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A mixed bag post: Awards, Links and Cricket

Awards
It's raining awards everywhere. And I'd like to thank three of the best bloggers I've known in recent times for recognizing me and this blog.

Amit of Mashed Musings and the Indian Home Maker presented me with the Butterfly award for the coolest blog. Thank you.


Thanks for the recognition. It means a lot in these testing times when I was actually wondering whether this blog had lost its cool and become HOT because of the previous post which has a female presence that many would savour without complain. No, not Behenji.

Mampi presents me with a Certified Honest Blogger award. Thank you.



Bloggers Krishna, Vinod Sharma, Amrutha, Kiran, Kislay and Rambo Doc, kindly accept the awards from this blogger.

I'm happier than George Bush was when he came to power.



Links
Suno, suno, suno! Over 42,000 free "wallposters" of hot actors, actresses and Enrique Iglesias can be found at the Bahujan Samaj Party website [Link]. Download NOW. Offer valid till BSP in power in Uttar Pradesh.

Former Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy writes this heavily biased pseudo-secular piece [Link] in the Huffington Post that confirms where her true loyalties lie. Some Indians hate India so much that you can sense that the only purpose of their life is to indulge in majority-bashing and minority-appeasement to give their "views" to the world. It's a shame that the West looks to such people to get an idea of what India is about, while these people on the contrary give them the exact opposite of what reality is and the exacts of what India isn't. Why do such Indians exist?

Greatbong provides a sane analysis of this piece. The exact type that should be read [Link].

Cricket
WOW. What a win. India embarassed England in the first Test at Chennai, helped by one of Sachin Tendulkar's most spectacular centuries. Spectacular in cricket terms and critical terms. England basically deserve no credit for letting slip a match such as this, which was clearly in their grasp till the second session of Day 4.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is on the way to becoming one of India's greatest captains ever. With an eye-popping 100% win record in Tests, it is difficult to go beyond the Ranchi man's acumen in handling tense situations and swinging games from draws to wins. And this man definitely doesn't know how to lose.

The catalyst for the win was Virender Sehwag, undoubtedly. The Delhi man's blitz in the final session of Day four had bred optimism in the Indian camp of a win. Sehwag's swashbuckling hitting took the pressure of the rest of the team and hence the fourth-highest target ever in Test cricket was comfortably chased out.


India didn't snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They whole-heartedly went seeking victory and deservedly got it so. Period.







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15 comments:

  Vinod_Sharma

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 5:30:00 AM PST

Congrats on all the awards and many thanks for conferring them on me too.

I liked the way you quantified you happiness! Your friend Bush is still picking up awards, in pairs...he's going to need them soon, the shoes, I mean!

  Anonymous

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 11:19:00 AM PST

Congrats on the awards! This is certainly a very cool blog.

Love the bush pic!

The article by Arundhati Roy left a bad taste in the mouth. Ill probably have to write a post to express what i feel about what she penned down there.

  Amrutha

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 8:20:00 PM PST

Hey! Thanks a lot! And congrats on getting these awards. You really deserve them. :-)

  Anonymous

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 12:40:00 AM PST

hey.. congrats..

  The Seeker

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 12:43:00 AM PST

congrats buddy!!!

  Jay

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 6:41:00 AM PST


@Vinod Sharma
Thanks.

@AmreekanDesi
Thanks. Yes, Ms. Roy herself leaves us in bad taste, forget her ideas.

@Amrutha
Thanks.

@Himanshu
Thanks.

@The Seeker
Thanks.

  Anonymous

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 7:47:00 PM PST

Yay! Thanks for the awards, man. I will soon come up with a post accepting it, and pass it on to other bloggers.

  Anonymous

Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:35:00 AM PST

Congrats!Mujhe award mile itni der ho gayi aur main ab dekh rahi hoon? had hi ho gayi!(lolz).Sorry..am still busy with my exams but you know means a lot to me.Thank you Trailblazer.Coming from someone as honest as you,it really really means a lot.Thanks once again!

Hey, I read the link.I fully agree with you there.Even Khushwant Singh stressed the same point in his column in the Tribune and in some ways I agree with him too...good link.

About India-am glad that Indian team has finally found it's rhythm! I know the day is not far when India is at the top in the cricketing world! Lets hope it comes soon!

  Jay

Friday, December 19, 2008 at 12:39:00 AM PST


@Krishna
You are welcome.

@Mithe
Lol. Best of luck with your exams.

  Anonymous

Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 9:04:00 AM PST

Congratulations for the award! :)
And I am sure that Bush might be having second thoughts about his happiness after two shoes flew over his head!
And Arundhati left me more confused than flabbergasted. I don't understand what she is harping at.

  Anonymous

Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 3:50:00 PM PST

Congrats and thanks for the awards. I keep reading your posts, though bread-earning keeps me off from the comments section, most times, even on my own blog!

  Jay

Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 5:29:00 AM PST


@Amit
Thanks.

@Rambodoc
Thanks for reading. Yeah, I would agree it's difficult to comment. I face the same problem. Reading blogs is fun enough :-).

  Anonymous

Monday, December 22, 2008 at 4:06:00 AM PST

krishna & honest...???

Maybe you saw something that I missed! LOL!

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