yellow fever ...

It has been the topmost thing on my mind to write upon but just cudn't get sum good time to put my thoughts together.
The 'rejection', for which i ditched an 'opportunity', made me pretty lackadaisical for sometime.
But before it, i faced 'the thing' ,which 1.1 billion other Indians also did and that was 'goosebumps of winning an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL' . Sumthing my generation has felt for the first time (considering the fact that the last time 'it' happened was 28 years ago).

Mr. Bindra's feat is certainly a huge thing to have happened to our country's already fragile sporting (minus cricket of course) fraternity. Sumthing that will certainly inspire thousands. The first story starting at Beijing itself when another 'haryanwi' , pugilist AKHIL KUMAR after seeing Bindra, decides to aim nothing less than a gold. After beating world champion, Sergey Vodapoyanov of Russia,in pre-quaterfinals, Akhil says, "He (Sergey) is a world champion. It was a tough fight, but I am here to win gold. No silver, no bronze, but only the gold. There is nothing like being No.1 and I want to be No. 1,". Now he says that he wants a 'a piece of yellow metal' that is only his. In his own words, "Abhinav(Bindra) has just showed us the way and I want to follow in his footsteps".

None of us would want to forget the following famous picture.

All thanks and salutes to Mr. Bindra for blessing us with the best gift for the 62nd independence day.Not just the medal, but most importantly, the belief that 'anyone can aim and achieve the pinnacle', be it anything.

having shaken the foundations down under....

1984--- NO
1992---NO
2004---NO
2008--- finally a big YESSSS...
So here we are, the champions, throughout. After a long winter, quite verbal one, the result that pops out is that we are the only one who can give Kangaroos a run for their money. Well, it is not just a flash in a pan, it is just a small trailer of the coming future...picture abhi baaki hai mere dost..!!! For the next few weeks Kangaroos and a monkey will be looking for the reasons for the outcomes, my advice--biting nails won't help. :)
To our boys, now that u've shown it once, pls..pls... make it a little more customary.
Mr. Gilly, sorry for the unpleasant bye, but hats off to you for changing the way the glovemen were looked upon.

Proteas nd Kangaroos, both rocked...!!!

One day, two stories. really big ones..!!!
It is not often when in one part of the world we beat proteas to become a world champion and in other part, we beat world champions, once invincible kangaroos.
Three times in the last three decades we've been trying to pocket kangaroos but each time they jumped over our heads. Not this time...!!!we've claimed the first blood in the tri-series finals with a stunning six-wicket win and hope to seal a historic series win on coming Tuesday. With the 'master blaster' himself crafting the win, nothing much can an Indian fan ask for.
Hoping that Ponting's remark of " no need of third final" falls on our side. :)
Emulating the 'big bros.' , the juniors went one step ahead to the zenith making us a WORLD CHAMPIONS again after the successful African Safari last year. Gr8 going boys, kudos to you.

MARCH 2, 2008 .... bookmarked....!!!