Sweetness and blessing..the olden gold days

The summer vacation was the childhood's joy. Especially for those children who fared bad in academics, summer vacation was a relief to ease their pain. And for those who were good in academics, summer vacation was a span to further their consistency.

During once such vacation, I came across an uncle(who appeared to be very old, say more than 70 years). One of my friend was introduced him to be first when I observed him giving blessings to anyone who bowed in front of him.

"Bow down your head in front of him to seek his blessings" whispered my friend as my brain made me rush to join the queue of people seeking his blessings(it was initial days of his stint in my locality). I soon seek the blessings and re-joined the queue to seek his blessings again. It appeared a fun to we set of children(at least me) to bow head in front of him and have him utter few words. Little did I know how painful might it be for him to utter each words.

He appeared calm, silent, tranquil and pure. I often associated his blessings with a sublime sweetness of gulab jamun. Few days back I recalled the incident and forgot it as soon as next second.

Today, when I tasted gulab-jamun in canteen, I came across the same sublime sweetness that I vouch for. It was inevitable to recall this memory then. Or shall I say, the memory soon flashed in mind.

Places have changes, outlook have changed and situation have changed. But we are basically the same at core when we look back to our childhood days. Money is the talk of the days and memory has became the priceless gift in the universe. Perhaps a de-ja-vu of such incident is worth more valuable than any other day of success. But, neither will the incident repeat nor will we get back those olden gold days of us. Whats left is a cart of replenished memories of past which we chase today, in an anticipation to make those memories relive.

talent, win or money : a tough choice

David Villa Sanchez & David Josue Jiminez Silva.

It was last season when a renounced club titled 'Valencia F.C' sold two of its best player. The reason? According to the club chairman the rationale behind the deal was to reduce the heavy debt that the club was drowned with. Ironically, both the superstars publicly pledged their loyalty to keep playing at the club and placed the authority to the club to sell or put a stay .

A season passed, both the players flourished in their respective players. The finishing of david villa and the dribbles and crosses of silva rewarded their current clubs with incentives(Manchester City, where Silva headed, qualified for UCL and won a cup, and Villa's team Barcelona stole the show in the Europe and Spain). Also, the third superstar(i.e Raul Albion) who followed to Real Madrid was sorely missed by Valencia, as the club was missing its most experience defense personnel, leading to leaking of goals.

Now, the third largest football club in Spain is again going through a de-ja-vu as it looks forward to sell its current prized asset, i.e Juan Manuel Mata.

Mata, a product of Real Madrid joined Valencia on March 2007, was an instant hit as he got an opportunity to make a mark during the midfield injury crisis of the team. Reports soon circulated last year that Barcelona was looking to snap up the youngster. In response to media rumors, the clubs issued a hands off warning, stating that the youngster was of prime importance of them.

Mata continued to be the club's sensation, helping Valencia to qualify for UEFA Champions League birth by firing the club to 3rd position. Impressive performance in Under-21 tournament for Spain by the youngster, juxtaposed his praise-worth reports in media.

Today, Mata is about to complete his move to Chelsea F.C. It is reported that the London club paid 30 million $ to snap the youngster. Ironically, the transferred occured after repeated denials of club's chairman.

Incidentally, most of the world's talent(at least europeans) have came out of youth academies of cash stripped clubs(such as portsmouth, west ham, etc). The clever fox(read scouts) snatch those growing talents and land them to the major clubs. Not so surprisingly, the event follows with loaning out the player to a small club. And by the time the player is off the loan period, he is a touted superstar in making. For those kids, whom the academic clubs do not allow to be gobbled, they are snapped up during their primes when big clubs pay heavy money for acquisition.

So, what is most important in the world now? Talent? Money? Win?

Money and win are mutually coupled to each other. In football leagues, clubs pump in money to win the tournament, which will further attract money. The entry of the word 'talent' happens when win is 'expected' after injecting the money.

Not only sports, but also rest of the fields(education, work, music, etc) find themselves battling this question, the clear answer to which might never be unveiled(or atleast let to me unveiled by the big cash players).

Exam-in-tension hall..

"The sound of a strike of pen beckon us of someone destroying an answer, the sound of strike of pencil indicates someone constructing an answer."

Interestingly, every strike of pencil causes a glitch of scare in the waves in the composure meter and every strike of pen ignites the wink of optimism in the cautioned motivation meter in mind.

A series of pen and pencil strikes thrilled me during exams. A quiet ambiance gives a proxy of people's mood. The poker faced expressions suddenly turn grave, the shining skins glued with powder suddenly get splashed by the mud of sweat(arising from tensions). What starts a regular 'lets kill the paper off in an instant' attitude, develops into a 'deeply immersed in paper' reaction within few moments.

Heads keep on bending downwards(sometimes i wonder if forehead touching the question paper has anything to do with getting the answers), the poor small brain is rattled,abused,threatned and scorched for any sort of information that can be the 'acceptable' reply to the question posed in the paper. And at last if one has ran out of options, the individual makes sure to at least pen down whatever he/she has learnt(ooops...pardon me, but the correct word is 'prepared') for the exam.

Surely exam moment is a joy to watch out for, provided that you are equipped perfectly to fare well in paper before analyzing the mood of the students.