Moto GP & F1

Last Sunday saw two races worth watching. One on two wheels and one on four. While in Moto GP, it was fun watching the doctor turning it on, it was very painful watching the reds blow their title chances to smithereens.

If the FIA doesn't do something about overtaking in F1 races, more and more people will switch to watching Moto GP. Thanks to Piquet crashing, the Singapore GP turned into a lottery and one in which Ferrari lost very badly. Even though it was of their own making. If the lollipop man had not twitched when he did, Massa might still have won the race.

Meanwhile a true champion stamped his authority all over the 08 Moto GP season. Watching Rossi win the race at Motegi was an experience. The moment he turned up in the top three, you knew he was going to win. And win he did in vintage style. Casey Stoner might well be the rising star, but he still has a thing or two to learn in terms of leading a race and not wilting under the pressure of a confident second place runner.

God knows which Ferrari team will turn up for the rest of the races in F1. For a while in the recent races, Massa was almost proving my prediction wrong. I don't think he has what it takes to win this championship, and I am yet to be proven otherwise. The next three races will tell if I am any good at this game ...

Of old friends and never ending conversations..

I don't know what's with old friends and conversations. They just never seem to end nor dry up. Which makes one look forward to these episodes in life. I had one last night and it was amazing while it was on. The morning after is a liquor induced haze, but that's also part of the charm. You tend to look back and think,"Man, that was some night".

After a long night filled with rum and coke, mixed with single malt on the rocks, its easy to forget what happened. But the beauty of these episodes are the memories that are revived and created making these special and things that you look forward to.

I am already waiting for the next one....;)

The Visa Business

Visa's are so hard to get, for ordinary citizens, yet the ones it should be hard for, manage to get through. How do they manage that, I wonder.
Can't blame the system for making it so tough, but at the same time it makes me wonder, whether the system actually helps to weed out the unwanted elements.
Hmmm

Questions

Roads are laid just before the rains so that they can get washed promptly away. Why?

Roads are dug up even before the freshly laid tar dries up by the telephone or the water guys. Why?

The citizens pay betterment tax and road tax for what joy no one knows.

The traffic cops claim to be doing all they can to ease traffic congestion in the city with no visible signs of the congestion easing. All they probably need to do is for starters, to change the bus stops at most major junctions a fair bit away from the junction instead of stops being almost instantly after the junction. But they haven't thought of that yet. Don't ask me why.

One whole village in Kodagu is starving coz no vehicles can reach that village with the bare necessities. The roads to that village are in such a state that drivers have refused to drive there. This has been true for over 2 years now and yet successive governments have failed to do anything about it. God knows why.

Terrorists strike at will and no one has a clue about how to stop them or at the very least deter them form such misadventures. Strong measures are eschewed for fear of alieanating the minority votebanks. People still go out and vote. God knows why.

One down, four to go

So, it had to end like this. I just hope he doesn't protest too much. Frankly speaking, in the last series, it looked like he was going through the motions. The others at least looked like they were making an effort. Dada looked like he had had enough.
It is a very sad end to an amazing career. Indian cricket owed a better farewell to this great player. I might be a bit hasty in saying this, for Dada has proven many people wrong in his time and one last hurrah might well be in the offing, but going by what I saw in the Test series in Lanka, I don't think so. He seems to have had enough of trying to prove people wrong.
Nothing much left for him to achieve.

Thank you for all the memories....

Hope to see you in the BCCI at some point in time. Will be good to see some butt kicked.