I had been to IPL's opening match between Kolkata knight riders and Bangalore Royal Challengers today. The opening ceremony was extravagant and beautiful.
The stilt walkers with butterfly wings, beautiful gals enclosed in big balloons, colorful lights, sexy cheer girls who moved their asses rhythmically to kannada and hindi songs, girls hanging to long clothes suspended from the ceiling and performing acrobatic stunts in mid air, shankar-ehsaan-loy's music.... It was a treat for the eyes and ears.
However the match was hopelessly one-sided. Brendon McCullum absolutely slaughtered the royal challengers. I mean it looked like a tennis ball he was batting with, as he batted with so much ease and everything that touched his bat seemed to disapper into the stands. Knight riders posted a huge total. Chasing such a big target of 200+ was not just difficult, but impossible with the kind of team royal challengers have. Having picked mostly either test players or T20 discards by their national teams(Kallis) it was inevitable that they lose. And lose did they so happlessly, being all out for just 82 i guess. I returned home after the 5th wicket of the royal challengers fell.
I could not enjoy much as so many thoughts at the background were grunbling.
Last few weeks have been very hectic. I have been busy at office, or if come home, i would go to meet my fiancee. Even during weekends, i would go to our house being resurrected, get is painted or get electrification checked or get the carpentry work checked etc, or even go to office.
At office, i have had terrible time, have had a row with my team leader and manager. So these days been very hectic and very frustrating at times. Many a times i felt, i was losing touch with myself! I mean i was just going through the motions. although i felt the need for some soul searching I never made myself enough time to it. It had been a pending item for quite sometime, it was of low-priority and all other high-priority tasks preempted this, so could never do it.
Today i returned at around 11pm from the stadium. Could not sleep and as i said the internal grumble had intensified. So sat down thought about the recent happenings. Gave a long and detailed look at every small thing that has happened in the recent past and have silenced the grumbling thoughts. At last i have found myself again.
