This week was for the Cricket Kit shopping, after a bit of search I managed to finalise on www.cricketsupplies.com and ordered my Cricket Kit.
Time for another match, at home this time.
After loosing 2 matches in a row this season, we were determined to win this match.
We won the toss and elected to Bat, it was a very slow start initially and later runs started flowing with the opposition bowler contributing more than half of the score at one point, later Ben and James scored heavily and we reached 268 in 45 overs.
I had padded up with my new Cricket kit but didn;t get a chance to bat as we were for the first time this season not All-out.
We had a good score to defend and started off very well with Me and Sam keeping things very tight, there were ocasional boundaries especially few down the third man but we kept going, Sam got 2 wickets and I was very unlucky not to get any, there were as many as 3 catches dropped of my bowling, 2 of them by the Keeper and one in the slips.
I tried hard but luck was not on my side.
As the pressure was building, the visiting team made mistakes especially to the bowling of Milne ( Spin bowler ) and he got as many as 4 wickets and a few more to Lambert and we Won by a Big margin and a win on the board is encouraging for the rest of the season to come by.
Have you ever thought of different kinds of Mirrors, I didn;t mean the shape and size of it, the distinction is based on what it reflects, I know I know you would say that it is all about where the mirror is placed and lighting etc, but forget about all that for now.
I can think of 3 different kinds.
First of them are Mirrors those says you are handsome, wonderful beautiful and so on, these are mirrors which are amazing and you would like you see yourself again and again, however horrible you look, it says that you are really good and wonderful. I have one such mirror in my house.
The second kind which just reflects the exact image, the reality and the third kind which is the worst of the mirrors, however wonderful one is, it still says you are horrible, pathectic.
going a step ahead, it is exactly the same way we all have different prespectives about anything for that matter, upto you to decide what you what to really see and what you really want to reflect.
By saying that someone is good whether be at heart or in the physical appearance we could be creating more and more confidence in the person to be better and on contrast by saying you are horrible we make him/her even more horrible.
Itz summer time and you can't miss out on any bright days here in UK. This summer as you all know I am in Bristol and within a week I managed to find a Cricket club to play for this summer itz called Long Ashton Cricket Club.
http://longashton.play-cricket.com
I was very eager to play cricket the english way after having enjoyed the flavour of it last season, once I got to know that there is a place from the ORANGE internal website, I called the guy who advertised the position the next minute.
It was saturday and off I go to the Cricket ground in Long Ashton.
We lost the toss and were put into bat, I wasn;t much interested in batting but more interested to bowl but I had to wait for my turn, when I told this to the captian, he asked me to bat at No 10 :-). The pitch was a bit wet and so there was very less bounce in the wicket and the opposition took good advantage of this by bowling some very tidy overs and eventually getting rewarded with wickets on regular intervals.
On the other end I was so restless holding the ball waiting for my turn to bowl but it was soon time for me to bat as were already 8 down and I went into bat and got too tempted by the slower one the spin bowler bowled and threw my wicket away, I should have done better than that.
We were All-out for 68 in 33 overs. With not many runs on the board to bowl we wanted to give a decent fight.
We started off well by getting a wicket in the first over that Adi bowled and I bowled some very tight overs as well but because of the target which was a mere 69, the opposition eventually achieved it in 26 overs, I ended up with the figures
4-1-11-0 ( four overs , one maiden and 11 runs given away).
It was sad that we lost but It was a good first experience and I would play some more matches this summer and hope to do better than this..
Until the next match.. bye. and wish me luck :-)
There was this guy who wondered more often that why was he on Earth and what was he doing here, has he been sent over by the Lord by mistake to a wrong place or was it a gift for his doing in his last life, his present life was so easy going, this is how his daily routine was...
Sleep was his best friend, some call it lazziness but he used to enjoy every extra moment of sleep he can get. Although he never was out of his bed when the alarm rings, he still insists on keeping the alarm hoping to get up to the alarm bell one fine day.
Dragging himself out of the bed after a few motivational words from his soul, he gets up and gets ready, ready to spend the rest of the day also in peace.
walks to office as though he is walking in the garden.. or like a walk on the beachside, after half an hour of pleasant walk he reaches office.
after spending almost 8 hours in the office watching some video clips listening to music, chatting most the time and surprise surprise some or say little work when he gets bored of entertainment, he returns back home in the same fashion as the morning walk.
Back home time to decide which movie to watch or whatz on the sportz calender, spend the rest of the time with the laptop and go to sleep as early as 10PM.. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Another 15 days to go ! ! !
The time is nearing to bid a farewell to Basildon, the last 1 and 1/2 year I have spent was of a mixed feelings. Many happy days, some boring days, some days to cherish some to forget, whatever be it these memories are here to remain forever.
I wasn't expecting it to be the way it has been, Overall itz been a pleasant stay mainly due to Office environment which gave me enough freedom ( although there wasn;t a great deal to do from work point of view ) and also staying with Chagari made my life easier at home and not to forget the Vivid bharathi group, it made it memorable.
A new place waiting for me and a new experience to savour, hope to do something new, hope it has something new for me and something interesting.
Silence...........shhhhh quiet zone.
"Silence talks more than words".. A silent mind, freed from the onslaught of thoughts and thought patterns, is both a goal and an important step in spiritual development. Inner silence is understood to bring one in contact with the divine or the ultimate reality of this moment. All religious traditions imply the importance of being quiet and still in mind and spirit for transformative and integral spiritual growth to occur.
Having said all that, is being silent the best way ? does this not make the already present gap between people even wider, does this not make life more boring, more self centric, more dangerous, more non-social behaviour kind ?
Silence for me is the most scary thing that can happen especially because you feel lonely even with people around you.
Caption of the time
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
