The Owl

The Owl - Its just a short animation series telecasted in JETIX channel :-).

You might be wondering why im watching JETIX channel of all, yes it so happened that I watched this animated series by accident once.It was something like "Love at first sight", I started luving this series right away.Im a kind of guy who changes 30 channels in a minute when im so bored.I happened to watch this when im scanning through the channels, its really a very short animated series with each episode just spanning for less than a minute.But its pretty simple and very well animated, I just love the look of the Owl in this one.

I have embedded one of the episode with this blog,just see it once and you ll love it for sure.

Third Time Unlucky :-(

I represent SAP Labs in football and we really have a good team.Eventhough we dont practise together much we have a good understanding in the matches.We participate in most of the inter-corporate tournaments and we are a consistent performers who always loose either in the finals or semi's :-(.

We lost again in the finals in the last tournament conducted this weekend.It is a tournament to remember for many reasons and one being we lost in finals again to the same team ANZ who beat us in the last finals as well.The other being we made some drastic changes aftermath including the change of the captain, not coz of his underperformance but just to remove the stress and pressure from him.Finally we had printed our own SAP jerseys for this tournament, though it didnt end up in a winning note we liked the new jersey.

I could not sleep for almost 2 days after the loss, since we have been the better team all through the match.We hit the post four times and had the possesion for most of the time.But they (ANZ) got a lucky goal and the match ended up 1-0 in favour of them.We really deserved the cup, but sadly we lost again in the finals to the same team :-(.We were heartbroken at the end of the match, but we decided to participate in the next tournament and we all are confident that we will win this time.

We were unlucky thrice, hope the fourth time turns the luck in our favour.Will keep posting the result of the matches.

Gunners fired down Milan

Just check the preview trailer before reading this.How much hipe and tension involved in this game.

AC Milan

• Seven time UEFA Champions League winners
• Four time finalists
• The defending Champions of UEFA Champions league
• Never lost at home in all European matches in the recent past
• Never lost in the second round of this competition
• Their home ground San Siro is their Castle and no English club have ever beaten them here.

All these stats and facts were done and dusted by Gunners in their own home ground in what turned out to be the best performance Arsenal ever produced in the European cup.As everyone knows Arsenal plays the most stylish football in Europe and on a given day they can outclass any team in the world.Full credit goes to Arsene Wenger who built a new young team and have tremendous confident in them.I could somehow relate this Arsenal's win to the India's series win against mighty Aussies in the CB series.In both occasions the really young team managed to thrash the mighty giants in their own battle field.Its good to see youngstars coming so good these days and the visibility and platform they get to improve themselves.

Arsenal came to this match with lot of pressure being lost in the FA cup and the carling cup.But the young gunners held on to their nerves and got a famous win beating the defending champions.Fabregas proved that he is one of the best midfielders in the world currently with a stunning goal in the 84th minute.Though he was bit sloppy in the first 10 mins he came good after that and masterminded each and every Arsenal attack.Adebayor scored the second goal in the stoppish time and he really deserved the goal coz he mesmerised the Milan defense all through the game.Senderos was a real surprise in this match and he played one of the best games of the season, he proved all his critics wrong with a superb defensive display.All the players stood up to the occasion when needed and fired the whole Milan team down.

I really enjoyed each and every moment of the game, even though the coverage in TenSports sucks to the core.I wish they carry on this win throughout the league and win the most coveted cup this time around.

Cricket India Shines brightly than ever

March 2nd 2008 - One of the most memorable day in the history of Indian cricket for two good reasons.Indian boys winning the Under-19 ICC Cricket world cup once again and the "Men in Blue" thrashing the mighty Aussies in their home turf.

Lets focus on the Indian youngstars emphatic win in the final.They deserved the title more than anyone in the tournament, they continued the unbeaten run in the tournament with a great victory in the finals.Though their batting let down for the first time in the tournament with a very modest total of just 159, their bowlers backed them very well with a scintillating first spell.SA was down to 3 only with 17 runs on the board.Then the rain God played its part once again in the tournament and the target was revised to 116 from 25 overs using the D/L method.I bet you no one in the world knows how to calculate it, they all depend on the stupid box for the revised targets.So once the target was set SA continued their steady run chase, but the Indian bowlers were too good on the day they scalped most of the SA wickets.It was a thrilling end to the match with SA needing 19 runs to win in the last over, but Indian boys held on to the pressure and managed to get 2 wickets in the last over.

They were the most consistent team in the entire tournament and they deserved the win thoroughly.We can look forward to more of Yuvrajs, Pathans and Kaifs in the near future.The future of Indian cricket is really shining bright and I really hope they make the best use of it.

Coming to the emphatic win of Men in Blue in SCG, its good to see Aussies getting thrashed in their own home turf.Many statistics were changed after the match with India's first win against Aussies in SCG and Sachin's first ever 100 in Australia.What an innings from the little master, its one of the best knocks I've ever seen from.Rohit Sharma produced another well crafted innings and supported Sachin right through the innings only to loose the wicket almost at the end of the match.Its a well deserved win for India and they should maintain the momentum in the second final also.I really wish to see Indians thrash the Aussies again and win the CB series.

The Busby Babes

"The Busby Babes" - You may think the term is related to some hot chicks or some skinny super models.But its actually the term referred to the Manchester United Football Club team managed by Matt Busby in the mid 1950's.The team Matt Busby had built from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the Babes that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent the young braves of Manchester United from reigning for the next decade.

But then came the Munich air disaster (Feb 6th, 1958) which changed the destiny of the Busby Babes.The aircraft carrying the United team back from victorious visit to Yugoslavia against Red Star Belgrade crashed in the snow of Munich airport and the babes were no more.Seven of the United players died in the tragedy along with the other supportes and reporters.So this week they mourned for the 50th anniversary of this event.It was quiet evident this week during the EPL previews where in they covered the whole story towards the build-up to the manchester derby this sunday.

This seasons Manchester Derby at Old Trafford remains to be an unforgettable and legendary match for this very specific reason as they paid tribute to the babes who were invincible 50 years ago.The match will also be remembered for the fact that the Manchester United team wore the same style jerseys and numbers as worn by the busby babes in the 1957 - 58 season.Also the sponsors name was not printed in the jerseys of both United and City teams.The build up to the match was filled with running emotions from the previous stars of United team and they were destined and confident to win this match comfortably so as to mark the 50th anniversary with a winning note.

The match started with a 60 seconds silence in remembrance of the lost souls of the United team in 1958.Though im a big fan of Gunners and hate to see Manchester United winning the trophies, I wanted the United team to win this match comfortably for the very fact that they are not just a football team but they have 50 years of legend behind them.But sadly United lost to their neighbours 2-1 in one of the memorable matches in United's football history and they slipped further in the title challenge.Now Arsenal really have an upper hand and they could take this opportunity and increase the lead in the league standings.

Being a football fanatic I really felt sorry for the lost souls of this disaster and I wondered how good the Busby Babes were at their times.Though I will never become a fan of United's team, I started admiring their courage and character to build up a world class club even after such a disaster.From now on I will remain a silent admirer of the legendary United's team.

Vijay TV's - Reel Paadhi, Real Paadhi

"Reel Paadhi, Real Paadhi" is a primetime programme telecasted in Vijay TV every wednesday 9:30 PM.Usually Vijay TV copies all programmes from STAR Plus since its a part of the STAR network.But this programme is unique in its own way and filled with creativity and humour.I have not seen such a creative programme in any other TV channels.Its nothing but an ordinary movie review programme but its differs from others in the way its presented.You will get an honest and straight forward reviews without any diplomatic comments.If the movie is good they ll really appreciate it or else they say its nothing but a load of crap in a humour filled episode.

The proramme is presented in an unique way where in the anchor is depicted in three different forms.Vandu - The real guy, Chendu - Depicted as an Angel and Nandu - Depicted as the Devil.With Vandu commenting on the general and common facts about the movie, Chendu praising the good facts about the movie and Nandu criticising the negative facts of the movie.All these with fun filled episode and you will be in for a wild ride of humorous comments.

I have always liked this programme and appreciated the creativity behind it.But never thought of writing it in my blog until yesterday.I watched this programme yesterday and they were reviewing the movie "PAZHANI" starring Bharath (God only should save him after this crap movie) directed by Perarasu (Worst director in the entire film industry, his films are nothing but load of masala,punch dialogues and kuthu songs).The review was so interesting and filled with funny comments we were laughing throughout the entire episode.It was just a slap in the face for the director that they literally said "its better to commit suicide rather than watching this movie" :-).

The best part of the review came when Chendu asks Nandu

Chendu : "Why the director is pointing his fore finger to his head in all movie posters?"
Nandu : "The director (Perarusu) not only wants punch dialogues in his movies rather he wants the same in all movie posters too.It means that only the people with brain should watch this movie and if at all after watching the movie if you have a pistol, point at the place shown in the poster and shoot urself" hehehehehehehe ...... :-) :-) :-).
I was eating a bubble gum at this point of time and the way I laughed I actually swallowed it ;-).The episode yesterday was too good and I couldnt control my laugh for a very long time.Now I ve decided not to miss any of the episodes and I will be a regular to this programme.

If you really like humour and wanna have a laughter blast, dont miss this show.

Avril Lavigne - The Punk Princess

Avril Lavigne changed the face of polished glamour mainstream pop with her skatepunk image.She's well known for her likings to tanktop's and necktie's which differentiated her from any other skin-bearin antics of other teen pop stars.She stood unique by not following the style or path of anyother pop stars which made her special and I started liking her for this particular reason.

I first heard her single "Complicated" in the year of 2003 and from then I have been a big fan of her.I collected all her songs and now I have the entire collection of Avril and it will be in my playlists for ever. Its not only her music but her lyrics carries a lot of emotions and true feelings.

The songs which I like the most includes "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "Im with you", "Hot", "My Happy Ending", "When your gone" ... etc etc.I wish I could meet her once and I ll be definitely in the first row if she tours India sometime in future.