Just Beat it stopped beating...

MJ is no more...Jacko was a legend but somewhere on the road to fame and glory the legendary Jacko became a whacko, he sang ''it doesnt matter if you are black or white' but still changed from black to white. A great musician who folks of my gen grew up listening / gyrating to... inspired a whole new genre of performers. He pioneered the concept of a singer being a performer / entertainer. The king of pop died in near penury, strange are the ways of the world or was it his own undoing?

The man who gave the world the 'moon walk' has begun his long walk to the moon and beyond.

Allan Stanford... Then & Now

Whether its warming the lap or cooling the heels... This man's got women helping him out...

The Empire & Imperial Plunder

Got to read this nice article this morning...Out Sourcing Unrest, By George Monbiot

Im sure our ancestors are all nodding in agreement in the graves...

Return of the prodigal...

Haven’t been around for a while now. The prodigal blogger returns. The last few weeks I bit into the apple and flirted with the social networking sites (FB) and its lil chirpy cousin Twitter. Since every one I knew, were on FB and Twitter and was told that these are the 2 most happening places to be in or rather be ‘signed’ in…I didn’t want to look a pariah & got myself registered on both, for a been there! done that! feeling. Did I enjoy it??? Though I don’t have a definitive answer yet, I don’t think I will like it as much as I like my blogging. The letter restrictions kill me in Twitter…One liners are fun when cracked in real not typed virtually and on FB you end up discussing on topics as mundane as a ‘Yawn’ to as abstract as the trajectory of an electron. Or as a friend quiet rightly put it as an electron talking to itself…Electron Monologues definitely sounds boring when compared to Vaginal Monologues…
Somehow all this virtual stuff is kinda killing me… I need a break and the REAL me needs to sit across a REAL table or under a REAL tree with a REAL friend or more and have a REAL drink or 2 or 3 and TALK…I mean talk and not type…

The Commons beat the Lords at the Lords.

I learnt tonight that cricket is certainly the game of glorious uncertainties. The Dutch beat the Brits at Cricket. Calls for an undertaker’s requiem for English cricket. Until tonight the only sportsperson I remember from the Netherlands was Rudd Gullit more for his hairdo than for his game.

One more revelation tonight was that Test Match is the only form of Cricket that separates the men from the boys. We had the 50 over One day game that came about in the early 70’s but by 1983 the boys proved they were faster learners than men… could they sustain it??? No. They couldn’t and they haven’t repeated it since. Similarly in 2007 in the 20-20 versions the boys proved that they could pull it off but can they sustain it, is the question. Tonight it was proved that, shorter the stage, the even the playing field…Upsets are bound to happen and Cricket will soon move from a game of strategies and fundamentals to simply a game of chance. The bookies will rule. Wonder what the odds were tonight in favour of the Dutch. But that does not mean that the Dutch didn’t play better Cricket than England, they were spectacular on the field. But they had to put in their best only for less than a 'session' in Test Cricket parlance. The performance was ephemeral not an enduring one. But 20-20 is all about ephemeral performances isn’t it?

Let the wham bam version of cricket bring in many more upsets. Incidentally I was on Heineken tonight supporting the Dutch hope I’m not on some Bangla drink tomorrow and watch India get trashed by the Bangladeshis.

GM files for bankruptcy

Just happened to click on the GM corporate website and found this 'says it all image' on their website pop up. The speedometer showing 0 mph. Sad to see an iconic manufacturer like GM coming to a halt.