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  “'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.'
'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,” said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here

"...    You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
      `And your hair has become very white;
    And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
      Do you think, at your age, it is right?'

    `In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
      `I feared it might injure the brain;
    But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
      Why, I do it again and again.'

                          -  Alice in the wonderland

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.

       Imagine-Lennon

                                                  

AND THE GRASS THAT IS RUSSLED

The Cup has eluded several greats, making the final slated for 9 July 2006 an interesting affair to take place at some German city and at the Centre Court at Wimbledon. Wimbledon still has several games in the semi finals but we know this is a time for surprises, since the women’s final will be on 8^th July, the Men’s’ will have the best effect at testing nerves on edge in one day.

 

A weekend of punching opponents, passion, especially rush passion is agreeably. You are free to engage in any subversive acts-visit you witch doctor, pray the whole day, maybe fast, or remain with your skeptic wishes…we don’t care. It doesn’t matter. The pressure will be with the people tussling it out on grass.

 

I think there was an element of mismatch building up all along. I have reconciled myself to watch the finals, even after claiming not to care about football. I am the only one with the player’s sympathies. Those players feel the whole world is against them, and they are right. With the fanatical chaps who have held on to their convictions of the superiority for three weeks. Add the fans that have recently moved from being disgruntled to avidly supporting whoever seems to have the winning streak in them. Then add the one time supporter who emerges from nowhere to support the team because he thinks even with this one time bet…his bet is good on the money.

 

The players are out there alone, no one cares about them; only if they win shall people embrace them. All those people glued on their Tellies, and then the ones seated in the stadias-are all a bunch of fickle minds, playing out the games with their minds eye. Nah! Hingis was thrown out, where was that magic back hand…Ronaldo is some fat thing that…and these are the fans moral boosting the teams/players.

 

After coming this far, it’s a desperation fight…its about winning the cup now-its time for the teams /players to take a poise…weigh the balance in there and mean business. We have seen fighting with expectations levels rising, we want our Cup.

 

So,

 

Justine Hardenne, Maria Sharapova, Kim clijsters, Amelie Mauresmo are facing off each other. Just like world cup, these women have all had been there, up and down some career and are back again to prove just that they can do. Shapapova outed Dementieva. Mouresmo showed Anastasia Myskina out. Clijsters took out china Li Na. Its only sad tomorrow will see her meet Hardenne, now that is a tricky match.

 

Football certainly is up for the unexpected too. German just went out, Italy pitching in for the Finals. France has to decide whether to let Portugal win this time round. And we still have the Men’s finals too, will Hewitt will take the cup or Nadal. I think Federer is where my money is