Disappointment!

The past 2 weeks have been disappointing and frustrating to say the least, bureaucratic nonsense delays even the menial of tasks,,,, the system especially in countries like India has degraded to such an extent that I sometimes wonder how it actually works,,,, also
being an ardent sports lover, takes its toll, especially when none of your teams are doing well. I follow a lot of sports, soccer,hockey,basketball and most of all cricket. As with any sports fan, I have my favorite team in each of these sports, most being club teams, with the notable exception being cricket and as a billion fellow Indians, India is my team in cricket.
Team India the present and future:
India is visiting Pakistan for a 3 match test series, followed by 5 ODI's, the test series ended up in the Pakistani's favor 1-0, the Pakistani's winning the last test at Karachi, was extremely frustrating to watch as from a vantage point of 39-6 we threw away the match, the batsmen were blamed for not putting up a fight etc etc, but the crux of the issue is that India has a tooth less bowling attack, which at its best is not capable of bowling out even the mediocre of teams in world cricket. The only place our bowlers can bowl well, are on tailor made pitches in India. A billion people and not one genuine pace bowler, how pathetic is that?,people attribute it to flat pitches,lack of infrastructure,etc etc, well then howcome our neighbours produce fast bowlers a dime a dozen!I had commented on the new look indian side previously in this blog, the whole chappell-ganguly saga, and a young side in the making, i am an eternal optimist and will continue to believe that this side will eventually find its groove and start winning on a consistent basis, it is too harsh to judge a team with a failure in one series,,,, but that being said, unless we find alteast 2-3 quality bowlers,the team with all its batting talent will get nowhere.
All that said Pakistan deserved the win, they outbowled,outbatted and outfielded us!
News Flash:
First ODI, india lose by 7 runs, D/L method, was close but the game only went on to justify my point about the bowlers!

2006!

Well we are well into the new year, nothing new in my life so far!!!!, but the new year has definitely brought a couple of pleasant surprises, a good friend got married recently, well it was all over and done with in 5 days, hard to fathom but some people are fast and furious:-). I have been busy with work over the past few weeks, so did not get time to do much, although i did manage to catch the screening of Munich, i definitely recommend the movie, though not a great fan of Steven Spielberg’s creativity (indy movies being the notable exception), i must say this is a must see movie, it is an unbiased characterization of events as far as i think and hopefully he will come out with more movies on similar lines. Other than that nothing more to report,,,, need to go home soon, been a while, but the first question that pops up when i reach home will be the "marriage" one, i guess dad needs to see some grandkids,,,, i feel there's quite a long way to go before that!,,,, until next time!

Christmas and The New Year!

Its the 27th, christmas is over, was a quiet christmas as it normally is, i did not miss my mid-night mass, its a tradition i have followed over the years, i always manage to make it to church on christmas eve, kind of strange for someone who otherwise never manages to go,,,,, New-years eve celebrations start this weekend, but as it was the case last year, i work this year as well, so not much of a new year's eve for me, although i might leave early and might manage to catch up on some drinking on the 31st, of course that is still up in the air, will have to wait and see. Saw a couple of movies over my vacation(yup thats right, "my vacation", i had to take time off before the end of the year, no carry overs as per policy!!!!), syriana and king-kong, liked syriana, would definitely recommend it, as for king-kong, not really my kind of a movie,,,,
Anyway, i am back at work, have to catch up on stuff, read into world-politics, sports,romantic liasons,,,, among other things, until next time! adios!