Day 2 : The 2011 World Cup Semi Final

What a match it was last night, certainly worth the guilt I carried for taking an half day from office. And, I thought it was a lot of fun. May be some Pakistani players were paid to boost Sachin's luck. I witnessed at least four catches that they missed. It did pay them dearly at the end. The last Pakistani batsman, who I am told is Misbah, was almost sleep walking through out the match and woke up only at the last overs when it was already too late. I am glad the Indian team lived upto all the hype. The noise that the city was making last night after the match was overwhelming. The fire crackers and incessant noise, everybody was too excited to sleep. Most of the people are late to office today after having a late night yesterday. Also I see so many groups around discussing and having a postmortem of the match tomorrow. Its amazing how much effect a game can have on our lifes. ** Added Later My parents have recently moved in to his new apartment and it was getting tough for them to get hold of the concerned people to get their internet and cable connections. Mum has been cribbing since last 2 weeks having denied her regular Saas-bahu quota. But come the semifinals of the World cup, Dad got hold of the cable guy and managed to get the cable connection the same day morning. Men I tell you...all are the same!!!

Day 1 : Lets start

For no particular reason, I have decided to chain my blog for the next 22 days.

May be because I am guilty of not being regular to my own site, so this is a way to regularize it for a while. So I am gonna blog each day for the next 22 days. Why 22 if you might ask??? Because on the 23rd day I'll be at Bhubaneswar with my parents. SInce they have recently shifted, I can;t be sure if they'd have got the internet at home.

Today is a good day to start with. Today being the World Cup semi finals between India and Pakistan. Well...I am not really a cricket buff, yet but my manager has granted me and a couple of others the option to take a half day to watch cricket. I am not keen on the cricket match but I do not mind a half day though. So I am going to exercise my option anyway.

I feel its not fair to put so much pressure on the players. Cricket is a game after all.
I am given to believe that the place Mohali, where the match is to take place, seems to have no more hotel reservations left, no place for private jet landing as well and while the tickets of the match have been sold at insane prices. Also it seems some of the offices have declared it an half day today. I hope the players after winning over the Aussies, were taken to some remote and secluded place where they did not have access to the telivision or newspapers.

Well...I'd be leaving in an hour may be, so lets do some work till then.

Flexible Believer

Its not strange when people show me gaping mouths when I tell them a Brahmin while being surrounded with all kinda kebabs and dead things which once moved. I don't get it, similar to how I don't get it when people give me the look of being a sinner who has just lost the right to live when I admit to having not watched the GodFather series. So what...I haven't even watched Sholay completely (stoops to avoid the jooton ki baarish)

According to them I am a huge black dot to Brahmins and probably needs to be banished fom the Brahmin community, I don't mind though (But please throw me to the OBC so that my kids will at least get the quota reservation). As for me, my beliefs do not cater to Brahmism or elsewhere.

I believe do anything and everything that makes you happy and doesn't harm others. Everything else falls into place...family, society and God too. Like most of the times when the MIL or my Mom inqure about me visiting the temple or fasting today, I with all my sincerity and goodwill always answer assertive while munching on a plate of Chicken at the KFC. So you see, everybody is happy...and when everyone is, God is happy too.

But yes, I do consider myself as an vegetarian. I am vegetarian at all times except when I feel like it, or my friends have been ordering the same, I am dead bored/frustrated, or when I haven't had it in the last 2 days.

If this doesn't make sense to you, I cant help it. It doesn't make sense to me either when people have been asking for a public holiday tomorrow to watch the India-Pak World Cup semifinals...Big Deal!!!

Window shopping is not bad

Window shopping is not for me. Not that I buy only when I need, but window shopping just isn't my kinda sport. Db does that better than me, just that he window shops things that do not interest me...gadgets, and sometimes furniture too.

But it isn't such a bad thing after all. And I realized it only two weeks back.

We were at the lifestyle on that Saturday evening. And Db was literally pulling me across the Lifestyle Homecentre. He loves to look around sofas, beds, cupboards...I was already bored out of my skull.
And suddenly, we set our eyes on a dressing table kinda thing, which had some good number of drawers. The tag on it said 'WAS 24999 NOW 4999'. What the hell!!! It didn't look that cheap. And a basic dressing table had cost us 3.5-4K some 10-12 years back when my parents bought it. We thought it must be a printing issue and the price must be 14999. We checked with the concerned people and it turned out to be the 4999 as printed.
Well, the trick of these sales are to make you buy things that you do not necessarily need. And more storage is something you can always do with. We quickly calculated that it would help us store our laptop cables, chargers, hard disks, pendrives and stuff and so its a good buy for 5K. But we were and still are quite sure, this stuff is wrongly marked for the given sum.

We did order the furniture and we were assured we would be given a fresh piece and not the display one, may be this one had some defect hence cost less. They committed to deliver it in 2 weeks.
The last 2 weeks we pretty much expected that they would ask us to pay a balance of 10K the day they deliver the piece to us.
But we recieved the furniture last evening, with no visible defects and at the same price that we had originally paid for.
But we are still not convinced that it is for 5K.

So, window shopping is not that bad I guess .