Roger Federer Express

Cant say anything more!

I know, It wasnt easy, and he wasnt in his best form. He was almost desperate to find a way to break Roddick's serve, when Roddick broke his game twice. But He did in the end, only he could do it. And he stands tall with his 15 grand slam titles by winning in the most crazy grand slam final yesterday!

50 Aces! Oh my! :D

I thought it wasnt his day, when I saw Roddick play! But indeed, he was the chosen one in the end, one had to be winner and he is the winner.

One of the longest final match. With Sampras there to see his record broken.

"I tried to hold him of Pete" - Roddick. He had the power to break Federer! It was scary for a moment, that he is going to lose yet again.

Roger Federer captured a record 15th Grand Slam title by winning Wimbledon on Sunday. This is how he did it.

2003

First title: Becomes first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam title after beating Mark Philippoussis 7-6 6-2 7-6 in the Wimbledon final.

2004

Second title: Wins Australian Open by defeating unseeded Russian Marat Safin 7-6 6-4 6-2.

Third title: Retains Wimbledon title by taming big-serving American second seed Andy Roddick 4-6 7-5 7-6 6-4.

Fourth title: Wins US Open final by thumping Australian fourth seed Lleyton Hewitt 6-0 7-6 6-0.

2005

Fifth title: Completes a hat-trick of Wimbledon triumphs with a 6-2 7-6 6-4 over second seed Roddick.

Sixth title: Defends US Open title with a 6-3 2-6 7-6 6-1 victory over sentimental American favourite Andre Agassi.

2006

Seventh title: Defeats unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 5-7 7-5 6-0 6-2 in Australian Open final.

Eighth title: Keeps up winning streak at Wimbledon by thwarting Rafael Nadal 6-0 7-6 6-7 6-3 in showpiece match.

Ninth title: Downs Roddick 6-2 4-6 7-5 6-1 to clinch US Open crown.

2007

10th title: Wins Australian Open with a 7-6 6-4 6-4 masterclass over Chilean 10th seed Fernando Gonzalez.

11th title: Becomes only the second man in professional tennis, after Bjorn Borg, to win five in a row at Wimbledon with a 7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2 success over Nadal.

12th title: Beats Serbia's Novak Djokovic 7-6 7-6 6-4 to capture US Open.

2008

13th title: Demolishes Britain's Andy Murray 6-2 7-5 6-2 to win fifth consecutive title at US Open.

2009

14th title: Emulates Pete Sampras by winning a record-equalling 14th Grand Slam title after beating Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-1 7-6 6-4 at Roland Garros, his first French Open success.

15th title: Breaks Sampras's record with a 15th Grand Slam win in the Wimbledon final against American Andy Roddick 5-7 7-6(6) 7-6(5) 3-6 16-14.

Whew! I am so damn Happy now! It wasnt simply I named my scooty 'Roger' *wink*

Zanychild
Driving people insane as always!

I m patience :p

Impatience was walking with just one shoe? Why? Coz he did not have the patience to find the lost shoe :p

Impatient to go to sleep at night, Impatient to get up in the morning, Impatient to get his morning duties done, Impatient for the day to happen, then impatient for the day to end.

Impatient to know the results, Impatient for the week to end, then the month to end. Impatient to write this blog post.

Impatientence runs like a mad monster in me. It may be a he or a she monster, and I am impatient to find out :p

Impatient was born with me from the time I was born.

I want things to happen, to happen NOW, this minute, coz I cant wait!

I know, it is really difficult to live like that, but then that's how I am and well I lose my patience then stomp my feet.

I am impatient now to finish this post. I am impatient enough to see it get published and impatient to see the comments flowing in.

And could you people do me a favor and count the no. of times I mention the word impatient, coz I am impatient to sit and do it myself :p


Zanychild
Driving people insane as always!

Random Musings of nothing in particular

It has been a while, well not a while - seems like an eternity since I was active in the blog. Sorry people for the neglect. My life was filled with activities that I could not spend enough time here. Well, now that I seem to have some bit of a free time at hand, maybe it is time I started over :)

I know, in my last post - I promised I will write about 'Frozen Thoughts' . As usual, me being me, I mucked up. No prizes for guessing that :p

There are loads happening around, that I cant seem to be able to catch everything up at a time. In one end - My Fav Roger Fedrer is on a winning streak, and win Wimbledon, He will make yet another record. On the other end MJ died - May his soul R.I.P. The world cries for you.

And still in another end, am I. On the brink of just completing my exams, and if luck is by my side, I will officially be a Cost Accountant in 2 months time :D

Things so far are really good. I have never been better I guess. Yes, Life does have its lows at times, but off late - it has gone down, and glad am I for it.

I have just begun to realize, Life is what you make out of it, not the other way round. Life doesn't dictate you. You do. We are gonna be here for what, like a max of 80 to the extreme 100 years (If blessed with amazing health in this gen) And 20 of those have already been lost for me :(. It is too short a span to live. So why live it with a hate, grudge, regret. In the end - it all amounts to nothing, but a sad story.

Today, ok not today, for quite sometime. I have decided. If I want to do something, and it doesn't prick my heart. I might as well do it then regret of thinking what might have come out of it If I had done it. If it flops, well and good. It is just another path to be crossed, I will be happy that I at least gave it a try. If it adds value to me and my life. Nothing could be much better.

At times, it is good, to let go. Just be us, be wild. All those rules and principles that we confine, can be forgotten for some time. In the end, the question is - Are you happy with your life so far? And if it is not positive. It is high time steps are taken to remedy it. It is you who can make your life happy, not anyone else. It is the way you look at things. It is the way you perceive things. If you see through them with a veil, life is never gonna be good. Appreciate people and things for what they are. Never judge them (Ok, I should not be saying this, as I am the most opinionated person around, But I am starting to change) Never judge a book by a cover, it is always just a cover and not the real thing.

Little by little as we go up in Life
What is it we have to thrive
What is it we have to drive
Nothing but the ride of happiness.

A human who cant laugh at little things in life is no better than a demon. So people, laugh with no regrets, what worse could happen? Even if it all goes bad, think of how to get over it with a smile. The small curve of the lips, the sound of a deep laughter can do wonderful changes to you and everyone around.

Ok, enough is enough. I wanted to write something, and ended with something. Again nothing unusual knowing me :p Be happy, and laugh loud. And now it is time for me to visit TD's blog to have an extra laugh :p



Zanychild
Driving people insane as always!

Frozen thoughts to House Calls

During one of mom's occasional visits to the Ortho, I had the opportunity to accompany her. I like visiting health clinics as long as I aint the patient :P On one such visit I came across this magazine called 'House Calls' It is a bi - monthly magazine from the  Dr. Reddy's group. As usual being bored waiting, I flipped through the magazine and came across an interesting column called the 'Doctor's Diary' Well it being a diary, it was written by an anonymous doctor. From what I could understand, each edition the Doctor's will give life to their humor and write this column, and it is a different Doctor each time, coz they were ok with giving the city from which the doctor hails. Like for example ' This Delhi Doctor' :)

This column was titled 'Tete - a tete in Tea rooms'. It started with this write up .

"Doctor's are but human, even if patients like to put them in a pedestal along with their favorite gods. They need breaks from these nerve-racking surgeries and even more nerve - wrecking relatives who badger them with questions, to take refuge in one of the cafeterias which all hospitals have these days. A doctor ruminates what goes on in these tea rooms...."

The words cafeteria and tea rooms, made me want to read the article, coz well that is where rumors fly, So I proceeded to read the rumination by the doctor. He went on to explain how tea rooms were there earlier and how modernized they have changed now. Well that wasnt the point he was trying to drive home, What actually drove him to write the column is how workaholic the Doctors are that, they dont even spare their tea breaks and discuss patients much to the disgust of the on lookers around the cafeteria, coz that is how explanatory they were in describing each and every internal organ of the patients that they worked on. Some snippets from the column which I couldnt resist to share with you people :P

"They went something like this....." The tumor was atleast a kilo in weight and fungating, smeared with blood, and the peritoneum was full of thick yellowish green puss." The other voice countered with, "Bet it was not as bad as last night's ruptured kidney that burst like an overripe fruit, a gooey red mess" 

All this conversation over watering aromas of food from the cafeteria, that most other people sitting next to these doctors just almost gagged on their food.

My point to drive home was not how graphically describing Doctor's can be, it is that these Doctor's are not lacking in humor, they do get their share of the funny bone in most bizziare situations

There was also a couple of interesting facts I learnt from the magazine. There was a lot of history and facts,

One was about the origin of food It was written with the help from this book called 'The Story of Food' By Dr. Achaya. Vegetarianism wasnt practiced first, Even Bhramins ate meat, They ate what was called the pure meat, that which is sacrificed. While Vegetarianism came in, only when there was a revulsion towards eating Beef. Dog was not eaten, expect under dire circumstances when it was allowed under the rule of Appad Dharma which says "Life is more important than customs and rules" So the next time, if anyone tells you it is a sin to eat non vegetarian food, Do argue that once everyone was a non vegetarian, it was only some revulsion to some kinds of meat that gave vegetarianism into existence :P

Now the next thing I read about was "Relationships" How could a doctor's magazine be complete without this topic :)

This article was titled 'Plato's Blessing'

The word Platonic relationship came into existence due to Plato. He is rumored to have had many non sexual relationships with several women during his life time.

Yet there was another that was the last dash of mint to add more spice, There was this article where it is written that Indians werent always fully clothed, The long skirts and modest clothes were brought along with the British invasion, and there came the Victorian maiden and the style of covering oneself fully from neck to toes by full gowns and dresses. Well, in the end this is the land of kama sutra and hushing it up is of no use. 

Anyways, I thought I will continue with some quotes from 'Frozen thoughts' But then time is running, so should I. So check out my next blog post on thoughts that ought to be frozen forever, Well That will be inspiring and motivating if I have managed to make your mouth hang open from the above post :P

Signing off

This is

zANy CHild

Driving people Insane as always...

50 Random things about me!

There was this application in FB which I added, and though I would
blog it. People are welcome to blog similar stuff in their blogs :)

1:I love just to sit simply staring at my comp :P Okies that was lame!
Well I live for chocolates, I lead such a sinful life I tell ya :P

2: I was once a avid blogger, then an occasional blogger and now a
rare blogger. I write under the name 'Zanychild'

3:If anything is mine, it remains mine forever :P

4:If there is a popular networking site, you can find me there :P

5:I have tons and tons of bangles and quite an amount of earrings to
match all my clothes :P

6:I love to wear floaters ;), and I usually hate to shop!

7:I name every inanimate object around me, My comp is called - crappy,
my Ipod - Ragz, My scooty pep- Roger, my Fone - Spooky, My telly - BT
(Blue tubby) :P

8:I used to write "Not for Kids" poems in my laa clash along with my
counterpart alice (Now don't you get ideas, we write serious stuff,
not suitable for kids :P)

9:I usually forget all my friends birthday, unless it comes on my mail alert ;)

10:I give them cards on their birthday, which was actually supposed to
be given on their previous birthday (they will get the card for this
year next year :P)

11:I advertise my blogs in all modes possible, the first thing I tell
a person, when I meet them is 'check my blog', So guys check my blog
right now!www.thestarmeandstarstruc k.blogspot.com

12:I love to click pics of anything that catches my fancy! keychains,
table, books, anything, You name it I would have clicked it :)

13:I hate people who talk behind my back

14:I always day dream in my classes, I live in my own lil world
located in far far away land :P

15:I love the rain, Love to drive in the rain and get horribly wet and
then go for an ice cream dripping wet.

16:I love the moon, It always fascinates me. I usually like the dark
then the bright sun ;)

17:I do a lot of LOLing while Iming!

18:I have a real long black raincoat and if I wear it, you cant find me anywhere

19:Most of the time, If you cant find me, check out the nearest Food
Court, I love trying new cuisines and experimenting new eat outs, even
though they burn a hole in the pocket (warning: dont ever go to Little
Italy, The food is good, but the place is so damn expensive and filled
with cockroaches), and If I talk, I dont eat, If I eat, I cant talk.
and well that makes me a slow eater among my friends!

20:I always stand with my legs crossed :P

21:I have a terrible handwriting like that of a 3rd std kid, God only
knows how the evaluator understands what I write :P

22:I finish problems even before the Prof goes near the black board to
start solving it, much to the chagrin of my friends, and you can find
me saying the Prof is wrong, this isnt the solution and I will end up
scratching the whole page where I have solved correctly, as it wont be
accepted coz the prof does it a different way :P

23:I am not what you think I am - I keep things to myself and people
who read mind may test their skills on me :P, And my friends say I can
hardly keep a secret to myself, if It is mine or the others, But then
I can, You know, When I want to, I do keep them :P

24:People have never seen me cramming before an exam eve, and I will
spoil their last minute preparations too with my smug smile as though
I have done enough! and they too should follow suit, and moreover I
will be the first person mostly to walk out of the exam hall ;P

25:You can find me in all you FB alerts taking up all these
applications and more, FB creates them for people like Me :P

26:WOW, Thts 25 random stuff about me :D and FB allows more eh! Well
as FB is allowing more, lemme write some more :)

27:I have small feet :(

28:I will plan months in advance to study for my CWA exams and end up
doing so in the day before the exam.

29:I never had a cell when I was in college, But the net was more than
enough for me to keep in touch back then, anything to be googled, I
will get a call to do so :)

30:I hate the new FB homepage, Orkut is at times trying to ape FB

31:I get real mad when people park their bikes in front of my gate!

32:I love using photoshop, and creating cards

33:I am obsessed with the word Zany! And use a lot of smileys possible
when in chat, :P

34:I hate it when people spell my name with a 'H' :ox

35:I will plot a big plan only for it to flop in the last minute!! :P

36:I am a very rude, when you ask me doubts, and you dont get it the
first time I explain it. :P

37:Everybody thinks I am a good writer!

38:I hate to get up early in the morning! I have never seen a sunrise
in my life so far, coz I will be happy sleeping!

39:I just love Tea! Tea at anytime is so good!

40:I am confused of the existence of God, I think it is only what you
do matters, and god will not help you in trouble if it is of your own
making.

41:I used to read a lot, I mean LOT of Mills and Boons, stopped them
now, for I dont know what reason :P

42:I have been trying to figure out my purpose in life *wink* So far,
I figured, simple things make me happy :P

43:I repeat to myself everyday, The day is yours to do as you wish,
dont care what people think, But I seldom follow it.

44:I find it scary when my relatives look to me and say "There comes
Vidya, she is so damn intelligent" :P

45:I love my Scooty - Roger, He and me have gone through a lot of
accidents in life, He always ends up in my service center at least
once a month to get his fractures straightened :P

46:An ideal end for a day will be, my Ac on full blast, and a nice
movie on the tube and me relaxing on my messy bed :P

47:I never interact much on a first meeting, It is exclusively
reserved for observation on the person in question :P

48:When some one says "dont look back" I will be the first person to look back!

49:I almost have a crush on 90 percent of the guys I know not
including my brother and my cousins :P

50:I always put in double effort, see I have written 50 instead of 25
random things about me, and I though at the start 'Is there 25 random
things to write about me?' :P

Driving people Insane as always.
Zanychild

The Cup Of Life

How it goes :

a. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, IPOD etc. on shuffle.
b. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
c. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
d. Tag friends.


The Questions :

1. If someone asks you, "are you okay" you say:
"Boulevard of broken dreams" - Green Day

2. How would you describe yourself ?
"Aicha"- Outlandish

3. What do you like in a guy/girl ?
"The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem

4. How do you feel today ?
"Oops I did it again" - Britney Spears

5. What is your life's purpose ?
"To the Moon and Back" - Savage garden

6. What's your motto ?
"(You drive me)Crazy" - Britney Spears

7. What do your friends think of you ?
"Someone's watching over me" - Hilary Duff - Wow thats so cool :)

8. What do your parents think of you ?
"Chained to you" - Savage Garden - Haha! true true

9. What do you think of often ?
"So yesterday" - Hilary Duff

10. What is 2 + 2 ?
"On my shoulder" - West life

11. What do you think of your best friend ?
"Addicted" - Enrique Iglesias :P

12. What is your life story ?
"Break me, Shake me" - Savage Garden :D

13. What do you want to be when you grow up ?
"Turn the page" - Metallica

14. What do you think when you see the person you like ?
"Affirmation" - Savage garden

15. What will you dance to at your wedding ?
"She is all ever had" - Ricky Martin

16. What will they play at your funeral ?
"The animal Song" - Savage Garden -ROFL

17. What is your hobby/interest ?
"What dreams are made of" - Hilary Duff

18. What is your biggest fear ?
"Cleaning out my closet" - Eminem - Lolzz

19. What is your biggest secret ?
"Roamer" - Enrique Iglesias - *wink*

20. What do you want right now ?
"I want you" - Savage Garden. :P

21. What do you think of your friends ?
"Truly Madly Deeply" - Savage Garden, awwwww

22. When you want to rush to the toilet, what do you think ?
"Carry on dancing" - Savage Garden, Hehe

23. The person you hate the most is in front of you, what will you tell the person ?
""Kiss me" - SixPence, Lolzz

24. You have just won a lottery. What will you sing ?
"Smack That" - Akon, Eminem, :))

25. What will you post this as?
"The Cup Of life" - Ricky Martin

Zanychild
Driving people insane as always!

I am tagging Gils, BSK, Brute, Marutham, C-lay, TD, Karthik,Vijay and The Mask

She is back to stay!

The road never ending
The lanes never bending
Trees and bushes went unheeded
So did the wailing children
There was only one destiny
The destiny which was unknown
An uncertain feeling crept through her
Will she be able to do it?
Will she have the courage?
She took the wild horse
And rode without course
To reach the Devil’s lair

Yellow teeth and grubby gums
The devil woke up to the daily rum
*thud*thud*thud*
The door gave away
She stood beautiful
With that arrogant sway
Greeny eyes popped up and down
An angel in disguise was now known
She looked with such venom
That could take away a whole army
And then she smiled
He froze that instant
His heart stopped
And she gave a howl of laughter
And he dropped dead at her feet
That was his destiny
No longer unknown.*

* So I am here guys, I fought the devil who had occupied this blog for so damn long, like say 6 months! OMG! he is dead now, and I am back to haunt you guys :) and children you no longer need to wail *wink*, In no time you will see the blog get back into action and I am going nowhere now :P

Zanychild
Driving people insane as always!