My Favorite articles....

I was going through my archives and i thought well its been over a year i've been blogging now and i've got some new readers out here, who may have missed some of the earlier stuff i dished out. So here's a list of articles i personally like...and i think are worth 5 mins...if not?...well let me know either way...

http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-was-going-through-stack-of-old-books.html--I used to be deeply influenced by this train of thought once.
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2006/11/deservation-for-reservation.html--Probably my only opinionated article...all others are argumentative
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2006/11/atlasplease-dont-shrug.html--Worth wasting a few brain cells...but overall i no longer endorse these views
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2006/11/phir-copy-shopy.html--Tried my hand at a movie review
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-am-grateful.html--Thoda senti article...a tribute to my friends at college
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2007/03/hooked-up.html--Lan was introduced in our college...i took a crack at the virtual world
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2007/04/all-good-things-end.html--Was a placement coordinator in my final year...a wonderful experience
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-matters-is-how-you-travel.html--Trying to address the dilemna of what to do in life after college
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-indian-train-journey.html--Why i went to a college that was 2 days away from my hometown by train
http://saurabhsays.blogspot.com/2006/11/nostalgia.html--Philosophical...

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Hey people...now that i am firmly into the corporate culture(yeah right!)...i thought it is time that i updated my blog and report that training has got over and my learning has begun...no no...that last line isnt erronous...its true...so anyway...to keep up with all the cubicle talk and not find myself lost out here...i am following the twenty20 world cup closely...well as closely as i can get to the tv in ccd...whilst standing outside....yeah... i stand outside the cafe on the street and watch the match...and yes i do that so that i dont have to order and i can save money...HOW cheap!! eh?...well if i get better tea at "Lakshmi chai tapri" than the crappy "Darjeeling Tea" which costs 30 odd bucks...and is essentially hot water served with milk and a tea-bag, i see no sense in it.

So as things were i got fed up of listening to shakira feat. beyonce - " beautiful liar" and what not while watching cricket. So for the India - Pak match i hauled my butt to a friends place to watch the match with full commentary and all. So here i am, all pumped up for this gotta-to-be-great match...and to my horror...the match was available on Star Cricket only, and with HINDI COMMENTARY....noooooooo!!....God save my ears from decay!

So to those of you who missed the torture....dont worry i will reproduce some of the finest moments of Arun Lal, Atul Wassan, Jimmy Amarnath...and group.

1) "aur yeh tez prahar yuvraj singh ka!! pakistan par!!" .... tez prahar!!??....What the...Where's the war raging mate?

2) "Yeh bahut hi karara shot...nishchit taur pe yeh chhakka hain....lekin...kintu...yeh yahan par catch out!!"...man could you eva be more on the wrong side....guffaws!!

moments later....

3) "Yeh dekhiye...bahut hi tez prahar kiya tha yuvraj ne...mujhe to laga tha ki yeh to chhakka jayega hi jayega...lekin ground thoda bada hain....hava bhi chal rahi hain"....blah blah blah....whateva mate...you screwed up!....

4) "ballebaaz theek se ball ke neeche nahi aa paye"....huh?...ball ke neeche?....whats that man?...i guess he was trying a word-to-word translation of 'getting under the ball to hit over the top'...man!!...more guffaws!

5) Now, Salman Butt (thats a joke right there huh?)...gave himself room and smashed it through covers for four...see the reaction of "Jimmy Amarnath" :
" Yeh bahut hi sundar shot....bas balle ko mod karke halke se bas disha si de di ball ko"....dude he literally wacked the cover off that one man!!

6) Now for the clincher....get ready for this guys :
One of the pakistani batsmen swings through the line and top-edges one from pathan...its a skier....our mate in the commentary box gets all excited....the blood flow to his brain increases so much that his skull gets flooded...he cannot think...he just blurts out what comes to his mind first :

"Aur yeh gaind hava mein!!....seedhi upar gayi hain!!....neeche aayegi zaroor." whoa!...that was unexpected!!....HA HA HA!!...(guffaws)....clutch-your-tummy-roll-on-the-floor-and-roar-with-laughter!!...

I thought of adding to the commentatores words as so...:
".....neeche aayegi zaroor.....mujhe Newton pe poora bharosa hain...woh bola hoga to theek hi bola hoga...."

he he he....feel free to add any of your own remembrances of these foolish clowns posing as comentators.....