Something that ill never understand

MuthIts beena while since i posted lasted maily cuz i was busy with my RF reciever for IIT Bombays Techfest. That was an experience in itself which ill write about some othertime.

A coupla days bac I was at Panjim doing some sponsorship work for my college fests. I was at a chat shop called Chat Street talkin to the manager guy when a gang of girls walked in.

One of the girls was carrying a bunch of papers and they fell down. Now what would u do when something of that sort happens?? U turn and look at what happened. 

Thats wat I did just like any normal person would, nothing intentional about it just normal reaction.

Now this girl thinks that im trying to look down her shirt, gets all concious and pulls it up and stuff.

For the next 10 odd minutes shes givin me wierd looks.

The minute I walked out of that Chat shop I was irritated. Is this the way all women look at men? That they've got nothing else to do other than peek??

Then I got back to my hostel and was watchin the news when I saw that some women had been molested in a pub at Mangalore by a bunch of losers who cant accept that women also can drink.

I realised that its because of these sonsabitches that every Indian girl is insecure bout herself.

They call themselves Sri Ram Sena , watever in the world thats supposed to mean cuz im sure molesting women is not something you do in Gods name.

You read today in the papers bout the atrocities of people like Raj Thackeray, Muthalik and the other bastards who think only thier culture is right. I think its about time the public shows our politicians and the police and all the administrative shit the middle finger and take these mentally retarded fanatics to task. Kill them if you have to cuz they have killed.

Again today morning I was watching the news and I saw the Muthalik or watever his name is guy has 48 cases against him many amounting to murder and hes gonna be let off on bail??

Now that I think of it I dont blame that girl in the chat shop for what she did.

But then again there are good guys in this world and I hope that women dont brand all men to be of the same kind.

Gunners or whiners :part 2

This blog is again bout arsenal. And for all those gunners out there who are pissed off bout my last post well take it easy this one's different.

Well for all thier whining and moaning I have enjoyed watching arsenal play over the years. Although I loathed watching them win I admired the football that the combination of players like Bergkamp, Viera, Pires, Henry and Ljunberg put together. 

The reason Arsenal are struggling today is cuz they've failed to replace these guys. Wenger took arsenal to new highs but now i think hes ruined it. For me Fabregas is the only player who is of the same calibre of the above mentioned players. 

I mean compare Adebayor and Henry. Cmon even arsenal fans will admit that its a no comparison.

I also think it was a mistake building the emirates stadium. Yes Arsenal can seat more fans now but they're outta cash to bring in players of quality. Its only a matter of time before Cesc packs his bags and heads for some spanish club mostly Barca cuz thats whr arsenal have sold some of thier players like Henry and Hleb.

Wenger has to act sooner or later and get his team out of trouble or elz thers only one direction arsenal are gonna go. Down.

But thers speculation that Mr. Wenger himself might pack his bags and leave a hapless arsenal to go to the Bernabeu. Interesting if that happens.......................................................................

The thin line.........

Growing up as an indian kid is hard. Im sure all you Indian kids out there will agree.

Indian parents are hard on thier kids n im sure most of yall will agree. We all complain that our parents dont let us do stuff that we really want to.

Thers a thin line which is almost impossible to reach. 

I guess we must realise that our parents are probably the only ones who care about us dearly. They're the only ones whom we can really turn to when weve screwd up and they're probably the only ones who are gonna forgive us for being stupid.

We complain about them not givin us money to spend but we don realise that all the good stuff we have is from thier hard earned money.

We complain when we're not allowed to go out with our friends on every holiday we get but we also dont realise that on every holiday they get they look forward to spending time with us and we want to go out with friends and eventually they give in.

But thers another side of the coin.

Most Indian parents dont realise that thers a huge generation gap between them and us. 

They dont realise that whatever was taboo then is ok today and they are very finiky about it.

And most of them expect us to follow what they've been practising without allowing us to exercise our opinion about it.

But at the end of the day the onus falls on us to find the small space of understanding what they want and understanding what we want.

I love my parents and im tryin to find that thin line. 

Its hard but i guess ill get to it someday

Will post soon

Till then

Happy Lohri

Gunners or Whiners???

English football is brilliant. The pace,  tempo, atmosphere and passion in it makes it what it is. Its a game played hard and players put everything into each and every pass tackle or shot they make.

A north london club called Arsenal is one of the major clubs in England. Gunners they are called for thier history or some shit.

But in actuality they're just whiners. Ok they can pass the ball around and play flowery football but you've got to be tough enough to take tackles on.

Wind the clock all the way back to 2001, the FA cup final. Arsenal had battered Liverpool for 83 mins and were leading 1-0. Last 7 minutes Liverpool played some tough football, got some tackles in and Michael Owen scored a brace  and won the cup for pool. 

End of the game Arsene Wenger comes out n says"Liverpool did not play well enough to win. The cup is rightfully ours".

2003 season Arsenal played Man Utd at Highbury. They battered united again for most of the game. Ruud Van Nistelrooy won a penatly in the dying seconds. What happened later is irrelevant but again the in post match interview Martin Keown comes out saying "The difference in quality of football between us and them is appalling. The only chance in the game they had was the penalty". 

Come to the present season :Arsenal played Stoke City at the Brittania stadium. Stoke are a physical side and present very little space for the opposition to play. Of course Mr Wenger again expects his opposition to not touch his delicate darlings and sit and watch havin a cuppa tea while his "kids" pass the ball around. Stoke went on to beat Arsenal and guess wat Wenger said "Stoke were not intrested in playing football. They deliberately tried to injure our players. We were stopped from playing true football"

Not gonna happen. Arsenal can go to division one although i doubt they're gonna have much success there.

The english game is all about being physical. If u get tackled or crunched u get up and move on with it not sit and whine like Arsenal do. Well if you do you'll probably end up losing 4th place to Aston Villa 

Workshop Woes

A couple of days back i saw a notice on my hostel board on a workshop on micro controllers.

Now Ive worked with PSoCs before and i kinda enjoyed working on them so i thought why not lets give it a try mayb it'll work out.

So i paid 850 bucks(thank god it was only that much) and enrolled myself. One of my friends wanted to enroll but she cudn cuz she was too late. She was dissapointed that she cudn get it so i thought i was pretty lucky.

The workshop started and how the roles reversed. I was the unlucky one. I don wanna be sued for defamation but ppl at BITS know which workshop im talkin about. It was shit worse than i had ever imagined. 

It was a 4 day workshop and at the end of the 1st day i was already offering my seat to ppl. It was so bad that ppl werent even intrested in a 2nd hand seat.

So i enter the third day facing 6 hrs(a minimum) of torture ruining the first sunday of my new semester. If this is a sign of things to come well .................................................................nothing.

Slumdog reality

I watched Slumdog Millionaire yesterday.

Brilliant movie, realistic and very very appropriate for today's India.

I never used to watch Indian movies when i was at school and for a very very valid reason.

They were shit.SHIT. No reality just create a hypothetical love situation boy meets girl they fall in love , run away and dance in the rain and run around trees.

Then the villain who also loves the girl comes and kidnaps her,shoots the hero. But wait the hero doesn die there he cant be killed that easy cuz he has the genes of superman.

The guy with half a dozen bullets up his ass still can fight off all the villians men. He gets shot in Bombay but can survive until he reaches Delhi that too in a train(An Indian train!!!!!) and kill the villian and save the heroine.

I mean cmon get real. That shits never gonna happen ANYWHERE. 

I mean where do 100 odd people gather all of a sudden and start dancing together?? And how come they change venues and clothing instantaneously??? One moment they're dancin in Kerala and the next moment they are in front of the Big Ben in London????? Wow!

I like movies which revolve around reality. Movies after watchin which I feel "hey thats possible".

But off late there have been a couple of Indian movies which are that way.

I really enjoyed watching Black, TZP, A Wednesday and now Slumdog Millionaire.

Im sure most of you would hv enjoyed them too.

Lets hope Indian cinema doesn go back to its melodramatic past

Centre Back Troubles

This blog is totally bout football.

I used to play a lot of soccer when i was at school. Ive played as striker, winger, defensive midfielder, wing back and full back and even goal keeper but never as a centre back.

A coupla days ago i went to play soccer.After joining college ive stuck to basketball n football's just been a now n then affair.

Well since I played with the college team that day and since most of them are better than me they wanted me to play centre back.

Hardest frigging thing ive ever done. Not that I did badly I was pretty decent. But playing at centre back is pretty tough.

Uve got to watch the ball, watch the guy ur marking, watch the back line if ur playin any1 onside, watch runs on either side of you, and even tell the guys in front what thier passing options are.

All this simultaneously. Its only after I played centre back that Ive started having a new level of respect for guys like Jamie Carragher, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Fabio Cannavaro, and the like.

These guys are the best centre backs in the world. They may not score plenty of goals or even do stepovers n shit but the job they do requires a lot of skill.

Ive seen Carra make some brilliant tackles n trust me when ur playing centre back uve got to get each n every tackle absolutely right.

Otherwise u may end up givin a penalty or a freekick in a dangerous area

u may get sent off or carded.

Or if ur unlucky both

Defending especially at centre back is hard and for those of you who adore the Messis and Kakas and Gerrards well the guys at the back too deserve your appreciation.

Gangtok: A role model

I had been to Gangtok this winter and this blog is completely  about it.

Lets see Gangtok is 7000 ft above sea level and its beautiful no question about it. Its got the himalyan air and aura to it. 

But that apart thers sumthin about gangtok which really impressed me. The cleanliness and the order of not just the city but thw whole state of sikkim. 

Let me break it up quickly

1) Anyone found spitting or littering is immediately fined 1500 bucks.

2) Anyone found smokin in public is fined 2500 bucks.

3) There are "walk only" zones in the city and any vehicle entering them is fined 500 bucks immediately.

4)The whole state doesn use plastic in any form.

5)(and most importantly) all the chicks there are hot :P :P

Well anyways I was mighty impressed by this. Littering is something which pisses me off bigtime. I mean let me start with my own campus. We do have dustbins at every nook and corner and despite that ppl still litter. Its just lack of civic sense that prevails in India.

It startles me that if a simple and small state like sikkim can be so clean why not the so called

" successful" states follow suit. Ive been to chennai and mumbai a couple of times, kolkata too. These 3 cities are just disgusting in terms of cleanliness chennai especially.

Ive lived in Bangalore all my life and relatively Bangalore is on the cleaner side. 

Well ppl might argue saying that in these metros the population is huge and managing cleanliness is difficult. Fact of the matter is not one spineless politician wants to impose fines for any of the above said reason only because they wont get votes.

Personally I think it can be done, its just a matter of who does it and when.

Im glad that thers atleast one place in India where ppl are responsible n i certainly do hope there are more which wud follow.

I had a good time in gangtok and its a good place to go.

Untill later

keep chillin

This is it

Its been more than while since ive wanted to start blogging.

My name's Ashwath. Im doing my Undergrad in Electrical n Electronics at BITS Pilani Goa.

Well im gonna write stuff straight from the head. No beating around the bush, no being displomatic and careful. No thats just not my style.

Anyways I hope every1 who reads my blogs gets something out of it be it sheer entertainment or moral values n stuff.

Will post soon 

until then 

adios