Fake II

So what did you do at Guantanamo? Or what did the mother gazelle do? It works all the time and every player knows when to lie about his intentions when he spots the opportunity. But the beauty is all in the way nature does it.

You didn't say you would use that rock, throw it into the water so that Chu and Blue would be distracted by the call of their name as the rock hits ad displaces water in the pool with the water sound 'chublu'. Or you have never seen the gazelle play target to the predator as its kid lie low to hide? The mother would encourage the assailant by luring it past its flight distance and therefore drawing it further and further away from the infantile kid.

So say you have the ball at the final half of the field what would you do distract opponents off your target pass or target shot? And if you are off the ball how would you help attract opponents to you even though you do not need the ball? And how do you fake it so that you receive the ball with ease and position it for your best foot?

1. With the ball. Draw your opponents away from your target pass by luring them with the accessibility of the ball. Hold it long enough until they think the best way to get it is to come and retrieve it or simply take it to them. The opponent who decides to come for it subsequently loses his mark on your colleague and he is free to receive the ball. All the while you would benefit if your colleagues, free-off, are constantly on the move trying to take up open spaces. The mother gazelle would take to flight when the predator is fully lured and is within her flight distance - that is the time you place your pass. It is a fake and your opponents will always be chasing it.

2. Off the ball. Keep moving. It it distracts your markers as they try to keep up with you. Fake it to try to go for the ball so that one or two of your markers would try to hold you off from being passed to by keeping you on guard when you actually know that a temporarily less active colleague is elusively going to get the eventual pass. Opponents will be attracted by sight and activity. Very lethal players always just come alive from nowhere and do their thing. They fake it until the opponents begin to ignore their presence - then they spring it.

3. Chu and Blue. Think about placing the ball. It is a matrix of speed, distance and time. Timing is everything. Placement in terms of distance is however very effectively destructive. Play the ball at a distance where an opponent would at the first thought think that he will get to it, only to realize while three quarters of the way that he can not get to it. Think of a goalkeeper misjudging the proximity of the ball and comes out of his line for it only to realize that he won't get to it - but he has committed himself out of position. It is timing - and a powerful fake of reality.

I make so much in a day. And if I have to put in efforts on a weekend or a holiday I should make much more. What is funny is that when Tumbili has to spent on in line of work he looks for cheap foods instead. What is funniest is that when he doesn't have to buy he opts for the best and enjoys it. Imagine the other day he was faked into accepting a hand from me for the same. The truth is that for some opponents you just have to take care off. It wasn't the first time. But you know I would throw you a round too if I come across you on the counter at Seasons or over a beautiful game at Checkmates.

Games People Play

Between systems during a transition there is always a 'cutover crisis'. Transition is an end to an era and a beginning of another. A polygamous man passes on in the arms of one of his wives and the mini drama that will never be told begins. The lady under whose roof the departed husband had his last breath starts to shake of every part of the house for all kinds of valuable information and documents of their husbands that would be useful in subsequent living - the identity cards, credit cards, log books, bank account information, other documents of title and perhaps the family lawyer's private telephone number. The other wife would never know when the actual transition occurred.

In the work place and information has arrived that a new officer is coming in and another is leaving. Think of the realignments, the changes in the office setup, appointments in absentia and recruitment of quasi ghost employees, within-the-hour rearrangement of personnel and re-administration of assets.

The real challenge is how to make out the best of the situation. How to know what to take in with you to the 'subsequent living'. In more interesting cases is the question of what to live out in the post transition life - what you put away from people of the next life - the ID cards, the death certificates etc.

We 'cut over' this week and 'gone live' this ending week of June 2 - June 6. We are currently mingling with the reorganization of the beginning of the post Tally era. The bits and bits will eventually transits to realization.

One milestone that was however left out in the projections was that by June 1 it would be almost over and laxity would set in. Right now all the pressures are off for a section of the participants and incidences are shifting. I guess it is the old adage relived - a rooster is seen chasing after one hen as another incubates. Strange world of human psychology.

All that matter is which side you are and of what interests you got. The game goes on - the dangerous games people play - all over a chessboard.All that matter is which side you are and of what interests you got. The game goes on - the dangerous games people play - all over a chessboard.