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My favorite tennis player on the WTA is back, Martina Hingis. I hope shes stays on the tour for a long time to come!
My favorites for this years title are Roger Federer(cos Agassi is not playing),Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis (even though she may not win).
Also on the list are Davenport(SNG's fav), Marat Safin, Mario Ancic(aka baby Goran) and Nalbandian (the good thing for Federer is that they are in different sections of the draw).
Maria Sharapova and the Williams Sisters probably will never make my list of favs and for some strange reason I dont have Sania Mirza among my favorites even though shes Indian, probably the first Indian Athlete(phenomenon) I dislike! If she improves on her demeanor in the years to come she'll probably be back on my list(the coveted list;)! like Andrew Roddick, I used to hate him now I dont as much!

New Year Resolutions

How many dreams will end,
How long can I pretend,
25 years have now passed me by..
~ A corruption of RM's balled (Richard Marx, not me;)

Have you ever taken resolutions on the eve or at the begining of a new year? Me? Every year from the age I remember! :)) This year is no different, hopefully I'll keep them. A lot of people say they dont believe in them, they feel guilty when they are eventually broken, so why take resolutions etc, which is true, but I feel even if its a week or a day, its still something. So I continue in the tradition of making, then breaking :))

Why the Marx lyric? cos I dug into my classic collection and spent a bit of new years eve listening to some of them, "Until I find you", "Right here waiting" etc.. listen to them if you get a chance.

A Good Feeling!

Walking down Chicago's O'hare airport one can notice flags of various countries hanging down the ceiling, there would probably be around 40-50 flags in line spaced a good 5-10 feet away from each other. Alongside the flag are wordings that welcome people - for example, the flag of Ireland, and the wordings would read "Welcome to Chicago- Sister City to Dublin, Ireland", the flag of Japan would have -"Welcome to Chicago- Sister City to Osaka, Japan", I always thought of this as an innovative/creative way to promote camaraderie among countries and people alike. But the only problem- every country's flag had wordings attached, except one....the Indian national flag!

Everytime I arrive there, enroute exit I would walk by those flags for the sole purpose of seeing if they have attached wordings for India, and I would always be disappointed. Even countries like Ghana, Nigeria & Azerbaijan had wordings attached to their flags, "not that there is anything wrong with it" (courtesy- Seinfeld) but not India. did they not care about us Indians??

When I arrived there this new year, I finally saw the wordings for India. Better late than never.. It was a good feeling!

"Welcome to Chicago- Sister City to Delhi, India"

Im back.. In black..

Posting after a long time.
Well wishers keep the link.
For their sake i think,
Im back..