Year: 2007

i think it was a damn good decision that i slept off for the chelski-liverpool match and instead decided to stay up for the man u – milan game. and what a game it was! awesome stuff by milan. utterly pathetic display by man u.

the commentary on ten sports was sucky and heavily biased towards the club from england, nevertheless it offered some nice insights. there were a few names that were hardly mentioned by the commentators yesterday.

nesta. kaladze. janulowski. giggs. scholes. rooney. all of them put together may have earned around 10 mentions (ok i’m exaggerating but it’s a ridiculously low number). i think that tells the story. along with the fact that gattuso had effectively blocked ronaldo out of the game until he forced his own substitution.

the stage is set for another mouthwatering milan – liverpool final. and right now i don’t really mind who wins. on one hand, i’m supposed to be a liverpool fan. on the other, milan are the underdogs.have fought off a points deduction and several injury problems.

given that i’m indifferent, i hope to just sit back and enjoy the football. and i seriously hope that they produce some good stuff.??

one reason why Liverpool has never won the Premiership – there are no penalty shootouts!

Anyways, now that they have exhausted their penalty puNya for the season, they need to make sure they win the final in full time itself!

So I made my debut on the Indian Economy Blog two days back. Must say that in just two days, i’ve noticed a lot of difference from “personal blogging” (such as this one).

For a start, it is to do with the readership. The thing with this blog is that most of the readers/commenters are friends or friends of friends. Of course there are a few others also, but most of them seem to be of the kind I can connect to. And that allows me to treat each comment with respect and reply to it honestly.

The thing with a public blog such as the Indian Economy Blog is that most of the readers are unknown. They are people who have no clue who you are, or you have know clue who they are. And it is not uncommon to find really arbit comments such as those on this blogpost a year ago. And it’s a public forum, at least more public than this. So i can’t even abuse them! There are a number of sane comments also, which you want to reply to, but they are usually lost.

Then the next thing is the “structure”. Having been so used to the “tree structure” of comments in LJ for more than two years, it is tough to reply to comments in the “list structure”. Need to put numerous “@”s.The comment and it’s reply are in two different corners of the page. Too much of a pain.

Yes, like a good blogger, I tried to reply to all the comments that were there but hte lack of the tree structure meant I soon put no enthu da. Also, the fact that most commentors were perfect strangers meant I somehow didn’t feel like replying to all. And of course, the number of comments is much greater so it’s all the more difficult.

However, yeah, it’s nice to get some footage. It is nice to see that something you have written is being read by so many people. It is nice to know that i have one place to put most of my “serious” posts for which I want an audience bigger than this blog provides. The structure and nature of comments, well, I’ll just have to take them as the natural counterbalancing factor! ??

Today I make my debut on The Indian Economy Blog. The first post is? about the need for an exclusive first class public transport system.

two years ago

hoping for another liverpool-milan final

hoping for anohter liverpool victory??

One of my “learnings” from my previous job was
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Never make yourself indispensable. It’s bad both for you and for your company.

Looks like I’ve made the same mistake again.

The Deccan Herald claims to offer full reports of all world cup matches despite the late finish – something like other papers such as the times of India don’t cover. The times usually gives a mid-innings report of the second batting team and leaves it at that.

So this morning’s paper says “West Indies 300. England 289/8 in 48 Overs”. Very interesting. Really don’t know why they had to keep the readers in such suspense on the last day of the world cup super eights! Maybe just to make things interesting. Maybe they wanted more people to watch TV (esp. the SET Max highlights) so they left it there. Maybe the editor wanted to have some fun. Or for all you know, the guy who reported it didn’t know that the match was not over and just put it in there.

Anyways, followign that, i switched on the TV and saw the full highlights on SET Max. One of the best games in the world cup so far. Really happy that Vaughan is back in form.

And I don’t know why, but i find it quite fitting that Lara had to get run out for a low score in his last innings. Quite summed up his brilliant but inconsistent career.