Make time

When was the last time you enjoyed a beautiful sunset? When was the last time you thought, "Damn, there are a lot of birds in Bangalore!"? Ignore the previous question if you are not in Bangalore, or if your town does have a lot of flying beings, just replace Bangalore with your town name :)
I did both of the above this Friday evening, which happens to be yesterday. The work for the day was done, one of my friends in office had her last day routine and was busy packing up her stuff and saying good byes to everyone and I was in line, and my fiance' was stuck in a tailor shop and I had nothing to do. So I opened the window in our floor which is pretty high up, and thought would see what's happening in the world. The window faces South, so as soon as I slid the windows open, I saw the orange hew to my right of the Sun trying to rest after a long day's struggle to get through to Bangalore through the persistent clouds. The clouds were still there, but higher than usual, which meant for once, I could get home without being completely soaked. The sky was superb, and every cloud had an orange lining, contrary to the popular silver belief. Then I suddenly started noticing that there were quite a few kites flying around, not the ones which we used to make during our summer holidays, the kind that will spot an ant hiding below a blade of grass from the height of a flying commercial flight, the kind that has wings and flaps it around ostentatiously, the kind that has a beak as curved and sharp as a nail which was unsuccessfully hammered into the wall, the kind which can swoop down graciously to the level of the flowing drain one instant and in the next instant can kiss the sky. So these birds of prey were tens in numbers and flying around on what was a very windy evening. Then I gradually scanned the sky to my left to the East, and found out even more of them flying around. There must have been some sort of insect or meat-pieces buffet out there somewhere, I thought. Anyways, amidst all the musings, I didn't hear my colleague calling me twice, and on what he told me was the third time, I turned around. I explained to him that the beautiful sunset had caught my undivided attention and for all the right reasons, and he observed that my betrothal had changed me profoundly. It may have, I admit, for it is an amazing feeling to be in love, but I have always been a fan of sunsets. Now, sunrises are a different cup of tea, and require me to wake up early and hence have been very deceptive, but one of these days, I'll catch a glimpse of that as well, and I'm sure it will be as magical.
So if you think what's so special about a sunset and that it happens everyday, well, it does happen everyday. But everyday is special, everyday is unique, everyday is a chance to redeem ourselves of our past mistakes, to look forward to our future, to enjoy the magic of nature around us. If I sound like a hopeless romantic, then that's not entirely true, for, I may be a romantic, but I definitely hope :)

Finally a win

It had been 7 matches till today morning, and our track record was flawless, we had ensured that we lost every match. A less determined group would not have been able to achieve the amazing feats we did. One match we had to score 50 from the last 9 overs with 9 wickets in hand, in another we tied a game where the opposition needed 62 off the last 6 overs. The pedants may want to scream and point out right now that a tie is not a loss, but in the tournament we played if the scores were tied the criteria would be to check the wickets and they had lost fewer wickets, so for all the pedants who wanted to rub this in, "SHUT IT".
But finally today we played against a team which was the weakest of all, basically a punching bag if you will. And boy did we need this victory! And it was a convincing one as well, so finally the 7 match marathon drought has ended. I would have to modestly point out at this point that I was the highest scorer in the match and most of my boundaries came through point. Get the point? ;)
I know this is not one of my usual kinda posts, but hell, I'm just relieved that we won and wanted to brag about my feat.

First post

Hi, Welcome to my world. This is a world of unavoidable cynicism, sarcastic wise-ass comments, shrewd observations of the minute irritants in others (yours included) and most of all great fun (if you are me that is). So sit back and relax and just enjoy the ride the various posts are going to take you through. This is my new account and I'll try and be more active than I was previously in livejournal.