A Little Lunacy!

See what I did there? Inspired by Spurs (don’t worry, I’ll wash my mouth with soap afterwards) making good use of the 5-1 scoreline against Ar5ena1, I came up with this little gem of a title. Genius.

*ducks to avoid the dozen or so rotten tomatoes and eggs*

Now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, allow me to present my first match review after a very, very long time. Of course, you may ask what is there to review? The scoreline of 7-1 says it all, really. Well, that is technically correct.

Still, I want to write something and a something I shall write. Yesterday was a match that was billed as one of those which could make or break our season. But after the initial hiccup when Villa equalized through John Carew, it was Chelsea all the way. Scoring 7 once in a season is noteworthy. But twice? That, my friends, requires something special. And yesterday it was special. We had Malouda terrorising the Villa right-back all game and bagging 2 goals for the second successive game. And Yuri Zhirkov too decided to join in the attack twice, earning 2 penalties for each foray into the opposition box.

Super Frank was at it again, taking his season’s tally past the 20 goal mark yet again with 4 (yes, four) goals against a hapless Villa side which came into this game as the only unbeaten team in 2010. I guess they had it coming.

Salomon Kalouless came on later and he too chipped in with a goal which must have made Martin O’Neill wish the earth would open up and swallow him. It didn’t.

So 7-1 it was in the end. Chelsea were seemingly on seventh heaven while it was a hellish nightmare for Aston Villa. After a few minutes at the top of the table, Manchester United went back to the top after beating Bolton Wanderers 4-0. And if you’re not aware, we’ll be visiting them in Manchester next week for a game that is billed as the title decider.

I’ll leave you with the comment made by a Villa fan that I happened to read on a forum today. Till then, take care and Keep The Blue Flag Flying High!

Villa Fan: Woken up this morning by my girlfriend saying ‘Get up, it is 8′. I thought, ‘Oh no, they’ve not effing scored again have they?’

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There’s not a lot happening around me these days. Still, learning is a thing that never stops. Here are three things I’ve learned over the past month or so:

1. The user really is the weakest link in anything that needs security: I got myself a laptop bag and a small lock. To be absolutely safe during my journey, I locked the main pocket that houses the laptop and had a sound sleep. Woke up next morning and unlocked it to take out my laptop. Horror of horrors, it was empty! But oddly, the bag still weighed the same! Frantic checking revealed that I had blissfully locked the wrong pocket at night while the main pocket remained unlocked. Thankfully, none of my stuff was missing.
2. Never, ever, ever give up: One of the partitions on my laptop’s hard drive seemed to have developed a problem, probably bad sectors. Any attempt to write to it would randomly result in either crashing the system or scary noises (scary as in, scary coming from a laptop). I had no time back then, so I promptly deleted the entire 40Gb partition to get rid of the trouble. I planned to come back to solving the issue later. A couple of days ago I finally decided to bring my lost partition back to life. However, Windows’ ChkDsk, Disk management Utility proved to be useless. I got hold of Spinrite and let it run for about 3 hours. the stupid piece of software swiftly reached 15.4% in 10 minutes and remained stuck at that figure for the next 2 and a half hours. As a last resort, I tried Acronis Disk Director and surprise, surprise! It worked! Now I have 40GB more space to store my useless junk.
3. There’s no place like home: Yup.

Oh, and I know there haven’t been any updates lately but hey, I can’t cook up stories and post them over here. That would be so downright Sun-like.

If anything interesting happens in the next few days, I’ll ensure that it makes it to this blog. Unless of course, I manage to blow myself up in the process.

Have a great weekend, folks!

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