Its about one am while i post this. Iv just returned from a cricket match the shorter version of it , in fact the lean mean and super trimmed version of the shorter version, yes I refer to the 20 20's . A fantastic high paced game , filled with adrenaline and glamour. I guess for me it happens to fast sometimes, I mean before you even realise the opposition's chased the score.
However i will not get ahead of myself here, so lets take it a bit slow, it all began with free tickets to watch the 20 20 IPL cricket match between the Deccan Chargers and the Delhi Dare Devils, that i found myself to be in possession of through a guy who works for a radio station. Interesting chap who's handling a small advt for us and more importantly who finds me interesting enough to chat with at times. After a good chat with him I suddenly became the proud bearer of three IPL tickets I had no clue wat to do with them , however after telling Bhaskar a work colleague and wooing Alex a bugger I had the necessary trio required . So after waiting anxiously for the clock to strike six , and completely ignoring our works, we set of for the adventure.
This was my first experience of a live cricket match, well to tell u the truth i guess it was a bit disappointing to realise that the tickets we had were not the premium ones , and after travelling thru maddening rush and hunting for the parking space we were finally there. Id say we had the best seats possible the first row , right next to the ground, beautiful, and to add to it 4 luscious Australian cheerleaders , in really small skirts jumping bout man that's life.
However i realised after sometime that having cheerleaders in really small and tight clothes so close to you can have its own demerits, for one you don't watch too much of the match you'd miss the four cos u were too busy staring at some fair skinned girls waist, and secondly ur not the only one they attract thered be a million people who like you would like to have that glimpse of the fair skin.
This is my take on having cheerleaders in Indian cricket matches , i think at some level we are not yet prepared for it , id say not even in Mumbai and definitely not in Hyderabad. Not in Hyderabad cos every second fellow including me thinks he s Imran Hashmi ( the serial kisser of murder fame), and well we are definitely cheap . I t angered me at first to see those yucky people wearing bathroom slippers and dancing obnoxiously to get the attention of the maidens. And well then i realised that maybe id not dance for them but i like the entire male population present there age no bar was ogling at the women , and well would have liked a chance with one of them if it were possible. It saddened me to see people high on testosterone take pictures movies etc of these women , in retrospection if i had known they allowed Mobile phones inside id be one of them too , I'm definite about that.
Anyways as the match went , it was quite pathetic the home team that i was rooting for maybe not full hearted , showed a dismal performance, with just a bit of the glitter towards the end of the inning. A 30 run over is good and to have Adam gilcrist hit one towards your stand and u seeing it being caught in the third row is downright eggciting. So the cheers were on and the cheerleaders did egg us on and we them. The second innings with Shehwag creaming the shit out of the home team was really good, i mean quality cricket , sixes really long and fours at breakneck speeds. I never realized the ball travelled that fast. Glen Mc Grath is really tall and pretty broad , and Andrew really has a bohemian hairdo, Afridi has a strange beard and bad throws, Vass is really dark, Shehwag packs a punch and the game is full of life.
We lost but it was fun , the cheerleaders were the highlight for me , it made me realise how Indian I am no matter what i say, or is it just a part of being a male. The end was bad , worst a flying water packet that hits the cheerleader a pretty girl in early twenties , smack on the back . And all i can feel is apologetic , for the disrespect we showed , for the lewed remarks, for the burning stares, for the watering tongues , for the obscene gestures , for the millions present there who wouldn't even realise that this all happened.
So the match was fun , we even stole a few bottles of coke, well i guess those are the things that you do when u get a chance. We cheered till our voices were hoarse, we jumped till our legs hurt , we even tried the Mexican wave. If i get another chance i think id go maybe this time for the cricket, but if cheerleaders are there cant say i wont ogle , but ill try not to.
Good night.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Intro - spection
Its really been ages since i wrote. Iv had loads to say over these days , but have been studying , well a lie , actually I haven't had the net for a bit now. So there it is i type once again. Here's how my life's been:
Its been a strange time , a time all alone yet not lonely , its been a time that i have tried studying for the Gmat and failed miserably at , well I think Iv had too much of it now, i just want to get it over with , and to tell u the truth I'm shit scared, but i guess that's alright too.
Its not the Gmat that really gets me here , its these restless times , i realise that over this time iv had too many thoughts and have done too much unconscious introspection. Not that it clears everything for me, or I have a better insight into the future, it just muddles it up a bit more.
Here are a few of the things that I have realised:
1) Age : well this is a strange question , how it catches up or rather seems like its catching up is amazing, not that iv gotten grey hair or back pain or any other tell tale sign of age , its just that i feel older , mature maybe but older definitely . The way I think , the things i do , the pace i live in all reflects it , and I wonder , how better it was .....
2) Love : well the simplest way to state it is that the illusions died , and reality surfaces, love at one time was something to be shared in multiples , I mean if i were to fantasize it would be in multiples , maybe not at the same time , but it was more about experiencing , and waiting for the right person, so on and so forth, well i think somewhere down the line that's all bull that we cover our eyes with. Now if i were to fantasize its more about one single person , maybe even children and well family. Some how the glamour and glitter of it has vanished, yes the romance of life stays , but the shinny bits have been trimmed. I think i like it better this way.
3) Work : I don't really know its not a question of not doin it ,works important and i realise at times how much I love it . But you know what i don't know why desire to teach it to someone is very strong , within me . i have strange ways of doing it though , but there is something to it . I would like at some point in life to be a teacher. But before that i think i need to be a student for a little more time.
4) God: he exists where only god knows , for what purpose i have no clue , but he is there somewhere. I cant really say i have much faith in him , but i know that i am scared of him.
5) Family : as of yet a set of parents for whom I'm a grown up now and a sister who's a little too rational and clear in mind. It seems like there s no one too really connect with now. I been hogwash my parents eyes till date , I'm studying hard I'm working hard and the whole lot of that , i think i do it to myself too at times . I'm tired of it now. I think iv lost touch with my parents of late , i really did connect with them while I was in Simla , but now that seems like a distant dream. I guess its just the. Id say with my dad I have connected well , and its him that i really enjoy talking too in our Sunday conversations. With mom i think she likes the television over me cant blame her for that.
Coming to the sister , as most of my friends know , when I'm not there there is very little that you'd know of me through me, and i guess its similar for my sister too, i haven't really kept too much in touch , id say . But yaa i think wer good at small talk.
6) Friends: Confusing most of the times the love hate relationship i have with my friends. There are a few who remain untouched by this and mostly on the love side , but there are a few that iv really hated at some point in life . I guess I'm closer to the people i hate , or rather spent more time with them . But they are all wonderful , different flavours , different colors , different lives and yet there all mine. hahaha
I thinks that's enough for today , wish me luck for the Gmat i need it , and well at least for starters iv gotten my passport.
Its been a strange time , a time all alone yet not lonely , its been a time that i have tried studying for the Gmat and failed miserably at , well I think Iv had too much of it now, i just want to get it over with , and to tell u the truth I'm shit scared, but i guess that's alright too.
Its not the Gmat that really gets me here , its these restless times , i realise that over this time iv had too many thoughts and have done too much unconscious introspection. Not that it clears everything for me, or I have a better insight into the future, it just muddles it up a bit more.
Here are a few of the things that I have realised:
1) Age : well this is a strange question , how it catches up or rather seems like its catching up is amazing, not that iv gotten grey hair or back pain or any other tell tale sign of age , its just that i feel older , mature maybe but older definitely . The way I think , the things i do , the pace i live in all reflects it , and I wonder , how better it was .....
2) Love : well the simplest way to state it is that the illusions died , and reality surfaces, love at one time was something to be shared in multiples , I mean if i were to fantasize it would be in multiples , maybe not at the same time , but it was more about experiencing , and waiting for the right person, so on and so forth, well i think somewhere down the line that's all bull that we cover our eyes with. Now if i were to fantasize its more about one single person , maybe even children and well family. Some how the glamour and glitter of it has vanished, yes the romance of life stays , but the shinny bits have been trimmed. I think i like it better this way.
3) Work : I don't really know its not a question of not doin it ,works important and i realise at times how much I love it . But you know what i don't know why desire to teach it to someone is very strong , within me . i have strange ways of doing it though , but there is something to it . I would like at some point in life to be a teacher. But before that i think i need to be a student for a little more time.
4) God: he exists where only god knows , for what purpose i have no clue , but he is there somewhere. I cant really say i have much faith in him , but i know that i am scared of him.
5) Family : as of yet a set of parents for whom I'm a grown up now and a sister who's a little too rational and clear in mind. It seems like there s no one too really connect with now. I been hogwash my parents eyes till date , I'm studying hard I'm working hard and the whole lot of that , i think i do it to myself too at times . I'm tired of it now. I think iv lost touch with my parents of late , i really did connect with them while I was in Simla , but now that seems like a distant dream. I guess its just the. Id say with my dad I have connected well , and its him that i really enjoy talking too in our Sunday conversations. With mom i think she likes the television over me cant blame her for that.
Coming to the sister , as most of my friends know , when I'm not there there is very little that you'd know of me through me, and i guess its similar for my sister too, i haven't really kept too much in touch , id say . But yaa i think wer good at small talk.
6) Friends: Confusing most of the times the love hate relationship i have with my friends. There are a few who remain untouched by this and mostly on the love side , but there are a few that iv really hated at some point in life . I guess I'm closer to the people i hate , or rather spent more time with them . But they are all wonderful , different flavours , different colors , different lives and yet there all mine. hahaha
I thinks that's enough for today , wish me luck for the Gmat i need it , and well at least for starters iv gotten my passport.
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