Ganguly is out.
Thank God. Ganguly is out of the team. Dravid is a soft leader. He should uproot guys like Ganguly. Play tight and give no room for any kind of gimmics. When you takeover leadership you should not leave any trace of old grains.
Ganguly is fortunate to be a most 'successful' test captain. There are two factors which helped Ganguly to achieve this 'record.
1. Extra ordinary individual performance: You know what Ganguly happened to be captain for 21 test wins. And in all these won matches Dravid averaged 106+. That means there is a century from Dravid in every win 'under' Ganguly.
Ganguly averaged a mere 27 worse to Laxman's 36, the later almost struggled for his
place in the team.
No need to mention the individual performace of Laxman (near 300 in Kolkata where Dada lost hopes and was holding his talisman), Shewags 300 in Multan, Bajji's continous 8 wicket hauls in B'lore and Kolkata (who is later named as Turbanator by Aussies). If you continue there is a list of endless 'extra ordinary' individual performances under which allowed to Ganguly to basking in victory luxory.
Dravid was a inspirational second always. He took the challenge to glove and stand behind the stumps for 48 ODIs so that Dada could accommodate a extra batsman (why not!! Dada never counted himself as a potential batsman... and by all means he need a extrabatsman). Mind you keeping in not an easy job to do. Thats why that is always considered different from batting and bowling.
2. Lady Luck: I bet our Indian captain believes in luck more than any village illeterate. His preparation would be nothing but wearing a new talisman before every series given by his mom, hold it through out the match and let the luck play.
Anybody remember the Natwest finals? We won under the heroics of Yuvi and Kaif. What Ganguly was doing in the dressing room (ofcourse asusual after his pathetic exit that he does monotonously in every match)? He was holding the Talisman and praying that these two guys play well. TV cameras clearly showed him holding those bunch of talismans under his shirt. Well... wonderful strategy by a leader!!! Members of the team perform better when you show confidence on them... not on those metals or threads that you wear, Idiot!!
Oh strategy and belief...??? when it comes to strategy and believing his team strength our captain was a true leader. Irrespective of the pitch conditions... Dada always preferred to bat first. He was very confident about his team, that they can never chase. He is happy declaring shamelessly that 'we have a bad record chasing thats why I choosed to bat first'. What a shame. Don't go with past. Change things!!! Show the way!! what is the meaning of being a leader? And strange thing is that under Ganguly captaincy we lost ELEVEN finals!!! Only final we won is while chasing !!!! (Natwest).
We were rated 8th in ODI and tests. Yes you are right... there are only 8 test playing countries and by the time Ganguly completed his 5 years of reign we were listed at number 8. Oooh right!! You are very right teams like Zimbambwe, Bangladesh and West Indies which at their worst are also test playing nations! But we are even worse to them at one stage.
Thats the end of todays thought ramblings :)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
These are the feelings I had, just after reading a forward sent by friend. I have pasted the forward at the bottom of the mail... read that first to understand my feelings.
Woman is showing her commitment to mankind by going through this process(giving birth). I feel sad for this though. When I think about someone who is pregnant... it makes me feel depressed. Will go into deep thought process. Into some 'no place'. I feel energy less. All other tasks in this world looks silly. Most of the woman fulfill the commitment with joy. I think our ancestors are great in imbibing the idea that giving birth is the greatest reward for any woman.
I believe in thoughts theory :) I believe that if we are longing for something... We somehow get it... In some or the other way... if not immediately definitely sometime later. There is some nucleus. We may call it Athma. And this nucleus may not have permanent memory. Memory is only limited to our body - by all means a peripheral. So only thing is that we may not have the 'memory' that we asked for it sometime back. If I ask for something at age of 25 and get that by 27, I will appreciate it. If I ask for something at the age of 25 and I never received it in this birth. I may receive it in my next birth. I will not be able to appreciate what I got that time. Because in my next birth I may want I may or may not want it. Moreover I don't have the 'memory' that I asked for it. Some people walk into our life... be our best friends and go away quickly. We donno the reason. Probably we might have asked for such kind of friend/relative sometime back. So it goes on like this to explain lot many things in life.
With all my soft heart to girls/woman and combining my thought theory... I think I will take rebirth as woman to go through all this process. No wonder I may cry with pain and hatred and curse God that time for the pain that he is making me go through. Because in my next birth God will attach a brand new peripheral. Syam's memory will be formatted when he dies. 'enduku puttinchavura devuda' ani appudu edustanemo.
hmm... so thats the thing. Probably nature is preparing me in this birth by giving this soft heart for woman. Or probably I was a girl in my previous birth and thats why I have soft heart!! Sometimes it looks like there is lot of unfairness in this system. Everybody want to be 'good'. Every 'thing' in this nature want to be good. No place 'wants' to be a garbage dump. Some places become foundation for temple. Some for residential... some for roads... some for rivers... some as mines...
Is it true that every 'thing' in this nature want to be good? May be or may not be. There is a possibility that good and bad is the distinguish made by humans alone. Probably other 'things' in this nature will not 'see' things differently.
Finally belief that 'there is a rhythm in the nature' is what satisfies my answers. Everything has a purpose. There is a balance. Sometimes extremes are met to bring back the balance.
ento chaala raasinatlu unnanu...un edited and unformatted thoughts... scattered thinking.... :d
Take a deep breath and sleep. meeru kooda aalochinchi untaru kada naatho paatu...
=====================Forward message ================================
A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it. The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetric nurse in Atlanta . She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkablesurgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Centerin Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile. The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope."
The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift oflife." Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person." Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
Woman is showing her commitment to mankind by going through this process(giving birth). I feel sad for this though. When I think about someone who is pregnant... it makes me feel depressed. Will go into deep thought process. Into some 'no place'. I feel energy less. All other tasks in this world looks silly. Most of the woman fulfill the commitment with joy. I think our ancestors are great in imbibing the idea that giving birth is the greatest reward for any woman.
I believe in thoughts theory :) I believe that if we are longing for something... We somehow get it... In some or the other way... if not immediately definitely sometime later. There is some nucleus. We may call it Athma. And this nucleus may not have permanent memory. Memory is only limited to our body - by all means a peripheral. So only thing is that we may not have the 'memory' that we asked for it sometime back. If I ask for something at age of 25 and get that by 27, I will appreciate it. If I ask for something at the age of 25 and I never received it in this birth. I may receive it in my next birth. I will not be able to appreciate what I got that time. Because in my next birth I may want I may or may not want it. Moreover I don't have the 'memory' that I asked for it. Some people walk into our life... be our best friends and go away quickly. We donno the reason. Probably we might have asked for such kind of friend/relative sometime back. So it goes on like this to explain lot many things in life.
With all my soft heart to girls/woman and combining my thought theory... I think I will take rebirth as woman to go through all this process. No wonder I may cry with pain and hatred and curse God that time for the pain that he is making me go through. Because in my next birth God will attach a brand new peripheral. Syam's memory will be formatted when he dies. 'enduku puttinchavura devuda' ani appudu edustanemo.
hmm... so thats the thing. Probably nature is preparing me in this birth by giving this soft heart for woman. Or probably I was a girl in my previous birth and thats why I have soft heart!! Sometimes it looks like there is lot of unfairness in this system. Everybody want to be 'good'. Every 'thing' in this nature want to be good. No place 'wants' to be a garbage dump. Some places become foundation for temple. Some for residential... some for roads... some for rivers... some as mines...
Is it true that every 'thing' in this nature want to be good? May be or may not be. There is a possibility that good and bad is the distinguish made by humans alone. Probably other 'things' in this nature will not 'see' things differently.
Finally belief that 'there is a rhythm in the nature' is what satisfies my answers. Everything has a purpose. There is a balance. Sometimes extremes are met to bring back the balance.
ento chaala raasinatlu unnanu...un edited and unformatted thoughts... scattered thinking.... :d
Take a deep breath and sleep. meeru kooda aalochinchi untaru kada naatho paatu...
=====================Forward message ================================
A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it. The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetric nurse in Atlanta . She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkablesurgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Centerin Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile. The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope."
The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift oflife." Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person." Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
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