EPL and IPL

Let us begin with the english football- Manchester United won EPL for the second consecutive year and have the CL final coming up with Chelsea.

GO United Go!!!
CHAMPIONS for the second season in a row. An this one was even more satisfying as the run went down to the last day of the season and Chelsea on the receiving end. I guess that is what we love to see in football and for that matter in any other sport; the shear tension, pulsating nerves and the joy of celebrating the triumph of our favorites. With Ronaldo in RED hot form, the seniors showing emmense resilience at the dawn of their careers and even more exicting youths in the line-up, United are on a golden run. And with Sir Alex as the boss United would certainly like to make it a double this season.
The season has turned out to be a classic in all respects with Arsenal running the show in the first half of the season, United surviving a tough middle phase to reach the top spot just before the final stage and Chelsea handing a defeat to United to set the stage for a really exciting season FINALE. But the story is yet not over with the CL final coming up. What more would the fans want?- a deciding final day of season and now United vs Chelsea in the CL final.
Way to go United!!!

Cricket going the football way
First twenty20 and now IPL, cricket is certainly en route to Europe. Twenty20 has brought the one thing needed to make it a global sport - PACE. Its not that cricket does not pump adrenaline but those moments are quite widely spread on a time line. So its a huge step towards making cricket a global brand. And what has IPL bought?....fierce competition. The teams are well matched both in terms of star power and young guns. Not that this kind of structure was not there in cricket (courtesy County Cricket). But why IPL is different is because of its GRAND APPEAL to the most enthusiastic cricket fans of the world (yes I am talking about Indian spectators). The promoters have done a great job in brining together the best bets from the cricket world and to bring every possible medium of marketing communication into picture- Ads on TV and Radio, Celebrity appeal and so on. Its looks like cricket-business has become more professional with its new product-T20 and IPL becoming its most coveted brand.
So cricket is going the football way. The IPL format will bring in more support with time with elements like fan following, club rivarly etc. shaping it into more of a culture than a sport. This is the case with club football in Europe. If this revolution can be sustained then there's nothing stopping cricket from becoming a global sport. But we Indians have to be prepared enough so that cricket does not go the Hockey way, where we lost our domination (even existence) on the world stage as it became popular in Europe.

20 minutes at the station

THIS POST IS FOR THOSE WHO TRUELY BELIEVE IN THE LEGACY OF "NETA". FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T AWARE OF HIM PLEASE SKIP TO THE NEXT POST :)

SPOILER ALERT: NETA IS THE COMEDIAN!!! (err...........matlab isi ki wajah se hasi aayegi)

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Scene-1, Act-1;
Characters: Me and Neta
Location: Dadar Station
Date n Time: 10 minutes to 10 p.m., 2nd May

Neta: "Ye Amul to aaj double pitega (One for the IIM C convert and other one.....read on)."
Me: "Lekin tune hi to use 10 baje tak aane ke liye kaha tha?"
Neta: "Haan to 10 to bajne hi wale hai. Pehle to use 8:30 hi aana tha, wo to maine hi use kaha ki jyada jaldi nahi hai wo aaram se relatives se mil kar aaye. Lekin agar wo 10 baje se pehle nahi aaya to uski kher nahi."
Me:" Theek hai aane do usko, khub pelenge saale ko."
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Scene-1, Act-2;
Characters: Me, Neta and Amul.

Its 10:15 p.m. and Amul is seen walking towards us (me and Neta).
We greeted Amul and both of us landed tw0 kicks on his bumps. I thought the issue was resolved but Neta was hungry. He could not stand the fact that Amul was 15 minutes late. Its business as usual for Neta as most of you must be knowing.

So Neta thought that this was the time to hit back, with me supposedy in his favour.The two of us were together for past 4 odd hours and i did not pull his leg even once.

Neta (to Amul): " Tumhe thoda jyada time rukne ke liye bol diya to tumne to had hi kar di."
Me: "Lekin ye to sirf 15 min hi late aaya hai, isme kya problem hai."
Me (to Amul): "Yaar ye Neta hadd karta hai, khud hi ne 10 baje tak aane ko bola aur baad me khud hi jalla raha tha ki 2 ghaante station par wait karna pad gaya."
Me and Amul: LON
From here on it means Laughing on Neta; this acronym will be frequently used in the following paragraphs with various variants,like:
LNON- L Notoriously ON
LEON- L Effortlessly ON
ELON- Everyone LON
LWON- L Wickedly ON

Neta: (Caught with his pants down....since he wasn't expeccting this sudden change of sides from Me) "Abe saale Kholu(me)!!! tu to itni der se meri haan-me-haan mila raha tha, ye achanak kya hua?"
Me: " Dekho Neta ek funda samajh lo:"
(..........ahem ..ahem .......pay attention! this ones a deep funda)
"Jab bhi sirf do log saath hote hai to wo ek dusre ki nahi udaate"

Me n Amul: LNON, Launghing Nototriously on Neta.
Neta:"Are! ye kya matlab hua?, par hum donno mil kar Amul ki bhi to udaa sakte the."

Me: "To ab suno dusra funda:"
"Jab bhi teen lgo me ek Neta hota hai to usi ki maari jaati hai"
Me, Amul and everyone else at the bus station: Laughing on Neta or in short ELON
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So this was how the journey began. There still much more to come from our trip to Pune.....two full days...remember this was just a 20 min trailor.


Next up: "The Pune Trip".

For a change

Enough of copy-paste, let me have something original. Am pretty much occupied with work these days- chatting, blogging (more of collating other's posts), creating accounts on social networking sites.....and yes!! interning at SEBI :)
The past 30 odd days have been some of my most monotonous ones in quite few years. The day starts with a boring and sleepy bus travel to SEBI, then we have our breakfast there followed by a three hour net session. Then we have our lunch (which is quite good here) followed by a mandatory visit to Library- no!! not for books, but to unfold a newspaper in front of yourself and take a nap in the cozy chairs over there.
Next comes another three hour seesion of- cricXchanging, chatting and all. We leave office at 6 and reach the guest house (in Malad) by around 7. Then starts another wait, now for dinner (dabba) which gets delivered at around 9:30 (the person started delivering it at 8:30 but gradually learnt that we are not his"critical customer", so has scheduled ours as the "least priority order").
Before going to sleep we manage to save time to either watch a movie or two, or 4-5 episodes of some series (I recently finished "24"..all seasons).
And thats how the day ends. Nothing challenging, nothing much exciting either. Now i realize HELL's not actually hell at all.....its heaven in all respects (the second one that i have visited).
..............sorry for the abrupt end, but its time (sarkari office hai bhai, they are very particular about the closing time :) )

Status Message Mania-II

From HELL--------
"divya....kahaan ho tum"----

"wake me up for the 8:45 class..................plzzzzzzzzzzzzz"---

"i am conphuzing"---

Funny---------
"Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock"– Tarun

"Set status message here" -GG

"Somebody suggest a good status message"—Amul

“TO-LET……….this space is available for rent...... contact 9935943830”---

Bade log----------
"If you take my whole life and condense it to one day, it looks impressive" --- George Costanza (i dont know this guy :))

“there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up” ----Vinayak

“Sometimes, Most Easy sentences verbally, are most difficult to speak” ----Ish

Read at your own risk----
"Let us not believe that we have received the divine kiss , if we know the truth without loving it or love it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only love is recognised and felt but also both of us are loved , for there is never full commitment & trust without perfect love"---Kimi

"In umr se lambi, sadkon ko Manzil pe pahunchte dekha nahi Bas, Daudti firti rehti hai Hamne to theherte dekha nahi Is ajnabi se sheher me, Jaana pehchana dhoondta hai..."---KK

...........to be continued

Status Message Mania-I

Some of the best status msg...............
" The presentation had 250 slides; 25th was "thank you" slide and after that there were insights"
-------Pitaji.

"The msg has been temporarily shifted to APJ's account"
--------Your's truly.

"Jab tum kisi cheez ko dill se chaho..toh poori kaynaat tumhe usse milwane me lag jatee hai’
---------Shri Shri 1008 Parmar...the GOD.
"LOVE TRANSCENDS THE DIMENSIONS OF TIME,SPACE AND THE SELF.SO LET IT FLOW AND THE UNIVERSE SHALL MERGE UNTO YOU."
------GOD again.
........................................................................[GOD at the height of desperation :) ]
"umr daraz ho gaye 4 din meim, kuch aarzoo mein gaye aur kuch intezaar mein"
----GOD .

"yeh saari global warming delhi me kyun ho rai hai"
----Pitaji.
" http://status.msg.com" (this url doesnt point anywhere :) )
-----Me

"Its better to die rather than trying hard and failing in ur endeavours as well not being able to live upto the expectations of ur beloved ones. I sincerely hope to die quite early. hope god is listening"
------Kimi

"Joining B school just for getting a job is like getting married just for sex"
------Motin
"playing .........midterm-madness...."
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" 'Brand atchitude, brand reconition....all this things you know'...........well i don't"
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"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway"
-----courtesy Amul

"The Knack of Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss!!!...."
-----Sonam (M)

chapter 2 coming soon.......