Merry Xmas

My favourite day of the year is here...Boy i'm so happy and excited.
Merry Christmas to all.

Baby Jesus is born...*does a dance*

Told You So...

I Love Italian Football...I really do...And i could not be happier...Italians are world champions...An italian club is European and World Club champion...Interestingly, Milan,Juventus,Roma and Inter all Won a trophy last season...

Told You So...

Manchester United proved why they are champions...Amazing game by Anderson and Hargreaves...Champions League Contenders...hell yeah...As for Liverpool...They need to Quit Underachieving...

Global Warming...Whats that?

This is really funny...Yesterday evening most people of mumbai were urged to switch of their power driven equipments for an hour with regard to global warming. Most people misunderstood the concept and thought the government was going to cut power for an hour. My shopkeeper tells me he sold all his candles like hot cakes. A few offered to return them when they realised it was a voluntary thing.ha

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen...And Ladies too...

We are in the last few weeks leading up to Christmas...It's advent...It's gettin colder and colder (So cold that i'm using mittens...) and that special feeling you get around this season is growing in me...Carols will be sung...The nativity enactments will be looked at fondly...Trees will be lit...Christmas specials of all shows will be shown during the season...The Crib will be decorated...And like Bart Simpson (who is voiced by Nancy Cartwright...share my birthday with her...Which is why i like her still more) says... "Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of this day,the birth of Santa..."
Yeah Santas will make an appearance...As a kid i always wanted to grow up and be the next Santa or atleast work for him...I never thought of any other career. I really entertained that idea till class 2 when my teacher took great pride in educating us on why Santa only visits Christian kids...
"He does not exist..." she said.
"No...He is real...He gave me Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Toys last christmas..." said I.
"When you go to sleep your mummy and daddy put the presents there...They buy them" she said.
Till this day when someone uses the phrase "he looked like someone told him santa does not exist", my mind goes back to that awful day in school when i learnt the truth.
Having realised the truth i also saw a small loophole in the entire situation...I would continue to get presents as long as my parents do not know that i know the truth...And to make sure i get the right presents i would be more vocal on what i expect from Santa so "Santa Dad" would get them...
A funny thing happened during these "Taking advantage of the Loophole" years of mine... During my winter vacations i had a lot of friends over and we were playing on my Sega Mega console (we were Mortal Kombat crazy). My mom was in the room too...She was icing the cookies...
One of my friends was getting on my nerves...He always had tall tales to tell...That day's tale involved him waking up at night and spotting Jolly old Saint Nick and speakin to Santa and giving Santa things to eat...My mom was amused as she listened to all of this
I had to put this guy in his place and so i told him that all he claimed was not possible and told him to stop with the tales... My mom looked on as this happened... She wanted to see what i had to say...The boy continued with his story...I cut him off again...I told him it was not possible...After all i knew he did not exist...And i was just about to tell him so...But i realised that putting that reason forward would mean no presents from "santa" as christmas was around the corner...And i wanted a few popular cartridges for the Sega...So i came up with a stupid "He does not know where you live" line. That wonderful line made sure i had new cartridges for xmas...Where would xmas be without the greed of children...
So when did mom and dad know that i knew...Well it was christmas and santa had lived up to his promise and all was going well. I had been out playing with friends and we needed a new ball and so we were really shabby when we played...So we sent the least shabbiest guy into the nearby supermarket / toy store and in the meanwhile the rest of us stood outside... thats when i noticed my dad's name on a list displayed outside. The listed names were winner of some draw they had and the winners could shop for the equal amount as that mentioned on the bill against which the draw coupon was filled... So all of my friends and me rushed home and told my dad he was too busy with guests and so he just told me to check if the bill was in his wallet...It was... after all he had just shopped the previous day...I looked at the items purchased and dad had purchased items that matched exactly with what Santa bought us...My dad realised this only once it was too late...He grinned...He knew that i knew and i knew that he knew that i knew (phew)...Poor guy should have known i had known for years... He gave the voucher to up kids to buy what we wanted...It was like a consolation prize of a different sort...Anyway we did what we do best as kids...We bought lots of candy and a few water guns...All this was years and years ago...Nearly a decade back...
Today when i see kids not believing in Santa it saddens me...The joys of writing to santa and awaiting christmas morning knowing that someone so popular visited your home while you were asleep is something every kid should go through...To date i'm a big Santa Claus fan...Someday i'll work with Mick Foley who is a Santa fan too and try to get Santa back to the kids so that they know the truth later than sooner...I've never put down an opportunity to play Santa for kids...It really is a beautiful experience...Especially when the still innocent kids think you are santa...Of course there are older kids who try to show how smart they are and try to ruin everyone's christmas like the Grinch (i loved the movie...What idiot would not love a movie on christmas...Oooh And the cartoon was fantastic too) at these parties by screaming out "Santa's not real" and pulling your beard but then that is where Santa's huge body comes to the rescue...These kids should get lumps of coal...Right up their...You know...(Instead of stockings)

Till i post next time..."and to all a good night..."

Annoying slang and language

Its really painful and annoying to witness the slow death of language...
Certain words come in and find special relevance in our daily usage...Most of these words are phased out as quickly as they are phased in...But some of them linger...And they get annoying when the usage is simply out of context...
The words 'Rockstar', 'Rocking' and 'Rocks' are probably the most annoying of the lot...The last time i looked these words were associated with a performer whose preferred genre was Rock music...I say preferred because lots of them deviate once in a while...Their main genre remains Rock music anyway...
Now why are there people called rockstars and what do you associate with rockstars...Well the main criteria is that rock music is their genre...More often than not they are wasted/high during their best years (I'm lookin at you Keith Richards...)...They have a huge female following...You know what i mean...There are tours and lots of live acts that people go nuts attending...You also think of tattoos and booze when you think of rockstars...Of course the skilled use bass guitars and drums which are the dominant instruments at their concerts distinguish them from the others...There are more things but i think i've painted a 'high resolution' picture here of who a rockstar is...
Now here is how this word is killing our language...Here is an example
If i go and read any youth magazine...And God forbid there is a movie review or a Game review...And if they were to ask the readers to send in opinions...Every second reader review would have one of these three words in their review..."The movie rocked" or "Russel Crowe is a rockstar" (well he actually is...As is Chris Jericho...)
i was watching a tv interview and they went on to introduce Baichung Bhutiya as a rockstar...Spot the mistake...Yeah...Baichung is a football player...I don't think he can even hold a guitar right...Let alone play "enter sandman" on it...You cannot introduce every Indian actor as a rockstar...For the same reason...These people make movies and so the term you would be lookin for is moviestar...Which is not saying much about your movies if these are the kind of people you call stars...
Next word on my hate list is "Bum"...This one hasn't really caught on and is popular in just one particular region...Sadly i make frequent visits to that region...This damn word is more annoying than rocking and rockstar put together...And the accent which accompanies the word just wants you to kick the person using the word on his or her...Well...Bum.
What the hell does "Whazza Bum?" even mean...sounds more like someone is checking for Hemorrhoids rather than greeting you...
Oh i've already leaked the next annoying word...When the word "Whazza(p)" became popular i just bore the torture that it caused waitin for it to go out of style...Sadly it remained in style and while doing so it also had offsprings which means...There were other equally annoying words that came up which were derived from this big daddy.
I'm done complaining for now but i'll be putting up another list of words sometime...