Change Is Good

If this is what you call Writer’s Block, then I guess it has to be redefined as I have the usual symptoms of a block but I do have a block when it comes to updating my blog and over the last one year, my blogging has been on an all time low. Well compared to an average blog, there are still a decent number of posts, but gone are the days when I used to have a post once in 2 days, well maybe I should start doing it once again!!!

Change is good, well that was Obama’s mantra when he led the democrats to victory in the US elections but then he was up against an ageing Republican who was standing for an election 20 years too late and well Obama not only won the elections but by doing nothing significant from his predecessor apart from making some sweeping statements even won a Noble prize. Poor Mr Bush, what he thought was good for his family business and a little bit for the country also made him the most hated man on the planet while his successor does the same and wins some cash too doing that!

Well doing an Obama seem to be the in-thing to do and well I decided to take the plunge and decided to go for the change! The last time around I was looking at the known devil, the unknown devil and a bag of cash! Like every moron who was lazy enough not to get into an IIM, i decided to throw the cash in the bin and went down the road with the known devil! Well I can use fate & karma if one thing which is linked to the devil himself works out but then till then I took the highway with the devil before realizing that I was out of fuel mid-way through the journey. Now that sure is a tough thing especially in the middle of nowhere (reminds me of the Johnny Walker advertisement).

As I managed to go on this road, one fine day I realized that I was the last one and guess what, for all the good work you have put in, you end up tainted as the villain!!! Ok if I continue to talk about this I may end up ranting for a very long time and being a follower of the Dude, all I can say is, things will be taken care of and every dog has its day (provided you are a dog). Now I have something, well I don’t have any other options but I did decide to take the plunge, as change is good and well out of the change, you actually know what you are getting into and all this is part of a long range plan to get to somewhere.

It is like taking a bus from one place to another as you don’t have any other means of transportation! This bus is not the same old bus which I talked about and FYI, I am happy that I missed that bus. Ahh, what a relief, I would be like laughing stock of the town had I taken it but luckily it did not happen. Coming back to Mr Fate, well he may have predicted something but if this thing does happen, dude seriously, you rock! Ofcourse it does not mean that I get back my faith but that is different from this as I just cannot give up my position on something and well if it does happen, well 2010 will surely have a dream end which you get only in books (Atleast you don’t come across real people like that).

So here it goes and I am finally going to do something which I should have done ages back, but what the heck, I was in a place living of its old name aka Williams F1 team and its time to move on. It’s not something unknown and it does not have everything, but heck I guess one has to do these things and you can do it only now and actually looking at it, in the end it is a no brainer even if it is for a short time only!

Pyramids & the Promised Land!

“The Exodus is an event that marked the departure of the Israelites from enslavement in ancient Egypt”

Ever since this incident, the Pharaohs have just become smarter and though it took them ages to recoup, come the 21st century, they have finally created corporate kingdoms which spans the globe and employees of millions of individuals who have no clue about the whole conspiracy of a free man is subjected to slow slavery and the irony of the whole situation is that he does not even realize this.

Though we are not building pyramids, we still are serving the might masters who typically follow this pyramid structure. Seriously half the time is wasted on things which are highly not needed in real life, but too bad real life ceases to exist after the industrial revolution and we are in a so-called democratic society where everyone supposedly has rights, we are no more similar to the ancient roman society where the corrupt senate ruled supreme.

We the slaves work the most, but we the slaves endure the most challenging tasks and each step we take we are touted and mocked, well the reason behind all this is very simple, few wants to enjoy everything while the many suffer. The pyramid is very simple; the guy who does the least work enjoys the most while the guy who works the most goes thru the hardship of his life.

That is not life, life is what we do with it, either we remain part of the system and embrace this slavery of the new era or unplug our self and explore the world like how it was meant to be.

bizarre-oland

This does not happen much, but ya Shruti Hassan looks like an angel send to Earth!!!

We talk like Captain Planet and yet we have Diwali!!!

Jairam Ramesh our little known Environment minister for the last one week has been on the paper almost on a daily basis and was in fact challenging the likes of the Gandhi clan for paper space!!

Jokes apart all of a sudden we are too interested for our own good in the global environmental issues and even talk about the successor program to Kyoto Protocol while just last weekend the festivities for Diwali concluded. Unlike other festivals, Diwali is one the weirdest and in India itself and among Hindus, people from different regions celebrate it for different reasons.

From Rama’s homecoming to slaying of a demon we have a lot of reasons. But to look at it from a very logical point of view, it is a festival day where people promote noise & air pollution by bursting crackers make by kids and also apart from the toxins & the noise, also endanger people by bursting crackers on public places and in general cause hindrance to all.

Oh yeah, failed to mention that obesity levels shoot up on days leading to the festival as people do end up hogging up sweets and which also leads to various other ailments. They also sell some stuff which you are supposed to have after having loads of sweets but why eat soo much in the first place!!

Happy Diwali!

Out of Blogging: Part Deux

The last time I was actually thinking of going to Singapore to watch the race and in the last 50 plus days so many things have happened everywhere. Well F1 was in chaos for a few weeks while my own life well not exactly has been in chaos but seen enough highs and lows that it actually is making me to give it another shot or atleast extending it so that I may well see how it goes on. The dream of sitting in a place after 10 years is still there and maybe that combined with an ego which would not let me turn back after walking away from something which could have been gold!

I seriously would need to blog more often, just because I do write on F1 regularly means that I just cannot avoid this very blog which was started when I was in Irevna. Gone are the days when you were a free man actually and you can do what you want. How many times have we cribbed and cribbed more that we are not doing something great or productive but in the end looking back at those days, I just have to regret the fact that those were the days when I paid to do a no brainer job and forget the so-called cliché called as job satisfaction which most of us in our days may never get it.

I seriously miss those days when I actually had the freedom to do anything and life was fun and simple. It was not complicated and you actually did not have to answer to the morons of the world. Some things in life will never come back and this is one of the few memories of my life which I would never forget as those were good days of my life. Maybe I had I still gone thru the very same path my life would have been normal but then taking this very path has been tough soo far and have seen more lows than ever but heck this very path has led me to a few things which I may have never thought was possible in that path!

I may look at this like it’s a bad dream, but then having a bad dream is much better than going thru a nightmare which I have gone thru at times in my life and I do wish I never have to go thru them again atleast for the next few years as the only things which can come off it is a downward spiral. But things are looking up as I am still standing tall and managing to prove a lot of things which has happened in the past as something which would not bound me. It is after all a bad dream and I can always wake up from it unless I forget that I am in a dream in the 1st place.

Return of the Top 10 List!

There was a time where there was just too many top 10 lists coming up and well apart from the most hottest/sexiest/beautiful women or whatever you call it, there was a top 10 list for anything and everything. Now revisiting the tags made me realize that there has not been one single top 10 list on anything for the last one year or so. Well 2009 has not exactly been a terrific year for blogging but then I just felt that I nearly missed the top 10 list for the year!

One year can do a lot and well your perception to life itself can change but then over the years the top 10 list has been a bit consistent and ofcourse you do always have the odd surprise coming in or even names which has come popped in for ages making a comeback, so without wasting much time, here is the top 10 list for 2009 or forget the year, here is The Top 10 List!

1. Maria Sharapova
2. Julianna Guill
3. Diora Baird
4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
5. Zooey Deschanel
6. Lucy Pinder
7. Jessica Alba
8. Holly Valance
9. Hillary Duff
10. Petra Němcová

2009 US Open Picks

This year’s season is one of the weirdest seasons in decades. While the men’s side has been dominated by a few individuals, what is strange is that Roger Federer is not at his best but still he managed to not only win the French Open but also break Pete Sampras’s record for most career grand slam titles. The US Open may not be too different and don’t be too shocked to see Federer battle Nadal in the finals but the Spaniard comes off an injury lay off and is not looking like anything which made him win Federer on grass! Others like Murray and Djokovic have had a consistent hard court season and they too have a realistic chance for the title. Among others Roddick after his phenomenol run in Wimbledon, will be inspired in his home slam and if things do go right he can win the US Open once again. Juan Martin del Potro is in good form and he along with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga could be the surprise semi-finalist while former champions like Lleyton Hewitt and Safin will have a thing or two to prove. Expect something from Safin as he will retire at the end of the year and this will be his last slam while Sam Querrey could be the dark horse of the tournament.

On the women’s side, though the Williams sisters are not at their best due to various injuries and loss of form top players like Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanović and Jelena Janković they have been able to dominate the tour and Serena has won 2 slams while sister Venus was the Wimbledon finalist. Though their hard court form has been sketchy, they will be the favourites once again in New York. Based on recent form Elena Dementieva, Flavia Pennetta, Dinara Safina and Caroline Wozniacki seem to be in terrific form but among the four Elena Dementieva has the best chance of winning the title here. Comeback women Kim Clijsters will always be a threat but apart from upsetting a top player, Kim Clijsters has been out of tennis for too long to actually pull off a win here while Maria Sharapova is in decent form after her injuries but she needs luck to play in her favour if he has to win the US Open once again which she last won in 2006. Samantha Stosur could be the dark horse while Safina will be desperate to win a slam and shed the chocker tag.

It should be 2 very exciting weeks and on the men‘s side Roger has the best chance but an inspired Rafa can also complete his own grand slam set by winning the title while Sharapova will be hoping for a win so that her comeback can be compete while blonde bombshell Wozniacki’s win will properl her to Sharapova like levels but then Serena and Dementieva will be the hot picks going into the tournament.

Masha @ an Event!!!

Out of Blogging

It has been nearly a month and I have not blogged at all and well I think I keep pushing new boundaries and records that July I managed to have only one post! That sure was an all time low and this time thanks to the F1 break, there are no excuses for not writing a post and Cutting the Chicane too does not have an entry since the Hungarian GP. I did want to write about Michael Schumacher’s comeback but by the time I actually sat before a word processor and decided to write something, the dream comeback never happened and my ill-fated mad quest of going for the Singapore GP was put to rest.

Work, well the less said it is better, but then now with company policies and people actually tracking on what you do on Facebook (invasion of privacy but then this is the end result of social networking!) well and this is a private blog, I guess legally I can comment about a few things but like I said, I just do not want to talk about it as well I am suffering due to something external called as the “Recession” and it is at times used as an excuse for anything and everything. We talk about recession and Real Madrid is whoring up the money and back home car sales are going up!

A wise man once said, Recession is when your neighbour is out of job while depression is when you are out of work, well my neighbour is chilling in the European alps and yes sir, I am depressed with work but it can also happen when you are actually having a secure job (I assume this!). In life and especially in India, you should not be motivated with work as in the end, all you get is disappointed as some people continue to treat humans as something like machines which can be replaced without any issues but they tend to ignore that even when you replace a computer, never once has things been picture perfect.

Wolverine or Sad Sack mode?? I myself am not sure and have dangerously floated with both of them but then motivation is something which does have some external stimulus and I am not Ryan Giggs to be motivated just by wearing a red jersey but again the same guys who gave him a red jersey made sure he drives a Ferrari and has been taking care of him for the better part of the last 20 years. Not that we do out of the world things to keep you enticed and at the end of the day, after watching “Fight Club” and “Motorcycle Diaries” you do realize that the commercialism is just not worth it to sell your soul.

You don’t live your life for the people around you; you will always live it for yourself as in the end, the last person who will stand by you during hard times is you alone. Did use too many “you” but heck this is not a damn copy!


All I thought was put up a picture of Masha and fake a post but I did manage to write quite a bit, so anyway the picture has to come up 

The Day The Whole World Went Away

For a second it was like a time warp and all those thoughts kept coming back, well sometime back I met a batch mate of mine from college and he said something like this “I think you are the same, even after 6 years, things are just the same for you”. I thought about it hard and deep, well I just ignored it but the more I ignore it the more I it started coming back to me and it began to hit me harder than I thought it will be. It is true, things are the same well if to make things worse for me and make my life even more fucked up, things have gone rock bottom.

You wonder and you assume that once you hit rock bottom, the only way is to go up well for everyone out there, this is the worst answer possible, as the only way after hitting rock bottom is to go worse than what you have hit and go to a point where it seem that there is no coming back. Yes sir, there is no coming back as you are in a fucking limbo where you have a though of chasing your fucking dreams and so-called destiny and go after something which you vowed upon but in the end, due to things which are not under your control, you finally after conquering the heights is still forced to start from the bottom up every other time you do things.

The fucking thing with life is that it is soo unfair, ya fuck all the people who say I crib cause fuck you as you never been thru the shit I have been through as up yours and shove it up with candy ass. What do I do about it, well I don’t have a Tyler Durden to save my ass as in reality you just can’t do that and all I am doing right now is to put with shit day in and day out. I would rather call it shit in and shit out. Sorry for the fucking language but fuck it man, I have reached the tipping point and fucking Monday morning I may be fucking normal but fuck it, there is this deep though at a sub-conscious level which has brain fucked me beyond what it should have and fucking I am just suffering from the golden moments of insanity as it is during these times when I am truly angry that I really fucking do things which I may regret but fuck it as it is during these crazy moments that the whole fucking truth comes out and fucking given a chance, fuck road rage as something worse would have come from this angry Brahmin.

Ya ya, screw the folks who think I am always pissed off and reality for many is not as rosy as it is portrayed as life is a fucking misery for a lot and not that where movies not that where joyful things happen and fuck those as those fucking bastards say it’s all about perception as fucking so called perception is a fucking perception as I still don’t get it that people continue to be self-centred assholes and fuck these people as in the end the global truth will win and the fucking world we live is bound for destruction as it exists solely on a society which would do anything for its own up-liftmen.

The other day when you are down, someone told me that I just crib too much but fucking fact is that if I am fucking so strong up in my head I would have blown a few corporations by now and finally would have completed project mayhem as it should have been. Because you should have now by now that Tyler will exist in fiction and you will be selling a story which doe s not exist but you do believe in its existence. Fuck the fictional Tyler as each and every one of us can land up like him as today’ society especially India does not seem to understand the importance of South India based BPO’s.

Fuck it I may sound like a fucking crib or a mad man or a fucking loser, but fuck all the people out there as I have set goals I would remain focussed on my goals but there a few things I have dob which most in the country can’t even claim to it so anyways it is getting wrong and hopefully something good comes about next week.

Exile On Mainstream

The title has been inspired by the Matchbox Twenty album of the same and I have been waiting for some time now to write this post but one thing or the other has come in between me and writing this very post but finally it is here and I hope it does bring out the very essence I wanted in it.

It started when the Troika met and as always the so-called moment of truth came about what has happened in the last one year and the path taken by everyone. The most important concern was not about the path which was taken, but if the path was the right path and if it was the one which should have been taken.

A year ago, I decided to take control of my own destiny and I seriously felt that each and everyone’s path can be controlled to an extend and though it surely was a coup of sorts but still managed to pull it off and decided to follow the path and go for something which was always called a dream for various reasons. Yes it was a gamble but it was no blind gamble and I had enough faith in myself to go after this gamble which did not go as well as it planned.

To an extend though after a year I am still the master of my destiny but still external forces continue to make a huge influence though there are times when you think about it and the dark side does take over your thinking but again when we are in dark times, we just cannot always be the shining light as it is very tough to lead a life like that.

I have not put down on the dark sins as the very essence of life like many of the people who do exist have but then it is vital and important to an extend that it can never be discounted. But the question is that if the wait is worth it or will it become too late whereas you keep waiting and waiting and in the end nothing does happen.

You have nothing to lose now and the wait well at most times leads to something good. I may wonder but then thanks to the very path a very few very fortunate incidents have occurred and this itself goes down well with the concept of taking your destiny in your own hands.

I have taken it in my own hands and I know it is tough but then time is always slow and the wait maybe long but the end result is something which is worth after all and this is one thing which I have always believed in so far and only after that can I truly comment if it was worth it after all.

2009 Wimbledon Picks

While the French Open threw some unexpected results with Roger Federer finally winning the French Open but then though he did beat the guy who dumped Nadal out of the tournament but there is nothing like beating Rafa and then winning at Paris as Rafa did beat Federer on grass and won Wimbledon last year in style. But with Rafa suffering from injuries, this could be the year for Roger and what better place than Wimbledon to go one up on Pete and break his record for most career grand slam titles. Though there are few others who could ruffle feathers on grass and it includes the British hope Murray, the mercurial Safin who not only surprised everyone by reaching the semi-finals last year but this year will be his last Wimbledon and if his mind works then well he can go and have a fairy tale retirement on grass while others like Roddick, Potro and Djokovic should survive the first week. There are also some dangerous floaters like Haas, Tsonga and Blake who can cause an upset or two.

On the women’s side among the current players, there are four who have won the title and that include the William sisters, Sharapova and Mauresmo. While the William sisters have shown indifferent form off-late, don’t be too surprised if one of them once again takes the crown as in the last 9 years, they have won it 7 times. Sharapova is coming back from an injury and after an unexpected dream run at the French Open, don’t be surprised to see her as a major threat to the crown and she is surely one of the clear favourites to reclaim the title which she won in 2004 while Mauresmo is on a decline and if she reaches the quarter-finals it should be good for her. Among the other the likes of Safina, Kuznetsova and Dementieva do pose a threat and though Kuznetsova did win the French Open, she will have to face the likes of young guns like Azarenka and Wozniacki to get to the final 4.

Among the men’s side if Nadal can stay fit well he will once again face Federer in the finals and we can expect a great finals but don’t count out the dangerous Safin while Taylor Dent if he progresses to the main draw can cause an upset of 2 while among the women if Sharapova gets into her rhythm she should be tough to dislodge while the William sisters are not invincible anymore and fitness will play a crucial role.

Sharapova Strikes Back!!!

Maria Sharapova is the most popular tennis player in the planet without even playing for the last 10 months due to various injuries and Masha as she is fondly called is playing the French Open the one slam which she has failed to win and clay has always been a surface which has not favoured her style of play but the former world #1 is showing the grit and determination that made her the best player in the world at this year’s French Open. Though she has been tested at every round, she has somehow managed to overcome the odds and has reached the 4th round of the French Open. She may not win the title this year but she surely is determined and expects her to break into the top 10 by the year end and she could well even win either Wimbledon or US Open or even both. No one gave her a chance during this year’s French Open but now she is currently the dark horse and the sentimental favourite to win this year’s title so let’s all hope for the best!

French Open Predictions 2009

The French Open is here once again and though it has started today, I did have the time to give out my predictions only now as have been with some stuff off late.

The last few years have not seen much change in the men’s section of the drawn with Rafael Nadal once again going into the French Open as the hot favourite as he so far had a neat perfect season until his arch Federer beat him on clay in Madrid. Though we have seen this in the past and we always do wonder if Fedex has cracked the Nadal puzzle on clay but this could well be his last chance as he is getting older every year and he needs this title not only to win a career grand slam but also equal Sampras’s record number of slams and take his position as one of the best players to have played the game. Other who can challenge the duo will include Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and even guys like Juan Martin Del Potro and David Ferrer.

The women’s side looks like it is going to be wide open but Dinara Safina should be the hot favourite while she can be challenged by the likes of the defending champion Ana Ivanovic, the William sisters, Jelena Jankovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova. For once we do not have a Russian army going after the dark horse spots but we do youngsters like Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki and Agnieszka Radwanska not only chasing a slam but also after Sharapova’s glam queen role. Speaking of Masha, she will be making her grand slam comeback and though the French Open has not been her favourite slam it is always good to see Masha back on court and I highly doubt if she can win the title but she sure can knock some big names out.

Don’t be surprised if you are going to witness Nadal and Federer once again in the finals but on the women’s side I would bet on Safina with Ivanovic and Wozniacki as long shots.

Inside the Pit!

You sit and you just brood. You look at the stars, you look at the dark sky and you keep looking at things which are not reachable. The more you look the more you think. Then you go back to your normal life, where you do things and live the same day every other day. There is no difference between the day of the past and the day of the present. But will the day of the future change? No it does not as the day of the future once again will be the same day where you keep doing one thing after the other.

Time is both a boon and a curse, but when you look at a few things, well time is a curse as you long for the days which has passed away and the times when we all did worry but then you hid it in a box and you just went on but how long can go keep going down a path which leads nowhere so you decided to do something which you always wanted to do and you ended up making a decision which was taken as there was no other alternative.

The decision which seems to look wise was no wiser as it was taken in a state where illusion was the thing which existed before you where as reality was hidden and kept away and you were forced to take this up. Now when you look back at the decision you have taken, well it does look you may have taken the right call or you may have even taken the red pill and you decided to follow the rabbit and see where it takes you.

The blue pill would have been something totally different, well some things could be bough over the counter but some things are not just for sale and you just have to keep looking at them. Since the blue pill was rejected no point even going down to road and looking at what could have happened scenario as it is pointless.

The rabbit continues to lead but the colour of the rabbit keeps changing and you get confused at every turn it makes. You do wonder what is real and you always wish that you wake up and find everything to be a figment of your imagination.

Imagination can be very powerful that sometimes it draws a cloud over reality that it continues to make you think that you are truly in wonderland while you are in a deep pit and the pit is a never ending one where you fall at a rapid pace and you tend to ignore the fall as you are blinded by the black magic which is shrouded around you and make you believe that things are always fine.

Things will never be the same again and all the red pill has done is that made you wait for wonderland which never exists where as you must realize that you do not a pill to do things you need want as you never needed them anyway as you can follow what you want to do. You have done it before you can do it again as nothing can stop you from what you want to do as you will do it once again.

The Illusion!

I believe in a few things and sometimes I believe in them so much that even though the person may not believe in it but still I do. I always used to wonder how things are on the other side and I still do to this day. It is fine thinking about life and said what could be and things like that. But then life do not always hand us a silver spoon and many times you wonder why the hell is that you of all the people do need to pass all this?

You think about your life and the more you think the more answers you get to it, well you look at the other side and you always wonder how easy the life is on the other side, but then there is a inner part of you which tells you if that is something which do you want to or which is something which you think you want to but you always hate it but never realized how much you dislike it.

A year back when i was stuck by a Momentary Lapse of Reasoning however rationally I tried to think I just could not find the solution well once again after a year a similar situation has come about but not to that magnitude but something more or less on similar lines but something did save me once again. For all you know this could turn out to be Kryptonite or something even worse but then the more I think about it, the more it made me realize that it may not be Kryptonite after all and it may be something which can be the missing link!

Well for all you know, looking back at the past and the way things have gone, well you may be just be looking at another kryptonite but then I reached a point where I do not care about anything else and this well even if things just goes on and it turns out to be another illusion well, it is fine as long as I see things the way it is supposed to be then it is very much fine.

A year back this very illusion saved me from the lack of reasoning and while the same thing may once again keep me away from it but then for all you know this may very well be an illusion in itself but then it is something which you may relate to and it will always be something which you always seen in a dream but then it was always covered up by something which makes you look at different things.

If at all if this illusion becomes a reality well I may be called a madman, but then at times it is always easy to be on the other side and just comment on things, well I have never been on the other side and at times also which that I do not go to the other side but I secretly do hope that I get back to the reality which I need to.

ON Turning 26

One year may not make a huge difference but heck turning 26 is something totally different and well the year sure had its own share of fun 

It has been a tradition to roll out something done during the course of the year!

• Semi-drunk now and had to cut a cake for birthday after ages, thanks once again to the work buddies
• Still having Momentary Lapse of Reasoning but at times do Come back to life!
• Mini bar well stocked
• Finally wore the official Scuderia Ferrari Shirt and well race was wrecked by rain and everyone except Ferrari got half-points
• What Book?
• Still can last more than a handful rounds of beer
• Survived one year in advertising!
• Spend a fortune on the big bro but worth it
• Finally a beer oops club member
• Blog is as usual going fine but started writing for Bleacher and also started a F1 blog
• Long sabbatical from quizzing
• Stills things about “what could have been” and “the lost ones”
• Goody one still manages to take mind off, will it happen?
• Dream On but it is still a dream
• Facing the front-line brunt of recession but how long can it last!
• Had an ill-fated comeback but then got some sense and well decided to take an indefinite break
• Looks fit but hardly near the good old running days
• Need to quit a bad habit but atleast the thought is still there and also trying hard
• Not sure if now in the dream or the nightmare zone!
• Continue to buck the system and still challenge the materialistic world
• Still a believer!!!
• Still broke and at times regret doing the Masters

Like always may have missed something but then the last one year was sure fun and did believe that something would happen but then maybe it is all for good and maybe things can still work out or the goodness will prevail or something may just make a comeback but then it sure been an eventful year and hope the next year changes a lot in a good way 

White Collar Slavery

We are nothing more than a mass society that thrives on consumerism, materialism, capitalism and highly dependent on technology. The social order is programmed so that nothing gets out of the system and it is well under the control of the man to keep everyone under the slave system which exists but then it is a system so well done that none actually knew about the existence and infact though everyone is under this system bound by invisible chains, everyone will only ridicule the fact that such as system actually exists in real life. They will because the existence of such a system is something which they have can never believe as they have been tuned all their life that such a possibility or even a though or it is not possible.

Looking at how we go about our mundane routine life is not at all a funny sight. It is a sad fact that though some still knows that something is wrong but they are not able to do anything about it as we all exist in this society and any questions on the functional of this mass society is itself a grave sin which many are not willing to take a chance.

We not need a saviour to get us out of this system, but if we can unite and take a stance against the man and his system then all of us can be freed and we can go to a world not bound by rules but a truly Anarchism system which we all have always longed for as we do not need anyone to govern us or do we need a set of rules to make us into slaves once again.

Humanity since its inception has believed in slavery as that was the most effective system to control the masses as due to some unforeseen error, society which was anarchists in nature took a fall and the man seeing how week humans were decided to control the system and created the mass society and the social order so that he can control the minds and thinking without even the knowledge of the person. This has been the order for centuries and this will be the case for another few centuries to come till some external order decided to break the shackles and create chaos to free the minds who which to be liberated.

Today the man is control of everything, right from what we eat to what we watch. We are so dependent on the man that we at times which we were slaves rather than be liberated and live the life that we originally were supposed to live rather than living a life that we are forced to live. We may never rise up unless the messiah makes a return to fight against the man and his system.

We are slaves or to be more specific white collar slaves who serve the interest of the man through his organizations and corporations. Our only purpose is to propagate consumerism so that the mass society is bound deeper into the slavery where after a point no matter what they do there is no return from such a system as the end will be the only solution. It may already gone to a point where the end may be the only solution but this will be known soon as there was a purpose and a reason on why the calendar did stop at one point.

The messiah may come to try to save us all or the messiah may feel that we as a race have reached the point of no return that the end will be the only way a new beginning can start. But then will be decay and then lead to a slow and a painful end or will there be an end where we don’t even realize that the end has come and a new society starts fresh?

Questions which can be answered only when the end comes and it leads to a new beginning so that the original society can rise up and we can live the life as we are designed to be. Till then the white collar slaves will continue to do the biddings of the man and we will continue to wait for things to happen rather then become a messianic and do things.

Recession is a Myth

I am no economist but off late the word “recession”, is the most used word everywhere and though the word actually came into prominence after Julius Shiskin, an Economic Statistician used it in an article for the New York Times back in the 1970’s it has been quoted almost on a daily basis in every corporate house right from the one’s in Wall Street to even the agency located in Pantheon Road!

A few years back, India was at it so-called economic peak as the stock market kept breaking records on a daily basis and India was well on set to proclaim to the word that by 2010 it was all set to become a major economic powerhouse which can rival G8 counties and by 2020 it will be the new superpower matching neighbouring China. But alas all that happens to be a pipe dream and the so called “recession” has hit our country badly that though people are losing jobs everyday there was not even mentioned in the media.

The common point was that India was safe and everyone was like though we keep hearing about it there was actually no instance of anyone actually losing a job, well the truth is that people do lose jobs and leave the ones who come out b-schools who do expect fat pay checks just because they have a Masters in Business Management and they think that they are god’s gift to the corporate world (This comes from an MBA who did reject a fat pay cheque to do something he wanted to do for a long time).

So these people will eventually find a job or atleast expected to find one, but the people who will be hurt the most are the guys who have put in their heart and soul for the company for the last decade or so only to realize that they first well the new kids on the block with fancy degrees earn more than what they do and then they are the first ones to be kicked out in the name of recession.

In today’s world an experienced individual with a professional degree after 20+ years of work experience is upstaged by 22 years olds just because they have a fancy degree. But all this is going to end soon as the powers to be has finally woken up and decided to something.

Well there is a theory which blames Globalization to recession and also with the Global Warming issue suddenly under the carpet as now with the economic downturn people have become more important than the planet, while this would only give us some short term gain but this is going to lead to some serious consequences in the near future.

Ya now coming back to the whole point of recession, well in any organization like we all know however it claims to have a horizontal structure and blah blah, when it comes to the pay structure, it becomes as bureaucratic as possible and very strictly follows the pyramid structure or the vertical one. The organization claims that the man at the top is the general and so the whole fate of the organization with him and so he becomes the most important man.

So to save this dude, well the guys at the bottom of this pyramid are chopped off. Well to save one guy who earns insane amount of sums some 50 guys who have families and just started their careers take the fall. If the man on top is soo good then whatever economic crisis comes it should actually have a zero impact on the company. And whatever happened to the profits which the company have been making for donkey’s years?

If employees are truly assets for the company, then they would not be stripping the assets to cut cost as these once performing assets suddenly turned into expendable commodity so that the white elephant can survive the tide. Worst is in the United States, Citigroup and AIG which still exists today thanks to the hardworking while collar tax payers, the executives got fat bonuses and continue to enjoy perks which they don’t deserve in the first place as it was their foolishness which brought the organization to that level.

The whole recession concept is used to deny a person his richly deserved hikes and bonuses and with zero morale a new breed of white collars individuals are waiting for a new messiah who would lead them against the tyranny of a select few who continue to use recession to suppress people so that their own benefits can be taken care off.

Recession is a myth created by a few to suppress the many as we are the middle children as we have not seen or fought great wars and since we do not actually have a depression this was created to keep things under the tab!

Happy Birthday Masha

The ravikshow wishes Maria Sharapova a happy 22nd birthday!

Celebration 600!

Never expected to reach 600 posts in such a quick time, but ya off late was slowed down a lot and I guess with the global meltdown, maybe even blogging was hit by recession of ideas! Expect more to come and I would like to thank all the regulars for checking and supporting me during the time I started blogging and it has been more than 3 years since the first post and well the layout may have changed a bit but some things continue to remain the same. I will continue to blog and hope can increase the number of posts in the coming few months.

Also since it is the 600th post, it does deserve a nice picture and well I would like to put up a picture of Jessica Alba, not only one of the hottest women on the planet but also her picture was the first that I uploaded on my blog.

New Chicks on the Court!

I recently had a look at the WTA rankings and well was shocked to see Maria Sharapova ranked # 30 in the world, though she has not played a competitive match in like 6+ months barring a one-off doubles appearance in the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Even more shocking was to see Serena Williams on the top of the list. I do see the Williams sisters winning a slam here and then but then Serena who for the last few years have been perennially go through one injury or the other and she has not gone thru a whole season playing all the majors tournaments since she dethroned Hingis and fought off her sister to complete the Serena Slam.

The usual suspects expected to reign on top after the retirement of Henin, the Serbs Ivanović and Jankovic have skyrocketed to the top of the rankings and both have managed to hold to the #1 for sometime but neither has managed to do it with some conviction. Ivanović atleast managed to win a slam on the way to the top but strangely her form dipped after her 2008 French Open victory and she is struggling to recapture that ever since while Jankovic did play a lot of tournaments and was highly consistent but a slam still eludes her and we all do know that Marcelo Rios was a former World #1 but we keep forgetting that as he failed to capture a slam.

The Russian brigade is always strong and it was Anna Kournikova who started the tennis revolution and soon at one stage 7 out of the top 10 players in the world were Russians. Maria Sharapova burst out into the scene and she proved that she not only betters Anna in term of looks but also had the game to be the best in the world and has won 3 slams till date. Though she may have missed the last 6 months due to injuries, she is possibly the most recognized face in tennis and also the highest paid female sportsperson of all time. Masha took the lead and others like Elena Dementieva, Vera Zvonareva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anna Chakvetadze and Dinara Safina have all been ranked in the top 10. Off the lot Dinara shows the most promise and she was the fan’s player of the year for 2008 and if she manages to lose her brother’s Safin like syndrome then she could go on and conquer the WTA tour.

We also had a string of European players coming thru and Nicole Vaidisova, who had the game and the looks to match Masha did have a stunning 2006, but her form has dipped and off late she is just part of the glam brigade along with Maria Kirilenko and Tatiana Golovin. Daniela Hantuchova who at 26 seems like a veteran on the tour is a player who though has a supermodel physique can give any player a run for her money is still always on the hunt.

The 3 players who have made a huge splash this year are no strangers and the oldest of them just turned 20 recently. You may confuse one with the other but Victoria Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwańska and Caroline Wozniacki are all battling to become the next Sharapova, while a few players did have this tag and after early promise just fizzled out , these 3 are an interesting pick and with age on their side and will similar structure and blonde hair well you may have an interesting future for women’s tennis and add in the likes of Safina, Ivanović and ofcourse Masha is still young and has a few more years of quality tennis left in her, we could be all set for the most exciting phase in women’s tennis in a very long time.

The Code Breaker of Recession!

The technical term for recession is general slowdown in economic activity in a country over a sustained period of time, or a business cycle contraction. So in layman’s terms it means that tough times are ahead and we will be earning less and things would be insanely expensive. But Maria Sharapova continues to buck both the system and the trend, while 2009 is a bad year for everyone but she continues to grow and surprisingly all she has done this year is just play one doubles match!

Three of her sponsors (Tag Heuer, Cole Haan and Sony Ericsson) unveiled in recent weeks marketing campaigns around Sharapova. She also has signed a new, $2.5 million-a-year deal with a shampoo maker. From Sony Ericsson display ads in cell phone stores in India and China, to Cole Haan billboards in New York City, Sharapova’s image resonates across the globe and cultures. All told, the business of Maria, including her take as well as sponsors’ advertising and promotional spending, approaches $150 million annually.

Sharapova herself earns between $26 million and $30 million a year, mostly from endorsements. Prize money contributes only a small slice of her income. Since turning pro in 2002, her winnings total $10.2 million. The media and the public have long assessed Sharapova’s commercial success through an endorsement lens, and she’s indeed the world’s top-paid female athlete.

Though it is unfair to compare her success to her looks alone, a lot is attributed to her success on court and she is ofcourse a former world #1 tennis player and has also won 3 Grand Slams. You may still wonder why Sharapova? Well she is on-par with the A-list of Hollywood in terms of popularity and looking at places like Asia, she is by far more popular than any major A-list stars.

Recession or no recession, Masha is here to stay and things are only looking up for her and a few more slams down the road to proper her to heights which sport stars may have never thought that they can reach. Well she is now a cultural icon of sorts and well could be the highest earning sports star of all time.

It’s a height thing!

I was reading thru two very interesting research articles, well for starters many can question why the hell would read research articles which are non work related on a Tuesday morning, well you can say that I am chilling out for a week and so gives me even more time to kill since the thumper is being serviced so which did give me a problem of trying to kill time so came across or can say stumbled across them by a chance and well I came up with a whole new theory based on 2 research papers!

The first one is very simple and it talks about how women just love to be with a tall guy and how if a person is tall talks about his genes and in some cases even their wealth (That is weird!). Reading this made me realize that long back I came across another article on how tall guys are usually successful and well to prove a point a guy actually did a survey and found that 90% of the CEO’s of companies in the USA are over 6 feet tall. Now with enough research backing tall guys well being a tall guy has its own perks!

The second one talks about how men especially tall men are attracted to smaller women. It does sound weird but well the same research guys comes up with the stuff written above so we need to take this too into account. One even says this alone proves that we still do have animal instincts and how we prefer to protect someone smaller rather than someone of our stature. But ya we all do like the Giselle Bunchen’s and the Sharapova’s but still we do like the cute Alba’s and Cuthbert’s. Forgot to mention this but a theory which is sort of linked to this is how men are also intimated by tall women especially the shorter guys.

Now what happens when you mix these two theories? Well you get something which you have had a sense of knowledge and also felt it always but then you never gave a deep though to it. Well it is very simple, theory A says women like tall guys and theory B says guys like short women or it is better to say men are intimated by tall women, so it is better for a taller guy to actually go for a taller women so that his chance based on the research is very good. I know I am actually coming up with a theory which may be as good as one proposed by John Nash, but heck you never know!

Funny thing is that a friend of mine asked me this “Dude based on your theories Kay Maan will remain single for life”, well that is for another time and well no matter how theories come about, it has to do with something just more than that!

Where is Vaidisova?

Nicole Vaidisova was said to become the next Maria Sharapova after she burst on to the scene in 2005. But after 4 seasons with a ranking of 79 now, well she is going down and been down a lot. 2006 and 2007 was 2 of her best years as she managed to reach the semi-finals of the Australian and the French open but ever since that things have not been going well for her. She lost the first round of the Australian open this year and well based on her current form she would have play some inspiring tennis to reach the heights of 2007. Hope she does it as the dream match between her and Maria Sharapova is yet to happen and hope it happens this year.