Depression to elation

Sorry i needed two days of stablility to get over the roller coaster of emotions i went thru on thursday.

Starting from  Euro Cup Semi final no 2

What the hell happened ??

Germans and of course me were taken aback when Balotelli  scored the first goal for Italy and then were taken apart when he scored the second one in quick succession . The minute I saw a German supporter shedding a tear after the second goal my resolve was set.

I went to bed that minute. I knew if i kept on watching I would too burst into tears.

Depression, sadness, incredulity and bone deep anger against the coach Joachim Low were my major emotions that night. How the hell could he have dropped his good players against a team they have NEVER won against in a major competitive tournament. In fact the most draws in FIFA history are between Germany and Italy!!

I woke up the next morning glum as hell over the last night's spectacular crash and burn of Germany . Sadly, i took my breakfast, switched on the TV  and finding nothing of interest on Star World  decided to watch the news.

I think i was stunned speechless the minute i saw the latest news about Wimbledon .

Two time Wimbledon champion  and recent World no 2  Rafael Nadal had crashed out against a virtually unknown player 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 !!!!!

My dad got so scared when he heard me screaming in utter joy and elation . He got all huffy with me when i told him why. He thought I'd hurt myself (lol).

Thank you Lukas Rosol for cheering me up and providing me the best news I've had all day!!

Wow!! I don't think i've had so many mood swings in one day ever!!

One of the best underdog stories I've ever heard!! Go Rosol!

Busy supporting the germanz!!

Sorry dad this is pretty short.
Busy supporting the germanz in the Euro Cup 2012 and will write when they win the Euro Cup and kick Spain's butt all the way to their country.
If the defending champions win then will also put up a post about how much i hate them and i hope they rot in hell.
All in all very positive!!

An interesting audience to a final

IPL Final - KKR VS CSK- As it happened in my home

9 pm - After i finish doing tp on my laptop , i relent and decide to watch the final . My dad's been watching from the beginning. The CSK are playing brilliantly and set a formidable score of 190.

9.12- We have engaged in an argument coz i believe tht KKR still has the good to win this match. Using statistics and his conviction tht whoever he doesn't like doesn't win at finals . i remind him tht if statisitcs were infallible then india wud never have won 1983 world cup and his dislike is baseless.

10.00- dinner is served. i tell my mom tht to prepare a nice big humble pie which my dad wud eat voraciously.He glares at me and says " in the end dhoni and i will have the last laugh".

11.00 - He's getting worried as Bisla and Kallis are beating the hell out of the bowlers. I'm grinning , he's not.

11.30- We see a tweet about a guy who says that it is weird when a father and his child are sitting in the same room and supporting different teams!! We laugh our butts off  and dad then sits down on the floor  while i'm sitting on the couch.

11.35 - My sis comes home from the neighbour's and is grinning from ear to ear saying " who's winning now!" My dad high 5's her  and looks so happy tht someone was supporting CSK until i tell him while laughing at his disappointed expression tht she was talking abt KKR. LOL!!!

12.00- Kallis is out. Oh crap . Grinning males are annoying , even if it is my father.

12.30- A four!! "noooooo!!" from my dad. I'm doing the monkey dance sitting. 3 runs from 3 balls.

12.32- Four!!!!! KKR has won!!!! Now i do the Macarena and the monkey dance and jump across the Tv room in joy!! My dad looks so crestfallen its actually funny.

12.45- He gets even madder when SRK does cartwheels on the ground while i'm just laughing!!

1.00- To put the bow on the present which is my dad's disgruntlement , KKR lifts the cup!! As i go up, i tell him " You know I'm going to torture u with this for years".

He looks at me and says " I know."

and just to annoy him further , i skip my way up to my bedroom.
This was an interesting final.

The rise of boy bands

90's . my favorite era.

Why? Coz it was the time when a group of men singing together was "in". Namely, Backstreet Boys and N'Sync. Their pop music and obviously looks garnered many many fans. Mostly female (like me!).

But by the time i grew up i found out that they had gone out of fashion as  either they broke up or others just took their place  and soon all "awesome" music was either rock or rap. Which i really hate.

 The only surviving band from that era was pretty much forgotten(except me. I bought their most recent album ). I.e Backstreet Boys.

But thank you  One Direction !!!

The British - Irish group brought back memories of the awesome 90's and the height of  Backstreet Boys and NSync's careers.  The music, the craze behind the boys . Everything. People remembered what that time was like .

" What Makes You Beautiful" reminds me of songs like Shape of My Heart by BSB, As Long as you love me - same , NSync's Bye Bye Bye. The catchy tune makes me nostalgic coz it brings back memories of a 6 year old me watching the video of "Everybody( Backstreet's Back) for the first time . It was the first video I'd watched of them and i instantly fell in love with them.

Even though people wondered about my sanity when i told them that my favorite band was one whose heyday was when we were toddlers i stuck by it. I'd always loved their music and people can say what they want.

It was always my wish that i could get my hands on a time machine and go back around 18years. That is not possible so fate brought that era to me. Yippee!!

Guys and gals, the 90's are here!!

The reality of Mother's Day

Everyone on Mother's Day talks about how great their mom is. How much they treasure her, how much they love her. They all make all kinds of gestures to demonstrate that.


I guess, in all the hoopla they forget that probably just one day before they were cursing them to hell and beyond for" ruining their lives". "For suffocating them"


" My mother is my idol" How many times have i heard that statement or read it?  Though this statement is true for me.


My mother is the most awesome person in the universe. She's my best friend , the one person i depend on when others forsake me.


But that doesn't mean I don't hate her sometimes.


We hate our mothers when they try to guide us on the right path. We hate it because somewhere we know she's right.


" You don't know anything !" Is a statement many have made in anger. We say it because we don't want to accept that ,yes ,she knows the world better than us.


 According to us,our mothers have real Old World ideals. We call them 19th Century ladies. We say that today's world is different. Their lessons are n/a.


There is a saying in Greek. Chronia apostraph, anthrice mi achi. Time moves on, people do not.



When we rail at them , curse them, they take it silently. Much like God. Coz they know at the end of the day that we cannot live without them and we won't be able to tell them that.



So we take out this one day. One day , where we tell them things in the form of gestures how much we care for them. How much we depend on them. . How much we love them. 



Mother's Day is where we honor the greatest creations of God  after Earth. But like her we don't always realise their true value and their true love for us. Even when we don't act exactly lovable and dependable.

Western women vs Indian women

International Women's Day was a couple of days ago and I know , I know this is a little late but humor me.

My History teacher one day asked us that whether the suppression of women was restricted to only Asian countries and to my surprise many said yes. I was pretty loud in disagreement in class in that period.

Women in India, dream of freedom and independence abroad. Ladies, one point to deliberate about , the freedom and independence the Western women enjoy has only come with a lot of hard work and blood spilt by their ancestors. While, we should thank our stars that unlike them we got our rights without having to say " Please" .While women have fought for respect and the right to feel proud  about being a female over the centuries. In fact, Iraqi women have JUST received the right to vote.

In India, before the Later Vedic Age , women were considered more or less equal to men . The right to education, to choose their own spouse was given to them. Rituals and poojas were considered incomplete if the wife wasn't at her husband's side.  It was a pretty cushy life then.

Whereas abroad, the bane of development, the inferior being to man , the strayer was always woman ( Eve ). When Adam ate the forbidden apple we got the shaft and the blame. I really want to ask ,didn't Adam have a mind of his own? Didn't he know there is a reason God told him "No"?!

The person who unleashed everything wrong with mankind and the world again a woman, Pandora. The reason for Trojan War , Helen.Lady again. Greek mythology, again hates all womankind.

Throughout history and mythology women are the reason for downfall of men. The bad guys of the endless movie called life.

Women were burnt at the stake for being strong, powerful and most importantly intelligent in a little place called Salem .In millions! By saying we're witches coz we're more intelligent than males!! At least, in India we didn't do that. Thank you God for that little mercy.

Today, women are valued for their degrees of education and their jobs in India by propective husband while Western country men are busy marrying women who don't have a single brain cell in their head and have barely passed high school leave alone college!

Every religion in this world except Hinduism is male chauvinistic. Male gods ,are worshipped everywhere and the woman is always seen bending in submission to MANkind. Whereas, Durga Puja, Diwali , Dassera to name a few are festivals where female goddesses are worshipped by entire cities and states. And the coup de grace -

Stepford Wives was an American movie!!

Women have struggled on and on everywhere, i do not undermine the effort women have gone through to earn some rights in the country, but when we complain about grass being greener on the other side remember that the most advanced country USA has yet to elect a female President. While female Presidents and Prime Ministers have already been elected in countries like Germany, Australia and obviously India.

When we see the news about male chauvinistic policeman on TV we feel angry , sometimes apathetic and resigned to our fate.  We dream about living independently from our parents and possibly abroad while the same fate some other lady goes through in the "promised dream land".

Everywhere we go, women have to work to prove themselves, there is no doubt. But we should never delude ourselves that life , culture , bosses and most importantly PARENTS are different somewhere else.

So to all, women in the world, when we feel the world is against us , when we curse Eve for her mistake, remember that somewhere else another woman is cursing the same people for the same reason. Even in injustice, chauvinsim and suppression we're all with you since , we KNOW.

Happy Belated International Women's Day to all!

The Gods must be getting bored with rock n'roll , guitar and old actors

One after the other , we have witnessed some of the greatest names in  history dropping like flies. From The King of Pop  to the Queen of Pop ( Not Madonna , the other one) to the best villain of the Batman series (The Joker) to the Prince of Cricket to the most beautiful woman in the world ( Don't get a heart attack , it's not Jolie).  We have seen the most beloved celebrities of Hollywood and Bollywood drop dead all of a sudden. There has been a sudden influx of celebrities dying WAY before their time in the last three years starting from Michael Jackson in 2009 to Whitney Houston this year.

 I want to put this question up to the big guys WAY upstairs. Do you really think we are not going to catch on? Do you really think we are not going to figure out that you're cutting their lifelines way before you should because of some devious plan you guys have in mind? Stop underestimating our intelligence people !

Well, i'm not saying i KNOW the reason why but i can make a plausible guess. According to me, the Gods are "recalling" them is because  they are bored of the same damn repitition over the years and want a change of scenery.Apparently, their scenery change means they are tired of Elvis's rhinestone suits and brooding Henry Fondas ( Sorry Dad). They want a change of music and  venturing into dangerous territory i will say the goddesses want a change of men . Lol.

Look people we get it okay, you guys are bored. Listening to guitar from Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon singing gets old and afterwards a little irritating. Talking to the same kind of guys with their deep baritones and brooding looks while really nice at first ,will kind of stereotype. So, you call up SOME  different looking people or musicians whose genre is different. But seriously?? So many ??!! Leave some for us man. We would like to go to their concerts once we're old enough! Stop "drug overdosing" them and making us miss an opportunity to see them in live action just so that you can for eternity!!

The actors. There is a reason the entire goddamn world mourns when they die ok? It's because we love them!! We love watching them in movies because they're awesome!! Stop robbing us of the opportunity of watching them play a role of a lifetime which not only makes us love them even more but gets them a whole lot of freaking awards!! Coz i doubt, you guys are giving them the Black Lady or the Golden Boy up there??!!

So Gods and Goddesses  it is my sincere request. Please stop it. At some point they all will be there, waiting and then you can give them the job as entertainer in your parties. Until then, wait . Unlike you guys we ain't immortal. We have a limited time on Earth  and in this time we would like to enjoy ourselves listening to our favorite music and seeing our favorite movies without feeling sad and depressed that we could never see the genius they create ever again and this was the last thing they did. Let us have the hope that some day we would get to see them in concert live in flesh and blood . Not a tribute concert.