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-Balls
P.S. Let the commenting session begin ;-)

Just before Srikant comes up with his new blog which would take you some time to read and appreciate in its entirety..I would like to remind you of a beautiful happening last night. We celebrated four bdays at Balls place that of Anadi, yours truly,Anshul and a brainchild of our all time freaky minds " Freaks Inc.". Its due to the incessant blogging that we have been doing since the past year that we could celebrate its first year anniversary and that too in a party for which absolutely marvellous would be an understatement
So join me in wishing Freaks Inc a very happy bday..albeit a day late now..and heres to great days ahead in mind-boggling blogging !

~Anoop

The last post accounted for 32 (and still counting) comments...just goes to show how popular Gilchrist is! Since we are high on the dialogues front....im posting a few quintessential Bollywood dialogues :

1.The cult "Main tumhare bacche ke maa banne wali hoon"
2.Standard mother"Arrey beta naashta to karke jaao"
3.A gori gaavwali trying to free herself from Ranjeet"Chhod do mujhe, bhagwaan ke liye chhod do"
4.The doctor to the paitent's near n' dear ones" I'm sorry, hum kuch nahin kar sakey"
5.Amitabh in lakh movies "Bhagwan mainey tumse aaj tak kuch nahin maanga....."
6.The classic " Thairo! Yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti !"
7.Iftekar...appearing as inspector(surprise surprise):" Apne aap ko police ke hawaale kar do. Police ne chaaron taraf sey tumhe gher liya hai "
8.Garam Dharam/Amit/Pinchoo Kapoor " Agar Maa ka doodh piya hai to saamne aa."
9.Judge announcing his decision in filmi court :"Gawaaoon key bayaanat aur saboot ko madde nazar rakhtey Taz-e-raat-e-hind(thooooo), dafaa 302 ke tahet , muzrim ko sazaaye maut di jaati hai"
10.And the greatest ofcourse....: "Aeeyy...aahh....aiiahhhh.....Aoooowwwwwwww" (Its from the movie Sansar starring Raj 'Constipated' Babbar :-)

Add more....
Balls

To Walk or not...that is the question

In wake of the the strong sentiments that ensued after a myriad of batsmen 'walked' in the current test match forced me to pen down a few thoughts on the same. As long as ive been watching cricket i cant recollect actions such as the one happening in this test match. Its probably becoz 90% of the cricket we watch is when India is playing and Indians never walk. The fact that this is being done by the Aussies is what is more surprising. Ruthless, indifferent, foul-mouthed and hostility are the adjectives that ive always associated the Aussies with;gentlemanly...a far call. The Poms have always said that one shud walk if the felt that they've nicked the ball. Vaughan didnt in the last Ashes tour...and anyways if Poms are our yardstick for moralities then i better die the most painful of deaths.

The point i want to raise here is more than act itself,we shud applaud the the victory of righteousness over slyness that goes inside the persons mind. Its a tough call...a WC semi-final...the 4 years of hardwork in the lead up to the trophy at stake...and more than anything the act of defiance against a plethora of former fellow cricketing rogues to contend with. But a certain Mr.Gilchrist decided to go with his conscience and 'walk' at the world's biggest stage. This act, my friends according to me is a double edged sword...u 'tank' ur wicket away knowing that u cud sneak away a few more if u decided to stay and second and most importantly is that since uve walked once ppl consider u to be some kindof demi-god and ur expected to walk everytime u nick.Gilly has certainly lived up on both counts. Hats off to u 'Sir'...ur ethics are built on firmer grounds regardless of the final frontier.

As far as the question goes as to what i wud do...i certainly wudnt walk...not a chance. It requires tremendous morale and courage to do so...frankly i dont think i have the stomach or a good conscience to walk. The Umpires are there to do their job...somedays they rule u out and somedays u get away. Its all part of the game my friends...and no its not cheating...its more of riding ur luck. Finally to conclude i wud say...applaud those who walk but when it comes to u...scamper for some more luck.

-Balls

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Inspired and deeply motivated by the ubiquitous presence of chaptas, I felt like penning down a chapta mini-dictionary with the phonetics( the most important part). Best part about this is there is no adherence to any grammar and everyone can have their own style :-)). Few words and they way they are popularly pronounced by a colleague. Absolutely no offences..just pure fun

Chucka -- Check ,Coni - Calling, Coojew - Could you, Daashar - Darshan, Eeen -- In, Jaw - George,Gunness- Goodness, Hess - Hell, Hapnee- Happening, Khaiyaan - Kalyan, Khatika - Kartik, Laaen - Naeem, Lowry - Larry, Meenion - Million, Maajeu - Module,Nou - Not,Paave - Parvez, Peshaan -- Patient, Red - Reya, Reesoni - Risoli, Whaw - What, Hocohoni - Workoholic.

Now a sentence using most of the words stated above
Khatika whee you go to(through) Lowry's maajeu "Chucka Peshaan Eeen". O my gunness..I donno whys (why its) nou whakeen..Whas Hess hapnee? Khaiyaan coojew to my offi(office)?Paave, Daashar is coni you..so you and Jaw go to heen ( him). Laaen is a hocohoni..heza guda mangere( he is a good manager)dau (though)..hedaza meenion taske phah dey ( he does a million tasks a day)

Sad but true..no doubt chaptas suck in presentations and desis capitalize !

The Night that was ...

The aftermath of a long and eventful evening brought to fore a force science calls ESP or telepathy. I(Balls) had a heart-heart talk with Anoop as to where we are headed on the blog front...and how I felt that he shud be more actively involed in it since twas becoz of his and ofcourse Marwadi's efforts that this blog sprung out of dormancy. Seperate chain of thoughts after a few minutes and lo behold...we were thinking abt the same thing...write a blog abt the involvement of all freaks in tonites event.
(Disclaimer: This is totally the truth guys...no sarcasm and above all no psycophancy. We had decided that we wud write something heartfelt coz all we write is humor. We r a tight knit unit folks and we felt we need to reach out to 'jigris' where its due).

First of all: Brilliant decision by Balls to come back home from school to his house and put the tikka. It looked different and really suited the occasion. We dont care what people felt about it..but we felt good and different.And thats what is important..doing what you like and caring two hoots about the rest.

Balls:(~ by Anoop)One of the most energetic and exhilarating dancers I have seen in some time. Danced his heart out..was himself and seemed totally free from all worries, encouraging other people to delve into his perpetual mode of hysteria. Something which Jim Morrison/Pink floyd would be proud about( Very few might understand what I am hinting at but what the heck).I especially liked the one on one "head banging" jigs during the dandiya as well as the Bhangra with him. Its some different pedestal of energy( one that is so full of adrenalin that only a sore neck and tigerbalm can explain) this man is able to generate.His dancing took me back down memory lane and it was very much remniscent of the Ganesh Chaturthi dances and the ones in the North Indian "baarat".Worth mentioning were his stupendous one on ones with Goli which earned praise from many a onlooker.Overall a 10/10 in energy,sheer exuberance and attitude.I am sure he echoes the same thoughts that we were both surprised that we can dance so free without any inhibitions with so much elan.

Marvadi:Starters :- His early inhibitions resembled a young tortoise peeking out of its shell to have a glance at the real world. Anubhav seemed lost in the beginning but a few words of exhortment from fellow Freaks quickly brought him out of his 'shell'.
Main Course:Slowly but surely he started to gain confidence on a foreign hostile 'pitch' and smothered the spin to such an extent that we guys actually had to have him 'retired hurt'so that we cud have some grub.
Dessert:On came Bhagra and enter Marwadi into favoured grounds. Ganpati dance to the hilt accompanied by his (TM) deafening seetis.And yeah..marwadi we saw it..you were too good when you were dancing one on one with Savitha..good job!!

Goli:When it was Bhangra, Goli simply set the dance floor on fire.Never has he been a disappointment and never wud be one for the future we hope.His mission statement "How Goli got his Groove back", a few days back on the hallowed Blog was vindicated. If ever there cudve been one guy who epitomises Van Halen's song 'Dance the Night away'...u know u cudnt have gone wrong in the guessing game. What we had on display was some really graceful Bhangra coupled with energetic hip gyrations...a la Beyonce :-). Goli was always centrestage..in the middle of a circle of people showing people how to dance in tune to bhangra music, swaying his way through putting smooth Calypso to shame.A lot of ppl came up to us to congratulate on how energetic the entire group was...and we wudnt have an iota of doubt in our minds as to who was a big part of it....Tantrik rox!

Bailya:We had serious doubts whether this introvert would ever care to come on to the dance floor and break into a jig with us. Come dandiya..go dandiya not a trace of Vishal of the floor.He hinted that he had been involved in dancing with Suraj and group but common-sense suggested otherwise.Balls had to pull him out of the dining room to the dance floor when the Bhangra music started and once the music entered his system, Bailya was seen enjoying himself pretty much with some carefree dancing. Come Diwali..we need a serious increase in the energy quotient from you Bailya...we are sure you wont dissapoint. We want to see the Vishal of old ( I want to break free ~ from the hallmark CD {Farewell} )

Bhaiyya:(I know u dont read the Blog...but u certainly were worth mentioning)
Bhaiyya already had his potion of elixir to experience what Bala's sheer exuberance and energy had to offer.But after pushing some really atrocious food down his food pipe..he was there with the rest of the gang enjoying the music and dancing( no grinding and no funny business here). Was brave enough to come out of his perpetual state of playing second fiddle ,and danced in the center of a circle looking and analysing a zillion times of what step he had to do next. But a typical Bihari
jig and Bhaiyya was on his way..came out with flying colors we should say.

Anoop:(~Balls)A brief history about Aup coming to the festival.I casually mentioned to him one day about Garba and he completely jumped the gun and was all out for it...and wasnt it a good decision or what(now u know that im really writing this:-). No qualms...no quiver...nothing quintessential.Novel,neat...and graceful...he really surprised me by the way he cud sway keeping in mind the Hulky built of his. His decision to hoick me up on top of his shoulders and dance for almost half a song was the highlight of the night for me.We had curious onlookers...stopping their usual stuff and gaping in awe. Also if there was anyone who looked a more 'Bhai' than Sanju 'baba'we had the previlege to have him arnd today...and he surely was lucky enough to don the best 'Tikka' of the lot.A really hilarious part of the Garba was when Anoop and I were at the opposite ends ready to strike....when he wud stare at me with the 'Attitude pose' and stand still for a while while the pack behind him wud curse under their breath.Top notch performance from Aup....i give him a 11/10.

Savitha/Aarti/Nicolle:Savitha was quite zestful and performed a scitillating one-one with Goli and Marwadi.Equally good was her dandiya dancing when we were moving around in big circles.
Aarti,Nicolle wonderful job in helping to put together the entire event which was nothing short of a Grand Success.If u guys are incharge of Diwali too...then i think we are in good shape.All of them were looking resplendent in their Indian attire..something which we all aren't used to and something which is so much easier on the eyes. None of them being Gujjus..they carried themselves with grace,panache and poise.

This is for the first time in the history of Freaks Inc that a joint blog has been written...we sincerly hope that any muddled thoughts wud be taken into stride !

~Balls, Aup

eXile - Issue #138 - Great Literatury Frauds of Our Time - By John Dolan

Article makes Arundhati look like a Ellsworth Toohey promoted Gus Webb( Did I get the name right?) ..(For the clueless-- names refer to characters in Fountainhead - Ayn Rand).

Series preview:

We've talked at lenght abt the forthcoming Ind-Aus series...but here i am finding nuthing brain tickling to do...so thought i wud muster up enuff vigor to pencil in some of my thoughts.Contrary to common notion i do have this gut feeling that we are gonna pull this un off. Current bad form probably means nothing to me...too much is at stake for us.I personally have full faith in Ganguly and the team...they have time and again proved us wrong...the WC...the Aus series and the Pak series. And having spoken to most of u guys...we had all seemed to had agreed that all of the above was our doomsday. But our team not only came out unscathed by were on top most of the times. Here is why i think we wud be succesfull a few points to support my theory.

Aussies wilt under pressure:
When they r on top u know its game set and match. If we bat well in the first innings and take the Aussies head on on a dicey 2nd or 3rd day pitch, they wud more often than not crumble. In the same way if Veeru starts hitting out then u wud see the ugly side of the Aussies...Mcgrath spitting/swearing...Warney bowling the odd offspinners/bouncers. Fluster them and its half the job done. So for us to do that i think Veeru is the key. In the 98 series it was Sidhu who laid the platform for Sachin...in Australia this time arnd it was Veeru and Chopra; so if we get a decent enuff start i think the Aussies wud have their backs against the 'WALL'.

A bad middle order:
No Ponting this time for 2 matches...and im pretty sure he wudve wanted to set the record straight with bhajji...so thats a plus for us.But again its a bold statement...i think the Aussies have a really bad middle order to play spin. On previous tours they had the Waugh twins who were really good players of spin but now they r left with the likes of -
Martyn-a class act in his own right but an absolute dummy against spin
Lehman-a good player of spin but eccentric... can be enticed into playing a rash stroke as he likes to dominate the spinners
Katich-handled 'Clums' really well in Aus...but in the dustbowls of Nagpur...he wud be like a ballet dancer on a Jelly turf.
Clarke-Ok now he is a good player...but consider this
a> pressures of playing in front of a vociferous crowd
b>debut series
c>against a quality spin attack
d>on dustbowls
Now thats fuckin too much...if he comes thru all that and has a good series...then my respect for him wud be googolplexed.

Twin Spin:
As far as i remember...Clums and Bhajji havent bowled a lot together. An a few test against the Poms and NZ and that is it...correct me if im wrong. Here comes a series where both are in good form and probably a series where they cud really hunt in pair. Kumble as usual wud be the work horse and Bhajji and Irfan the strike bowlers. Its a good attack on a bad pitch and lethal when Jayprakash is the umpire :-)

Our batting:
We have always had our trump cards while playing against the Aussies...98 was Sachin series...'01 was Laxman/Bhajji and '03 was Dravid/Clums.I dont know but i have this gut feeling that its gonna be Chandi's series this time arnd. He probably is the only guy who is in fairly good nick and in the absence of Sachin he is gonna take it up on himself to score aplenty. Laxman has and always wud be a bloody enigma- 'A thriller or a trailer'.I think is gonna be sorted out by the Aussies this series...i hope im wrong but the signs arent too good. Dravid as always wud be the key along with Veeru this time. With Dravid we cud more often than not be rest assured that batting is in safe hands. Veeru smashed karthik into wilderness and warney wudnt pose much of a threat to him...the only threat is the miniscule brain of his...that overcome the series we will win in a whimper.

All in all i think we need to positive and most importantly REMOVE TENDULKAR OUT OF OUR MINDS. I wudve liked to see Sriram....he has been in some touch. But i guess Kaif needs to get a good look into tests too...he certainly has got the grit and patience for it...technique i dont know. My series predictions...2-1 India and the Nagpur test a draw. I might fall flat on my face with all the stuff that ive written...but what the heck...as som stoopid commentator always says 'Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainities' (King of Cliches according me cant stoop lower :-)

Chandi Maharaj kiii...........JAI

-Balls

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