Bluffmaster's List

List of Bluffmaster's favourites and bête noires:

Cricket
Shane Warne, Rahul Dravid, Michael Bevan, Michael Hussey, Stephen Fleming, VVS Laxman, Mark Waugh, Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee, W.J. Cronje, Graham Thorpe, Mohammad Azharuddin, Stephen Waugh and Lance Klusener.

Movies
Actors (female): Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jennifer Connelly, Ann Todd, Kim Novak, Demi Moore, Eva Mendes, Shannon Tweed.
Actors (male): Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpai, Al Pacino, Aamir Khan, Christian Bale.
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Vishal Bharadwaj.

Tennis
Thomas Muster, Patrick Rafter, Goran Ivanisevic, Pete Sampras, Sergi Bruguera, Steffi Graf

Wrestlers
Robert Szatkowski, William Jason Reso, Michael Hickenbottom, Bret Hart, and everyone from the Old School.

Soccer
Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo.

Edit: Thursday, 22-4-2010, 11:37

I have decided to add on to this old list of mine without affecting its originality.

Cricketers: Shane Watson, Justin Kemp.

Movies
Actors (Female): Tallulah Bankhead.
Directors: Christopher Nolan, Shimit Amin, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

When I wrote that post I was on the verge of starting a new and promising phase of my life and now that phase has ended and I am at a dead end. How different life was back them. How optimistic I used to be. If only life was that simple as it used to be.

Anger Management

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."