The night a nation waited for !!

Well we all have started talking of the world cup that’s coming up next year and the hopes are high, as the spirit of winning last world cup has not dried up within everybody. I still remember that evening when we won the world cup as I was watching from my two-bed room in Thiruvanmayur, Chennai. We had planned extravagantly for the Finals buying in 44 bottles of beer and named it beer-festival. You never can imagine how difficult it was to transport 44 bottles from the beverages to my home and the auto guy who helped got inspired and even gave us discounts. Ahh.. the faith in humanity restored.. :) ..Anyway, in short, we were well prepared for that evening and everything was running on schedule. As the crimson light outside was fading away with the sun setting down the horizon, the hopes inside each of us was levitating.  The little crowd that I invited to share the spirit of world cup had assembled around the pile of bottles that we stacked in a beautiful order. So then it was time to do some pre-match analysis within and lots of speculation on who will win, score a century, get a hat trick. The needles of the clock was sliding beautifully in a constant fashion that brought us closer to the opening of the first ball of the world cup final 2011. As I watched my little crowd there, there had been lot of changes from what I saw in the beginning. My roommate was physically there with his eyes closed and travelling through the dreamland. He had the privilege of joining us in the pre-match analysis and going to dreamland before even seeing the first ball of the world cup final. Soon the 44 bottles emptied out with spirits within us as roaring and an entire nation swinging to ups and downs of each bowl delivered. Soon Sri Lanka was out for a modest score of 274/6 that was something that could be chased down with the strong Indian lineup.  But to make it melodramatic the Indian batting lineup was swinging sometimes making us feel victory is so close and at times giving us a bitter taste of failure. But as the story unfolded, we won the cup and then it was time for us to celebrate it, as we couldn’t contain our emotions within the four brick walls. So we decided to hit the beach and voice our celebrations. As expected we met with multiple flocks that had the same spirits and chanting Sachin and India which was breaking the silence of otherwise a peaceful night. We walked and talked and with the night moving in felt the tiredness of the hard won victory and time to hit back home. As soon I saw my bed and I fell on it and the next thing I could remember is the next day with the newspapers celebrating the victory. Now almost 4 years have passed by and the again a entire nation is waiting to taste the victory of success again!!!

A Week without Napkins !!!

Call me eco friendly or call me lazy but I have lived almost one week of my life without using one single piece of napkin. It started with last Sunday when I reached home after soccer and realized that I was running out of napkins. Since it was already dark out and running low on energy after 8-4 defeat I was not in high spirits to drive out and buy the napkins. So I decided to call my friend called procrastination and he approved my idea. The next day started cold and I woke late with my mind commanding my body to sleep more to wash of the physical wear tear of yesterdays defeat and mind won. The day raced down to evening and by the time I was out of office I thought why not go home change the business attire and put some casuals on go out for shopping. As soon I reached home to appreciate all my days work I decided to brew a cup of black tea to soothe my body and soul with the freshness and warmth of a hot tea. As the tea was brewing I opened amazon prime and just browsed to see if they had some new action movies over there and soon when i realized that earth was still moving it was 09:00 and then had to call off the idea of shopping. So that’s when I decide to use all the commercial news letters that I get through mail to replace napkins. So I identified the ones that are soft and could suck water pretty well. So I opened a new rack for my new napkin alternatives. That’s when I decided to challenge myself with this crazy idea.Then the next few days flew with me each day waiting for those news letters, advertisement that could fill my arsenal for napkin alternative. I never had so much of appreciation for all these advertisement that these big retail chains print than this week. But believe me though at times I cursed the idea most of the times I have been successful and water has been very friendly to let it absorbed by these alternatives..Now just one more day is left in my challenge to beat the belief that live without napkins is impossible :-). I will stick on for the rest of the day and who knows may be for one more week. But at times its good that such crazy ideas gives a different perspective and even play a small, a very small role to save the world.