WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the winners of the 2009 IPL - the Deccan Chargers! The whole team runs out and storms the field and what scenes in Johannesburg, one of the greatest venues in world cricket. All the Deccan players and support staff are cock-a-hoop, whooping it up like school kids on the last day of exams. Hats off to them. They finished last in 2008 and have now won the trophy. Gilchrist leads Deccan on a lap of victory. The crowd laps it up. Bangalore walk off looking gutted. Kumble looks very crestfallen." ---MUAHAHAHAHA---
Text Source: Cricinfo (Jamie Alter, you R*O*C*K!)
WE
FUCKING
WOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!
WE
DID
IT
WHEN
EVERYBODY
HAD
WRITTEN
US
OFF!!
TAKE
THAT
YOU
LOSERS!!!!
----------GO CHARGERS GO!!!!-----------
P.P.S: The current walla should D*I*E!!!!!!! (This sooooo wasn't the time for a powercut!)
Images Source: Reuters

Falling Slowly

Rajeev Masand had, a long time ago, recommended a small budgeted Irish movie called ONCE. Said it was movie that was simple and had a lovable charm. He also mentioned that it had won an Oscar for Best Original Song. Google-ing it and reading up on it for a bit ended whatever little alliance I had with it. Until my new-found love for Irish bands kicked in (the music is my kind, the accents sexy and the members unbelievable talented!). An evening of reading about and listening my way through ‘The History of Irish Music’, I re-discovered ONCE.

‘Falling Slowly’, the Academy Award winning song, has been written and performed by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. The song is plain MAGIC. It’s hauntingly beautiful. I haven’t stopped listening to it all day. It is sad, hopeful, fills you up with courage and makes you want to believe that there is ‘love’ out there, for each one of us.

I don't know you but I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me and always fool me
And I can't react

And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You'll make it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black

Well, you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

I paid the cost too late
Now you are gone

The tagline of the movie reads ‘How often do you find the right person?’ Maybe it’s once, maybe it’s more than once!

Current Mood: Awesome
Current Music: on the 32nd time now! :)

You'll be missed!

You weren't the original choice. But eventually, it was you that came to me (thanx Sumant!). I was so excited to have you, took you almost everywhere. And now you're gone. It was great having you with me for a year and a half. YOU WILL BE MISSED!

P.S: To the jerk who stole it, HOPE YOU PAY FOR IT A**HOLE!


Picture : Sony Cybershot DSC-S650
Current Mood: Sad :(
Current Music: Can't be bothered with anything!

About this and that...

Know the feeling? You know you have to do a certain thing, an obligation to make it happen. When there’s no backing out, no saying “Don’t wanna, not gonna, can’t make me!”, but you want nothing to do with it, run as far away as it's possible to and never look back? Studying for exams, or anything to do with studying in general evokes such sentiments. But I’m going through that phase for something that I just can’t afford to feel like that for: WRITING. I’m supposed to enjoy it, right? Then why do I feel like do anything but write? Probably has something to do with the fact that there are deadlines of sorts now. Takes the joy away from something that I’m rather fond of. A total turn-off!

Hence this attempt at getting back to into the grove of things. The week has been crazy. Two weddings and an almost third one (people have to take a break from getting married!), a meeting that brought about a whole new set of constraints to work exclusively in, being forced to be in company of a six year old who is on a full-time-sugar-high (no matter how adorable he is) and all of it in the blistering heat with little sleep has worn me out to the max. A break from the French classes was welcomed with more than just open arms. Catching up with everything that I’ve missed out on seems to be the mantra for the next couple of days.

Things at IPL are also getting tricky. With Kolkata (psht, they didn’t have a chance with all the *happenings* in and with the team) and Mumbai (some of the people I know haven’t recovered from the heart break yet!) out of contention, and Delhi and Chennai through, the calculations have become complex. A much better position than what we were at yesterday. The amount of maths Prakash and I did to see what the chances of each team were to get into the semis was more than all the maths I did in the whole of last year. It’d be sweet if the Royals and the Chargers would make it into the semis!! The two teams can manage to do anything. One can win a match despite the opposition only needing four runs with three wickets in hands in the last over and the other can lose seven wickets in seventeen balls!!!

In other IPL news, this is something I came across while watching a match today; ORBIT is the official chewing gum of IPL 2009. OFICIAL CHEWING GUM??? What’s next? Official detergent and official toothpaste? As if the “DLF Maximum” and “Citi Moment of Success” haven’t been said enough to make me want to throw up the next time I hear them, now there's an official gum to chew! Can’t help but imagine what it will come to in the next edition. It could be a “Pan Parag wide” and “Lux Cozi free hit” (since we are all about giving importance to the Indian players :P).

Current Mood: Fuck, WE (DECCAN CHARGERS) WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'd hate to be Brendon McCullum right now!)
Current Music: Metro-O Meri Jaan

NO-kia Ad!

I’d seen this ad a couple of years ago and thought it was the best thing after Mills and Boon. Happened to watch it again and still am in awe of how incredible it is (to a hopeless romantic like me, it’s everything and more!). The traditional on-the-knees proposal is always heartwarming to watch(even if it’s the 454758th time), but this is more than perfect, it's FLAWLESS! This is the stuff fairy-parallel-universe-tales are made of. Shakira’s Underneath Your Clothes (which is a lovely song by itself) makes it all the more “I-want-it-to-happen-to-me”able :D

Current Mood: Dreamy
Current Music: The Verve-Bittersweet Symphony
Video Source: You Tube (probably doesn't own it and neither do I)

IT RAINED!!

As a respite from the soaring heat, it finally rained yesterday. Arrived with an air of inevitability.Felt like it was lurking around in the shadows for a while before it eventually lashed out. Did nothing to recede the heat of the blistering afternoon of the very day it brought about the much needed respite though, walked in with a pace that could only be compared to that of a soldier fighting a war that shouldn't have started. Marched in, did the required job and never returned home. The irony of listening to Rain by Breaking Benjamin at the same time (thank god for phones with music players!) didn’t go missing. The name of the song was probably the only thing common between the rain, which had settled into a drizzle, and the song.

“Rain, Rain go away
Come again another day
All the world is waitin’ for the sun”
Hearing Benjamin Burnley sing these words,couldn’t help but think how much I wanted the receding rain to stay for a while longer,to be able to hold on to the drops in my palm which would slowly skirt away through the gaps btween the fingers, to be able to
“To lie here under you
Is all that I could ever do”.

But it stopped, as suddenly as it had come. Left without a glance behind. What stayed behind was the wind, which didn’t carry the fierceness but a pleasantness that could flutter hearts. Couldn’t help but wonder about how nature works. Gives us heat that tears us apart and then soothes it with something so serene. Much like how humans work, no? Break you down and then fix you.

Current Mood: Calm
Current Music: Nerina Pallot – Sophia
(After the rain, in the lonely hours he haunts me, calling out,Again and again.)