Over the weekend

Sandy boy dozed off for a few minutes while watching Casino Royale. Though he blamed jet lag, he didn’t seem to be much thrilled by the latest James Bond flick. Shinoj sensed scam. He said, “This is not a James Bond movie, buddy. This is a Triple X movie. I prefer my James Bond to be the way he has always been - cool, smooth and elegant. Not macho and rugged”. But still, he accepted that Casino Royale is a good action movie. I think he had a valid point. The rest of us liked the movie unconditionally.

It didn’t rain on Saturday. Three of us decided to play some cricket. The ground was empty except for the couple of kids playing with their dog. I guess the dog, being dutch, is not aware of the existence of the great game – Cricket, that can be played with tennis balls. May be he thinks that tennis balls can be used in just two ways – to play tennis or to play burry-burry. As he didn’t find a long net erected vertically on the ground and people on its either side with funny-looking netted-sticks in their hands, he decided that our tennis ball was meant for him to play burry-burry. He pounced on the tennis ball and ran away with it. The kids ran behind him to recover the ball. He effortlessly outran them and the kids were tired soon. He then dug a hole and burried the ball. He wasn’t happy with his effort. He took the ball back, dug a deeper grave and then burried it again. One of the kids switched to plan B. He took a stick and started playing throw-and-retrieve with the dog. When the dog was busy in this game, the kid dug the ball out and returned it to us. Smart kid. We waited for the kids to take the dog away and then started playing. By then, it had started getting dark rapidly. We managed to play for about ten minutes. When I failed to make contact with the ball bowled at ultra slow pace for a whole over, we decided that it was too dark to play.

Excerpts of Shaan’s concert in The Hague were shown in a local TV. It is always a treat to watch the ever-smiling-Shaan. He ended the ‘Main hoon Don’ song as ‘Main hoon Shaan’. Cute, isn’t it? Seems he has been working out lately. He flaunted his arms a bit.

Watched Water (at last). One of the memorable scenes in the movie is when the kid sees Lisa Ray for the first time and involuntarily utters ‘Pari’. Lisa Ray, for sure, looks like an angel in the movie. This is one of those movies that I wouldn’t wish to watch for the second time. Not that it is a bad movie. Infact it is very well made. The problem is with me. I generally don’t prefer tragedies. Particularly the well made ones. I find them difficult to forget.

Found out, to my own horror, that I am now unable to lock my hands behind my back. There goes my last bit of flexibility. I lost the ability to touch the ground without bending my knees long ago. I am afraid I will very soon end up moving around like a robot. Damn.