May - the good news month

May 2009 may just be a good news month. There has been positive things happening everywhere.

Congress won elections. Manmohan Singh becomes PM again. Congress two way strategy, one which fights the politics and one which runs the country looks is very interesting, probably some iim/harvard dude should take it up as a case study. Over in Sri Lanka, the LTTE is down. It is interesting that while SL was doing this operation, the whole media was full of reports to stop this carnage, stop killing innocent lives etc etc. But now that they have claimed victory, everyone is quiet. And with our friendly neighbors in Pakistan, they also seem to have been reasonably successful in driving off Taliban, atleast the realization is coming into them.

In personal life, i was given an award in my workplace for a team player. On bike to work day, i won a lucky draw giving me 50$ of theatre tickets. And then sous kitchen ( a company that gives partially cooked food to cook at home for people who do not have time), sous kitchen came to our office to give a demo and there again i won the lucky draw giving me a big meal packet.
(Funny ways in America - they have bike to work day where they encourage everyone to come to work on bike for just one day, they have Earth hours/ Earth day where they ask everyone to keep electricity off for one hour. Is this a successful way to increase awareness?)

And then yesterday, i saw Gilchrist's carnage to Delhi Daredevils. My strategy to watch only the semis and final is paying me very well. Gilchrist's innings was just a pleasure. Like Gandalf coming with the horses with the first ray of the Sun and trampling Saruman's army. On the other hand, keeping McGrath on the bench for a complete series is like Mahabharatha with Krishna asked to watch it from outside. (Bad example !) And today, my favorite team - Bangalore is through to the final. I have a feeling that Blore may just go all the way this time for the simple reason that no one has been extraordinary from Blore in the tournament, it is just their sheer team spirit that has made all the difference. And ofcourse the God - Anil Kumble is leading them.

Sometimes when too many things go right, one wonders, is this a bait in the game of chess?