This and That..

The last week has been fairly eventful.

The trip to Tiruchirapalli for starters - almost crash landed at Chennai, tasted sumptuous biriyani that Paramount served, stayed at a 3-star hotel, ate Tamil Nadu's version of Mughlai paratha fondly called Ceylon Paratha and had a bumpy ride all the way back to Bangalore thanks to Kingfisher's low end ATR planes: all this and more in less than 72 hrs.
Thankfully, all these did much more to soothe my nerves after my traumatic experience of watching Love Aajkal - the lesser said the better; same goes for the buffet lunch at Copper Chimney.

Arsenal thumped a lowly Everton at Goodison Park 6-1, heartening for sure - but there is much to come and much to conquer yet.
Feder and Nadal lost at the Montreal Master's while Murray clinched the title as well as the 2nd spot in the ATP rankings finally breaking the Fedex-Nadal duopoly.

Swine Flu deaths and suspected cases are on the rise in Bangalore - 5 as of today morning. Sadly that is the reason I haven't watched Public Enemies at PVR yet.

I took 1.30 hours to reach office today - talk about Moronic Monday..

Is this what we've become..

http://imgur.com/APBOX.jpg

Random Rants

Played soccer with the guys after long time on a wonderful Bangalore Sunday evening.
Missed two dollies :(

England have the upper hand in the second Ashes test at Lords, though the wonderful rearguard action from Clark and Haddin would give Strauss and his boys some cause for worry tonight.

Moronic Monday looms large on my mind..

Irresistible

I had to post this..

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/but_if_we_started_dating_it

The Sea

The waves splash all around me,

Silent and unmindfully

Crashing and churning my mind

Pushing the distant horizon far, far behind

I have come away

Drawn by the endless and the soulless 

I sigh into the dark sea

Wondering what will become of you and me.

T20 World Cup: Best Commentator Award

Wasim Akram

"..You should not ball "No-Ball" in 20-20 because then you will get free hit.."

When Umar Gul bowled a "no-ball" to Kevin Pitersen at the Oval

Sucker of a weekend

Arsenal keep loosing, this time to Chelsea, but I still have faith in Wenger.

Played TT on the weekend with KAM and SD and discovered that my left knee doesn't really allow me to have a go on the top-spin.

If work goes fine will watch Monsters vs Aliens sometimes one of these weekday nights.

The best part of the weekend was this. I got a basic reader membership along with the magazine plan but alas I have no time to read.

Reading: 1> India a wounded civilization by V.S. Naipaul
2> The Associate by John Grisham