Well, finally booked tickets to the Mood I concert. Bit of a relief actually, considering IIT-B's best effort to mind-boggle anyone who visits their website with loads of words and virtually zero links. Much like their Chemistry textbooks, loads of words which make no sense. Speaking of complexities, it was frustrating to see United playing the way they did on saturday night. They didn't look like a team with any purpose or intensity. They just looked plain shabby, which quite frankly, they have looked throughout the season. Here's where we miss a certain Portuguese Magician. One minute of inspiration from him could have changed the match and instead, we had Berb bumbling a volley, Rooney tumbling and Anderson, well looking as though he was playing football for the first time. Agreed that you have a bad game every now and then, but we have looked below par most of the time this season and we looked pretty bad last season scrapping 1-0 wins most of the time. It's no fun watching United play terrible, patchy scrappy football for long periods of the game and sneaking in a couple. Where is the United of '99, the United of '02 or the United of '06 for that matter?? These teams not only were solid in defense but also played some classy fluid football which United simply cannot play over long periods of time. I know the team is undergoing a metamorphosis of sorts and it consists of a few players past their prime but the fact that they are still the best around and the team will miss them is a concern. Who will step into the quite massive boots of Giggs, Scholes, Van der Sar and Neville? Agreed that we are still second place in the league, in the Champions League Knockout stages, the FA cup and the Carling Cup but it's been sneak a goal in there, tap one there and lets wait for an own goal. No spark, no imagination. I can only hope that we hit a purple patch soon as Chelsea look quite strong this season and will give us a good title challenge. " It's Carrick, Carrick to Fletcher, Fletcher to Valencia, Valencia crosses, Berbatov heads to Rooney, and it's Rooneyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Till then, Joga Bonito.

Its 1:10 am. God knows why I'm up but I am. Staring at my screen, I think of words to put in. It's my first blog. Should I be positive? Should I try to show what is going through my head? Should I write something cryptic? Questions shoot through my head and I feel as though I'm living my life to appease others, to appease a society which does not understand me and beside all of that, has forced me to become another of it's many nobodies. What has been eating my insides up has been a question. A question which came up recently in light of an interaction with a person who has been termed as 'Good Friends with everyone'. I felt anger and jealousy at the interaction of 'Good friends with everyone' with a certain person, lets say X. Now comes the question, Is a person defined by what one does on the outside or what one is on the inside? Is one defined by one's actions, one's thoughtfulness, one's image of himself to the outside world or is one defined by the emotions one feels inside?? One of my friends told me that the answer to this question lies in whatever makes me happy and all that mattered was that. But in making myself happy, I would have to stop bottling up the emotions I felt inside me and let them flow. This would have it's implications. Society would be outraged and I would be isolated. A life of all give and no take is not what I desire, but to be truly happy I need my emotions to flow. Which brings us to the sensible advice from the same source. Change yourself, but changing what you feel on the inside is extremely hard, whatever you might be hold. What probably will change will your reaction in a similar situation, the reaction which you show the world, not the reaction which you feel inside you. So in the end, is change something you do so that the society you do would not be aghast at your current behavior?? Why do people change?? So that society accepts them? People forget who they are and become what society turns them into?? Is it the death of an individual, is it the death of principles, is it the death of emotions?? Nothing is absolute, yet all need not be relative either.