The Wareblog

 

There could not have been a better occasion for a champion to show his class, especially for the sake of fans like me who have been waiting for the same for almost an eternity.!

 

The ‘Rawalpindi Express’ (He’s probably too fast for the tag anyways) as they call him, chose such an opportune moment to vindicate his class and passion for the game and on the receiving end were the Delhi IPL team.

 

With the first half of the match witnessing paltry yet dogged batsmanship from the Calcutta team, the bowlers and the fieldsmen had to perhaps play the match of their lives and am glad that they did and in doing so gave the spectators moments that would become the highlight of this edition of the IPL when seen in retrospection.

 

But the whole show was setup by a man who had been on the receiving end of blow after blow from his national cricket body and had been at the centre-stage of severe criticism with former players even doubting his attitude and sincerity towards the game.

 

This was his first competitive game in a long time but he chose this very moment to weave magic, the way only he can.!

 

One would exaggerate to say that he silenced them all with his show but it would only be an understatement if I said that Shoaib Akhtar’s passion and flair for the game is still burning; in fact, it’s exploding..!

 

And every cricket fan who witnessed yesterday’s match would agree that the champion bowler single-handedly blew up the opposition.

 

It’s ironical that when the nation was burning with the Pink City blasts and alleging foreign hands in the same, here was a foreign hand which was blasting away in a very different and appropriate way, much to the delight of the masses.

 

Perhaps, we will never learn to treat our champions the way they are due.

 

Well played Shoaib Akhtar, the cricketer..!

  

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The old warrior still sports that heart-of-a-lion when it comes to standing up and being counted.

 

On Sunday, the scene was no different when The Prince of Calcutta towered with his all-round performance to almost single-handedly vanquish Team Hyderabad in the ongoing Indian Premier League.

 

Controversies and misfortune may have found favour in his fate-line and yes, his ‘jobfront’ but to put it in the right perspective, they have all been outside his ‘workplace’.

 

And for the umpteenth time, he once again stood out with his show when he had just been involved in yet another fuss-controversy but more importantly, when his team needed him the most..!

 

Sourav Ganguly may never be called say, A Braveheart-Personified, but in context of what he has been to the game of cricket and its true admirers, he goes beyond any such title.

 

May the Sun never set on The Prince of Calcutta..!!

 

Way to go Dada!!

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Google Labs is one place you will be anything but disappointed once you log on.

 

I hadn’t been there for sometime now and this afternoon’s visit left me wanting to go through more with little time at disposal.

 

From the racks I just got my hands on this CodeSearch application and played around with it from the “Hello World”s to the “request.getParameter”s.

 

And the best part is, the lab is a click away from you.

 

http://labs.google.com/

 

And the CodeSearch page goes here:

 

http://www.google.com/codesearch

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I happened to recently visit one of the oldest restaurants in my hometown, known as, Hotel Limcas.

 

This is one place upon whose many recipes I had feasted in my growing up years not as a visitor but as a recepient of the great treats my father used to bring home.

 

So once I landed up in a jiffy to celebrate my father’s birthday, we very well knew, Limcas was the place to be.

 

Although I had never before been there (not to be confused by Bokaro-ites with Hans Regency), I felt at home, the moment I sat down to have my glass of water.

 

Apart from the usual fried-rice and curries that were being ordered, I was sure enough not to miss out on the continental style Roasted Chicken that they had to offer.

 

And just like the great ‘craftsmen-at-their-art’  had kept up their fort for so many years, this time around too, the chefs did not disappoint me.

 

A connoisseur I was not, but this unique style of roasting chicken and serving it with tossed & baked vegetables, very much the Russian way, had made me a passionate fan of the same.

 

It was a great-great-trip down the memory lane in a way of its own.

 

It’s about things most definitely master card can buy and yet at the same time, not wherever you wish to..!

 

Until next time.. Cheers.!

 

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