Soccer Mania Begins…

So Atul sent this excel sheet today. It had all these names of teams and dates and times that made no more sense to me than Chinese language. It was about Soccer World Cup 2006. We have to predict about every game and put points and all. Now the first problem I faced was the truth that I have more knowledge of aliens then I would ever know about football and the name of the teams sounded like chemical formulas, which, by the way, were one of my biggest problems growing up.

Now these are the days when I can easily be given award for being the greatest idle of all times. “Indian Idle”, if you will. So I can easily imagine you thinking that I’d fill the sheet anyway. And I concur one hundred percent to that. Just a few minutes before typing this line, I was staring at my wall and wondering about absence of any lizards on it. I was wondering about what if we put some lizards and ants and spiders and stuff in this typical US ambiance. Would it be declared that government has failed people and Bush loose election? I kept thinking like that and actually moved on to crabs and grasshoppers and stuff, but that’s not the point at all.

We may be busy more then Bill Gates and think ourself intelligent more then Thomas Edison, for this silly mundane stuff, but this is kinda stuff which keeps people in touch. Work comes and goes, tough times too, but friends remain. Believe me; once you get out of touch with someone, it takes years to get back to same level, sometimes never. And even if we don’t have any interest in football or world cups or Italy or France, we should give its due importance to such things. It keeps friendship alive and keeps life interesting. Of course, in my case, that means it gives me something to do ;). And you don’t feel out of touch. So friends, buckle up to fill the sheet, you don’t always have important and necessary stuff to do.

Enuf preaching, hope you get the message. If I care enuf to pull this much crap, you should at least go ahead and fill ;). Now let me get back to that dumb sheet… I’m going to follow the whole damned world cup… ;))

And one last thing…darn blogger is down and they are saying sorry. Information Technology sucks sometimes. IT does not always stick to defined process, processes are not always right, people don’t always follow the right process and they are not always the right people… err…said too much…??