Hammer Time

I'm sure by now you've all seen the K-Fed Nationwide super bowl ad, here's MC Hammer's equivalent. I feel kinda bad that Hammer actually had to go through reprising his ridiculous parachute pants and haircut for such an embarrassing ad. Then again, he probably got paid big time, and it sure as hell made me laugh.

Things have been very dreary in the Rathore household at the moment. Notwithstanding the terrible weather, my brother has a terrible cold which he's managed to transfer now to my mother. And while I've tried my hardest to stay away, I feel my brother is trying to infect me. In fact I know it. You would too if you woke up at 1:00 AM to discover he's been in your room, on your computer, chatting on MSN for the past 4 hours. I'm beginning to think he's never going to take my old computer.

With all my spare time I've managed to read a few good books recently. I haven't kept track on the blog of my readings, but from what I can remember I've read the following over the past little whilte : Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Crime & Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Have a Nice Day!, and Of Mice and Men. Last night I just polished of Terrell Owen's autobiography, and surprisingly found it somewhat interesting. Maybe lowered expectations helped. As for the other books, they were definitely all entertaining, with Doestoevsky's Crime and Punishment being my favourite. If you ever think you're suffering from depression, I strongly recommend you read this to realize that there are other people with WAY worse problems!

That's it for now, and I guess since I'm up so early, I'll try and catch some of Pakistan/South Africa live from Port Elizabeth. The best-of-5 is tied at 1 apiece, so I'm hoping our boys can pull it through. L8er y'all!

P.S. - For my critiquing buddy, Pepsi has been in the Pakistani market for over 50 years whereas Pepsi hadn't made it into the Indian marketplace until 1988. So while their new CEO is Indian, they seem to have favoured the neighbour for quite sometime. (In reality, they pretty much throw money at any cricket team in the subcontinent, I'm just continuing this with Mr. Monkey :P