Roger Federer & More..

Just saw Roger Federer lift the 5th consec wimbledon trophy beating Rafael Nadal - A nice 5 setter - which Nadal cud av won easily - as Federer admitted - "I told rafael at the net that you equally deserved the victory, i got more lucky today"

Rafa is no longer awkward on grass like he used to be - he is Phenom !! :) Gud luck to him!!

I did a marathon session of Mario Puzo's works concerning Vito Corleone, Micheal Corleone & a related, more recent work titled 'the sicilian' - also watched GF I and II back to back on DVD last night.

If at all - theres a lesson that can be taken from these characters (and to an extent from Al Pacino's powerful portrayal of Micheal) is how seriously they are portrayed to be taking their work, ethics, u know, the other sicilian stuff like omerta, 'Don' 'The Godfather thing' etc.

For a slightly superficial reader of this kinda sicilian stuff - it actually will appear stupid, funny because these guys - as the usual americans in the books say - 'Smooth guineas' 'sicilian simpletons' - appear to overly glorify even cheap, lowly stuff they do - and to be fair a reader has every right to just treat it as only that.

But in my opinion - this 'glorified treatment' of mundane, often 'chickenshit' work can do real good to the person and his organization ('company' as in sicilian 'family') in the long term.

My father has one quote made out on a wooden cutout - " The secret and priceless ingredient of every product & service is the honor, diginity & integrity of the one who makes it" - one who stops realizing that and treats regular work as 'chickenshit' subject to endless Gaali & procrastination - is in a deep pile of shit himself - no sustained 'organization' / 'business' can be created by such people.

I'l try and be consicous of this analogy when i actually do work in the coming days, i thought about it real hard today and it really makes some sense.