Does it help if you are like a boy in most of the times of your life but become a man, when it matters the most.... at times when you have to take a decison.

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Does it help if you are like a man most of the times in your life, but act like a boy when it comes to the most important moments of your life... times when you have had to make decisions.

Out of the Title Race... For sure !!

I am depressed yaar !!! The moment Lucas and Mascherano stepped on to the pitch, I was livid. I know because I banged my hand against the wall and it has been hurting ever since. How can two holding midfielders be able to creat something in the absence of Steven Gerrard and Xabi Alonso ? For God's sake Rafa... this is Anfield. Have we not drawn enough matches here to learn from them? Champions do not fear losing !!!

As I witnessed the match progress, I could not help but wonder that Liverpool FC is short of quality players. It is a realization that had dawned upon us fans a couple of months ago when we were still winning games. Somewhere it was always lurking... the fear that we would soon run of steam and then these lack of quality bench strength would hurt us. And now today as I saw a struggling midfield, I felt sorry for Torres, Carragher, Stevie G, Alonso, Kyut... the only quality players in the side who give it their 100% to win....not just draw.

Come on who are we fooling here... we are only half of what a Manchester United team is.... Winners !!! Full credit to Sir Alex Fergusen and dis-credit to Rafael Benitez. Rafa has done so much of chopping and changing.... he has never given security to his players...not allowing the players to settle into a role.... Only Carragher and Pepe Reina have started each and every game of the season for the club. Rafa has let Robbie Keane go... I have no idea why... He said that Robbie was hard working player and he was trying very hard to play well... then why show him the door after spending $20 million on him. Can a quality player like him not be expected to hit form sooner than later...??? Ok you let a multi-million player go, but then whom have you brought into the side? Nobody. Nobody to replace Robbie.

Rafa, are you even serious about winning the Premier League? I doubt. You are afraid ! You are scared !!

And now Rafa you can kiss goodbye to your Champions League dreams as well. Our midfield cannot even close down the opposition and keep the ball. More worringly, there is no creativity and inventiveness in our side. Against a quality team we rely heavily on Gerrard and Torres to win or bail us out. This is not done. Simply not done !! The fraility against set-pieces is more than obvious.

I am sad at this turn of events... but I now am sure that we are out of the title race. All we can hope for is to keep a clean record at home...and just watch and applaud Man U show the footballing world, how it is done. I accept the fact that Liverpool have lost it. Its a sad day for us !!

Broken Strings

And I thought I was over this 'pop' thing. Every time I think that I have seen it all and am over my early love of POP songs, there comes in a song that just makes me question my 'likes' again.

I have been out of listening to the soft pop for quite some time. By this I mean that the modern artists have not appealed to me much with their compositions. Hence I have stuck on to ColdPlay, U2,Pink Floyd etc. But then I was taken aback by the charm of the latest single from James Morrisson called "Broken Strings". Nelly Furtado also lends her lovely voice to this duet and the moment I heard it a month or so back, I was swept off my feet.

Something so nice about this song... the way it builds up to a crescendo with thier voices interlacing to weave a smooth pattern. What a voice this fellow has !! No wonder his resemblance to Chris Martin ( Coldplay ) makes him even more fascinating to me.

Songwriting has still survived I guess. I will re-produce the lyrics here.... they will not do justice to the flow of the song when read. Just hear it out once... am sure you will not hate it. Not the best song of all times, but definitely a lovely song to restore my faith in POP music.

The parting gift !!!

I sometimes wonder what would I leave behind for my children, my beloved, my parents. What gift shall I give them, that would be precious enough?
If I were a painter, I would paint for them. If I were a musician, I would write a piece of music for them. If I were a poet, I would write poems for them. If I were a sculptor, I would give them an exquisite statue. If I were an engineer, I would build for them. If I were a doctor, I would make a panacea for them.....etc...etc...etc...

But I am a sales-man. Shall I sell myself for them?

Sometimes I do what I want to do. But most of the times I do what I have to do.

In the end, there is nowhere to go but where we come from !!!