Conditioning,Conditioning

The reasons why we pulled off an amazing come back in the zonals even though we were the underdogs without proper match practice because of exams just before those and most of our players were either injured or detained by the teachers for not completing their work..

I(The Captain) am so proud of my boys..We did a great job out there people..It was a KICKASS display!! Special mention to Andrew ,CJ ,Naveen ,LC and Manoj..Great display people..Lets get more cups back home!! Vamos!! :D

The reasons..the 3 main ones are as mentioned below :-

1) The whole team unified against the coach forgetting petty differences.

2) The moment we played a few games and saw the real value of a coach as good as the ones they had, we began to believe..

3) Most importantly, the team became incredibly well conditioned. we may not have been the most talented teams but we were certainly the fittest.

4) Sometimes heart and determination win over Talent :) Thats just what happened there!! The photos of the tourney will be up soon :D

It's all about conditioning I've realized and the big question to ask myself is

'Am I conditioned enough to become the Associate that adds the highest value in the industry? I.e. Do I have the necessary physical fitness, mental strength and intensity to consistently sustain great performance and maybe go on to represent a big club or my country??!'

That's a thinker!

Answer To Your Questions About Paul ,The Octopus

Hi everyone.!! I found this article in Discovery. I wanted to share it. Everyone of us knew what Paul " The oracle octopus" did in 2010 WC. It predicted the winners of all of Germans matches and even the Mega game of Sports " WC finals"..

I've always believed that what Paul was doing is not real..An octopus has sense ,but not predicting things..Do you think Octopuses are like Nicholas Cage from "Next" who can sense the future?? Like get a life!!! They can sense colours..but not sense the future

The article goes like this
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We've heard of cats that can predict deaths and toads that can predict earthquakes, but none of these animals had the fate of a nation sitting squarely on its (many) shoulders like Paul, the World Cup-predicting octopus.

This seemingly psychic cephalopod predicted the winner of this year’s World Cup, Spain, as well as the winners of all six German matches before that. In case you’re wondering, the odds of you doing that are 1 in 128.

So what’s Paul’s story? Is he fixing these matches? Some sort of time-traveling mollusk that stole Biff’s idea from Back to the Future 2? Or is he just really, really lucky?

I called Alan Peters, invertebrate curator at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, to get his take on Paul’s football prowess. He told me:

"Particularly among invertebrates, octopi are very intelligent, but that intelligence can be defined in different ways."

Like say... picking the winning teams for a worldwide soccer tournament?

"Predictive power I don’t think is part of that," he added.

Peters notes that octopi are visually oriented and can be trained and stimulated with food and objects. And while Paul was presented with two identical boxes containing mussels, since both boxes contained food, it couldn’t have been the deciding factor.

"Maybe there’s some similarities on all the flags that the octopus chose," he said. "You could really dig into this deep if you wanted to tease out why this happened."

Yes, the flags! Each time, the researchers put the German flag on one box, and the flag of their opponent on the other (except for the final). Octopi, Peters said, are able to detect differences in shapes and patterns, as well as colors.

"They don’t see color like we do but they can tell the differences between different colors, said Peters. "It’s just that their brain doesn’t say ‘red here and yellow there,’ it says 'these two things are different.'"

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Addition To The Nerdd Herdd!!

Hey ppl ,Been long since I actually posted on this blog...Been a lot busy these days with exams and stufff...so sorry for the absence!! Here comes another the post

Sinchita:

It isnt long since I actually got to know of this amazing soul..She's that kinda girl you can talk to for any number of hours but you never get bored with..Well ,thats how i'm feeling right now!!..Oh yeah ,correction.Read it as awesome girl...We've been quite good pals ever since then..I can talk to her about anything under the sun and yeah ,she does too..

Yeah ,Look at the picture...Whats not crazy about it?? lol...Oh wait..I wanted to say ,CUTE..but out of amazement i said crazy..

Anyway ,Back to basics..she's been one helluvan awesome friend all this time..and i'm loving the time I spend with her..It started off with us talking for almost 7 hours everyday..But since both of us are busy with our respective lives ,Things are getting tougher...

The best thing about her is that ,well..EVERYTHING is awesome with her!!! And I love it that way

I'm looking forward to spending more valuable time with her at least in the future..and yeah ,HANG OUT with her more..

Since you're gonna read it ,YOU OWE ME A DATE!! lol

This is the best time to say it ,But I love you di!! lol..You're always that awesome one I know of..and it'll remain that way come what may!! :D

Luv ya babe!! <3

Rock on