I.P.L, Cricket,Politics and Money

I.P.L, Cricket,Politics and Money

I.P.L., Cricket,Politics and Money.

I made few decisions sometime ago and they were the right decisions and I spend more time on Linux and Linux games now instead of cricket.

One of these decisions was to not to write about Sri-Lankan cricket.

Cricket Administration (Sri-Lankan) was so rotten and digging its dirty linen in public was not my intention and let mediocre journalists do that for their own living.

Second was I will watch only when it is played in good spirit and irrespective of the side to or the country one belongs when a player plays a good innings enjoy the moment and praise the praiseworthy and condemn the bad acts.

I am not Jeffry Boycott and I love listening to him on the BBC radio like terry Vaughan the Irishman.

Mind you there is an Irishman playing cricket in a flamboyant one day style English Team.

Can you believe that?

He always says don’t be diplomatic and his Yorkshire humour reminds me of the my Yorkshire time, which was very pleasant.

What it means is do not be partisan or make political capital out of cricket like the cheap Indian and Sri-Lankan soap opera (yesteryear) actors turned politicians.

I also hate people who take up politics while wielding a cricket bat and we have ample in this country.

I may sound anti-Sri-Lankan (I am anti-politician, does not matter which side they are in, who are corrupt to the core) too but that is my nature.

I may sound anti-Indian and but certainly not in Cricket and one example will clear any doubts.

There are many but I will state only one.

When Vivendra Shrawag, one of my favorite opening batsmen was denied a century by letting 4 byes and balling a noball next (all three of them are in our Sri-Lankan Team currently and it is a shame) and when his sixer was not allowed or counted, within seconds I vented my anger and blogged it.

This match was played in preparation for the world cup and we were the least prepared team then and it was wonder we came that far afterward.

That is the lowest we have gone (on the field and off the field must be too numerous to mention from selection to ground preparations) and on that count alone we did not deserve to win the world cup.

There are many including a bogus doctor looking after our team and many political insinuations.

The second incident was when Andrew Srauss played a brilliant innings and match was drawn in the Wold cup.

I said, a Star of Wonder was born for England and everybody was prepared to dish him out of cricket after their elimination at our hands in the world cup.

He may not be a brilliant tactician but a very good cricketer and today he proved beyond any doubt (by beating India comprehensively) that he is a test class player.

Now coming to what happened to India?

Many will be written in India but I will be brief.

It is the IPL which started the rot.

There was easy entry for Indian (Pakistani too) businessmen and bookies who were only interested in money spinning that ruined the cricket in general and Indian cricket particularly.

In this context Ravi Bopara’s act of not accepting the IPL should be commendable.

The second factor is too much of cricket and ICC should take the full blame for it (the CEOs also looking at money but not players welfare).

I feel sorry for Shrawag, Dravid and Tendukar (they have done enough for Indian cricket) but not for the rest of the team or on the bench who came up from IPL ranking and showing how good they are to the world. 

I have no sympathy for Dhoni too. 

He has to take the blame for not saying enough to BCCI and standing up to them and saying my warriors are battle fatigued and they need a decent rest in between major fixtures.

That is his crime.

I cannot forgive him for that error of judgment.

IPL in essence ruined our cricketers (Sri-Lankan) and our young prospects too and we won’t recover for decades.

That I do not care.

We present Sri-Lankan who cannot even fill a form in English at an airport love to have air ticket free and money on the sly, often illegal foreign exchange and lot of other dealing besides cricket (that include journalists, commentators and perhaps umpires too if not cricketers and their affiliated guys and girls).

What we need is national integration not too much of cricket or too much Sinhala jubilation’s.

I thank gods for losing the Worlds Cup (we made billions of Indians happy) and in England.

If we won our politicians will be basking in sunshine and doing sweet nothing for corruption at all levels.

They have to work hard and show the voters that they are worth the 5 years pension they get for doing sweet nothing for five years.

I.P.L. Cricket, Film Stars, Politics and Money

Politics and Money have ruined Gentleman’s Cricket, as it was known in the past.

I.C.C. CEO’s did not see it coming or did not wish to see it that way, anyway.

Final nail in the coffin was sending young cricketers to prison.

There was no rehabilitation for players.

Banning them for life or sending them to prison won’t solve any of the problems now ingrained in cricket.

It will worsen and young blood with correct frame of mind will not contemplate cricket as a career.

It is not worth the trouble.

In this background England will become the best test playing country.

But it has no meaning to Indians who are cricket fanatics.

Ultimately test cricket will also die a natural death.

What is happening in Australia is the dress rehearsal for test cricket.

It happened to great West Indies.

It will happen to India.

It has already happened to Sri-Lanka.

In Ceylon what ruined can be put in two words.

Politics and Money.

In India it were I.P.L, Film Stars and book makers.

I.P.L is an embodiment of money and the corruption that goes with it.

I saw it coming and stop watching cricket at all.

It is a blessing in disguise and I could now concentrate more on other vices.

Watching New Zealand Rugby more entertaining that cricket.

R.I.P for cricket in Asia.

Unfortunately, I have to say this before the Asia Cup.

If anybody watches these games he or she has to get his/her mind tested by a psychologist who does not understand what is cricket.

We all had this disease and thank god I am fully cured due to our politicians.

When politicians take control of sports there is no turnaround.

It will remain corrupt to the core and become more and more corrupt.

Interview in Disarray (Election Preview)

Interview in Disarray (Election Preview)

I sleep well and dream well.

This is my latest dream with its interpretation.

I was requested to come for an interview based on a national lottery ticket number.

Very strange and I could not formally apply.

It was something like the “Talent Contest” in TV, which channel I cannot remember.

The way it was conducted, I presume it was Sri-Lankan!

The interviewer was an attractive TV presenter lady.

She was dressed as if it was her wedding day.

I was dressed casually without a tie.

By strange coincidence, I was the first candidate to be interviewed.

She fiddled with the examination cards and question sets but she could not find my set to start the contest.

I thought I can take “Mickey” out of her with the false start.

Within the first minute, I acted like a teenager with a temper tantrum.

When I looked at the other sets, I saw all the bio-data of the other candidates piled up.

I said I cannot come again, you have to make the entry set now.

Otherwise, I am going away and won’t return and report the matter.

At this stage (having been an examiner myself) she new there is a breakdown in the system and she was answerable to her boss and was visibly nervous.

I said shall I put down my bio-data in a piece of paper to help her progress the examination.

She said No.

My objective was to have my own handwriting in the entry set, so that in a scrutiny, if I needed later, I can cross check the validity of my entry.

She then gave me a champagne bottle in her possession and started writing my bio-data.

Before she could finish, the bell rang and another examiner who was late for his part came in.

As he came through the door, I peeped to see the rest of the candidates piling up and the next in line trying to come in.

She took this opportunity to slip out and avoid me in good stead.

She forgot to take the champagne bottle in the rush.

The male interviewer was no better.

He started fiddling with the entry set.

Behold no entry for me.

The female interviewer took my set (she prepared) instead of the champagne (presumably to consume after the end of the examination) bottle.

I took this opportunity to taste the bubbly champagne instead of the bizarre interview.

I pulled the cork out with a pop (without a screw) and offered him a sip before me but he went wild and incriminated me of stealing at an interview and disqualified me in toto!

I woke up.

This was a bizarre dream and posted an email to Acting Maha immediately.

Before, I could take the finger out of the entry key, he was there with a big laugh with angle tune in the background.

How are you?

Very well thank you.

Whats the latest news?

Election panic in evolution and it is in a mess.

Do you know the candidates?

There could be hundreds and the ballot paper would look like a newspaper Sunday front cover with pictures to identify the candidates.

Isn’t it illegal to advertise the candidates?

We cannot but the new election bylaw states that the commissioner can.

So there is no messing up.

No Sir,the messing up comes in the counting chambers.

How?

One has to put numbers instead of crosses on the ballot paper.

The crossing we do with some anger but with numbers we get some paranoia of winning a lottery.

This time more than 100% might vote at the election.

The commissioner might not be able to balance the sheet and election petition would ensue sooner than late.

So we will be without a head for sometime.

It is good know.

Not at all.

It is very easy to steal and do corrupt deals in transition.

No convictions.

Or I see.

What is your interpretation.

This time the election commissioner would device a full proof ballot paper.

It opens with a pop, like when you open a champagne bottle.

Then the police guarding the polling station might shoot at the candidate and you may have few accidents.

Do you won’t me to vote?

Do you like a stray bullet through you by accident.

I suppose not.

Should I stay away.

It is a prudent decision.

Why?

Nobody would get the 50% of the valid vote.

With the numbers over hundred, counting can go on for six months.

Then the Attorney General will find a loophole in the system to appoint an interim president who decides not to stand down and declare the election null and void.

So your vote is null and void.

Why vote?

Stay at home or wear a bullet proof vest, if you decide to go for it.

Religious Quagmire

Religious Quagmire

There was an international conference on Religions to answer the Question, “What is Going On, Earth?”.

Buddhist representative was asked “Why there is so much Hate in Ceylon”?

His answer was simple: If we do not practice Hate as proposed by the BBS, then the other religions cannot see what it means by “Metta” in Buddhism.

Our Metta Buddha is eons away for reincarnation, we need to see him in real life to practice “Metta”.

Till then Hate is the default system.

Then the Next question is from a Hindu representative from India.

Why Krishna is not coming?

He said he was on holiday after India lost the World Cup qualification.

Siva is preparing the battle field for the loss and the only way to avoid conflict is an eon holiday.

Mind you according to my information, Maha Brahma is also on an eon holiday and a Ceylon dog (reincarnation) in heaven is deputizing him as the acting Maha and India is cross with heaven for electing a Ceylon Dog.

Then the Jewish representative was asked;

Why there is a delay in god coming?

His prompt response was unless all the Hindu gods are decimated they cannot take up with Muslims gods in real time.

That explains the delay.

Then a true Christian was asked;

Why there is a delay in Christ coming?

He said there is technical hitch.

It is very difficult to make a virgin pregnant.

It needs eons of practice.

Then questioner retorted “Why not try I.V. F for a change?

That is painful and it is prohibited to make somebody pregnant under sedation, anyway.

Then the Muslim representative was asked why the Delay in Your God Coming?

They are still trying to create their own heaven without Christians, Jews, Hindus and all the other denominations and that heaven has to be at a higher level than the other heavens and hells and the law of gravity does not permit such an event and the whole universe would explode, with a slightest of a mistake along with their creator god.

That is why the delay.

So I am assured, that the coming of god is nowhere in sight, it is a non entity in our time.
 

The problem with the above scenario is there is no room for a real atheist like me.

The reason being that most of the current atheists are not born atheists but converts who come from above four or five domains with some residual elements hindering clear comprehension.

 

Some of them are on the fringe of lunatic behaviour and concoct bizarre concepts worse than religions.

So open atheist forum is practically non existent in the current world.

I of course add spice into these confused forums adding another dimension called alien beings who may or may not visit us by chance coincidence.

The idea is to create lateral thinking (De Bono strategy) forums with philosophical gifts.

I have so far failed in my attempts to make a brand of enhanced emancipated beings.

 

I fear and I do not want guys and girls to end up in lunatic asylums and blog my ideas here.

 

I know nobody reads them except me.

 

That is the beauty and the whole idea of the Internet, blog your frustration at lib.

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Umpires made ‘error of judgement’ with overthrows – Taufel

The umpires made an "error of judgement" in awarding six runs, instead of five, to England for the overthrow that hit Ben Stokes’ bat and ran to the boundary, says former  umpire Simon Taufel,  after the World Cup 2019 final. Currently part of the MCC’s laws sub-committee that makes the rules governing cricket, Taufel told The Age and Sydney Morning Herald that England should have been awarded five runs, not six.

"It’s a clear mistake.. it’s an error of judgment," Taufel said. "They (England) should have been awarded five runs, not six. "The judgment error was the timing of when the fielder threw the ball. The act of the overthrow starts when the fielder releases the ball. That’s the act. It becomes an overthrow from the instant of the throw." Law 19.8, pertaining to "Overthrow or willful act of fielder", says: "If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the willful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be any runs for penalties awarded to either side, and the allowance for the boundary, and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act."

A review of the footage of the incident - which took place off the fourth ball of the last over - shows clearly that, at the moment the ball was released by the New Zealand fielder, Martin Guptill, Stokes and his partner, Adil Rashid, had not yet crossed for their second run. Taufel also said that Stokes and Rashid should have switched ends once the run was found to be incomplete - which meant Rashid would have played the fifth ball with three runs required to win. "They did not cross on their second run, at the instant of the throw. So given that scenario, five runs should have been the correct allocation of runs, and Ben Stokes should have been at the non-striker’s end for the next delivery." 
Taufel defended the officials though, saying the moment involved many things happening at the same time. "In the heat of what was going on, they thought there was a good chance the batsmen had crossed at the instant of the throw," Taufel said. "Obviously TV replays showed otherwise. The difficulty you (umpires) have here is you’ve got to watch batsmen completing runs, then change focus and watch for the ball being picked up, and watch for the release (of the throw)," he said.

"You also have to watch where the batsmen are at that exact moment." The former umpire acknowledged the call "influenced the game", but said it should not be viewed as costing New Zealand the match - and the tournament. 

"It’s unfair on England, New Zealand and the umpires involved to say it decided the outcome," Taufel said.

Acting Maha Brahma

 Acting Maha Brahma

I have changed (Practice Metta Meditation) a lot and have become an environmentalist and no mosquitoes at all now.

I breed Guppy Fish to control this menace and I have beautiful collection of them in addition to some exotic water plants and lilies.

 The real Maha Brahma is on an eons holiday and the present Acting Maha is a yesteryear paraya (stray) dog, whom I knew as a street dog.

My dog who passed away has joined him as a underdog (not in cricket parlance) and is my divine angle!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

I had two bad nights in which I kept up all night doing some bizarre routines of editing a long text file into print form, downloading, burning iso images and testing them, blogging and making PowerPoint type of presentation with Google's free TripWoW.
 

I had a good night sleep yesterday and woke with a nice dream.

I thought Maha Brahma would be happy to here it, since the dream was related to heaven itself.

I was fed up with living on this planet with so much mosquitoes and very warm weather and sleeping only a brief period at night (reason for my keeping up at night is to thrash mosquitoes and send them to heaven instantaneously with my blessings).

They are crushed with rapid alternative and reciprocal movements of my hands closing together in symphony with mosquito music beating down my ears and the mosquitoes are not spared a moment of thought (thought block) of their own (when they die) and when they wake up, really reborn, they are there in heaven with Acting Maha, fanning the senior Devas with hand held fans (instead of beating drums like on earth).

The Dream
I decided to vacate my post on earth and made an early entry to heaven,with the message in a long electronic PHP form.

I made sure, I entered every cage, like when you fill the USA Visa forms, similar to our elderly politicians who wish to be born in America instead of heaven.

They call America the heaven on earth and only the most corrupt politicians that curry favour America, including Indians organizing IPL Cricket are allowed (Not Qaddafi Type) Visa to America and reborn again, there.

In my case, I made sure I did not leave any gaps fearing anybody who enter the data into the computer might add unnecessary but REAL details that might prevent my qualification for entry to heaven.

Then I saw Maha himself going through the form personally because it was recognized as my personal writing by Maha.
 

However, he was not happy for not leaving any room inside and between cages where he can make some corrections, entries, if he so desires and put his stamp of approval.
 This was very unusual for me unlike e-forms in the web where they make it compulsory for almost all the entries to be filled so that search engines can put you in  some form of commercial category to market web goods and services at lib.

I was asking and making a big fuss why do I have to make entries in e-forms (like pension claims) and Maha put his hand on my shoulder and said, you are trying to be very clever aren't you?

With the press of his hand I felt very heavy shock and woke up.

Sadly, I was not in heaven but on my bed.

But I had a very pleasant sense of some ease and happiness that even in my dream I was speaking to the all almighty the Maha and not to a political big wig or a Sri-Lankan cricket selector who is a decider cum political leader who invites a yesteryear cricketer out of his skeleton cupboard to represent at Kingston Oval having looked at his previous record book on political affiliations.

Of course one gets a ticket to London and return on Cricket Board expenses.

Maha was bit puzzled.

He thought, I really wanted to join him in a hurry and deprive him some good dreams from earth.

Equally he was concerned I was pulling a fast one to get some facilitator for rear entry like our old politicians and national thinkers who are almost demented but want to secure a National List MP Post.

Did you really dream this?

Of course, I replied.

Do you know how the leave is granted in heaven?

Not a slightest bit of idea, Sir.

Then he calmed down a lot and said, this was a good dream and it is futuristic and does not apply to you.

I was relieved.

Why were you concerned about leaving gaps in the e-form?

It is like this.

In heaven we grant leave to all applicants irrespective of their need.

But one has to leave a little space as a grace, offering me some administrative work space which is mandatory.

You have to mention the date of commencement only and not the date of return.

In our case what is important is the date of return.

Not the date of commencement, Sir.

We tend to fall sick for no reason, if the leave is not granted and if the date of return is not entered, then there is  a bigger problem.

It is not like that in heaven since we leave the date of return cage empty, I can just put a date at random when things demand and automatically the server sends an email alert with nice music to wake up the angels on leave on the right day.

By doing this I never have the problem of everybody applying for leave.

Or I see.

Do they sleep on holidays and do you go to other heavens for vacation?

I suppose they do so, but they easily get bored when on leave and want to come back and activate their inborn desires and pastimes like listening to music, bit of gossiping about earth and it's politics and interpreting dreams like what I am doing, now.

Did your boss real Maha leave an empty space?

No.

My goodness.

That is why I am stuck here as Acting Maha Brahma!

I do not have a space to make an entry and call him back even if I wanted to.

So this new regulation to leave and empty space, is one of my own creations to call back whenever I need somebody.

Yes, that was why I was bit worried and thought you are trying a fast one to get to grips with administration here even before coming here.

It is like our U.G.C Chairman putting a backdated regulation for his own survival.

Can I put an entry without empty spaces.

I will let you do that since now you know my devises but do not tell other gods and angles.

OK,OK.

Dream Interpretation.

The interpretation is very simple because it relates mostly to Sri-Lanka.

In future when the future presidents want some things for himself he calls the guy /girls to the president house and give them a sumptuous meal.

Then he gets you to sign some blank papers undated and make you to leave gaps in the entry form.

For example you have a Tourist Hotel which is very popular at the beach side.

He comes there for a holiday and become interested in the property.

He invites you to his house for a drink and get all the papers ready for a 10 year rolling lease period.

So that is the end of the property, I guess.

Yes, especially if the guy or girl rub shoulders at a re-election or of the ruling party.

The problem is he will do this to the entire registered population  with in one year of election.

Only one census is enough and he will own the entire length and breath of the country.

How big is the country then?

The sea has advanced almost to Kandy and all the population is now in the hills and population is 100 times now.

If they do not sign what happens?.

They are loaded and sent as refugees to India by boat and India has 100,000 times more people than now and their sea has advanced almost to foothills of Himalaya.

There is no room for someone to lie down and all are standing upright and one out of thousand get a chance to lie down once a year for a holiday break for 10 to 15 minutes.

The humans have mutated a lot and have very strong legs and very long tapering hands to reach even trees (or for begging) and hang on for few minutes a day to give the legs a break and that also has to be done in turns and there is a token that handshake like a tablet (Like in ethernet and railway) that pass around from hand to hand and one can keep it only for few minutes lest you get a teaser shock with a laser satellite on orbit.
One takes the table in one hand and reach a branch of a tree and let go the tablet before the tracer shock is given.

What about the toilets.

There is no problem, there is an automatic suction tube that sucks urine and scat separately even when one does not have the urge to go and they are used for new form of energy and water is recycled for reuse.

This is similar to the space technology developed in the shuttle.

What about the air one breaths.

One has to open an insurance policy, the moment one is born for air safety (security) and it is controlled by the Government in power and the President himself is in charge.

Process is similar to water and electricity bills but more expensive and the cleaning plants  for air are connected to the same tube that suck out all excreta but with a different and safe viaduct for (breathing) air.

Free air is polluted and one cannot breath it.

I do not think you should worry about these little things you will be gone many moons before this happens. 
Where to?

I am not suppose to tell you when you are still a human.

OK; 
See you soon.

Dark Side of Sports– Money, Power, Politics– All About Business: Games Aren’t Just Games Any More

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Dark Side of Sports– Money, Power, Politics– All About Business: Games Aren’t Just Games Any More

by Bizshifts-Trends
Sports used to be simple. Go to games. Play games. Have fun. Be entertained. Now it’s so much more. Every level of sports-- from your local youth leagues straight up to the pros-- it's all become big business that generates big money and big influence... The theme driving the ethics of sports is 'win-at-all-costs' and 'profit-at-all-costs'... On Capitol Hill, sports businesses blatantly wield its power to get what it wants, and often succeeds. In the justice system, sports figures are, perhaps more than ever, at center of criminal investigations because they once felt invincible but no more... Sports is big business worldwide, according to research; the global sports market is valued over one trillion dollars, including; teams, players, merchandise, arenas, apparel, betting, e-sports, sports medicine, sports education and training, kids sports, sports television, sports media, special events, fantasy games, sports videos, sports equipment... and, it's expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.3%...
Nearly in every part of the world sports heroes are discussed around the dinner table... In the Olympic world, sports help give nations credibility and also can spark international conflict. For good and bad, the sports world is bigger and more powerful than ever, with athletes wielding more and more influence over culture, politics... But behind the million-dollar publicists, watered-down personas, fancy shoe commercials... athletes are still just men and women. Men and women who won the genetic lottery, for sure, but they often have deep, dark sides and the money to keep those dark sides under wraps...
In the article Dark Side of Sport by Dominic Hobson writes: Sport is war - it's about the loss, as well as the gain... Sport is war minus the shooting... Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It's bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence... It's rich in triumphalism, disdain and pride, in the love of power and of domination. Sport has something in common with war... It's zero-sum: What one gains, the other loses. Of course, some find in sport a positive sum-- an aesthetic pleasure akin to great art or literature...
The pleasure of effort is rewarded, the mastery of a skill, the exhilaration of speed, the thrill of danger averted, the union of mind and body, and the unity of body and nature. It can be beautiful to watch another human being run fast, or jump high, or bowl quickly, or strike a ball exquisitely. If sport really was improving the moral character of the players, it would not be necessary to equip officials with sophisticated video technology to check they are not cheating. But even he/she prefers an ugly victory to a beautiful defeat. What Douglas MacArthur said of war is as true of sport; there is no substitute for victory...
In sport, it's 'points', not the poetry, that count. No one remembers, as sports people are apt to remind each other, how they won. This is why the sports-field is as much a moral vacuum as a battlefield. The fist-shaking at the net, goal-mouth celebrations-- these are ugly metaphorical equivalents of mutilating slain enemies in battle. The character-building quality of sport is contradicted every time players take to field of play.
All too often, sporting contests feature some combination of spitting, sledging, swearing, shouting, fist-pumping, glaring, grunting, grass-kissing, badge-tugging, or outright violence... Sport does not build character: At best, it betrays it. At worst, it corrupts it. It's not just the players who are corrupted: So are spectators. Hence, it's easy to observe that modern democracy has rediscovered what emperors knew millennia ago: grotesque entertainments ensure quiescence of the populace. According to Hugh McIlvanney; sports is fantastic metaphor for life...
In the article Politicization of Sports and Sportization of Politics by Yves Smith writes: Sport has its own dynamic and its own identity. It's one of dominant global institutions, fully commercialized and professionalized. According to Ivan Ergic: it's one of last domains in which macho-culture and its relation to militarism, is still present. No wonder women’s sports are not accepted on same level as men's’: most women that do participate become masculinized so as to compete at the same level as men... This only shows how militant the industry of sports actually is...
According to Ivan Ergic: most sports fans come from the working class. Completely passivised, they watch the contests sitting in front of their televisions they don’t even go to the stadiums anymore. We live in a world of hyper commercialization and this is visible in sports as well. The fact that the working class is becoming passivised is problematic as it diverts attention from important life issues. The fan movement is the only movement in the world that doesn’t have a collective institution, or a body governing it. The divisions that this creates clearly shows that sports tend to segment different classes...
People construct their identities around their sports clubs as these are historically local clubs, which breed local patriotism. As symbolic representatives of a region, the connection that people feel to them is understandable. The issue with this is that it results in diverting attention from more existential issues. Fans protest energetically against corruption in a club, or a club going bankrupted, but protest much less about losing jobs or inequity in the local factory...
Nationalism is one of the most profiting mechanisms of reorienting people towards issues related to their identities. It's an ideology that de-politicizes peoples in a certain way, as its focus on identity blurs all other social and political issues... The World Cup, Olympics, etc. are events supposedly meant to unite people. At the same time they intensify national sentiments and national identities, which again diverts attention from the real issues. People should unite in common aim of fighting political, economic and ecological issues... yet instead they focus on small narcissistic differences between-- different teams or nations, on who wins, or who doesn’t... identifying themselves with the teams in a common-- 'we' have lost or 'we' have won, this 'we' being the team and the nation at the same time...

Cricket and Emotions

Cricket and Emotions

I watched the Cricket World Cup without any emotions.

That is also because I had nothing else to do on this particular Sunday.

This is the only (having been a cricket fanatic from Childhood) time I did not blog or made any predictions about Ceylonese team or any other team.

I wished if Ireland was there in the preliminaries but it was a tight schedule and as usual weather spoiling few games.

I did not watch any other games.

I just used to look at the results of the other matches past midnight when I was browsing the emails (which I finish in less than an hour).

When I looked at the BBC live report and the expression written down by commentators (former players included) and spectators, I wonder how many of them had near enough heart attack.

I remember long time ago one player I knew (hockey player) had a heart attack when Ceylon Team lost in a cricket game.

I mode my a resolution I will watch the game without much a do.

Just another game. Well I am not playing, anyway. I won’t go for betting, too. 

 

I sometime think live coverage spoils the game, if somebody really loves the game buy a ticket and go in person to the cricket ground.

Mind you cricket is the only game an Asian can go.

If an Asian (my time in UK) go to a football game, one is almost trampled to death.

I used to hide in a coffee shop or bookshop when these guys (spectators) come out after a football match.

That was the reason, I was never interested in football.

I got a kick when Argentina beat them in 1980s.

I was in UK, then.

The sports have become a sort of mania.

I do not want to be a part of it. 

I practice equanimity (neutral) instead. 

Mind you I lived for short time in both countries and ordinary British and New Zealand guys are simple and ordinary except during matches of Football or Cricket.

I used to play snooker or billiard and I loved billiards.

One need meditative attention to play this game and always made a point to beat white guys. 

Some of them ask where the hell you learned this game. 

I say Ceylon. 

Where the hell is Ceylon, the response. 

Playing billiards help me to graduate into meditation in later life. 

I am slowly approaching equanimity. 

World Cup was an example.

Fact or Fiction?

Fact or Fiction?

I enjoyed reading more than writing.

My writing was a later development, starting with some blog activity and on a private web page (not on public domain) to save printed paper.

Entry to public domain was a later development and most of my time was spent on learning Linux without a Guru.

I am more of a computer fanatic interested in the Linux more than Windows.

Only fiction, I read with interest was God Father.

I consider reading fiction a waste of time but hit the films on the first day, if the film is based on some form of factual incidents.

More of forensic interest of the type of Colombo cases.

Kennedy assassination, The Day of The Jackal, French Connection, Italian Job and later Space Odyssey and Alien connections (fictional Paul) were few of my interests. 

 

Dog stories (Heavenly Dog and many more) are of course on top of the list.

To me landing on the moon (man not physical objects) was a fiction more than a reality.

Going through Van Allen belt to me was a mystery.

The rocket that powered (numerous failures) and the technology they destroyed after landing on moon on first attempt and needing another 45 years or more for another moon landing are not only hearsay but are probing questions.

 

Please watch the films Operation Avalanche and Something Went Wrong On The Way To The Moon.

I am happy that I am not an American citizen.

If I was and if I tried to investigate any of the above, I would have been eliminated by the CIA, just like many others.

How many lies they concocted on Kennedy Assassination?

The bigger the better it was my understanding!

The context here in this piece is Mafia and Drugs.

Mafia and Drugs go to the previous century (18^th) but proper investigation was commenced only recently.

That was also by President Richard Nixon.
  
Why?

In this country politicians are waking up to it, after very long slumber.

That is also around elections and after the election they give political cover (protect dealers) to the bigwigs.

Drug Enforcement Administration

he Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973, by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28. It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government's drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal, as they were concerned with the growing availability of drugs. As a result, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE); approximately 600 Special Agents of the Bureau of Customs, Customs Agency Service, and other federal offices merged to create the DEA.

Ecstasy Universality

The list below is a method for a young writer who gets into a thought block when looking for a novelty topic.

Just list any thing that comes into your mind moment one gets up.

The list here is for my memory failure for a topic I am going to right based on a lovely dream.

I forget where I had kept my pen or the night torch (a serious disability)!

Ecstasy Universality

1. Somanassa-Domanassa Principle

 

Happy and Unhappy Principle based on Buddhist Jhana

2. Conspiracy Principle

3. Wedding and Funerals

4. 5Ds

Death

Disease

Disability

Doubt

Divorce

Debt

Dog

Donations

Dumb-Our Politicians

 

Dreams

5. Election Year 

? How many conspiracy theories

There are many for every leading party.

6. Just like Side Effects of 3 drugs

Three for each but 1for each for interactions

12 in total

7. No mosquitoes for one solid week

Obsessed with breeding Guppy Fish and Water Plants, including water lilies.

8. Good Sleep and in Somanassa Mood

9. How to make a pass word

Book

4x2Paper

3xDPepper

xxDPeppermint

10.My backache

How to manage?

 

11. Meditation 

I have already done a book.