Update on July 28 2010 – My blog just turned one year old and here is me wishing www.yusuf.in a very happy first birthday !! To celebrate this, my blog’s theme is getting changed into a very simple yet elegant theme called the “Paper Crunch”. But this still needs to be customized. So the title stays the same 
The original post – The shift is here . Well, that was the tag line of my college’s symposium last year. That applies to me now. Not in my life though but with WordPress. Cut back to 3 years and there i was looking around blogger and was publishing with it over 3 years till now (at a blog which i thought was highly popular at college ( well, it wasn’t actually! )) and at my personal blog which was also hosted at blogger ( which were all free by the way ) . Over these three years, i used to keep reading and hearing that WordPress is better in many ways than blogger and the plugins feature would wrap up the proof of such a statement.
None the less, here i am with a WordPress blog for myself on a domain that rightly shows my name 
. But truth to tell, WordPress needs heavy customizing to do and if you are lazy to do all the work, then the power of WordPress can’t be harnessed. I am looking at hundred’s of themes from yesterday and this one (dfBlog) which i have now, i am quite satisfied with it. Just finished with the header logo ( though it looks a little ugly! ). I still have a long way to go on customizing the sidebars, social buttons et all.
Update on July 29 2009 : I am done with configuring social bookmarks . Doesn’t look that bad. Thanks to social-bookmarks plugin!.
That literally translates to “No, I regret nothing” is actually a 1942 french song composed by Charles Dumont. I just loved the music when it was played as a part of the movie – “Inception” written and directed by Christopher Nolan who actually had this script written over a period of 8 years! If sources are to be believed, this is actually the second movie which he has all written by himself and directed it too. Apparently the song on this post’s title is used as a “Kick” by a character named “Yusuf” (sharing my name ) to wake up people from their sedated deep dream. I shouldn’t give out much details about the storyline of the movie or else you would not have the “kick” after the movie gets over when you are at the cinema watching it !
Inception Movie poster
This movie is becoming the topic of everyday, these days and you might just want to watch it again after you watch it for the first time, just like me ! I can also very well say that Inception cannot be the movie very well talked about in the summer, in fact, it will be the movie which will be very well talked about the whole year ! This movie roared into the #3rd spot of IMDB’s top 250 movies of all time in the very first week of its release. Its tag line says “Your mind is the scene of crime” which will be explained along the course of the movie where the audience are kept captivated in the dream world of the important characters of the movie as they pull an impossible heist known as the “Inception”.
I just have two words for people who haven’t watched this movie yet – “Watch it” !
Well, i was thinking whether i should be really posting this in between some great football stuff shared by BeckRam. But never the less, i felt this was the right time to post this right after the football world cup got over with spain winning it. Wishes to them for wining it(I know BeckRam wouldn’t agree with me on the wishes part here..)
Off to the topic now. “Work!”, this is what your mind is garbled with after a week full of sitting before files/folders physically (typical offices in the past) and now files/folders virtually (typical offices presently). Saturday comes and the mind seeks some rest to get away from all the garbling. What do you do to rest your mind? Give your body ample amount of rest by sleeping? Thats a right thing to do, but ask me and i would say that it would give rest to your body alone leaving your mind with the always thoughtful things. So what to do in order to break free from thoughts? Shift the focus on interesting things like to get engaged in games that would be fun for the body and as well as give a small amount of work to the brain and help it to loosen up after a tight week at work.
This is where a short tour would help you to freshen up your mind. A walk along the beaches, meeting your school/university friends/a not so long drive on an empty road/listen to some peppy music/watch great movies OR plainly spending time chatting up with your family members! Best thing to do would be to gather your family members and plan for a quick and short weekend getaway and off you go, enjoy the weekend, freshen up your mind and come back on Sunday night to have a nights rest before starting to work on Monday!
The Final – Netherlands v Spain
Iniesta, Xavi and Villa
This is the kind of match every football fan across the world would love to see. Two of the most stylish European teams facing each other to win their first World Cup(believe or not). We are talking about two teams that have produced so many talented players year after year but never won a World Cup. Netherlands were twice runners-up back in 1974 and 1978 to West Germany and Argentina respectively, while Spain(you won’t believe it again) are playing their first finals in their World Cup history. Netherlands have finally come close to the trophy which they should have won 36 years ago. They aren’t playing the usual “total football” style, the style which took them to the runners-up place. They haven’t done that this time but no one can take away the credits for the disciplined football they played. The match against Brazil also showed that they will fight till the end and not bow down. when you have players like Kuyt in the team, you have someone who really sets an example of how one works so hard for the team’s cause. Spain had a stuttering start losing 1-0 to Switzerland. But they recovered well and went on to win all other matches. This is the usual Spain which everyone sees, beautiful passing football, more like the Dutch “total football”. Things would have been great only if Torres had been in good form, otherwise Spain have been fantastic. the referee for this match is Howard Webb and I have never seen him blow the whistle for any foul on Torres whenever he used to be the referee for Liverpool matches. Both the teams will have all their players available. Jong and van der Weil return after they were suspended for the semi-final. Both have players who are fighting for the Golden Ball award – Robben and Sneijder from Netherlands and, Villa, Iniesta and Xavi from Spain. Villa and Sneijder also have the opportunity to become leading goal scorers of 2010 World Cup.
Robben and Sneijder
Key Players-
Netherlands: Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben, Dirk Kuyt.
Spain: David Villa, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Iker Casillas.
These two are my favorite teams and i wished one of them must win this World Cup. Both have the chance now and its really tought to choose between them. Netherlands have beaten Julio Cesar and they just might have enough to beat Casillas, so they might just make it. But Spain have so far conceded just 2 goals. Tough call, but I have been supporting Netherlands from the start of the tournament and I hope the two time runners-up win it, Spain can do it in 2014 in Brazil.
PS: Sorry all, I couldn’t post the preview for the third place match between Germany and Uruguay, and I hope you all know that germany won that tightly fought match 3-2.