The Dream

Adidas WC 2010 Repliqué Soccer Ball, White/Black/Pure Yellow, 5 This article isn’t a few days early. It is yet another English fan scripting an account of a disappointing outing for England. Let me confess my interest in football began only about 2 years ago. I became an ardent fan of Chelsea. Didier Drogba is the reason I got attracted towards Chelsea and later became a big fan of most of the players. One player who’d top the list is the most faithful yet underrated soldier of Chelsea and England Frank Lampard. With Lampard and Terry being a part of Chelsea my loyalties definitely rested with England for the World Cup 2010 though an English fan is a person who usually gets snubbed pretty soon in the season. England did the expected. They didn’t look like champions in any of the games they played. An under-5-minutes brilliance from Steven Gerrard in the first game didn’t make England look like giants. They struggled their way through USA’s formation and could not break it. Defensive...

This article isn’t a few days early. It is yet another English fan scripting an account of a disappointing outing for England. Let me confess my interest in football began only about 2 years ago. I became an ardent fan of Chelsea. Didier Drogba is the reason I got attracted towards Chelsea and later became a big fan of most of the players. One player who’d top the list is the most faithful yet underrated soldier of Chelsea and England Frank Lampard. With Lampard and Terry being a part of Chelsea my loyalties definitely rested with England for the World Cup 2010 though an English fan is a person who usually gets snubbed pretty soon in the season. England did the expected. They didn’t look like champions in any of the games they played. An under-5-minutes brilliance from Steven Gerrard in the first game didn’t make England look like giants. They struggled their way through USA’s formation and could not break it. Defensive errors were found but USA didn’t have a Rooney or a Messi to tak...

Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin Einstein Varghese If Chetan Bhagat didn’t do enough to inspire me and confuse me, Sidin Vadukut has just taken it to another level. Let me tell you a little bit about the “CAT” grind. Any averagely informed MBA seeker will realize that there are 6 institutes located in 6 different places of India that abbreviate to 3 letters and one has to master an entrance test, again abbreviated to three letters, to get through the portals of the apex institutes of the management world in India. Once you join a coaching centre it pretty much becomes clear that if the picture of IIM Ahmedabad does not feature next to your beloved family deities then you aren’t really serious about your classes in these institutes which will put you through a psychological toughness that is required to endure 2 hours which will largely constitute inability to answer most questions. Once you come out you feel like shit and feel much better when you see the thousand odd students ...