At Wimbledon today: Women's final Lisicki vs Bartoli
Never since the late 1980s when the decade-long reigning queen, Martina Navratoliva met the golden maned Stefi Graff have I looked forward to a Wimbledon women's final. By then, the manly Martina had become boring with her routine wins. Steffi put her out in their first encounter 1989 with her fearsome forehands. I remember I had gone to Matunga to attend my cousin's wedding that Saturday and watched the final in bits and starts at a nearby electronic shop.
I lost interest in women's tennis as a whole as they were nowhere near as competitive or pulsating as the men's section. And with Serena pulverizing everyone – there being no depth of talent in women's tennis – I never watched women's tennis for a long, long time.
But today I am going to because Lisicki, coincidentally another German girl, is a Bazooka-hitter in the Del Porto mould and it would be exciting to watch her play. The problem with power hitters is many of their shots turn unforced errors as it had happened in her semi-final against Radwanska who I had felt sorry for as she played some unbelievable tennis – her hitting t shots bending her knees almost in a sitting position is classic and memorable.
Bartoli is a one-time French champ a few years ago, kinda one-title wonder. But if things go by the scrip and current form, I bet on Lisicki to lift the trophy.
And of course, the German gal has a nice pair of butt, don't accuse me of being sexist… am only making a statement of a fact…
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News of the day…
Prez. promulgates ordinance on Food Security bill..
Me has a foreboding feeling – the middle-class, fasting reducing to be a miniscule number – who are not entitled to subsidized food will be the hardest hit.
See, in an effort to supply the humungus amount of foodgrains to feed the garguntan PDS system across the country, the government would go all out to mop up the items from the food surplus states of Punjab and Haryana, and then there is going to be a mad scramble among the wholesale trade from all over India to lay their hands on whatever quantity is available regardless of the asking price. Already the middle-class is groaning under heavy inflation – 300-400% in just 3 or 4 years – examples are those of sugar that sold for Rs.7 or 8 a kilo then, now cost Rs.40, and pulses that would cost Rs.18-20 is over Rs.80 kilo, so also all the vegetables that are sold at Rs.60 in Mumbai!
And to cap it all, the huge subsidy to the poor has to be met by the tax-paying middle-class and the affluent.
Clearly, the government is myopic and itself lack a pan-India perspective cutting across all strata of the society. All that it is interested in are the votes from the poor to stay on in power so that the ministers and their thousands of minions can prosper.
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Mindchow
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Line Maro
Is your dad a terrorist? Coz. you are a bomb!
(Me: yep.. ready to explode you into smithereens..)
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From the world of science…
If you have had an acne breakout, avoid wearing foundation, powder, or bluish. If you do, wash it off at the end of the day.
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To protect your knees while doing lunges, ensure you don't bend your leg beyond a 90-degree angle.
(Me: dont hit the squatting level.._)
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What are functional foods?
Functional foods are those foods that have been scientifically proven to promote health and prevent disease beyond the other intrinsic nutrients that those foods supply.
The pomegranate is a functional food. It promotes the release of nitric oxide which relaxes blood vessels and lowers blood pressure.
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Tongue very much in cheek, yet very thoughtful quote…
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state" – Simon Callow.
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Couples begin to 'lack passion' after one year: a new study reports. Relationships start to lose their spark after just one year.
(Me: not that we already didn't it; as a Tamil maxim in South India goes, "affection remains for 60 days while lust lasts just 30 days" – into marriage.
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Weird world…
Baby born while mom fought for life after car crash..
Wei Liu was eight months pregnant when she suffered serious injuries in a car crash. She was left with a catalogue of devastating injuries, including a severed artery above her heart, fractured ribs which had pierced her liver and a shattered pelvis. The 30-year-old didn't know she had given birth until she woke up three days after the accident – and reached for her bump to find her baby had been born.
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Taco Bell customers get cash instead of food…
Grand Rapids: There was no burrito. Three people who ordered food at a Taco Bell drive-thru in western Michigan, US, got some more valuable: $3,600. A Taco Bell employee mistakenly passed the cash to the trio instead of their food last week. The money was returned a short time later.
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Billionaire's lover jailed for fake will..
Hong Kong: The former lover and fortune teller of quirky billionaire Nina Wang was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after a Hong Kong court found him guilty of forging a will to claim her multibillion-dollar estate. After Wang's death in 2007, Peter Chan, formerly known as Tony Chan, claimed he was the sole beneficiary of her estate. The case of the eccentric billionaire widow and her alleged geomancer lower transfixed Hong Kong.
(Me: His fortune-telling abilities didn't tell him he would be caught… haha)
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Actress and former Miss World, Yukata Mookhey's husband booked for dowry harassment, unnatural sex.
The former Miss World has told Amboli (In Mumbai) police that she was being verbally and physically abused by husband Prince Tulli for quite a few years.
(Me: Sooo sad to hear the story; if this can happen to a liberated former Miss Queen of the World who walked the romp and answered liberal questions from a panel of judges, think of the fate of the far, far less fortunate women in India)
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How Global Investors view India vs. China..
"Investors don't mind unfavourable policy as much as opaque or unreliable policy. In China, they pay, but the job gets done and in India, it doesn't. That's one key difference between corruption in India and China" – a TOI report by Srivatsa Krishna.
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A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.
"You'll get your chance in court," said the Desk Sergeant.
"No, no, no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I've been trying to do that for years!"
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