Weekend TV and some preaching

TV viewing over the weekend, suddenly there was so much to watch on saturday.

Simultaneously, there were three amazing events happening:

- Wimbledon women's finals which was a good fight right through to the end. We watched this between the over breaks of the Cricket match.
- The best cricket match I remember watching in the recent times - the England - Aus Natwest trophy finals. The way it swung from one side to the other; the the best 2 teams in one day cricket today showed why they're up there. The way England's going, I don't think Aussies are gonna be the no.1 for too long.
- The live8 concert had some of the best music in the world being played across the world. The highlight of course was the Pink Floyd got together after 20 years. Their part came at almost 4 AM on Sunday morning. Luckily, we had to go for a party which which was on till 3 AM .. so just got back home in time for the GODs. The other band which was simply awesome was The
Who. I've listened to their music for a while now. It was amazing watching grandpas playing like they always did! Class is permanent is the best way to summarize what we saw.

Some of the ads and documentaries shown during the show were quite psyching. I didn't know Africa was in such deep shit. I thought they were only a little worse off than India.

I hope the CDs of the show are sold. It was really one event the world won't forget in a hurry.

On another note, the BIG jokers of the world, lead by the chief is meeting in Scotland. I sincerely hope they do something about emission of carbon. Bush in an interview yesterday that it "might" be possible that global warming is being caused by human activity. How much of it has been
contributed by bombing Afghanistan and Iraq, should be a study on its own.

As all you guys in the US get used to the "lifestyle" of America, and as this "lifestyle" spreads to India also, I think some very simple steps can be taken for the overall cause of the energy crisis and global warming:

- Especially in India, use the Sun to dry your clothes rather energy guzzling washing machine dryers. I don't know how much it applicable in the US, but I'm sure there must be a way
- Always ask for paper covers or no covers - no plastic please! I hope plastic is banned in Bangalore very soon!
- I know it's damn cool thing to be driving SUVs - but be concious that fossil fuels can't last too long. While today you still get the fuels of the world by bombing and capturing all oil containing nations.

Okay - that's a lot of preaching for the day :) .. Good day!