Hamilton gets 2nd McLaren seat..

A decade ago, a ten year old boy of Afro-Carribean descent approached Ron Dennis, stating that his ambition was to drive for the Woking-based team. Ron Dennis saw potential in this young boy, for it is his money that has underpinned LH’s success at the karting and junior formula levels..

Needless to say, Hamilton will have enormous pressure – not only from the Ronster & double WC Alonso, but also from the British media…

Quoting the times..

“he could become a black sporting icon of the stature of the American golfer Tiger Woods, with the potential to earn millions”

Would it only be a matter of time (and we have a long winter ahead..) before the young lad (who is yet to start in a GP) believes that he’s WC material much on the lines of Button?

I hope not

Pitpass & Linksheaven

 

Scorsese…

Of late, I’ve not been doing exaclty what a typical b-schooler would do. I’ve been watching a lot of movies. Among those I liked a lot are ‘Gangs of New York’ and ‘The Aviator’. Gangs was the typical Scorsese flick – a narrative style, set in New York and having unrealistic cathartic violence. Aviator was catering to a different set of Scorsese ‘attributes’ – Lone ranger struggling with inner demons and rock-meet-opera sound tracks.

Oh. And any write-up of Scorsese can’t be complete without a word or two about Marty’s Mob Movies – ‘Goodfellas’ & ‘Casino’ both featuring Robert DeNiro.

Oh – and coming to that, Scorsese did some brilliant films with DeNiro – Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cape Fear & Casino.

Perhaps the best Actor-Director pair ever…

Now he’s picked on Leonardo DiCaprio – Gangs of New York, The Aviator & The Departed.

Next comes “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” , based on Edmund Morris’ Pulitzer-winning book.

As screen writer Nicholas Meyer (on Ted Roosevelt) put it -

“His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn”

Looking forward to the movie and hope they the Scorsese-Caprio combine produces many more such movies despite the obvious age problem!

L’Attitude 13′05

I believe that I’ve found a new reason to become a productive renegade for a while and bunk classes with full conscience. The next couple of months, a bunch of us from b-school are gonna spend our time in finding creative ways to sponsor the dhum(for the non-tanglized, its called smokes,ciggies,etc) bills, booze bills and funding for every other activity that other b-schoolers would (or might, to be politically correct) indulge in. It’s called b-school competition prize money.

B-Schoolers, bring out the brains and rake in the moolah. Then get wasted (if you wish to)…. (again to be politi….whatever)

And who better to go for money than the corporate junkies who have been on the other side of the table at some point of time or the other? The spin machine shall set the ball rolling and I shall learn my lessons in management, albiet not in the manner prescribed by the evangelists…

For those of you wondering why I’ve spelled Latitude wrongly and put an apostrophe there and then uttered some , it’s the annual B’School fest of Great Lakes with a twist. Of course you figured out the 13′05 part.

Out of hibernation

Well – I wouldn’t exactly blame my b-school curriculum for having not blogged in something like 5 months. Not that a whole bunch of people have asked me why I haven’t blogged (in fact, more people have asked me why I’ve stopped spamming them with my F1 reviews on Y! Messenger) !

Everything has a reason and mine is something credible, something that has been plaguing humanity for like a billion years or something – lethargy. And of course there are the vices that every other 23 year old is addicted to..

Ok. Back to business. Now that Schumacher is gone for good, I’m reflecting on the strange predicament I am going to be in from next season. For the better part of the last decade, I’ve fought for ages and pages on Forums, IRC’s, Orkut, Y!M, my blog etc on why the seven time champion is to be loathed and sets a bad example for budding racers. Much that I dislike chewing cud over and over again, I’ve come to understand that I will have no new fodder from next season. Who would replace Schumacher as my symbol of evil and the Sultan of Satanic activities?

I do hate to say this, but with the likes of Montoya, Villeneuve and Schumacher gone, the genre of drivers who I’d call the ‘messiahs of mayhem’ would come to an end. I’d have to endure with only David Coulthard from the previous generation and then a few. A Kimi Raikkonen who prefers to drink from his champagne bottle before he sprays it on the crowd and an Alonso who’d give any stage monkey a run for his money with his stupid jumping act. And of course there is ‘1-in-120-odd-races-Button’. Not to mention that the British media will make Hamilton realize (without having a single F1 start) that he is the next Clark/Stewart. Famished!!

As an addendum, there’s Schumacher, and now that his era is over, I do feel the necessity to agree that I did in fact love his racing style. Well, the liking started at Imola the season before last. The brilliant pit strategy and the Scuderia Ferrari racing out of the pit lane into an empty piece of tarmac with the air-horns of Tifosi blasting the air is the stuff of legends. A chain of thought triggered from there made me realize the unwavering f*ck-you-all-i’m-here-to-win attitude that this man had. It might sound disgusting to the cultured, but how many of us can do that with a conscience as clear as Schumachers? He did it, and as Roy of linksheaven said, in twenty years from now, kids will be asking me what it felt like watching Schumacher race the prancing horse. It’s similar to what I used to do in the late 90’s. Ask people how they felt watching Senna race.

I did pen down an article for Links, I call it “Magical Memories“.

Watch out this space, the hibernation is more or less over!

P.S -> My other blog is http://kihsuok.blogspot.com . I would have been glad to continue there, but UNF, the server at my college has blocked blogger, and I have no other alternative but to use wordpress. Hence the duplication.