TOW All Lost

Sunday was a bad day.. really bad..
Ok before I recollect what was bad about Sunday.. Let me discuss TOW, I got lot all the seasons of friends from a friend. And all the episodes were named like TOW xxxx..
After some time another friend told me that TOW stands for "The One With". so taking a cue from that I named this post as "The One When" All Lost. (I have been watching lot of friends lately)

So the crux is that yesterday was a great weekend for a sports freak like me (F1, Wimbeldon final and Asia Cup final) and naturally I was supporting temas in all of these tournaments but alas all of them lost..

In F1, I was supporting Ferari, but they could not make to the podium.. :( Though the race was really eventful .. lot of spinning (because of rains and wet track) and only 13 drivers could complete the race. First disappointment of the day.. more were to come.

Asia Cup, India did well to restrict Srilanka below 300, but they could have done better, Had RPSingh caught Jayasuriya when he was at 50. But still the target was totally achievable on a flat pitch that saw targets of 300 chased with ease.
India started off in style with Sehwag in a punishing mood and raced to 74/1 in 9 overs. But then SriLanka used their new bowler (branded as new Murali) and one of the most formidable battling line up collapsed like a pack of cards. The best players of spin had no clue and India lost by huge margin. Another disappointment but the worst was yet to come

Wimbeldon, the castle of Roger was at-last conquered by none other than Nadal. What a game it was.. A truly see-saw battle between two great fighters.. But in the end Roger lost and so does BigV (lost a costly bet). This was a total heart break. Roger was not at his level best but then to he gave a fight to Nadal. And to be truthful I dont line the game of Nadal, Though he is the winner but his game is not as classy as that of Roger, rather it is more of hard work running around and just trying to sent back the return (though he has improved a lot in that as well). On the contrary Roger is pure class, only problem with him being his backhand which is not very strong. And Nadal used this deficiency of Roger to the full extent directing every ball to the champ's backhand. In the end Roger lost and I must say he tried extra hard for each point which deserves accolades. But the bottom line remains "Jo Jita wohi Sikandar" and that was the biggest disappointment of Sunday.

PS: Never want a Sunday like this :(

Skype Rocks

On Saturday, I was successful in my quest of connecting to internet from home. Yes!! At last it was done..

So in the evening I was (voice)chatting with Bunsa through gtalk, when suddenly he came up with the idea of a conference.And as per my knowledge gtalk doesnt support that as of now, so he asked me to install skype. And there after we tried to call a lot other friends as well and started the conference. There were around 7 people me, bunsa, chetan, chandan, sahu, pawan, and Kushagra Sir for some time. Tried to call others as well (atuls, ngles and sajan) but they could not join. But anyway .. it was great to talk to old friends. And then bakar started.

Time seem to melt away and It was same as it wud have been 3 years back in campus in any of our rooms. Amazing environment.. we have not changed at all.. Everything was same as was during campus days.. recollecting memories.. talking about anything and everything. It was amazing. We were in conference for more than 4 hrs. The power of true bakar lies in the fact that u never know how much time u have been bakaring for.. And I had a gr8 time.. Awesome

I am looking forward for more of such conferences. :)

And they won..

I read an article on soccernet at the start of Euro, predicting that this might be the "Year of Spain", so very true... This is the year of Spain.. they were the best team of Euro 08, playing sexy football, top class passing with excellent defending.
I think they have the best midfield with likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Seena, Fabregas...
All the matches they played were really exciting with a possible exception of Italian clash (maybe..) They always showed the intent to attack and score. They were the deserving winners.

And as BigV always says "The game of football should win". It was the case in Euro'08.

Campeonato Europeo de Fútbol Fiebre

Well I tried to compile a list of nicknames of all the 16 teams playing in EURO'08.

Germany Die Mannschaft
Spain La Selección / La Furia Roja / La Roja
Turkey Ay-Yıldızlılar
Russia (None) (USSR Red Army)
Portugal Selecção das Quinas
Czech Republic The Locomotive
Switzerland Nati
Austria Wunderteam
France Les Bleus / Les Tricolores
Italy Azzurri
Netherlands Oranje
Romania Tricolorii
Sweden Blågult
Greece The Pirate Ship
Croatia Vatreni
Poland Biało-czerwoni / Orły

From the name it can be deduced I am supporting La Furia Roja.

Chit chat

have not blogged for past 2 weeks..
reasons..
1. Nothing new
2. Busy weekends (went home and gurgaon)
3. Wanted to write about movies.. but none of them were really worth mentioning except four.

So lets go for movies first..
1) The Forbidden Kingdom .. Must watch for all martial arts movie fans. A deadly cmbo of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, with lot of magic and a reasonably good story. (7/10)
2) K-PAX : Great movie. Amazing story, Kevin Spacey rocks... the central theme is similar to "The man from earth", Just that I didn't like the climax.. (7/10)
3) Zinda : OK types movie, rather much hyped.. The first half is good but the second half does not do justice to the expectations of first half.. and I am dying to see the original (Old Boy). (5/10)
4) Robin Hood: Men in Tights .. Absolute TRASH . Don't watch it (1/10)

Busy weekend.. had a trip to Gurgaon.. the return trip was highly eventful..
Took a cab from Sikandarpur to Mehroli.. and the cab which was designed to hold 8 people was actually having 13 people .. More than the plight of the passengers, I was feeling sympathy for the car.
secondly I got a bus from Mehroli to Noida and drove in bus for around 100 min for just Rs 10. Where is inflation..

As for being busy..
Got a new TV (32inches LCD) Thanks to Sharad.. The place I live has been transformed into a neat clean house. Thanks again to Sharad :)

And lastly really goot article on the names of ASCI Characters :P
http://ascii-table.com/pronunciation-guide.php (Must Read)

8 Things Tag

IronBull has Tagged with this 8 thing tag, so here it goes....

8 things I am passionate about...
1) My machine (thats a cliche)
2) Computer Games (AOE)
3) Manchester United
4) Programming
5) Solving Puzzles
6) Cricket
7) My Guitar.
8) Movies/My Movie Collection.

8 things I want to do before I die...
1) Visit NASA
2) Hack a Real system
3) Write a Deadly virus
4) Visit Old Trafford and watch a game there
5) World Trip
6) Watch IMDB 250
7) Learn Gitar
8) Go regularly to gym.

8 things I say often...
1) Bhokal
2) Vahiyat
3) Pappu
4) Shit Man
5) OMG (Janice style)
6) Fuck
7) Dude
8) Mate

8 books I last read
1) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
2) Foundation's Edge
3) Narnia Series [7 Books]
4) A Time to Kill
5) The road to Gandolfo
6) Introduction to Algorithm by Coreman
7) Head First Servlets & JSP
8) Head First Design patterns

8 songs I could listen to over and over again... (Most difficult of all, the list is pretty big)
1) Hotel California (Eagles)
2) Johnny B. Goode(Chuck Berry)
3) Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
4) Summer Of '69 Lyrics(Bryan Adams)
5) Lemon Tree Lyrics(Fool's Garden)
6) Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
7) Bang Bang - My Baby Shot me down (Nancy Sinatra)
8) Complicated (Avril Lavigne)

Movies last Week

Last week watched 5 movies..Started with
The Bank Job (7/10). I love British movies :) The real punch of the movie is that it is based on a true incident. The movie is not in the league of Italian Job or Oceans 11, but still it can bind you for a period of 2 hrs. The movie is at times funny and thrilling with a couple of entangled stories. There is no or rather very little macho man action but still the pace of movie keeps you occupied all the time. Bottom line .. totally watchable.

27 Dresses (6/10). Stereotype romantic comedy. Totally predictable from the word GO! Katherine Heigl the protagonist is cute and acted well Also James Marsden has done a good job and the two central characters have supported each other well (especially during the dance sequence :P). The movie is at times humorous with cheeky lines, bust the best part is the song "Bennie and the Jets".

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (8/10) WOW, I watched this movie with lot of expectations and was not disappointed at all, Narration was kool, Cheeky lines, good humor. Val Kilmer rocks and so does Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Monaghan. Not as great as pulp fiction but still worth all the time. The movie is fast, thrilling and humorous. Bottom line watch it asap.

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (8/10) Kid Movie with amazing CGI, I really loved the movie. The best part of movie is the story telling with incidents of past sprayed all over the movie making it a more relaxing experience more similar to the thought train of normal humans :) Also timely humor which was blended rally well with the story. The next best part was the CGI monster himself/herself. Really a great experience.

Equilibrium (8/10) The action dose of the week, One can study the gun fire trajectory and using mathematics and simulation can improve his killing rate by 120%. Man I love this. If that is so why not teach it to everybody why there is only one who can kill the rest... Anyway the movie is a real treat for action loving junta with really amazing action sequences. The movie is based on some futuristic society developed so that humans have no emotion so that they can not harm each other and so on. Also worth watching is Christian Bale's acting, the slow evolution of emotions on his face as the movie progresses. Bottom line.. Must watch for action loving sci-fi oriented people


PS. Rajasthan Royals won IPL. (Without doubt the Best team of the tournament won).. Waiting for Euro to start