We are the Champions.....

It has been an amazing amazing last ten days in the world of cricket and in the life of a Team India fan. The cynicism, the doubts and the criticism that the naysayer harped on, all came crashing down last night when the team held that cup. The excitement levels matched with the lack of sleep ever since the quarter final game with Australia has given a delirious feeling of high which can't be matched by anything in the world. The media, social networking sites and sms'es had gone viral with the hopes, aspirations and belief of the impending victory. The comparison to the 1983 final were made and the fact that the dates were exactly the same brought in more hope, aspirations and belief. The comparisons did in fact have a bit in them after Sri Lanka pushed the Indians on the back foot with a very good score and two quick wickets had us up against the wall. That Dhoni replicated Kapil Dev would not be an understatement and the victory cemented that equation if there were any doubts.
The epic question, "Where were you when India won the World Cup after 28 years?" is going to be asked for years to come and there would be a smile, a smile that comes straight from the heart, when we answer that question for most of us we were there with family, with good...no make that great friends and with the players themselves. The clapping on every run scored, the high fives on every boundaries and, as a friend put it very aptly, a mini heart attack on every ball all turned into jubilation when the winning runs were smashed over the boundary for a massive six and an even massive celebrations! The Nile had been parted again, the water turned into wine again and India had won the World Cup once again. The team who had vowed to bring in the most prized reward of the game to offer it to the "God" of cricket had not disappointed.
The game had turned in a lot of heroes and the way the youngsters showed the resilience and the maturity when the most experience pair of Indian batting were sent back for hardly any score on the board shows that we have finally started to believe that nothing is impossible. No one piece of article would be complete without mentioning the likes of Gautam Gambhir who came close to that century in the WC final, Kohli who did well to apply himself in and not give in his wicket, Yuvraj for contributing as much with the ball as with the bat, Zak for that brilliant first spell and last but not the least M S Dhoni who has really does absorb the tension and remains icy cool in the hottest of the conditions. He had led India to the famous victory at the T20 World Cup and there was a slight hope, a little wish and huge expectations that this may be the man who brings in the big one and last night that hope saw the light, the wish was fulfilled and the expectation bore fruit. The look in his eyes when he hit the winning runs for a six showed the intent and the determination of the man with a purpose.
Then there was the post match interviews and the one that will be remembered for years to come was from the young Virat Kohli who uttered with great maturity the following lines - "He's carried the burden of our nation for 21 years, it was time to carry him on our shoulders today."
If the way he contributed with the bat and this maturity continues who knows there would be a day where we would be getting carried on the shoulders and with the talent he's shown and this level of maturity, here's hoping he does.

The Word Block

There's nothing more annoying than when you set out to write something and you have typed in two sentences and then run out of ideas, words or just your sense of stringing a few more sentences. I have been meaning to update the blog but due to some unavoidable, unforeseen circumstances I just can't come up with any ideas on what to write on. Somehow, somewhere all the good old entertainment seems to have gone the way Britney Spears career has - down the dumps. I didn't really ever imagine myself even contemplating this but I am starting to miss her "Oops I did it again" antics. Although, behold there has been a better substitute in none other than the man himself - Charlie "Bow to me you regular people" Sheen. The holier than thou, messiah of the small screen, drama queen of this new decade (would win the prize for 2011 hands down, if not the whole decade) Mr. Sheen has had enough of people telling him not to have fun and booze and drugs and let him live his life as it is - a Rock stars one!
Anyways coming back to point, there is nothing more annoying than trying to jot down a few words and then everything comes to halt as you can't think of anything. So, till I get over this amateur writer's block, you might have to bear with me and read updates which just are left incomplete................................................................

Astronomical New Year

Welcome to the New Year! Yes, I do realise that we are already 39 days into this year but like they say better late than never. The old adage; bring it with a bang, might have turned into a bit of reality with everything happening across the world. It seems nature and people have somehow confused taking it by the scruff in a very literal sense and rocked this little planet we call earth.
While we are on the subject of planets, let us slightly digress and talk about the astronomical shift that jolted a few of us very hard, yeah those stars have also started playing tricks on us mere mortals by changing their signs and Linda Goodman has been left in a lurch with all those published books being finally proven to be...well...just rubbish. If you are still wondering where I am going with this you obviously were star gazing when the news broke out that what you thought you were was actually not true anymore, that the people who proudly described all their traits based on their traits suddenly were left wondering if life had in fact played a cruel joke on them. Well you poor souls, even though life had very little role to play in this misfortune, the realisation that even astronomy wants to mess your life might prove to a bit astronomical for some. Now, those of us who actually lived life based on the attributes stated by Linda..errr...I mean the star signs have to go back and re-assess what lies ahead all thanks to Ophiuchus, yeah imagine claiming to be a proud ophi...whatever! The debate has started and may continue for many a years to come but the seed of doubt has been sowed and those copies Goodman might just be used for the bonfire to stave off the harsh winters.

Of Heartbreaks and Heartbreakers

Everyone at one point or the other has experienced heartbreaks, it could have been either by losing someone close to you through death, break up, rejection or any other reason which caused a huge emotional pain. Sometimes though it is caused by serial heart breakers, some of who may or may not even realise that they are inflicting pain. There are quite a few of people who mistake emotions like love for what they view in Movies or TV Soaps and when they don't experience it in real life, are disappointed and could run the risk of causing a heart ache which occasionally might go into number exceeding one.

The other myth out there on this topic is that, only men cause heart breaks and its only the women who have to suffer through them. Like I said a myth, where in fact there are quite a few women who "play the game" very well. Femme Fatale is the term used for women heart breakers, and they should not be confused with the likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, who may be party animals, yet rarely can lead hearts to break. No, we are talking more about the likes of Cleopatras and the Mata Haris who seduced men and had them so smitten, that these men were willing to go to any lengths to appease them. They are in control of the situation in any given time and can manipulate their way to gain access to anything they wish. One of the reasons, that women can play the game in a more advanced manner is because they, unlike men, have a total understanding of how a man thinks. This combined with their superior emotional quotient can have any man singing/listening to "I can't make you love me" (sung by George Michael) for hours after she's been done with him. Men often can't express themselves emotionally and hence it takes more of an effort for them to get over the feelings and thus the pain is more both in amount and in duration. The other mistake that these men who have been played commit is try to persuade the women who left them causing even more pain as they experience, what hurts their ego more than their heart, the blind eye and the deaf ear therapy.

Yes, there is that mystery, that charm associated with a woman who can play the game of love and break hearts for while we think we're immune to the charm that very thought of strength brings in the chinks to the armour and takes us to the heartbreak hotel.

Now you may wonder why I have only discussed women and not men who are more infamous for this act, but that is exactly why I have done so, as the counts of men breaking hearts has been written numerous times. This also in some way should remind us that what we assume may not always hold true and when the word heartbreaker is mentioned, it is not always a man that is the culprit.

Dumb and Rich

It should come as no surprise to many of us but it still does startle me at times when I read about weird people out there and how stupid they can be. Having said that there are times when these stupid people make a lot of money by filing some wild lawsuits and actually winning them. Every year there is held, an award ceremony which picks out the best outrageous and frivolous award amongst the others and these awards are known as the "Stella Awards". This is named after Stella Liebeck who won around $2.9 Million USD in damages after she spilled a hot coffee onto her lap at McDonalds, thereby burning herself. Now when did hot coffee become an issue and since when was being careless and ditzy amount to $2.9 million and if it does then why wasn't I told this before. I have been wasting these many years where I could be going around suing companies for being a complete idiot. Anyhow coming back to the Stella Awards, if you go to their website there are lot of interesting and well quite amusing cases and some of them actually make you think twice about being...or well at least thinking you are smart as by being the other way at least you make a lot of money. Now it is said that not all the stories making the rounds on the net are true but apparently the ones on their website are the real deal. One of the best ones according to me is the winner from 2005, where this guy actually sued David Blaine and David Copperfield (Magicians) claiming that they were defying the laws of physics and must be using "Godly powers" and as he was God (this should have made all the alarm bells go off), they were stealing that power from him and thus he should receive 10% of their lifelong earnings. Now only in a western country would this case be even entertained and I can just imagine someone trying to pull of something like this in the Asian courts, I would assume a bit of police heavy handedness coupled with a lot of mocking would ensure that Mr. God gave away all his "godly powers" away for free.

So the next time you see someone trip and fall, make sure you don't laugh for you never know if that person could take you for a trip to court over that.

To Wed or Not to Wed...Gay is thy Question

There have been a few issues going around the world and for some reason these come up in more than a few ways in your life. Most of the protest or campaign for a cause is nowadays taken many different methods, be it standing on the street passing pamphlets and getting petitions signed or using the electronic media and taking the privilege of the social networking sites by creating pages and inviting people to join them.

One of these issues that has been going around for sometime now is the Gay Marriage one, where for every 3 requests you get to support the cause there is one which tells you how GOD is going to punish you if you even as little as think about giving support to the same sex alliances. Now, if you ask me I don't give a two cent if two people of the same sex want to get married, as quite frankly there are far more serious issues like my personal poverty wherein I can't afford to buy that PS3 that I have been looking at for the last one year and have seen a newer model come in the space of then and now. So you can see the dilemmas I am enduring while there are people who want me to join a group at the risk of taking on the Gods. Now I am not that spiritual but even I know that of everyone, and I mean everyone including Obi-Wan Kenobi (now wasn't he gay.....and now I have offended all the Star Wars fanatic) and God, you don't piss off God. Not because he can strike you down with lightening, that's not intimidating, no, its the suffering that has got me worried.

The whole thing in my opinion has gone a bit overboard with the politicial leaders getting involved and after a few of them getting very vocal against it have been caught out having that sneaky nookie with surprise surprise.....a person of the same sex! Talk about taking things to the next level to prove it wrong but I would say that this would be going a bit overboard. So I guess if you go gay just by objecting to two guys/girls marrying, then I think I am better off saying "Wish a wonderful and gay life to both of you and may the both the husband and husband or wife and wife live happily ever after". Now that we have covered the political aspect, lets move on to the religious one. The one thing that brings leaders of all the world's religion together has turned out to be homosexuality. A couple of years ago, there was a joint procession held by the religious leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Islamic community in Jerusalem where they all banded together to condemn homosexuality and tell the world about the evils of being gay. Yes it took a group of homosexuals to get those mostly bearded bunch to agree on something and actually stand side by side together on an issue. The one thing that surprises me is why the Church should be so against this as by reading the news in the last few years, I thought quite a few of the gays folks got initiated while attending services as little boys.

Now even though I find the whole phenomenon a bit odd, I am certainly not going to judge someone by their preferences of a partner and piss off people like Elton John, George Michael, Tom Cruise....what Tom's not a gay you say? Well anyone that short who jumps on couches in front of millions of people and is not retarded is gay. I'll let you decide that one.

Tasers and Pitch Invaders

I have always been amused with pitch invaders and what goes on in their head before they jump off and start running whilst a game is on the go. Now pitch invasion has a very long history and occur in quite a few sports. There are some so called sports which actually see a bit of excitement because of this activity, ok probably more due to streaking than invading pitches but the only difference between the two happens to be if you have your clothes on or you don't. Along the years, pitch invading has got a lot tougher with the security around the grounds being more stricter than before. We have big fences, an army of security personnel and now the reports coming from the Big Apple this weekend that even tasers are out to electrify (sorry but I couldn't resist) the loony who tries such a thing.

Imagine going to game now, you would be wishing someone gets too drunk (yes that is one of the reasons for jumping on to the pitch and running across with a mental note that a pack of wild dogs are after you) and his friends bet him money (another one of the reasons) to become the gladiator and run across avoiding all obstacles and ensuring that he is not caught, depending on the amount of alcohol consumed and the money wagered, this could also ascertain if the clothes would be of a hindrance to this task or not. This my friends, is where the whole if this is going to be a plain pitch invasion or is it going to be a feat of streaking is decided, let the whole world or at least a state in a country check out what is deemed very private by the public. This is going to be the, most likely less than, five minutes of fame and you decide if you want to be an open book (again couldn't resist it) or have that mysterious aura surrounding you. So once, the invader jumps on you can start your chants, like the people in the Bank Park in Philadelphia watching the baseball game, of "TASE HIM!! TASE HIM!" and wait and watch as that hit of electricity makes someone fall like a lump of.........we'll just leave it at lump. I already want the authorities to start using it here so we can enjoy this new added form of entertainment at the already expensive sport events sooner rather than later. I am sure it would raise the coffers of the teams and for a change we would be given a worth our money experience.

So on that note, let us give an applaud to the pitch invaders/streakers to continue their somewhat crazy antics and give us an electrifying performance and I literally mean that.