S*** Happens

The title of the post is kind of odd considering I already have a category for the same title. This is nothing new we all know S*** happens everybody is affected in varying degrees at varying instance. I want to echo for folks who are in greener pastures, the pastures seem to be drying with no green anywhere. For folks who moved to US for greener oppurtunities(Dollar bill is still green) with a better conversion rate of Dollar and the enevitable Green Card. Both seem to be fading to a dark brown color. Dollar has been highest point in Weakness in 17 years. With US coming to a 0.5 GDP last quarter, salary wont be rising for Worker class. With folks fighting to battle for white house the uncertaininty is in the air.

Everybody talks about recession hitting US, nobody talks how long or how deep will it be , the last time US was hit by recession US saw a minor deep or that is what the Economics Gurus has been seeing, well if so when every body talks about being hit by recession but nobody talks when we get out of it? I guess everybody talks in retrospect with no idea of how economy is headed? Everybody is talking about democrats taking control over white house soon but we dont have a front runner, CNN predicted a dead heat until Democratic convention to nominate a candidate which means 6 months of misery before we find out who is the president, stock markets will swing both ways when there is a news of who is the front runner , Believe every wind of a news will make it happen. While this is happening what about folks who moved here for greener pastures of second kind? Green Card will be distant dream for folks from certain countries such as India, China, Philipines and Mexico. These countries use up quota every year which means that folks waiting for green card will wait longer and longer and longer. I am talking about folks who have Bachelors 4 year degree atleast. There are folks who have Masters degree in US they seem to be in the most of pain with running out of Immigrant visa within couple of months of Fiscal year( A fiscal year for Visa begins October of every year) why is this happening because the Immigration system is ancient while the folks who make the technology happen dont seem to enjoy newer rules and nobody wants to do anything. I guess this is another issue like Abortion or gun control where you talk the system is broken to get elected and do nothing about it to pave the way for others to do the same in a same manner while adding misery to lives. Every white house candidate talks about Immigration System is broken and we got to fix it but havent seen any step positvely to correct, granted rules have been changing to address this unless visa numbers are increased for folks who are skilled I dont see light at all as unskilled worker gets his green card in few months of landing while skilled worker continues to pile on his misery.

This is just not a post to vent my frustration but for folks to evaluate what is happening around them.

Ethically Speaking

I havent written on this blog for quiet sometime but have been wanting to write few of spoken topics such as Race to White house 2008. But however I feel I have to write what is close what I belive on i.e Sports, Cricket. The Indian Cricket team is having a tough time down under with what I call unexpected things going other way. We have a player on verge of ban though his ban is under appeal and umpiring calls going the other way. I feel it has been blown out of proprtions, here is the reason why it has been blown out of proportions.
1. Cricket is next to religion in India.
2. There are too many News Channels competing to get an edge to sensationalize the happening event.
3. There are millions of dollars at stake here be it for BCCI or CA.

The incident of poor umpiring is something every cricket team has seen over their playing team, The conditions Indians are facing nothing alien I remember the times of Indian Cricket tour when Sunil Gavaskar was the captain who refused to play after being given out costing India the match.

The Indian tour of 1985-1986 was marred by poor umpiring aswell, I guess India should get used to the fact of getting similar treatment down under but reacting to boycot the tour I am not sure about. Lodging protest is a way to let know but dont win it at the cost of not playing cricket, Emotions do ride high but as Cricketers we do what is best Playing good cricket.

If Aussies play hard , let us play hardball as well, who is stopping. Things which went out of proportions are

Deciding to ban a player for racist remarks which had no proof off is like ICC (Mike proctor) acting racially.
Removing an umpire to officiate the match is second greatest stupidity of ICC.

Forget all and go play good honest cricket.

Black Hole Sun(Rocket)

How many of you folks remember "Black hole sun" from Superunknown album, I remember the song very distinctly for the video and the lyrics. I really enjoyed the song but never did I realised I would be black holed by Sun(Rocket). Well For folks who have been watching the news not sure if you got this. Second largest VoIP provider in US after Vonage decided to pull the plug. Well the Sun Rocket closed down without any prior warnings or a courtesy call to their customers. What you see is just a curt message on customer service lines. Sun Rocket allured its customer with payup upfront with a discount prize of $199 for 15 months deal. That is $199 which I wont see or will I ? if any other Service Provider takes over. I guess I am dreaming, this is America...
I have just been blackholed without a land telephone lines

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071802466.html