A tribute to the great Freddie January 19, 2010
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A twitter-mate posted a youtube clip of Freddie Ljungberg’s beautiful goal a few days ago. I clicked the link to re live that euphoric moment again and at the same time, I was listening to a beautiful chilled out music. As usual I was a bit too lazy to mute the music while the video played but to my surprise the music blended in well with the video and gave it an extra beautiful edge. So I decided to make a compilation of the music (more…)
Football fever April 14, 2009
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While browsing the net, an article titled “10 ways to beat the blues” caught my eyes and I started reading it, half way through I realized that the article was not about the 10 ways to beat Chelsea but rather depression…That’s when I realized that I’m catching the football fever again…
The “beautiful” game June 19, 2008
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There is a saying that football (soccer) is the beautiful game in the world. But after watching the extreme violence and brutality of football fans in the movie “The Football Factory”, I was left to wonder if that saying was an irony. This movie unfolds the dark world of British Hooligan culture thats replete with booze, drugs, sex and barbaric bare knuckle fights. Had it not been for the comedic nature of the movie, the gore and savagery in it would have been unbearable.
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Greenspan moment… May 10, 2008
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According to the CIA world factbook, Ethiopia has a GDP of 55 Billion (2007) which ranks her 86th among the 229 “countries” considered “countries” by the CIA but the GDP per Capita is 700 bucks which ranks her 9th from the bottom. On the up side, the GDP growth rate is at a whooping 9.8% placing Ethiopia 14th, slightly below China. On the down side the population growth rate is at a dismal 2.3% which is adversely affecting this GDP per Capita. Even in India, where women pop babies like popcorn, it is still at 1.5%.
A quick fix to this GDP per capita is a mass influx of free condoms and birth control pills into the public domain and a halt on sex education pamphlets that are being confused for a Kama Sutra booklet.
