Hey all,

IPL ::

The best thing ever to happen to unemployed young indian cricket talent. Apart from all the magnificent entertainment (haan haan cheerleaders included), I am just glad the budding cricketers are earning doing what they love most, because otherwise I assume at one point of time or other they might have quit. And guess what, they are performing for every single penny unlike, Dada, Dravid, Gibbs, Afridi (batting) (Laxman just escaped this list) and many more of that kind, whatever I am not here for criticizing anyone but for sharing the feeling which hit me (i) in 1998 when Tendulkar blasted Aussies in the midst of a storm, (ii) when Dada stripped at Natwest, (iii) and when Yuvi hit those sixes. IPL is a great platform to enjoy cricket for the country which kicks ass at Cricket Entertainment (I can write a whole 10 page double column 10 pt font paper on this about how India is the biggest entertainer in spite of not being the best for all this time, but I pardon you).

EPL & UCL ::

Unlike cricket, F1 & NBA, I started following football just a year back (before that it was just the WCs), in fact current EPL season is my first which I have followed well. I got this school friend and he would always talk about how Drogba scores all the goals for him in the EA Football game and I did some wiki’ing and decide I would stick with Lampard’s team. I am just too happy to see Chelsea in UCL finals and tied with ManU in EPL table. A couple of week’s back I looked for 2005 UCL final b/w Liverpool and AC Milan and couldn’t find it so I decided to download it and watched it with some real attention. I ( am an idiot, more below ) missed the second leg of Chelsea vs Liverpool somehow and was real upset about missing it the next day so I downloaded the whole thing ( extra time rocked) and watched it offline, I would certainly rate it as more important than the UCL final for Liverpool although Liverpool is my second fav team. Drogba rocked, Lampard entertained, Ballack watched out for all, Go Chelsea, 23rd May 21st May, won’t miss that and I just want these words to stay on my blog forever so here I go :

” You long for a chance to set the wrongs of the world to right, at least in some symbolic form. You long for a victory, not over Liverpool, but over death. And that’s how that penalty felt: as a tearful, sad, joyous expression of the ultimate truth, simultaneously profound and banal, that life is there to be lived, that it can bear any amount of sadness, and that, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, in the eyes of a man in the grip of grief, it goes on.” more

Mid-Week-Pati-Twister ::

Vodka tasted like never before (in a good sense), lots of chilled beer and double-patiala packs on floor #6 no #7 wait it was 5 + 1 + tanki, ok make it 6.5. Missed the Second leg Chelsea vs Liverpool, long time due BCwith Nir, drove to Gachibowli but don’t remember if we ever crossed Indra Nagar.

Adios