradition of football and the club owners have very deep pockets. FA couldn't throw them out of premier league because for FA to survive they want WestHam and such clubs to play in the premier league.
Back to the movie, now this Matt kid gets pretty friendly with the WestHam supporters and gets a very high place in the West Ham Firm. They start calling him "Yankee with a funny accent".
Finally there is a FA Cup Match to be held between MillWall and WestHam, and before the match a fight breaks out and his best friend dies in it.
Matt does learn a lot of things from his stay in London, one if them is that "Sometimes it is very important to hold your ground (Being a student he should have defended himself at Harvard) but sometimes it is important to let it go (being a west Ham supporter you need not fight with the rivals every single time)"
People who understand football and have a little knowledge on how the English Clubs have their fans in gang supporting their teams, would love this movie. Not recommended for girls !!!

2. Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge on Terabithia is a really nice movie about two kids and their lovely imagination.
There is this boy in school and he has four sisters and its a happy family. The kid has problems in school, everyone bully's him and all that stuff. One day a new girl joins school and turns out to be his neighbour. Then one day they decide to just go into the woods near their house and cross the river, they name the land across the river as their Kingdom - Terabithia. :-)
The girl's parents are writers and ask the kids to think larger than life, think out of the box, imagination should run wild. The movie shows the boy's crush on his music teacher and how he tries to impress her, help her and gather affection for the teacher.
Then an incident happens and things change. Watch the movie. Its really cool. :-)

3. American Gangster

Bloody Brilliant film I should say. Its set around the time of Viet-Freaking-Nam War (Stolen from Forest-Freaking-Gump). The time when everyone in US were going high on dope and Pink Floyd and everyone loved being called Junky. Well thats got no context to the story.
Its about how a black man gets into the business of drug trafficking and runs it for years without even getting noticed. The main reason he doesn't get noticed is because he is a black man and the business of smuggling and drug trafficking is run by the Whites.
What he does is really cool, he gets the drugs from Thiland, transports on the military aircrafts and gets the drugs of highest quality into US. He has friends in the military, police department, administration, etc etc. He doesn't employ many people, instead he asks his cousins (which he has in millions) to join him and help in his business. He now has people around him whom he can trust and has the best quality product in the market, sells it at a nominal price and not a single person notices him because he is black. Brilliant!!!
Management Skills to the maximum. Excellent Operation's Management, Excellent Marketing, Excellent Sales, Excellent Human Resources, Excellent Pricing Strategy and excellent product, but he has one problem He deals in the wrong product.
He is then followed by the cops and is evetually caught. Denzel Washington acts as the drug lord Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe acts as Detective Richie Roberts.

I also saw Taare Zameen Par. I think the movie is nice not great. I have seen better movies or I would say some other movies were considered better w.r.t TZP by me. But who am I? Paintings were good. :-)
Chalo ji... Abbb Bus !!!

Holocaust

My younger brother made this animation movie with a still photo camera. He is very talented and does a lot of stuff on animation these days.

Two of his friends also joined in. Credits to Amrinder Singh Virdee, Kaushik Choudhary and Swati Handa.

It has great use of clay models and music borrowed from a lot of Hindi movies. The clay models come into the picture after 3:00 mins. Kids have put in a lot of effort. Watch the movie patiently. :-)

What he wants to say through this movie is that

"The problems we face today are the destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on.... Human created problems can be resolved by human efforts only... We need to cultivate a universal responsibility towards one another and the planet we share... The decision is ofcourse left to us to chose from a life full of uncertainty or a life that we all dream about..."

Enjoy the movie... Do put on your computer's speakers...