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Joker of the day – Abhishek Bachchan

 Bollywood, Quotes  6 Responses »
Mar 242011
 
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When Abhishek Bachchan opens his mouth, you know where his foot’s gonna land, right? ;)

If there’s one horrible, beyond-redemption non-actor in Bollywood, it’s this bloke Abhishek Bachchan.

The 35-year-old son of Amitabh Bachchan is a cartoon and completely irrelevant. His films like Drona, Delhi 6 and Raavan are unwatchable horror-shows.

If he’s still getting roles, it’s because of the family name.

While Abhishek Bachchan may not provide much entertainment on screen, off-screen the fella is a grand joker each time he opens his mouth.

Here’s the buffoon at a recent event:

I think I am terribly overrated as an actor. They have given me more due than I deserve.
- Abhishek Bachchan
Source: NDTV

Ha ha ha ha. :-P

Folks, the words Abhishek, acting and rating can’t fit into the same sentence. For this bozo is no actor and nor does he have any rating!

Hey Abhishek, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect you are a dodo rather than open your mouth and confirm it.

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India vs Australia; Does India Have the Balls to Win? Yes, India Chops Off Australia’s Balls

 Cricket  37 Responses »
Mar 242011
 
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*****INDIA AVENGES KILLING OF INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA*****

Big match, folks.

India plays Australia in the ICC 2011 World Cup Cricket quarter final at Ahmedabad today.

It’s 5AM on the U.S. East Coast and we’re up and about with a cup of steaming herbal tea.

Australia won the toss and, not surprisingly, elected to bat.

Keeping in mind the importance of the match, we’re watching it on TV today, streaming it via Willow through the Roku box.

Yusuf Pathan is not in the team but Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina are in.

Huge crowd at the stadium in Ahmedabad. All eager to see India win.

Final Scores
Australia – 260-6
India – 261-5

Smiling (Really) Narendra Modi Awards Man of Match honor to Yuvraj Singh.

India Batting

1:09PM ET – Miracle! Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Smiled. Really!

1:08PM ET – A Boundary and INDIA WINS, Enter Semi-Finals. Australia Sent Home Empty-Handed.  :)

1:05PM ET – India 257-5. Just 4 Runs needed to Win.

1:01PM ET  – Get the Champagne Bottles out, folks. :) We Can’t Lose Now. 11 Runs needed to win.

1:00PM ET – Boundary by Raina off Mitchell Johnson. India 250-5

12:59PM ET – India 246-5. Need 15 Runs to Win

12:55PM ET – Magnificent Six by Raina. Brett Lee is the victim

12:54PM ET – We See Victory :)

12:53PM ET – India needs 22 Runs from 30 balls to win. India 239-5

12:52PM ET -Yuvaraj reaches Half-Century. Bravo!

12:50PM ET – India 232-5 after 44 overs. To win, India needs 29 Runs.

12:46PM ET – Victory in Sight for India? :) Nice boundary by Yuvraj! India 229-5. Seven more overs to go.

12:37PM ET – India’s Run Rate Galloping in last two overs (40th & 41st overs)

12:36PM ET – India 220-5 after 41 Overs. 41 to win

12:30PM ET – Sweet. Three Boundaries (2 by Yuvi and 1 by Raina) off Brett Lee’s over. Expensive Over. 14 Runs conceded. India 207-5 after 40 overs

12:26AM ET -Yuvraj, India’s Last Hope? Nice boundary from Yuvi off the last ball of Shaun Tait’s over. India 193-5 after 39 overs.

12:22AM ET – Pressure Mounting. India 187-5 Wicket Maiden over from Brett Lee

12:20AM ET – IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? Are we seeing India’s Batting Collapse again?

12:19PM ET -TRAGEDY. M.S. Dhoni OUT c Michael Clarke b Brett Lee. India 187-5. Suresh Raina walks in.

12:15PM ET – Nice boundary from Yuvraj! India 187-4. India needs  74 Runs from 78 balls to win.

12:06PM ET – Anything can Happen! India 173-4 after 35 overs.

11:59AM ET – SAD Gautam Gambhir (50) Run Out after two prior close shaves. India 168-4. Indian captain M.S.Dhoni new batsman in.

11:55AM ET – Whooosh! Gautam Gambhir survives run-out because of bad throw from Ricky Ponting

11:51AM ET -166-3. India needs 95 more to win

11:47AM ET – Nice fielding!

11:45AM ET – 156-3  in 30 overs

11:41AM ET – India 147-3 after 29 overs.

11:40AM ET – IF We lose another couple of wickets, then we’re FINISHED. Bye Bye World Cup. :(

11:39AM ET – DANGER! Virat Kohli (24) OUT c Michael Clarke b David Hussey India 143-3. EZ catch! :( Yuvraj is new batsman in.

11:35AM ET – Finally, a boundary (by Virat Kohli) off Michael Clarke. :) 28 Overs up & India 142-2

11:27AM ET – Mera Bharat Mahaan 123-2 after 25 overs

11:17AM ET – Left-arm spinner Michael Clarke brought in. India 115-2 Asking Run Rate 5.41

11:12AM ET – Still Winnable if we can hold on to our wickets. India 108-2 after 21 overs.

11:04AM ET – India 98-2 after 19 overs. Getting Scary!

****11:01 AM ET – Is it the BEGINNING OF THE END FOR INDIA? :(

11:00AM ET – DISASTER. Tendulkar (53) OUT c Brad Haddin b Shaun Tait India 94-2. Virat Kohli walks in.

10:59AM ET – Spinner Jason Krejza brought in. Concedes 8 runs including a boundary by Gautam Gambhir. India 94-1 after 18 overs.

10:51AM ET – Yet another 50 from Tendulkar :) India 86-1 after 17 overs.

*****10:49AM ET – Do U Guys get Nice Ads on TV in India during the match? In the U.S., we get only the stupid Gujarati Matrimony, Punjabi Matrimony, South Indian Matrimony, Pakistani Matrimony ads or the irritating Xoom money transfer ads. Horrible, Unimaginative Ads!

10:41AM ET – After 15 overs, India 76-1 Run Rate just over 5.

10:35AM EST – Some boundaries would be nice. India 70-1 after 14 overs. Run Rate 4.9 Sachin scores 18,000th run in ODI.

****10:32AM ET – WHO IS THE WOMAN NEXT TO MUKESH AMBANI? ;)

10:23AM ET – Two boundaries by Tendulkar. :) India 65-1 after 12 overs. Expensive over from Mitchell Johnson. 11 Runs conceded in 12th over.

10:02AM ET - Baaaad. Sehwag Out c Mike Hussey b Shane Watson. India 44-1. Nice catch. Virender Sehwag  seemed out of his element today.  Gautam Gambhir is new batsman in.

9:42AM ET – Nice fielding by Aussies! India 30-0 after 5 overs. Virender Sehwag – 11; Sachin Tendulkar – 14. Ponting brings in Mitchell Johnson to bowl.

9:40AM ET – Keep it up guys. India 26-0 after 4 overs. Run Rate over 6.

9:35AM ET – So far so good! India 20-0 after 3 overs.

9:25AM – Tendulkar Opens account with boundary off first ball from Shaun Tait. Follows up with another boundary. :) India 14-0 after 1.3 overs

9:22AM ET – Virender Sehwag survives close shave in first over.  India 5-0 at end of 1st over

Australia Batting

8:43AM ET -  Tough slog ahead for India. We’re nervous. Very Nervous!

8:41AM ET – Aussies end their innings with a very respectable 260-6 after 50 overs.

8:36AM ET – One over left. Australia 247-6. Good score. Continue reading »

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Will India Make History Today or be History?

 Cricket  3 Responses »
Mar 242011
 
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In just a few hours, India will play Australia at Ahmedabad in the crucial ICC 2011 World Cup cricket quarter-final.

The outcome of the match will decide whether India will make history or be history in this prestigious tournament.

(Image courtesy: Wiki)

While we’d, of course, love to see India advance to the next stage, the semi-finals, we’re not that optimistic or at best only cautiously optimistic about our team’s chances.

The collapse of India’s vaunted middle-order batting after a decent start for just a few dozen runs in the last two matches (India vs South Africa and the subsequent India vs West Indies game) has been a distressing spectacle and sure to strike a chord of anxiety in the hearts of the team’s most fervent supporters.

Our bowling seems far too languid to strike terror in the opposing batsmen.

In another cause for concern, our fielders don’t seem to be displaying the agility in grabbing the must-not-miss catches nor are they throwing themselves at the ball to prevent boundaries.

The Aussies, led by Ricky Ponting, are a formidable team and we’d be wise to see them as such. Not a team like West Indies that has turned into an embarrassment in this World Cup.

More than anything, the Indian team seems to lack the fierce determination that the Pakistani team displays in every match.

Bottom line, while our heart is betting on India the brain knows victory is no sure thing.

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Have You Schmucks Firefoxed 4 Yet?

 IT Industry  6 Responses »
Mar 232011
 
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Firefox 4, which debuted yesterday, is going great guns.

The browser has already been downloaded 7.15 million times (as of 12:39PM ET on 3/22/2011) including, of course, by the nonpareil SI.

Faster, Better
The folks at Mozilla, the non-profit foundation that develops the open source browser, say Firefox 4 is two to six times faster than the previous releases.

Major enhancements to the JavaScript engine are said to make everything from startup time to page load speed to graphics and JavaScript performance “screaming fast” in Firefox 4.

In our tests, the browser did seem to load fast although we’d be skeptical of the “screaming fast” hyperbole.

Cool Look
The latest version of Firefox features a sleek, minimalist look that lets the web content take center stage.

There is an Orange tab on the top extreme left with drop-down box for the various options.

A convenient browser button on the right makes it easy to manage all your bookmarks and an asterisk inside the browser bar enables one-click bookmarking.

A Panorama feature lets you put your tabs into groups (we haven’t tried it yet).

For the full list of features in Firefox 4, click here.

Guys, if you haven’t downloaded Firefox 4 yet, click on the button below and we promise you even a Bollywood item number won’t give you as much joy over the long term as the Firefox upgrade. ;)

Firefox 4

Firefox 4 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 80 languages. Continue reading »

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Pakistan Vs West Indies; Super EZ Win for Pak

 Cricket  12 Responses »
Mar 232011
 
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Folks, here we are watching the quarter finals match between Pakistan and  West Indies played at Sher-e Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

West Indies won the toss and chose to bat first.

But what a pitiful performance from the WI batsmen. They could just manage 112-10. A pitiful score.

When Pakistan came into bat, the openers Kamran Akmal (47) and Mohammed Hafeez (61) crushed the West Indies bowlers with deft stroke play that made their opposition look like rank amateurs

In the end end, Pakistan won by 10 wickets in less than 21 overs.

Mighty Shame
What a shame that the West Indies team, which once boasted of great batsmen like Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, Alvin Kallicharan, Derrick Murray and Brian Lara, fast bowlers like Andy Roberts and spinners like L.R.Gibbs, should now be reduced to the status of  jokers.

Final Scores

West Indies – 112-10 (from 43.3 overs)

Pakistan – 113-0 (from 20.4 overs)

Pakistan Batting.

9:50AM ET – Pakistan coasts to easy victory over West Indies.

9:46AM ET – Pakistan close to victory 102-0 Just 11 Runs needed to Win from 184 balls.

8:47AM ET – Pakistan heading for swift victory. 43-0 after 5 overs

8:35AM ET – Pak off to a good start. 25-0 after 2 overs. Need 88 to win from 48 overs

8:25AM ET – Kamran Akmal & Mohammed Hafeez open for Pak. Kemar Roach is the WI bowler.

West Indies Batting

7:39AM ET – FINITO. Ravi Rampaul (0) out b Shahid Afridi. WI 112-10 in 43.3 overs

7:34AM ET – DOWN. Another Wicket down. Kemar Roach c Younus Kan b Abdul Razzaq. WI 111-9 Ravi Rampaul, last WI batsman in.

7:24AM ET – Pitiful. WI 104-8 after 40 overs. Run Rate 2.6.

6:38AM ET – Horrible to watch West Indies’ batting collapse. WI 74-8.  Run Rate 2.55

6:33AM ET – HELL TO WATCH. Devendra Bishoo Out for Zero b Ajmal. WI 71-8 in 28th over. Kemar Roach new WI batsman in

6:31AM ET – Calamity. Darren Samy lbw Ajmal WI 71-7 Devendra Bishoo new WI batsman

6:26AM – Disgusting. WI 69-6 Devon Thomas Out lbw Afridi. Darren Samy new WI batsman in.

6:24AM ET – PITIFUL. Kieron Pollard (1) out c Kamran Akmal b Afridi WI 69-5 :( Devon Thomas is new batsman in

6:19AM ETR – Nice six from Chanderpaul WI 66-4

6:15AM ET – Disaster. Sarwan (24) out c Umar Akmal b Afridi WI 58-4 after 24.1 overs

6:11AM ET – Somebody, please tell WI that this is not a test match. WI 55-3 after 23 overs

6AM ET – WI Struggling 44-3 after 19 overs. Poor Run Rate of 2.3

5:59AM ET – Umar Gul drops Sarwan catch off Afridi :)

5:33AM ET – Sweet! Another boundary from Sarwan. :) WI 32-3 after 13 overs

5:32AM ET – Nice boundary from Sarwan. WI 27-3

* God, that stupid Umar-Fiza Pakistani Matrimony Biriyani Ad Again! :(

5:21AM ET – WI struggling to score. 18-3 after 10 overs

5:09AM ET -  WI 17-3 after 7 overs

5:o2 am – Chanderpaul is the new batsman in

5:00 am -  Shame. Darren Bravo is out lbw Hafeez, WI 16 for 3 after 5.4 overs.

4:59 am – Darren Bravo is the new batsman in.

4:57 am – OMG Devon Smith is out lbw Mohammed Hafeez. Disgusting WI has scored 16 Runs and already lost Two Wickets.

4:53 am – Fourth over in progress WI 16-1

4:45 am – Tragedy Chris Gayle is out c Shahid Afridi b Umar Gul. WI 14-1. Ramnaresh Sarwan is the New Batsman.

4:40 am – After 2.4 overs, WI score is 14 runs

4:37 am – Yet another Four. This time from Chris Gayle

4:31 am – Devon Smith opens with a Boundary

4:30 am – Devon Smith and Chris Gayle batting

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Tehelka Rips Apart Karunanidhi & Sons

 People, Politics  10 Responses »
Mar 222011
 
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We love it.

Just love it.

One of our favorite Indian e-zines Tehelka has torn into Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi and his family.

That Tamil Nadu has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the extended Karunanidhi clan with its grasping finger thrusting into every pie – politics, business, newspapers, cable TV, newspapers, TV channels, movie production and distribution, state contracts and more – is no secret to the hapless denizens of the state.

But few articles have provided as good a summary as the Tehelka piece in providing both a historic perspective and insights into the current dystopian nightmare that has made life difficult for so many millions.

Titled How the K-Family Colonized a State – K Klutch Klan, the article is a blistering attack on the tactics adopted by Karuinanidhi, his sons M.K.Azhagiri and heir apparent M.K.Stalin and other members of the extended family such as the businessman Kalanidhi Maran and his politician brother Dayanidhi Maran to entrench their power and grow their clout and wealth:

Here’s an excerpt from the Tehelka piece:

[I]n the last decade, especially in the current term of the DMK government, members of the first family have graduated from legislators to ministers, party members to party strategists, and most visibly, local politicians to national-level netas. The rules that bind every other politician in TN do not apply to them. It is not a mere matter of privilege, but of the kind of personal and financial takeover of a party and a state that breaks the limits of politics, and becomes simply about absolute control. Today, every time a person in Tamil Nadu switches on his television, reads the paper, buys groceries, purchases land, or watches a film, he has in some way engaged with one of Karunanidhi’s relatives. The family is inescapable. And its influence does not even depend on whether or not it is in power.

Must read piece, folks. Continue reading »

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