Does anybody have an answer??

I am fed up of some recent happenings about my predictions and misfortune. We have been playing a NFL fantasy game where the participants choose the winning teams before the kickoff on Sunday. In the past 3 weeks, I was not even close to picking the right set of teams and have been on the receiving end all times. I cant say that I made the wrong pick, but just that my picks dont win!!!! Is it some kind of ill luck???
Why is it that the teams that I support always end up losing?? Be it K-State or Chiefs or Indian Cricket or ....whoever..
Only the Aussies make my day and cheer me up!!!!

A Sixty-Four-Dollar-Question or Is it??? Part-II

Before continuing, here are some pictures and descriptions of our CO Trip taken during labor day weekend.

Among many mystery movies, I prefer very intense mystery movies with a breathtaking suspense in the end. I do not mind watching gory scenes that come along, if the movie has the ingredients I look for, that is suspense. One such movie that had a amalgamation of both was 'SAW'. It is very safe for me to say that, this is the best thriller(i may be wrong in saying thriller, but definitely the movie with the best suspense..another movie was sixth sense, but thats kind of fictional) I have watched till date. Yeah, it had several gory scenes..so what?? Its just a movie..

Lot of my friends that I talked to, hate this movie or dont even want to hear about this movie. If you are not the type who like watching mystery/thriller/horror movies, then I would agree with you. But most often thats not the case. People ask me what kind of logic does this movie have or what kind of saddistic movie is this?? Yeah it may not have a sound logic or it may have a saddistic part, but in one's life, believe it or not, every person in the earth would have seen atleast one illogical movie that had some ugly part associated.

Some people say that, they get disturbed by watching these kinds of movies and cannot sleep. I dont know whether I can entirely agree with that. When fighting is going on all times, at some part of the world, gory things happen even in real life. Technically, then you shouldnt get sleep everyday..but that doesnt happen is it??? Obviously people are able to overcome that and are able to lead a normal life. Similary is it wrong for me to expect people to watch these kinds of movies(which are not real life anyway) by skipping the parts that they dont like and take the good parts and enjoy the movie???
The argument can easily go both ways and its always going to be a sixty-four-dollar-question. But, at the end of the day, I would like to suggest everybody that its just a movie and if you watch it just as a movie, you would definitely enjoy it, especially if you like suspense.

A Sixty-Four-Dollar-Question or Is it???.. Part--I

Until my 7th grade, I stayed in relatively small cities and had to do my education in relatively small schools. Hence, the exposure and the competitive nature wasnt present in me (except ofcourse sports) especially in studies. Things changed impromptu after I moved to Chennai during my eight grade.
I had to compete with really talented people on all skills. My close friends talked about things that I never understood sometimes and they seemed to be of a different class altogether. They were also a big fan of reading novels like hardy boys,three investigators etc. Tempted by their recommendation, and my curiousity as well, I started to read my first novel. My english skills was pretty much below average and I had to refer to dictionary more often than not to finish each page of the novel.
It took me atleast a week to finish a 200 page novel. But then, slowly my vocabulary improved and was able to increase the pace of my reading as well. We would discuss the happenings and try to predict the villain in the novel during breaks and lunch time at school.Some people in my class even thought that we were crazy.This is when I became big fan of mystery, suspense, murder and thriller stories. I would only read archies or tin tin or other comics, if a particular book i am looking for isnt available or checked out. My pace was so high later on that I easily surpassed a book a day and more importantly without referring to dictionary. After I reached 10th grade, because of pressure in studies, I completely stopped reading novels and ever since, my penchant for reading novels decreased dramatically. My folks were delighted that it was only spasmodic and would not affect what one could call as "crucial phase of ones career".
However my fondness towards mystery,suspense,thrillers never diminished and even though I couldnt spend time reading novels, I would watch movies of that genre to satisfy my quest whenever I had a chance. Remember in those times, it is a luxury if you have a VCR to watch movies and if we did happen to rent one, my folks wouldnt agree for these types of movies. So my frequency wasnt obviously that high. It is only after my exodus to U.S, that I had access to all sorts of stuff and could actually awaken my passion for watching mystery movies.

Its kickoff time!!!!

I would never regret the harsh winter that I spent two years ago in minneapolis. It made me confine to home most times and exposed me to watch one of the most demanding sport in the world today.Yes, its the football season back again folks!!!!
Inspite of not knowing the rules of the NFL completely, I used to sit infront of the idiot box and watch for hours. The more games I watched, the more familiar I became and more involved I got. According to me, its one of the best strategical game ever to be played in the history of sports. There are so many permutations and combinations involved that its impossible to predict the result of the game. Given any day,any condition,any team can beat any other. Thats the beauty of it.
As the NFL season kicks off this week, I have to admit that, inspite of the big tv, I have not watched even one full football game yet.
(This reminds me to also say that, I have got my big screen TV and its just awesome!!!)
At the NCAA level,after a near debacle against a low ranked opponent, KSU wildcats doesnt look to be too promising to head even to any bowl. However having said that, we have a new coach, new system and we need to give them some time to figure out the winning recipe. Chiefs however seem to be improving. So I am going to keep my fingers crossed and enjoy the ride of the football season.
Go WildCats and Chiefs!!!!!