DVR

I got a DVR on Sunday since my nets season is beginning tomorrow. Why the hell didn’t I get it earlier? No freaking clue. I guess I am slow at things and also slow to accept technology in my life. And to think that I sell memory for a living?

I am on land

The whole of last week I was out on business. Over the weekend, wifey and me flew to Columbus to hang out with my buddies. It was loads of fun. Good food, good company and asome alcohol. It’s funny how you can hang out with certain people and feel so comfortable. You can be who you are. No pretensions, no jack shit. I wonder if we would all be the same with each other if we hung out everyday. Familiarity does breed contempt in my books.
Anyways, flew back on Sunday. It was bloody windy and scary. My saga with this paranoia of flying continues. It gets stronger every time. I am pretty confident that my life will be snuffed out in a plane crash. I am not scared of dying. I am scared of going through that process of being helpless in air. This sunny Sunday was windy with gusts from 35 miles an hour. One of the guys sitting next to me who worked for continental but was flying as a passenger said that the winds were possibly in the 65 mile range up in the skies. The plane was bobbing around like a yoyo. I was sweating like a pig. There was a girl sitting two rounds behind me who was scared to death too. She was a lot more vocal than me and added considerable tension to the situation with her periodic screaming. The guy behind me was sweating like mad and the calmest person close to me was my wife and a 6 month old baby in the back seat with no freaking clue. My wife finds my reactions amusing. The sweating palms, the contorted face and my furious and petrified grasp of her hand. I was truly cared and I would have probably shat in my pants if the ordeal continued for longer. I get real scared when the plane is on its course earthwards. All through the whole thing, my wife was sleeping.
I hate flying.

Oh my poor Nets

This ain’t funny anymore. Four pre season games and four losses. Marcus Williams, Eddie House and Josh Boone are all in the dog house with injuries. The three of them will not return till at least the first month of December. They will be creaky and will have no rhythm. Starting five right now are Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson, Nenad Kristic and Jason Collins. Bench is Cliff Robinson, Boston Nachbar, Antoine Wright, Jay Williams( Maybe), Miki Moore and I have no clue who the others are.
Our starting five is awesome. Our bench? God knows. Cliffy is consistent, but almost 40. Miki Moore is a waste of a seven footer. Boston and Jay are ok. Antoine Wright is probably going to be the only one who can perform up to expectations.
Please slap me on my face. Why the hell does it always happen? The good part is that it could be worse. We have a couple of weeks to go before the season begins and that gives us another 4 weeks to manage without the mentioned injured guys. Hopefully, they are all good to go by the beginning of December. Otherwise, J Kidd will be logging in more minutes to keep us from not tanking in the beginning itself. John Hollinger with the New York sun says that the Knicks are better off than the nets at the present time. I think he doesn’t like the nets. He always talks shit.

Update

I just wanted to update my previous statement. It looked juvenile when I didn’t back up my statement. The Knicks are supposed to be a better time because of what? Isaiah has the same guys that Brown had the last season. How can he make a difference? They have too many guards who want the ball and they are and will be a mediocre team no matter what. They had the worst record in the NBA the last season and probably will get a little better this season due to the infusion of a new coach. That always happens. To suggest that they are better positioned than the nets is preposterous

Watch your back

I am taking the side roads to work these days. There is some major construction happening at the junction of the parkway and 280 West. For a couple of miles, you end up sitting around at least for half an hour. So, I have discovered some side roads which are slower but at least I am sure enough to get to work by 9 AM. So, for the past month I zigzag myself through Bloomfield, Montclair, Verona, the Caldwells and finally end up hitting the state highway to work. It is fun driving through these pretty towns but also pretty irritating at times weaving through the traffic and traffic lights. At certain points it is better to be on the left lane than the right and vice versa. Today was a frustrating day to work. Three people gave me trouble. One cut me off and the other two were driving way too slow stalling traffic. They were completely oblivious to their outside world. They had two common factors. All the drivers were women and they were all on their cell phones. None of them were using head sets either. There are some of us who are capable of operating machinery while on the phone and there are some of us who aren’t. These some of us who aren’t capable should lay off the fucking phone and should concentrate on the road. I hate honking and I really do not want to help propagate the culture of honking. I like peace and quiet.
Anyone who falls into the category of not being able to drive properly and being on the phone, get off the road and then get to your stupid phone. If not, go buy a bloody headset cos it helps.
Another important advice. If you cannot see or if you are learning how to drive, the safest lane is not the left most lane. The safest is the right most. Actually, just stay home or drive for eternity in the mall parking lot.

Marcus, Will you please raise your hand?

On Friday night, I watched the pre season game between the Nets and the Knicks. Well, we got walloped in the second half and the game was a blow out. There was no Jason Kidd and no Carter. Jefferson hardly played and to tell you the truth, it was boring. The great bull Jason Kidd was on the sidelines looking dapper in his well fitted suit. Frank obviously thought that he wanted to give him the rest before we kick off the regular season in a couple of weeks.
We lost yesterday again to the freaking Raptors. This is the pre season and things shouldn’t be taken seriously. But again, without J Kidd, we looked beyond ordinary. We have Marcus Williams who is supposed to be the next best point guard and hopefully he lives up to his potential. No one has the ability to capture your imagination as much as Kidd has over the past 5 years. He has changed the face of a franchise with his leadership and play making abilities. He makes everyone around him better. He brings this magnificent aura and power into the game. Will I still love the game after he is gone? Time will tell. Maybe it’s up to Marcus Williams.

yez, it eez tiru

Blogs have a personality of their own. The way one writes on his blog more or less reflects the person’s character. Say for example, you read Amit Varma’s India Uncut; he seems to like such a decent guy. He has mastered the art of writing and portrays a simple and straightforward man. I have a feeling the guy is very calm, humble and courteous.
Curious Gawker- Moody, anti social, doesn’t care a flip as to what the world thinks of him. Amazing command over his language and constantly reads.
Gaurav Sabnis- Principled, very scholarly and academically inclined with all his observations.
Some people are plain happy and can transfer that mood onto paper. They are constantly in that frame of mind. People like me are more or less in touch with reality and very cynical. I have tried to write some funny stuff on my blog but to no avail.

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I write like a bloody retard!! What the hell is happening to my language? As you grow older, you are supposed to get sharper and savvier with things. I seem to be walking the wrong way. I think it has got to do with me not reading any books off late.
2 months to go. I will be 30 years old soon. Grey hair- plenty, fat- plenty happening, lethargy- happening and of course no sense of humor anymore. As you get older, you get weighed down by life and seem to lose your silliness. I think humor is good and stupidity and other ingredients add plenty of taste to life. Sadly, as we grow older we walk away from it and end up being grouchy assholes.
I wonder when the Sopranos are gonna be back?

18 days to go

Sad that the pacers have to keep going through the same issues, year in and out. Stephen Jackson, their resident nutcase needs to be handed the pink slip or made to sit on the bench for the rest of his career. Guys in the NBA have to understand that they are not invincible. That they have to be upstanding citizens as they are role models for a number of kids brown, black or white. I am happy to be associated and happy to be maniacal with my obsession with my nets. We have some classy guys in our organization. There are a couple of blips in our team too. J Kidd did what he did 7 years ago and am pretty sure that he repents. Old man Robinson was stupid enough to smoke up the last season. He got caught and we got screwed.
These fucking H 1 visas. People struggle for a number of years. This country has a number of opportunities just like other countries out there. But this H1 shit makes it a very uneven play ground. You cannot truly be what you can be when you are on a H1. You are either stuck with one company, you are caught in a position where you are in between stages in your process and eventually it becomes a waiting game. May of us have been successful even though we have been dealt some pretty difficult cards.
Winter is fast approaching and we will all be freezing our balls off as usual. Summer seemed very short this time for some reason. 18 days to ago and the season will kick off. We lost the pre season opener to Indiana yesterday. Well, who cares? It was just a pre season game.
Work is very very challenging. Working for a bigger organization. All about working the people. Make people love you, respect you, be in awe of you. All a fucking game. I like my boss. Another 3 weeks and it will be 6 months. Getting used to the environment.

21 days

Can I make an observation? No deal is too big or too small. You have an attitude where you play favorites to opportunities, you will never succeed. You have to be intelligent about things, but it is not a hard and fast rule that smaller opportunities don’t need any time of your day.
Give respect to the situation and decide accordingly. Have the bigger picture in your mind.
Only a chosen few have this attitude.
Life is going on. I am drinking some hazel nut coffee shit. It tastes pretty disgusting. I will finish it though. Coffee mostly tastes like crap anyways. Don’t know why we drink it.
21 days to go. The first game is between the nets and the raptors at home. The next game is at Miami on Nov 3rd. Talk about easing yourself into the season. You are more or less bitch slapped into reality. I cannot wait for the season to begun. I cannot wait to watch Jason Kidd running around like a mad man. Marcus Williams, welcome aboard. Kid, I hope you learn well from the master and have the same discipline. We have Eddie House and the rail thin Mikki Moore with his stupid pythons. Cannot wait.
I think this time; I am going to start updating my nets blog on a regular basis.