And they won..

I read an article on soccernet at the start of Euro, predicting that this might be the "Year of Spain", so very true... This is the year of Spain.. they were the best team of Euro 08, playing sexy football, top class passing with excellent defending.
I think they have the best midfield with likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Seena, Fabregas...
All the matches they played were really exciting with a possible exception of Italian clash (maybe..) They always showed the intent to attack and score. They were the deserving winners.

And as BigV always says "The game of football should win". It was the case in Euro'08.

Campeonato Europeo de Fútbol Fiebre

Well I tried to compile a list of nicknames of all the 16 teams playing in EURO'08.

Germany Die Mannschaft
Spain La Selección / La Furia Roja / La Roja
Turkey Ay-Yıldızlılar
Russia (None) (USSR Red Army)
Portugal Selecção das Quinas
Czech Republic The Locomotive
Switzerland Nati
Austria Wunderteam
France Les Bleus / Les Tricolores
Italy Azzurri
Netherlands Oranje
Romania Tricolorii
Sweden Blågult
Greece The Pirate Ship
Croatia Vatreni
Poland Biało-czerwoni / Orły

From the name it can be deduced I am supporting La Furia Roja.

Chit chat

have not blogged for past 2 weeks..
reasons..
1. Nothing new
2. Busy weekends (went home and gurgaon)
3. Wanted to write about movies.. but none of them were really worth mentioning except four.

So lets go for movies first..
1) The Forbidden Kingdom .. Must watch for all martial arts movie fans. A deadly cmbo of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, with lot of magic and a reasonably good story. (7/10)
2) K-PAX : Great movie. Amazing story, Kevin Spacey rocks... the central theme is similar to "The man from earth", Just that I didn't like the climax.. (7/10)
3) Zinda : OK types movie, rather much hyped.. The first half is good but the second half does not do justice to the expectations of first half.. and I am dying to see the original (Old Boy). (5/10)
4) Robin Hood: Men in Tights .. Absolute TRASH . Don't watch it (1/10)

Busy weekend.. had a trip to Gurgaon.. the return trip was highly eventful..
Took a cab from Sikandarpur to Mehroli.. and the cab which was designed to hold 8 people was actually having 13 people .. More than the plight of the passengers, I was feeling sympathy for the car.
secondly I got a bus from Mehroli to Noida and drove in bus for around 100 min for just Rs 10. Where is inflation..

As for being busy..
Got a new TV (32inches LCD) Thanks to Sharad.. The place I live has been transformed into a neat clean house. Thanks again to Sharad :)

And lastly really goot article on the names of ASCI Characters :P
http://ascii-table.com/pronunciation-guide.php (Must Read)

8 Things Tag

IronBull has Tagged with this 8 thing tag, so here it goes....

8 things I am passionate about...
1) My machine (thats a cliche)
2) Computer Games (AOE)
3) Manchester United
4) Programming
5) Solving Puzzles
6) Cricket
7) My Guitar.
8) Movies/My Movie Collection.

8 things I want to do before I die...
1) Visit NASA
2) Hack a Real system
3) Write a Deadly virus
4) Visit Old Trafford and watch a game there
5) World Trip
6) Watch IMDB 250
7) Learn Gitar
8) Go regularly to gym.

8 things I say often...
1) Bhokal
2) Vahiyat
3) Pappu
4) Shit Man
5) OMG (Janice style)
6) Fuck
7) Dude
8) Mate

8 books I last read
1) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
2) Foundation's Edge
3) Narnia Series [7 Books]
4) A Time to Kill
5) The road to Gandolfo
6) Introduction to Algorithm by Coreman
7) Head First Servlets & JSP
8) Head First Design patterns

8 songs I could listen to over and over again... (Most difficult of all, the list is pretty big)
1) Hotel California (Eagles)
2) Johnny B. Goode(Chuck Berry)
3) Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
4) Summer Of '69 Lyrics(Bryan Adams)
5) Lemon Tree Lyrics(Fool's Garden)
6) Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
7) Bang Bang - My Baby Shot me down (Nancy Sinatra)
8) Complicated (Avril Lavigne)

Movies last Week

Last week watched 5 movies..Started with
The Bank Job (7/10). I love British movies :) The real punch of the movie is that it is based on a true incident. The movie is not in the league of Italian Job or Oceans 11, but still it can bind you for a period of 2 hrs. The movie is at times funny and thrilling with a couple of entangled stories. There is no or rather very little macho man action but still the pace of movie keeps you occupied all the time. Bottom line .. totally watchable.

27 Dresses (6/10). Stereotype romantic comedy. Totally predictable from the word GO! Katherine Heigl the protagonist is cute and acted well Also James Marsden has done a good job and the two central characters have supported each other well (especially during the dance sequence :P). The movie is at times humorous with cheeky lines, bust the best part is the song "Bennie and the Jets".

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (8/10) WOW, I watched this movie with lot of expectations and was not disappointed at all, Narration was kool, Cheeky lines, good humor. Val Kilmer rocks and so does Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Monaghan. Not as great as pulp fiction but still worth all the time. The movie is fast, thrilling and humorous. Bottom line watch it asap.

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (8/10) Kid Movie with amazing CGI, I really loved the movie. The best part of movie is the story telling with incidents of past sprayed all over the movie making it a more relaxing experience more similar to the thought train of normal humans :) Also timely humor which was blended rally well with the story. The next best part was the CGI monster himself/herself. Really a great experience.

Equilibrium (8/10) The action dose of the week, One can study the gun fire trajectory and using mathematics and simulation can improve his killing rate by 120%. Man I love this. If that is so why not teach it to everybody why there is only one who can kill the rest... Anyway the movie is a real treat for action loving junta with really amazing action sequences. The movie is based on some futuristic society developed so that humans have no emotion so that they can not harm each other and so on. Also worth watching is Christian Bale's acting, the slow evolution of emotions on his face as the movie progresses. Bottom line.. Must watch for action loving sci-fi oriented people


PS. Rajasthan Royals won IPL. (Without doubt the Best team of the tournament won).. Waiting for Euro to start