The match!

Heyiieee!
An update of past three days.

Remember the cricket thing going on in our circle and 5 teams from our unit being in the tournament. (dont remember...check for my previous post) Well! i was into one of the teams.. the name of our team -> Fusion maniacs..he he nice name.

It was saturday and the team turned up at the venue for the first match. The cricket ground was inside a club nearby the place where i stay. The ground was smaller than expected. We were expecting our opponent to be there so that we could start off the match (coz it was time) but the team didn't turn up so ended up winning without any effort. There was another team which was supposed to play instead they too ended up winning the same way as we did. The organizers (that's the HR guys) decided to have a friendly match between the two teams and guess what...WE WON IT! anyway that was a friendly one. Since we 'qualified' for the next round we had to play other qualified teams the following day.

Sunday, 11:00 IST

This time our opponent was ready. If we win this match we move on to the next else out of the tournament. Oh! did i mention that it was a KNOCK OUT tournament. We won this match with still 3 overs to go. Thanks to fantastic batting. The next match was immediate after 45 mins or so. just 45 mins break! and that too have to play under the hot sun...fuuurrr! Anyway the match got underway but this time we lost but by a whisker. The opponent team won the match with 2 more balls to go from the last over.

The play was good and interesting barring the heat of the summer.

Indian Teams' World Cup Debacle!

Debacle! It almost has sparked a crisis back home just letting everyone know the standards of sport prefessionlism shown by boys of the 'richest' cricketing body in the world and who knows perhaps the highest paid cricketers in the world! The amount of hype created and the expectation levels, i think, far exceeded the performance that they have rendered. Remember, a lion is lion only in his Den. Yes, the team did win the series back home before leaving for world cup venue but lets face this. The india team has a poor win percentage abroad. The fact that indian team was ranked 8 before the start of the world cup shows the extent of the vision of becoming the 'top team' in the world materialised.

I'm a cricket fan. yes and would like to see india get into a winning habit. But sometimes being optimistic is different and being realistic is different. The realistic reference is of course the benchmark set by Australia, Sri Lanka, new Zealand etc. Hope and just hope is what i have..

presenting Part 2....

Hi!

Its been a long time..eh? yup its march. Its going well at my end. In continuation to part one, i've know quite a number of people and mode of knowing them has been cricket. They call me for few games and i go and play with them. It's fantastic to get down for playing after a prolonged period and guess what? end up with an aching arm and body! Its still not much because i see most of them with THEIR pals and they dont TALK to rest of them.....much. The only enthusiastic person in the entire unit i must say, is our unit HR (guess HR's have to do that...strictly i HATE the HR profession but not the people as such....anybody could change my thoughts in this regard..feel free to contact me). Maybe, i too am not pushing at my end to get on to friends but then i used to think of those training days when i made friends with ease...and that too i didn't expect it at all....what may concern!) but after being into the circle its looks such difficult thing that i dont find anyone with whom i could talk to so freely as before...no wonder why people says software guys are BORING! i go for food alone....maybe one thing too...with my facial look i guess people dont want to approach me..(i have a pleasant face but often shows a -LOST- look as if lost in thought! but doesn't happen actually). I stay in touch thro' the 'in house messenger' we have but then most of 'em (old friends) are into their work so u see its not that on a daily basis i get connected to them personally.

Its cool when it should be and otherwise when it shouldn't. I want to do things paralelly (may be later i won't be) trying to be good in things that i like to do. Trying my best to give time for everything and everybody. One of my fundas off late has been 'to spend time with people'. Once i get back home, i spend time with my room mates. After which, i give time to myself (yup i sit alone and listen to english/sometimes hindi radio station)...music musicccc....i'm addicted to that..looks like that. I just wish i get my music collection into some kinda e-gadget. i'm waiting................................

Second post in a day!

Well well well! what am i doing now. Nothing much...was going thro' john grisham's 'innocent man' in the office! Again in this, john has his way of streching things way too much..(he had a similar approach in 'time to kill').i mean you don't have to talk about ron williamsons' baseball career again and again. he's inducted, he's dropped, he's inducted again, again dropped..its certainly not worth the thing. I just wish it could be..of all the things he describes has some connection at the end. Let me go thro' and see what he has to say!

i've been going thro' ayn rands' 'Fountainhead' as well!. A good book i must say (well everybody says that!)as of now.. i'm in chapter 3...hee hee a slow reader i am. I shall put forward my views on this too.


Office is abuzz with the cricket fever here (not the world cup 2007 approaching) but the 5ive teams that are participating from our circle for the company-level cricket match (if i can call that). It should be put as 'inter-circle cricket championship' ..err...should be better i know! Good to see the enthu here. All the best to all the 5ive teams!

chao...happy reading!