Ladies blogs

Just cannot help myself giggling seeing ladies blogs. They really put a lot of emotion in their blogs as if it is their life. Somewhere from their brain they will bring out the unexisting design qualities and show their stupid creativity in their blog. Should someone comment or criticize on it expect a hot pan thrown on your face. And what will be the content like on the pink background?

1. My favoritttttte chocolate
2. Top 5 things I luv da most
3. My dream man.........
4. Chikoos b'day....chooo chweettt (Gun down that girl who coined chooo. Do they know that Cho is a Korean name?)
5. Cake cutting in mah office (Expect lot of comments here from all male pigs)
6. Household ribbons and my passions
7. Here is Rena's awesome recipe for vanilla cake
8. A movie review
9. Lonely feeling....without expressing (Is that a rhyme?)
10. I miss you (Yeah, you deserve it for being so pathetic when he was around)

That's it. The blog ends then and there. They have lost words. They become more pathetic after scribbling for few days. Infact, they started all this because her wiser friend had advised her to start a blog.


You don't find any keywords like sports, tennis, internet, coding(what a crime), computer, news, cars, bikes, hollywood, affaris, scandals etc in their blog. They are stupid enough to watch all those stupid serials and glad I haven't found one blog which is focussing on how sorrowful a character is in a particular serial. Splitsvilla is a peppy youth show which they watch when her parents are not around. Someone will surely be having the brains though to come up with a blog with the latest happenings on the most followed serials on Indian Television. You cannot stop aunties then.

So that is why ladies are portrayed as dumb and a man expresses shock when he comes across an intelligent, shrewd woman. Ladies cannot complete their course work in school and college without depending for notes from their male friends. Very rarely you find super lady programmers. The sports they play are kho-kho, throwball and ring. The one thing they are best at is to mend their male colleagues to get their job done. That is an innate ability which needs a special mention.

If they are not getting their work done, they will put out the biggest trick up their sleeves. Put a remorse expression or better cry.

With all these special qualities they still want to compete with men in all aspects. Say that a man is intelligent than a woman and you are bound to get a stabbing with a kitchen knife from your , leave alone saying you are great.

What started as a ladies blog turned out into a mosquito egg sized rant which always make your stomach lighter if you had loaded it with a decent lunch. Oh, I almost forgot the awesome one liner which they repeatedly use to mean they are equal to men.

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What The Federer !

WTF. This man scares the opponents even before taking the court with his invincibility. And once he takes the court and is locked in a battle, he scares the players with his presence. How many times had he disintegrated the players mentally and went on to win the match when he was staring down the barrel?

Thank god atleast once he acknowledged that he was lucky to get through this match. And it was not a straight Roddick like statement. It had its twists. I have been unlucky in few matches this year so I needed a bit of it today.


Did anyone notice he was behaving well at the net in congratulating his opponents after beating them? He thinks that blokes in the dressing room needs his empathy? Ask Roddick. Has he learned a thing or two from Djokovic or Nadal to be courteous to opponents?

Federer was 2 sets down and was facing truck load of break points in the third set and was thinking of a return flight to his hometown. 60th ranked Falla even was serving for the match in the 4th set but the famous choke which has been the case for many a player when leading Federer in a match has returned. Federer sensed it and broke him. John McEnroe said,"Relax and get your drinks", when Federer was leading 6 -1 in the tie breaker in the 4th set. He relaxed and so are the millions of Federer nut heads heaved a collected sigh of relief. Since then it is always one player who is going to wave to the spectators after the match.

This is all achieved by a player who was arrogant, short tempered and had a fragile psyche in his teen days. Winning the first set has been the key to his success for major part of his career. He played as his life and match depended on the first set. After doing that consistently he gained in confidence. Confidence breeds confidence. Roger Federer has morphed into an intimidating figure in the history of mens tennis to his peers who were in awe with his repertoire of skills.

My dream of Federer getting knocked out in the first round of Wimbledon and stun the audience on Centre Court came so close and got shattered. As always, I wait for it to happen. But it would have been sweet as honey had the dream got when it was least expected. Yesterday was one day and has gone begging.

I can only fall back on hope.

Hope is a good thing, probably the best of things and no good thing ever dies.

Tramlines:



Rafael Nadal is a god send. He has the fighting abilities ever since he turned a pro. Nadal may not have the grace, serve or precision like Federer. But he took it to the King very early in his career when Federer was in full flight and handed him the defeat. The Spaniard is not the one to be intimidated. He goes into the psyche of Federer and plays double fisted backhands and high looping forehands in his mind. He knows Federer is very vulnerable even after achieving staggering records. More than that he accepts defeats. That is why he is respected which Federer realised very late in his career.

Peace mate.

Haridwar trip

My parents are here and we went to Haridwar and Rishikesh in the last weekend. We hired a cab and started at 6:30 am on the Saturday morning. The moment we reached Haridwar, it was 3:30 pm. Take 1 hr break for breakfast and 30 mins break for the tyre puncture at 1 pm. The distance is 210 kms and it can be covered in 5 hrs if the road is free.


There are train options as well but this knucklehead decided on Friday evening at 6pm to visit the holy place. The cab was confirmed finally at 11pm. So there is no chance of a train. It is better to enter the train and bend your back to the TTE than trying to book a ticket in IRCTC. Long queues at the stations will force you to buy a shikanji if not a Maaza.

Did not expect such traffic on the roads on that day. These Delhities haven't got any work. Pick a car and head someway to the North or the East during the weekend. I never love driving. Add to that it was an amavasya day and people wanted to take dip in the holy Ganga.


Looks like they have been commiting sins just I have been doing and so the place was totally crowded as it was a Kumbh Mela. The Ganga river flowing at the Hari ki Paudi ghat in Haridwar was good and the water has some speed. If you don't hold to any of the chains, then there is every chance that you may lose your footing and name in the Govt census will be deleted. One can to little deep into the river because it looks as if it was man made ghat for specifically for bathing.


People cannot drown in the river because there is a concrete base under your feet atleast to some extent. So it is common to see people going away from the bank and into the river. I haven't tried testing how far is the concrete base for I was holding tightly to the iron chains at the ghat. If the water flow is little less, it is a very nice place to learn swimming.


I took a bath the same day in the evening at 6 pm and next day again at 7 am. We then went back to the hotel, packed our bags and headed to Rishikesh. It is more sedate and it is not as protected as Haridwar to have a dip in the river at the banks. The water is quite cold even in this summer.


Had misssed seeing couple of important temples (Chandi and Manasa Devi) in Haridwar. There is a ropeway to reach those temples. Altogether a taxing trip in the taxi coz of the unexpected traffic. Should try next time when I go there with a certain someone preferably by train.

Unforced Errors:

1. The Wimbledon draw is out and Rafa has a potential quarter final clash with none other than Robin Soderling.
2. People living in the hill stations are more friendly than the ones living in the cities.
3. Our taxi driver has travelled atleast 40 kms extra when we were out for bathing and I cut down that many kms while calculating the total kms for the bill settlement.
4. Federer is not going to win this year's Wimbledon.
4. Keep your eyes wide open while dipping at the ghat for the obvious reasons.
5. People dip in the holy rivers to get rid of their sins and devils in their systems.

Toque of the day:

Forget about the devil wearing a Prada, it does not even wear a cut draayar.

En-guaged

So I had been footballed from one department to the other in my office. Che Guevara says, "Don't forget the revloution". Me says, "I forgot my independence". Don't even think of connecting the dots to make a complete picture. There is a breaking point for everything.

Finally there is a girl in this world who nodded to exchange the ring with me. This disaster took place on June 5th, 2010. Not a whole lot of hoopla-hypla was present at the event. It was a simple event. So simple was the event that there was no fan for the dignitaries sitting on the small dias. The hall was supposed to be yeh see.

Want more? Ok, she is a computer science B.E graduate looking for a software job. If you see any jobs hanging from the tree just let me know. Don't want to know more now?

During that busy weekend Rock royally screwed up a simple interview. The guys who took my interview did not have my CV and I did not carry one either. Result: C - bad.

It always is comfortable to talk about sports than myself, for you would be knowing that I am more pathetic-er than you. Rafa regained his number 1 ranking and Soderling punched where it hurts Federer the most. You would be knowing what a bad loser Roger Federer was if you looked at the way he shook hands at the net with Soderling in the Quarter Final FO match. Some drill this point to that Federer nut heads all round the world.

A sort of complacency will creep in your miserable lives if you are stuck at one place for long. Complacency later leads to insecurity which finally develops to a blow up incompetitive attitude in you. Love the job but not the company because you never know when the company stops loving you. If this is still not your wake up call then the alarm that goes off tomorrow morning surely should be.

A week after beginning the post I am back here again to continue preaching to my disciples. The
Wimbledon draw does not get updated and I am not following the Radio.

Preparations are going on and the atmosphere is building up. And I non-chalantly say what the fuss is all about. And I have my mates warning me of the impending circumstances. I am already reducing one enjoyment. Few more should be in the pipeline.


Glad that I am not following tennis as I used to coz she is the biggest TV lover I have ever seen. TV is her first love. I fall somewhere in the second. Before getting guaged life used to be beautiful. The doom's day is August 28th and that is when the donkey ride begins with my darling.

Super Soderling stomps Federer on his way to French Open semis

One can take only so much beating. Robin Soderling was defeated 12 times in a row by Roger Federer before making the statement of his life. Soderling was painting lines in his French Open quarter finals to which Federer had no answer whatsoever. He knocked out the World No.1 in four sets with minimal fuss. Few forced screams of come-on's from Federer did not intimidate Soderling who was in top form all through this match.

There was a lot riding on Federer's shoulders heading into this match. His No.1 ranking, his consecutive 23 semi final streak and his total number of weeks at the top as No.1 compared to Pete Sampras'. His No.1 ranking and the total weeks at the top will now depend on Rafael Nadal winning the French Open final on Sunday. If Nadal wins on Sunday, provided if he wins his quarters and the semis, then that could probably signal the end of Federer's stranglehold on the No.1 spot for he has truck load of points to defend going into the second half of the season starting from Wimbledon.


Soderling showed great character to maintain his composure all through the match despite the crowd strongly behind the Swiss master. Everytime Soderling went on to check the ball mark of a service by Federer in the fourth set the crowd began to boo Soderling. The French crowd was rooting Soderling last year when he defeated Nadal in the fourth round but clearly was not the crowd favorite this time when the 16 time Grand Slam champion began his quest to defend his maiden Roland Garros title.

The Swede was dropping 200 kmph services at will and for few Federer was barely able to get the racquet. Even at the baseline slugfest Soderling was clearly over powering Federer which resulted in many forced errors from Federer's racquet. There were no signs of choking while serving for the match from Soderling and he finished the job professionally. He did not celebrate wildly after notching the biggest win of his career. A fist pump and solid stare across the net showed the hidden spunk which he had all along his playing years.

Soderling's coach, Magnus Norman should receive due credit for making Soderling play the way he currently is plus the calm demeanor is yielding good results for the Sweden's player - coach duo.

On a day when Soderling was on song, Federer blinked. When asked about how it was like defeating Nadal in the last year's French Open and Federer at this year's open, Soderling jokingly said, "Yeah, it can't get any better".

Robin Soderling's win today is again an ample evidence of what belief in oneself can do to one's mental make-up. This shows that if one has the burning desire to bring down the top guy in the tour it is absolutely possible even after getting battered and bruised. For Soderling, it has taken 13 attempts to scale the peak. In your and my case all it needs is a dogged determination.

IRCTC woes

It is going ok so far. One post per month and thanks that few pathetic visitors had stopped visiting this site. I am still one those pathetic visitors though.

Whenever you think of a rant, you think of your blog. One such rant today will be on IRCTC. It used to be a good site for train reservations as recently as three months. But since Summer the website has turned pathetic than a passenger train. For now I know three ways to book a train ticket online. 1. IRCTC 2. Makemytrip 3. Cleartrip

Through whichever trip you are booking the ticket, you trip will never be through. Tatkal quota opens at 8am everyday and even if your travel dates are flexible, you would still never get a tatkal ticket two days before your travel despite hanging on the site like a bat from a tree, spoiling your sleep from 8am. IRCTC server never gets connected and you would get your turn after two hours to book a ticket. You will see the cinema that time with the waiting list number hovering around the 80's.

It is a real mess with the site oflate. You are not even able to login at 8am, forget about booking the ticket. If you are one of those lucky blokes who come close to booking a ticket after entering your and the credit card details, then comes your IRCTC's blue screen of death message, "Service Unavailable".


Three freaking days I was hanging on the site at 8am to make a reservation but no, it was impossible.

No one knows who all are the fraudulent people make the life miserable to the common man by not allowing them to book the tickets. But everyone guesses it is the travel agents who are doing it. Call the railway guys and you may probably get a curt answer saying, "Load on the server is high and too many reservations being made. It is a fair process".

We still haven't spoken about the people standing in the serpentine queues at the reservation counters. Enough said.