Like we needed more sports to watch on TV (besides nfl), the australian open just started. Federer is awesome..he is the best. They should just give him the trophy and not even bother having people play anymore. He just totally smothered the djokovic (atleast till I managed to stay awake). Looks like all the heat and rain is causing too much pain for the players.
Ofcourse the rules wrt heat do seem pretty weird. They don't start a new game when the heat is beyond threshold/dangerous to play. But how does it make sense to continue the games that are ongoing. Is it not the same heat and equal danger to them. Who makes these rules ??
The other thing I object to is that they have introduced the ability to challenge a call by the player. This is good but the bad part is that because of the camera setup needed, this is allowed only in the rod laver arena (as far as I know). So in courts that do not have the setup, there is no concept of challenge. How is this fair. All this means is that only the top seeds/popular matches get to benefit from this. Either all should have the ability to challenge or none. I can't remember how it was in the US Open last year.
And what about beckham moving to the galaxy. I guess the only winner here is beckham and maybe hollywood - they get one more couple to obsess about
Well besides sport, the next hottest topic is the big brother controversy. The good thing is , it atleast got the press off the Abhiwariya bandwagon temporarily :)
My book reading has taken a hit due to all the sports watching.
I tried reading the Kiran Desai book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard". But it was really bad. I should have given up after about 20 pages but I read almost half the book hoping it would get better and I finally gave up. The writing is terrible and I am not entirely sure what the point of the book is. It just doesn't hold your attention one bit. Now I am seriously wondering if I should even attempt reading Inheritance of loss
Few nice ones I read are:
- Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris: This is about the volcanic eruption of Mt Vesuvius. The book is really interesting esp how the whole water network was developed and also the mystery aspect of it
- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus. This is a fictional book on how some white women were married off to indian men so that the two cultures would assimilate. The book is really interesting, esp understand the indian life and culture. It is very surprising that the book is rewritten by a guy because the book is from a woman's perspective and also he captures the "complex :)" emotions of a woman really well.
Currently reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond .
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