Saturday, May 23, 2009

why do we cheer for the underdogs ?

Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers, placed at the bottom last year, will face each other in the 2009 IPL final tomorrow. I predicted them to meet each other in the grand finale and it's exactly what has happened. But why did I predict(or wish) the bottom ranked teams of last years to reach the finals ? Why are we humans(or atleast me) like this? Whenever there is match involving an outright favourite, why do we want the weaker team to win ? What do we gain by supporting the weaker team ? Is it to feel good that we didn’t support the obvious winner but supported the less obvious one and hence did a good deed? Or is it just because we want to see an upset and hence a hot news to talk about by putting up facebook/gtalk status messages etc etc ? Do I want to discuss/gossip about how the champion was defeated and will that give me some wild pleasure ? Is it because we like change and want the underdogs to win for a change rather the same old favourite ? Or is it because we identify the weaker team with our own weaknesses and would like to see, in some part deep in our heart, our weaknesses winning over the competitor's strengths ?
What’s your reason? Why do you support the weaker player?

Friday, May 8, 2009

A day off from office!

I took a day off from office today...more importantly from the monotonous life. Though I was slighta ill, down with cold and fever; the motivation to take a day off was not solely because of that. I wanted to spend some time with myself, retrospect about my past and contemplate ma future plans. Things have become seriously boring and I would love to change that. May be because of that I was so interested to join the party when some of friends decided to head to Singapore and Malaysia on a summer vacation this july. But I have an important assignment to finish before I leave for THE trip. Hopefully, things work out smoothly for me! Amen!