Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, Quotes, TV, tagged MTV, Splitsvilla, Zorban Irani on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Have been kinda watching this on and off (and with MTV repeating it every evening 9 PM, its kinda hard to miss, when you are looking for music). After Guys taking it a little too far last week with Zorban Irani (that girl has s**t loads of attitude and I like her), the show had [...]
Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, tagged Central African Republic, Congo, Mugabe, Zimbabwe on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
If Only Mugabe Were White - Editorial - NYTimes.com
A really nice article on why at times being the color you are affects how people decide to deal with you! I am not really commenting on what should be done with Mugabe. It will have to be something that the biggies need to decide. You need [...]
Posted in F1, Human Behavior, tagged McLaren, Kubica, Spanish GP, Catulunya, Alonso, Renault, Kovalainen on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Did not quite really see the whole race. But from what I saw, here is what I think:
McLaren’s front aero’s components need some serious amount of work… after last race’s front wing failure on Hamilton’s car… it was HK’s turn… and he paid with a huge accident
A light weight can get you to front row [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, tagged Cheerleaders, Foot in Mouth Disease, Idiots, IPL, Politicians on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Politicians have aced the art of talking there mouths out-loud when what they say should not even have been things they should have thought about in the first place. Latest example: “Ban Cheerleaders in IPL!”
My initial and most respectable response to this is the one finger salute .l..
Reasons why they should not have been talking [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, tagged Ahmedabad, BCCI, Cricket, ICL, IPL, Motera on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday was the culmination of what started on thursday… a complete meltdown of the Indian Test team at Ahmedabad. I won’t really comment on how we did not play, but stress it’s just a game and bad days come and go, freak shows happen and we have record made and broken. And with IPL looming [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, tagged Daredevils, IPL, Marwari, Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Super Kings on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The IPL outdoor campaign tries to make people take sides by pointing out various affiliations that they may have. Here’s one that will be my version of it:
Starting years of my life in Chennai (Super Kings)
MBA from Gurgaon, Delhi (Daredevils)
Working in Mumbai (Indians)
Which team am I? Rajasthan Royals - Born in Ajmer and a Marwari [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, tagged China, Olympics, Politics, Power, Tibet on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the years, people have come to accept China as it is… A huge market where the communist regime dictates terms be it on economy, regional politics or human rights.
Hence the latest oppression in Tibet and the following posturing in international diplomatic circles should come as no surprise to anyone. The world, especially the western [...]
Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, tagged BCCI, Cricket, ICL, IPL, Money, Power on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With all victories comes a feeling of immense power and invincibility. We forget that for where we were yesterday, someone is there now… and tomorrow someone else will be here… BCCI has exceptional amounts of money and immense power with it. BCCI believes that with all the money that is there in the sport, we [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, STX, tagged Wall Street, Citi, Subprime on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night, Citi declared its biggest ever loss since formation almost a decade ago, and how did the stock market react, not really that big a deal - we were expecting much more and much worse. Hence, they had already priced in much worse scenarios into the stock price.
As of now, the markets have almost [...]
Posted in Human Behavior, tagged Australia, Cricket, India, Racism on January 15, 2008 | No Comments »
The second cricket test between India and Aussies was a game where will to win was taken too far and too seriously. Aussies behaved like children fighting for that one chance they have to bat in gully cricket; Taking out the much feared Harbhajan just about when he was going to rendered useless (read: Perth [...]
