Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Will you be there? - Second Version

When the world shall cease to exist
and I will look for a hand for support
Will you be there?

When I would've given up all hope
and survival would be tough
Will you be there?

When I would've lost all faith in love
and would want to end my life with you beside me
Will you be there?

When I would like to see you for the last time
and seal the last bit of time together
Will you be there?

When I will ask for one special moment from GOD
and hope to spend it with you on this earth
Will you be there?

When life is about to end
and all I can see would be you
Will you be there?

When I want to marry you
and spend my life with you
Will you be there?

When I ask for some time with you
and instead end up spending an entire lifetime
Will you be there?

Will you be there? - First Version

Will you be there?
when i will be here.
so that this face-off doesn't happen tonight


Will you be there?
when i will be here.
coz things haven't been good with us, right?

Will you be there?
when i will be here.
so that after today we don't end up having a fight

Will you be there?
when i will be here.
and save me from this plight of seeing you again this night!

Will you be there?
when i will be here.
and end things peacefully between us and go home happy!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Another spineless performance! - 16th Feb-08- Ind v/s Aus - 152 /10 - 203/9!

Can't believe it has happened again. I mean it is only India which can do such a thing but i wasn't expecting something like this from this particular team.

a few things which baffle me, rather i wanna debate about with someone.

why send pathan at no.3 when you have uthappa who is itching to get there, hasn't had a good time yet, is out of touch a bit and needs some batting practice. not doubting pathan's skills as a batsman, but he is not as good as Uthappa that no one can argue about. Also, Uthappa is chosen more as a bastman, infact only as a batsman and pathan has a dual role. half of which was accomplished brilliantly. taking 4 wkts giving away 41 runs only.

anyway, this was one point second is why were they playing as if it was a 20 20 match. why was uthappa in such a hurry that even though we had about 12 overs to go he went for the attack.
weren't the tailenders told about the bonus point that Australia could get if India scores less than 162. i mean it wasn't that we were asking munaf patel and Sreseanth to score 40 in 12 balls!!! this was highly ridiculous. we just gave away a bonus pt which could prove crucial in the long run.

suddenly after the first win against the mighty aussies we have let them come back and this is not good . as they say when you have a champion team down you pull them further down and not let them get up.

India will pay for it. Dhoni getting out could ve been the turning point but the batsmen who got out before him have to be blamed for it.

Sachin was unlucky, Gambhir played a horrible shot especially because he was the man in form and had settled down with a 34 off 42 balls. next to go was Rohit sharma, a bad shot. still can be expected because he was still getting settled. yuvi, out of form scratched around for 44 balls scoring 26. Uthappa gave up too soon scoring 18 in 36. Pathan was just a waist getting 18 off 30.

if so many of ur batsmen fail on one day you cannot expect to win. Let's be frank here, we know that yuvi is not going thru the best of forms, and uthappa is out of touch, so we need to keep in mind their failures and as the law of averages works - Rohit had scored runs in the last match, so i wasn't expecting him to do it this time. gambhir had not done it since his century and since he was quite consistent in the Twenty20 i thought he would like to maintain it here and cement his place in the side. unfortunately he failed to live up to his expectation.

Did not expect this from dhoni's team. I thought he was a fighter and his team is one too, but this time they gave in too meekly. hope this does not happen again. Really have faith in these players and i believe they can achieve what lot of indian teams haven't in the past. !!!

Go Team India Go !!!!!!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

I' ve been far from cricket. Cricket has never been far from me.

No matter how hard i try it has never happened.
right from the time i shifted to my new building when i was about 2 yrs old to my new office or rather my first office. Cricket has never been too far for me to not be able to reach it.

my first love and my longest relationship.
It's been the best friend I' ve ever had and certainly cherish this bonding.

When i had shifted to this new building in juhu, Juhu Griha Swapna, I was about 10-12 yrs old and was shy and found it very difficult to make friends or even talk to people. but cricket was the single factor that would connect me with the rest of the building people. Either knowing them by playing with them or by breaking somebody's window panes and then apologizing later or in some cases paying for the broken. window pane. i vividly remember breaking Mr. Lala's window panes very regularly and how he used to get troubled by us in the afternoons on all weekdays and early mornings on weekends. We used to hate him at times but now i feel he was still quite kind as he never stopped us from playing but would just get irritated. he's no more now and it's quite a tragedy that we troubled him a lot even in his last days.

back to the topic, after my first few years at this building we shifted to a new one which wasn't too far away. so i thought i would go back and play with my old mates. but that seldom happened and i made new 'cricket friends'. kids of all ages from around the area would come and pay with us. we had formed quite a big team and would often run into the adjoining ground and play over there.

ohh..how can i forget to mention the cricket we played when we were in school. especially in the 9th and 10th std. whenever we sued to get a free period we would rush to the ground and start playing there. this affair continued even after we left school. we would call up each other and all the juhu brats would meet up at the jamnabai grounds and have a fun time.

11th and 12th cricket was with akshay and me. yup! just the two of us meeting for a friendly bowl!...every second day we would be playing in my bldg compound..n improved our skills!! or so we thought!!

n then engineering had another 2 sets. one was when akshayand deep and bell would get done early from coll and second one would be when i would call up dhaval, alok, pratik and the rest to come and play.

then 2 yrs hence or guess abt 3 yrs later i stepped into xaviers. i thot now that i am entering in a set of ppl with totally different thinking and some who don't even have similar interests, this will be a difficult phase in my life. also coming up after a slight depression i was very circumspect.

but then as has happened all these years i found my buddy here too. altho it was just one, Mr.Desai was the sole saviour who instilled my faith in this new generation. i thot most would be the kind who love football and basketball and the likes but there were a few cricket lovers...fanatic if i must say.

saurbah and malay were my last hopes..but then the gang has since become bigger with nihal, saahil, pranav n a few others..

altho we hardly played during college just to have ppl who r interested in cricket was gud enuff. i could discuss and argue with them and debate on various issues. at times this would give me a lot of satisfaction.

n now in my new office...initially for the first 6-7 months i had completely lost touch, no body in off would play cricket...of course no one ever does!! and then ppl in the bldg too had stopped playing for some odd reason. so it was about time when i had started really missing it a lot. i was craving for a game and then in this bid called on some long lost friends from school and we had a match or two on one of the weekends. but that was it. 2 games and it was all done.

but here it was again, off ppl to the rescue. someone somewhere got this idea of playing underarm in the office parking lot during lunchtime. the best use of lunchtime breaks ever!!!

so there we are now a happy group of about 15 ppl who play cricket every day between 1:30 pm. to 2: 00 pm. . the match ends at 2:00 sharp so as to not bother the big heads in the company.

and cricket in the building is also on its comeback trail what with 16 players gathering yesterday and talks of having another nite cricket match like the one we had about 2 years back...

the cricket scene in my life has come back with a vengeance and am so happy!!

also my school bud yash is back, so here 's to a life full of cricket!! cheers


p.s. my gud frnd bax once asked me - " sid, if you were given the choice between cricket and sex, what would you choose?" - my look gave her the answer and i think she knew it too!!!

Friday, February 08, 2008

How long?

That is indeed a question that is not just in my mind but has been put in the mind's of some of my close ones.

before you jump to other conclusions let me clear it right away. i am talking about my work and study. Should i quit this job after a year and go try out some other media as my initial plan was and then work for another year and then plan my further studies or...the big OR !!...or...leave the job and look for courses India or abroad!!..

The dilemma doesn't end there..if abroad then where.UK..USA..Australia..all look quite tempting..and if quite to try out some other media then which one?..Radio..Production..Channel...what to do !!! Arghh....no one but I is the only one who can help me get out of this!

It is this 'Stuff' that i keep talking about!!....n lots more..

This how long can be actually used for a lot of my worries and fun aspects!!..hehehe

getting more ideas ...but I dn't wanna ruin my weekend n am leaving office now...!

Why can't I think the way I think when I am thinking?

What i am going to write is not as complex as the topic makes it sound. It is just what came to my mind when I was seeing a lot of the ads and some of the copy i wrote and suggestions made by colleagues.

As in i myself could ve written something similar, but for some odd reason i could not think in that manner. Also, I ve noticed that the way i think when am not at work and just with friends or something or when i am cracking jokes is quite different to the way i think when am at work.

it is exactly like the saying which ends with something like ' my brain stops working just when i reach the office' I somehow can't even think as to what the exact version was. I just feel a bit irritated today.

A bit of headache is trying to get the better of me.

I feel i have reached a certain level where certain things bother me and certain things don't.

Coming back to the topic, i want to explain it using an example. Like when someone uses a particular word like the other day a office colleague shouted out that cabbies r on a flash strike...n the first thought that came to my mind was flash the software..n i cracked a silly joke on that.

but when i am writing copy or basically just working i tend to think quite horizontally. I think on what the word really means and am not able to go beyond and explore other routes. Sometimes this comes in the way of my thinking and creative abilities.

Right now i have no solution for this nor do i know what to do from here on to get rid of this.