Another post going along series of The Gurgaon Summers of 2007.

A weekend which started with a heated up cricket match against players of Cricket Academy on Saturday noon at cricket ground of ITM College, Gurgaon (Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon). It really doesn’t feel like 44 C (112 F) over ground when you have support of your mates / colleagues and also I like wandering under sun .

Then there was a meet organized by a dear friend about another Multilevel business. This time it was quest.net. I didn’t want to even go for listening about it but sometimes, you can’t just avoid it. Of course, you have the last word and so I went out to have good time calling for long sleep after a hot day’s match.

On Sunday, it was MOVIE TIME - there were few best and others, the worst. I wouldn’t be going much into details but writing about them in short.

Blood Diamond - After watching this movie, I have found 10 other reasons not to gift diamonds in my life but of course, you can never understand a girl as she can be the only reason for you to buy a diamond, ever. It moved me just like anything. It justifies the 5 Oscars including Best Actor given to Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Supporting Actor to Djimon Hounsou. There is mention of India but in wrong context. Here are few dialogues from movie which just shake you up -

• Sometimes I wonder…will God ever forgive us for what we have done to each other? Then I look around and I realize…God left this place a long time ago.
• So what is the point…haan?

In this movie, the guy wonders how brutally his own countrymen were killing their own people but this game is still in corrupt countries including India where dishonest officials and politicians let their people starve filling their own houses. I wonder the way Black Economies sustain in those countries.

Rating - 9.5/10

Ghost Rider - Just a time pass movie and I was expecting much from Nicolas Cage (I still like watching movies of few wonderful actors which include Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio). Here are few nice dialogues which I liked -

• The thing about legends is… sometimes, they are true.
• You cannot live in fear…what did you get in return.
• He may have my soul but he doesn’t have my spirit.

Rating - 6/10

Fool N Final - A movie made to fool you. Only noticeable thing in movie is music. I wonder, how director managed such big cast.

Rating - 2/10

I wish one day, only my ratings could speak and I have started practicing that from now .

The CashEdge cap. It is specifically released for the CashEdge Cricket team members.

Proud to be a CashEdge Cricket Team player. We won the first match while wearing this cap against Simcom.

And on the other side, Prabh/Prabhjot Singh (our dear Sardar ji) has started a poll for the best sport-person of our batch - the batch of B.Tech. 2004, DCSE, Punjabi University (or Punjabi Junibrashty as Pankaj Dev spells it !)

I watched Matrix one more time on this weekend. If not hundreds of times, I have watched this sequel (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions) for at-least tens of times. If you love technology, action, thrill, romance and what not, you believe that Artificial Intelligence can do wonders, this is the The Sequel to watch out. First time, I had watched The Matrix during graduation when in next semester, we were going to learn AI. After that, it became my favorite movie specially when the fiction seems quite possible and realistic to you. If you get bored of watching your favorite movie again and again, watch it in other language you know and you will know many new things especially when it is quite complex movie. This time I watched it in Hindi - all three parts (thanks to bro. Yes I was at my hometown on this weekend) and I discovered lot of new things which I didn’t know before. I would like to watch this movie in all the 4 languages that I know. Every time, I watch this movie, I find few more interesting facts which I couldn’t understand previously, somethings which I never knew before, just like I discover new meanings when I re-read some old issue of Digit (:)) or Gita, Koran or Bible (well that doesn’t mean at all that I am quite religious specially when I don’t go to any religious place. I read these scriptures for self-improvement.) I always wished such movie to be created in Bollywood than just copying it.

Free your mind

Here is a transition that I went through few weeks ago and I swear, it was too difficult to have this experience!

And if you still have some time that you can spend on reading similar interesting stuff, Mandar has made a quite “interesting post” (The Love Shtory) for first time in ages over his blog .

Opposite to a Screwed Weekend, an outstanding weekend is one when you spend a lustrous time. And this was the one.

On Saturday - first day of weekend, everyone wants to do as much rest as much one can. And when I got up at 1400, what can be better than a thrilling strike by Indians in first test match against South Africa. It didn’t seem to be a test match at all when Indians were taking out the RSA wickets like anything. Sreesanth was on full swing and hit RSA to the deepest level by picking 5 wickets. It was first 5-wicket haul of his test career. We forgot the Nel when we watched Sreesanth roaring over RSA batsmen! Then Zaheer was in complete josh, partnering with Sreesanth to make RSA send back to pavilion on that day only. And then started the Indian Inn started with Sehwag thrilling the bowlers after Jaffer went for nothing special. Wall (Dravid) was also broken for nothing. Laxman and Saurav kept Indian hopes alive to give a big target to RSA. And for whole day, we were sitting in front of TV watching this test turned into ODI. By the time, match was called off for day, it was time to go to bed. But before that, if you get to watch Kicking and Screaming on HBO…man it was so hilarious with me and Anuj going to sleep laughing all the way. Still there was some room to watch Elektra on Star Movies for some time in late night.

On Sunday morning, when you know that you are going to have a great dancing day, you already in mood to stick to your decision of watching TV for whole day. It was telecast of all previous episodes of Nach Balliye…err Nach Baliye 2 on Star One. So if you don’t like to watch those Ekta Kapoor dramas mixed with the dance on every Monday night, this is the one day when you can see the real juice of all the episodes - one day before the grand final between Jodi No. 02 (Yash and Gauri) and Jodi Number 08 (Hussain and Tina). It was great time watching the TV couples dancing on the screen, laughing, screaming and the big dramas of judges, showing  the steps, dance and much more. In parallel, you start watching the cricket match and then the thrilling six of Sreesanth to make Andre Nel go shut up. Who can forget that awesome break dance of Sreesanth in front of Andre Nel? And umpires were all the way going ga ga on that dance and admiring his steps. Also it was told that he is the one from South, a great break-dancer who also teaches dance to his team-mates and can be a threat to Rajnikanth! If you missed the steps, here is the video of the pitch dance by Sreesanth from YouTube -