Thursday, January 31, 2008
Passing thought............
Someone once said, "Its great fortune to be a woman's first love and man's last". Trouble is, I found my last love but could never be her love, leave alone her first love.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus......
Like the age old saying goes, Men are from Mars and women are from Venus... Though this is not actually true.. figuratively this is the most accurate description of their behavior.. It is simply not possible for a woman to understand what a man says and vice-versa...
Here is a tip to both... Women base their thoughts on feelings and each sentence heard by them is masticated for a long time by their brains before absorbing it fully... This mastication by the brain generates many meanings of the same sentence and depending on the current mood of the woman the appropriate meaning is derived for the sentence.... This explains the peril of boyfriends/husbands when they say an extremely harmless sentence and the better half pounces on them with the most atrocious derivation of the sentence said.... and they are caught off guard... well you must take into account your previous fight with her to create context for all future things said to her....
Men on the other hand take the most obvious meaning of anything said to them by their better half's.... If you expect a man to understand the sentence...based on a previous context and derive a meaning that is diametrically opposite to the obvious meaning of the sentence...then you are expecting him to use too must of his brain..for trivial things....this will never happen so don't even bother to expect him to change....
Here is a tip to both... Women base their thoughts on feelings and each sentence heard by them is masticated for a long time by their brains before absorbing it fully... This mastication by the brain generates many meanings of the same sentence and depending on the current mood of the woman the appropriate meaning is derived for the sentence.... This explains the peril of boyfriends/husbands when they say an extremely harmless sentence and the better half pounces on them with the most atrocious derivation of the sentence said.... and they are caught off guard... well you must take into account your previous fight with her to create context for all future things said to her....
Men on the other hand take the most obvious meaning of anything said to them by their better half's.... If you expect a man to understand the sentence...based on a previous context and derive a meaning that is diametrically opposite to the obvious meaning of the sentence...then you are expecting him to use too must of his brain..for trivial things....this will never happen so don't even bother to expect him to change....
Not thus... not thus....
I have seen Indian (cricket) defeats on foreign soils, but none has pained me more.... It took more than an entire team of world champion side to defeat the spirits of an resurrected Indian side...
I always thought test cricket was never won on luck factor...but I saw Indian team lose one on bad luck factor... I could understand that umpires are humans after all and as all humans they err.. what confused me.. is that while one team kept enjoying benefit of the doubt... (third umpire also included) the other team bore the brunt even when batting... and to top it all... the rival captain rubs salt into the wounds by saying that his integrity should not be questioned....
Australians may be anything...I mean anything... but they can never be persons of integrity... The captain knows he is out and does not walk... by doing this sets an example for the entire side to follow suit... time after time a horrendous decision is taken and the Australians stand their ground shamelessly.. I mean Symonds should die of shame rather than gleefully accepting man-of-the-match award...
I must commend the spirit of captain Kumble for the way he spoke after the match.. no other captain would have taken this match sportingly... also tells us ... Australians may be world champions...but they have lots of chinks in their armour... if the umpires allow... they are a beatable side...
I always thought test cricket was never won on luck factor...but I saw Indian team lose one on bad luck factor... I could understand that umpires are humans after all and as all humans they err.. what confused me.. is that while one team kept enjoying benefit of the doubt... (third umpire also included) the other team bore the brunt even when batting... and to top it all... the rival captain rubs salt into the wounds by saying that his integrity should not be questioned....
Australians may be anything...I mean anything... but they can never be persons of integrity... The captain knows he is out and does not walk... by doing this sets an example for the entire side to follow suit... time after time a horrendous decision is taken and the Australians stand their ground shamelessly.. I mean Symonds should die of shame rather than gleefully accepting man-of-the-match award...
I must commend the spirit of captain Kumble for the way he spoke after the match.. no other captain would have taken this match sportingly... also tells us ... Australians may be world champions...but they have lots of chinks in their armour... if the umpires allow... they are a beatable side...
An ode to test cricket..
Cricket as I know of it, is a beautiful game.... for no other game I know goes on for 5 days... wait a minute.. I didn't say interesting..but beautiful.. The beauty lies in the grueling encounter that goes on for 5 days and at end of the time one side comes up trumps on the other...
There is one more reason why test cricket is interesting... in more ways than one, test cricket resembles war... every day is a new day at battle and the idea is to win the war but build the victory on these battles... Each side has a general (captain) whom the the other team wants out of equation as soon as possible...also there are individual battles between lead warriors of each side... all these put together make an interesting day of cricket..
Test cricket.. unlike other sports is never dependent on luck factor and there are no instances of any team riding home on luck factor... You have to be consistent over a period of 5 days to triumph and loss of one battle seldom costs you the war.. It also tells us whilst you aim at winning the war try to win small battles and build your path to success.....
There is one more reason why test cricket is interesting... in more ways than one, test cricket resembles war... every day is a new day at battle and the idea is to win the war but build the victory on these battles... Each side has a general (captain) whom the the other team wants out of equation as soon as possible...also there are individual battles between lead warriors of each side... all these put together make an interesting day of cricket..
Test cricket.. unlike other sports is never dependent on luck factor and there are no instances of any team riding home on luck factor... You have to be consistent over a period of 5 days to triumph and loss of one battle seldom costs you the war.. It also tells us whilst you aim at winning the war try to win small battles and build your path to success.....
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