Another one bites the dust #worldcup

I’d follow all the #worldcup action at http://soccernet.espn.go.com. I found it better than fifa.com. And that’s where I found the photo.

The FIFA #worldcup of 2010 has ended.

The first few days were awesome! #ESP lost. #GER lost. #GHA did well. #ENG and #POR sucked. #BRA weren’t at their best. #ARG too. Nevertheless. It panned out well. #ENG were denied a goal. A kick from Lampard had made it through but the referees thought otherwise. It would have made it 2-2, giving #ENG a chance rise from the dead. Not to be though.:

I discovered Mumbai Times Café in Bandra. We’d been there to watch #BRA draw with #POR and #NED trash #BRA. Good times gr8 beer! A lot of beer. Wesley Schneider did good. #NED made it to the finals. I’m glad they did but I’d think they were the weakest of the semi-finalists: #URU #GER and #ESP being the others.

#BRA, #POR and #ENG had a terrible #worldcup. #GER buggered off #ARG in the quarter finals. And people started their match-fixing talks, “Messi and Maradona are in this together! They’ve fixed games!” And the talks went deep into the tournament. I watched this game at Arvind’s house along with Chandan and Vinay. “Is Maradona a good coach? Or is he like Singh who just says, ‘CLEAR THE BALL…CHA’”, we wondered.  We’d been frying sausages and drinking rum too. Bad hangover the next day. And the day after that.

Anyway. The biggest hero(s) of FIFA 2010 were Larissa Riquelme and Paul the octopus.:

She’d been paid, they’d said. The mobile phone manufacturer paid her to shuvv the damn thing there. I don’t know.

Paul.:

Larissa Riquelme said she’d run the streets of #PAR nude if they won the cup. In a matter of 12 hours, she got the whole world to cheer for #PAR.  None can pronounce her name, but all wanted #PAR to win!

And Paul, at the end of FIFA 2010, each and every one of his predictions were correct. The Spanish love Paul. They refer to him as Pablo.

Twitter. I’d tweet a lot about the #worldcup and @Wimbledon. I’ll miss tweeting about the #worldcup until it dawns again in 2014. Also during this time, I’d RT a lot about the Oil Spill, #climategate etc. Good times. Twitter rocks.

I watched the closing ceremony at Chembur Gymkhana along with Sajit, Irfan and Sajit’s chic. It’d be the first time that we met Sajit’s chic. It’d go down in history. What also went down in history was Shakira’s WAKA WAKA performance. Everybody loves a good Shakira:

I thought #GER were the best team in #fifaworldcup 2010. It overlapped @Wimbledon, ODI between #ENG and Australia and #ENG and Bangladesh.

Mick Jagger did trend a lot on twitter- day in and day out. All for the wrong reasons- the teams that he’d support lost! And the Vuvuzela bugged him! A lot. The Vuvuzela made headlines all over the world.

I watched the rest of the game at home. Midnight to 2:30 AM. Here I shall mention Suraj. “Spain. Spain will win the #worldcup”, he said on 22 May 2010. Well done!

FIN

Diwali hogi cup wali.

I watch every game on television. Any game. Domestic, international. Whatever. I decided to do this post after watching this ad on television:

You see, I love the jingle. Listen to it! And most importantly, the idea holds the ad together, not a pretty face or famous personality. It’s an ad that comes oft announcing the inaugural Champions League T20 tournament to be held in India next month. I honestly believe that this is the best ad to be televised in India. Ever. It’ll be Diwali. And the ads say, “Diwali hogi cup wali” meaning there’ll be a cup or trophy to be handed out this Diwali. Now my mind wanders back to Diwali time, 1993.

The cause of Michael Jackson’s death unearthed

“But he kicked me. And I फेल down.”

Transformers the movie (2009)

Since the past eight or nine years, I haven’t watched all those many movies, fewer still at movie halls. It was the day, the 10th of July, 2009, today, I went for Transformers, the rise of the fallen, by myself. The scene outside the movie hall was typical. A lot of’em, came by themselves, the cult, come to watch the movie, Transformers, the rise of the fallen, by themselves. The chap in front of me, in line, buying tickets, a’slave to the corporate scheme of things. Straight out of a conference, dressed in formals, cuddling a blazer under his left arm, “One ticket for Transformers, 2:15 show.”

I was next, “One ticket, Transformers, 2:15 show.”

Half the seats were taken, not bad for a Friday afternoon. Most people, by themselves, others, juvenile, in the company of their juvenile comrades. Knowledgeable, a big cheer went up when Optimus Prime showed up, others jerked off at sights of Megan Fox. But all in all, a good 30 minutes could, and should’ve been cut, I think, the movie actually got boring at times.

At the end of the day, 2/5.

Have you seen this man? Sure you have!

Beachboy Peedrooo, of Portuguese descent. You have seen him, for sure, seen him in sunny Goa. Welcome to the Peedrooo Appreciation Forum. If you have photos or videos of Peedrooo, please post the link as comments, and a bit about your interactions with, this evergreen fisherman. He’d said to me:

I am known far and wide, in the land of the King, as Pedro from Goa. I am always here, this, is where you’ll find me, for I have called you. You want to see dolphin? Dolphin?

A couple of my links, of the past:

http://shaaaks.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/my-friend-peedrooo-from-goa/

and

http://shaaaks.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/formula-goa/

Tortoise meat for breakfast, and lunch, and dinner.

“Bugger, bugger, I went to my village, and this villager cooked tortoise.”

“Are they not endangered? On the verge of extinction or something? Is it not illegal to kill tortoise?”

Tarsi, Maravanthe, Murudeshwar, Goa Roadtrip Video

This is the video of a road trip through National Highway 17 or NH-17 in India. The NH-17 runs from Maharashtra to Kerala, all through the Konkan along the west coast of India, the Konkan is, by far, the most beautiful stretch in the entire country.

Amateur filmmaking tips, especially for MacBook owners

I have made full length documentary films, on High Definition Video or HDV, using HDV cameras, professional sound recording equipment, and, Final Cut Pro. HDV cameras are expensive, even renting one, isn’t cheap. I pay fifteen hundred rupees for the camera, plus, six hundred rupees to the compulsory attendant, and, an additional six and a half thousand rupees to the sound guy, and the rent of his equipment, all this for one shift, of eight hours. Eight thousand six hundred rupees. Or one hundred and seventy two U S of A, for one shift, of eight hours.

I believe, that, amateur filmmaking is, a lot more irritating than, professional filmmaking. Simply because, a poor man cannot afford fancy tools.

A complete 3 minute video guide to growing coconut trees

After research aplenty, this, an educational film about, growing coconut trees.

Burn After Reading

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