Harsha's emotions !!

India vs SouthAfirca, WC 2011 league match [12-03-2011]. Messy show from Indian team, pretty sure that the heart and mind of cricket crazy would have been sinked in sorrow after that poor show. This article a very special one to me, think this should be posted in Indian dressing room and all the players should have a look at this before they play the upcoming days.. Harsha's pen after that match 

Will world cup win Sachin this time

The only feather left out of his crown is the world cup triumph ...Its not only the master's thirst, its a country's dream . A  photo of WC winning Indian team with little master one among them would be an all time memory not only for Master, also for his followers

The biggest ambition for each and every cricketer would be to register their name in the history by being in WC winning team. I believe right from 1992 the little master should be waiting for this moment .. So its a very long wait, almost 20 years ..

Earlier WC during 90s, He was the only player who used to carry the whole nations dream . Even the opponent would know that they are only one wicket away from victory against us when Master is on the crease and even though rest of the batsmen are yet to play ..

What else one can expect, when some one delivers their best when they are emotionally down... He has given that countless number of times to India. The toughest among them was his brilliant century against Kenya during 99 WC, which was his immediate match after his father's demises .. Some can say, it was just knock against the weak Kenyan team.. But the real fact was Indian team was mentally down after losing the previous match against Zimbawe . Above that giving your best when your emotionally broken is unimaginable..He gave it, for the nation ..

Starting  from 2000 things got changed, we got 6 to 7 more players (never include a bowler though) to share the pressure from Master. I am sure that most of us who had the habit of turning TV off when he is gone during 90s, are watching the match till the end with faith ..

Its a dream batting order, no big expectation on Sachin this time. We have a Sehwag to blast, ghambir to steady, Dhoni to fight and Yusuf to demolish even though Sachin miss to bang . All eye on Sachin and Dhoni's combination, this would be India's better chance of winning the WC .

Master has got bag full of awards and recognition, but to be a member of WC team will always be a best things to carry along with him.So as one among the crazy cricket lover of the nation, expecting(Praying) India to win the WC .

Winning the WC with sachin in, will be a happy note, but winning the WC due to Sachin, will be a treasurable note ;-)

Hoping for the best !!! Come on India !!!

ஒருநாளின் வியப்புகள் !!

Day : 27/11/2010 Saturday
Location : Ashby De la Zouch (Small British village)

Exactly its my 50th day in this English soil, winter already started ..Day light ends here by 4:00 pm daily and the cold wind always blows even when the sun is shining high above the head.. Each day, when I woke up, will be openning my window curiously to know how the day looks..

The day started as usual , opening the window, surprised.... Its SNOW all over..Beautiful, White colour was spread around every where in the houses,cars the park near my house..Excited totally on seeing snow first time.So the day started in a more colourful way !!

So as planned, took some snaps and ensured to capture these moments.There was yet another plan for the day, haircut .. Every one might be thinking whats there to plan for this..Coz, this was my first trial in the Britain.. Already heard and seen many of my friends (bad) experience here

So thought of taking an expert advise, who was the latest victim too !!..He told me few major points
 * Clippers - (local trimmers ) Make sure, they use them only for the side ways and not the upper and front portion of the hair

 * Size - starts from 0 and increases, lesser the number more the loss of hair.. He said he took number 3 last time, immediately I decided to take number 4 (on seeing his hairstyle)

Checked with him regarding the location and Started walking towards the town.The whole village was filled with white every where..It was good to walk in the snow too ( except the cold )..Few places I was able to see the ice melting due to the sun rays. Reached the destination !!

Nothing much differed in look when comparing to one in our Salem... Same newspapers around to make us entertaining, but the TV was missing and found some toys that was kept for the children..My turn came. I went and sat on the same designed chair ..

young lady came..My first surprise (Paaru da , namba urlayum taan kada irukae ??) .So she started asking something, I was not able to guess what where those..Just started "Need to shorten them", she was clue less.Immediately I said "number 4 and use clippers around, scissors in the front" (namaku therinja matter avalavu taan).She took the trimmer and started the job.. Many thoughts came across my mind

At one point, she just asked "is this fine ?? ".. I was without my specks and said its fine and asked her to proceed ..(athoda vilaivu, i came to know after 5 mins).. Atlast she used some word to denote 'Girudha', some how assumed, she was asking about that and managed to clear her question on the length of 'Girudha'

So all done, she again used a mirror to show my rear part of my hair..Again without specks, same way said its  fine..then its done ...Now the final part..Bill, she charged.. 9 pounds (9*70 = 630)..(Naan apadiaye shock ayitaen) .

My friend told that they would charge,nine when they use scissors fully else they will charge less.So I asked the same, she confirmed again saying the same (namba neram, oru varusathuku haircutuku panrae selavae..orae naale panitaen).

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The highlight of all these is, I dint notice my hairstyle after that, when I was walking back home only, I remembered that I dint see my hair style and when I noticed it !!!! (Ena koduma sir ithu !! )

All alone looking for a Spark !!

Diwali !!,single word giving sparkling images. Intha diwali is going to be a bit special for me, special may not be the apt word,a bit rare one to make it fit...Alone in another corner of the world where even the word 'DIWALI' sounds very low...

சின்ன வயசுலேந்தே ரொம்ப ரசிச்சு ஆசையா celebrate பண்றே ஒரு festival, ஒரே ஒரு festival nu கூட சொல்லாம்

Diwali a week before
The fever would start a week ago..diwaliyae manasulae nenachae the days would pass for me...

Traffic, Legend, Cocktail... Jeans,Cargo,T-shirts....The whole week will go colorfully ..

ARRS Multiplex,Keerthana,Ramanaa theatre ......Vijay moka padamo, Ajith moka padamo ... pasanga ethanae perunu count pani..antha moka padatha pakae ticket booking ...

 Last two diwali ku, journey to Salem kooda special .... special bookings....journey from chennai, kickoff aanathae late night..Almost the whole night was in Railway station or koyambedu :-)

 Diwali the day
Right from morning, each and every moments are special..

Enoda family "Engal veetil elaa naalum kaarthigai" (vikraman movie) kind of family, so inga saatha pandigayae diwali maathiri taan, apo diwali epadi irukum ??? .Always the last person in getting up and bathing..Special kuliyal..

Yosichu pakambothu taan I could feel, only on diwali en ama,apa rendu perum senthu enaku puthu dress kodupaanga ...Surely will miss them first

Rest of the day, sure ah will be only with pasanga !! apaa voda vandi eduthutu will be going to most my of my freind's house . Athukaparama straight aah padathuku taan..90% diwali anikku pakarae padam mokayataan irukkum..Athu enamo ena mayamoo therilaa ..Anaalum athu oru jolly ...

Evening evan veetukaathu poi, pataasu vedichutu, apadiyae night inoru padam... Sathyama its a HEAVENly feeling.

Nambha vazhkaila, oru silla naal ipadi taan irukanumnu nama kulla oru definition irukkum...Diwali is one among them.

Kandipaaa intha diwali a big miss to me !!

Will be missing my family and friends..

Happy diwali 2010..

Life Goes on ???


How is life going ??

am doing fine da, its cool and rocking ... I always used to say this..


One day, I was idle nothing left to do, so thought of checking the above statement,  tried to screen my 24 yrs of life journey, vicissitudes that I have undergone so far.


When I think about Changes in my life, first ever transformation that I had was with my school(VII std),I was made to join a new school.(Old school had only till VI std). Very little kid I was, so had no choices or not given any choices.I moved from a school where I was one among the 10 students in the class to a school where there were around 30 per section and 4 sections per class.(ie one among 120) .The whole VII went miserably, depressed, felt inferior and then everything changed gradually. I had a very little part to play in this period of my life


My second change also happened during my school days, XI std.. One among 30 to among 75 ( that too only guys ) ..I was given three choices and was asked to take a decision that will decide my career path . computers/accounts/bio . I straight away went with computers, but this was not a matured or furistic decision, to be frank its was coz was one of my best friend and his friends opted it. Funny, as I look to it now, but thats how I made it.I just went with the wind


Next part, college , no let me call it as BE , coz those days to me BE was the only course so I preffered it, then I took Computer science eng in Sona college..
Why BE - I never thought there was anything left than this
Why CS - The only term that I was at least familiar with ( ECE,EEE,MECH ---#$($*% )
Why Sona - No choices here, I managed to get only this college

Though all most all guys around me had the same answer for the first one and relative answer for the second too. Few buddies chased alteast for the third part. which I did not care about, I had no exposure or desire on it , which other pals had . Life just gave me, I had it ..


Four long years of college passed away beautifully , where the main motto was to enjoy. Then came my next transition. My carrier, those days it was a straight forward decision for me to go for MNCs ,easy hittable target.

Preperation for it was quite simple, just made a blind copy of seniors resume, made fine with basic technical skills, prepared to present myself differently with these I managed to fetch a job too !! With almost having no idea about MNCs, the style of job or the way of working I got a job. When I re-think  about this now, its clear to me that lack of dream or ambition made me a SE.Feel intimated when I think where I would have been if there were no IT MNCs.Again Life just threw it to me and I managed to hold it . Even this part of  my life I had no chase within me


My carrier started ,entered a MNC proudly, was almost a hero to all my family members ( who thought, its tough to find a place in MNCs ). The game of MNC started with their own technical raining , where they trained me and molded me technically, without even knowing my interest or strength in that technology, they just gave me a technology to survive. Again I went through the path that life gave me..


After almost a year later a sharp thought "STOP this is not my cup of tea !!". 24yrs it took for me to just think about this. Each day I traveled in the direction that was shown to me..


Life Goes on and I just follow it !! Let me try to pave my own path from now on

PS: let me TRY :-)  

T20 '10 , Behind the show !!

T20 '10 a mighty disaster for the Old Champs , but this posting is not due to frustration.


Indians really showed a messy performance through out the tournament. The old champions failed to launch the flag of success in West Indies, no one would have minded our exit if we had given our best there.We did not even win a single game in super 8. We just repeated our mistakes, without overcoming it !!.Not an embellishment, I can say 'BOUNCERS' kicked India out of the WC 


Indian batsmen feared on hearing the word 'BOUNCER' , on the other hand bowlers showed that they have not heard the word 'BOUNCER' at all. All the team had at-least one front line bowler , bowling at the speed of 140+ .Our front line bowlers tried touching 130 (not MPH) at times.So our bowling and batting was not upto the mark


If we review our fielding strength ( better not to speak about that ). Yuvaraj  , I still remember Yuvi taking the catches of Gibbs and Jhonty in short fine leg, that turned the one sided match and we won the match in mini-world cup. But now he is not ready to even stop the ball in mid-off ( the one which he let it go through his leg VS SL was really terrible). One time worlds best fielder, is not fit in fielding (Batting too !!).Yuvi,Baji and Zaheer are not at all fit to field I would say ( I know , I myself a poor fielder, so it was easy for me to pick them my side).Even for fielding stepped us down 


When a few teams missed some things in their game plan, we missed the game plan itself !!.We played with only two seamers in bouncy WI pitches.not even with a part time medium pacer.. When all team had executed short balls from Seamer, we managed to do the same with Jadeja..3 sixes that Watson smashed was the three worst delivery of the tournament. ( thought of writing on Jadeja's performence, but it will take me another blog)


The pity most thing is King of Indian pitches , not even able to read Indies pitch.We had too many KINGS (CSK,KXI) but had no soldier to fight !


These were the reasons why we were blown out of WC, but the important question here is , who is responsible for this .I wont agree if they point at MSD or his men for this fatal show . Its BCCI ...


The selfish management has to take full responsibility, starting from the tight match schedules and big IPL, coaching.People who have average knowledge about cricket will say , WI has bouncy surfaces. We all know the fact that none of our guys are good at facing them and delivering them


You think our MIB were given time to overcome their weakness?? , no not at all. month after month BCCI manages to provide fixtures , then where comes the time for our men to get them self strengthened.BCCI should have planned for the camp a month before WC..The coach should have analysed the strength and weakness of team and made members comfortable in their weakness.But that dint happen, coz total INDIA was busy with IPL, the other culprit They should have created a game plan for each team.As we can see all teams game plan against India is "SHORT DELIVERIES" (Even WI succeeded in that)


It some how makes me to relate IPL with IT industry,in common the top level management does a big business handsomely, just by toiling the lower level employees. IPL just sold cricket,therer are no benefits for our team.They just mastered the game, where they were already the best. Any Asian pitches, Indians are the best, vice-versa does not fit .


MRF face foundation has produced plenty of world class fast bowlers, but none of them in India..In this billion popullation is it that difficult to find young blooded fast bowler !! coach never tries to increase the pace of seamer(they dont mind ). 


BCCI must stop giving tight schedules to players and provide them time to analyse their weaknes.If this happens, with this team we can surely be Champions again

Final word from Dhoni in post match ceremony, was a hint to the management and was brave comment made by the skipper.


GOD only knows the future of Indian cricket!!

PS: GOD I referred here is not SRT !!

 

Jillendru Oru kalavaram !!

Hi pals, This is going to be my first try on fiction ..Here I go ,
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Karthik, yes thats my so called name, 25 yr young guy working as a s/w engineer in Pune .being from chennai, I never wanted to be here, but hardly have no other choice.. "நான் அரு தமிழன்" nowadays I keep saying these words to me again and again, bcoz I dont find any one else here speaking tamil .

I live in a very big apartment with my colleagues, where only one among them is from south India..Abilash,he is from Kerala, as any keralate do, this guy also is well-versed in hindi..So he had no worries in moving with my other northy guys ..

 I am totally misfited with them.


My day goes like this, getting up in the morning, reaching office , returning back and going back to bed..nothing big or spl happens between this, I dont do a very creative or brain-eating work, same routine work.So nothing interesting was going at my work place too .


I was just living my life forlornly


21/12/2009 - Monday


I used to feel quite joyous in week day rather weekend, because I feel haunted during my week end.The language barrier always makes me walk alone in a crowd...Monday morning, just started in time to office, stepped out of my home by 7:30am and made my mindset to stay cool the whole day, and prepared myself to dance to the tune of my BOSS.I got into the lonely lift ,started from 8th floor and turned my IPOD on...


When lift got halted in 6th floor , my IPOD started with "நெஞ்சை பூ போல் கொயிதவலே !!" , She entered the lift !! , I thought for the moment she entered into my life too. First time am seeing her..She was adorable, I think she was exquisite in her violet color salwar, not very fair in color, but a bit fairer than me, very clear face. Looked as if the most wanted girl (Specially for me ),I can sense that she must be malayali on seeing 'சந்தனம்' in her face!!

Quicker than usual days lift reached the floors, I just followed her blindly until she started her Access vehicle and cleared the smoke. She completely mesmerized me..I was normal only few mins after that, but my thoughts started to cloud around her.Now a days in life I just get impressed only on two things , young beautiful girls and Cherub little kids.Because only with factors hindi doesn't play a big role, coz Am going only going to admire them from a distance

Started marching towards the bus stop, my inner voices kick started "I think I need to chase her, atleast to be her friend, so that I may have a twist in my life "..Loneliness and frustrated life style made me to think so, I guess..Got into bus and started the 1 hr travel to reach my office, ARR and YUVAN accompanied me with some romantic songs..Still her face flashed me now and then ..Everything suddenly turned white when I saw my boss Mr Singh.Nowadays started enjoying Sardharji's joke more lively !!

When I opened my mail box,I was saw a mail from my boss with the content " A new team member called Reshma is going to join our team today, you need to give her all the KT part "..Reshma its definitely a mallus name, WOW will that be the same girl I saw in my flat..Oh if that is the case, I need to act more smart !!


Will she be able to recognize me ?
So how to introduce myself ?

Should i need to tell her abt the lift meeting?

மௌனம் பேசியதே Surya மாதிரி hiny கொடுக்கணுமா (அடங்கப்பா இது உலக நடிப்பு டா சாமி !! )

All these vanished the scene , the moment I saw Reshma..Yes she is some one else and more importantly a older women around 30 yrs of age . Totally am out of the world, my great dream for that day got collapsed !! Just gave a blunt intro to her and managed to make her to feel as if I was busy by carrying my work

Post-lunch session , when I sat back to work..One more thought, " Saw her in my flat today morning, so I guess she must be residing there", so I need to find which flat ( mostly 6th floor, but there were quite a little number of houses).I need to try to get her in touch with, atleast after that my life might be little interesting".So I thought of leaving early and make some tricks to show off !

I need to reach home around 5, so probability of meeting her will be more, I told to myself..Managed to start home by 4, somehow just escaped from my work place
 Usual irritation was missing with me , I was able to feel it myself.Cool breeze gave me some romantic mood..Boarded into the city bus and managed to get a window seat. Pierced the headphone and started listening to my songs again. Though my playlist was  in shuffled mode , I was getting only romantic songs for the whole day…Traffic Jam, as usual played its role.Bus got halted.

Just started to see things outside my window, nothing so spl I was able to see,  on the opposite road I saw a school, all children was happily coming out of the school EOD , this moment took me back to my school days..What a lovely period it was, friends and happiness was always around me !!

Suddenly I noticed a cute little girl,might be doing LKG or UKG..She was looking very cute and lonely, she was doing something with her hands,might be just counting things around her ..which looked very cute and attractive.Suddenly she just slipped down from where she was sitting

Oh god she started crying, looking for some one to console her!! I was not able to see the little girl crying for help, where the hell her mother would have went ?? I hate this..These small kids should always be accompanied by some one,sply her mom



Just in time, I saw her mother marching towards the cutie, immediately seeing her mother the cuty stood up and started to hug her mom..A sign of relief to me !!this gave me to feel as if , after a strong struggle, young couple getting married in a tamil film climax..
 Hey wait a minute, the same Violet Salwar, my heart stopped a moment ! Oh no it’s the same girl, (no she is a lady now !! ).exactly the ipod started “ Venmathi venmathi “..Apaa mudinchae pocha ?? ..Now my story climax got turned !!


Yes I love seeing young girls and cute kids,but never expected such a co-relation between them
 My bus started moving , but my mind refused to move from there ! after relxing a bit I thought 
"Thank god, she got married else I might have started loving her and I maight have troubled me more” (Dhoda!! ).

I knew one more thing, if I say these things to my friends they will surely ROFL on me !!

End of the sweat little tragedy !!