Sunday, January 30, 2005

Life cant be any better !

Dinner last night at Sajjad @ Super Highway , Lunch today at Chaccha's. And since i am SUCH A BIG foodie who when treated to some meticulously done, superlative , mouth watering dishes - i am found in the most ecstatic of mood. But food isnt the only reason to make me this happy.

Quite contrarily to the last week when all my sporting ideals lost , Sunday turned out to be a Super Duper mega sunday ! Man United won, Safin won, but above all , PAKISTAN WON !!!!!!!

Okay. So last night was a pretty good one at Sajjad, one of my chaccha is here from America and we decided to treat him and some other relatives to Sajjad at Superhighway. It was mind numbing cold and all of us had to dress up as if going to murree ! Despite being frozen like an ice cube, food was marvellous and esp when one was as hungry as me, the joy was doubled. Came back home at around 1am.

Today we had a brunch at Chaccha's place where rather than concentrating much on food, i was more concerned with both Cricket and Tennis matches on air. Tennis, i had placed a bet with a most dear friend of mine yesterday over the winner of Men's title for Australian Open. I was obviously rooting for Safin. Stakes were high, they were of such proportion that my unending loyalty about someone was going to be questioned. It was a dare i took up after much thought, and it could well have cost me my reputation i ve built over years. But i had firm believe in Safin and he won it in the best possible manner, although gave me some heartaches in the first set. Safin won the aussie open finally, in this third final in 4 years. Final scoreline was 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. It was sheer ecstasy for the man who lost 3 years back to the unheralded Swede after being hot favourite and last year when he ran into King Federer. Today, there was no stopping and despite most partisan homecrowd to deal with, a most tenacious and determined opponent in Hewitt, and worse his own tempramental attitude, Safin overcame all the odds and after 2 hours and 45 minutes held aloft the trophy. Brilliant stuff.

This wasn't the end , best was to come with who else but our National Cricket team. This was a most amazing match and the way Afridi [ yes, him again ! ] clouted Symonds for those couple of sixes, i was absolutely sure we WILL make it somehow. Although, the pathan nut lost his pea-mind again and he couldnt finish the match [ which he never does btw ] Razzak the cool customer was there and boy it was some finish . That jackass named Rana FINALLY got himself an inch of a space in my good books after his much adequate showing with bat today, especially those couple of fours he struck to finish off the match, it was a dream come true to beat Aussies after 2 and a half years !

I am not sure what makes me more happy, winning the bet or Pakistan's victorious showing. But that still doesnt matter much, what is more important is the fact that I finally had something to cheer about as regards sports after the gloom of last 5-6 days .

But thats about it for the day, hope to come up with something OTHER than sports in the coming days [ which seems unlikely ]. Till then, Sing with me ... ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY !!!!





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