Manchester United Champions of the World

Champions of England
Champions of Europe
And Now,
Champions of the World


This is the latest title added to the impressive cabinet room of Manchester United, making the English club the only one in the country to have this prestigious title.

Man United were directly qualified for the semi final of this tournament, hosted in Japan against Gamba Osaka, which they duly won 5-3. The scorers that day were Vidic, Ronaldo, Rooney twice and Fletcher.

The final itself was another story though against Quito, an Ecuadorean team, the current holders of Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the European Champions League.

The first half was dominated by United, with several chances to score, but either due to lack of precision on the part of the Mancunians or due to the exploits of Quito keeper, the British side could not break the deadlock.

The second half started rather badly for Man United as Vidic was correctly sent off for pushing his elbow onto the face of a Quito player. United was reduced to 10 man for nearly the whole of the second half. The South American outfit took an ascendancy in the game, and looked threatening sporadically. Their danger man was Manso who two two well taken shots superbly saved by Van Der Sar.

The game looked to be looming to penalties until around 15 minutes from the end, Ronaldo and Rooney combined to create and opportunity for the latter to scored with a placed shot. United held on, but Quito did not look menacing apart from when the ball was at the feet of Manso
.

Manso won bronze ball for this tournament, with Ronaldo getting silver ball, and Rooney getting the Most Valuable Player award. The scouser also won the Man of the Match award, with a brand new Toyota as prize.

Congrats to Manchester United...
Champions of England
Champions of Europe
Champions of the World

Blog Update August 2008

Its more than 1 month since I last updated this blog. Its equivalent to a year in the blog world.
Actually I was busy with my work, finishing late nearly everyday. There were some important projects which have just reached their completion.

I even did not get enough time to practise playing guitar.
Hopefully I'll be getting more free time to blog and play guitar, and watch football!

For the time being its just REST, REST and REST...

Blog Update June 2008

Its quite a long time since I last posted something on this blog. Actually, I am working and I do not have enough spare time to blog! To tell the truth, I have become lazy when it comes to think something to write.

I am also thinking to sell my domain : dom20.com!
If someone is interested, please let me know!

By the way, if you have an idea on what I can write, do let me know
For the time being, let me think on more ways to make money and on what to write!!!

Manchester United Champions of Europe 2008

It had to be 2008. 50 years after the Munich disaster, Manchester United have won their third European Cup. Who would have bet against them?


They retained their Premier League crown a week ago, and were fully focused on obtaining European Glory. The players were prepared for the battle, and a tough battle it was.

United took the lead in the 26th minute through, no need to introduce now, Cristiano Ronaldo. All looked to be going perfectly with United threatening to score more goals through Tevez and Carrick, but deep in injury time in the first half itself, Frank Lampard equalised amidst a series of confusions in the United defence.

In the second half, Chelsea had the upper hand, with some clear opportunities for them to score. Drogba hit the post with a great effort, and had that gone in, it would have been a goal worthy of a Final winner.

Before the end of the match, Lampard had a great chance to win it for the Blues but his shot cannoned back off the cross bar, much to the relief of the United fans. More drama was to ensure before the end of the extra time as Drogba was sent off for a slap on Vidic.

Penalties then followed. Ronaldo missed and most United fans, including myself began thinking that it was all over! When Nani was going to take his kick, I was on stand by to go under the covers on my bed, but he scored. Terry had the opportunity to become Chelsea's hero, but incredibly he missed. After Giggs had scored his penalty, Anelka needed to score to keep Chelsea in, but Van Der Saar saved his kick, and the rest is HISTORY...

Manchester United Champions of Europe 2008...

Small World

Last week, after having done my domain renewal, I got 1 comment. I thought it might have been a geek trying to configure his domain. To my surprise, the comment was from a friend with whom I had lost contact several years ago. He went to study law in England, while I continued my studies in Mauritius itself.

Its an incredible coincidence, as I never have thought that I would renew contact with my friend through a blog, my personal blog! The World is really small, as friends and relatives are always in touch with mobile communication devices, and readily available connectivity.

The concept of a global community is not an utopia, as more and more people are interested in socialising through sites like Facebook, Hi5 and many others. Its also 'foolish' to say now that you must know a person physically to consider him as a friend.

Well, I hope I can get other friends like this and also renew contact with my lost friends!

New PC

My old PC crashed last Monday. According to the technician, the motherboard had become faulty, and thats why it was restarting continuously. Well, I did not switch it off during the weekend, and maybe the infernal heat had the better of it.

It was a P4PE ASUS motherboard with 256 MB DDR RAM, a 40 GB Hard Disk, a 128 MB GeForce graphics card, and a Pentium IV 2.8 GHz processor. For around three years it worked perfectly, sometimes it would be switched on for more than 20 hours per day. I did my University final year project on it, and many more other projects.

Now I have a PC with a BIOSTAR motherboard, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, 512 MB GeForce 8400 GS graphics card, 160 GB SATA hard disk. I am using my old processor on it, and I have also added my old 40 GB hard disk in it.

Its only a few days since I got my new PC, and I can feel the difference with the old one. This one is faster and with this one, I can install as many applications as I want without any fear of running out of space!

I hope I can get 4 to 5 years out of it, before its time to consider buying a new one, and most importantly, it will work as smoothly as the old one!

Grand Bassin 2008

Today I went to Grand Bassin to pray, with my family. There was not much traffic on the road, and the weather also was fine. A great day for praying!
I also took some pictures there, and I hope you will like them!


The Great Status of Lord Shiva. Its awesome, isn't it?


How Grand Bassin looks for the Maha ShivaRatree festival.


A top view of the mandirs present at Grand Bassin. Hope you can see them!


The dense traffic at Grand Bassin.


Pilgrims performing their prayers on the side of the lake.


The islet in the middle of the lake. There are some folks tales about fairies having played there a long time ago!


The lake and its famous islet.


Water coming out from Lord Shiva's head. Hope you can see the droplets of water!


Like every year, there were many persons asking for donations to build temples, but who knows if these temples will ever be built, and what will happen to this money!

Still I believe that whatever happens, happens for the good, and God is great!

World's cheapest car

The World's cheapest car, named Nano has finally hit the market today. This vehicle costs around $2,500, which is around MUR 75,000. It was unveiled today in New Delhi, India by Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors, which creator of this automobile.



This car is really small as you can see in the picture above and it can accommodate at most five persons. The basic version has no radio, no passenger-side mirror and it has only one windshield wiper. Air conditioner is available only in the deluxe version. It has seat belts, but no air bags. The Nano is about 10 feet long, 5 feet wide. The 2-cylinder petrol engine delivers 33 horsepower and a top speed of just over 60 mph.

For now, the car will be sold only in India, but Tata eventually hopes to export it. The Nano could become the basis for other similar super-cheap models in developing markets around the world.

The most obvious concern is that with such cheap cars, anyone can aspire to be a car-owner, hence increasing the already large amount of vehicles in circulation, and increasing the amount of pollution released. However, the Tata chairman insists that this vehicle pollutes less than motorcycles, and will pass domestic and European emission standards and averaging about 50 miles per gallon.

What are your opinions on the World's cheapest car? Do you think it will be a success? Will you buy one? Please let us know!

Accident!

I was involved in an accident this morning! A car collided with the bus in which I was. There was not great damage done, as you can judge from the picture. The driver of the car was a tourist who maybe did not know how the traffic was in Mauritius during the peak hours in the morning.
The driver of the bus and the tourist tried to find a compromise, but in vain. A man was acting as a translator between the tourist and the driver, but they could not come to an agreement, and eventually they had to go to the Police Station.

As for me, I reached my work place late, and what is more incredible is that I was delayed this morning by another accident near my home!

Seems I am a magnet for ACCIDENTS!
Maybe it would be wise to get myself insured!