Passion triggered like nothing else. The master made it to the 35th! And I know it’s a pit stop! WOW! 'Sachin's batting is amazing' is a seriously wanting understatement!!!
And I just went on musing…looking at the Aus-Kiwi match explode, about how the tournaments get named! What with such a gallery of greats in the Indian team now[;)], what will tournaments of the future be named? Like the ones now called Border-Gavaskar trophy… am taking my guesses!
Tendulkar – Waugh trophy
Dravid – Lara trophy
Murali – Warne trophy
Inzamam – Vettori trophy
Flintoff – Kallis trophy
Saurav – Gilchrist trophy
[I suddenly want Saurav to bounce back like hell and score a couple of centuries!!!]
Quirky guesses I know… but just having fun guessing!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Is life fair? Was it meant to be at all?
I have always been regarded lucky, be it among immediate family or friends. At an age where I dint grasp the meaning of luck, I would reassure myself that I was indeed lucky. The time when my mom asked me to go down the road to get vegetables, the hawker would just pass across our house. How darn lucky me! And the next time, when it is my turn to mop the floor [due to prolonged absence of the maid], I sulk and pick up the mop… and out of thin air the maid appears…wow! What luck! Such trivialities were enough to convince me I was luckiest. And not recently but for some good time now, am ruing the ‘luck’ I have. Maybe I have come to terms with reality, but isn’t everyone considered lucky than some others at some point of time? I can immediately count a minimum of four instances I was really unlucky – like wanting to say at that moment ‘only if I were lucky enough ____’. And so could any of us I know! Is it just that bad luck is omnipresent, and the appearance of the Lady in our life is a reprieve from the drudgery?
When should I really consider myself lucky? When I escaped The Tsunami, or on a broader spectrum, when I consider that I am in the safe-mode living of school-engineering-work rather than toiling it out to face uncertainties on a daily basis? Instead I find so many instances to consider myself unlucky, love life for an instance. But in retrospect, I definitely have to admit that God has been kind to me on most counts, providing a cushion to fall back on whenever needed.
Recent events have sent me into a gloom tizzy. The number of obituaries I have heard in the last 2-3 months really exceeds the number I would have heard in years. And I am just talking about the people I know. I don’t want to start about the natural tragedies wreaking havoc around the globe. Why did it all have to happen? Does a father of two girls have to go in a bad car accident? Or does this father have to get smashed up early in the morning when dropping his son home? What about this successful entrepreneur who suffers a sudden hemorrhage to leave a young and bereaved wife with a one year old in hand?! Where is the luck all these people need? I am seriously short of words to say something to these people. And this not to console them, they don’t need any consoling, but just reassurance. But I feel the hollow in my words when I tell them – ‘time will heal it all’ or ‘this will also pass’ etc. My logic that everything happens for a reason just flies out of the window! And still am unsure how all will fall into place? Failure I can come to terms with but death, it still baffles me!
After a long hiatus I would not have preferred this incoherent blog entry, but I could not contain myself! How do I start to believe again? I got no clue!
When should I really consider myself lucky? When I escaped The Tsunami, or on a broader spectrum, when I consider that I am in the safe-mode living of school-engineering-work rather than toiling it out to face uncertainties on a daily basis? Instead I find so many instances to consider myself unlucky, love life for an instance. But in retrospect, I definitely have to admit that God has been kind to me on most counts, providing a cushion to fall back on whenever needed.
Recent events have sent me into a gloom tizzy. The number of obituaries I have heard in the last 2-3 months really exceeds the number I would have heard in years. And I am just talking about the people I know. I don’t want to start about the natural tragedies wreaking havoc around the globe. Why did it all have to happen? Does a father of two girls have to go in a bad car accident? Or does this father have to get smashed up early in the morning when dropping his son home? What about this successful entrepreneur who suffers a sudden hemorrhage to leave a young and bereaved wife with a one year old in hand?! Where is the luck all these people need? I am seriously short of words to say something to these people. And this not to console them, they don’t need any consoling, but just reassurance. But I feel the hollow in my words when I tell them – ‘time will heal it all’ or ‘this will also pass’ etc. My logic that everything happens for a reason just flies out of the window! And still am unsure how all will fall into place? Failure I can come to terms with but death, it still baffles me!
After a long hiatus I would not have preferred this incoherent blog entry, but I could not contain myself! How do I start to believe again? I got no clue!
Monday, September 05, 2005
Oblivion
It is not so very uncharacteristic of me not to be blogging for this long. But it would be real uncharacteristic if it was that I did not have anything to say all these days. I could go on to say that there were so many things I would have wanted to scream about in the past couple of months, but it would not be inappropriate to say I chose not to write anything.
Quoting from another blog – “….not going to make this into a personal blog and describe the trials and tribulations of my life. After all, who does not have troubles? ...” - I am holding onto the above line albeit only temporarily.
Some things happen so fast, and leave you gasping for breath. It would take time for whatever happened to really ‘sink’ in. And when a series of such events bombard you, primal traits come to the fore. And my Cancer traits put me into a shell, hence the scarcity of words on this site for a long time (which might continue for some more time too).
And I guess this entry would have to sit on this site claiming to be one of the few where ‘nothing’ was actaully said or discussed!
PS: I like the title ‘Kabhi al vida Naa Kehna’ :)
Quoting from another blog – “….not going to make this into a personal blog and describe the trials and tribulations of my life. After all, who does not have troubles? ...” - I am holding onto the above line albeit only temporarily.
Some things happen so fast, and leave you gasping for breath. It would take time for whatever happened to really ‘sink’ in. And when a series of such events bombard you, primal traits come to the fore. And my Cancer traits put me into a shell, hence the scarcity of words on this site for a long time (which might continue for some more time too).
And I guess this entry would have to sit on this site claiming to be one of the few where ‘nothing’ was actaully said or discussed!
PS: I like the title ‘Kabhi al vida Naa Kehna’ :)
Monday, August 22, 2005
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