It is 8 days since I quit smoking. The reason is it is just too cold to go out to smoke.
Sundar.
Friday, November 26, 2010
It is 80 days since I have been in France. Ok I am not that happy to be away. But now I am beginning to get used to things and maybe this will get rid of unhappiness.
I will keep posting my experiences from now on. Tomorrow I am gonna cook chicken for the first time. Initially I struggled so hard to even boil rice. Now I know how to make dal, sambar, rasam and egg curry.
It is only six months more here. In some sense it is sad too. I have applied for the carte de sejour. France is very slow in the adminstrative things and so is my university.
It seems that I will get the carte de sejour in another two months probably. This makes it 5 months before I can go anywhere in Europe. Not that I am a kind of person who travels a lot. But I wanted to go to Germany to meet a friend.
A friend of mine came to Germany in Nov and within 15 days he got the residence permit and he is already going to Netherlands.
People here in France are very laid back unlike in India. Nothing will be open on Sundays and streets will be deserted all the time.
Today is the first day of snowfall in Caen. I have to buy good shoes tomorrow.
Cars wont wake me up in the mornings anymore for a while. But again public transportation has gone for a toss. Guess what I just bought a one month pass to use public transport and it wont be working regularly.
I will keep posting my experiences from now on. Tomorrow I am gonna cook chicken for the first time. Initially I struggled so hard to even boil rice. Now I know how to make dal, sambar, rasam and egg curry.
It is only six months more here. In some sense it is sad too. I have applied for the carte de sejour. France is very slow in the adminstrative things and so is my university.
It seems that I will get the carte de sejour in another two months probably. This makes it 5 months before I can go anywhere in Europe. Not that I am a kind of person who travels a lot. But I wanted to go to Germany to meet a friend.
A friend of mine came to Germany in Nov and within 15 days he got the residence permit and he is already going to Netherlands.
People here in France are very laid back unlike in India. Nothing will be open on Sundays and streets will be deserted all the time.
Today is the first day of snowfall in Caen. I have to buy good shoes tomorrow.
Cars wont wake me up in the mornings anymore for a while. But again public transportation has gone for a toss. Guess what I just bought a one month pass to use public transport and it wont be working regularly.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Great moments in cricket in the last decade
Hi folks,
This is another one on the great moments in cricket during 2000-2009. These are just moments not performances.
1) Mark Waugh's catch of VVS laxman in the chennai test in 'that series'. India were chasing 150+ and Laxman in the form of his life had already scored 66 ( I think) when he pulled Collin Miller and Mark Waugh dived to his right to catch it. It was just brilliant. It almost won the game for Aus. He took four catches in that innings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmUu65N3Ec
Ricky Ponting's diving catch of SRT was also equally good in that same series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xmq5R-RdMg&mode=related&search=
2)Collingwood's catch of Mathew Hayden during the Ashes series. Great catch at point. He repeated it in the 2007 World cup against WI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyL0S4_h4s
3)Steve Waugh's four of the last ball in the Sydney test against England. Just a cover drive when Hussain brought all the fielders in. Check here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKKVFAe5ZHg
4) Simon Jones's ball to bowl Clarke in the Ashes. Clarke just left the ball hoping the ball would miss the offstump. It came back and hit the top of offstump. Simply genius! Too sad that he can't play anymore. Poor guy. He injured his leg in his very first test at Gabba when he dived to save a four. Check this out mate. Just awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeoxS70CtKM
5)Mallinga's four of four in the 2007 World Cup when SA almost proved their chokers tag for the umpteenth time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWyzU0iMTk
6)Lara getting his 400 and regaining his record. Even though he batted far too long it was a remarkable achievement getting back the record after 10 years. I miss his sixes of the spinners when he dance down the track to loft. You can just keep watching. Soumya Paul would say only a Federer forehand can match that beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWyzU0iMTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juPqTbTU4cU
ssundar
This is another one on the great moments in cricket during 2000-2009. These are just moments not performances.
1) Mark Waugh's catch of VVS laxman in the chennai test in 'that series'. India were chasing 150+ and Laxman in the form of his life had already scored 66 ( I think) when he pulled Collin Miller and Mark Waugh dived to his right to catch it. It was just brilliant. It almost won the game for Aus. He took four catches in that innings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmUu65N3Ec
Ricky Ponting's diving catch of SRT was also equally good in that same series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xmq5R-RdMg&mode=related&search=
2)Collingwood's catch of Mathew Hayden during the Ashes series. Great catch at point. He repeated it in the 2007 World cup against WI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyL0S4_h4s
3)Steve Waugh's four of the last ball in the Sydney test against England. Just a cover drive when Hussain brought all the fielders in. Check here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKKVFAe5ZHg
4) Simon Jones's ball to bowl Clarke in the Ashes. Clarke just left the ball hoping the ball would miss the offstump. It came back and hit the top of offstump. Simply genius! Too sad that he can't play anymore. Poor guy. He injured his leg in his very first test at Gabba when he dived to save a four. Check this out mate. Just awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeoxS70CtKM
5)Mallinga's four of four in the 2007 World Cup when SA almost proved their chokers tag for the umpteenth time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWyzU0iMTk
6)Lara getting his 400 and regaining his record. Even though he batted far too long it was a remarkable achievement getting back the record after 10 years. I miss his sixes of the spinners when he dance down the track to loft. You can just keep watching. Soumya Paul would say only a Federer forehand can match that beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWyzU0iMTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juPqTbTU4cU
ssundar
Monday, January 11, 2010
Great performances in the last decade in cricket
Hi folks,
I keep reading lot of articles in the sports pages and in cricinfo reviewing the last decade. In cricinfo there was an article about great performances in the last decade. Here are my personal favourites.
1) VVS Laxman,281 against Australia at Eden Gardens. Great century against the Aussies after following on. My dad ( It is really true and he is a die hard aussie fan)told me that it was wrong to put India again and his words came true.
2)Warne's 40 wickets against England in 2005 Ashes. He was the lone reason why the result was 2-1 to England. Otherwise it would have been 4-1 for England. Who can forget his delivery to Andrew Strauss. How ironic it was for him to drop Peitersen on the final day in Oval.
3)Dravids run of form during 2002-2004. Scored four centuries on a trot including his 148 against England at Headingly under swinging conditions. Did a Laxman at Adelaide with Laxman doing a Dravid.
4)Shewags 201 against Srilanka at Galle. Negated the mysteries of Murali and Mendis while carrying his bat through.
5)Graeme Smiths fourth innings centuries against England and Australia. His 154 not out against England was awesome. His innings at Perth set the stage for the Proteas to upstage aussies in Australia.
6)Nathan Astle's blitzkrieg against England. His fastest double century included towering sixes of Andy Caddick. I wanted to be in Nzland when it happened. Chris Cairns was partnering and injured at the
time luckily for the poms. Just imagine what would it have been otherwise.
7)Glenn Mcgrath's five wicket spell at Lords in the 2005 Ashes. What a reply after getting allout for 170. He bowled Ian Bell, Vaughan and Flintoff with identical deliveries which pitched on off stump and came back to bowl them.
8)Gilchrist's second fastest century at Perth when he hit Monty Panesar for 22 runs in an over. Also his sucessive sixes of Muralitharan to reach 100 sixes were awesome.
9)Sanath Jayasuriya's double hundreds against Pakistan and against England. He shared a 100 run partnership for the 9th wicket against Pakistan when the tailender scored just 1 run.
10)A team effort: The swing bowling of England in the 2005 Ashes. Simon jones, Hamirson ,Flintoff and Hoggard didn't allow the Aussies to post a single 400+ total in the entire series. Sadly for England and World cricket Simon Jones got injured and their bowling attack faded away after that series.
With the retirements of Warne,Mcgrath,Kumble the bowling in World cricket is very bad that it makes uninteresting to watch world cricket nowadays when Batsmen chase unimaginable scores and it is not at all thrilling. I had almost stopped watching cricket in the last two years.
Note: I missed Brian Lara's series against SL when he scored more than 600 runs in a 3 match series when his team lost 3-0. It should have been gr8 to watch. Missed it!
ssundar
I keep reading lot of articles in the sports pages and in cricinfo reviewing the last decade. In cricinfo there was an article about great performances in the last decade. Here are my personal favourites.
1) VVS Laxman,281 against Australia at Eden Gardens. Great century against the Aussies after following on. My dad ( It is really true and he is a die hard aussie fan)told me that it was wrong to put India again and his words came true.
2)Warne's 40 wickets against England in 2005 Ashes. He was the lone reason why the result was 2-1 to England. Otherwise it would have been 4-1 for England. Who can forget his delivery to Andrew Strauss. How ironic it was for him to drop Peitersen on the final day in Oval.
3)Dravids run of form during 2002-2004. Scored four centuries on a trot including his 148 against England at Headingly under swinging conditions. Did a Laxman at Adelaide with Laxman doing a Dravid.
4)Shewags 201 against Srilanka at Galle. Negated the mysteries of Murali and Mendis while carrying his bat through.
5)Graeme Smiths fourth innings centuries against England and Australia. His 154 not out against England was awesome. His innings at Perth set the stage for the Proteas to upstage aussies in Australia.
6)Nathan Astle's blitzkrieg against England. His fastest double century included towering sixes of Andy Caddick. I wanted to be in Nzland when it happened. Chris Cairns was partnering and injured at the
time luckily for the poms. Just imagine what would it have been otherwise.
7)Glenn Mcgrath's five wicket spell at Lords in the 2005 Ashes. What a reply after getting allout for 170. He bowled Ian Bell, Vaughan and Flintoff with identical deliveries which pitched on off stump and came back to bowl them.
8)Gilchrist's second fastest century at Perth when he hit Monty Panesar for 22 runs in an over. Also his sucessive sixes of Muralitharan to reach 100 sixes were awesome.
9)Sanath Jayasuriya's double hundreds against Pakistan and against England. He shared a 100 run partnership for the 9th wicket against Pakistan when the tailender scored just 1 run.
10)A team effort: The swing bowling of England in the 2005 Ashes. Simon jones, Hamirson ,Flintoff and Hoggard didn't allow the Aussies to post a single 400+ total in the entire series. Sadly for England and World cricket Simon Jones got injured and their bowling attack faded away after that series.
With the retirements of Warne,Mcgrath,Kumble the bowling in World cricket is very bad that it makes uninteresting to watch world cricket nowadays when Batsmen chase unimaginable scores and it is not at all thrilling. I had almost stopped watching cricket in the last two years.
Note: I missed Brian Lara's series against SL when he scored more than 600 runs in a 3 match series when his team lost 3-0. It should have been gr8 to watch. Missed it!
ssundar
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