World Cup

Have a great day.

Beware of tomorrow's high-voltage encounter between India and Pakistan---it's not for chicken hearts!

Journalism

Have a great day.

Think before you write, particularly if you are a journalist, for this profession is full of fools who can easily point out your silly mistakes and then shout from the rooftop that you don't even know your basics.

"I thought you are worthy of confidence," said a journalist to his colleague; little realizing how unworthy he is. Had he been worthy of confidence he would have corrected the mistake instead of making the foolish remark.

Zidane

Have a great day.

I always keep on pushing for friendship and keen to maintain relations; but tragedy with me is, I have always been reactive like football ace Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane's infamous headbutt may have defamed him, but it was a sharp provocation by Marco Materezzi that had led Zidane lose his cool in the 2006 World Cup Football final between France and Italy.

The world saw Zidane's reaction, but did not try to understand why he lost his cool before worldwide audience.

Zidane's reaction vindicated today (March 17, 2011) when Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger said he could now understand Zidane's infamous headbutt on Materazzi after the German clashed with the Italian in a Champions League match in Berlin.

The 26-year-old Schweinsteiger claimed that Materazzi had provoked him before and after the match.

I have also been at receiving end several times in my life with people watching my reaction, without realising or trying to realise why I often lose cool-----because of their provocation, ridiculing me or finding faults in me.

Yet, I am sincerely trying to avoid people who love to provoke me and enjoy my reaction. little realising that their joy may lead to my doom one day.

I, however, take these immortal words from the Gita to soak up provocative remarks and gestures---"

Tis brief and mutable! Bear with it. Prince!...Undetered, unassailed, unharmed, untouched, immortal, all-arriving, stable, sure, invisible, ineffable, by word and thought uncompassed...."