What to update on !!

Well!! Long 2 months with considerable changes in my personal and professional front. And the world has changed as well – with Gulf oil spill, WC Football extravaganza in South Africa and of course Mr Cameroon’s warning to common us, “Start managing your lifestyle”.


BP is the huge offender since mid April here for USA, Mexico, Environment, British economy, Water inhabitants in Gulf of Mexico, Oil consumers all over the planet and taxpayers like us. Never thought one organisation could damage and annoy so many genres of sectors at one time. Kudos to BP!!! They are hitting news headlines almost everyday either with their untimely quotes or getting lashed out by media, President Obama or some representative from Louisiana.


According to the latest reports, it is the third biggest oil spill ever (do not forget its still ongoing and they can move to numero uno slot any time), killing 11 workers, fouling 120 miles of US coastline, slaughtering sea turtles, dolphins and birds eventually driving tourism away. But the biggest of all damages is yet to happen. The distance for common man to pay the price for BP’s blunders is just a mile away. And their attitude – BP’s tips and tricks to reduce the onus on them is not working. Misquoting the swarming amount of oil and politicizing the quotes of genuinely upset Obama as anti-British are not working for the corporation. With USA congressmen summoning BP’s chief and the man-in-action Tony Hayward to provide explanations on taking so-called cost cutting shortcuts on this crucial issue leading to mis-managing the crisis, is making them constipate further.


BP loosing 40% of its value as a firm in less than 2 months boast to have controlled just 50% of the oil spill and in total 10% of their problems. One may comment that it is very simple to sit outside the consortium under catastrophe and criticize, but for sure the crisis management, be it from BP or the USA government is near to mediocre. GOD SAVE the WORLD – World!! - Its World cup – a treat for football loving fans all over the globe.


With tournament favourites Spain yet to make their entry in WC2010, from out of the blues South Korea stunned one time Euro champions Greece in their opening match. With South American teams Brazil and Argentina in draw with Euro stunners England, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy, it is going to be a non-stop treat for the footie fanatics. It’s a pity that Wimbledon may get un-noticed during the football extravaganza. More disappointing factor, I am sitting in a place where there is no television!!!


I would love to draw some write-ups on on-going World Cup football, forthcoming Wimbledon and never-ending Gulf oil spill saga, when time permits.


Till then it’s Sivi signing off with a good quote below.


Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins

IPL 2010 - Finals

CSK emerge champions; Lalit Modi looses

I was kind of disappointed when Lalit Modi vs Shashi Tharoor episode started surfacing, eclipsing the actual cricket being played with the whole world watching. Awaiting the brawl to succumb to draw a write-up, I lost circa 2 weeks of good cricket. Not only the cat and mouse game lasted till the final match of this edition and after, it brought in some cringing accusations of match fixing, betting, illegal money laundering, income tax raids, political wrong doings, illegal stake holdings and more to say, on IPL. Lots of big names - Shahrukh Khan, Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, were taken for ride and some faced IT raids and got served notices from the department. Though this straightening out considered mandatory for IPL to survive tidy, there was strong consensus that all these happenings were targeting one person directly or indirectly to be removed from being the face of IPL. I wonder after the expulsion of Lalit Modi, the above mentioned corruption charges be continued on respective people!!

Amidst all these bewilderment, the finals between Majestic Mumbai Indians and Charming Chennai Super Kings, took place following closing ceremony extravaganza (I cannot understand why loads of money spent on calling bollywood to give a mediocre performance? Instead kids and youths of India can be channeled to perform something innovative). Mumbai being consistent throughout the tournament, playing in home considered favourites over shaky chennai super kings. However, Chennai showered their batting, bowling and fielding prowess all over Mumbai to prove that on a given day any team can beat any. It was shocking to see no spectators left for the presentation ceremony to cheer the winners in Mumbai, again asserting the fact that Semi finals and Finals should be held in a common venue.

Congrats CSK. As a consistent team through all seasons you guys deserve to win. Congrats MI on reaching finals.

IPL3 according to me, the most eventful till date for both off-pitch controversies and on-pitch acts. Thanks IPL for providing such an entertainment spoiling 45 days in my life :-)

Scandal of the month - Swami Nityananda

Well from a CEO monk to a SEX Monk - This is one hell of a transition.

For people who does not know what a monk in Hinduism means ...
The crux of a "swami (monk)" is Brahmachariam. A Brahmachari lives his life in conformance to the creative aspects of the ONE, shuns all the existing worldly pleasures to secure a place close to the divinity - The GOD himself.  To attain this ultimate bliss a monk should hold continence towards pleasures from sex, longing for material profits etcetera.

However the new age monks not only distant themselves from sexual continence but also seem to crave for more material profits on the name of Ashrams and Preachings. The new valuable addition to this list is Swami Nityananda. The young swami who brags about his life as a selfless monk and enlightens souls through his preachings in his official website http://www.dhyanapeetam.org/web/default.aspx , also very recently amused millions of viewers, with his latest sex scandal.

Sadly, this swami who in his early 30s, attained sky heights in popularity before this downfall. There is nothing wrong about an young lad craving for a normal life. To me, being "Swami" is/was Nityananda's job profile. And that job gave him an honorable identity, huge respect, immense wealth at a very young age. Lets get real here; who does not fancy a job with such an outcome? So whats Nityananda's mistake here? Nothing. If a well-read eloquent guy with some backing and affluence, cliams to be a monk, then let him be. Its his designated lifestyle.  

Do not make him a demi-GOD and cultivate huge devotion and expectation, for what he chose to be, at one point of time in his life. Remember ! Its his life and he has every right to modify his lifestyle the way he wants, anytime.  We should never ever have problem with that.

Its time for us to wake up, not Nityananda !

Copyright © Sivi 05-Mar-2010