Go ahead… hate me. The final match was the only game I watched in the whole tournament. Alright… the final match was the only game I tried to watch in the whole tournament. I wasn’t quite able to keep myself awake to watch the whole game. But I tried. One has to start somewhere.
So… here is a report of the final from the eyes of a rookie.
There were two teams.
- The Italian Team: These guys were dressed in blue and tripped everyone they saw. Apparently the Germans preferred this team because the whole crowd looked blue.
- The French Team: These guys were dressed in white. They wore padding to make their packages appear bigger. There was only guy in this team with a number 10 on his back.
In the first part of the match the Italians were super-aggressive and tripped all the frenchmen they could find. Oh yes.. before I forget. There was also a ball somewhere on the field. (This is what differentiates this game from wrestling.) Twice in the game, the ball got kicked in to the goal. Once the ball went in to the goal, the guy who kicked it in would start running wildly and all the other members in his team would try either to pull him down or in general hide his face from the cameras. The guy would dodge them and try to get most of the camera.
After 90 minutes of play, they decided to extend the game by another 30 minutes. That’s when my brain must have decided that it was too much and switched itself off. When I opened my eyes next, there was a loud commotion and the blue guys were all jumping, trying to touch the trophy.
I saw some highlights this morning to make up for the lost thirty minutes. Some blue guy tried to hug white #10. #10 got wild and butted him in the chest with his head. #10 was sent out of the field, and thus France lost the only player it had. This is how France lost the match.
On the brighter side, The Times of India may now stop publishing pages worth of stories about the gods players.
You don’t need large QA teams or certification from QSIT to catch the most obscure bug in your software. This methodology is based on a single principle – Murphy’s law. And it involves only one step.
Step 1: Give a product demo to a large audience.
See? That is all you have to do. Every bug loves attention, and it will come running out of hiding and present itself to you all. Keep doing enough demos and you will iron out your last bug.
Only until you give a demo to a larger or more important audience.
And so on… until you demo it to a customer.
Not being a follower of some of the celibate Gods around, I did not know that it was a sin for women to fall on these Gods. But it is. And if you happen to fall on one accidentally, it is quite easy to atone for your sins. All your letters of apology can be faxed to the same God’s fax machine. It is about time these high tech Gods opened websites of their own to prevent overcrowding at their temples. Some use of Macromedia flash may be required to actually see the jyothi, but older browsers will also be supported (aka graded browser support).
One can hardly blame Jayamala for accidentally “falling” on God decades ago, and then faxing an apology letter to God last week, when it was actually someone who pushed her from behind. And I thought women are not allowed at Shabarimalai. I was wrong. Girija Lokesh has been there too with her kids.
Furthermore I have been mistaken about privacy at God’s. Apparently they have a rat at God’s office who’s selling God’s personal fax messages to the media. This calls for another sting operation. I wonder what these TV channels are still doing. Are they not worried about ratings any more?
What’s more likeable than a pious God fearing image for a woman who has all her life played the bad woman in her movies?
Legislators cutting across the party lines backed the actress when the issue was discussed in the State Legislative assembly during zero hour. The house will again discuss the issue on Monday.
Congress MLA S S Patil raised the issue and it was supported by legislators from all parties and they criticised the practices at the famed temple as ‘anti-women’. KCVP member Vatal Nagaraj even staged a walk out on the issue.
Patil described the ban on women to enter into the temple as an insult to the entire women folk and nothing but practicing untouchability. He demanded the government to refer the issue to the Centre.
But no, that is not enough. While she appealed to the temple authorities to put an end to the “unnecessary controversy” and allow her to live in peace, at the very same time…
“Being a true devotee of the Lord, I am sure he will do justice to me as I have not committed any mistake,” Jayamala said.
She said she would celebrate her 5Oth birthday by visiting the shrine again.
GAAA
