Meow: Cat prices to go up!

If you don't own a Cat yet, please rush to the nearest breeding location!

As per a study, led by Professor Adnan Qureshi at the University of Minnesota, cat owners have a 40% lower risk of suffering a fatal heart attack.

Read the full BBC story under this weblink

Cat investors warning: The prices are going to shoot up. Collect as many cats you can.

New investor tip: Don't get your loved ones a heart attack by purchasing cats at obscene amounts.

Disclosure: This writer doesn't own any cat presently. But, if forced by situations, he might also buy one.

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CODE RED

I have one question. Why have all the frontline cellular companies displayed a craze for red while designing their logos?

Look at Airtel, Vodafone or the latest entrant Virgin Mobile: what is striking in all these logos is overt passion for RED. Can someone answer this question?

Those who are concerned with more complicated issues in life can ignore this one.

Alarm (not wedding) bells for S. Sreesanth

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is a Keralite, and being a Keralite myself, he is my sole reason for pride when it comes to the regional sentiments connected to the Indian cricket team.

However, Sreesanth is disappointing his fans. He is running towards the wrong end of the crease, I feel.


The player is clearly on a lean patch currently, and his concentration on the on/off field antics rather than the game itself is actually making things worse for this otherwise promising cricketer.

Also, giving him sleepless nights would be competition from the likes of Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar.

This duo is now the first choice for the management whenever the final-eleven is picked up and the sooner Sreesanth realises his faults and learn from the mistakes, the better for him.

This can be dealt with only by improving the game. But, when somebody feels he is bigger than the game, there sounds an alarm bell.

It is not just Sreesanth's mistake. The blame should also go to his non-cricketing managers. To be in the limelight, it has become necessary for Sreesanth to do something different in the middle.

And, naturally, a struggling bowler would attempt some non-cricketing 'shots' to remain in the limelight. That is what happening here.

Just the other day, I was shocked to see a news channel 'exclusive', connecting the boy with Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra. The reporter even gleefully played a recorded conversation between the two, in which Sreesanth is heard ‘appealing’ for the actress' attention.

I couldn't believe it! Sreesanth and Priyanka Chopra!!! It must be some PR plug, I thought.

Then I listened on, and heaved a sigh of relief when the reporter started questioning the player's endorsement manager on the chances of a hype being created to boost a possible advertisement starring both the stars.

But the point I want to make here, Sreesanth is finding himself in the news for all the wrong reasons nowadays. Consciously or otherwise. Indian cricket is not at all in shortage of talented players. It is Sreesanth's good fortune that he is still in the team these days.

And then the player is advised rest by the outgoing team physiotherapist, I heard. A talented cricketing crowd is waiting outside the doors and a mere absence due to injury would be enough for Sreesanth to find himself relegated into oblivion when he returns.

He might be able to change his hairstyles on a regular basis, but would never be able to change the present course of his career, unless for a timely intervention.

So, instead of focusing on the run-up to the gosssip columns and endorsement deals, Sreesanth should actually be concentrating on his run-up to the bowling crease.

“This borewell is so boring bhai”

I have lived for about seven years in Mumbai and now completed one year and three months in Bangalore. .

It was not difficult to adapt myself to Bangalore, though, at times, I found it extremely difficult to understand the city.

For example, people in Bangalore are extremely patient and tolerant. If they have some problem, they would wait till it gets resolved by itself.

On the other hand, a Mumbaikar would fight vehemently anything that upsets his daily life.

Last week, some private entity was drilling a borewell in my locality and our road looked like a pool of mud.

We had to find alternative routes to venture out, making life very difficult for those office-goers who fight with time on a daily basis.

Still people were so patiently tolerating the whole nonsense, something that took me by surprise. The borewell was built and whoever built it never did bother to clean up the mess they created.

If it was in Mumbai, the whole situation would have gone for a toss. The people would have never let the drilling machine career to leave the location without cleaning the dirt.

Now the whole dirt has turned dry and we are eating mud on a daily basis.

There are some more on both the cities, but in my next post.