Ah'bad Ultimate Open 2009

The tourney (Dec 26th, 27th)was awesome. Grass was good. I played for Stall 7 and had fun. The other team from Chennai was just pickup.. and they called themselves "Too Fat Too Furious" and they won! They beat us Stall 7 in the finals, and I really enjoyed the game even though we lost. I thought it was very fast paced, athletic and explosive. It gave some of the new Ah'bad players a feel for a good high level game. Personally, I went into the tournament wanting to do a couple of layouts just to get back into old cutter mode of thinking. It did happen. I had a layout score and a layout defensive bid. However on the defensive bid, Bajji too laid out and caught the disc just a cm in front of my hand. I'll not forget this catch! :-P. Next time I will be more aggressive! Being a handler for the last 3-4 years has taken away my mentality to take a couple of risky diving attempts at the disc.

More on the tournament in the following short article by Rahul

http://blog.indicorps.org/news/ahmedabad-ultimate-hosts-national-frisbee-tournament/

The article however does incorrectly state that I was the captain of Too Fat Too Furious! Poor Abhinav.. once again gets upstaged incorrectly. He was the captain that led the winning team. That doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I got classified in the Too Fat team! :-P.

Looking forward to Kodai FlyBaba 2010 in March! This time, many more layout attempts coming up! I'm visualizing it already! :-)

Auto(matic) pickup?

This has to be the most hilarious things ever sold on Craigslist! Someone is selling an auto-rickshaw in the Bay Area SFO Craigslist!
I love the way he negates the part where it's not Legal to drive it in the US.. but is great for picking up chicks!
You've gotta take a look at it yourself before the link disappears!
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/1554986242.html

TMI TMI TMI

Yes.. this is a post addressed to my dear women friends. There is something called TMI and the latest viral campaign of "Breast Cancer awareness by announcing bra colours on FB Status message" DEFINITELY falls in the TMI category! (TMI = Too much information!). Post a fact about breast cancer.. not your bra colour! :-P

To those of you who're going to say "It's a fun way to promote awareness. I don't think it's offensive.", get this right. I'm all for freedom of speech and creativity and all that.. but it was just plain gross to watch my Facebook Friends News feed filling up with all possible colours from people I know.

I was complaining about this campaign to one of my women friends and all she had to say was "Oh grow up! Don't blame us if your imagination is hyper active"

One of the messages from someone on facebook read
My mom's facebook status is: Hot pink and leopard skin.
I'm officially scarred for life!


er....!!! Maybe that will give you an idea of what are the possible messages we could be seeing?

Another friend goes.. "Oh.. you guys are just too insecure and jealous that we girls are having fun".

Maybe we guys should start a campaign to promote awareness on prostrate cancer prevalent in men.
And the more controversial, the better.. right? The more awareness it will create.. right?
Hmm.. maybe all the guys should start posting their.. hmm.. sizes, as their status message as part of this campaign to promote awareness on Prostrate cancer?

What? Let me guess! you're going to say "but we only posted our colours, not sizes". Well, we do get your attention by mentioning sizes didn't we? I'm sure you won't bother as much if we put up colours like the girls' campaign!
Awareness quotient achieved with sizes?
End result achieved?

And if you tell me that it won't trigger any imagination in you, and you're not affected by it.. think again! I'm SURE your life will never be the same again after a colleague posts a 2" on his status message or your kid cousin brother posts a 11" on his :-P. Every time you walk by that colleague at office I'm sure your imagination will scar you with that thought! No matter how hard you try not to!

I'm willing to bet that 90% of the women who "participated" in the campaign didn't spend a minute reading up about breast cancer!
Ladies.. Get a life. Donate something towards Breast Cancer if you want to. But please spare your platonic friends, family and co-workers!

TMI TMI TMI

PS: I'm always a big fan of the fairer sex :-). But, there is still a line somewhere out there..