never liked him or his music much. still, nobody can deny that he was a legend in the music industry, an icon for our times. his star faded in the later years but M.J. was & still is the undisputed king of pop….R.I.P. M.J.

never liked him or his music much. still, nobody can deny that he was a legend in the music industry, an icon for our times. his star faded in the later years but M.J. was & still is the undisputed king of pop….R.I.P. M.J.

finally, after nearly 30 years of bloodshed, destruction & heartache, hope has been rekindled for the people of sri lanka. velupillai prabhakaran, the leader of one of the most ruthless terrorist organizations in the world, the LTTE, was killed by security forces today!
(to be continued…)

it’s our favourite 47 year old scottish spinster. i know it’s a cliche, the “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” thingy, but susan perfectly demonstrates that you don’t have to be young and glamorous to be talented, and recognized as such…
check out the links below,

the beautiful, genteel game of cricket found itself under attack yesterday. reason being some nutjobs decided to use the sri lankan cricket team as live target practice. thankfully non of the cricketers were killed, however seven cricketers and an assistant coach were injured.

sri lankan team bus

damaged police windscreen
for pakistan hovever, the price was higher . six policemen escorting the team bus and a driver were killed in the attacks. a pakistani umpire was also shot and is now in a critical condition. as for pakistani cricket the attacks could not have come at a worst time. teams from australia and india refused to tour pakistan citing security concerns . many including myself were critical of those decisions. however, in hindsight it turned out to be the right one…

bodies of shot policemen
sad day for pakistani, sri lankan and cricket lovers from around the world….
check out the links below….
hunt for lahore cricket attackers

wow! been absent here for a long time..! anyway, i’m back and i’m gonna tell u about something that happened last friday night….
read the bbc article here
we (and by “we” i mean me and some of my co-workers….) were at work doing the nightshift when at around 9.30 pm the electricity was suddenly disrupted. normally the emergency generators would have automatically kicked in but this time it wasn’t activated. sensing that this was no ordinary “power cut” we all rushed to our windows.
from our 6th floor vantage point we could see searchlights frantically scanning the night sky. after about 10-15 minutes it happened.
from various locations across the city, anti aircraft fire began to litter the sky. it almost seemed unreal, like something taken out of a bad hollywood movie. aa fire lighting up the darkened city and the skies. for our own safety, we were told to evacuate to the ground floor, an option many of us elected.
the noise levels were deafening, especially on the ground floor level. this went on for about 30 minutes, probably. suddenly, there was a huge explosion, powerful enough to shatter some of the windows off nearby buildings & which for an instant showered the immediate surroundings in a bright orange hue. we later came to know that it had occured at the inland revenue department building, a result of one of the aircraft crashing into it…
rumours were flying thick and fast. there was however no panic…well, among us lot anyway, jokes & banter were being dished out with some watching the unfolding lightshow & commentating on the events as if describing an an exciting cricket match! soon afterward though, it all came to an end. the shelling was gradually stopped. searchlights still scanned the skies, more out of precaution other than anything else and electricity was restored in around 2 hours time…
safe to say it’s a nightshift i won’t forget anytime soon!…

australia 20 : new zealand 34
what a game. what a brilliant game! one of the greatest final upsets in the history of sport, the underdogs new zealand won the rugby league world cup by beating arguably the best rugby league team in the world, australia.
click here to read the bbc article…

is it stupidity, recklessness, or plain ignorance? come on! she must have known whats going on behind her. or did she?…