EMA winners 2013 in Amsterdam

The EMA (MTV Europe Music Awards) took place at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome (Netherlands/Holland) and hosted by MC Redfoo of LMFAO. While Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis went at the EMA's as the most-nominated artists with five nominations each, Eminem, Miley Cyrus and Bruno Mars were amongst the winners sunday night’s 2013 EMA's.

Eminem at EMA 2013

Lorde - Royals Lyrics

Royals is song by New Zealand singer Lorde. Her full name is Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor. The song is a lead single from her debut album Pure Heroine . The song was released on 8 March 2013 and on 2 October 2013 topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. At sixteen, she is the youngest artist to reach Tiffany for "I Think We're Alone Now" on November 14, 1987. On 28 October the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and has been on top of major charts around the world.

Below is the Lyrics to the song 'Royals' :-

I've never seen a diamond in the flesh
I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies
And I'm not proud of my address,
In a torn-up town, no postcode envy

But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, tripping in the bathroom
Blood stains, ball gowns, trashing the hotel room,
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams.
But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece.
Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash.
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair.

Manchester United Versus Arsenal at Old Trafford on 10th November 2013

Arsenal have been doing really well since they lost in their opening league game against Aston Villa.
They now face another test when they travel to Old Trafford to meet the reigning Champions of England Manchester United who themselves have been playing really bad under new manager David Moyes.
Manchester United in recent seasons have convincingly defeated Arsenal on a regular basis in the English Premier League with the 8-1 trashing still lurking in the 2011 season.But this time around Arsenal look like favorites to win as they lead in the EPL with 5 points at the top. They recently have impressed this season by defeating the inform team Liverpool who have a potent strike force of Suarez and Sturrigde(SAS) and they have defeated Borussia Dortmund at their home in the Champions League just a few days ago.

Super Sunday in EPL Manchester United vs Liverpool and Arsenal vs Spurs

Its the third weekend since the Barclays Premier League started and we have had one big game Manchester United versus Chelsea which was disappointing. But this weekend it is a Super Duper Sunday as two high profile matches or we can say derbies are there. Liverpool face their bitter rivals Manchester United at Enfield Stadium where this tie is considered the El-Clasico of EPL. The other match of the day is the north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspurs.

Bayern Munich win UEFA Super Cup 2013 by defeating Chelsea

Bayern Munich defeated Chelsea to take revenge for their defeat in the 2011-12 Champions League Final. This was a game which was more about the coaches going head to head rather than the teams with Pep Guardiola managing Bayern Munich and Jose Mourinho managing Chelsea. They resumed their rivalry from their days of being the managers of Sains top two rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid. The games versus the top two Spanish teams is known as the El Clasico and we did see a El-Clasico match when Bayern Munich and Chelsea played in the Super cup.

This was the first time that the Super Cup was played in Prague rather than the usual venue in Monaco. This was a one of the better Super Cups as two European Heavy weights were going each other. Usually one team is a considerably less popular team than the other as the second tier European competition ie Europa League is less glamourous and big teams dont take much interest in this competition as compared to the first tier Champions League.

Champions League Groups for season 2013-14

The much awaited Champions League group draw was held in Monaco and Arsenal are the side which had the worst draw as they were drawn in the group of death. Arsenal who qualified after going through an extra qualifier to get to the groups stages will be very unhappy as they have been drawn with last years finalized Borussia Dortmund and upcoming Napoli who have made some good signings after selling their prized asset Edison Cavani. They also play France's Marseille who arent bad either. The other english teams have a easier draw as Chelsea play Germany's Schalke , Switzerland's Basel and Steaua Bucharest. Chelsea and Schalke are favorites to go through to the next round.


Group A: Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad.

Group B: Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, FC Copenhagen.

Group C: PSG, Benfica, Olympiakos, Anderlecht.

Group D: Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, FC Viktoria Plzen.

Champions League group draw tonight for 2013-14

Tonight the Champions League draw will be held in Monaco where 32 European teams will be divided into 8 groups with each group consisting of four teams. The teams are seeded according to performance in all European competitions over a five-year period, where the best teams go in the first pot and the worst seeded going to the fourth pot.

 Arsenal as always had to go through a qualifier to reach the group stages, but they have qualified for the champions league group stages for the 16th consecutive time. They had to play Fenebache from Turkey over two legs and they won the tie comfortably, but the qualifier was of no use as Fenebache were suspended from Europe after being found guilty of match fixing. Similarly Celtic the Scottish champions had to play two qualifier ties to get to the group stages and they managed a aggregate 3-2 win from the skins of their teeth defeating Shakhtar Karangandy of Kazakhstan.

Barclays English Premier League has finally started but in Hindi in India

Barclays English Premier League has started finally on 17th August. I was so excited and happy that finally the wait is over. As i stay in India i have been getting ads that we will be getting the commentary in our language ie Hindi. It looks like the matches will be only on the Star network instead of ESPN and Star Sports. I was angry and frustrated to hear that hindi commentary will be there as i hate to listen to hindi commentary. I have heard hindi commentary for cricket matches and i always change to english commentary as quickly as i realize its hindi commentary.

And another big jolt that i got was that they did not telecast the first match of the League Liverpool versus Stoke.

English Premier League fixtures for 2013-14 season

Below is the list of fixtures for the English Premier League for the 2013-14 season:

AUGUST  

Aug 17: 

Arsenal v Aston Villa

Chelsea v Hull City

Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur

Liverpool v Stoke City

Manchester City v Newcastle United

Norwich City v Everton

Sunderland v Fulham

Swansea City v Manchester United

West Bromwich Albion v Southampton

West Ham United v Cardiff City

Aug 24: 

Aston Villa v Liverpool

Cardiff City v Manchester City

Everton v West Bromwich Albion

Fulham v Arsenal

Hull City v Norwich City

Manchester United v Chelsea

Newcastle United v West Ham United

Southampton v Sunderland

Stoke City v Crystal Palace

Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City

Aug 31: 

Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur

Cardiff City v Everton

Chelsea v Aston Villa

Crystal Palace v Sunderland

Liverpool v Manchester United

Manchester City v Hull City

Newcastle United v Fulham

Norwich City v Southampton

West Bromwich Albion v Swansea City

West Ham United v Stoke City

SEPTEMBER

Sep 14:

Aston Villa v Newcastle United

Everton v Chelsea

Fulham v West Bromwich Albion

Hull City v Cardiff City

Manchester United v Crystal Palace

Southampton v West Ham United

Stoke City v Manchester City

Sunderland v Arsenal

Swansea City v Liverpool

Tottenham Hotspur v Norwich City

Manchester United players to get free Chevrolet cars

Manchester United players to get free Chevrolet cars. Its another perk of being a Manchester United player other than playing for the Britain's top and one of the worlds top soccer team.

This is a good way to give your brand a huge exposure other than just putting your brand name on the team training kits. The American car maker Chevrolet have a  £357 million deal with Manchester United where the players will wear the Chevrolet branded jerseys starting from the 2014-15 season. Chevrolet is the Official Automotive Partner of Manchester United.

But there is a big IF put in by the Chevrolet deal if the players want a free Chevrolet ride!!

Andy Murray create history by winning Wimbledon 2013

Andy Murray create history by winning Wimbledon 2013

Andy Murray finally become the first British player to win the home Grand Slam after a gap of 77 years.

1936 was the last time a British player won the Wimbledon trophy a trophy on home soil.

Fred Perry was the last britain player to lift the Wimbledon trophy.

Lets Make History Murray

Action movie type car accident at Viva Delhi in Sangolda Goa

Action movie type car accident at Viva Delhi in Sangolda Goa

Below are the pictures of a car rammed into a bar and restaurant in Sangolda . The name of the bar and restaurant is Viva Delhi. The accident happened at 2:30 am. The accident scene looks like any other action movie scene.

Car rammed into Viva Delhi

Imagine Dragons : Radioactive Lyrics

Imagine Dragons : Radioactive Lyrics :-

Woah, woah, woah

Woah, woah, woah

Woah, woah, woah

Woah

I'm waking up to ash and dust

I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust

I'm breathing in the chemicals

I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus

This is it, the apocalypse

Whoa

Pitbull Feat Christina Aguilera : Feel This Moment Lyrics

Feel This Moment by Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera is the latest song which everyone is murmuring.

Below is the Lyrics to the song  Feel This Moment : -

Ask for money, and get advice

Ask for advice, get money twice

I'm from the dirty but that chico nice

Ya'll call it a moment, I call it life

One day while my light is glowing

I’ll be in my castle golden

But until the gates are open

I just wanna feel this moment 

[ohhh]

I just wanna feel this moment 

[ohhh]

I just wanna feel this moment

Mr Worldwide

Christina Aguilera

Oye mamita, come on, dale, que la cosa esta rica

[I just wanna feel this moment]

Feel this moment...

Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund Who will win the Champions League 2013

Champions League 2013 winners Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund?

Its a all German final in the finals of the Champions League 2013. Both teams have been favorites through out the competition with Bayern Munich being the firm favorites to win the final.

The match is at the Wembley Stadium in London tonight Saturday 25th may 2013 at 18:45pm GMT.
The match is at 12:15am IST(Indian Standard Time) on 26th May 2013 in India.
It will be telecasted in India on Ten Action and Ten Sports channels in India.

Bayern Munich will be under more pressure to perform better and win the trophy as they have failed to win the last two finals after being favorites in both the finals. They lost to Inter Milan in 2010 and then they lost last years finals to Chelsea.

Guide to Goa: Must see places in Goa

If you are visiting Goa then you must see the below list of places.
If haven't seen these places then you haven't seen the actual Goa.

Must see or visit places in Goa :

(1) Goan Beaches:

Goa is famous for its beaches. The sandy beaches with the blue sea and the tall Coconut tree by the seaside.
Goa is surrounded on its west by the Arabian Sea and so has a coastline from the north to the south which measures to 105 Km.

Below is a list of famous Goan Beaches Divided into North Goa and South Goa:-

North Goa Beaches :

• Aramabol Beach
• Anjuna Beach
• Baga Beach
• Calangute Beach
• Candolim Beach
• Dona Paula Beach
• Miramar Beach
• Vagator Beach

South Goa Beaches :

• Agonda Beach
• Benaulim Beach
• Betul Beach
• Betalbatim Beach
• Bogmalo Beach
• Cavelossim Beach
• Colva Beach
• Majorda Beach
• Mobor Beach
• Palolem Beach
• Varca Beach

Chelsea snatch the Europa League from Benifica after scoring at the death

Chelsea won the Europa League after Branislav Ivanovic scored in the 93rd minute of an absorbing tie.
Chelsea followed the Champions League final win last year with another European title last night.

Benifica started brightly and were just all over Chelsea and Chelsea were just about able to defend in the final third and keep the score to 0-0. Benifica were quick with their passing and movement and the Chelsea midfield were struggling to cope with the movement of the Benifica players.
Especially David Luiz was very poor as he could not keep hold of the ball and when ever Benifica had the ball he was like a headless chicken running on the pitch.
That put a lot pressure on Frank Lampard in the middle of the midfield. Benifica were brilliant in the passing but they were not shooting when they could have a sight at the goal but they played as if they wanted to pass the ball in the goal.

Europa League Finals : Chelsea v/s Benifica

Who will win the Europa League 2013 in Amsterdam??
Chelsea or Benifica

Tonight is the night when the Chelsea can create history by wining the two different European Competitions in successive years.
Last year they won the Champions League beating favorites Bayern Munich but became the first holders to exit the Champions League before Christmas. This time they need to beat Portugals top club to win the Europa League.
Chelsea are the favorites for this clash and to win the title of the 2nd tier Champions of Europe

Gmail Outage for a long time on 13th may 2012 at around 1pm Indian Standard Time

I have been using gmail for a long time now around 8 to 10 years i guess.
But i haven't seen the service down for such a long time between 10 to 12 minutes.
I am from Goa and use gmail on a regular basis but this seems be the longest time that i have seen it not working.
Maybe this is the one of the many times that gmail has been down and this is the first time that i have managed to see it down for quiet a duration.

I get the below page result when i go to http://gmail.com

I love their doodles and this page image with the robot all broken down into pieces is just another cool image.

Update at 7:30 pm May 13th 2013 :- 


Just checked google news and according to Time of India( TOI ) the gmail outage was from 1:50pm to 2:25 pm. Around 0.75% of users mostly from India, Middle East and South East Asia. Google apologized for the service issue and promised to work on it to minimize the outages.
There have been outages on may 2nd and may 8th also that like almost every week for the past three weeks now. There were lots of messages or talks about the outage on social media about the regular service issue in recent times.

Hopefully Google can sort the issues and provide uninterrupted service to its users as well as me :D

Did you experience gmail down today???

Poor Manchester City loose to fancy relegation threatent Wigan in FA Cup Finals

There is the final nail in Roberto Mancini's coffin, he will surely be sacked as the manager of Manchester City after they lost to relegation threaten't Wigan Athletic by a single goal. He could have salvaged this season by wining at-least a FA Cup trophy and win 3 trophies in 3 season. Mancini hasn't been able to work his magic as he did last season. The new signings haven't worked except Nastasic and it looks like his final days at Manchester

But Manchester City were poor as they have been whole season and did not have the best of games as well just 2 or 3 really good chances. Wigan had a lot more chances and they played much better. They deserved to win as they looked like they wanted to win and had the hunger to lift a trophy. They were the underdogs for this game and the neutral were expecting a drubbing by Manchester City , but it was good to see a tightly fought contest which Wigan won with zest.

Sir Alex Ferguson Retires after 27 years as Manchester United Manager

Sir Alex Ferguson announced that he will retire from his post as the manager of Manchester United. There have been talks about his retirement for the past 3 to 4 years now and he finally leaves his long term post.
He has been the manager of Manchester United for the past 27 years in a age where managers leave or are sacked on a regular basis. Fergie as he is known has managed a top club for almost 3 decades and it has produced a huge numbers of trophies.

Sir Alex Ferguson has won 13 English Premier Leagues, 5 FA Cups and 2 Champions League trophies with other trophies like Carling Cup and Community Shields. He is one of the most successful manager not only for Manchester United but also in english football.
After loosing the league to Manchester City last season in the final minutes on the last day on goal difference , he signed Robin Van Persie and won the league convincingly with 4 games to spare.
He would have retired last season if United had won the league last season. But now he has announced his retirement with his last match at Wes Brom on 15th may.

Who will be the next Manchester United Manager?

Bayern Munich thrash poor Barcelona 7-0 over two legs of Champions League Semifinals

After Bayern Munich had won the home leg 4-0 Barcelona had to score 4 goals without conceding a goal to have any chance to progress to the Finals of the Champions League.

Bayern Munish rested a few key players who had a booking and could have missed the finals if they were booked in the second leg. Barcelona had Lionel Messi on the bench and it looked like he might be injured.
It was going to be a uphill task for Barcelona to overturn the tie but they had hope as they have score 4 goals at home in more than 50 games over the last 3 years or so. But against a strong Bayern team who themselves had scored 5 or more goals in their last league game were favorites to go through

Add a label inside a textfield in a HTML form with basic javascript

Have you come across a situation when you have designed a form for your page and you forgot to add the labels for the input field. Or you just want a compact form with the labels inside the input textfield itself. Then don't worry you don't require to break your head and change the css styles or the design.

Using basic javascript you can accomplish the feat of putting the label inside the text input field.

The Great Escape : Borussia Dortmund survive late onslaught by Real Madrid to reach the Finals of Champions League

Borussia Dortmund reached the finals of Champions League by the skin of their teeth when they managed to win on aggregate by one goal after they had got a 3 goals lead from home to Santiago Bernabau.
It finished 4-3 in favor of Dormund who conceded 2 goals in the last 10 mins to almost snatch defeat from the hand of victory.

After conceding a away goal Dortmund started the game cautiously whereas Real Madrid were on the attack from the first whistle. It almost paid off inside two minute when Higuain was through on goal but denied by the goalkeeper. Another 2 chances fell to Real inside the first 15 minutes when Ronaldo could not beat the goalkeeper and Ozil fired wide.

Gareth Bale win PFA and Young player of the year award Defeating RVP and Cannibal Suarez for FPA

Gareth Bale has bagged the PFA player of the year plus the Young player of the year. The feat has only been managed by two other players : Andy Gray in 1976-77 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007.
Gareth Bale defeated the favorites Robin Van Persie and Luis Suarez. Suarez must have lost the PFA award after his biting incident against Chelsea. Gareth Bale must have won the PFA as he has been more consistent than Van Persie, Van Persie went on a 12 game run where he did not score.

Manchester United And Robin Van Persie Dampen Arsenal's Champions League chances

After wining the English Premier League last week at Aston Villa courtesy of a Robin Van Persie hatrick Arsenal had a good chance to get all three points against Manchester United to get their Champions League pursuit on track.
With pictures of almost all the Manchester United player parting up till early morning after their win on Monday night their would have been a hangover of winning the league and it was visible in the first half against Arsenal.

Evra was just asleep when Rosicky put a ball through for Theo Walcott, Walcott was slightly offside but the assistant said play on and Walcott put the ball in the goal past David deGea.

Liverpool thrash hapless newcastle united to renew their relegation fears

Liverpool produced a performance without their top scorer Luis Suarez to make a point that they can win and score goals 6 in this match. After Luis Suarez biting incident versus Chelsea Suarez was given a lengthy 10 match ban which meant Liverpool had to score without their top scorer.
And boy did they not only score at Newcastle but they had a goal feast to defeat Newcastle at home with 6 goals, Newcastle's highest defeat since 1925.

Chelsea have the upper hand in the Semifinals of the UEFA Cup against FC Basel

Chelsea are the only English team which are present in any later stages of European competitions this season and they look like they can repeat last season feat by wining the second tier European tie.
They were the favorites to go through to the Finals and they did manage to put in a good performance and it will take some performance from Basel to overturn the result in their favor.

Chelsea played well for most of the game and they did manage to win the game with the last kick of the game by courtesy of a Daviz Luiz free kick.
They were in control when they scored the first goal but some crazy referring where the referee awarded a penalty when nothing seemed to be wrong. Basel scored from the penalty and leveled the score.

Robert Lewandowski scores four goals to help Borussia Dortmund trash Real Madrid

It was a big game for Borussia Dormund at home to play Real Madrid in the Semi-finals of the Champions League and boy did they turn up all guns blazing making a mockery of the Real Madrid defense.
Robert Lewandowski was exceptional and scored four goals in a game to match a feat that only four others have done including the current world class Lionel Messi. Dortmund were the better team for the most of the game and the scoreline could have been worse as some referee decisions and fine save from the Madrid goalie helped Madrid from conceding more than four goals.
It was a game where two tacktically similar playing teams with fast and quick counter attacking style were playing each. And the better defensive team won with only one mistake by Matt Hummels which could have derailed their night.

Hardworking Bayern Munich hammer Barcelona in Champions league Semi-final

If you did not see last nights match maybe because you live in Europe and live somewhere else where the match schedule for the Champions League Semifinal clash between  Bayern Munich and Barcelona is not time friendly as you need to get sleep to go for work the next morning then you will be in for a shock to hear that Bayern Munich thrashed Spanish runaway leaders Barcelona 4 to nothing.

Both teams are comfortably leading their respective leagues with margins in double figure for the second placed teams. So if you expected a epic Semifinal clash maybe you were disappointed to see a fully one sided clash where Barcelona did have 63 % of the possession but the German champions made light work of Barcelona and humiliated them by scoring 4 goals without a response from Barcelona even after have less than 40% possession in the match.

Cannibal Suarez should be banned for a huge number of games!!

After last nights incidents in the Liverpool versus Chelsea game where Luis Suarez bit Branislav Ivanovic there has been a lot of fun and says by different people. Does he deserve to play at such a big stage and repeat the same mistake that he did at his former club Ajax, does he get a huge fine, does he get a ban for a number of games, does he get charged for violent conduct??

Suarez was really really lucky as Ivanovic did not press any charges against the player. He would have been in quiet a lot more in trouble if Ivanovic did not forgive him. An incident on such a big stage where the full world is watching is bad publicity for Liverpool, the FA and England of course. After the recent incidents off the pitch like the ones at Wembley where Millwall fans fought with each other, Newcastle fans went rouge after their humiliating defeat at the hands of Sunderland and a fan punching a player incident there Has to be some measures taken by the FA and the police to make sure they dont allow such incidents to happen.

Manchester United can be Champions of England Tonight

When all the news news was supposed to be about Manchester United winning their 20th league title or the race for Champions League places we are finding it hard to avoid talking about Suarez bitting Ivanovic during last nights game.
But lets focus on tonight's game where Manchester United look to seal the English premier league when they face relegation threatened Aston villa who look to avoid Relegation to the Championship.
All three points for Manchester United and they will win the league with with four games to go. A defeat for Aston villa will keep them 3 points off 17th place which is occupied by Wigan who they face in their final day when it may decide who stays up for next season and who goes down.

Race for Champions League wide open

The race for the right to play in the footballs elite competition "Champions League" for next season is wide open with three teams playing for the all important 3rd and 4th league postion in the English Premier League.
Chelsea Looked to be the favorites to clinch their place but they have somewhat faltered in recent games to give hope to Arsenal and Spurs.
Arsenal Scrapped through versus a resilent 10 men Fulham when Arsenal could have won the game easily but they almost drew the game with Fulham Playing good football and almost managing to clinch a draw.
With Arsenal scrapping through with a win ,Tottenham Hotspurs had to win the aganist the defending champions to keep them in the hunt for Champions League position.
It started horribly for Spurs when they consided inside 15 minutes with Carlos Tevez managing to avoid challenges from Vertongen and picking up Miller.
Miller ran on the byline to put in a good cross, which was calmly put in the back of the net by Samir Nasri.

Cannibal Suarez rescues a point for Liverpool and makes the battle for Champions League places wide open

Cannibal Suarez rescues a point for liverpool with the last kick of the game.

Chelsea were robbed off two points at the death by a Luis Suarez goal. Not before he had a crazy game where he assisted in a goal for Sturrigde before giving a way a penalty and the bitting.. Yes bitting Ivanovic .
Suarez is known as "Cannibal of Ajax" in holland as he was banned in holland when he was playing for Ajax.
He bit a player while playing a game for Ajax and was given a 8 match ban for that incident.

The game was full of incidents with carragher fortunate to be on the pitch as was sturrigde for poor tackling and aggressive behavior on the pitch.
Shelvy was also lucky to escape with a yellow card when he tackled oscar.

Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks Lyrics

The first hit song "Little Talks" by the iceland band "Of Monsters And Men".
It has a nice animated video which i liked a lot.

 Below is the Lyrics of the song Little Talks:-

 Hey! Hey! Hey!
I don't like walking around this old and empty house
So hold my hand, I'll walk with you, my dear
The stairs creak as you sleep, it's keeping me awake
It's the house telling you to close your eyes

And some days I can't even trust myself
It's killing me to see you this way

'Cause though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Swedish House Mafia Feat John Martin : Don't You Worry Child Lyrics

Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia Feat John Martin is one of my favorite songs. The music by Swedish House Mafia is as always the best for party animals but the voice of John Martin makes the song not only a super duper house hit but loved by music lovers from all genres.

Below is the Lyrics to the song Don't You Worry Child :-

There was a time
I used to look into my father's eyes.
In a happy home
I was a king, I had a gold throne.
Those days are gone,
Now the memory's on the wall.
I hear the songs
From the places where I was born.

Upon the hill across the blue lake,
That's where I had my first heartbreak.
I still remember how it all changed.
My father said,
Don't you worry, don't you worry, child
See heaven's got a plan for you.
Don't you worry, don't you worry now.
Yeah!!!!