to even those who are least related to the actual victory!
that was a reference to the splendid victory of the Windies over the Pommies in the ICC champs trophy! I said least related 'cos i dint want to mean those uninterested but it wasnt even the Indians playin the finals, but still me n mother had a bet on the cup-winner.... n WI did really well to get where they got to!
Jus few months ago - Ganguly, as he often seems to be doing nowadays, stupidly said - we are the 2nd best team , those really capable of posing serious threat to Aussies'.....n in real no time of a month look at the possibilities this Champions trophhy has revealed....! England, i thought, cakewalked to the final beating the Green-baggies without any serious threat and when everyone almost knew it was a forgone conclusion that WI would only be the second best in this Trophy...they come up trumps with true grit...n excellent cricket!
So now that England beat Aussies n got beaten by WI, does it mean that here we have the new best team in the world! Cant be.... but the difference between the top six ODI teams (as per ICC)- Aus,Eng,NewZ,Srilnk,SouthAfr,Pak followed by Ind and WI is getting closer n closer!
So atleast we know this win will be a real boost to the next World Cup scheduled in WI, n the way players are shaping up in each n every team...cricket in the coming days promises to be real exciting!
And vaangada Aussies- veetla vechukkarom ungala! Already Gilly seems to have started the usual pre-match banter aussie eshtyle.....
eager for the thumpin to start!
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Robbed!
Have been robbed offlate of a favourite pastime......!!!
Those who know me will have for sure guessed by now what am talkin abt...! What does a man yearn for? Good food - or mebbe some food to eat and a good rest after that.....so if u r not still able to make out what am talkin abt......the night shifts that i have been doing now for almost 3 weeks have taken a big toll on my SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bliss is another word i choose to describe what i think i have lost offlate....not that i dont get to practise this fav pastime of mine....but the effect and fulfillment of a night's sleep is surely n sorely missing..! it jus has become on of my routines rather than something i used to enjoy earlier.....
n to think that in few days time this damned shift goes around n will have to be in office at 6:30am in the morning is intimidating enuf! yuk! Even losing some sleep i can stand! but to get up THAT EARLY in the morning is one thing i wud give anything... not to do!
onnum illa....all i think of sayin is .....wanna get mad?? try not sleeping for coupla days....atleast i have been driven so for a few weeks now! :-(
Those who know me will have for sure guessed by now what am talkin abt...! What does a man yearn for? Good food - or mebbe some food to eat and a good rest after that.....so if u r not still able to make out what am talkin abt......the night shifts that i have been doing now for almost 3 weeks have taken a big toll on my SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bliss is another word i choose to describe what i think i have lost offlate....not that i dont get to practise this fav pastime of mine....but the effect and fulfillment of a night's sleep is surely n sorely missing..! it jus has become on of my routines rather than something i used to enjoy earlier.....
n to think that in few days time this damned shift goes around n will have to be in office at 6:30am in the morning is intimidating enuf! yuk! Even losing some sleep i can stand! but to get up THAT EARLY in the morning is one thing i wud give anything... not to do!
onnum illa....all i think of sayin is .....wanna get mad?? try not sleeping for coupla days....atleast i have been driven so for a few weeks now! :-(
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Harsha....brilliant!....as always....
Back to the blog-tested Ctrl+C...Ctrl+V.....(Courtesy espnstar.com)
but something i dfntly enjoyed... and was touched by!
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Pride is a peculiar thing though; those that have it can't imagine life without it and those that don't wonder what the fuss is all about. You are either born with pride or it infects you with the first glow of success. And so, those that don't have it need to win.
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And for heavens sake, don't ask why a land of a billion people cannot produce more medals. You can ask stupid questions all your life and yet you will be wise if you do not ask this one. We are a country where children are still being taken off from schools to work the paddy fields and roll tobacco into bidis; where children are driven away from sport towards that one extra mark that might make the difference between a good education and a poor one; where politicians are assigning land meant for playgrounds to builders. We are not a country of a billion people when it comes to the Olympics, not ten percent of that, not one percent of that. When it comes to sport, we are a cruel, heartless, uncaring country and those that ask the question in parliament need only to look around for an answer. If we win a medal, it is a miracle because we choose it to be that way; because athletes are meant to compete with athletes not with their own system.
There is much joy in the Olympics, there is much heartbreak too. That is the way of the world, that is why the cheetah kills the deer.
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Touché ...!
but something i dfntly enjoyed... and was touched by!
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Pride is a peculiar thing though; those that have it can't imagine life without it and those that don't wonder what the fuss is all about. You are either born with pride or it infects you with the first glow of success. And so, those that don't have it need to win.
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And for heavens sake, don't ask why a land of a billion people cannot produce more medals. You can ask stupid questions all your life and yet you will be wise if you do not ask this one. We are a country where children are still being taken off from schools to work the paddy fields and roll tobacco into bidis; where children are driven away from sport towards that one extra mark that might make the difference between a good education and a poor one; where politicians are assigning land meant for playgrounds to builders. We are not a country of a billion people when it comes to the Olympics, not ten percent of that, not one percent of that. When it comes to sport, we are a cruel, heartless, uncaring country and those that ask the question in parliament need only to look around for an answer. If we win a medal, it is a miracle because we choose it to be that way; because athletes are meant to compete with athletes not with their own system.
There is much joy in the Olympics, there is much heartbreak too. That is the way of the world, that is why the cheetah kills the deer.
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Touché ...!
Saturday, September 04, 2004
palindrome procession....!!!!
got freaked out reading some of these on this site - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/palindromes.htm
A Santa at NASA
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
A Toyota...race fast...safe car...a Toyota!
Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.(the best 1 to me!)
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did!
Doc, note, I dissent, a fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age.
I, madam, I made radio. So I dared...am I mad, am I?
Lee has a race car as a heel.
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram
Panic in a Titanic, I nap!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.(good one!)
Devil lived
Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned. (like hell!!!)
A Santa at NASA
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
A Toyota...race fast...safe car...a Toyota!
Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.(the best 1 to me!)
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did!
Doc, note, I dissent, a fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age.
I, madam, I made radio. So I dared...am I mad, am I?
Lee has a race car as a heel.
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram
Panic in a Titanic, I nap!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.(good one!)
Devil lived
Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned. (like hell!!!)
musings......
i fancy my new Nokia set(6820) for various reasons and one being a facility that says "Notes" in the menu......u jus can type in anything anytime n save it as a note.
So this is how i used the facility when i had gone to some godforsaken ashram(but scenic tho) of Sri Sri Ravishankar...off Bangalore limits with my mother who hapens to attend 'Atma Gnyana yoga' classes to shoot stress.........
the things i wrote....donno y i wrote 'em .....wa so bugged there n jus wanted to put down thoughts. Have been put in order i wrote 'em....not that its important.
To build up the scenario.....
here am, leaning on a tree in an ashram with keen listeners a few feet away from me... listening to eulogies by a genial elderly person on how to live life. A roll of thunder makes me turn my head heavenwards....
1.
Clouds close in on each other... but decide not to cry anyway....'cos they see no point in weeping! But far far below ....two hearts close in on each other....decide to be happy about it....but they only get to cry over it!
2.
When it is right to take right and u'r left with no left take, right then let the left be left to be not right and the right which is only left to be right is the right right! TAKE IT!!!!
(whew! to imagine i wrote this feels cuckoo!)
3.
Greenous blackery is yellowful reddery with blue maroonness and browny pinkious silver?!!!!
(CRAP!!!)
4.
Now here: dark n imposing
Then: just a few seconds....split by rays
N after: shining pure white with a silver streak too!
5.
One step closer...to the zenith! A blitz thru the spine, pure adrenalin rush...yes! i see it....one push n am there ...n now jus now do i remember am not in a race, dont have to prove anyone anything....yet, the moment dust on the peak is disturbed, the whole self goes limp with exhuberence, with success and a light feel in the head!
And then, an old loon lying down there says, sleepily -"u r on the wrong mountain". I tell him - "u r on the wrong planet"
(n i really dont know y i wrote this 1)
the following pieces were written at various other times.....like on train headed towards Chennai or when in a pensive mood at home.........
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is there destiny...? if u can manipulate ur destiny....wat destiny is then? No one manipulates destiny....it happens the other way round.... And yes!!! thats ur destiny....so jus live! Also...shut up!
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When u say NO to the question of existence of GOD, ur jus again creating a possibility that there might be one and ur saying no to it. Meaning to say, when there is an yes or no to a question there always exists a possibility of both being true! So either yes/no....the abstract truth is God....it is an idea..... example: when u act eccentric n some1 asks u if ur mad and u scream NO!.... there existed a possibility that u were possibly mad....for that moment though!
And the previous line of thougt is so old that the Absolute truth was is n will be the most definite possibility! :-)
lots to tinker on my writing ....thats wat i feel....u tell me guys!
So this is how i used the facility when i had gone to some godforsaken ashram(but scenic tho) of Sri Sri Ravishankar...off Bangalore limits with my mother who hapens to attend 'Atma Gnyana yoga' classes to shoot stress.........
the things i wrote....donno y i wrote 'em .....wa so bugged there n jus wanted to put down thoughts. Have been put in order i wrote 'em....not that its important.
To build up the scenario.....
here am, leaning on a tree in an ashram with keen listeners a few feet away from me... listening to eulogies by a genial elderly person on how to live life. A roll of thunder makes me turn my head heavenwards....
1.
Clouds close in on each other... but decide not to cry anyway....'cos they see no point in weeping! But far far below ....two hearts close in on each other....decide to be happy about it....but they only get to cry over it!
2.
When it is right to take right and u'r left with no left take, right then let the left be left to be not right and the right which is only left to be right is the right right! TAKE IT!!!!
(whew! to imagine i wrote this feels cuckoo!)
3.
Greenous blackery is yellowful reddery with blue maroonness and browny pinkious silver?!!!!
(CRAP!!!)
4.
Now here: dark n imposing
Then: just a few seconds....split by rays
N after: shining pure white with a silver streak too!
5.
One step closer...to the zenith! A blitz thru the spine, pure adrenalin rush...yes! i see it....one push n am there ...n now jus now do i remember am not in a race, dont have to prove anyone anything....yet, the moment dust on the peak is disturbed, the whole self goes limp with exhuberence, with success and a light feel in the head!
And then, an old loon lying down there says, sleepily -"u r on the wrong mountain". I tell him - "u r on the wrong planet"
(n i really dont know y i wrote this 1)
the following pieces were written at various other times.....like on train headed towards Chennai or when in a pensive mood at home.........
--
is there destiny...? if u can manipulate ur destiny....wat destiny is then? No one manipulates destiny....it happens the other way round.... And yes!!! thats ur destiny....so jus live! Also...shut up!
--
When u say NO to the question of existence of GOD, ur jus again creating a possibility that there might be one and ur saying no to it. Meaning to say, when there is an yes or no to a question there always exists a possibility of both being true! So either yes/no....the abstract truth is God....it is an idea..... example: when u act eccentric n some1 asks u if ur mad and u scream NO!.... there existed a possibility that u were possibly mad....for that moment though!
And the previous line of thougt is so old that the Absolute truth was is n will be the most definite possibility! :-)
lots to tinker on my writing ....thats wat i feel....u tell me guys!
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