Funny Ponders

Its not diwali….its not any other cultural festival….but this night is somewhat special which glowed not less like any other day and generated unlimited decibels sound. Yes…..this is the day where the young team of India crowned with TT cricket World Cup. I can say that the matches of 20-20 world cup especially when India played are worth watching than any other match in the history of cricket. The match is decided only at the last moment where nobody can predict what might turn the match. This is what happened even for the final also. Me , navrose and hp are watching the final yesterday. We are very upset because pakistan is in a decent position to crack the final easily. We are happy when especially runs were controlled by bowlers like pathan, rp and couple of wickets were gone. we are just relaxing and enjoying breath taking moments of every ball. Harbhajan is bowling the 17th over and we have absolutely no worries as he is bowling well. Last three balls…………three sixes……………………..we are almost tensed and unable to stand the those tensed moments. It is like they are snatching the victory from Indian jaws. Sreesanth came for bowling and he gave one more six. We became hopeless and looked at each other with dim faces. The tension that we faced on that day is incomparable even with the Indian team also. Finally in the last over when joginder is bowling we almost lose 99.99% hopes but still waiting any miracle can be possible in 20-20 similar to what happened when India playing against pakis in league. We have seen a huge six which turned the whole match towards pakistan. Pakistan were just one six away to grab the world cup. Misbah is the culprit who is responsible for making us witness such moments. But the ball that yoginder throwed turned in to a catch in to a hands of sreesanth and I am in a shock whether India won. Yes…………………screamings everywhere and crackers blasted outside. We screamed like anything and very very happy as India became world champions.

We celebrated like anything , we ordered dominos pizza and ate in the candle light. Iam very much impressed by the way the Indian team performed in this tournament. This is another example that team effort is always fruitful. Dhoni’s captaincy is amazing, the way he handled bowlers spell and fielding …anything is simply superb. Finally an underestimated team …almost a team which has no expectations has get us a World cup by defeating all time favorites like paksitan, australia and england. I hope now Indian cricket is in safe hands to make us watch so many winning moments in future.

Congratulations……………Indian Team………….

Hey..dont get surprised by the blog title, how cum a software engineer escorting a train. Dont gets confused and just go thru the following. This is about a 2 weeks back where I have recieved a call from Chennai that I have to be in chennai by 21 may for presenting my synopsis. Generally if a call comes from chennai it 90% sure that we can expect it to not to be happen. Dont get stuck if u dont understand the previous sentence…just leave it n go ahead….So I went to the reservation counter for booking a ticket. It is as usual these days we dont get tickets available even before 15 to 30 days even by flight, train, bus. I felt it is even very easy to get an IIT seat when compared to seats in those means of travel. So stood in a long queue and waiting for my turn to get ticket and gets astonished by the waiting list number it would have. Unfortunately it was a big number 76 from Pune to Chennai in CSTM-Chennai Express. I thought it was still ok atleast I would get RAC. …………………………..day of my journey came before and started packing my luggage. checking very often in the website to know the status of my ticket. Finally after too many clicks at 3.00PM it stood at 48 and chart is prepared. Alas….what to do. No way….mind turned blank. Immediately approached frds to find out what to do as the train starts by 6PM. Frds told just board and give money to the TC to get a berth. So started early and waited for the train. I prepared myself look like a poor man. The more poor we look the less money the TC demand. This was my general opinion. But my gold chain twinkling in my neck. Who will believe ur poor? thought myself and covered my shirt against it. With lot of fear I boarded the train as soon as it entered the station. There are more number of WL people than those whose seats got confirmed. Finally when the train started accelerating I approached one TC who looks like a north indian. I could able to put somehow my word in hindi that I I need a seat. He hardly understood and the prompt response was louder NO. Oh my god………how to travel for 24hrs…..going to be very difficult. The fellow passengers whose seats are confirmed are not willing to accept us standing as there are many doing so and compartment was full. After a while a drunken (looks like) TC came and slept on the immediate berth next to me sweeping off people sitting temporarily there. I approached him and asked, Can I get a berth? NO …even louder was the reply……I kept silent and after sometime I figured out he knows telugu. I put the same words humbly in telugu. He got melted by my expressions and said ” go to S7 and sit in 60(dont remember exactly). Thank god and finally got it. After a while he came and demanded 300 bucks which I have to spend to purchase my sound sleep for that night. Started sleeping off…as soon as I got berth……..hours gone. I heard a sound at around 2PM in the midnight. When I woke up there was a bag beside me and there is a man who is in police attire just going beside me with a long latti ( stick). I hardly open my eyes and slept off. After a while he came to me and hit with latti on my legs. Immediately I woke up………..he told me “This is my berth………please vacate”. “I have paid money for this berth”..I replied. ha ha…… ha ha ……….he laughed and asked me “how much do I pay”. I said 300. This happens every night. They will sell the seats which are supposed to be occupied by the person who wil escort the train. I gave space to him and waited for the dawn of the next day sacrificing my sleep ……………………………