Arsenal, SLR and Nadal

Not having blogged for sometime and feeling good about the missing hangover which I was destined to have, thought its time to type away the significant happenings that made my micro environment the least bit interesting or depressing the past couple of weeks,

The death of Arsenal
The very existence of Arsenal was exemplified by free flowing, creative football. The past 4 years have been especially tough for me as a Gunners fan having not won anything since the 2004 FA cup. But the past couple of weeks have really pierced my soul. The flair which was apparent even as we didn’t manage to win anything for the past 4 years was missing. For the first time in my life I was bored to watch Arsenal play. Pride lost as we drew 3 games in 1 week, to lowly Cardiff, resurgent Everton and West ham. Let the leg breaking spirits of English football haunt Ninian Park, The Mersey side and Upton Park.

Rupee Overvaluation
How on earth does this constitute my Micro environment? Well I’m pro export and pro ‘’lets makes this economy work’’ hence the disgust at how the SLR is been pegged against the US$ amidst falling foreign reserves as the central bank compromises our reserves position to defend the rupee. My dad rang me up the other day and he tells me that his Chinese suppliers offered him 20-30% discounts on most products since the Yuan has been depreciated and they wanted to help business boom. Wish we had a similar position on the rupee which will help exporters. The rationale that we need to keep the rupee pegged against the US$ to ensure inflation is controlled is a pretty short term thinking strategy, the damage done to exporters in the form of factory closures, lost customers etc. will not be recoverable and will adversely affect our BOP position in the future. 2 of my best buddies are now unemployed due to bad policies which have resulted in manufacturing job losses.

Rafael Nadal
For once I’m with the crowd favorite. Nope, it was not the French open winning rafa that impressed me. Rather it was the Wimbledon runner up Rafa on 2 consecutive years that impressed me. The manner in which he continued to challenge the King of grass was amazing and his 5th set loss to Federer in 2007 was heart breaking after missing multiple break points in the final set. But he came back; on top of a 4th French open title to finally win Wimbledon in the longest game in Wimbledon history with a 5th set that seemed to go on forever. (Since 5th set games do not go onto a tie breaker, but continues until someone breaks serve). And now he has the Aussie open!! The US open is the last frontier of what is now a fast contracting federer empire.

The exams and assignments which have taken up much of my time during the past weeks are too painful to bring up and hence would be avoided!

F*** Sirasa Dancing Pigs!

Right now i'm in a good ol mood to f***ing reflect on everything and say that i wish Sirasa was off the Air completely! Single handedly Sirasa has fucked up my weekend,

Here i am slaving all week, studying on a friday night, the entire Saturday with only the Maharajah's post for amusement or any sorta entertainment all the while waiting to Catch Arsenal Playing fucking Hull city on the weekend and can you beleive my fucking luck??? Sirasa Dancing stars finals and the stupid democracy at home prevailed!! To actually fucking accept that induviduals at home have developed a taste for this programme which closely resembles the slaughtering of Pigs itself baffles me???? Oh Lord.... Arsenal..... Arsenal.....!!!!

That's it, i have just fucking snapped...... those mobsters should have done a better joib i think!! Starting with immidiate effect all Arsenal Premier league matches are to be viewed over a pitcher of BEER, fish and chip and winglets at Cheers, no coming home on a saturday or Sunday night if Arsenal is playing! either that or i finally get my own damn TV with my Jan Salary!!

To just rub salt up my anus Man U, Chelsea and Aston Villa clinched Victory from the Jaws of defeat/a draw which makes me just hate this fricking Saturday!!!

My weekend is ruined!!!! May the world burn!!!!

Ironic Headlines on CNN

You know why i just love reading through the CNN's online news website?? yup, it's like looking for diamonds.... stay at it and you're bound to find the most demented/ironic headlines ever. Not that i hate the local media, but they seem to be so caught up with media rights, the war, petty partisan politics and a plethora of seemingly depressing stories that i can't help but wander around looking for some amusement? look, LW was a great guy.... but nuf with all this now eh?? we know almost all there is to it on the surface at least and could use a little cheering up i'd say. Maybe Mr. Pres should turn up on national tele with a juggling act?? hmm... anyway, check out these 2 headlines i came across on CNN,

Zimbabwe activist: 'I feared for my life' - well...... wtf did you expect being an activist in Zimbabwe??? geez, even us lankans have so much to fear and then you got that Mugabe dude pissing fire all over the place and you actually expected otherwise??? boy what a reality check!!
but Kudos to you. a couple of hundred dim witts like you in Sri Lanka and we've got ourselves a fricking revolution!!!

Mexico searches for abducted U.S. anti-kidnap expert - yeaaahhh...... one of my most prefered stories that i've been following for some time now, have heard little about the poor prick though! But think about it, serves him right... right? i mean the balls this arse had to actually charge people around the world (Money, for all those bull fighting fanatics who got their undies in a twist) to listen to him serve monkey ball curry on a platter is ridiculous. But the actual sequence of events leading to his abduction is even more mind boggling!! I guess this guy was the Sakvithi of the ''Anti Kidnap expert world''. Knew absolutely nothing in reality but ran a brilliant scheme.

Hey, i'm no fan of Hamas... but if Al Jazeera had stuff like this i'd probably be looking into that too. So this is nothing but a big fricking Thank you to CNN.

For everything else there’s VISA

Getting beaten to a pulp by Rupavahini employees, priceless!

The rush of adrenaline you feel when a reporter throws a shoe at you, priceless!

The funky high of having illegal sex on a Dubai beach, priceless!

The shock of a foreign newspaper addressing you by the name of a dead former prime minister whilst being the wife of the president, priceless!

Hearing ‘’Yo Mama so cheap, she couldn’t afford an abortion and now I’m stuck paying your child support’’ on a Sinhalese version of ‘’Yo Mama’’ on Sirasa, priceless!

You highjack a tanker, hold everyone hostage, negotiate a multi million dollar release; the world is on its knees, the Saudis agree to pay but before you know it you die trying to turn a small speed boat! Dumb ass!! Priceless!

There are something’s money can’t buy…….. For everything else there VISA