Nadal finally loses stranglehold!!

Rarely has there been a man who has dominated a surface like Nadal has done on clay. For the trivia buffs, four consecutive French Opens to boot not withstanding, to think that he's done that since his debut is a feat worth a standing ovation. His record on clay is stupendous.

1. 81 match unbeaten strek, a record.
2. Four consecutive French opens, equalling Bjorn Borg.
3. He's 48-1 on clay when it comes to five-setters.

These are just a few of the many feats he's achieved on clay. But, as it has always been, there will always be a moment when you fall down. And that moment came in this years French Open against Robin Soderling. After four years of pure complete domination, which included a 3-set drubbing of Roger Federer, another great, Nadal looked tired and out of sorts against Soderling.

I was just thinking what has led to this. Maybe his competitors are getting better. Maybe he's getting a little casual. Or maybe on the lighter side, he's lost his lucky charms, the trademark sleeveless and capris!!

What the fourth-round did do was to give Federer a clear chance at greatness. With people like Djokovic, Murray and Davydenko falling by the wayside, it was probably his best shot at the title and he grabbed it with both hands, thus becoming only the sixth player in the history of tennis to get a career slam! Truly a great achievement!

But I really do feel that Nadal will surpass Federer. I think Nadal will get a golden slam! All grand slams together in the same year along with the Olympic gold!! He already has the gold, i guess we just have to wait till he does the rest. If that happens, nobody can say that he's second to Federer.

Beware! For the matador from Majorca will come at you hard!! GO RAFA!!

One Month.. of BOREDOM!!!

Well, its been around a month since my holidays. Actually, a little over a month and 10 days.
And in this period, what have I done... its quite easy to answer actually. I've done nothing! That's right.. Nothing to say that I've been kept busy.

And what irritates me most is that I know I've done nothing and I'm not really in a mood to do anything about it. :D Probably, I can say that I've perfected the art of being lazy and thinking about stuff that I really shouldn't be concentrating on.

But there is one thing that I have managed to do and that is push myself to go join a gym and also manage to attend every day!! That's quite an achievement for me, who is not really famous for being a proactive person. Besides that, all I've done is take quizzes on facebook, which are hilarious to say the least. I had a quiz about football where they asked me about my eating preferences!!

Oh, before I forget, I also met a few professors and people for 'guidance' about my future. And I must say I came quite impressed. Its just that in order to achieve what I dream, I just have work for 18 hours a day for the next three years or so.. Not bad you might think right.

And of course, there was the IPL to watch. It was lots of fun and a time-pass for me. It was also the only time when I had a chance to convince my parents to see something that I wanted on TV. But of course, my dear sister was all for IPL being reduced to ashes so that she could watch her daily soaps!! Daily soaps at this age I ask!!! It's prepostorous!

So that's been a summary of the past month. Keep tuned into this blog. Who knows!! This boredom may just drive me to blogging.. (I really wish it does..)

Long time.. Lotsa things.. a recap!!

Hello there again folks..
Sorry for this long delay in writing this post. What happened was I kind of got bored of writing this stuff (Yes! after just 2 posts!!). But now I realize its importance.. (it still is nothing!).

In these months, we had a lot of stuff going on in our college. We had our own tech fest, ENGINEER (man! what a name..) and then the cultural fest INCIDENT (now thats a cult name I say!). So there were a lot of people from outside, seeing what exactly NITK was, one of them being my good friend Kenneth (Don't you dare say you didn't enjoy it!).

And this being my first year, I was curious too, and I must say I came away quite satisfied. After all the fun, the grind of the college started again. But since we were in the physics cycle, we had almost the whole day free, which we conveniently spent sleeping it away!! And soon enough, it was that time again, the end sems!! Man! I was so scared! So scared that I had to break a vow or two. One being that I will not go to the reading room (RR) to study for the exams.

But then, you can't have all the things in life. So I had to go, and boy! did I slog there. I know I shouldn't be particularly proud of this, but come on! It was the first time I ever slogged in 18 years of existence and that was big for me!

The end sems went ok. I was just focussed on getting through these exams and going home! Soon enough, exams were over, books thrown in a corner, and we back to what we did the best, sleeping!

Right now, as I write this post, I sit in Bangalore, in my home, back from my first year in a professional Engineering college, a NITK no less, and I think, "I'm no more a junior dammit!"
And that brings mixed feelings in me. For one, I'm no more the underdog. I know that I can survive in this world. But it also kind of saddens me that I'm no more a school student and all the innocence and curiosity gone!

Boy! It's been one whole year since I joined this college. and it still feels like yesterday! I can still remember how charged up I was when I know that I was going to get a degree in this college.
This whole year has been a dream for me. I've enjoyed it to the hilt! Not a single moment has passed when I thought that I don't want to be here (Except probably for one month when there was no freakin water in our block!!).

Now it's time to sit down and think, what have I achieved in this past year. It's the time to make new strategies, ato rethink previous plans and put them into use. Ya right!! What I've learnt is that there is only so much you can do with prior planning. Instead, have a rough idea and then try your best to stick to that, innovating and changing your plans on the way. That's the best strategy!

We got three months holidays. I'm gonna be really bored. It's also partly the reason I'm writing this! Lets see how we can spice it up! Personality development, Dancing lessons, going out, playing, probably working out!! These are the tentative plans. Watch this area for further developments!!

Fuck,Behenchod,Rats,Cricket,Surathkal,Bottle jumps....

Ok.. I know its a very explicit and weird title for a post.. I mean wtf!! who has a title filled with expletives and rats!! Well folks, its a daily ritual in our hostel room.. these expletives are heard quite frequently. What's new about that you may think. The new thing about our room and these words is that these were uttered in sleep!!!

We are four in a room. Me, K-Man,Davangere and Satya (for those who don't know, its me Sai, Karthik, Kishore and Satyaprakash). At first, I thought we were all normal. But into our first two weeks together, and all the quirky things about us started getting out.

Me, I'm quite a normal fellow. Except for maybe the times when I'm nearing the completion of a particularly long assignment or an EG homework, That's when I get really excited. Some even call me horny!! I start singing really meaningless stuff at the top of my voice, even making songs out of swear words like gandu, fuck, bitch etc.. etc.. I suppose that is really weird.

But no one even comes close to K-Man. He is just unsurpassable in terms of the crazy things he does without even knowing that he's doing them! The first time he spoke in his sleep, he wakes me up, has his eyes wide open, and tells me to look at something that doesn't exist! That was just the beginning. With each passing day, his talking got wilder and wilder. Once, he gets up n says and I quote "Fucking dude, fucking dude,...... behenchod.... fucking...." and back to sleep.

Once, I was finishing an assignment in the afternoon. K-Man sleeping on the bed. he gets up, calls me, and says " Catch it! catch it! catch it dude!" I'm like "What should I catch dude. What the hell should I catch??" He says "Catch the rat! Catch the rat! Catch the rat!!" and I just broke into laughter.The other day, Mayya, Kishore and I were watching a horror movie, all three quite scared, and guess what! K-Man strikes again! He gets up, stares at us with wide open eye, and suddenly opens his mouth wide open just like the ghost in the movie. Kishore hasn't gone to the loo alone in the night again ever since.

Another K-Man special happened after he got into the college B-Team (Yes, he is a good cricket player). He hits me in the head at 4 in the morning, and says "I didn't hit you, it was the ball.. the ball.." and he's back to his sleep.

With so many episodes happening right in front of my eyes I suppose I couldn't help but jump into the fray i suppose. Apparently, I woke up, asked Raghavan "How many bottle jumps did you do? How many bottle jumps did you do man! Tell me how many bottle jumps did you do??" Poor guy apparently said 25 and asked back how many I did. As expected, I was asleep by then!

I suppose I could go on and on about our trysts with sleep talking. But this is enough for one post. Keep rocking K-Man, Get more and more fucking dreams! See more rats! Hit more cricket balls! While I go and try to find out what exactly bottle jumps mean...

Highway to Hell

Well, I really don't know why I thought of life as a journey on the highway to hell. Was it in any way related to the famous song by AC DC? I don't know. I sat down, inspired by my friends Bala and Sushan (damn you guys!!), to get into this and the only thing that flashed across my mind was this title. I think I somehow relate life to this journey on this really tough and taxing road, with all its difficulties and which finally would lead to somewhere I don't know. I've decided I'd just highlight all the parts of my life which have been especially entertaining and sometimes extremely tough. (By the way, I'm giving myself ten days before I give this up!!!). Man is it tough to put your thoughts into words!! And for me, who is an introvert by nature, this is an acid test. I'm just hoping I don't get burned through and through!