ARVIews on Life or whatever it is

ok, no time for any other postings as i have been quite busy with doing mostly nothing....but heck had to post this one. Dravid injured, Lax the Man in!!! is he or is he not? rather will he or won't he should be the apt question. tho it does beg, what are the passengers in form of mongia and raina doing..should they not be given a chance? or is lax the man in for WC07 too? pretty pleased with KDKarthik...i hope he finds a permanent place as a keeper and batsman and perhaps dhoni move to a fielder??? shewag captain!!!! doh! now he cant be dropped...grrrr india plainly sux.

well the results have come from election 06 (well almost..at time of writing Montana and Va are too close)...Dems have taken the house first time since 94....tis gonna be a repeat of history? are we gonna see some eco boom cycle in next 8 years? a la 96-2000? Senata damn....49 apiece, with 2 to go....is there a more divided country in this world? what will this mean to India? reduction in outsourcing? no but a tighter noose perhaps. reduction in war expenses...this means govt basd jobs may not necessarily the best thing to look into and hence tendency to ship R&D to india might be reduced. economy upswing in USA, growing dollar against Rupee strength which means bounded growth in India. Will the boom in India come to a halt now? or at least is saturated? who knows....and how these will affect me personally is what i am more inclined to look at.

The odds have been out by BBC in the aftermath of champions T. Ozzies clear ahead.....india edge out RSA,Paki and Windies.....thats the small difference.but i say india cannot edge out the 3.... on other cricketing news, sachin has come out and said,nay declared, that things will improve. haven't really seen sachin this aggressive? perhaps signs of things to come? we can only wish...

CA- computer assosciates CEO - doh! LCO- lack of coverage (double doh!!!) If anyone has ever read my blog or had picked my blackening grey cells, it would have been clear how aversive am i to the desi media lapping up for any success by anything remotely indian. Bobby Jindal for example. But tis not the same when there is some other news on the dark side. for instance, the canadian columbine wanna be was a desi.... but media coverage on the desi media side was not surprisingly awol.... lately, CA'sCEO was convicted for his fraud. CaCEo was in big news in desi prints when he was the blue eyed boy but this news....nada,zippo, zilch coverage....except in the next day as an after thought....maybe i am wrong and i missed it all and i wonder if anybody could ever point out some reasonable coverage. other lack of coverages...hmmm actress srividhya's death....hardly a mention....there could be a lot more... ....if it is blue eyed boy in Britain, what is it in india? fair skinned ? -arv...

Champions trophy was blazing till the last game. Windies were trying to be vintage Windies, all calypso and flair. To be truthful, they were Gayle and chander but leaving that aside, twas nice to see the team kinda come up a bit to recapture the glory days. Truth be told, there is a distinct happiness in any true cricket lover (read not just indian cricket lover) to see the revival of the Windies. The flair and the irritating inconsistencies is just poetry. India for all its gung ho batting lineups and dhonis can never ever really capture the imagination that the windies do...at least mine. Well am i happy ozzies won? no and yes....no cos i hate ozzies :-) yes cos they deserve to. something south africa didnt do and neither did india was to pounce of the slightest of weakness offered by the west indies and decimate them. But ozzies, just a lil inch of weakness and man o man how they take the chance. thats sheer professionalism and talent. yes also, cos champs winners dont win world cu...