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Former Australian coach John Buchanan says: “Sourav is an engaging fellow, almost contradictory in everything he does. He is so skilful with his batting and bowling, yet so lacking in basic skills when it comes to fitness, running between wickets or ground fielding.

“He is a great tactician, yet makes many tactical errors. He is so courteous, yet so ignorant of basic human courtesies at times. He can be an inspiring leader, yet can be the wrong person to lead.”

Sourav’s Century against Australia made a serious strong statement & its another dramatic comeback. Sourav scoring does not make the strong statement but, he scoring will give a strong message to all his detractors. I think its going to be the worst case scenario for BCCI in the days to come. Sourav is going to fight with them. Am very sure he is not satisfied with his retirement.

His interview today revealed a few things:

“No, this will be my last series,” Ganguly said when asked if there is any thought of reconsidering his shock announcement the Australia Test series would be his last.

“Atleast I know, I don’t need to be playing under someone’s grace & don’t need to wait for someone to pick me each time”

BCCI! Beware! Sourav wants to fight

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(Let me feel you)

It’s been about a month and twenty days…
And were going round and round playing silly games…
Now your saying, slow it down, not right now…
Then you wink at me and walk away..

Ye kya kiya mein betaab hogaya
Tere bina  mujhe nehein jeena…Kya ye hi pyaar hai?

[Chorus:]
(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

Morina was the club on the saturday…
your acting like a diva saying you don’t wanna pay…
it’s gotta be your fiesty style …
raise that brow…
i love it when you look at me that way…
now when you order a Mohita at the bar…
re-applying lippy cuz it came off from the gloss…
the DJ plays your favourite song…
Kanyes on…
now your backing in for me to dance…
Ye kya kiya mein betaab hogaya
Tere bina mujhe nehein jeena…Kya ye hi pyaar hai?

[Chorus:]
(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

everything was right until her phone begins to ring…
she takes it to the corner, thats when i start wondering…
i can hear her shouting, banging her fist against the door…
yelling it all over, i couldn’t take it anymore…
then i walk away, and acting all wont you go and chill…
i ain’t trying to get caught up in a mess for real…
but she cam around and backed me up against the wall…
she said i know you hurt, but i’ll make you forget it all…

baby let me feel you…

[Chorus:]

(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

(Ride it) Banjavo thum…
(Ride it) Mere Sanam…
(Ride it, ride it) Kaise hua…
(Ride it, ride it) Dil khogaya…

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With the banks in crisis and contributing to a generalized distrust of the banking system, the news of the breech could not come at a worse time. While many in the information security world wondering who is running the servers and managing the security at many of the banking companies as they consolidate and shut down, news of a world bank hack, with five servers that contained sensitive data for a year comes as stunning information.

The data raids are not a matter of stealing inconsequential bits and bytes. The World Bank’s data center is literally a treasure trove of vital financial information from around the globe. As a clearinghouse for financial data from both governments and companies, the bank’s computers could provide intruders with both a financial and intelligence gold mine — from inside information on bids and contracts to the minutes of confidential board meetings.

Source: Fox News

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“There is no point playing like this. I am not willing to play at their (selectors’) mercy. They will pick you now and then dump you. Why should I be the sacrificial goat all the time? It was difficult to accept,”

“If a gun is held at your head, how far can you bear it? That too after playing 450 matches. I played badly in only one series. But others are not dropped. I have scored the highest number of runs after comeback,”

“How long would I have played? May be up to 2009. May be seven more tests. For that I was not prepared to take any more humiliation,”

“I have played enough cricket. Everything is possible in Indian cricket. There are players who haven’t scored for the last three series for India, even for the last one year,”

“There are some who have changed their hairstyle more than they have scored for India. I am bound to feel bad. I had to fight with my heart.

“If there is a gun to your head all the time, how long can you bear this? After all, I have played 400 matches for India. I have played badly in only one series. Yet every Tom, Dick and Harry is playing in the team,”

“I never thought I will be out of the Irani team. I couldn’t sleep for one month in anger, agony. Had this committee (new selection committee) come three years ago, things might have been different,”

 All these statements are from Ganguly quoted as saying to a Bengali daily “Aaj Kaal”.

Interestingly, Sourav Ganguly lashed out at Mahender Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman indirectly. He even fired BCCI. This is turning out to be a nightmare for BCCI…am pretty sure about this!.

BCCI will now try to have compromising plans for his safe exit. But, I don’t think Sourav is going to go calmely without pointing out the mistakes made by the selection committee & others. At this point, everyone knows Sourav is the one to blame for being so immature for making such comments & his wrong attitude all through his cricketing career but, down the line  ….people will know about the other people who are even more worse than this fellow.

Like my previous blog said, there is definitely something wrong & quite surprising with Ganguly’s exit plans & this statements clearly say a few things as to why he planned to retire.

There is still a lot to come from his Sourav. Am pretty sure about it. He is going to take on the BCCI & the people who ruined his career. No question about that!

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Sourav Ganguly  definitely one of the legends of the game announced that he would end his cricketing career after the upcoming series against Australia. It surely must have been a sudden decision rather than a well thought out decision.

Reasons that might have forced him to retire:

1. BCCI -Master of Politics & Corrupting Cricket at its best
2. Senior - Junior comparison trend
3. To end his Cricketing career on high note - he retiring himself rather than someone kicking him out.
4. End his retiring career against Australia & by playing Cricket.

I really feel sad for his decision to quit International Cricket. Not a great fan of his but, he is surely a legend batsman & one of the best captains..cricket has ever produced. Sourav Ganguly’s agressive nature has bought lot of power & energy to Indian Cricket. Sourav is definitely a dedicated player with more passion, agression, egos towards the game that always influenced the people in positive & negative ways.

His decision to quit is definitely a threat to the other three seniors - Sachin, Dravid & Kumble (Laxman can play some more time in tests. May be 3 more years for sure. He is backbone of Indian Test cricket right now.)

Sachin might  have been thinking he can play till 2011 somehow picking just the important matches & right endorsements but, his time is up.  Dravid is mentally not right after he quit captaincy. I don’t think he is going to be the same Dravid again. He can hang his boots. Kumble….he is definitely an agressive captain & bowler but, he has become more negative now a days - aging signs. Time for him to just sit in the commentary box like Ian Chappel or Geoffrey Boycott.

Coming back to Sourav, No one will forget this great batsman so easily. He has done Indian cricket lot of good. Whatever the agressive trend that is showing in Dhoni / the youngsters is just a cloned version of Saurav copied from Saurav. These guys will never make up to the image that Saurav Ganguly posseses.

“Sourav is not a person to quit calmely”…… It was said by someone & who said it, he is right. Even Saurav knows that he won’t quit calmely. He will definitely give a punch to BCCI & to his odds.

Sourav might reveal all the evil things surrounding BCCI for sure. Everyone knows the bad about Saurav. So BCCI cannot potray him again. People still love Sourav inspite of the mistakes that he has made. Afterall, everyone makes mistakes. Saurav is also just like everyone ..it is just that he is agressive & more popular person, his things are being mirrorized a bit more.

All the best Sourav Ganguly for your cricketing career. I surely want you to enter into Bengal Politics to fight odds against brainless people like mamta banerjee. And hope to see you make one more surprising decision ..that is to join Indian Cricket League. Am not a great fan of ICL, but it will be big blow to BCCI. Why should BCCI have all the fun? let them face the music too. You are anyways going to get same money whether u play for IPL or ICL. Why not join ICL & gain tremondous respect for yourself. There is lot of Young Indian talent in ICL, they need you. IPL has god fathers & lot of Cricket players to help the young talent. But, in ICL there are very few.

Anyways, one last bye to Sourav Ganguly. I will remember these:

1.  Agressive face Sourav puts while he bats & cool head when he is at the crease. Offside strokes, Inside out strokes, Big sixes (Srilanka..paap), Natwest final
2. Bought up lot of new talent (Irfan, Yuvi, Kaif) & people with no talent as well (I remember Sanjay Bhangar in this list).

There are some things that are bad to point against Sourav Ganguly but, all that is faded now with his surprising decision to quit International Cricket.

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While Rambo can survive a volley of bullets in the action flicks, people who overestimate their abilities are more likely to die in a disaster than those who are strong-willed but humble, according to a leading survival expert.Author Robert Gonzales has identified what he believes to be the keys to surviving a major disaster.

To reach the conclusion, Gonzales reviewed miraculous tales of survival from catastrophes like the Burmese cyclone, September 11 attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami for his book ‘Deep Survival’.

“(The survivors) are people who tend to have a view of the world that does not paint them as a victim,” News.com.au quoted him, as telling CNN.

“They’re not whiners who are always complaining about the bad things that are happening to them and expecting to get rescued,” he added.

Referring to the analysis, he said, about 75 per cent of people caught in a catastrophe either freeze or simply wander in a daze.

“The first thing people do when something bad happens is to be in denial. People who make good survivors tend to get through that phase quickly. They accept the evidence of their senses,” Gonzales said.

“Humility can keep you out of trouble,” Gonzales says.

“If you go busting into the wilderness with the attitude that you know what’s going on, you’re liable to miss important cues,” he added.

Source: Yahoo News.

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Whenever Google launches some product, it hurts the competitor. But, in this case…Google surely became a scape goat for their mini effort on browser. Chrome basically needs a lot of tweaks to make it user friendly…though its sleek, it is actually taking up lot of resources just like Firefox. IE on other side takes minimum amount of resources.

I have tested out both the IE Beta 2 & Chrome. And I have to say IE Beta is more ‘Professional’ & lot more thought put in to make it. It is more User friendly & might surely make users quit firefox & opt for IE 8 in the coming days.

Speaking about Google’s Chrome. This product won’t hurt the competitor instead it will make the competitor laugh at the product for such a basic product.

Am unimpressed. People might still give a thumsup to this browser but, from my side…I rather stick to Firefox or stick to IE8. Am not very sure if there are going to be any major changes for this Chrome.

Positives:

1. Websites load faster than  any other browser
2. Search suggestions as we type in the URL of any website. Keyword suggestion looks quite a handy tool.
3. It’s sleek & hides everything except the URL bar & tabs. We get to cover larger area of any website.

Negatives:

1. Very basic functionalities. This Google product will not hurt the competitor
2. It does not have original ideas. Ideas copied from Opera, Firefox, Safari & IE. Nothing unique or special ideas put into this browser.
3. Very  Basic product. It will take a few more versions may be in order to compete with IE8 & Firefox.
4. Scroll up option does not seem to be working properly in Chrome Beta version.
5. Takes up lot of resources. More than Firefox & eats up space. IE8 seems to be the smallest in terms of utilizing resources.
6. Not a creative product. It is just another copied product. Google needs to start making their ‘own’ concepts rather than copying the concepts. Their search presence helping them to survive & compete even if their products are basic & highly unprofessional.

Read Peter Svensson, CNN correspondent review of Google Chrome here: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/03/review.chrome.ap/index.html

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I heard that you’re leavin - this sleepy little town
the bright lights must have caught your eye cuz you ain’t hangin’ round
ya know people been talkin’ - they say you’re makin’ a mistake
gotta get on that greyhound and forget about what they say

just walk on by - walk on by
don’t look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
just walk on by

i’ve heard bad things about the city and i’m told that they’re true
better watch out for those guys out there they’re gonna hit on you
so don’t talk to no strangers - no it ain’t your style
don’t give up when the chips are down - just turn around and smile

just walk on by - walk on by
don’t look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
just walk on by - ya walk on

you’re old enough to know why - you’re old enough to know why

now you’re standing at the station - got a ticket in your hand
guess you got you’re mind made up - gotta get out while you can
don’t say i never told ya - now the rest is up to you
those streets can be like a battlefield - when it’s hard to make it thru…

just walk on by - walk on by
don’t look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
just walk on by

walk on by - walk on by
you’re a little bit lonely you’re a little bit shy
just walk on by

walk on by - walk on by
don’t look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
just walk on by

walk on by - walk on by
you’re a little bit lonely you’re a little bit shy
just walk on by

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