Cricket Unites

 

Cricket is a religion in India, no doubt.and hence it is one of the greatest binding factors I know of. I mean 2-3 people, who have never met each other, can suddenly start chatting/discussing/arguing or quarreling, when it comes to the mention of this game. It doesn’t matter if the place of disscussion is a local train, or a office cubicle.Talking to that tough looking VP the way you chat with friends doesn’t look possible, but then start talking cricket and he will talk as if he knows you from years!

 

I can recall this incident about 4 years back, when I was still doing graduation. I and a friend were traveling in the Mumbai local train, back from college. The second class compartment was crowded as usual but we managed to grab a place. As soon as the discussion veered away from studies and towards cricket, 2 gentlemen who were sitting besides us got involved in the discussion. One of them gave his expert analysis on why John Wright was not the right coach for India, while another was lamenting the fact that the BCCI does not keep enough day-night matches, which means the common man doesn’t get to see matches. (Day matches get over by the time the guy comes back home)

 

By the time we reached our station, we got enriched on a lot of aspects of Indian Cricket.

Diwali / Eid Holidays

man, Diwali n Eid are gr8...since i joined IMRB, ihave never got 5 days off on a trot..and now that i have, i didnt know how to spend them!

but i guess everythin has its way, andi found it out too

Saturday: went to awedding...manglorean one, so lots of hoggin of food....Something i noticed and wanna share with u guys, i the way music has changed in these weddings...from western classic and rock to Indipop...heard more of himesh than anyone else!

Sunday :made chilli shots at home ...Ya i made my own variations..but then its cool...Later in the day had some great non veg food at Bhendi bazar ((iftar hosted by my frends)...and then watched Schumi in his final race

Monday: Packed off my bike...my bros gettin it on friday

Tuesday: Enjoyed at my 8 year old cousin's place!Its really fun playin with kids!

Wednesday: well my weekly Mahim novena...and maybe wld meet sum friends!


Happy Diwali and Eid Mubarak

An hour at SBI

Today I happened to go to SBI at Shivaji Park, to get an MBA entrance
test form for my bro. Reached a bit early so I tried looking around
and amusing myself. Since it was early morning, I saw all those ppl
hurriedly walking towards the rail station, the BMC dumpers trying to
pack the garbage from the dumps, the shopkeepers just opening their
shutters...and before I knew it, it was time for the bank to open.

Typical babudom rules the roost.

Here is a time trail

Trying to find someone in the bank who knew abt the form I wanted- 5 mins
Waiting fr theperson (as the person hadn't come)- 10mins
Finding out that I need to fill a slip first- 2 mins
...and finding the counter to deposit it-5 mins
realising that the line I am standing is not moving - 5 mins
making the decison to jump to the other line-2 min
The list goes on

and SBI is the leading bank in India...Amen

Aksar

Somehow I like movies where the bad guy gets away with doing the wrong things. And Aksar is one of the rarities in Bollywood in this regard. Most of the villains have to pay for what they do in these Bollywood masala movies.



In this regard, Hollywood is much better. Remember Primal Fear (Edward Norton, Richard Gere ) ?I loved that movie and its Climax. Only to find that some years later Bollywood made a mess of it with Deewanagee (Ajay Devgan, Akshaye Khanna, Urmila Matondkar) where the bad guy is humbled in the end.

Schumi retires

Ever since i started watching formula 1 sometime in 97...I cheered for only one driver and only one team ...they are Micheal schumacher and the Ferrari. I can't imagine watching formula1 w/o schumi on track ..i kno life will go on..
But won't it be strange to cheer for kimi or massa..i dun kno ...

Herez hoping schumi end with a bang..winning the Driver's championship for 06'

Lage Raho Munnabhai

Hi guys,
I saw Lage Raho Munnabhai today. I never thought someone would put the Mahatma's message across in a flim so nicely....Richard Attenberg...u gotta take notes dude.

However watching the movie did incite something else in me...That feeling that the Mahatma erred somewhere..but where???

He followed the path of Non-voilence and speaking the truth, but somewhere he was not as aggressive as he should have been.You have the Raj almost on its knees during the peak of the Non Co-operation movement, but one stray incident at Chawrichawra was a detterent enough for the great man to withdraw it.I can never get a rationale behind this .A few more months and Non co-operation would have got us freedom in 1927..not 1947!!!!!

Also...during the mid-1910's when Britan was in the middle of WW1. Mr. MK Gandhi did not negotiate with the british the way Lokmanya wanted ..i.e complete freedom in return of Indian soldiers fighting for her majesty...andinstead waited for after the warto negotiate..and as expected all Britan offered was some cheap reforms!

Can Aggasi do it?

Thats the question thats been haunting quite a few tennis fans.Andreis on his swansong and all his matches at theUS Open could potentially be his last.On saturday, he came up against Bagdattis, who battled against all odds.In the end ,he broke down physically to hand over andre the win.Andreis gonna comeup against roddik in the 4th round if he gets past teh rookie becker...and then therez Nadal further on. Still early days in teh tournament, but i still feel it will be a nadal federer final

Hi

Just wanted to know whether bloggers is still working or not..looks like its banned by most ISP's but notby mine!

Water water everywhere

Rains have lashed mumbai for the past 5 days ..and it looks like they will continue doing so for some more days...Life is affected badly specially of people like me ...For whom local trains are a lifeline and BEST buses a close friend .

My Colony is flooded..Yesterday I managed To go to office thru knee deep water, but today I resigned to fate and didn't attempt to go.Good for me because later in the day my colony got flooded

.Too much of anything ain't good..and certainly not rain.

ZEE Germans!!

Germany showed on Friday night what Home -Advantage was.In the penalty shoot-out the crowd gave them the momentum that they needed to sail past the fancied Argentine team.Talent was overshadowed by Crowd support.Its a natural phenomenon.
Office is full of Argentine fans and I am more or less the lone German supporter...Hope the frustrated fans keep their emotions in check!!!

The shockof the turnament came when the favourites for the title- Brazil were eliminated by their old nemisis -France!Portugal was one up over England in the lottery

all eyes to thesemi finals on tuesday and wednesday...maythe best teams win!!!!