back to listening...

After a long hiatus, I'm back to listening to contemperary music. Caught up with the classics of 70's and 80's in the meanwhile. Elvis' heartbreak hotel, the most recent find.
Impressed with the recent rap-blue stuff. Akon's Dont matter and Timbaland's Give it to me played all day yesterday.
Vh1 is doing a great job popularising new videos. After Mtv moved into a full hindi mode it was hard to get to see the latest. Gone are the days they played Britney,ricky martin all day.

Where's the Gandhi family heading?

Rahul Gandhi should consider an alternate career. This guy can barely speak. And when he does, its all bullshit. I agree its very tough with UP as the ground for his political base. But where else can he go? I strongly favor Priyanka as the political heir to the Gandhi family. Not merely by looks, she dazzles as she speaks.

Its a conspiracy within the family to let Rahul grow popular and not let Priyanka overshadow him. But how long will Congress wait till they bring out their best weapon. Currently the government is running on sympathies for Sonia's sacrifices, a team of some renown and able-bodied men led by Manmohan Singh. But come next election, if most of the aged men decide to retire, who'll congress turn to? Sonia won't dare do a U-turn. Rahul will still be with his 25/402 as his major achievement.

United they stand...

All's well that ends well!

Last week, Alonso said he hopes that Hamilton wins the Championship if he doesn't manage to win. This coming from a reigning world champion who's in Mclaren alongside a rookie and has one of the fastest cars on the track?
McLaren signed up with Alonso after his first championship in 2005. He would go on to win another title with Renault before joining Mclaren. So a double champion racing alongside a rookie did give a obvious feeling that Alonso would be the No.1 driver by miles and the team would push everything to win Alonso another title. But Hamilton has taken the season with such a storm or should we say his placid, error-free driving.
With 4 races down and Hamilton leading the table, Alonso now knows he can't expect any favors as a No.1 driver and he has a man to beat in Hamilton. And Mclaren would be sensible enough to let them both compete for the title. Whatever the contract terms with Alonso are. Hamilton has won over everyone in F1. Any stunt like in the 2002 Austrian grand prix (also see this) will surely leave all in bitter taste and no respect for F1.