I had the chance to see the extended highlights of the champions league 2nd round first leg matches...Here's a brief review of the games...
1.Ajax 2-2 Inter
Ajax had the match won but threw it away....they were leading 2-0 at half time and it was some pretty slack defending that screwed up everything. I think Adriano and co will murder them at the san siro..
2.Chelsea 1-2 Barcelona
Man this was a really exciting match.Even though i think chelsea really suck and there are many around better then mourinho they were really hard done by when del-horno was sent off....but honestly...barca just raped them.....they hardly had a shot on target during the entire game...and as the home team they lacked any enterprise....even when they had 11 men...Also lionel messi was awesome ....man people talk about rooney and fabregas and all but this fellow is way ahead of them...as for chelsea they'll get raped all over again at the Camp Nou
3.Rangers 2-2 Villareal
Didn't watch this one properly...just saw the goals ......woeful defending from ranges... Villareal will do enough to go through
4.Wereder Bremen 3-2 Juventus
This was the game of the night.Bremen were a goal down with 5 minutes to go and they scored 2 goals in those five minutes to win 3-2. I saw the entire replay of the game and it looked like juve were playing casually....not something italian teams do...but they'll do enough in the second leg to go through
5.Bayern Munich 1-1 AC Milan
Hmmmmmm......apart from Michael Ballacks goal this game was boring......ands that all you can expect when germen team plays a italian team...But i think(some people are gonna be angry) milan have lost it this season. Not just in the champions league but in all competitions.....and the surprising thing is that they have all their major players fit. Maybe a time for a change of coach in milan....??
6.Benfica 1-0 Liverpool
Ok....this is the important one.....I think Liverpool didn't deserve to lose but they didn't deserve to win either. As for benfica.....Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.....I can't understand how they got to this stage......absolutely amzing....i mean they just kept kicking liverpool players....and btw no gerrard,no crouch and no cisse for liverpool....won't be a pleasent night for benfica at anfield
7.PSV Eindhoven 0-1 Lyon
for the uninformed Lyon are(belive it or not!!) the bookmakers third favourite to win the champions league just behind barca and juventus. Didn't watch this one in any detail....but i read that psv were pretty dull.
8.Real Madrid 0-1 Arsenal
Grrrrrrrr........madrid suks.....henry confirmed that with a awesome goal.....and if real madrid think they can go to highbury and win they are joking......k.o. for madrid..
looking forward to barca chelsea
So who will win it??? i think barcelona will win this tie but screw up somewhere else in the competition. They play attacking stuff only and you cant win the CL just attacking. As for Chelski...they may spend a lot of money....but they will never be able to win in europe. Chelski are like a group of mercenaries.......and they may be consistent in the long run but for europe you need to have passion. If you see the chelski line up against barca not a single player in the sixteen has come throught the youth system at chelsea. They were all purchased. All good teams(those that play natural football...) have a lot of players in the squad who are groomed at the club. Even real Madrid are facing the same problem hardly anyone from originally from madrid. But look at barca....in their starting 11 valdes,puyol,oleguer,messi,motta,iniesta and belletti are from the youth system in barca. It's the same for every team...the best players come through the youth system. at liverpool it's owen, gerrard and carragher, at real it was raul and hierro, in the man united team of the nineties the entire sqauad was a youth team,it's del piero at juve, it's maldini at milan,kahn in bayern munich and the list is endless....You can't completely buy success.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
2 days in a hospital
I have spent the last two and a half days in apollo DRDO with drips through my hands and a tube to my stomach through my nose with milk going through it. It is stupid to mention this on a public blog but i have no other place to vent my frustration about this.
I was diagnosed with acute gastro *****(donno whats after gastro ..) which translates into food poisoning. how did i get it?? god knows... :(
This post is to describe how life totally totally suks at a hospital. NO TV NO LAN NO MOVIES NO P.R. FOOD NO GOOD LOOKING NURSES (booo hooooo) and a s.o.b. doctor who wanted to keep me there till friday...(can u belive that....) I was lucky that one fo my friends dropped in and had his laptop and cellphone (LAPTOP + CELLPHONE = INTERNET :D ) And if that had not happened i surely would have gone into depression. Man life in a hospital suks... So i decided to get outta hospital...and come to the place where u have it all....(Of course the hospital staff,doctor and my parents think that i am still in the hospital :D )
And that's not all .....this food poisoning episode has really screwd me....below is a report of the damage done
1.Primary problem: Valentine's day ruined...fu*#%d raped :((
2. Grafix assignment screwed
3. TOC assignment screwed
4. missed Cricket match for ug2
5.Missed football match for UG2
Crap....shit......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhh what rotten luck..all this had to happen at this time. Luckily i had attendence....otherwise attendence rules would have totally fried my a$$. Now im on the edge in 2 subjects......And as i write this post i realise what a heaven IIIT is.......LAN INTERNET MOVIES TV SHOWS FOOD(still waiting for canteen) sab kuch hai...... I never felt this happy at IIIT
I was diagnosed with acute gastro *****(donno whats after gastro ..) which translates into food poisoning. how did i get it?? god knows... :(
This post is to describe how life totally totally suks at a hospital. NO TV NO LAN NO MOVIES NO P.R. FOOD NO GOOD LOOKING NURSES (booo hooooo) and a s.o.b. doctor who wanted to keep me there till friday...(can u belive that....) I was lucky that one fo my friends dropped in and had his laptop and cellphone (LAPTOP + CELLPHONE = INTERNET :D ) And if that had not happened i surely would have gone into depression. Man life in a hospital suks... So i decided to get outta hospital...and come to the place where u have it all....(Of course the hospital staff,doctor and my parents think that i am still in the hospital :D )
And that's not all .....this food poisoning episode has really screwd me....below is a report of the damage done
1.Primary problem: Valentine's day ruined...fu*#%d raped :((
2. Grafix assignment screwed
3. TOC assignment screwed
4. missed Cricket match for ug2
5.Missed football match for UG2
Crap....shit......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhh what rotten luck..all this had to happen at this time. Luckily i had attendence....otherwise attendence rules would have totally fried my a$$. Now im on the edge in 2 subjects......And as i write this post i realise what a heaven IIIT is.......LAN INTERNET MOVIES TV SHOWS FOOD(still waiting for canteen) sab kuch hai...... I never felt this happy at IIIT
Saturday, February 11, 2006
The truth about Sports@IIIT
Having read a rather interesting post i also decided to get my hands dirty and have a go at the way sports is run and looked at in IIIT. In this post i'll write about some things that may be rather embaressing for some people...but please note, i mean no insults to anybody. The faculty are fine people and i'm sure they try to do what they think is the best for us not that it always is :)
The first part is about general sp0rts and games in IIIT meant even for those who are not into sports on a regular basis.
On IIIT's web page they try to make it look as if they work hard to encourage sports. (they are supposed to do that it's their job :P ) They have made P.T. compulsory. Now i personally think that p.t. at six in the morning is dumb especially when you have to submit assignments at 12 in the night almost every other day(ug1 people have to do it.....remember DSA my friends :O ) Many people come here with the view that sports and games are useless. I belive most people coming here wouldn't have hade these many playing facilities ever before. But the way P.T. is imposed on them makes them revolt at the thought of sports. Instead of introducing sports as a recreation the institute has turned into a forcible boot camp. But the main motive behind P.T. as told by the dean is to make people get up early in the morning.....that was a poor excuse by any standards. When our batch got really fed up of P.T. the faculty agreed to shift the P.T. to the evenings. This was really good as a lot of people even from other batches turned out in large numbers to play. This was a great positive move from the faculty but god knows why that idea was discarded(plzz no wake up early argument......it is ridiculous) So the institute needs to have a better and more thoughtful policy to introduce many people to sports in a positive way.
The second part concerns sports played regularly
When it comes to sports at a slightly competitive level the institute tries to encourage students to participate in inter house/batch competitions. This is where the conflict starts. How do you fit in time to play regular events with the academic shedule? One thing i could never figure out is why classes go on even at 7:30. I think 5 is a good time to wrap up classes for the day. Finishing as late as 7-8 pm leaves the student no time to relax or to even to take part in activities. In this regard i feel the institute is very indisciplined and illogical with regard to the timings of classes and tutes. We even have tutes at 11 pm. This is wrong. The institute urges students to be professional but they should start with themselves. These randomized class timings make inter house/batch competitions hard to conduct(sunday is not the answer to all queries. How much can you play in one day? and is that what you are going to do every sunday....just play and play and play....) The institute has provisions for sport but has no mechanism for this to be feasible. This in my view is the hipocriscy of the mangement at it's very best and surely this reflects poorly on the institute.
Part three of this post deals with going out for competitions.
Before i deal with this issue let me tell you that i will not consider anything regarding the dean here. Understanding his ideas, his concepts and his visions is beyond the scope of this blog(or for that matter any blog :P ) but he is a nice guy and will get the limelight in future posts.
I have learnt that the faculty has strongly discouraged the physical directors to send students to participate in competitions outside the college. According to the unofficial directive sports is for recreation only and not meant to be played at a competitive level. The faculty will deny it but this is the truth. I was sad but not surprised to hear this. It is sad to see the institute stifling the talents of it's own students for what i belive is no good reason. They must realise that this is not a research institute or a software company. I have a theory as to why the faculty loo down upon sports. All the faculty members have been brilliant students in their academic lives. It is unlikely that anyone of them would have ever played any sport at any level. They think that they never needed to have any sport so why should we need it. Further they belong to a generation that look down upon sports as something that is meant for those who are not good at studies. Times have changed but their mindsets have not changed. And the sad thinng is that the faculty does not and in my view will never appreciate the beauty of sport. This is not just a problem in IIIT but in all "good" colleges like IIT's NIT's etc. I hope the faculty will realise that sport is not bad. I hope i see that change or atleast the winds of change in my time in IIIT
The first part is about general sp0rts and games in IIIT meant even for those who are not into sports on a regular basis.
On IIIT's web page they try to make it look as if they work hard to encourage sports. (they are supposed to do that it's their job :P ) They have made P.T. compulsory. Now i personally think that p.t. at six in the morning is dumb especially when you have to submit assignments at 12 in the night almost every other day(ug1 people have to do it.....remember DSA my friends :O ) Many people come here with the view that sports and games are useless. I belive most people coming here wouldn't have hade these many playing facilities ever before. But the way P.T. is imposed on them makes them revolt at the thought of sports. Instead of introducing sports as a recreation the institute has turned into a forcible boot camp. But the main motive behind P.T. as told by the dean is to make people get up early in the morning.....that was a poor excuse by any standards. When our batch got really fed up of P.T. the faculty agreed to shift the P.T. to the evenings. This was really good as a lot of people even from other batches turned out in large numbers to play. This was a great positive move from the faculty but god knows why that idea was discarded(plzz no wake up early argument......it is ridiculous) So the institute needs to have a better and more thoughtful policy to introduce many people to sports in a positive way.
The second part concerns sports played regularly
When it comes to sports at a slightly competitive level the institute tries to encourage students to participate in inter house/batch competitions. This is where the conflict starts. How do you fit in time to play regular events with the academic shedule? One thing i could never figure out is why classes go on even at 7:30. I think 5 is a good time to wrap up classes for the day. Finishing as late as 7-8 pm leaves the student no time to relax or to even to take part in activities. In this regard i feel the institute is very indisciplined and illogical with regard to the timings of classes and tutes. We even have tutes at 11 pm. This is wrong. The institute urges students to be professional but they should start with themselves. These randomized class timings make inter house/batch competitions hard to conduct(sunday is not the answer to all queries. How much can you play in one day? and is that what you are going to do every sunday....just play and play and play....) The institute has provisions for sport but has no mechanism for this to be feasible. This in my view is the hipocriscy of the mangement at it's very best and surely this reflects poorly on the institute.
Part three of this post deals with going out for competitions.
Before i deal with this issue let me tell you that i will not consider anything regarding the dean here. Understanding his ideas, his concepts and his visions is beyond the scope of this blog(or for that matter any blog :P ) but he is a nice guy and will get the limelight in future posts.
I have learnt that the faculty has strongly discouraged the physical directors to send students to participate in competitions outside the college. According to the unofficial directive sports is for recreation only and not meant to be played at a competitive level. The faculty will deny it but this is the truth. I was sad but not surprised to hear this. It is sad to see the institute stifling the talents of it's own students for what i belive is no good reason. They must realise that this is not a research institute or a software company. I have a theory as to why the faculty loo down upon sports. All the faculty members have been brilliant students in their academic lives. It is unlikely that anyone of them would have ever played any sport at any level. They think that they never needed to have any sport so why should we need it. Further they belong to a generation that look down upon sports as something that is meant for those who are not good at studies. Times have changed but their mindsets have not changed. And the sad thinng is that the faculty does not and in my view will never appreciate the beauty of sport. This is not just a problem in IIIT but in all "good" colleges like IIT's NIT's etc. I hope the faculty will realise that sport is not bad. I hope i see that change or atleast the winds of change in my time in IIIT
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