screwed up bosses and their power hunger!
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November 27, 2009
Asian Football confederation withdrawing from Vision Kerala project
November 16, 2009
interesting stats over there in bloomberg.com
Tom petty’s Mary Jane’s Last Dance playing.
its moving fast, a techni-color fast forward.
tiring and mundane is work.. as usual,it cant get any more worse.
reading a Tariq Ali book, Pirates of the Caribbean…had taken a break from reading this, when i caught up with a recent malayalam novel – Francis Itty Cora. A novel with a refreshing format, it is a classic in its right, i feel.
oh… then today.. as usual through g-reader i stumbled upon..
“Prem Kumar’s demand for higher pay and better food at the cafeteria at the auto-parts factory where he works near New Delhi forced General Motors Co.Ford Motor Co. to shut three plants on the other side of the world. and Ford Motor Co. to shut three plants on the other side of the world.”
that more or less speaks for IndiaInc.
the article says, while there was a 9% increase in food prices , the overall wages rose only by 0.8 percent.
and that answers why human resource officials in 2 companies were mauled and killed by the workers.
and that also explains why 1.5 million workers were involved in 250 strikes in 2008 , all across the nation in the manufacturing front.
there are some comparisons with china, as the norm always is….. they had a 9.9 percent wage growth.. in 2008.
A willing workforce the Chinese are, aint they? now it seems in orissa and Jharkand Chinese are the ones who are constructing steel factories… 10,000 and more are flocking to eat up all our jobs…
anyways enjoy the read…..
India Food Strike, Fatal Riots Hobble Push to Export Auto Parts
another interesting thing i came across is that, now French football is vying for that lucrative Indian market pie. After Bayern set up a farewell match for Oliver Khan in front of more than 1 lakh crowd at Kolkota and then Maradona’s visit to the city, it looks like every country which has a decent league is interested in marketing their football in kolkota/India. It seems a Bangalore based firm is in talks with french football authorities about the possibility of a collaboration and eventually a long term partnership.
Interesting names are being bandied around – Zidane and Aimé Jacquet. While Zidane could help the glamor side of football, it would be nice if Aimé Jacquet could give some tips to our authorities about football development. He coached French football team to a world cup victory in 1998 and his influence on French football and his ideas which helped french football is best explained here by amy lawrence in guardian. anyway let me not jump the gun.
September 14, 2009
man-city aftermath.
before i start off, let me explain. Every season i go in with lot of optimism but i try to keep myself grounded always. When i say grounded, i mean i never expected us to win the league in any of the past 3 seasons. The same was for this season too. neither do i bleat about not winning anything for such a long while now. i am a content arsenal supporter, i would say. I always felt, wenger managed the best with what is at his disposal and i still feel the same.
but the agony that strikes you as an immediate aftermath of the match, this time around after the man-city match i felt a bit too uneasy. you know why? i felt it was a very easily given up match and which exposed our lack of quality in certain positions. We went about playing the first 20 mins so light and easy and i did not see that urge and seriousness with which we should have gone in to this kind of a much hyped-up match with our so called 4-th position contenders. before the match there was enough taunt from Adebayor to get inspired from, whereas i found nothing of that solidarity or urge with the team to give adebayor and in general team’s critics a footballistic answer.
instead we went in to the match easy and nice, conceded the first goal, looked as puzzled as ever with that and then went on to concede a few more. Great!
Almunia was terrible at his attempt (or no attempt) to save the first goal and i think that seriously made the difference. I have never been all-through critic of any arsenal player as of now, but this time i felt utterly disgusted seeing that piece of goal keeping. then comes clichy with his errors, it is so funny to see one of the best defenders in the league switching himself off during a vital match and playing as if he has never played competitive footy in his life. Yes, one off day, the 1st match where he did not get his boot right, everything all right, but 3 costly errors and 3 goals? that is terribly dismal for player of his caliber. c’mon gael, you can do better.
there is nothing much to talk about this match, the only positive i see from the match is the return of rosicky who took some deft touches, passes and scored a well taken goal too. stay fit mate, you are badly needed. Diaby et al needs no mention here so i am not going to take pain and type something about them with my rickety key-board.
August 20, 2009
late night football is back!
No, dont get confused by the title.
I am not all enthused about the fact that i need to catch football matches in the wee hours of night. Then again, some times it is worth the wait, it is worth the lack of sleep and on the other side, some times it is terribly depressing that you find it difficult to grab some sleep after a defeat. ( That Arsenal – Liverpool Champ League Semi comes in to my mind!)
Anyway, the first late-night football adventure of this season, did not prove to be a catastrophic one. Arsenal played Celtic in Parkhead and a bum-goal and and own goal helped the team to be in a decent situation in the Champions League qualifiers. It will be a daunting task for Celtic to come to Emirates and outclass us there.
Some point to be mentioned.
I am not so happy about our supposed 4-3-3 formation.
Now it looks like i have to agree with Myles Palmer on this. The service that our forwards received was minimal, Neither Van Persie or Arshavin could make themselves count in this formation. Bendtner was an exception as he had a decent match, i thought. But if this gives us a stable and effcient run with us scoring more from the midfield than playing all the way up to the opposition goal, i suppose we could move on with it.
Song and the new boy Vermaelen deserves a special mention here. Song has become more of a terrier, upped his ante, pace and positioning, nothing much has to be said about his strength. At times in the 1st half i felt nothing gets past Song, he was there like a rock!
Vermaelen (still not sure of the correct spelling!) is turning out to be a good signing. Yeah, it is only 2 matches, very early in to the season to make an affirmative statement but his look, his eagerness, his reading of the game and that heart to throw in a strong challenge is what we missed in our defense last season. He defnitely has fallen in place in to the Arsenal back line.
So are we all ready to challenge the title? I think we still can have some 1 or 2 signings. We can really get a good defender and a holding midfielder, i suppose but that decision is up to the manager. Obviously there has been a change from our perspective this time around. We are taking more and more chances from outside the box than passing it all the way to the opposition goal. Some what a quest for efficiency is over powering our style, that is a good sign indeed.
Hoping that we tread on till the end of season like this.
August 17, 2009
back with a bang…
for my footballing sense, things cant get any better, Arsenal banging in 6 goals at Goodison Park is no small feat.
Hope the team has new found a sense of cohesion and belief and they move on to win something.
I was a bit loud everytime the team scored goals but then again it is always like that when bottled spirits combine with football spirit..
a woo-hoo weekend which whistled passsed… as usual.
July 21, 2009
Status Update – July 09!
The Arjuna and Khel Ratna Awards have been announced and there is a not-s0-new absence of footballers in the list. It doesn’t matter if they have won AFC challenge Cup last year. I suppose nothing matters in India if it is football.
Mind you we have a Sports Minister who likes to belt speeches about the game of the masses that is football and what not. He did not spare an opportunity the last time around to take a dig at our footballers too.
It seems only our former India captain Syed Nayeemuddin spoke in favor of the footballers in the committee that decided the awards. The rest i suppose didnt even know that football is being played in India.
How will golf playing bureaucrats know about footballers? I have not yet picked the number of golfers in the awards list. I am sure there will be couple of them there and how many in India play golf and how many play football?
Oh.. that is it about the neglect and what not about football in India. Nonetheless because of Bob-Houghton’s obstinacy the team is training their asses off in Camp Nou. Let us have some hope and belief that, upon returning they will give us some jaw-dropping results.
The other news is that Adebayooor has been signed by Manchester City. The lure of money is much more than what i expected it to be. There was no big clubs lining up behind him this summer. I think Man City was the only option before him. Anyway he is gone. I was a closet Adebayoor fan. There is no point thinking about him anymore.
Now it looks like, after the black-hole that is Real Madrid in La Liga, The Abu Dhabi powered Man City is turning out to be the one in Premier League. They seem to be sucking in everything that comes by. Hmpf!
Monsieur Wenger has re-iterated his share of cynicism that football will soon be hit by recession. If my memory is precise, he uttered the same concern last time around when the team went for pre-season at Barnet. May be all those not-so-plush surroundings at barnet gives the manager a reality jolt. Then again, it is an “ok” way to placate the ever grumbling Arsenal fans.
Pundits and cynics have already made up their mind that Man City will be skinning Arsenal to steal a place in the top 4. With all due respect to the players who have signed for them, i really dont think they will pose a threat to the top 4. If at all someone challenges the top 4 spot it will be the hard working Everton and Aston Villa. Villa doesnt have the adequate squad to pose a sustained challenge, although i have not paid any attention towards their recruits, this summer. Have they recruited anyone? I wonder. I presume a big disaster is awaiting Mark Hughes and that will be an imploding Man City. Let the show begin!
Update : Samir Nasri is out of action for 3 months as he breaks his leg during training.
So thats it for now!
June 5, 2009
Status Update – June 09
I havent had much time these days to blog.
It is sad when i look back, i found that i was mired in understanding all the conspiracy theories – Death of Prabhakaran and then the buying of 26/11 – Mumbai Attacked caused a re-churning of all those 26/11 conspiracy theories.
The football season is over, so i expected a break from the compulsive sports watching on TV but that is not working out at all. First it was IPL ,now comes the T-20 world cup and the Rolland Garros is going on. I am trying my best to avoid this mental assault caused by the overdose of cricket.
Closely trying to keep up with all the football transfers, thankfully i dont have to watch tv to know about this.
April 17, 2009
Wembley today!
FA cup semi final against Chelsea.
I would say, we are on a roll now. 18 matches or so unbeaten, a splendid victory against Villarreal in Champions League, 2 splendid goals and all round attacking match.
Things are quite rosy for now at least for an Arsenal fan. Being one, i am not going over the top this time around.
Arsene has very well described the situation beautifully here, I seriously hope the youngsters turn it around this time.
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April 5, 2009
What if Shashi Tharoor walks out of a talk show?
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Ha, it is not as if the sky has fallen down. The media is going ga-ga over Shashi Tharoor’s walk out from an election related television chat show.
But, is that a freaking big deal? How would that affect Kerala, anyways? First of all, will all the problems in Kerala be solved, if Tharoor starts to push down our throats, his international suaveness and debating skills? No.
So what does he think?
The Kerala crowd is not prudent enough to judge him? Is he trying to make us feel bad with all his international diplomacy and suaveness? Then I would say, he has got it completely wrong by selecting Kerala as a launch pad for this electoral debut , each of his actions – past and present, will be weighed up by the public here and if that happens, he has serious concerns for worrying. After all, many of us know that a win for him in Kerala is just a shortcut to the power prostitution centre of India – New Delhi…we really don’t think ew would see him parading around in a mundu if at all he get elected…
He came down to Kerala and wrote an article in favor of Coca-Cola, where he dismissed the whole issue as a minimal one, of many losing their jobs because of a retrograde mentality that exists in Kerala. He completely forgot the environmental calamities that the Coca Cola plant in Palakkad created, he did not think of the livelihoods of normal people in Palakkad, which is one of the most drought affected districts in Kerala. He just went on with his neo-liberal tirade against the valiant Plachimada struggle, the localities carried out against Coca-cola, a criminal corporate who has a dubious distinction of killing trade-union activists and environmentalists all over the world.
Wearing mundu and being part of cavalier politics doesn’t make a Keralite any less than what Shashi Tharoor is. I am sure there are people in Kerala who could give him hours of dissertation about geo-politics and what not.
Coming back to the walkout, if he had the guts to walk out, he should have done that while he was serving as the under-secretary of UN. Gruesome wars on fictitious pretexts were waged during his stint, under the complete complicity of the UN. Why did he not feel like leaving his job, if he holds such moral integrity?
Take my cautionary words, Mr. Tharoor, if at all you are trying to belittle Malayalis by flaunting your fake moral integrity and suaveness, you will be punished severely and Kerala has a wonderful history of doing so. If you did not know that, you don’t have to ask Kofi Annan or Ban Ki Moon, just check the electoral history of Kerala. Be happy that you will soon be part of that ‘disgusting, rotten pile of discards’ that still get mentioned as part of our history!
