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much to realise that the real action as probably a little higher than a few inches off the ground so we grew appendages to crawl around over time we were able to trot around on all fours and pick stuff bushes and catch the odd slower co inhabitant but to do any real foraging we needed to be using more than our mouths so we decided to stand up opposable thumbs were the icing on the cake about the same time that we shed all that unnecessary hair to save on shampoo and conditioning costs fire the wheel language all the good stuff followed somewhere though we got sloppy how else do we explain those unnecessary problematic hard bits called wisdom teeth it took a lingering ache over several weeks to get me to get an x ray and an outcome that made me wonder if it was a spoof of some sort to go to that place there might be people who treat visits to dentists as nonchalantly as james bond dodges bullets and beds the girl i m not one of them i consider going to the dentist like purposefully placing my foot on a bar of soap in the bathroom while it s not necessary that you will hit your head on the basin and lapse into a coma the best you can hope for is a bruised posterior having your sibling and butt of most of your jokes of 26 years peering over you in a white coat and gloves with metallic instruments doesn t do much to calm your nerves multiple pain killing injections lots of pulling swearing and tugging on the part of the two assailants dentists and after the best part of two hours the offending tooth was shown to me in pieces much like shrapnel from a war wound the tooth aside from growing at a right angle to the others was also rotated apparently hence all the tugging and swearing the rest of the weekend was spent holding ice packs to the side of the face that kept ing to puff up by tennis ball proportions the only upside was the prescribed diet aside from painkillers any ice cream without nuts posted by don thaveaclue at 7 21 pm no comments labels blah life friday june 26 2009 beat it it s inexplicable maybe it s the three hours i just spent winding through clogged streets of mumbai trying unsuccessfully to find a way to office apparently 30 minutes of rain is all it takes to stuff up the daily operations in this metro but it s not that if anything it served to delay the realization michael jackson died today i m surprised at myself to be thinking about it even more that it s caused me to blog here after a gap over three months as i stood in bumper to bumper traffic i wondered why i felt a sense of loss i hadn t looked for michael jackson song on my hard disk in over a decade yes i did pause the fm channel surfing in the car when the familiar opening to beat it or thriller came on but didn t everyone but then it also made sense he was one of those rare breed of freakishly talented superstars who didn t blend into pop culture but defined it for quite a while my first album was dangerous gifted by my parents on a birthday along with a sony walkman way before itunes and napster before vh1 channel v or mtv i remember michael jackson songs before hair bands and rock became my preferred music michael jackson was the original cool performer it didn t matter that there were a million other artists doing similar things there was none more original than michael one can t help but like a superlative performer in a field they make their own just like you don t have to be a basketball fan to know michael jordan or old hindi music to know kishore kumar or golf god forbid to know tiger woods you didn t have to be a fan of pop to know and love michael jackson s music s summed it up perfectly when she called to say that it seemed like we ve lost a bit of our childhood today suddenly it wasn t so inexplicable i m sad because the king of pop died today posted by don thaveaclue at 11 14 am no comments labels blah life michael jackson friday march 13 2009 virender sehwag force of nature while most of my cricket posts are now segregated on my other blog outside edge some merit the crossover smite me oh mighty smiter for long i was a non believer i thought the back foot anchored as if driven into the ground would be your undoing i thought the incoming delivery from a good length would breach your defenses like an almost molten knife through butter i thought those with strong shoulders and the ability to clock the high 130s kph would hobble you with rib ticklers i was wrong i believe others have raised their arms in appreciation of the natural disaster that struck new zealand jrod was amongst the first to found the religion of sehwagology which states amongst its scriptures you shall not covet your neighbor s house you shall not covet your neighbor s wife nor his male servant nor his female servant nor his ox nor his donkey but if he bowls a wide half volley hit it like it stole your donkey or ox naked cricket has an enterprising visual representation of the innings sehwag modern art bl nguyen tracks the revival of the man since his comeback to the side in 2007 can franklin stop sehwag on his blog new zealand bowler ian o brien gives a first person perspective of dealing with the most destructive batsman in world cricket today dark times and demons it s been a while since cricket saw something that took your breath away while having you drooling for more contests in mediocrity between pakistan and sri lanka the horrendous attack that was far more than cricket the snooze fests between england and the west indies cricket needed this the unleashing of the destructive force that is virender sehwag there are numerous players who eviscerate bowling attacks on their day not sehwag there is nothing approaching surgical precision about sehwag s batting it is just pure unadulterated violent power and timing the backlift seems to commence even as the bowler is completing his delivery stride the front foot steps out of the way to let the arc of the bat describe almost a full circle the angle of the bat is not bound by traditional encumbrances like being vertical of perfectly horizontal it hones in on the ball at whatever angle can offer maximum violence he doesn t look to hit them very high just very hard most of his sixes don t seem to go too much over head height as they thunk into sightscreens scoreboards hastily vacated seats before being dropped his areas of scoring were between point and thirdman creating room from deliveries on off stump to flay them over point the short delivery into the ribs used to be seen as a way to keep him quiet and to get him out it s apparent now that he s been working on his on side play in wednesday s innings he was offered almost no width i can t recall a boundary scored behind point he was planting his feet and launching them into the midwicket region short stuff was murderously pulled or hooked it was scary to watch and i m an indian supporter daniel vettori better be sending expedited orders for miracle gro to groundsmen for the test matches or atleast hand out hard hats to spectators praise the lord or as jrod and miss field would put it praise be to sehwag posted by don thaveaclue at 10 39 am no comments labels blah sports thursday march 05 2009 chinese curses and perspective i wonder what those in the isb class of 2009 have been feeling ever since the world went to hell in a hand basket or so it seemed starting september 2008 if they re like me and my peers from the batch of 2006 most of them took a break from their in progress careers to upgrade their qualifications to potentially change career tracks and definitely to improve earning potential in the medium and long term some with very specific thoughts on where they wanted to be others with a much foggier idea looking to sample the menu as courses unfolded and options made themselves available the challenge i clearly remember wrestling with was to show patience and refrain from the temptation to latch onto whatever job opportunity came along first seniors philosophically remarked how a large percentage of the batch would ve switched jobs come month two so it didn t even really matter what you picked on campus anyway wonder how i would ve reacted to being told that the challenge wouldn t be which but if the atmosphere in a highly competitive environment is brittle at the best of times with ctc comparisons and sexy industries or job functions causing people to fret about the appointment letter in hand just because so and so got offered xx and the other got into that much vaunted field of xxxxxx as those who d been there done that most of us would nod smirk knowingly when hearing about the current batch talk about the nightmare that term 2 was or how sleep deprivation was so big a deal it s been almost three years since i graduated i know a lot more now about my career preferences than i did while handing over the key to my room in sv2 h12 yet i m glad i m not answering questions about how to deal with the scenario that seems to have paralyzed so many companies into freezing recruitments logic suggests its temporary logic suggests only businesses operating out of 4 x 4 sq feet and selling crushed betelnut with an assortment of flavours and wrapped in betel leaves namely corner paan shops can afford to not continuously induct fresh managerial talent and expect to grow and satisfy investor expectations logic suggests that the great indian middle class that has got its first taste of mcdonalds playstations and power steering will want more much more logic suggests that this phase should be a very short lived hiccup in an otherwise upward trend that come 2012 those of the current batch will be a more sought after battle hardened group of professionals than those preceding them logic struggling at the best of times to explain the gaps in the actualized versus the expected is going to be even short handed now it ll be a challenge to take the measured decision rather than the convenient one here s wishing them all the ability to maintain that elusive animal called perspective in times that the chinese call interesting posted by don thaveaclue at 5 32 pm no comments labels blah isb monday february 23 2009 normal service has been resumed australia getting thrashed in tests one dayers thumb wars air guitar competitions by any team disembarking down under not just any even the ones who jumped puddles and came over from new zealand the sri lankans celebrating a solitary win at the premadasa in colombo against india in the 5th odi of the series an ipl bidding frenzy over a player based on talent and not just star quality mashrafe mortaza isn t quite a household name in target demographic for most advertisers yet up was down tit was tat cricket was tekcirc until the final day of the 2nd test match between england and the west indies sanity returned to the cricketing world when the highly expected happened at the antigua recreation ground in st john s antigua experts say that england s failure to press home from almost complete domination over four days in a five day test match against an opponent now in the most dramatic sporting collapses hall of fame has numerous precedents england captain andrew strauss was visibly relieved at the post match interview it was close wasn t it with freddie out of commission i figured it d be a breeze to not take the 7 wickets i d be lying if i didn t sweat a little near the end wondering whether one of the bowlers might land one straight but they came through our sources spoke to several bookies who said that in contests like these involving two teams who have made squandering the advantage an art form the smart money is invariably on the team in front to self destruct with flintoff hobbled with a hip injury even punters predicted a wicketless first session followed by a flurry late in the day as the west indies would assert themselves to try and snatch defeat from the jaws of a draw a dejected west indies captain chris gayle blamed the draw on the retirement of a certain brian lara his retirement certainly unsettled our lineup for nearly a decade his dismissal was the cue for the rest of the lineup to do the most promising impersonation of a pack of cards when someone opens a window local spectators were subdued as they went about trying to look busy after their side couldn t come away with the loss a local resident dejectedly said a bit of tradition has been lost today on the other hand the barmy army was in good cheer and continued to party long after time was called by the umpires in the final session yet another forgettable day of cricket to add to our enviable record over a couple of centuries he raised a toast as he congratulated the english team for never failing to un deliver another army man said how he never lost faith even when that 9th wicket went down with the better part of an hour remaining i d hold the bowlers responsible if that 10th wicket had fallen straussy did his bit by delaying the declaration in the face of a slow wicket and predictions of rain all they had to do was to keep the ball away from freddie for now the world of cricket is back to normal with the underachieving ways of the english the west indies will however will need to take a long hard look in the mirror to regain the spark that made them the biggest under performers in over a decade posted by don thaveaclue at 3 27 pm no comments labels blah sports wednesday february 11 2009 strappy days i finally have an achievement to speak of for my existence of over the better part of three decades having dithered dilly ed procrastinated and for good measure dally ed for over three weeks since the seed of the idea germinated the wife and i finally left the bustling and apparently irresistible force that is mumbai for a purely voluntary weekend away in mahabaleshwar before i m faced with allegations of falsely trying to paint myself as a workaholic it was always just laziness firstly the time and more importantly effort that goes into figuring out a weekend destination is pretty much that goes into planning a year long hiatus or what must ve gone into the invasion of troy secondly when compared to setting the alarm for 8 30am just for the bliss of pressing off and turning over for an additional couple of hours the idea of being up dark and early if it was bright it d wouldn t really be early would it to gasp shower and be choke physically active seemed just plain dumb that said not trying desperately and succeeding at looking like a vegetable over an entire day does have its rewards it helped that the missus took on the onerous task of planning the invasion namely means of transport and potential hotels a late night bus ride got us there you guessed it dark and early our cab driver s doubts after hearing our hotel s name fredrick were justified when we came across a locked gate and an unanswered reception phone number it was only later that day as we walked about town it struck us that our original hotel was the only one that didn t display only pure 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