An Unrant

http://pleaselightmyfire.blogspot.com/2007/03/rant.html


Well, how does one unrant a rant, or take back some words (thankfully not all), and generally eat a humble pie?
I chose to blog about a blog to unblog a blog.
In 2007, the Indian cricket team decided to decimate itself (I still remember the flummoxed look on Dhoni's face as he was out leg before to Murali) in the West Indies. This time it decided to make amends. And I must say sorry for having written bad things.
But Then, we are Indians and we are passionate about our cricket. And sitting at one place without eating or pissing just so that India wins a match has to count for something. The spontaneous euphoria and celebration, dad going out at midnight with a box of sweets in his hand, loving Navjot SIngh Sidhu's matching turban and cravat in spite of everything has to count for something.
True, Dhoni has the luck of the devil, but like a devil he does end up on the winning side more often than not. Keep rolling man. Tendulkar, you deserve to be in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
It was so beautiful to watch the men win, Sreesanth happily jumping at the end of it all, maybe he will make something out of his career after all (other than romancing Riya Sen in corny TV ads).
And the next morning, I felt like I had something to do with the victory. It was personal, and I had a strut in my stride to prove it.
I love you guys.

I love you guys.

A Rant

How does it feel, to stay awake until 3am only to see your national cricket team make utter and complete fools of themselves and 1 billion (plus a few million) other people who follow this game in the country???
Well, I am sure many would have wanted many members of the team to be flogged publicly and quite frankly, I think its too good for them.
After having lost to Bangladesh (still cant believe it, Bangladesh), they beat Bermuda (fat policeman et al.) only to lose most humiliatingly to Sri Lanka and now we are collectively out on our collective butts of the super 8's of the 2007 world cup.
Everyone has an opinion, And here is mine. Sachin tendulkar needs to concentrate on his restaurant and his sunfeast biscuit ads, Harbhajan Singh already has a 4 kanal house in sector 9 Chandigarh, he has arrived. Ajit Agarkar should probably be given a benzodiazepine or better still a typical antipsychotic like haloperidol, maybe that will cure his grandiose delusion. The others, well....I dont know, I just hope they develop incurable motion sickness and aircraft phobia. That will probably get some new faces into the Indian cricket team.
And as for me, I woke up at 7am, got ready, saw some 10 patients suffering from various hues of drug addiction, abused the cricket team some more and am now ready to get some sleep and make up the shortfall.
BTW, Bermuda might still defeat the Bngladeshis and let India sneak in through the back door, but actually I hope they lose. Cant bear to see them lose and lose sleep over that in the near future.
On a serious note, those buggers owe it to the Inidan public to make some heads roll now, we cant work indefinitely on reputations alone.