BVHK's world-view

Landmark Quiz

I had gone for the Landmark quiz in Chennai over the weekend.It is supposed to be the biggest open quiz in India and has been an annual event on August 15th for the last eleven years.A very well packaged and well attended quiz.I had seen lot of middle aged men and oldies participating in the KQA quizzes I had been to,last month.Here,I saw women participating in great numbers - out for a family outing with the two children or with husband and child - participating in the Landmark Quiz.

I liked the format of having one set of buzzer questions on one subject (viz.

Olympics

The Thorpe Phelps duels have been engaging till date.The Iraqi football team has been defying the odds and how.The Dream Team- the US basketball team has not been upto the mark - losing to Peurto Rico.I guess now,they'd stop crowning the NBA champion team as the world champion.Also, a look at the medals tally says that the US has not been exactly setting Athens on fire.In thelast few years,China has emerged as the Olympic powerhouse and seems all set to give US a run for it's money (Oo

Retirement?Who?Me?

'I haven't exactly thrown my weight behind Federer but it won't be long before I do that.I am probably waiting for Agassi to retire.' This was what I wrote when I wrote about Federer in an earlier post.

New Template

It has meant that I have lost the links to others' blogs.I shall get them up and running soon.Will be playing around with the templates to zero in on a good one.

Maqbool,Irfan Pathan,Gaurav,Ramanand and I

Some time back, I had written a post on cricket which led to a flurry of mails between Gaurav,Ramanand and myself.The gist of the mails was that there is an element of illogicalness (if there is a word like it) to my arguments and especially with my opinions about cricket.I have been thinking about this and it is an ongoing process and by no means has come to an end.But,I have realised a few things - my expectations reach sky high when I get some good

Federer

I finally got to watch a match between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick - the Toronto final.It is difficult for me not to take sides in a Tennis match but this was one of those times when I took time to throw my weight behind one of the two.

Sachin

If it were a lesser man,he would have done a Neil Johnson.