This Muggle Life

How creative can sports fans get ?
Placards seen at the Australian Open final .

" Fedelicious" [now,was he a Federer supporter or was he asking Gonzalez to eat up Federer ??? I didn’t quite get this one.]

"Federer the Better " [Clearly,a Federer fan,all the way]

"FedOff!!" [ Cheekily Creative]

How do our Indian couterparts at Chennai fare at this creativity ?
Here was a hastily scribbled one that caught my eye during the 3rd ODI at Chennai ,against West Indies

"Robin the wonder,
Sachin the thunder"

Looks like someone just watched T.R's "Veerasamy".

The next time you desperately need a visa,don’t bother to stand in the long queue in front of the embassy.Just pay a visit to our friendly neighbourhood Visa Venkateswara Swami. Nope,he is no screen God like our Superstar rajini or ultimate star Ajit, Hes a real God ! whos also fondly known as Visa Venky(I've taken the liberty to shorten Venkateswara Swami).

To quote from Deccan Herald :
"

The 500-year-old Balaji temple at Chilkur, about 40 km from Hyderabad attracts
plenty of visitors, the devout praying for a hundred different things, as at
most temples. But none as many as those who want visas. So, much so, the
(swayambhu) god here has begun to be referred to as 'Visa Venkateswara Swami'.
It is a growingly popular belief, around here, that this god grants the most
difficult-to-obtain visas to go abroad for jobs, post-marriage emigrations, or
higher studies, in a miraculously short time after making a vow

"

But,what I truly find unique about this temple is the fact that

[Quoted from Deccan Herald]
"

You cannot offer cash or jewellery offerings in the hundi here, nor
ornaments/clothes for the diety, as thanksgiving. In fact, there is no hundi
here!
In these ways, of course, the temple, which attracts, about 5,000
visitors on weekdays, and 25,000 on weekends and public holidays, is like any
other temple.

Nevertheless, with its no-hundi and
no-separate-queue for VIPs (with rare exceptions), and no paid-sevas policy, it
counts as unusual.

You are told not to deposit money anywhere.
It's extraordinary in other ways too: there is no prasadam sold here: the priest
just hands you small fistfuls of it. And the priests themselves are highly
educated. M V Soundararajan, head priest, was a commerce professor and is
retired-registrar, Osmania University. M V Rangarajan, the younger priest, quit
his job as biomedical engineer with an MNC, to work here, am told

"

Finally , a God who has truly abstained from all worldly things !

You can read the entire article here.

How would you introduce yourself if you are named “Balu” ?
Here is one extremely aggravating way to do it .

X : Hi,I’m Mr.X.
Balu : Hi,so you’re Mr.X.So,do you drink coffee?
X : [highy confused.thats not a question a total stranger asks you in his very first meeting,right?] Yea….I do…
Balu : So,what do you put in your coffee ?
X : [Even more confused] C..Coffee Powder ?
Balu: What else ?
X : Er..water ?
Balu : And ?
X : Mmm.sugar ?
Balu : And ?
X : I dunno..
Balu : Milk,Sir !! You forgot ! Milk is the most important ingredient.And I am that Milk. Paalu..I am that milk..Balu ..heh..my name is Balu u see….
[By now,X is contemplating suicide.]

[ P.S :- One that I heard while I was desperately trying to keep myself awake to board an Air Deccan flight that was delayed by 3 hours.This is a true life incident narrated to me by my co-passenger.Poor thing, I dunno how he survived to tell his tale of woe to me ]

On the lines of the Pongal "Mokkai" Poetry contest that Jaya TV is organising,
heres one,

"Nee Oru Loosu,
Unakkellaam un company kudukkuthu kaasu,
Cricket-la modhalla podrathu tossu,
itha sonnavaru en bossu"

- Krishna.

[ P.S :- I wanted to etch the golden words that he spews once in a while,atleast in my blog.
I did tell him this would guarantee him a spot to spend a few hours with the lovely Suchi on J TV ,but he prefers to spend his time with his lovelier wife ;-) ]