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Cable TV in India
People may not realize but as a television audience, all Indians are spoilt silly and they still complain if the monthly cable bill goes north of 300 rs/-. Take other countries like US or UK and to get just the basic smattering of channels, you end up paying 30-50 dollars/pounds and close to a 100 if you want the full gamut of channels ( Read more... ) -
F1 commentary American -ishtyle
"(Yawn) And they are off" (it was a very great build-up to the start of the new grand prix season ( Read more... ) -
The Special One or is it? (dont worry folks this is not about football)
Well so it seems like I have bunch of interesting friends (well not that you were not interesting before I got your comments on my previous post). Anyway so anyone who knows a bit of English football knows the Special One as Moan-rinho. To everyone else, well, it seems that it brings about a vision of life after a man goes about kneeling down on ( Read more... ) -
The Special One
It has been only a few weeks since the Special One was fired from his job and you just need to look at the sports news to see how times have changed. So Chelsea drew a match yesterday - no rants from their manager or any cursing of the referees. What is the most surprising though is that the news sites actually ignored the fact that Chelsea dropped ( Read more... ) -
Joining the queue - everyone is blogging about the moderate San Jose earthquake of 2007
So each year California seems to get hit by around 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them of course are so negligible in strength that you would not know about them unless you kept a careful check on the earthquake monitoring sites. At other times, if you are like me, you will wonder why your car is shaking so much when you are stationary at the signal ( Read more... ) -
Yay! I got cable
So finally after a few weeks of no football on TV, I finally get to start watching it again. And I start with Liverpool v/s Arsenal.
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More tales about books
So everyone on LJ suddenly seems to be posting about books. Books they have, books they are reading or just finished reading or making resolutions on reading more books. And I am guessing that soon there will be a bunch or two of people who will be saying how they cannot read books and calling people who read a lot of books 'pseudo-intellectuals ( Read more... ) -
Oh well there is always next year to look forward to ...
Porto v Chelsea
Celtic v AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal
Lille v Manchester United
Roma v Lyon
Barcelona v Liverpool
Real Madrid v Bayern Munich
Inter Milan v Valencia -
It never pays to take off a day from work!
Why? Well, its 6 pm on a Tuesday Oct. 24th (a public holiday) after the day of my vacation and I am sitting in office.