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September 30, 2005
Another one bites the dust
One of my friend got married and I went to attend the wedding which took place in a small village near karaikudi in TamilNadu. The marriage actually took place in the girls house, yeah the houses were big enough to accommodate a huge crowd.
After the wedding some of my friends we went to take a tour of my friend’s house. The picture on top was one of the halls in the house. The house was built in 1918 and it has 40 rooms (yeah it has forty rooms). They don’t book any hall or hotel for any big events; they just conduct it in their house. They use their house only for that purpose, the rest of the time the house remains vacant.
Unfortunately we could get the keys to my friend’s house, but I was still amazed by the house.
Posted by Sam at 06:21 AM | Comments (2)
September 13, 2005
Damn Stray Cows!!
Last to last weekend I was driving from Bangalore to Chennai. On the way I was overtaking a truck and I have no clue where a cow came from, by the time I realized that there is a cow running towards my car it was too late, I already hit the cow. It was just a minor accident.
In Delhi they are even using high tech to control stray cows. (BBC)
Posted by Sam at 06:36 AM | Comments (3)
September 05, 2005
Sania Mania
Well Sania Mizra might be the first Indian women to reach 42nd rank in women’s tennis, but I feel like the media is hyping this up a lot more than it should. I totally understand how difficult it is to reach a level like this at the age of 18 and that too from a country where sports is not given that much importance. I totally give credit to her, but I am just getting sick of seeing her everywhere.
Where ever I turn Sania is there. Go outside you will see Sania holding a phone (advertisement for a phone company). Turn on the TV and she is there in all the ads, read the news paper and she is there in the front page and full page news on the sport section. I am totally sick and tired of seeing her in everyplace and the hype the media is adding.
Yesterday she played against Maria Sharapova. The first news in the paper was “Its Sania Mania as she takes on 2nd seed Sharapova”. I mean is this news worthy to be in the first news in the first page?? I just don’t get it and then you go to the sports section and you see a big picture of her 3/4 of the page is a picture of her and more news about the match. May be if she has won the match, then I might be able to understand. But just the match was so much hyped. I wonder what might have happened if she actually won the match?
Why is the media hyping it up so much? Or may be I am the only person who feels that way. And then everyone wonders why people are behaving this way
‘"We were shocked with a few incidents back home. Mohammed Kaif's home was stoned; (Rahul) Dravid's car was smashed. These things should not happen," he said’ link from rediff news
This is what happened when the Indian Cricket team did not perform well in the world cup. When the media is hyping everything they just sit quiet because it favors the player. Then when things turn around they are shocked!!
I should be happy that they haven’t built a temple for Sania Mirza yet.
Posted by Sam at 09:04 AM | Comments (3)