The World is a Fizz Soda!

"The World is a Fizz Soda", what the hell am I talking about! I'll tell you, imagine a glass of soda kept untouched for a long time, after that long interval you'll notice that the fizz is gone, the Carbon Dioxide content has significantly reduced and it tastes nothing more than sweetened water. The same theory applies to the world & its happenings. Everything that's raising the eyebrows now, will soon be pushed into oblivion. 

Twitter has a word for all things that are "hot" at the moment, they call it "Trending Topics", and most of the times these "Trending Topics" are related to worldly events, such as the Egypt liberation, the Libyan uprising, the Japanese calamities. Never mind the most preposterous of  events garnering the highlights, like the rumor, "Is Lady Gaga dead?" or "Justin Bieber spotted kissing a tramp". To get a bit more closer, recently, a city newspaper carried out a campaign against the illegal political hoardings in Mumbai, the topic was the talk of the town(read as Internet). We saw a lot of hoardings being booted out, and the same amount of vigour in the citizens. Now, it's been over a month since that campaign started and never got a logical end. The newspaper doesn't bother anymore, and neither do the people.

In case if you don't know how fizz looks like! 

The same argument applies to our lives, we start with a gazillion tasks, and we leave the majority of those halfway, or even forget their inception, hence the indifference & apathy towards the ever-prevalent corruption and other such issues grows on to being greater by the day. The only possible solution to this can be a soda, that never loses its fizz!

World Cup (mis)Happenings

It's been a few days since I last got myself up to write something, and it's been the same number of days since the "World Cup mania" got air pumped into our lives. Years back one day cricket used to be the apple of everyone's eye, but that apple has been sorely replaced by a much shorter form, called T-20. And much recently a newly launched cricket channel has been implying not-too-hard-to-decipher comparisons between cricket & sex. Pairs of badly matched actors put up a very devious expression on their faces and utter some ambiguous lines like, "She just can't get enough of it" and I'll leave out the rest for you to Youtube. But if they compare sex with cricket, then Test Matches are a honeymoon, T-20s are like quickies and One Days are just somewhere in the middle, just like regular sex.
          So that's where the fascination wears out I guess. But even now, I do witness people crowding television sets placed in a very convenient electronics store. Given the magnitude of an event of such great scale, only one question arises, has it lived up to the expectations? Whether technically, visually, or administratively. The answer to this question can be a very straight NO! The World Cup isn't exactly "the World Cup", it's got almost the same number of major cricket playing nations which has been there for more than 20 years. A few strong competitions & a lot of ill-matched affairs. Technology has also been a major problem, the most edgiest & the latest innovation, i.e. Hotspot hasn't found it's way to this tournament, resulting in a lot of wrong decisions via Umpire Decision Referral System(UDRS). The parent bodies, namely ICC & BCCI(this is the original parent in reality) have failed to provide enough tickets to the masses & even created many hysterical situations for the other administrative devices.

                        

           In spite of all this, I'll wait with bated breath to watch matches like the one which we all witnessed between India & England. Cheers to new milestones which could be created or destroyed, and hope that the "sex" gets better with time!