Footballers Wives

Times of india..the legendary gossip page does it again!
Here is a link to the girlfriends/wives of footballers.If u see most of them are companions of Italian players...no wonder they screwed up so miserably in the Euros...cant get ur concentration to the requisite levels to win such a tourney with these models arnd.

Balls

Blogger vs Orkut -- Blogger wins !

I was just thinking after the gradual fizzing out of orkut whether the comparison made above is fair. On one end we have one thing which is a medium to let our creative juices flow and also for all our bullshit, mud-slinging and leg-pulling. On the other end we have a seemingly techno jazzy interface where we can meet people and read their profiles however inconsequential they may be. Orkut and things similar to it have a phase of usage. When its new, its simply great( well, I have to say that ,because the only motivation i used to have some days was increasing my friends on orkut), but lack of new features and simply lack of change makes it suck pretty soon.So however technically good Orkut maybe, I give it a max of two months of peoples' interest unless they change it drastically.But just come to think of it, on blogger we have been pretty active for the past 8 months now and though it has caused a few fights and ill-feelings the plethora of joy it usually gives to share our "near-life" experiences expunges those(ill-feelings). Today we've completed 8 months since we have started blogging ( not counting the inactivity periods in between), so heres to Freaks Inc and happy blogging !

The Van der Vaart Saga

Just managed to come across an interesting piece of article on the dutch sensation Rafael Van der Vaart. Manchester United has been courting this 21 yr old whizkid for 2 yrs now...and if British Tabloids were to be believed...then Fergie was supposed to move in for the kill and offer 15M to swoop Rafael.
But apparently Fergi has come to know of Rafael's high profile relationship with
Sylvie Meis and is having second thoughts abt the transfer. Fergie had trouble with the relationship of Becks and Posh Spice...and that was one of the reasons Becks was shown the door.But this Weis woman is leagues better than Posh.
Search for her pix on Google guys...she is one helluva hottie.

Balls

Another Near-Life Experience (Think I have been having too many of them these days)

Venue – Mongolian Grill of Columbia
Date – Saturday, June 21, 2004
People – Myself ,Vishal , Anadi , Anoop.

Will start with some other events of the day; got to watch a brilliant game between Holland and the Czech Republic .It was one of the best soccer games I have seen. FastPaced attacking football at its best. And I still repeat my words “Though Czech Republic deserved to win, Holland certainly did not deserve to lose” I hope ppl do understand the literary connotations of the contradiction ;-)

After that superb game we decided to goto the Mongolian Grill. It’s a Thai Cuisine restaurant on Columbia. Bala was gonna accompany us but unfortunately due to his
advisors (Dare I say his name and he would pop up outta nowhere :) email, he had to stay back to submit some work.

The idea behind the grill is --

There is a Salad Bar where u can make ur own salads. Also there is a buffet corner where u pick up the ingredients of the food u want cooked; down to the amount of salt and the sauces u would like added and they make it for u that way.

Though it was great food, but the highlight of the evening was something completely different. The lady who stole the show completely away from the food was one of the waitresses who was serving us. Just to make u understand how she with her amazingly beautiful smile took away the limelight from the food I would like to just say one line. Even Anoop was looking at her more than the food :)

She can easily give any Hollywood actress a run for their money. Aishwarya Rai probably isn’t even in the same class. To top her amazingly beautiful face, she had an even more amazing figure. A smile anybody would kill for. One of those for whom poems are written. Stuff Dreams are made of. All one would probably do on a date with her would admire her beauty.
(And there is no exaggeration involved here; am sure other freaks who accompanied me will vouch for me.)

Nonetheless, we left with a heavy heart absolutely not wanting to get her out of our sights. In fact, I shamelessly accept, we even went to the extents of driving in front of the Grill when we finally left the place in hope of catching a glimpse of her.(Also u need to consider the fact that Goli was in the driving seat ;-))

Then we went off a nearby Star Bucks and spent the evening talking bt the most weird (Goli thyair) topics. An hour just went in discussing the life and more importantly philosophy of an unnamed loner. :)

Also, I would like to nominate and vote the abovementioned waitress the Official Freaks Inc. Babe with immediate effect.

Goli, agle Saturday same time same place? kya bolta hai ?

Latest Addition to Freaks Activity -- Taboo.

This particular board game was introduced to all of us by Anoop.
A brief introduction to the game – U r given words which u have to prompt to ur team members to guess using clues which do not include certain words which are written at the bottom of the card.

The game was great fun all in all. Some things need special mention. I thought I should archive them on the blog so we remember the newly devised clues forever.

What is NOT – is paint.
As sweet as …. – Jelly
Hockey + Grame Hick is – Hickey
Arsene Wenger – Arson
Claude Makelele + Jayawant Lele – Ukelele
Juventus – Juvenile
Nimbus 2000 – Broom
Prisoner of Azkaban – prison facility (though the right word turned out to be ‘book’)

Also among other points to be mentioned bt the 2 days of fun would be the exemplary sportsman spirit we showed, not ending up even having one spat during the entire duration of the game :-). (I think u can discount the row I had with Goli or Bala occasionally swearing S.O.B) Amongst all of this special mention goes to the DHAMKI that Vishal gave to Srikant – Quoting him on that “G main Dum hai to yahan bol na, Bala ko kya bol raha hai” … Boy ,that dialog has probably has scarred Srikant for life. The after effects of the threat were so dire that Srikant suffered from an attack of headache immediately.:-)

Also include the fact the GOLI (in whose words “Bahut hi simple aur weird si game hai”)never managed to score beyond a negative point or with a bit less exaggeration I would say not more than a couple every time he turned up prompting clues. BTW,with all due respect,COMB is the correct pronunciation, not "cooomb" as u said. Proof -- COMB

Trying to keep the blog short, I end it here with a small request to every Freak who has played the game to at least contribute 2 devised clues.

Dream Band

Been a long time since anyone wrote on the blog...everyones been 'working' out real hard in past few days...while i have been busy doing my Laundry :-).
Being Freaks abt most of the stuff we like...i had a quick poser for ppl (esp Aup,Stri and Bailya) 'If u had a dream line up for a rock band with 4 members...who wud u have?'

My choices:

Vocals/Rhythm: Jaymz Hetfield (Metallica)...GOD...nothing more said.

Lead Guitarist: Randy Rhoads (Ozzy) ...Ive always been a HUGE fan of this guy...even though he has made only 2 albums with Ozzy,those 2 demonstrated that if he were to be alive,he wudve been one of the all time Metal greats.

Bass: The one and only....Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)...never seen/heard a guy who plays the bass guitar like a rhythm guitar...breakneck speed....hear PowerSlave to believe me.

Drums: Ahh now this is a tough one...as much i love Lars/Nicko/Vinnie Paul...i guess i wud have to go with Mike Portnoy(dream Theater).

Waiting to hear ur voices...Scream for me!
P.S. Im learning to write short Blogs :-)

Near Life experience ( Anubhav ishtyle) on I-95
Yesterday evening we(Suraj, Jeetu, Anubhav and I) had been to Siva Vishnu temple. Samir's whimsical nature justified with his undecisive contemplation to come or not , finally "No" being his desicion, coupled with Pradeep's mood ensured that we had two places empty in our Honda Civic.It was 7 ish in the evening and it struck me as we were leaving the house that Anubhav was alone and he would not mind accompanying us.Anubhav's extraordinarily quick "geting ready" skills ensured that we werent delayed anymore.The absence of Anadi in the car ensured that we didnt take any wrong exits and lose our way, though I must admit that I am usually his(Anadi's) accomplice in crime(taking wrong exits) when he doesnt screw it up all alone.We spent a nice 1/2 hour at the SSVT culminated with savories like "Yogurt Rice" and "Mango Lassi" that made Anubhav promptly declare, "Wow..This is the best way to end a fast".
On our way back, Suraj doing his typical "ranti" manouvres, we were approaching Baltimore pretty quickly. In the middle of the journey we were overtaken by a Uhaul truck with a BMW Z3 convertible in tow.We just got into a deep discussion about why that person must have hooked the BMW to his Uhaul trailer. Only a desperate relocation at a time when no one else must have been available for him might have prompted his imprudent decision. It was not difficult to hear each other echoing similar thoughts that had the BMW Z3 been theirs, how they would treat it like a queen and never do such a ghastly act with it.More disturbing were the sparks which were emanating from the friction between the trailer and the ground, undoubtedly due to the high speed(about 90mph) the Uhaul was pulling it at.Suraj stuck to 60Mph and soon the truck was out of sight.A few minutes passed by and Suraj suddenly interjected the silence by saying," Oh shit, saw that car? did you all see that major accident?". Taken aback by his words which caused our lackadaisicial minds get out of slumber we all rhymed back a "NO".As we drove past the spot where Suraj had suspected that an accident just took place, we saw nothing and Suraj was sure by then that he had been hallucinating. But he kept telling us that he saw a car which cut across two lanes and went into the bushes that separate I-95 N and S and needlessly to say we didnt believe him. Seconds later we saw a Uhaul, this time with nothing in the trailer behind it and a close second look at the sparks coming from behind confirmed that it was the same Uhaul we had seen a few minutes ago. Where was the BMW Z3 then? Yeah..Suraj wasnt hallucinating, it was the same unmanned BMW Z3 which got unhooked from the trailer of that Uhaul and cut across two lanes to the left before crashing into the ditch(bushes)/road divider between I95 North and South, and mind you this happened when there were other vehicles behind the Uhaul travelling at around 70.The owner of the car was still oblivious about what a phenomenon had taken place and his Uhall still whistled away at 90 mph.We immediately decided to chase the Uhaul and let him know that his BMW Z3 was gone and here we were helped by Suraj's F1 style driving which has earned him the dubious distinction of many speeding tickets.We were next to him by his right and we were honking and honking to attract his attention but that man ( who I can now say for sure was a drunk, stoned idiot)would not hear.Luckily, there was some other person who had also noticed what had happened and (he)sent an alarm from the left side making the person( the BMW owner) finally realize that something was amiss and causing him to slow down. Being on a highway we couldnt just stop, so we just moved ahead, just looking back and thinking about what had happened,almost missing exit 47B towards UMBC, engrossed in our discussions.Just spare a thought for the person who realizes that his fav possesion which he was carrying in tow is no longer there.What thoughts must have raced in hs mind for that split second when he was told by the person who informed him that his BMW has crashed, what a mile or a mile and a half behind. What must he have been thinking when he would have had to take an exit to get on to I95 south and keep looking around to the left in the bushes to see if he can find his BMW somehere.But I guess a man as stupid as he, deserves his fate. He may argue for the nex few months with his insurance agents or may even sue Uhaul for not providing a stable trailer but can he ever answer these questions:

Scenario 1> What if the approaching cars from behind had crashed into the BMW leading to a massive mayhem with about 10 or more cars involved in the crash.
Scenario 2> Say it eluded the cars approaching from behind, but what if the unmanned BMW ( clearly a misfired bullet) evaded the ditch between I95 N and S and got on to the other side causing a major accident.Imagine a driver on I95 south coasting along at 65 and suddenly he sees a BMW just cutting across out of nowhere.Since the Uhaul was travelling at 90 odd there is a good chance that the sideways speed of the BMW, when it got itself free from the trailer hooks was pretty high ,since it had the momentum to keep moving along.

We all laughed it out in the end with Suraj(now endowed with the power of hindsight from Dravid) saying that he had thought that the car was making an F1 style overtaking manouvre.He said he was thinking.." Oh that car has briskly changed one lane, oh another..and oh its gone( crashing into the bushes )". But what if there was actually a scenario 1 as stated above, then we(our car) would be approaching a mass car melee at 70mph :-))

~Anoop