Yeh Dil Maange More!!!

Not being able to use the Google Talk service through my office firewall, I could barely wait to try it out on the weekend.

And when i did get it working at home and a friend with whom i could try the service out, i felt absolutely handicapped with many of the basic features that we've been used to in IM's missing in Google Talk. It has a neat interface and the works. But it does leave you a tad disappointed.

And "Yeh Dil maange more" also from the English Cricket team. We want one more!!!
The Ashes has come live again after a long long time.

The way this series is going we are likely to see yet another mock obituary:

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
AUSTRALIAN C R I C K E T,
which died at the Oval
on
12th SEPTEMBER, 2005,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances
R.I.P.
N.B. - The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to England.

For the uninitiated. It was this mock Obituary in 1982 which led to the legend of the "Ashes"!!

Clean Bowled!!!

With Australia being asked to follow-on in the Ashes Test, a first in the last 17 years of Ashes, the crowds werent exactly enjoying their Saturday night party. With plenty of booze in the air and some added adrenalin thrown in thanks to the state of affairs on the circket field, we were trying to make ourself as scarce as possible as we made our way back home from Vinayak's place.

As we got onto Exhibition Street from Bourke Street, two aussie girls walked past us discussing some dance steps. They walked past us and the next thing we heard them sing left us absolutely speechless.

"Ude jaise hawaen Sanan sanan, ude jaise parinde gagan gagan...." ... In pretty much flawless hindi!!!