Sunday, February 28, 2010

Sachin the God

I really was missing a collection like this

 

Read it , here if you want to know how the world reacts to Sachin

The ones especially from Sharjah and Yassir Hamid a Pakistani reporter

 

http://vsvishwanand.blogspot.com/2010/02/sachin-name-speaks.html

 

By the way , the author is a great friend of mine and a Sachin fan

Friday, February 26, 2010

Guess which movie?

Kabhi muskarakar ,

Kabhi dabey paaoo aakar

 

Dukh mujhey choo le

 

Naa kar mujhsey gham merey

 

Dillagi yeh Dillagi

 

Badi sooni sooni hai

 

Zindagi yeh Zindagi….

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

One last thought for the day Feb 24 2010

It is the end of the day for me

I wanted to write about the way smartly Mamta Bannerjee presented the rail budget today

 

She says “Whoever is shouting, I will cut the project in his constituency?”

She was a able teacher in side a village school and the ruckus around , and the rubes from all side were enough to unnerve any other political figure, the very fact that she can fight it out like that standing there in the Parliament is the very sign of the days of administration to come,.

 

She does not leave the session, she does not walk  out, she does not throw the pen down, she does not visit the train wreckage any more and threaten incessantly to resign, She is now a changed Mamata

 

But her budget and whatever honest form it had ( no heavy words, no extra ornamental statements, a budget as it should be )

 

The only problem that the nation will have to hear from two severely accented Bengalis giving the rail budget and the national  budget J

 

 

Anyways, the rail budgets fundas were derailed by another express, the Sachin Express,

 

Sachin is not for cricket,

Cricket is for Sachin!!!

If there is a god on earth

If there is god on earth . He is sitting in a Gwalior hotel now

 

He is Sachin, he is the greatest of them all ,

 

Today I saw a Sachin , that knows that he can now play like it is the year 1995, there is a Azharudding, Sidhu , and Jadeja

 

 

No, I think , he knows that India is now undoubtedly well on to its way to the no 1 spot in World cricket in all forms of the game. Wait till, the next T20 encounter.

 

Just think of the bowling teams plight, Rahul Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar can nowadays be rested for a match or two, they play their own games and don’t have to bother much, the youngsters are all well set

 

Today when I ask my cousin who studies in class X , and is sitting for the exams, he says to me that there are parents who make their kids  skip the exams, if there is a game sessions , or if the coach asks so  … I ask him how difficult is it to make it to the Bengal team itself, With franchises and IPL and ICL , there is a ongoing cut throat competition for even the  middle order of most of the state teams. Today  just to make it to the 2nd division is a difficult and uphill task, and let alone play good, and play at the top levels consistently,

And that is exactly the reason , that we have a kitty full of newcomers who are all able, in the form of Suresh Raina, who once was said to be the next god of the left hand players off side, there is Dinesh Mongia, who though now lost is a very strong middle order batsman, we have Rohit Sharma who can do all the departments of cricket as good as any other great player.

Gambhir is an established , world no 1 ( not now may be )  , then there is a Robin Uthappa, and the funny part is Dinesh Karthik comes back as a batsman and not a wicketkeeper. And the prince of cricket . Virat Kohli , all of the above players have single handedly rescued India on more than once occasion. Irfan Pathan needs space to head in , whereas Yusuf is in sublime form. All of them above can enter the circuits and just perform as if the environment has not changed, they find the international level to be just very close notch to the first class in India today.

 

They all are best in the domestic circuits, and they are soon to be the next legends, but with a team which looks like the Real Madrid of cricket, Sachin knows that other than the new comers, there are the bullies of world cricket, If Pakistan boasts of a certain Shahid Afridi , and England still dreams that Kevin Pietersen will some day come back to his first shown form,  What I can definitely say is there lies in the Indian team three such bullies, three Shahid Afridis with far better track record and control of the game and the shots, which makes Shahid Afridis, Centurions centuries look smaller in the context

 

We have a Sehwag , the impeccable form that he is in  , and the way he feels that defensive game for him is the riskiest game, and the way he made a 290 knock in a single day of test cricket.

We have a Yuvraj, six sixers apart, he is a class of his own. I am sure that on  one favorable day , when Yusuf and Yuvraj as partners to each other for 15 overs at a stretch , the opposition will have to look like  kids in the training camp.

We have a Dhoni , who is consistently, playing not out innings and if he continues to do this for another year or so , I am sure that he will end up with more than a 100  half centuries behind him and the highest possible one day average. Today he played a different  innings, that kind of innings that we had seen in his earlier days. He played that cushion to the Sachins 200 and as usual such a great land mark came fitfully in the 50 over itself which started with a Dhoni sixer

 

We in India, have a phenomenal batting order. Sachin can play his own game today , never was he more relaxed then he is now. Ponting almost caught him up on the centuries tally in the test arena with 39 centuries and Sachin 43,  but then there were 4 consecutive centuries and Sachin is all well set for 50 international test centuries,

 

But the way he batted today , I don’t think, Gambhir should come top of the order. Gambhir should come to consolidate in case of a quick first wicket. Today Sachin from the word go just resounded his pledge, that the century that he missed in the first one dayer in Jaipur, due to a very  unfortunate runout ( running is a department where is a master in his own zone , I am sure that we will soon see a 300 run partnership , between him and Dhoni  with the minimum number of boundaries, , and it could be  in any form of the game )

 

The batsmen of the Indian team are in such sublime form that the first test defeat in Nagpur where the Indian team went all out twice in score below three hundred is like having the probability as that of the chance of getting 20 tails consecutively . That was a rare , lapse, I am sure, since you have to read in to the teams colors, as it is now. It is a team where any great would want to play ,

 

And all this is an answer to that question “Cant a country of a billion people produce 11 gems who could dominate world cricket today “

 

Today , schools and parents and teachers are changing. Taare Zameen Par and Three Idiots are becoming block busters,

 

 

The not so important Physical Education dept in many schools in India, nowadays is a full fledged department with a head of the dept and many staff with multiple coaches,

 

Yes we may not yet be bringing the golds in Olympics, since in strength we are naturally not gifted like the Caucasian and the Nordic breed  and in a country where we are cramping for space and food, we have some how never got it in terms of physical stamina and that is why you will find very occasional wrestlers or soccer players or sprinters who make it to the top circuits.   Yes , we know that we are not yet there but in Cricket, when once we were asked “Cant a nation of 1 billion people produce 11 gems ?” we have finally answered the call,

We have those 11 gems, we  have a team to beat which , you will need a team to make atleast 350 runs in every innings,

 

 

Eden Gardens



well,
amongst all the things that I never thought I will be able to do , one was getting a chance to watch Tendulkar on the field while he played for 20 years and I witnessed it all .

I started my cricket watching days with his first test 100. He becoming what we called a master blaster in that new zealand series where Stephen Fleming had his debut

Sachin was at that point of time still searching for his first 100. And now all I know is , he is sitting on more than 90 international 100s.

Adding two pics from the 6th Gate Tier 2 stand

Egg shells for plants


Egg plants come from here, if you may ask me

Hooters, where art thee


will gleeful eyes, when I mentioned that a hooter is standing out side, all in my group went to see.

All men, ( I mean all boys basically )

Anyways, this was all the hooter they could get

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Random Pics here and there


Balle balle,
well, could you find an appropriate place for this one. Yes, there are , but on the top of a competitive journal .

One random flight I took



After I got my job, I was touring all across the country , young at heart, with money in pocket and a will to spend,
I did cover a lot of the sectors.

Some times there are some sights that strike a chord , some where, but due to the lack of a camera in hand, I was never able to catch much,

I remember, the family that was sorting all its porblems in the Delhi airport,
I remember the Jammu couple, who were calling their neighbors to still come to the airport, buy the tickets and board the flight, and all this, when were just starting, ( I mean that the plane would started taxing within a few minutes or so

I remember the Himalayas, the peaks, on a sunny day in a flight to Delhi again.

I can still remember the beautiful Gujju Bong, who sat next to me and then we talked the whole journey.

One of the most beautiful woman that I have come across
Anyways, here are two familiar sights, that Indians, ( new age Indians ) always see, and take it for granted,

Well, I choose to live for the moment!!

Elfs do get some service in this mans world


This was one random pic in Darshini in Begumpet, last month,
Early morning had gone for the driving license test, on the way stopped in this place to eat some Dosa,

It is like any other Dosa or Idli spot in South India, self service, but the 'S' was missing ,

and I dont think Legolas would mind it either

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Dream Girl


I did not know what I really wanted until I saw this picture

here is some one, whom no one will accept at a first shot, it is like the little own Princess Diaries. Anne Hathway, turning into a fairy, similarly, here we have some one with the potential to win a contest hands down anyday.


All you need is some careful tampering, tinkering here and there, and there you go