A scorecard that makes waking up early in the morning worth it. Everyone chipping in around a Tendulkar ton...

India 1st Innings - All out

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gambhir	c McCullum	b Martin	72	135	11	0
Sehwag	run out		24	21	5	0
Dravid		b O'Brien	66	138	12	0
Tendulkar	c Taylor	b O'Brien	160	260	26	0
Laxman	c Taylor	b Martin	30	91	4	0
Singh		b Martin	22	50	4	0
Dhoni	c McCullum	b O'Brien	47	123	7	0
Harbhajan Singh	c Vettori	b Mills	16	27	2	1
Khan	not out		51	46	8	0
Sharma	c McCullum	b Vettori	6	13	1	0
Patel	c Martin	b Vettori	9	20	1	0
Extras		8nb 6b 3lb	17
Total		all out	520	(152.4 ovs)

Facebook reminds me of the song "Parklife" by Blur. All the people walking hand in hand, watching each other going through their facebook life. 

"...maybe the world is one giant facebook, and we're all just profiles, you know?"

I read this line in the result of some application on facebook!! It makes one ponder about what ones virtual persona will be..

Sample this:







.It has developed a life of its own !!!

The boquets/brickbats go to the team at Facebook which insightfully managed to serve some social needs of people.
e.g
A large majority of human beings like to think of others..its something basic. So they are happy when facebook gives then the opportunity to unveil the voyeur-exhibitionist  need (Please do not pick on the extreme jargon).

Like I myself do not really "do" much on facebook. But I sure as hell am interested when I see Globus (may his blog rest in peace), is playing some game on facebook. It sets me thinking ki
"Saala itna vella gamer bachcha  yahan pe bhi game khel raha hai!!!"
Of course he will have the ready retort ki "Budhau saala itna vella ki yeh dekh raha hai ki main game khel raha hun"

Anyway the point being that, humans like to keep track... we like to refresh those clogged memory networks by at least thinking of someone else. So this feature of notifications and news feeds keeps people on the site.

But there is also the funda that to have these notifications and news feeds alive, you need

1. a set of people to keep "doing" something on facebook (which is the exhibitionist extreme)
2. a set of tasks that can be "done"--now this is where the challenge lies, because....
   
3. you need a set of people to create these tasks
   

One such set of people, whom i have grown to admire are the creators of "Compare People" Application on facebook.
Thudarum....(to be continued...)

The scrunchy vada---a great way to start a day, especially if the scrunchiness is watered down by soaking it in hot sambar.
It gives the vada a strange consistency of scrunchiness and dampness.

It is the safest hotel breakfast that you can have....
Take the vada and put it in the bowl of sambar. Cut the vada into small to medium pieces with your spoon, so that every bit is soaked in the sambar. Now pick up one piece at a time and pop it into your watering mouth.

Bite heartily and....aaaaaarrrrgggghhh

It is a WHOLE PEPPER BALL!!!!

Why do they put whole pepper balls into a vada? You bite into the pepper and end up with a scorched mouth...it is a really strange season (ing)