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SK Sturm Graz 0-3 Arsenal

Samir Nasri stole the limelight with a sumptuous first-half double as Arsenal beat Sturm Graz 3-0 on Wednesday evening.

The Frenchman thundered home an angled drive after 16 minutes to give Arsène Wenger's side the lead. Then, two minutes from the break, Nasri curled home a wonderful free-kick in to the top left-hand corner of the net to give the visitors a lead they were unlikely to let ever slip.

Substitute Henri Lansbury added a third 12 minutes after the restart.

That ended the contest. Arsenal cruised home to complete another comprehensive, straightforward victory.

To be honest, this was standard fare but only because the visitors made it that way. They barely got out of third gear but were efficient and ruthless when they had to be. Graz just could not cope.

It was just about the perfect performance to start the ‘testing ground' phase of the campaign. 

Wenger chose exactly the same squad as Saturday barring the omissions of Manuel Almunia, Conor Henderson and those who did not travel to Austria.

ARSENAL TRAIN AHEAD OF GRAZ GAME

Arsenal prepared for their second pre-season friendly of the summer with a short workout in Austria on Wednesday morning.

Arsène Wenger's squad were put through their paces in the sunshine and will now head west to face Sturm Graz at the UPC-Arena.

To HER n By HER !

"I still remember your glittering EYES,
which has coloured my life with PLEASANT dyes.
I try n try for TIME not to make you sway,
It pierces to know you still AWAY.
I'm growing GREY sensing the DISTANCE alone,
I shiver, blunder and beg life your GLANCE which is gone.
Think me, did I ever deserve a GIRL so pure...
Black soul like me answer comes not for SURE.
Uni here, alone, disgraced, half without I feel DEAD,
Yelling lone I ask the ONE not to cut my only support THREAD.
Girl you took me HIGH,
My oh my  without you I'll DIE.
I wait and ask you to COME,
You say, 'kido' it cant be DONE.
After dusk birds don't CHIRP, I'm all gone by the time try to SEARCH...
I'm all GONE. I'm all gone.. Luv'd you always n so will I."


"It was always when i ask GOD for someone NEAR,
Because my life was NOWHERE.
Paths were blurred and thoughts were suppressed.
With the little hope I was waiting, One day one star shimmered 
And made my wish TRUE, he came and washed away all the BLUE.
He showed me life with EYES,
did bear my childish CRIES.
Rolling with the rolling stone gave me d unfeigned stability.
He's an urchin with a celestial SMILE.
I loved him and LOVE him cause,
 I'm for HIM and he's is all MINE.. ALL MINE !"






No wonder LOVE thing can make a hell lot of characters outta us. For instance I enjoyed HER being a poet :P 

ARSENAL starts with a BANG !

Arsenal cruised to a 4-0 victory at Barnet on Saturday in their opening pre-season friendly of the new campaign.

The tone was set after just 90 seconds when Andrey Arshavin waltzed round home keeper Jake Cole before tapping home. Jay Simpson added two more before the break as the visitors dominated.

Laurent Koscielny made his debut in the opening period while Arsène Wenger's other new signing,Marouane Chamakh, made his bow in the second half as the manager changed his entire XI.

The alterations made Arsenal less potent as an attacking force. Samir Nasri capitalised on a defensive error to grab a fourth in the 75th minute.

That was the last hoorah in a game that had long since petered out.

This was a decent run-out for both sides but it was not much of a contest. As curtain-raisers go, it did its job.

Bearing in mind that Arsenal's World Cup stars have not yet returned to training, Wenger put out the strongest squad at his disposal this afternoon. Andrey Arshavin, Tomas Rosicky,Thomas Vermaelen and Jack Wilshere started the first half. Samir Nasri, Theo Walcott and Kieran Gibbs were on show after the break. Although Manuel Almunia and Eduardo were named in the original 22, they were replaced on the day by Simpson and Wojciech Szczesny.

Barnet's Underhill ground has hosted Arsenal's first friendly for most of the Wenger era. It is always jam-packed, lively and sprinkled with talking points. Today was no exception.

The status quo would also be maintained in terms of the scoreline this afternoon. Barnet's best result in this fixture has been a couple of goalless draws. Today that was never an option.

It took less than two minutes for Arsenal to take the lead.

Arshavin darted in from the left and found Rosicky just outside the area. The pair then played a neat one-two in the tightest of spaces to send the Russian clear. He took his time, fooled the keeper and tapped home.

It was a ‘settling' goal and, as a result, Arsenal oozed confidence for the remainder of the half. Three minutes later, Emmanuel-Thomas cut in from the right and stung the hands of Barnet keeper Jake Cole with a rasping shot from distance.

Arsenal's control was complete. They grabbed their second goal in the 16th minute and, up to that point, Barnet still not mustered an attack worthy of the name.

The home defence afforded Jack Wilshere the luxury of time and space on the right of the area. A fatal mistake. He chose to find Simpson eight yards out, who slotted home with simplicity.

Shortly afterwards Vermaelen saw his shot booted off the line and, in the 35th minute, Wilshere hacked an effort wide from just outside the area.

Three minutes from the break, Arshavin teased his way into the area before curling a shot on to the bar with Cole beaten.

However, Arsenal would get a third before the whistle. The ball fell enticingly for Barnet midfielder Mark Byrne just outside the area but he could only produce an airshot. The ball eventually found its way to Arshavin, who broke quickly before feeding Wilshere in the left-hand channel.

His cross was low, immediate and straight to the feet of the unmarked Simpson at the far post. His tap-in was straightforward.

Wenger changed his entire team at the break. It made little difference to the tide of the game. In the opening minutes, Walcott burst through and his clip forced a fine save from Cole. A couple of minutes later Nacer Barazite tested the keeper once again.

Walcott went close once more on the hour but, in truth the sting had left the game. Just to prove the point, Arsenal took until the 75th minute to get their fourth and even that was handed to them. Barnet centre half Daniel Leach failed to control a lofted backpass on the edge of the area. Samir Nasri stole in, steadied himself and slotted home.

Byline crosses from Walcott on the right and Conor Henderson on the left threatened to provide a fifth. But there was never anyone on the end of them.

When the final whistle went, the game had been entertaining but, at the same time, far from even.So now I can say the HOPE for the title this year can't be diminished !

I'm good for nothing;
I'm bad for anything ! Wow, God help this world !

Learning to say sorry

We are an amazing nation. We buy expensive bullet proof jackets that can't provide protection against bullets. So our top policemen get shot down by a motley crew of novice terrorists who didn't even know their way around Mumbai city. Subsequent investigations into who bought these jackets and who sanctioned them have run into a dead wall with nothing likely to ever emerge, even though the police themselves are investigating it.
 
We start huge, costly schemes for the rural poor that never reach them because the administration cannot or will not deliver them to the poor and middle men run away with most of the money. So the rural poor keep selling off their ancestral land and migrate to our already overcrowded cities or commit suicide when they do not even have the wherewithal to do that. When their angry despairing kids join insurgent groups to fight back the unjust system, the State calls them Maoists, wants to wipe them out.
 
We buy MiGs and Sukhois that keep crashing off and on. We buy old, outdated Westland copters from the British that even the British forces refused to use. The crashes that inevitably followed kill off some of our best pilots. Yet no one ever investigated such deals. No one ever asked why we buy defence equipment with a track record of consistent failure. As for the copters, if we didn't buy them, the British would have possibly given them away free to some poor African nation as part of a dubious aid package.
 
We have now bought faulty breathalyser equipment and punished innocent citizens by implicating them in drunk driving cases. Can you imagine the impact on their lives and families? Can you guess what young Nooriya Haveliwala went through, held in Byculla jail for 60 days because her car accident was not treated as an accident on the ground that she was drunk? What was the proof against her? The breathalyser test. Her father died of brain haemorrhage, pleading his daughter's innocence, while the media went on a rampage claiming she could have been a drug addict too. Who will now give her back her sense of dignity? Who can help those hundreds of young boys and girls whose lives were destroyed by faulty breathalyser tests?
 
Even lie detector tests, narco analysis and brain mapping are of dubious merit. The Supreme Court has now clearly ruled that they can't be against citizens to prove any culpability. As any psychologist worth his reputation will tell you, such tests are always misleading because they are based on the premise that all people react to the same chemical drugs in exactly the same way and the slightest variation affirms guilt. This is nonsense. It's only when we assume a person is guilty and have no evidence whatsoever that we look for such options.
 
Exactly in the same way, instead of finding real solutions to our political conflicts, we keep buying weapons, building armies, sending untrained young men nto dangerous war zones, expecting them to win against the uprising of local people. The result's scary. One group of Indians in uniform fighting another, desperately seeking to assert their own right to be a part of the modern India we all talk about. Whether it's Kashmir or Manipur, or the badlands of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, the problem's the same. Angry locals are fighting an uncaring State that thinks the only solution to every law and order problem lies in repression. There's no attempt to reach out, resolve issues, build relationships that can go beyond the feudal structure of the ruler and the ruled. We have forgotten we are one nation, one people. We need to work towards one future. A future that can't be realised through conflict but needs to be nurtured through an understanding of local issues and concerns, by righting as many wrongs as we possibly can.
 
Can we first start by a baby step? Admit the breathalyser tests were wrong and apologise to all those who were abused, punished and jailed on their basis? It will be a good beginning and a lesson in humility for the almighty State. We can call off all the cases, return all the fines paid. And, while we are at it, can we find out who ordered those dud bullet proof jackets that killed our best cops? Can we punish them? Can we punish the guys behind the Kargil coffin scam? Has anyone apologised to Tehelka for what was done to them by the last regime? Or is the State too arrogant to admit its own mistakes? Also, instead of chasing old Warren Andersen, shouldn't we hunt down the exact facts about who allowed him to escape from India and why? More important, shouldn't we simply apologise to the Bhopal victims and give them their rightful dues, however late it may be?
 
A nation that only tries to cover up its mistakes is condemned to repeat them. So let's admit a few and see if we can set some things right.

It hurt !

Well things are no more it used to be ! I was hurt by the behaviour. May be I was findin it too difficult to let it GO....
Friends are one of the important factor in life.. They help u, they sort u to d mysteries of life, They pay your bills wen u r broke. most important they teach u a hell lot of things !

I've learnt my lesson too !

m tired !

m gettin pessimist day by day.. last night i kept walkin for almost 13 to 14 kms.. i kno d reason y ! m gettin lower n lower in terms of standard of livin. i desperately need to find sumthin meaninful in ma life.