18 Questions

Completely lifted ala Pritam style from Varun's blog.

Here it goes 18 questions..

1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it?

Ans. Hmmm..There s one on my hand near the elbow..got it long back while fielding in a match against Hyderabad CC at Bangalore's Brijesh Patel Cricket Academy Grounds..

2. What does your phone look like?

Ans. Sleek and weighs like thin air..Nokia 5310 Music Edition Phone which i changed after like 4 yrs..

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom..

Ans. In bangalore nothing but i plan to put something inspirational and Calcutta there was a Jacques Kallis Poster which is now taken off and the room has been converted into my Mom's new office..

4. What is your Current Desktop Picture..?

Ans. Got it from a blog while researching for Quiz generally..

Here it is

5. Do you believe in gay marriages?

Ans. I do not havw any problems with them but i dont understand whats the fuss all about? Just let them be as they too have a choice..

6. What do you want more than anything right now?

Ans. Well, 1. Peace of Mind and 2. End to Politics in College..I mean I can play it too just coz i'm shut and taking the whole shit doesnt mean they can go on n on..

7. What time were you born?

Ans. 7.52am.. :)

Yes i know it..!

8. Are your parents still together?

Ans. YES YES very much..in 23 days approx..they will be celebrating their 22nd Marriage anniversary..

9. Last person who made you cry?

Ans. Pretty much don't remember..

10. What is your favorite perfume/cologne?

Ans. Well, nothing in particular..but I like Ferrari..and i have a pretty old one from Paris i got from my Aunt..it's called Monsieur Di Givenchi..

11. What kind of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?

Ans. Hmmm.. Long Black Hair with a tinge of curls may be..mind you may be..
and eyes.. Hazel is perfect..

12. What are you listening to right now?

Ans. Lambi Judaai..Jannat..

13. Do you get scared of the dark?

Ans. Ah no..!

14. Do you like pain killers?

Ans. I don't remember the last time I had them as i dont get unwell or something tht often.

15. Are you too shy to ask someone out?

Ans. Yes very much.. I'd be too skeptical of putting myself in a relationship but ultimately would make the cut..somehow..lol

16. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?

Ans. Haldiram Bhujia..i can like pretty much live on it.. and somehow go back to Calcutta to have Muri..

17. Who was the last person you made mad?

Ans. There's this crazy teacher we have who in the 3rd yr of College tells your parents to call him up coz u ve not attended the Freshers.. and when you tell him. " Sir, this is the 1st time I bunked this semester" He retorts," Gentleman, you rape also for the first time, you murder also for the first time and you kidnap also for the first time"

I rest my case..wat say?

18. Is anyone in love with you?

Ans. Hmm.. my family and few friends are..lol
Otherwise yes there's a girl...and i'm pretty happy about it...

MY FILM AWARDS

The Last year has seen many a spirited performances in the Film Industry..
Here are the awards..(exaggeration may be!)

Best Choreographer: Farah Khan for OSO (Dhin tana)

Best Editor: Amitabh Shukla for Chak De India! (I wonder what he would have cut..they say it is one of the toughest jobs..and i dont think any other movie did a better show in terms of overall package)

Best Songs(Could'nt resist extending the list): MAA from TZP, Tumse Hi from Jab We Met & Baatein Kuch Ankahee from Life in A Metro

Best Singer(Male): Shankar Mahadevan for Taare Zameen Par(TZP)

Best Singer(Female): Yeh Ishq Hai by Shreya Ghoshal (JWM)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male): Aamir Khan for TZP and Shreyas Talpade for OSO

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female): Chak De Girls

Best Film : Jab We Met

Best Actor(Female): Kareena Kapoor for JWM

Best Actor (Male): Shahid Kapur for his best performance till date in JWM and no second thoughts on SRK for Chak De India!

My Choice of Top 3 Bollywood Movies of 2007

The First Spot undoubtedly goes to Jab We Met for bringing a fresh lease of life in HIndi Cinema though the Second half according to many is predictable and blah blah..
But my take is that the second half with poor Anshuman reeling behind Shahid to get the pie makes for one of the most hilarious sequences of the Year.. His dialogue, "Arre Kuppal(Couple ) to hum dono hai" is truly funny. Kareena Kapoor looks slimmer and better and at her natural best. Shahid Kapur's career gets a lift out of a superb performance cum sympathy for the bad bad Break up. All in all the Movie of the Year for many..at least many i know..



At Second Spot, Shimit Amin contnues his dream run at the Box Office after Ab Tak Chappan with Chak De India and receives tremendous support needed to make such a film from the Big Daddy of Indian Film Production YashRaj Films. Story of a Loser team going up the rungs and ultimately winning a World Cup otherwise would not have gathered such a response from an Indian Audience who might have seen many such movies but it was the presence of the larger than life SRK that did the trick. A Beard and looking more his age than acting ten years junior or make it twenty SRK is a charmer, both to the team and the audience. Extremely jovial incindents inside the team make the watch more memorable and how there are fights in between till the fag end of the tourney is also a great reperesentation of how all the sports in the world are played and rivalry inside the team has been there ever since. The film takes you outside the world of Cricket but within days of the release, the MOvie becomes the National Anthem of the Indian Cricket Team.



A Close third is OM SHANTI OM. The answer to that is for 3 simple reasons

1. Deepika Padukone
2. Deepika Padukone
3. Deepika Padukone

For all those who dint like the movie have their say but in the battle of Saawariya and OSO, the latter came out winning hands down and Yenna Rascala Mind IT is probably the only south indian term a north indian knows as of now. Excellent picturisation and SRK looks old but all that is forgiven.

Well for those who missed the bus are Sajid Khan's Heyy Baby, Bhool Bhulaiyya, Namastey London and Bheja Fry. INcindentally three of them are Akshay Kumar flicks and he seems to have a tremendous patronage in the public as he dishes out hits at will.

BCCI : Board of Complete Confusion in India

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Co. scripted the most spectacular success stories with a team that not many had tipped to win a World Cup and last of all a Twenty20 WC, a form of the game that was not favoured by the Board and more importantly not even played much.

Leave that aside, the team went to South Africa within a week of the India England ODI series and with no Official Coach. COmendable is the contribution of Lalchand Rajput, Robin Singh and Venkatesh Prasad who took the mantle of this responsiblity with panache and extreme professionalism.

THE LARGER QUESTION IS WILL INDIA HONOUR THEIR SERVICES???

Next on the Agenda is its 7 point Memorandum for the Selectors.

Mr.Niranjan Shah released it very easily curbing every possible thing and enjoying the limelioght. Sir, Dilip Vengsarkar is a former captain has played more than 100 tests and scored more than 8000 test runs and the way he has been treated is a cause of worry for the INdian fan because no where in the Management of Indian Cricket except for the Selectors a Crcketer figures. It's filled with bureucrats, politicians, Media persons.
It's a game that I believe should be run by Cricketers and they would be in a better position to see how indian cricket goes ahead not with murky television deals and even worse treatment of ex-cricketers and present cricketers.

A UP ranji cricketer committed Suicide and present Board official Rajiv shukla(Last seen on some Hindi Channel reporting from Rae Bareilly) bluntly saidno support will be provided.

The fees given to players in Ranji trophy was only increased when Money Rich ICL began clearly snapping up players Left, Right and centre and specualtions are rife today about even India's one time prolific MIddle Order Bat Mohammed Kaif to be joining the rebel league.

Well.. this is all for today on BCCI : Board of Cricket Contol in India..lol..pun intended..

Of Times Gone By.. Just Gone By..

Well..
6 Months of no blogging and now i'm back courtesy three main reasons..

1. I have a Continous Internal Assignment which carries TEN MARKS for which I have to make a Blog..

2. I have a Continous Internal Assignment which carries TEN MARKS for which I have to make a Blog..

3. I have a Continous Internal Assignment which carries TEN MARKS for which I have to make a Blog..

Hahhaah..Just kidding..Obviously the Assignment is the Driving force behind me blogging again it gives me immense pleasure to actually start writing all over again..

So I'm back and loads of cricket and bollywood and stufff here and there..

After all it is indeed,

CRICKET AND OTHER THINGS..


Now, the reasons for just not blogging and hence the hiatus,

No internet at my place..
but now im trying to fix something and sure will write pretty regularly..

Goblay

One energetic professor and a small but motivated group of students present Goblay- An inspiration, an ancient chant, a way of life.

Mediocrity has become alarmingly acceptable. Almost every service offered and product developed could be made exceptional with just a little more effort. But we choose to accept the mediocre, the mundane.

Goblay is a campaign that will encourage, nay demand that people say no to mediocrity in all its forms.
The first step of the campaign is the mammoth task of capturing 10000 of the funniest faces people can pull. The intensity of your grimace represents your hatred for mediocrity,and the owner of the ugliest or funniest face wins an I-POD. The main incentive of course for having your picture taken is to leer off a 60 by 18 foot banner, displayed in one of the most popular colleges in Bangalore.

On having your picture taken you will receive a Goblay pledge card, on which you will place your thumb impression, solidifying your commitment to the fight against mediocrity.Once you have joined the Goblay campaign, visit our web site, goblay.com to find out how
you can implement Goblay’s philosophy in your life, hold Goblay events, propagate the Goblay philosophy in your classroom and live a Goblay life.
The aim of Goblay is simple. To say no to mediocrity. And Goblay’s message shall spread till we all strive to be unmediocre.

Till we can all proudly proclaim- I am Goblay

goblay.com awaits you!

Some Trivia (7)

Yeah writing after a pretty long time..and what better day to post Some Trivia 7 than today..

07.07.07..

Here it goes..

1. David Beckham, ManU Jersey No.7 legend once told in public that he uses 60 Pairs of Marks & Spencers Underwears. The next day he landed a Multimillion dollar endorsement deal with them.

2. The 7th President of U.S.A Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel and was wounded by a bullet. The bullet was lodged near his heart and could not be removed.

3. Google has in 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site.

4. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population. (So let's do something bout messagin..population n ll is no threat..lol)

5. Cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemical agents.

6. 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online. (Now you know wh divorces are increasing at a rapid rate)

7. Over 1000 elephants were used during the construction of the Taj Mahal. (And i Don't know how many votes were needed or would be needed to make it a Wonder of the World)