I was so tired the entire day yesterday, plus we had a really bad weather situation. For two days the sky was cloudy and it was threatning to rain but it just didn't happen. There seemed to be electricity in the atmosphere and I could almost taste the raindrops. What a let down! Travelling in this weather is bad but staying at home is shit too. I was sweating buckets right after I had just taken a bath. My cousin Satish had come with our aunt from Trivandrum and they were too tired to drive back so they stayed at my parents home. I tell you the day was swelltering, so we kicked back after lunch and I introduced him to the music of Jesse Cook. My cousin had obviously not listened to anything by Cook before and he was suitably impressed enough to note down several song titles and enquire as to where he could buy the CDs.



This was what I wanted to have all day and I did just around 6 pm. Ahhhhhhhhhh

Stealing an idea from someone else's blog seems to be a rather good thing to do. Mike Boon has something know as Friday Five, where he lists five things in common every friday on his blog. I have decided that I am not going to do it every Friday but whenever I am hit by inspiration to actually list 5 things in my mind. I am going to call it Roshan's Five. On occasion it may also be a list of 10 as well. So here is today's Roshan's Five:

Top 5 Names that is also the name of a country or city

• Kathy IRELAND


• Matt HOLLAND


• INDIA Arie


• JeremyLONDON


• PARIS Hilton

Michael Ryder is a right winger for the Montreal Canadiens. At 6'0" & 196 pounds the Bonavista Newfoundland native, born on 03-31-1980, was acquired on 01-01-1998 by the Canadiens in the 1998 draft in round 8 (216 overall). Going at 216 had to be a humbling experience for Ryder, a player who was ranked considerably higher (149 spots higher according to the NHL's Central Scouting Service that year). But as it has been for his entire career, size was a factor. Ryder appears smaller and certainly was thinner back in his draft year. Then again, being in contention for the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie certainly helps ease the hurt. Ryder has paid his dues. He played two more years of junior before turning pro in 2000-01 and struggled through the minor-league ranks, where he was demoted to the ECHL -- twice. Yet somewhere in that slide to near bottom in hockey's long-standing pecking order, Ryder found himself and his game. Today, the soon-to-be 24-year-old not only has made the jump to the NHL, he's starring in it.






Song for the day - "That's Right" - JESSE COOK