View from Petronas Skybridge

I tried capturing the view from the skybridge of petronas tower, Kuala LumPur

I See you

Still to come out of my avatar experience, yet to experience the 3 D effect, i am posting this latest music video by Leona Lewis - I see you:

Interesting pic

Pic from a oriya film poster : Now this Bond will definitely give Daniel Craig a run for his money.

High Time that cricket be made be the national sport

With this current fiasco on Indian Hockey, the non payment of paltry 25 grand to the hockey staff for their international travel and washing dirty linens in public, i strongly feel that there is a long standing need that we need to replace our national sport to cricket for the benefit of all other sports - if not hockey.

If this what happens to a national sport, then its high time that we replace hockey with cricket. By doing that, we will not feel pity about hockey every year and play a blame game without doing anything. We will not get inspired which will fizzle out in short term on a release of a hockey related movie. We will also not feel bad when we read a small article about Indian hockey team beating the world champions in a neglect corner of a newspaper. This is not what a good team deserves - they require encouragement and not pity. I hope by removing the national sport tag, we will be forced to encourage them.

The above paragraph stated why we do not need hockey as our national game. These are the same reason that we want cricket to face the same ordeal which the great hockey has been facing over the last couple of decades. Small news about cricket are made headlines, players made idols, mediocre performances are glorified (with due respect to dew :)), commerce ruling over performance( ICC softening on Kotla Fiasco) etc. Indian cricket is on decline, world no. 1 is a misnomer and if performance of the team is any indicator then we are in to see a "mortgage crisis" type of a disaster in India cricket ( the reason being same - the valuation exceeds the underlying asset).

Then we need to pity on them. And hence to make the entire nation again to "feel pity and do nothing" about it , we need to make it a national sport.

Idiotic Anger

With this "idiotic" fiasco on and tempers flying all around, it seems that the so called celebrities are resorting to very shameful activities to find the media share to market their products free of cost. My visit to a local book shop just made me realise that the people are buying the book in hordes and the movies sales have also broken all the records unforeseen in Bollywood. The logical end to this staged drama is nobody will do anything and one party will apologize to another when the entire hype and hoopla about the movie will die down. So then they will again get their media share which will again give a boost to their book/ movie sale. Its a big bad commercial world out there where nobody hesitates to malign each other ( even though staged) to get monetary benefit and media space. Its all about TRP nowadays - Good Bad and Ugly. Again will Media realize this or still carry to play to their tune. One More question, what would have happened in case the leading actor of movie had washed his hands off from the controversy as he is not a affected party. Would the media taken this amount of interest then....some questions are better not answered. Like the common man R K Laxman, we will not speak at all.

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