"Redefining Boundaries" .. This was the expression used by Ravi Shastri during the pre-match talk before the start of the India V Sctoland match. Ofcourse he was referring to the the heavy hitting that we witnessed in the Twenty20 tournament goin on in South Africa.Let me tell you one thing - the batsmen are clearing the boundaries by a long way and ICC had thought of bringing the boundaries closer! If this tournament is anything to go by, they should be moving the boundaries farther away!! Huge sixes are being hit by batsmen.
Cricket Twenty20 - Is the name of the game! Heavy hitting, Live wire fielding, Intelligent bowling is the order for the day.When the first of the ODIs were played, the pundits said that it will introduce some "bad" habbits into test cricket. These bad habbits actually turned out to be good for test cricket and test cricket witnessed some brisk scoring. All twenty20 players may not play test cricket but i think many test cricketers will get to play Twenty20 cricket. Will Twenty20 make the test matches more fast and furious? Will 400 run chases become very common in ODIs? Will we lose good test match players to Twenty20?
All teams are relatively new to Twenty20. Bangladesh retain their record of being unbeaten in a Twenty20 Game. Goin by the look of the conditions today at Durban, I think India ,the only other team to be unbeaten in this form of the game, will retain the record. But to be honest, none of the teams except England have played amny Twenty20 matches. We will wait and see how the Indians perform under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. I can assure you that India would be a much better feilding team than what we saw in England not so long ago. Tomorrow will be a fantastic day for the tournament as the arch rivals clash against each other in the Eng V Aus and Ind V Pak matches. I'm flying down to Bangalore from Delhi for the weekend after work and hope to catch the Ind V Pak match. I will not miss it for anything.It will be an electric atmosphere! If rain spoils the Ind V Scotland match today at Durban, It will be a must win match for the Indians.It is already a must win game for the Aussies.As of now, the Aussies are facing their backs to the wall - a very RARE sight - after losing to the minnows Zimbabwe. Aussies have never lost a world cup in almost a decade now. They are undoubtedly the chamipons in every format of the game. They are staring at elimination in Twenty20. As some wise man said, the mark of a champion is the way in which he comes back. Will Aussies make a comeback and reign this format of the game too or will we see a new WORLD CHAMPION?
Only time will tell if Twenty20 is actually set out to change everything we have every seen in Cricket so far? It may or It may not but sit back and enjoy the first ever world Twenty20 tournament. It will definietly turn out to be exciting couple of weeks of breathtaking cricket!!!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Challenges Boys face!!!
This is NOT my creation but it is one of the coolest write-up that I have read in the recent times..This is a classic Dave Barry column that was originally published on Sept. 26, 1999.
Read on and enjoy it.
So I was at this party, and I wound up at a table where three attractive single women were complaining about - Surprise! - men. Specifically, they were complaining about the pickup lines that had been used on them in a bar a few nights earlier.
One woman said: ''This guy comes up to me and says, 'Are you a teacher?' I mean, is that supposed to be romantic?''
All three women rolled all six of their eyes.
Another one of them said: ''This guy says to me, 'I've been looking at you all night!' So I go, 'Hel-LO, we just GOT here.'''
At this point all three women - and I want to stress that these are intelligent, nice women - were laughing. Not me. I was feeling bad for the guys.
I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.
So I grant that it is not easy being a female. But I contend that nature has given males the heaviest burden of all: the burden of always having to Make the First Move, and thereby risk getting Shot Down. I don't know WHY males get stuck with this burden, but it's true throughout the animal kingdom. If you watch the nature shows on the Discovery Channel, you'll note that whatever species they are talking about - birds, crabs, spiders, clams - it is ALWAYS the male who has to take the initiative. It's always the male bird who does the courting dance, making a total moron of himself, while the female bird just stands there, looking aloof, and thinking about what she's going to tell her girlfriends. (''And then he hopped around on one foot! Like I'm supposed to be impressed by THAT!'').
Male insects have it the worst. The Discovery Channel announcer is always saying things like: ''After the mating, the female mantis bites off the male mantis' head, and then she and her girlfriend mantises use it to play a game that looks a lot like Skee Ball.''
Because I live in Florida, my patio is basically a giant singles bar for lizards. On any given day during mating season, I'll see dozens of male lizards out there making their most suave lizard move, which consists of inflating and deflating a red pouch under their chins. They seem to think that female lizards really go for a guy with a big chin pouch, but I have never once, in 14 years of close observation, seen a female respond. They just squat there looking bored, while all around them males are blinking on and off like defective warning lights.
Every now and then you'll see an offbeat TV news story about some animal, usually a moose, that has for some reason fallen in love with, and decided to relentlessly court, something totally inappropriate, such as a lawn tractor. This animal is ALWAYS a male. On the TV, they show it hanging around the lawn tractor with a big, sad, moony look, totally smitten, while the lawn tractor cruelly ignores it.
My point here is that, in matters of the heart, males have the brains of a walnut. No, wait! That is not my point. My point is that perhaps you women could cut us males a little bit of slack in the move-making process, because we are under a lot of stress. I vividly remember when I was in 10th grade, and I wanted to call a girl named Patty and ask her to a dance, and before I picked up the phone, I spent maybe 28 hours rehearsing exactly what I was going to say. So when I actually made the call, I was pretty smooth.
''Hello, Dance?'' I said. ''This is Patty. Do you want to go to the Dave with me?''
Fortunately Patty grasped the basic thrust of my gist and agreed to go to the dance. This was a good thing, because if she had shot me down, I would have been so humiliated that I would have never have been able to go back to school. I would have dropped out of 10th grade and lied about my age and joined the U.S. armed forces, and as a direct result the Russians would have won the Cold War.
That is the awesome power that you women have over us men. I hope you understand this, and the next time a guy walks up and uses some incredibly lame, boneheaded line on you, I hope that, instead of laughing at him, you will remember that he is under the intense pressure of wanting to impress you enough so that you might want to get to know him better and maybe eventually, perhaps within the next 15 minutes, marry him, thereby enabling the survival of the human race, which believe me is the only thing that we males are truly concerned about.
In conclusion, let me just say to all females everywhere, on behalf of all males everywhere, that you are very beautiful and your eyes are like two shining stars, unless you're a female fly, in which case your eyes are more like 2,038 shining stars. So please give us a chance. And if you're not interested, could you introduce us to your lawn tractor?
Read on and enjoy it.
So I was at this party, and I wound up at a table where three attractive single women were complaining about - Surprise! - men. Specifically, they were complaining about the pickup lines that had been used on them in a bar a few nights earlier.
One woman said: ''This guy comes up to me and says, 'Are you a teacher?' I mean, is that supposed to be romantic?''
All three women rolled all six of their eyes.
Another one of them said: ''This guy says to me, 'I've been looking at you all night!' So I go, 'Hel-LO, we just GOT here.'''
At this point all three women - and I want to stress that these are intelligent, nice women - were laughing. Not me. I was feeling bad for the guys.
I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.
So I grant that it is not easy being a female. But I contend that nature has given males the heaviest burden of all: the burden of always having to Make the First Move, and thereby risk getting Shot Down. I don't know WHY males get stuck with this burden, but it's true throughout the animal kingdom. If you watch the nature shows on the Discovery Channel, you'll note that whatever species they are talking about - birds, crabs, spiders, clams - it is ALWAYS the male who has to take the initiative. It's always the male bird who does the courting dance, making a total moron of himself, while the female bird just stands there, looking aloof, and thinking about what she's going to tell her girlfriends. (''And then he hopped around on one foot! Like I'm supposed to be impressed by THAT!'').
Male insects have it the worst. The Discovery Channel announcer is always saying things like: ''After the mating, the female mantis bites off the male mantis' head, and then she and her girlfriend mantises use it to play a game that looks a lot like Skee Ball.''
Because I live in Florida, my patio is basically a giant singles bar for lizards. On any given day during mating season, I'll see dozens of male lizards out there making their most suave lizard move, which consists of inflating and deflating a red pouch under their chins. They seem to think that female lizards really go for a guy with a big chin pouch, but I have never once, in 14 years of close observation, seen a female respond. They just squat there looking bored, while all around them males are blinking on and off like defective warning lights.
Every now and then you'll see an offbeat TV news story about some animal, usually a moose, that has for some reason fallen in love with, and decided to relentlessly court, something totally inappropriate, such as a lawn tractor. This animal is ALWAYS a male. On the TV, they show it hanging around the lawn tractor with a big, sad, moony look, totally smitten, while the lawn tractor cruelly ignores it.
My point here is that, in matters of the heart, males have the brains of a walnut. No, wait! That is not my point. My point is that perhaps you women could cut us males a little bit of slack in the move-making process, because we are under a lot of stress. I vividly remember when I was in 10th grade, and I wanted to call a girl named Patty and ask her to a dance, and before I picked up the phone, I spent maybe 28 hours rehearsing exactly what I was going to say. So when I actually made the call, I was pretty smooth.
''Hello, Dance?'' I said. ''This is Patty. Do you want to go to the Dave with me?''
Fortunately Patty grasped the basic thrust of my gist and agreed to go to the dance. This was a good thing, because if she had shot me down, I would have been so humiliated that I would have never have been able to go back to school. I would have dropped out of 10th grade and lied about my age and joined the U.S. armed forces, and as a direct result the Russians would have won the Cold War.
That is the awesome power that you women have over us men. I hope you understand this, and the next time a guy walks up and uses some incredibly lame, boneheaded line on you, I hope that, instead of laughing at him, you will remember that he is under the intense pressure of wanting to impress you enough so that you might want to get to know him better and maybe eventually, perhaps within the next 15 minutes, marry him, thereby enabling the survival of the human race, which believe me is the only thing that we males are truly concerned about.
In conclusion, let me just say to all females everywhere, on behalf of all males everywhere, that you are very beautiful and your eyes are like two shining stars, unless you're a female fly, in which case your eyes are more like 2,038 shining stars. So please give us a chance. And if you're not interested, could you introduce us to your lawn tractor?
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Badshah on a Rickshaw
It may not be a big deal to the thousands of Delhi-ites to do this...this might have become a thing of the past to most of the people down south...u see it everywhere in Gurgaon..
Have you guessed it yet? yes, it is the taking a bicycle rickshaw ride!!
I came out of the guest house this morning to go to the mall, hoping to catch an auto or a bus to the mall.But what did i see??..no autos, no buses...only bicycle rickshaws..initially I hesitated to take it since I felt sorry for the driver as he had to drag a 90 kilogram body of mine..but then I figured that there was no way out and I had take the rickshaw..It was an amazing ride..It was like a stroll down the memory lane to my kindergarten times when I used to ride the rickshaw to school..and for a moment I felt like a Badshah(King)!!!
Such is the irony of life...small things brings great pleasures :)
To know more about rickshaws see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Jar of pickles - An Identity crisis?
This is an outcome of an interesting discussion we had during breakfast today and i wanted to write about it. This concept may sound dumd or probably is dumb but what the hell we just had a laugh !!
Vikram (named changed not to disclose identity - No Pun intended!) thinks he is a mango but little realises that he is not a mango but actually a pickle. He is cut and stewed in all the 'masala'. He thinks he is out of the world but does not realise that he actually lives in a jar - A jar of mixed vegetables to be precise. He gets to meet different Vegetables in the jar like Senthil the lemon(again name changed to hide identity and no Pun intended) for instance, he says "Good Morning Mr Lemon!" and the Lemon says "Hello Mr Mango". they have a conversation together. Sometimes Lemon corrects Mr Mango's grammar too.Mr Lemon and Mr Mango go arond the jar with the help of Sreeni the Tomato (named changed not to disclose identity and no Pun intended again). The sad part is that spoon has landed on Mr Tomato and he will be taken out of the jar very soon and consumed! Everybody will miss Mr.Tomato. They all have fun but what they do not realise that they are not actually Mr.Mango,Mr Lemon or Mr Tomato. They used to be Mango ,Lemon and Tomato at one point in time when they were young. The life and their surroundings have pickled them so much that they stand here today with a confused identity! Mr Mango, Mr Lemon and Mr Tomato have an opinion about their lives. They think their lives are in a soup. Why does not someone tell them "No Dammit!! You are in a jar of Pickles"
My point is everyone is so confused about their identities today. Well, most of us are. We are not what we think we are or what others think we are. Then what are we?? Who are we?? What are we doing in somebody else's scheme of things?? Why are we such a Pickle?? can we say we still the Mango,Lemon or Tomatoes we used to be ?? - A thought to ponder over.
Okay time for me to leave the jar of Insanity for a while. But dont forget to think about the JAR.
Vikram (named changed not to disclose identity - No Pun intended!) thinks he is a mango but little realises that he is not a mango but actually a pickle. He is cut and stewed in all the 'masala'. He thinks he is out of the world but does not realise that he actually lives in a jar - A jar of mixed vegetables to be precise. He gets to meet different Vegetables in the jar like Senthil the lemon(again name changed to hide identity and no Pun intended) for instance, he says "Good Morning Mr Lemon!" and the Lemon says "Hello Mr Mango". they have a conversation together. Sometimes Lemon corrects Mr Mango's grammar too.Mr Lemon and Mr Mango go arond the jar with the help of Sreeni the Tomato (named changed not to disclose identity and no Pun intended again). The sad part is that spoon has landed on Mr Tomato and he will be taken out of the jar very soon and consumed! Everybody will miss Mr.Tomato. They all have fun but what they do not realise that they are not actually Mr.Mango,Mr Lemon or Mr Tomato. They used to be Mango ,Lemon and Tomato at one point in time when they were young. The life and their surroundings have pickled them so much that they stand here today with a confused identity! Mr Mango, Mr Lemon and Mr Tomato have an opinion about their lives. They think their lives are in a soup. Why does not someone tell them "No Dammit!! You are in a jar of Pickles"
My point is everyone is so confused about their identities today. Well, most of us are. We are not what we think we are or what others think we are. Then what are we?? Who are we?? What are we doing in somebody else's scheme of things?? Why are we such a Pickle?? can we say we still the Mango,Lemon or Tomatoes we used to be ?? - A thought to ponder over.
Okay time for me to leave the jar of Insanity for a while. But dont forget to think about the JAR.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The Fun School
Its 1.30 AM and i was just wondering wht it wud be to go to school to become a comedian....they teach you how to make people laugh!!
Home work wud be something like "Ok children your home work for today, write 3 jokes about ur teacher and tell them to 3 people and make them laugh!!".
Imagine how the teachers wud shout at the kids in class..
"Hey quit being serious..stand up on the bench and laugh!!".
Some angry comments from the teachers would be like:
"u there..stand outside the class and be funny...."
"I don't know when u kids will get funny in your life...If you don't be funny i promise you u r not gonna prosper..."
In such schools, kids will die to be nerds...they wud be talking amongst themselves...Hey look at John..he is a nerd man...awesome..he gets all the girls!!! look at us.. we are just funny man..the girls don't like funny kids.
The grades will b like Funniest, Funnier, Funny, U SUCK!
Pick up lines for a guy to say to a girl wud be..." Hey babe..u shud go out with me sometime..no one laughs at my jokes...i'm kewl"
Girls wud go " hey he is soooo serious, u look at him ...u wud wanna kill yourself..how cute!!!"
Just imagine how the tests wud be like... the question categories wud b like..
Make funny sentences of your own:
write a one line joke:
Correct the following sentences and make them funnier!
Arrange the following in chronological order to make a joke!
Say joke or not ( in line with say true or false):
If you probably stand outside the teachers room listening to her grading the papers...this is wht u will hear...hehehehehehaaaaawhoooooooo..whoo whoowhoooooheeeheeeeheeee...haahaaaaaaaa
And finally your Diploma will read....This is to certify that Mr Jack has undergone all the required courses to be funny and so he is entitled to be called a JOKER!
Wht would be the names of such schools???
Well....i dunno ..feeling too sleepy to come up with the name .....i think i shud just go to sleep!!
Home work wud be something like "Ok children your home work for today, write 3 jokes about ur teacher and tell them to 3 people and make them laugh!!".
Imagine how the teachers wud shout at the kids in class..
"Hey quit being serious..stand up on the bench and laugh!!".
Some angry comments from the teachers would be like:
"u there..stand outside the class and be funny...."
"I don't know when u kids will get funny in your life...If you don't be funny i promise you u r not gonna prosper..."
In such schools, kids will die to be nerds...they wud be talking amongst themselves...Hey look at John..he is a nerd man...awesome..he gets all the girls!!! look at us.. we are just funny man..the girls don't like funny kids.
The grades will b like Funniest, Funnier, Funny, U SUCK!
Pick up lines for a guy to say to a girl wud be..." Hey babe..u shud go out with me sometime..no one laughs at my jokes...i'm kewl"
Girls wud go " hey he is soooo serious, u look at him ...u wud wanna kill yourself..how cute!!!"
Just imagine how the tests wud be like... the question categories wud b like..
Make funny sentences of your own:
write a one line joke:
Correct the following sentences and make them funnier!
Arrange the following in chronological order to make a joke!
Say joke or not ( in line with say true or false):
If you probably stand outside the teachers room listening to her grading the papers...this is wht u will hear...hehehehehehaaaaawhoooooooo..whoo whoowhoooooheeeheeeeheeee...haahaaaaaaaa
And finally your Diploma will read....This is to certify that Mr Jack has undergone all the required courses to be funny and so he is entitled to be called a JOKER!
Wht would be the names of such schools???
Well....i dunno ..feeling too sleepy to come up with the name .....i think i shud just go to sleep!!
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