Its been a long time since my last update, and a lot has happened. Really interesting crap.
To start with, Fidel Castro is finally stepping down after 8 months of his semi-retirement during which people had even speculated that he might have died and that the Cubans are keeping it a secret to maintain order in the country. But since he appeared on national TV to announce retirement the rumours have subsided and US of A has expressed its joy over the matter saying that its time Cubans have a democratic government. A democratic government is a very good thing, and everybody is with it, but curiously it seems that the US government worked towards establishment of a democratic government in Cuba ever since Castro came into power, in a rather questionable way - assassination of Castro.
Castro's personal guard has written a book about the assassination attempts on Castro called "638 Ways To Kill Castro". Oh, you got the number right, its 638(WHAT?!). I'll tell you how. American government always considered Castro to be an obnoxious little weed(thanks for the vocabulary update Hayden), they thought about killing him. So CIA got into work. This involves the usage of exploding sea shells, bacteria infected scuba diving suits, poisoned cigars(WTF!) and the list goes on. Like, how much more hatred can you show on the guy? Oh I forgot, two mafia style killing attempts. And Castro lives to tell the story. Don't think I'm bluffing, most of the CIA documents pertaining to these attempts have been declassified. So its true. US government does stink.
And not so surprisingly Cubans have unanimously voted Raoul Castro, Fidel's brother to lead the country now. Lets hope he could at least bring the country back to its feet. Good Bye Castro.
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Next on the good bye list....... Sujatha. Great Writer. One of those very few writers who can write both about nuclear science and also write dialogues for movies. He didn't give up writing even in his last days. "Apollo Dhinangal", his last words, is available in this week's edition of Anandha Vikatan. Fans check it out. For starters, try reading Kattrathum Petrathum. You'll become his fan, athuku naan guarantee.
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Earlier I said that US government stinks, but India seems to top it(yes, I agree, India tops in every list such as population, poverty, AIDS etc.), and its not because of a single person's effort, its a team effort. Main contributors - Communists. C'mon guys, America has uranium, we don't have uranium what do you do? Option (a) Draw up a treaty to get some of the Uranium from them and give some other stuff to them or Option (b)Tell Americans that they are bad, start protesting, and don't let anyone do anything.
Congress took option (a) while Communists took (b). And frankly its really stupid Commies, c'mon, Cold War is over man(thank goodness its over), get over it, past is past, Lets work towards some real development. Nuclear treaty - good; protests - bad. So Dr. Singh, make it snappy with the treaty please. And Karat, try to keep quiet from time to time. You talk too much.
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And some how Indians managed to win the Tri-series by a narrow margin, and so, more reasons for Aussies to talk less.
That's it this time. I'll try to update more frequently. Thanks for reading and your comments are always welcome.
Ciao
