Another one on Cricket

No I won't be watching any movies in weekdays from now, may be will watch one or at most two on weekends only. Btw howz this 'Beneras'? any idea?? ;-)

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Again a major top-order failure, this has been a routine since Pakistan tour, but each time one player (mostly Dhoni/Yuvi/Pathan/Dravid) wins the match and that covers for the failures of others.


As I said earlier, where is the batting bench strength??

hmm..I feel Chappell’s policy of giving repeated chances to players is giving wrong signals to the senior guys like Sehwag n Kaif,

This policy has done a wonders for youngsters like Sreesanth, Raina and RP Singh but for seniors its not working.

Remember, Gambhir was dropped coz he was not able to convert is 20s n 30s to something big.

So, its high time Kaif n Sehwag should be dropped...but question remains where is the batting bench strength? :-)

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Just read on cricinfo that, Afridi has announced retirement from test cricket :-)
He says he wants to concentrate on ODI only, is he serious or its just another gimmick, only time will tell.


I think he is following the footsteps of Imran and Miandad(who took retirement a number of times only to make comebacks :-).

His love with Pakistan's captainship contender Younis Khan is an open secret :-)… so it won't surprise me a bit if he too is nursing ambitions of captainship.

After Weekend

Another monday morning, hmm..boss is back from NY, so loads of work expected in coming days.

btw, watched just 5 movies on weekend :-)

Sins - Crimes For Passions -- total bakwaas

Khamosh Paani -- very very touching movie, made with lot of heart.

Coma -- another nice thriller, worth watching.

Zinda -- another total bakwaas...

Aprahan -- hmm good one, somehow director couldn't end it properly, just like Gangajal.

Before weekend

Phewww..another weekend approaching, and I always approach weekend with lot of childlike zeal n enthusiasm, I love Sundays but only till 8pm, coz after that my mind starts making schedule for coming week.

Well, last weekend was fun, we watched Ice Age - The meltdown in the nearby mulitiplex, movie was fun, just perfect for a Saturday evening.

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Read a very interesting n though provoking one liner::-

"People who believe in love at first sight, can never stop looking."

and I think its true :-)

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After a long time, after 3 years I played basketball, and still all muscles of my body are cursing me for that, right shoulder in particular.

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In my last post I made an incomplete list of movies watched in past 2.5 months, well, here I have nothing to do...so I end up watching movies on my dear lappy.
In fact here I think here majority of Indians are like that only, normally we people do not have wat we call them….'hobbies' or some other interests to pursue…...so we end up watching movies, more for the need of killing time.

And "A Cinderella story" is added too.

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At last weather is getting better now, otherwise since almost past one month RainGod was doing some sort of weird experiments, it used be bright in the morning, rainy in the noon and cold n windy in evening n nights, now its pleasant, living upto the name of city.

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Now sitting on 4-0 lead, Chappel can do some more experiments with the line-up, its high time they accommodate Venugopal Rao in middle order, and also give some rest to Pathan too.

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Yesterday visited a bookstore; it was another lil nice experience, though a bit hard to stop my impulsive self from indulging. I did fairly well, and promised it to return back on weekend with wifey.

Another list

Yesterday I made my baseball debut....of watching baseball game at stadium, went to McAfee Coliseum in Oakland to witness opening night of new season, first game was between New York Yankees and Oakland A's.
Stadium was full with capacity crowd of around 35,000 spectators, atmosphere was electric, everybody cheering for their team, n favorite players.
Thanks to my collegues Tim n Ryan who took pains of explaining me the rules and regulations of the game.

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Here's the incomplete list(can't remember all of them) of movies watched in past 2.5 months (courtesy wifey).


Kalyug
Family
Finding Neverland
Shawshank Redemption
Lakshya
Whole nine yards
The Girl Next Door
Mr. & Mrs Iyer
Yahaan
Mughal-e-Azam
Swades
The Butterfly effect
Forrest Gump
Scream
Beautiful Mind
40 years old virgin
Silence of the lambs
There's Something About Mary
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
A Perfect Murder
The Whole Ten Yards
Love Actually
The Terminal
Hyderabad Blues Part-2
Rang de Basanti
Sleepless in Seattle
15 Park Avenue
BluffMaster
Eyes wide shut
Taxi number 9211
Malamaal Weekly
Misery
Kate & Leopold
Water
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Being Cyrus

congratulationssss to Amit and Neelima...wait wait those two people are totally unrelated and those wishes to them are for two totally unrelated achievements :-)
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hmm this sounds interesting to me.....or how abt this ...wat say?
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Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored and more bored I'm j u s t PLAIN b o r e d.
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In Mumbai, in first inning we were 147/5, and Dhoni's patient 64 brought some respect to the total, and in second inning he couldn't repeat.
In Delhi ODI, we were again 142/7, then Harbhajan's knock helped to get pass 200.Earlier also in many matches in Pakistan, lower-order (Dhoni/Pathan/Kumble) batted well and saved the game.
There is something seriously wrong with the top-order here, but surprisingly where is the bench strength???

In bowling dept, there is healthy competition , guys like
Nehra
Balaji
Zaheer
VRV Singh
Agarkar
Karthik
Chawla
are fighting for place against Sreesanth/RP Singh/Munaf.

And there are guys who were treated as tourists but never given proper chance to prove their worth
SS Paul
Joginder Sharma
Gagandeep Singh
Amit Bhandhari
Youhanan
Iqbal Siddique etc. (Well, this topic deserves another post on it only :-)

But question remains where is the batting bench-strength????
where are the reserve batsmen??
Venugopal Rao??
or Mongia/Badani who both are in in their late twenties.
Well, name of Mongia/Badani reminds me of many other guys who suffered coz of 'including Captain Ganguly' in team.
List is endless....
Mongia
Badani
Sodhi
J P Yadav
Bangar etc.

..without reason...nothing..blank....silent....just like that......


"dil ko kyaa ho gayaa Khudaa jaane
kyon hai aisaa udaas kyaa jaane


kah diyaa mainne haal-e-dil apanaa
is ko tum jaano yaa Khudaa jaane "


..they say..happiness is 'relative'...to me seems to be a distant one.

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We lost, again..in shameful manner again. Earlier we relied on Dravid to save a match, and now we expect him to win it....thats it I guess.

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I'm not sad or depressed :-)

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Bored.

Photographs

3...days to go.....

3...days to go.....boleto apun ki first marriage ki first anniversary .....
and we are all set for a rockin' time at Yosemite national park coming weekend.

Life is fun...last 13.5 hrs mein koi fight nahi huey...and nobel prize for peace goes to wifeyyy....

Atlast after 3 months of analysis n overanalysis we've purchased this...and fun is abt to beginnnn....

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-- Saw Taxi No.9211, waahiyaat movie, and {yaar....Sonali Kulkarni ko Nana ki wife nahi banana chahiye tha......}

-- Office is getting hectier by every day, deadlines..deadlines and more deadlines..., no worries, chalta hai.

-- BNP is atlast making some noise in blogsphere, well this whole exercise is obviously not for the offenders to read n reform overnight, its for us normal
people to come out and take a stand. I always knew abt this but now seems that each n every girl atleast once goes through this trauma.
Eve-teasing is not just a single problem but I think this is a amalgamation of multiple flaws in our system, loopholes in the judiciary. Well, time to take some
serious action. I know things are difficult, but not impossible, Lets stand for each other.

-- Maut kaa ek din mu'ayyaain hai...neend kyon raat bhar nahin aati

-- hmm bad weather at mohali, another one heading for a draw.

-- watever ...Sonali Kulkarni ko Nana ki wife nahi banana chahiye tha.....