Arsenal 2 Villa 1

- Roshan

The mark of a good team is being able to win matches even when they haven’t played at their best. That was what last night’s game at Villa Park was all about. Arsenal were outplayed for most of the second half by a brave Aston Villa side, urged on by the sound managerial skills of Martin O’Neill. However it was the Gunners who came out the winners at the end. They need to win games like this one, which will probably going to count in the long run for the Championship. Villa went ahead after 18 minutes thanks to a Craig Gardner goal but Arsenal replied back to take the lead through goals by Mathieu Flamini and Emmanuel Adebayor.

A stren talking by coach O’Neill must be what charged up the Aston Villa 11, as they took the game to the League leaders. Villa looked likely to score a goal and get back on level terms but despite this, there was no beating down the Gunners who were determined to keep their lead at the top of the Premier League.

In other games on Saturday, Chelsea beat West Ham United 1-0 and move above Manchester United into second place in the league with 31 points. United play on Monday night. And in an exciting game, Blackburn Rovers beat a miserable but resileint Newscastle United 3-1, but the game could have gone either way with numerous goal chances.

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NHL Update – Wes Walz Retires

- Roshan

Minnesota Wild center Wes Walz announced his retirement as expected Saturday, ending his 13-year NHL career as the team’s career leader in games played.

Walz had one goal and three assists in 11 games this season before leaving the team to contemplate his future.

Neither he nor the Wild offered any specifics about his leave of absence, which lasted a month, but Walz said at a news conference Saturday that he didn’t feel like he was “on top of his game.”

The 37-year-old has four children and said he’s eager to spend more time with his family.

The fast, defensive-oriented skater was one of only two remaining original members of the Wild’s first team in 2000. Goalie Marian Gaborik is the other.

Walz finished his NHL career – which included time with Boston, Philadelphia, Calgary and Detroit – with 109 goals and 151 assists in 607 games.

Home In Bed

- Roshan

I ended up not going to work, as after a bath I felt sicker and could not contemplate spending 9 hours at the office. I checked and got a sick leave today; I will compensate for it by going to work tomorrow. My training batch has been re-scheduled for tomorrow, so no worries there.

open season movie I slept the afternoon away, helped tremendously by the gulp of cough syrup and I took a couple of crocins as I was getting a slight chill and felt the onset of a fever. 4 hours later I woke up to the silent dark and went to get coffee and watch some football. I even watched most of a movie. By 11 it was back to my room and checking my email before I go back to sleep.

Cough * Sniff

- Roshan

Last night I got a little throat irritation that merged with a slight cold that managed to start getting me feeling weak by the time I reached home at 2:15 am. I went to sleep about 30 minutes later, a deep sleep of the tired & weary. I woke up around 9:45 am today morning and I’m sick! I have a full blown cold and my nose is running faster than Ben Johnson on steroids!

I had a sore throat and I’m having difficulty in swallowing, although its not that bad. A slight fever has been kept at bay by me taking some medicine but its not enough to make me feel well enough by 4 pm, when I continue taking my training batch. I don’t feel well enough to do it but I’m going to have to tough it out. There is no current replacement that I can count on and we are on a tight schedule to finish this training batch. I would hate to call and ask for a leave so I’m gonna go to work. Damn!

Commenting

- Roshan

As I sit in one of the training rooms and wait for my new trainees to come back from their break, I was just going through a list of some websites that have blog rollled me. Now, as grateful as I am, I wish these bloggers would visit often and put some comments against my posts. I’d love to get to know you better and have chats with you.

So if you have the time and the rhyme, please leave me a comment or two here and there and I’ll respond back. Thank You.

The World Of The Celebs

- Roshan

In other news from movie, tv & music industries:

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt got engaged to Scottish actor Scottish actor Ross McCall
  • Pamela Anderson says she wants to retire for showbiz in 5 years and move back permanently to Canada
  • Charisma Carpenter separates from her husband of 5 years
  • Hulk Hogan’s wife has filed for divorce after 24 years of marriage to the WWE superstar
  • Former GnR guitarist Slash has written an autobiography and has chapters dedicated to his leaving Guns n’ Roses
  • Rockers Queen are to release a new single, featuring original members Roger Taylor, Brian May & new vocalist Paul Rodgers
  • Brandon ‘Superman’ Routh gets married

New Knight Rider, New KITT

- Roshan

Have you heard that a new movie based on the Knight Rider tv series is being planned and that the cast is almost set? Wow! There’s gonna be a new KITT as well.

According to reports, Bruce Davison is to act as the car’s creater & the movie, scheduled for later in the season, centers on Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening) a race-car driver and the son of of the 1980s show’s lead character, Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff is in talks to reprise the role in a cameo). His childhood sweetheart (Deanna Russo) and her father (Davison) recruit him to join the private, justice-seeking Knight Foundation.

Internet reports say the new KITT will be a Ford Shelby Mustang (pictured above, please click on the photo to view full image). So no Trans Am!

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Sens On A Slump

- Roshan

What’s happening to the Ottawa Senators? The best team in the league is losing games and leaking goals! We have lost to Buffalo 2-4 on the 21st of this month and then the next night lost an overtime game to Pittsburgh. Two nights later it was a 3-4 loss to Philly.

A gap of three days should have done us good but on the 28th, we lost a fantastic game in overtime to the New York Islanders. And they never beat us! Ever! And just in the last few minutes, the Sens lost 5-6 to Nashville. What is happening?

Boom, Like That

- Roshan

About 20 minutes back, I heard a very loud clap of thunder. I mean….BOOOOOOM!

There seems to be very little lightning and no rain at all.

But that could change in some time. I have my fingers crossed. We could use some rain, as its hot as hell, especially during the night hours.

Now, there’s some more thunder and a bit of lightning, nothing to get too excited about. The wind has picked up a bit and I hope there will be a lovely breeze by 12 am to caress me to sleep.

Five Points

- Roshan
  1. When you hear something bad or unpleasant happening to someone you don’t like and it makes me you feel good…..does that make you a bad person?
  2. The same day some mistake happens to a nice person that you like a lot and you feel so bad about it.
  3. Worked all day on a document which I thought would be so simple, yet once I started doing it, I realized how complex it actually was. I spent 6 hours on the damn thing!
  4. I have this feeling that things are going to go from bad to worse and then worst. I just do.
  5. On a sleazy note, I was starting at this woman’s nice, rounded butt today and I was wondering if I could squeeze & pinch it ;)

The Look In Her Eyes

- Roshan

I have had this dream a few times, although I could only make out the face of the girl in the dream this last time (meaning last night or early this morning). She looks a lot like this pic on the left. In my dream, I am a college student of approximately 20 or 21. I’m look pretty much the way that I was when I was 21.

My class is going on a long study trip that also promises to be a lot of fun. I do not really want to go, since I have no friends and everyone else is together. The only reason I decide to go is because the girl I like is going. She is not aware of my feelings and she just barely manages to remember my name. However, when we were younger, we were really good friends. When puberty hit, I became a shy one. Also my weight is an issue in my confidence and I am often the butt of the group jokes.

So there is this big party near the beach the night before we are to leave. I tag along, sitting alone by myself and not joining in the dance & partying. Our bags are packed and we are ready to go on our trip the next morning. Some jackass thinks its a great idea to hurt my feelings and does so by telling me that this girl I like has feelings for me. He convinces me to ask her if she likes me and finally I do. Much to my horror, she makes fun of me when I say that I like her and everyone starts laughing at me. Humiliated I run away to the beach waters and sit there. Later, feeling bad for me, she comes to sit with me but I ignore her attempts at friendship when she says that being friends is all she can offer.

Hurt & angry, I go along for the study trip, avoiding the looks from the others especially her. While on a hike, we get ambushed by a terrorist group who takes us at gunpoint in their boat to their hideout on a hidden island. Thinking that we caught them in the act, they plan to detonate a bomb in the fortress on the island, blowing us up along with their former hideout. So they leave us tied up while they take a boat and leave the island. As the clock ticks, I manage to untie myself and then help the others. Everyone goes down to the docks to get in the only remaining boat and head for safety. However as they are about to leave they see me standing back on the docks.

Someone needs to push the lever that opens up a gate through the wall in the fortress docks. The terrorists had a remote that opened it for them as they left but we have none. I know this and hence stay back to operate the lever so the others can leave. I leave them with no choice as the boat starts and I remain on the dock and push the lever to open the gate. In 6 minutes the bomb will explode and destroy the fortress with me in it. As the boat leaves, she is looking at me with sadness in her eyes. The boat moves out of harms way and as I look at the bomb timer it strikes, 0:00.

I wake up.

Notes For 26th Nov

- Roshan
  • I am reminded of the fact that I have been quite busy these last couple of weeks with not much time for leisure. I took care of that by having an extra day, today, off to do other stuff.
  • I had gone out on Sunday for coffee at CCD & then for lunch & drinks at Oberois. Somehow it seemed so different this time and I was a bit disappointed with the taste of my coffee and the food.
  • I also bought a copy of the excellent movie My Cousin Vinny, starring Joe Pesci & Marisa Tomei. I will post an entry about this movie later. I have seen it a dozen times before but it is a special one for me.
  • Met up with some people for catching up on old times. And oh there was the matter of a house warming.
  • Tried downloading season 2 episodes of Battlestar Galactica but there were just 3 available at Veoh that I haven’t seen yet :(

ROSHAN’S ELEVEN : Julia Roberts Movies

- Roshan

  • Erin Brockovich
  • Pretty Woman
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Flatliners
  • My Best Friend’s Wedding
  • The Runaway Bride
  • Sleeping With The Enemy
  • I Love Trouble
  • The Pelican Brief
  • Hook
  • America’s Sweethearts

Of Arranged Marriages & Old Women

- Roshan

My dad & mom went to the engagement of a second cousin of mine, one I have never met. Therefor I had no interest to go to attend it but they have an obligation to go, so they went. The engagement of this second cousin is arranged, so arranged that she has never met the guy face to face! She spoke to him and has interacted with him through webcam and otherwise never seen him! I find this incredible – arranged marriages goes hi-tech in this digital age! I wanna puke!

But the event brought some pleasant memories to the forefront. My mother got to meet an old school friend, who is also a distant relative, after a huge gap of 40 years! 40 Years! My mom last met her friend when they were both 18 at this friend’s wedding! My mom has never seen her since then as she & her family live in another state and rarely come down here. 40 years; I guess it brings a new meaning to ‘catching up’! Sheesh! My mom was quite happy to meet her friend, since they were very close at one time.

Also she happened to mention that she meet another cousin of hers, one I am very fond of but who I rarely meet. This cousin, my aunt, is nearly 80. Her mother, my grandmother’s elder sister, is now 96! 96 years old. My mom says that the two of them, mother & daughter had a conversation a few days back. Her mom asked her daughter what was for dinner? And my aunt replied “Can you give me a break, mom? I’m 80 and I I think someone should make me dinner rather than me going and making something. I think that I deserve it.”

Mother & daughter had a good old laugh about that one! :)