Viva India! Viva India!

Wohoooooo!!! We did it! We are world champs again, after a long long looong time. Kudos to Dhoni and Team India. The country is celebrating with the team. Maybe even more than the team.

Phew! That was one helluva match last night. The T20 finals between Pak and India had everyone on the edge of their seats, minus finger nails. That’s what happens when two equally matched teams are pitted against each other. I could literally feel the adrenalin coursing through my body in the last half of the match.

Thank God Misbah tried out that new ‘scooping’ technique. Although God alone knows why he felt he had to do that. When it was 13 for 6 balls and Misbah hit that six on the next ball. I thought we were goners.

Sreesanth almost gave the match away with his bowling although he redeemed himself with a maiden over, a wicket and a match stopper of a catch.

What a start for Yousuf Pathan’s. The first ball of his career on the Indian cricket team is taken to the 3^rd umpire for run out decision, and on the 2^nd ball he hits a sixer.

Bet Joginder Sharma scared the hell out of everyone with his first two balls in the final and most crucial balls.

And what the hell was Shohaib Malik’s speech all about at the podium? He never really mentioned the Indian team but went on about ‘Muslim Nations??’. Hmmm…. Somehow I don’t think that little speech will help clear up the worlds perception of Islam.

All in all, a wonderful game of cricket was played yesterday. Guess the organizers of the T20 couldn’t have asked for a better T20 series, what with all the ups (India beating Australia) and downs (India beating Australia) and the dream finals. They’re probably laughing all the way to the bank.

But I am kinda disappointed with what King Khan, who was there for the finals, said to the media after the match. Did anyone hear that? No, this doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that I don’t like SRK. He said “……it could have been anyone’s match and would have been happy whoever won….”. I totally agree to the first part. But I also think he should put a sock in it and cut out the diplomacy for once and stop thinking about his fan base in Pak. Oh, how I dislike that cunning, over-acting, charming little man.

Tagged!!

I’ve been tagged for the first time by Abhijith. He was tagged by Krish and so on. And in the spirit of tagging, I’m duty-bound to answer the following 18 questions. But let me tell you, it was fun!

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

I have 2 major scars (the minor ones being the ones from chicken pox, which I caught when I was 13). They’re from stitches on my head I’ve gotten as a kid. The smaller one (3 stitches) is right where my hairline starts and forehead ends. It’s kind of visible. The longer one (6 stitches) isn’t visible unless I partition my hair at the centre. The partition sort of goes crooked cos the slash is right in the middle. Here’s the interesting part. How I got those two slashes. I was about 11 and was playing at a friend’s place. Well suddenly little old me felt like pretending to be catwoman. So I clamber up on to the top bed of her bunk bed (you know, 2 beds bolted together, one above the other?).not satisfied with getting up there, I decide to stand up. And wham!! I get cut up by one of the blades of the ceiling fan, which was fortunately running on low speed. And luckily I didn’t get blinded or didn’t get my nose chopped off. But I did manage to scare the hell out of everyone with all the blood I lost. Ah, sweet memories….

2. What does your phone look like?

I switch between Nokia 1100 and Nokia 6270. while the 1100 doesn’t have a lot of oomph, it’s definitely comfy. I use the 6270 when I have to show off or when I have to take pics and stuff. While it has truckloads of more options than the 1100, it’s a lot bulkier. Plus, my folks bought that cell so I am more attached to the 1100 as that’s the 1^st cell I bought with my own cash.

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?

Nothing, besides white paint. Never been the type to decorate my bedroom walls with posters and stuff. But strangely enough, my cupboard is all decorated. I’ve pasted photos of friends and outings on it. And here’s what’s strange. I’ve pasted blue pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the doors. They are pieces from this 400-piece jigsaw puzzle I had when I was a kid. It was the picture a dumb flower vase sitting in front of a dumb blue background. 300 pieces were of the blue background. No wonder I never completed the jigsaw and no wonder I got mad enough to lose 90 percent of the pieces. The remains are pasted on my cupboard.

4. What is your current desktop picture?

A snap of me and my gal pals taken in college.

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?

What’s there to believe in? If two people are happy with each other, irrespective of their gender, then who are we to keep them apart? It’s their life, so I think anything goes when it comes to how they decide to live it. Well almost anything. I’m not too sure about gay couples bringing up kids.

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

Well, to put it in a nutshell, I want my life to turn out the way I want it to.

7. What time were you born?

11.35am Friday the 14^th of June 1985. Don't know any more details. Mom's not too forthcoming with the details. After 22 years of me, I guess she copes by blocking all memories of the date and time mentioned above. :P

8. Are your parents still together?

Yup, they are. They’ve been through some really tough times (read: bringing me up), but fortunately for me, they are still very much in love with each other. And therefore happily married.

9. Last person who made you cry?

Hey, I make myself cry. I don’t need anybody to make me cry.

10. What is your favourite perfume / cologne?

That would be the one I’m using now. The perfume’s called, ahem, Beverly Hills 90210 California. Yeah, yeah I know there was a series on T.V by the name Beverly Hills 90210.

California is a branded perfume by the company (Spelling Entertainment) that made the series.

Other than this, I guess any pleasant smelling perfume is fine. I do hate jasmine scented ones. And the fact that it seems to be unisex. Can’t stand it when females wear it; let alone guys.

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

Well, I’m not too specific about hair style. (But hair length? Nothing below the shoulders.)
Guess anything goes as long as it suits the guy. Hate it when guys strut around with color jobs that suck, and they don’t know how bad it sucks. Am not a fan of guys coloring their entire head of hair these light shades of brown. Hated Akshay’s hair colour in Namastey London. Looked gay.

As for eye color, I’m really fond of this particular shade of brown. Light brownish-hazel I guess.

12. What are you listening to?

Right now, a lot of bad hindi film songs. Not one song in any of the new releases that’s decent. Oh yeah, I did listen to this song called Lateralus by Tool. A friend told me about it. It’s intresting cos it’s written according to the Fibonacci series.

13. Do you get scared of the dark?

Hmmm…. Depends. While I’m generally not scared of the dark, I might be if I got lost some place that I had no clue about ,and there was total darkness. But otherwise, I find that darkness has a beauty and comfort of it’s own.

14. Do you like painkillers?

As in do I like to chew on them when I’m not in pain? Don’t know, haven’t tried that.

But someone needs to find a painkiller for emotional pain. Yeah, I know we have a wide range of ‘painkillers’ for that; from marijuana to LSD. I mean something legal and non-addictive. Sedatives and tranquilizers are good only if you want to sleep your way through the pain.

15. Are you too shy to ask someone out?

You bet I am.

Oh, the fear of rejection is too powerful an adversary to conquer....(*tremble *)

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

French fries!! And kulcha or naan, with malai kofta. Yummm. Of course I could feast on just the French fries.

17.Who was the last person you made you mad?

Oh, I guess the public, as a whole, out on the roads in Trivandrum city. Man , driving here is bad enough with the roads that have craters in them, the traffic and the heat. But the worst part is that people here have no driving sense. And those that don’t have a vehicle to drive have no sense at all. They jaywalk all over the roads and what not. Makes me see red and swear like an Irishwoman.

18.Who was the last person who made you smile?

That would be TT. That’s the acronym for a really funny nickname of a friends. Can’t help referring to my friend using that nickname. Hey, at least I didn’t use it in full form.

Continuing the tagomania, I tag veda.