indian hockey : the golden period

i was reading about the golden period of indian hockey recently. and what came across my eyes is this unique incident. sharing with you all

this is probably the most humourous incident in the world of hockey..............


India beat USA 24-1 in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, one of the biggest wins of all times.
How did the USA team score their lone goal?


the answer is most amusing i have ever heard...........

ans:: because The Indian goalkeeper Richard Allen was signing autographs behind the goal post!!

how china came up with the Beijing olympics logo

how china came up with the Beijing olympics logo . it's a spoof

लहरों का निमंत्रण

my all time fav. poem.
i hope this time i will follow mr. Bacchan's words.

full names

Kenny G = Kenny Gorelick
JC Penney = James Cash Penney
HG Wells = Herbert George Wells
LL Cool J = Ladies Love Cool James
MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar = Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
AA Milne = Alan Alexander Milne
BB King = Blues Boy King
ML Jaisimha = Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisimha
J Jonah Jameson = John Jonah Jameson
JK Rowling = Joanne Kathleen Rowling
JWHT Douglas = John William Henry Tyler Douglas
OJ Simpson = Orenthal James Simpson
EE Cummings = Edward Estlin Cummings
PG Wodehouse = Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
JRR Tolkien = John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
CK Nayudu = Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu
RJ Reynolds = Richard Joshua Reynolds
CB Fry = Charles Burgess Fry
AC Nielsen = Arthur Charles Nielsen
AO Hume =Alan Octavian Hume
DW Griffith = David Wark Griffith
DK Pattammal = Dammal Krishnaswamy Pattammal
WC Fields = William Claude Dukenfield
WB Yeats = William Butler Yeats
GN Balasubramanium = Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramanium
ML Vasanthakumari = Madras Lalithangi Vasanthakumari
SP Balasubramanyam = Sripati Panditaradhyula Balasubramnyam
RK Narayan = Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Naryanan
MS Subalakshmi = Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subalakshmi
James T Kirk = James Tiberius Kirk
PB Srinivas = Prativadha Bhayankara Srinivas
MG Ramachandran = Marudur Gopalamenon Ramachandran
WG Grace = William Gilbert Grace
MC Escher = Maurits Cornelis Escher
JJ Cale = Jean Jacques Cale


these are full names of some famous people.
p.s.- special thnx to Anantha

09/05/09 ...the busy day

Although it's too late but i would like to report 09/05/09 day here b'coz somehow there are few memories with this day.
in morning we decided to march to skit. since there was a general quiz. i along with ankit soni and jha naman reached their as early as 09.30 am. this time also i had again a clumsy quiz. prelims was bit too odd u can say kind of civil examination paper. there were question right from core history, core art and there were no question from business and almost negligible from entertainment . But anyway we made some calculated flukes and finally got a birth in top 4 teams those qualified for the finals. other teams were mnit,skit and jecrc. this quiz was somehow special. this quiz was the last quiz for that mnit team(aviral, abhishek and anuraag) coz they are done with their engineering. great guys with prodigious knowledge. it's always a pleasure to compete against them.really i am going to remember them for long time.
quiz final consist of four rounds with two odd rounds. a rajasthan round and a antakshari round(l0l).yeah thts true there was a antakshari round(we learned that by the guys of mnit,they were the winner of last year's quiz)
quizmaster started the quiz with rajasthan round. round was really a disaster for us . we scored only 5 points with a very good answer from jha naman(the height of mt. gurushikhar). next round was buzzer round. first two questions picked up very early by team mnit. i would say very very fast. coz we also knew those question.but was too late to get them. but third one i pressed the buzzer very early. fortunately we got the points. we were really competing against them so we forgot ab other teams . team skit that was ahead of us after first we didn't care of them much.
so without listening the complete we went for 4th question it was my fault it was about merger of
sun microsystem and oracle, so without giving a complete listening i pressed the buzzer. i thought they would ask trivia kind of question or a question relating to these companies or officials. but i had never imagined that they could ask question on per share bidding by oracle
hahaha.........after listening the complete question each finalist was laughing at us.
nevermind. at the end of this round we were again at zero.then there was a round antakhshari round.....lol.......from this round we started laughing and enjoying the quiz rather than trying to winning...............eventually finished third. but anyways the quiz went to deserving mnit team.
a sweet farewell for them. wishing a great life for them............

farewell hmm......after the quiz i was little upset. all efforts were in vain.i was pretty tired but i decided to go to the farewell which we are organinging for our college seniors(to be honest ..400rs bhi to wasoolne the). the party was at sunrise resort(my college owns tht) . sounds intresting naa resort in just 400 rs.........hahahaha(well i guess resort is just their another mean of coverting their black money into white, i hav learned tht later from my friends). believe me there was nothing like resort other then a swimming pool for childrens. well everybody was expecting atleast a decent food from them but here comes my college. how dare u to expect a better food from them. don't you know they are profit making machines,seeking profit in whatever happens in college.well apart from them few our fellow students had really worked hard to make this event unforgetable for our seniors.
anyway i think farewell is a greatmoment for one who is just passing out, leaving the college with all sweet and bad memories, ur dear friends and everything. it isn't matter how much u cricize ur college or u hate it at ur will but this is for sure you gonna miss these four years...................
wishing all the senior a happy and prosperous future for them.........

an entreaty

" out of the depth, i cry to you o lord .........please give some sanity to my college and some good quizzes to me"

the word "classic"

what i have observed from my experiences when you devote a great amount of time in a particular interest whether it is music, movies, books or anything, your tastes will definitely slant towards the classic works in that field and more or less you starts making comparison between the classics work and the latest word. and eventually ends up criticizing the new work. unless it not peerless.
like when you devote lots of time in listening music specially rock music i have found that people always criticize the latest work and start making comparison with old classic bands( n that includes me 2) like whenever i have been in a discussion with many people with reference to movies or music or books they always came up with led zepplin or citizen cane or to kill a mocking bird.
i am also leaning towards these sort of works. but sometimes a question arises in my mind
is that all classics are benchmark for the new stuffs????????
or all we are simply following the classic benchmarks blindly?????