<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:12:14.524-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Me,Myself........and Me!!!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-382176983685157211</id><published>2007-03-21T10:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:21:07.468-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hmmm....A post after a very long time....im no longer gonna blog abt sports here....www.sportonomix.blogspot.com....this is where u find it all....new venture started by me and gaurav....you could do us a world of good if you could drop in and leave your signature....thats that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IMAGINE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine this world without John Lennon!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RgF9Y8xsL2I/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVdYyqOl94Q/s1600-h/_41050018_daylennondied2_bbc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 212px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RgF9Y8xsL2I/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVdYyqOl94Q/s320/_41050018_daylennondied2_bbc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044450925216542562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RgF9qMxsL3I/AAAAAAAAAA4/TPNLvc8-4b0/s1600-h/chapman_narrowweb__200x310.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RgF9qMxsL3I/AAAAAAAAAA4/TPNLvc8-4b0/s320/chapman_narrowweb__200x310.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044451221569286002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how could mark david chapman think of killing lennon?...of all people lennon?....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its sad to believe that lennon had to die at the age of 39 especially after what he had to go thru while his stay in the US....though he was subject to pariah,not by the city but by the US government,his love for the city of new york,as seen through the purest of his eyes went unchanged....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"all we are saying...is give peace a chance".....this was what he proclaimed and he did all he could to try and  get across this message through mass meetings in the wake of the long and brutal Vietnam War.... but it all went in vain....the man would never live beyond his wildest dreams of living with Yoko and Sean(his son) till eternity....and who is to be blamed?....the CIA....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i still feel bad and find it real difficult to gulp the fact that he had actually been shot....i dunno why i get this feeling....but i guess its because i started with the beatles as a kid and have been a true fan of them....i ve listened to all their songs and the amazing fact about them is that they are still firmly etched right there so i could never forget them....the lyrics of some of some of the songs are awesome....there was this aura around them that was so mesmerising you could fall for it....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well i dunno how i took this book from the library("the man who killed john lennon")....but my hand jus leaped for it as i spotted the trademark glasses(which suited lennon best of all people) on the face of a man who was no more....yeah it was Lennon....and the book promised of all insights into the famous killing and the aftermath of it best titled "the trial of the decade" of chapman....i forgot the name of the author....but wotever his name,he s done a stupendous job with the facts leading upto the murder...at the end of it all "you would wonder:chapman pulled the trigger,but who triggered him?".....the answer as is indirectly cited is the CIA....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a brilliant book and a must read for all you lennon fans....but i guess there will be a moment for  you guys where you might decide to stop reading the book especially as chapman readies himself for the murder....the author so vivdly captivates your feelings(if ur jus reading for the heck of it,u wont have a problem,if u like lennon,u ll be overtaken by emotions and u ll feel so bad i cant even describe...)anyways, a brilliant book....if u really want to believe chapman was triggered by someone else and he really wasnt that insane at all,go ahead and read "catcher in the rye" by JD Salingar(brilliant!!!!!!!) and see this movie "the manchurian candidate"(again brilliant!!!!Sinatra was just awesome)....u ll get to the bottom of it and know what connects mark david chapman,harvey lee oswald,sirhan sirhan...its pretty simple though...they were all programmed....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-382176983685157211?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/382176983685157211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=382176983685157211' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/382176983685157211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/382176983685157211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2007/03/hmmm.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RgF9Y8xsL2I/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVdYyqOl94Q/s72-c/_41050018_daylennondied2_bbc.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-5361381586317709891</id><published>2006-12-21T11:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:21:07.618-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RYrbCQKv_OI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FtawbP8dGqo/s1600-h/shane%20warne.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011058367149374690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RYrbCQKv_OI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FtawbP8dGqo/s320/shane%2520warne.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;WARNE VS MURALI&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The master has finally decided to hang up his boots.probably,the most decorated bowler of all time announced his retirement which was long over due.700 would be a personal milestone for him and he would go down as "the first player to take 700 test wickets".when pics of shane warne are being flashed in newspapers across the world,we would in all probability hail him as "the greatest ever",but the stealthy progress of a man named murali is being ignored here.the guy has already taken a handfull against kiwis who have put the best dancers across the world to shame.all too easy for murali....no surprise...its been like this all along for him....so,where does murali stand in comparison with warney?statistics say he's second to warne,but a sneak peak at his test record reveals certain startling contrasts between the two....zimbabwe,bangladesh!!!!hmmmm,these are a bunch of guys who make up the "mazzacane" and "gene"(for all those who have forgotten the two F1 greats,these guys fought with great determination for the last two places in the qualifying rounds week in,week out,yeah...they made minardi proud...dint they????) of cricket....these countries have been happy hunting grounds for murali....also,murali should be thankful to his cricket board who further helped his cause by inviting these teams on a return series...almost like following the ashes suit....the lad has captured 137 wickets against the two as opposed to warne's 17....murali truly is nowhere in the picture....i hope critics start looking at statistics closely and analyze them....also,murali and warne have probably been the two most controversial bowlers of our generation.murali's "hand of god" has produced magical deliveries in the form of "doosras"....the chap is still waging his battle against those opposing it....fresh appeals have been made,the latest to question being martin crowe(who would probably have danced better to murali compared to the present lot....and this guy talks???)he's defy not a chucker,but a more controversial bowler compared to warne,on-field....we all know who the winner is when it comes to controversies off the field....does it even matter?...no,i guess....warne's is not the "hand of god" and cannot defy science by rotating 360 deg....u know where im getting at....his action is clean and has never been the subject of a talking point....as navjot sidhu would have it "as clean as a whistle"(can't quite get the comparison,but anyway we ll take it,given sidhu)....and so as the legend may have it,"warne is the best". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-5361381586317709891?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/5361381586317709891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=5361381586317709891' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/5361381586317709891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/5361381586317709891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/12/warne-vs-murali-master-has-finally.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RYrbCQKv_OI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FtawbP8dGqo/s72-c/shane%2520warne.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-1493260088855676254</id><published>2006-12-12T08:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:21:07.882-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RX7TonjQsTI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RQscuGc6bVQ/s1600-h/mourinho_nsimp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007672530447675698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RX7TonjQsTI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RQscuGc6bVQ/s320/mourinho_nsimp.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                                              THE CHELSEA-ARSENAL GAME AND A WINNER!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The chelsea-arsenal game might have ended in a draw,but it had a winner in man utd.with half the premiership over,utd are 8 pts clear with chelsea having a game in hand.but it is premature to predict who ll win the premiership,for there may come days when utd hit the post 3 times and fail to find the back of the net.chelsea having done just that have a right to feel disappointed,but spare a thought for arsenal and arsene wenger.ashley cole "the hero turned villain" for asenal clearly fouled an arsenal player right in front of the referee on course to that superb strike by essien.a goal that should never have been in the first place.the surprising fact was that of all people,arsene wenger,so far away on the bench from that tackle by cole "miraculously" spotted it,much to his frustration.this is a man who turns blind to tackles right in front of him when his own men are the aggressors.but,yeah,he can have his say and all that.but when jose speaks?...."we listen"....&lt;br /&gt;here it goes...."i sink eh...we dominated second half,the better team dint win"....so damn predictable.isnt he tired of the same thing over and over again?..ask him about ashley cole's tackle and he would have muttered &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"footh-ball is footh-ball,and for you its a different kind of footh-ball...."(?????confused????do excuse,after all its manager-speak....)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-1493260088855676254?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/1493260088855676254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=1493260088855676254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/1493260088855676254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/1493260088855676254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/12/chelsea-arsenal-game-and-winner-chelsea.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/RX7TonjQsTI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RQscuGc6bVQ/s72-c/mourinho_nsimp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-115954337398945981</id><published>2006-09-29T07:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T08:27:39.096-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>SANIA LOSES AGAIN!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/15/images/2006091511392001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/15/images/2006091511392001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this is my first entry on tennis.thought i'd start off with the best INDIAN TENNIS has to offer at this point of time.It is undoubtedly Sania.Just after her tremendous display against hingis,she faltered,and faltered at the hands of a lower but seasoned campaigner by the name of Ruana Pasual.High on confidence you would expect her to win.i dont like to talk about facts here and i'd rather try and arrive at a plausible answer to why she is not right there at the top,considering the game she has.The best part is she is only 19 and its all fair to say she has a bright future.But lets not playact nostradamus here and predict her future.a few points to be looked into closely.here it goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe the best attribute a tennis player needs to possess above all is good discipline and hingis is an epitome of just that.in her early days,she never focussed on hitting the ball hard and rather concentrated on placement and court coverage.She still has it in her to be no.1.Talking of discipline,Sania still has to learn a lot regarding this aspect of the game.its not fair to say her game is erratic at times,but it might seem so to an onlooker new to the game and who by chance,happenned to occupy the front row in the very match against pascual.Her power game i thought let her down badly as much as her serve.She has to learn to be more patient at times and  just try and play the ball in at crucial times of the match.Her serve too needs to be honed further.It really is a treat for any player ranked anywhere in the top 1000.It is that bad.She loses her serve,breaks back and forces herself into tie breaks.Imagine when she does hold her serve.But there is still a lot of time and it probably is right to assume nostradamus here and say to a fair extent that she can only get better.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-115954337398945981?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/115954337398945981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=115954337398945981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115954337398945981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115954337398945981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/09/sania-loses-again-well-this-is-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-115946754491500712</id><published>2006-09-28T10:50:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-28T11:19:04.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FIXTURES!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matchday 2 is over.its worth having a look at how the english teams fared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MANCHESTER UNITED:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All through the match,one could possibly not have escaped the daunting memories fresh in mind after man utd registered its exit from last year's champions league at the very stadium of light which serves home to benfica.they sneaked in a goal,courtesy louis saha.was not the greatest of strikes,the curl ensuring that even the slightest of deflections was enough to deceive the goalie.the best player was undoubtedly ronaldo.&lt;br /&gt;the witty tricks he flaunted yday were enuf to bring any top draw defender to shame.Rooney was disappointing again.was all over the place.This line up still hasnt been very formidable though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHELSEA:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;another day at the office.not for sheva,but for drogba as chelsea thrashed sofia by three goals.the only concern for them wld be the ugly defending from carvalho.frankie lampard went about his usual business.they were not very attractive,especially the back four and i though sofia could have netted in one or even two.sheva has still not got used to the english kinda game.but when jose speaks,we listen&lt;br /&gt;"when sheva doesnt score goals,we win,imagine when he does!!!!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARSENAL:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;personally,im not a big fan of arsenal,but i cant help but accept the fact that they are probably the best passing side in the premiership.the amount of first passes they make is quite amazing.the mastermind is obviously wenger and with thierry henry netting in with his not-so-likely source of head,the future could only look better for them.a comfortable win for them in their first ever match against porto fc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LIVERPOOL:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benitez seems to have done the trick,but only just.two goals from crouch and one from luis garcia.if you see a better goal from crouch this season,put it in your collection.this one is for your scrapbook.truly awesome.galatasaray came back strong with two wonderful headers from karan.but it was all too late and liverpool held on for the win.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-115946754491500712?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/115946754491500712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=115946754491500712' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115946754491500712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115946754491500712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/09/champions-league-fixtures-_115946754491500712.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-115928839096516690</id><published>2006-09-26T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T10:11:33.853-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;PREMIERSHIP UPDATE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAN UTD 1 - 1 READING.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/ac/Cristiano_Ronaldo_240905.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/ac/Cristiano_Ronaldo_240905.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoping to make amends for their loss at home to arsenal,manager Sir Alex was looking to set things back on track.A tough away match against new boys Reading was nothing short of disappointment for the men from old trafford.The match started of in a lively manner with man utd setting the tone as expected.They did everything right except find the back of the net.but reading were not to be written off.with grit,fervour,determination they fought back.The first half could have gone either way,but 0-0 was not a fair reflection of the performance of both the teams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 mins into the second half and reading find themselves 1 up.a ball truly meant to be cleared by rio ferdinand was missed completely.a poor and ball-blinded gary neville stuck his hand out only to give reading a penalty.but man utd fought back as always,pushed harder for the win.i thought neville and rooney had a bad game and should have done a lot better.from a presonal view point,i feel rooney has become predictable.his movements are well monitored and as a result,he finds himself well marked.ronaldo just needed a break from the left a truly wonderful goal was the result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a lot of positives can be taken into confidence though.heinze and vidic are back.carrick had a good game and has settled down well as a defensive midfielder with occasional breaks into the channels.if they desire of lifting the premiership,they should make a few purchases when the transfer window opens in januray again,otherwise ,its chelsea all the way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-115928839096516690?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/115928839096516690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=115928839096516690' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115928839096516690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115928839096516690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/09/premiership-update-man-utd-1-1-reading.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-115893350046606518</id><published>2006-09-22T06:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-22T06:58:20.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>CONFESSIONS OF A CONFUSED MIND....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN-COMFORTABLY NUMB PART 1....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not abt footbal or man utd....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have not the slightest idea why im blogging now....probably coz im feeling down,i dunno....my mind has been filled with thoughts,thoughts and thoughts....so thought it would be good to save my thoughts before it meanders through the valley of thoughts again(ore flow la vandhurthe)....ok,these thoughts may mean nothing to you....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"na jane kab se"&lt;br /&gt;"umede kuch baki hai"&lt;br /&gt;"mujhe teri yaad kyun aathi hai"&lt;br /&gt;"na jane kab se"&lt;br /&gt;"dhoor jitna be ....i dont remember"&lt;br /&gt;"ab so aadat si....i dont remember"&lt;br /&gt;"i dont remember...shikwa nahi...i dont remember"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these are excerpts from the song called "aadat" by jal....amazing song....rocks....u will defy reach the "valley of thoughts" as u listen to it and i ve been there a couple of times....here it goes....transistors and resistors no longer interest me(not that it always used to)....iam not going places or so to say,im not going &lt;br /&gt;to US,doesnt interest me now....MOCK CATS seem to be mocking me everytime and the last was nothing short of just that....just like when i thought i was getting better,i messed up....hate to tell u stories,so will stop with that....hate to say &lt;br /&gt;"i ve lost it"....i have not actually....IIMs may seem far,its not...the nearest being banglaore...talking of bangalore,on my way back from the "land of the nearest IIM fom chennai",Paulo Coelho took me to slovenia and Veronica decied to die....&lt;br /&gt;halfway through the book,thought i was in ljubjana,but had actually reached katpadi....thought i cld find veronica and tell her "why did u do this?"(before she died ofcourse)....since i dint find her,got no reply....so got on with the book again....as i finished the book and got down from the train,thought i cld find "veronica" or atleast "veronica like" people....vent in vain....amid all the &lt;br /&gt;hustle and bustle at chennai central,no one can find veronica,i thought....do these kinda people really exist?....i have no idea....i got lost..i came to the conclusion there were no veronicas in this world and that was when i realised where the bus &lt;br /&gt;stand was.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Came home,of course not to find veronica,but to listen to eddie vedder to see if he can spring up with answers....all that he cld tell me?...."worldwide suicide"....what is he trying to tell?...terrorists,jihadis,mujahideen?....wotever....is there &lt;br /&gt;something in common between terrorists and veronica apart from suicide?....nothing i guess....suicide bombers and the like kill other people and themselves too....veronica fortunately just herself..."veronica like" people are expected to fall off from the edge of the "flat world" coz of changes?....changes like the boom of the internet,outsourcing,the techno progress,in short the globalisation as cited by tommy friedman in his book "the world is flat"(he was very optimistic though!!!!)....but veronica never lived the fast life like these people who underwent changes lived....she was much different from what times demand and of course much different from terrorists....yet she wanted to die....as vedder started with his next &lt;br /&gt;song,my senses resurfaced....the song?...."alive"....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-115893350046606518?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/115893350046606518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=115893350046606518' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115893350046606518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/115893350046606518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2006/09/confessions-of-confused-mind_22.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-114710888078518357</id><published>2006-05-08T10:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T09:04:58.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>THE MEANT TO BE STUDY HOLIDAYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the last time i logged on to blogger.com and type in "baddy_k" and "********" i dont remember....but i now take this vow that i'll update my blog regularly for the sake of my ever so "loyal" readers who visit my blog every now n then and say "why dont &lt;br /&gt;you ever update your blog"....these voices have been ringing in my ears day after day after day and finally the day has arrived for me to do the needful....with a tearful end to the premiership and to rooney at stamford bridge,i guess i shdnt &lt;br /&gt;talk football,the disappointing season can be just as sweet if 17th can be turned into a nightmare for arsenal and im sure i'll stop watching football if "arsenal" do a "liverpool"....well my pracs got over 10 days back and from then on,ive been &lt;br /&gt;hibernating with either "led zeppelin" singing "stairway to heaven" evoking memories of pramod mahajan or with T.Rajendran doing his usual rounds of so called "campainging"....the last i saw,he sang a song on "kalaignar" much to the elation of people watching him on tv and to the distress of the two anchoring the show....how i really pitied them...."TR FOR CHIEF MINISTER"....meanwhile,i saw CAPOTE and CRASH and read this book called FREAKONOMICS....will be talking more abt these in my later blogs....for all those who are writing your GRE this analogy is a give away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;              KAAVYA VISWANATHAN:HARVARD;;&lt;br /&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;              1.DEVA     :KOLLYWOOD &lt;br /&gt;              2.ANU MALIK:BOLLYWOOD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;              CHOICES:&lt;br /&gt;              a.1&lt;br /&gt;              b.2&lt;br /&gt;              c.both&lt;br /&gt;              d.none of these&lt;br /&gt;INFERENCE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you go for a,you like anu malik.&lt;br /&gt;if you go for b,you like deva.&lt;br /&gt;if you go for d,then its not worth spending 6000 on GRE.&lt;br /&gt;if you go for c,then you're like "if opal mehta really got kissed,got wild and got a life",wheres the problem?you are one person who will score 1600 on your GRE....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the corect answer is "c".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i seriously hope AUG 10th will turn out to be a good day for me and my pals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do drop in and comment if you have a different answer....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-114710888078518357?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/114710888078518357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=114710888078518357' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/114710888078518357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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i deseve....mmmm,wot shall i rite?n i jus got a feedback saying no ones interested in football....so lemme try my hand at the game of cricket!!!!&lt;br /&gt;though far from my favourite sport,it still deserves my views n criticisms in general....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE GAME OF CRICKET&lt;br /&gt;the game of cricket is played between two sides,each of 11 players....6 stumps with bails over them,3 on each side of a picth 22 yards long forms the wicket....the rest u know!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so,i think i've given u a detailed look into the game of cricket,which shd be enuf to understand the rest of my blog....so,here we go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD&lt;br /&gt;the best team is undoubtedly australia....though they lost the ashes to the english side(currently doing their ugly rounds in pakistan,n still u guys think they're 2nd best huh!!),they still remain the team to beat....they have won,home n away,against any team thats existent,except i think kenya(did they tour kenya?),but thats ok,i guess....now,there are a few points to be looked into,b4 we actually land up with "the best team in the world"....the cricketing fraternity as such is very small....about 10 teams in all,with about 4 of them trying not to get relegated(but theres no relegation),but i think u know where im getting at!!they are minnows,not worth playing at the highest level....effectively,there are about 6 "ok" teams showcasing their talents every now n then....n to be the best team in the world according to me,is beating every team u play against,n australia have done that...no other team has come close n still we talk about "england equalling autralia"....n the height of stupidity reinvented would be rating "sri lanka the second best one day side"....!!!!the team that has beaten every other team(home n away) over the past coupla years deserves to be "the  best side " n the team thats come close is the "second best"....n thats y australia r still the best....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE PHYSICAL ASPECT&lt;br /&gt;cricket is not a demanding game,in the sense it doesnt take its toll on every guy who plays,there could be days when dravid or sachin would be in the field doing nothing n still end up in the winning side....but they are expected to show the required fitness levels,levels which some of the others have redefined....they dont have to be a jonty or a ricky,but atleast they should be better than 10 kumbles or gangulys put together to claim a place in the team....n again,the south africans n the australians have given a new dimension to the game with their catching n direct hits....the athleticism they show is terrific,these are little things we forget,but its good to see "bhajji" dive n take a catch,it really is....indians under chappell have finally realized that cricket is not all about bowling n batting!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD&lt;br /&gt;this is my fav...."sachin tendulkar is the best batsman in the world" has become the mandatory answer from anyone who is put up with "whos the best batsman in the world?"....the sad part about cricket is that the ratings are "statistics based" in the sense that the person who scores the maximum runs is the best player....in no other game is this true....michael jordan is the best player ever to have set foot on the basketball court,but the most no. of points was scored by one Mr.Wilt Chamberlain....some guy from the iranian football team has scored the most no. of goals n hes the most capped player in the history of football,hes far from the best player in the world....the difference is that the above ratings are "performance based" unlike cricket.... n thats y i rate someone like mathew hayden,brian lara n our very own rahul dravid better than sachin simply because they have played more match winning innings than sachin....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thats about it this time....do comment&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-113325368018199597?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/113325368018199597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=113325368018199597' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/113325368018199597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/113325368018199597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/11/back-with-bang-hmmmm.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112888052009719835</id><published>2005-10-09T10:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-09T10:55:20.103-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>BOLD BUT NOT BEAUTIFUL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/1600/flin1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/320/flin1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrew Flintoff is a household name in england,second only to david beckham....the recently-made-up-star from the victorious english side released his autobiography "being freddie"....the book hit the stalls recently and has already sold a million copies...."freddie" chose to point his finger at the captain of the indian cricket team....the be-all of the indian cricket team was accused of complacency while playing for lancashire and was branded as "a difficult player to get along with"....not so long ago,in those good old times of indian cricket(compared to the present mournful state),freddie was a boredom and ganguly had already reached stardom....a couple of incidents took place,it seems that made freddie feel that ganguly was a complacent,egoistic and a difficult person to get along with....this could be true,no doubt....but my point of view is that freddie still a long way to go and this is a comment of a great magnitude,given the helpless state of ganguly....flintoff has just added a little fuel to the fire,and it would take ganguly to slam flintoff for sixes when the latter tours india to extinguish the "the little more fuel added fire"....the two have a great on field as well as off field rivalry,thanx to their humorous,ferocious,breath taking,SHIRT TAKING heroics,which any day,SALMAN KHAN would have been proud of....ganguly,the master of dancing-down-the-wicket sixes,has 10,000 ODI runs to his fame and flintoff makes a bold comment on ganguly....flintoff still has a long way to go,he has only played 90 ODI's and his bowling and batting averages would and could only be the envy of the bangladesh cricket side put together,n he makes a comment on ganguly????freddie,this is a comment that should be made after u go down as probably,one of the best all rounders of the game....save ur face n dont ever do a SALMAN KHAN in india for one priced wicket of a "genuine" tail ender....u have come a long way and u still have a long way to go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112888052009719835?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112888052009719835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112888052009719835' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112888052009719835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112888052009719835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/10/bold-but-not-beautiful-andrew-flintoff_09.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112783907082156714</id><published>2005-09-27T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-27T09:41:24.260-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>WHO FRAMED GREG CHAPPELL?                   &lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/1600/ganguly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/320/ganguly.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/1600/chappell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/320/chappell.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will be interesting to see who wins the battle between ganguly n chappell....i think with the so called "compromise" the BCCI has already won....a closer look at the speculation will tell u y BCCI had actually leaked the e-mail sent by chappell....The BCCI camp led by Dalmiya all along dint want chappell to be the coach,surely!!!!....it was sunny,shastri n kapil who selected the coach for the  best-batting-line-up-on-paper,oh yeah the indian cricket team....ganguly no doubt has been a good captain for india....but it is true that he has shaped the team  to suit his needs...."he fears the new ball",chappell pointed out,true!!!!he really is afraid of the new ball.y then would he do a "rivaldo"(ball hits him on the legs n he falls down,hands over his head in anguish,that memorable match against turkey) complaining of pain in his elbow....dead rite u r Mr.Chappell when u say that he has let down the team....the time for ganguly,the quickest run getter of 8000 runs in the history of one day cricket,the prince of kolkata,the man who made steve waugh wait in the kolkata heat for the toss....n last but not the least....THE GUY WHO FRAMED GREG CHAPPELL to leave has arrived.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112783907082156714?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112783907082156714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112783907082156714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112783907082156714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112783907082156714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-framed-greg-chappell-it-will-be.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112714919656905135</id><published>2005-09-19T09:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-19T10:02:56.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/1600/sir_alex_ferguson___167634c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/320/sir_alex_ferguson___167634c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAN UTD VS LIVERPOOL&lt;br /&gt;the atmosphere was elctric....the stage was set for a thrilling encounter....but it really turned out to be a rather defensive man utd against a not-so-defensive liverpool who pressed so hard but could not find the back of the net....now,man utd without gabriel heinze r struggling....he is sidelined for the rest of the season!!!!!!!....oh god!! wot do u do sir alex???play richardson that tiny-wheres-he-running-5-foot something richardson?????sir alex,u left out park?????pls,gimme a break....the biggest &lt;br /&gt;flaw for man utd in that game was richardson in the right flank,oh yeah! that ever so weak right flank which beckham occupied....the mid field is not wot it used to be....nistelrooy runs up n down the pitch in search of the ball....no one supplies????paul scholes doesnt penetrate enough....n john o shea passes the ball back to van der sar,safe n sound,but he keeps forgetting that the goal is on the other side!!!!!!!a really disappointing performance by man utd.....please sir alex,take out richardson n let park create some space for himself....and sign in a new midfielder of the likes of van bommel from barca,keane is too old!!!!only then can u snatch the premiership from chelsea !!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112714919656905135?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112714919656905135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112714919656905135' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112714919656905135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112714919656905135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/09/man-utd-vs-liverpool-atmosphere-was.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112680321947972628</id><published>2005-09-15T09:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-15T09:57:51.296-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/1600/IDL504.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/1410/320/IDL504.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at this point of time i think i should introduce to u my idols or the persons from whom i seek inspiration ....the first person that springs to my mind in undoubtedly the best free kick taker in the world,david beckham....there have been a lotta criticism on him about not performing on the pitch....but he still remains the most sought after player by any club....people might not accept this but this is true....in fact manchester united have not won the premiership since he left(though its only 2 years),but the fact remains that there was an unavoidable void created in the team....he was and still is the best passer of the ball....the pass which bisected two defenders through to ronaldo for a goal is still is vividly clear after almost 2 yrs in my mind....such is the impression he leaves after a game....but probably he saved the best for his last game for man utd and that came against real madrid....he was surprsingly left out on the bench adding to the rift between him n sir alex....real madrid played the best i thought they have ever played....people compared it to the days when de stefano and puskas ran through defences for real....real true to their name(real means royal in spanish),took a commanding 6-3 lead on the aggregate....then in the second half was introduced david beckham....he scored 2 quick goals and the agrregate was 6-5 to real....real players had no answers to his movement....a fact that was later acknowledged by zidane....in the 90th minute,beckham earned a free kick for himself....raul who did not play that match had told later that it was the most tense moment of his career as he sat back n watched the master bend it....fortunately for real the ball missed the poles by a whisker.... &lt;br /&gt;the game ended and after the season,it was clear that beckham was leaving....leaving man utd and his father figure,sir alex who nurtured his football skills as a youg player in the man utd youth team and was probably the most instrumental person in shaping up his career....three clubs were pressing for him....ac milan,barcelona,real....real president fiorentino perez played the waiting game....after milan n barca let go their desire to sign him s they cld not afford the price,real opened the doors for him for a record transfer....a day later fiorentino perez called his assistant who was pressing him to sign bekham for a long,lomg time and said "congratulations,sunshine"....the great beckham had joined the great real madrid team and was now a part of the "galacticos" as they would call.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112680321947972628?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112680321947972628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112680321947972628' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112680321947972628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112680321947972628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/09/at-this-point-of-time-i-think-i-should.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112663069169076525</id><published>2005-09-13T09:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T09:58:11.703-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>ENGLAND WON THE AHSES????????&lt;br /&gt;while i try n cope up with the catastrophy that occured yesterday(england winning the ashes).....i would like to sum up the series.....&lt;br /&gt;man of the series:aleem dar&lt;br /&gt;player of the series:weather&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;aleem dar according to me is the player of the series for his 2 wonderful decisions in the fourth test that turned the tide in favour of england.....but for his decision...australia would have won the series....u dont often see an animated simon katich who was hit way above his knee roll n was given out.....now if he had stayed there,australia would have,god knows added another 50 runs,enough to bowl out england......so i still maintain that australia is the best side in the world....they will retain the ashes in 2007.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112663069169076525?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112663069169076525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112663069169076525' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112663069169076525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112663069169076525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/09/england-won-ahses-while-i-try-n-cope.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112420011313961321</id><published>2005-08-16T06:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-16T06:48:33.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>ITS AUSTRALIA VS ENGLAND FOR THE ASHES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;glenn mc.grath  seeing off  harmison in the dying moments of the 3rd ashes  test .......u must be kidding.......who would have thought the ashes would unveil itself in such a manner that channels involved in broadcasting would make fortunes,fortunes that the owner of the kohinoor diamond  would envy..........( by the by who owns the kohinoor diamond??trivia)......people in england are talking cricket it seems,day n night ,so much so that they forget crespo scoring a 93rd minute injury time goal.............is this the england we knew which over the years has gone gaga over chelsea............&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;billy plays robin hood........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;billy bowden reportedly went and asked geraint jones for the ball after the 2nd ashes so he could keep it as a souveneir.............so u cannot brand him as robin hood...but he ultimately had to hand the ball over to the authorities who claimed they had to have it as a souveneir........bad luck billy,u could always try for the stumps!!!!!!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112420011313961321?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112420011313961321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112420011313961321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112420011313961321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112420011313961321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/08/its-australia-vs-england-for-ashes.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112386996487530235</id><published>2005-08-12T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T11:06:04.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;as i try n figure out wot i wanna do with life,i would like to unveil my interests to you,they are a wide range of activities like eating,sleeping(wot more u like to do with life?)............n ofcourse surfing the net............going to college is my past time(but my attendance wld be above 90%),nevermind,i think im actually departing from wot i wanted to say.......so i will keep my "mokkai" out of the cards for some time..........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so,all those anti man utd guys please "stay away from my blog" as ur in for some anti "ur club" comments here...........tomorrow is a big day,"super saturday" with man utd taking on everton at goodison park.............edwin van der sar should do a commendable job and i predict he will be the best goalkeeper in the premieship this year.................rooney,ronaldo n nistelrooy will showcase their adroitness to an extent that the everton playes r gonna rub their faces in despair in the centre.............final score will be 4-0 to man utd,arsenal,chelsea will only be a harbinger to everton&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15288064-112386996487530235?l=manurocks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/feeds/112386996487530235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15288064&amp;postID=112386996487530235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112386996487530235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15288064/posts/default/112386996487530235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manurocks.blogspot.com/2005/08/as-i-try-n-figure-out-wot-i-wanna-do.html' title=''/><author><name>Badri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16773449739409604773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_zJB-NN3H8/S-Y9rrhReEI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/xOjXMHAq8tM/S220/121.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15288064.post-112367954387506277</id><published>2005-08-10T05:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-10T06:12:23.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;yahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!i have my own blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;this is for those who dont know me(open 4 those who knoe me too!!!!!!1).....im badri(my name literally translates to a god!!!!),19 yrs im actually older than maria sharapova and im shorter than her im happy im taller than sania mirza............im sure ppl reading this blog r gonna think this guys crazy........u shd bear with me coz u need me n i dont need u!!(u will know sooner rather than later).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;only ppl above 18 can enter my blog and u have a to be a man utd fan.(strictly need to be)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as im writing this,im thinking as to what i wanna do with life...............thats a question too early for me?....u might say....but i dont think so......im currently pursuing my engineering in electronics at SSN(never heard of it?thats ok......u have?thats wonderful),i dont give a damn as to whether u know my college or not......coz i have realized that im not a part of it n that every man is a part of something bigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;confusing??&lt;br /&gt;i get on this college bus at 6.45 in the morning,get back at 5.15.4 yrs 24*7 and i have finished my graduation!!!!!!!!gr8 achievement?(pat on the back).......i get a job and earn a decent salary!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;gr8 achievement(pat on the back)........i get married n i have kids not a gr8 achievement(but i'll pat my back anyways!!),as i get older n older i get idiotic and weak and at one point,i let out my last breath(im dead,shit im dead).....im sure my last words would be "why did i live this f***ked up life"&lt;br /&gt;so is this the way its gonna be??????????i still wonder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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