Hair-A-Gone!

After a long time Im posting about my once favourite sport.. after the matchfixing row I have not been following the sport with the same vigor as I used to.
I am more neutral when it comes to this particular controversy involving Hair, even though I partially support this particular decision of Hair's and the Pakistani team being my least favourite team, I still believe that Hair has made many incorrect decisions in his career and does not deserve to be on ICCs elite umpires panel, a list from which he was omitted back in 2002, then reinstated the following year.
He according to many observers has been indifferent to Asian teams, subtly indicating that he is racist! Most of his controversial decisions have come against Asian teams- Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India (The infamous war of words with Kapil Dev). As a neutral observer I believe the decision was quite harsh.. but one still has to keep in mind that no team or individual is greater than than the game itself!

Luka Chuppi

Luka Chuppi bahut huyi, saamne aa ja naa
Kahan kahan dhoondha tujhe, thak gayi hai ab teri maa
Aaja saanjh hui, mujhe teri fikar
Dhundhla gayi dekh meri nazar aa ja na..

I remember the days I used to skip this one song from the album.. and now it has become my favourite song in the album, I think it just goes to show how poorly defined my musical taste buds are, for it has taken me so long to like this song.. and for that matter I have had similar experiences with many Rahman's songs, but very few slow numbers of his.

According to the lyrics of the song a mother is singing to her son, asking him to stop hiding and come out as she is tired and worried looking for him. Lata Mangeshkar plays the mother (female vocalist) and the son(Male vocalist) is played by Rahman himself.
It was interesting to note that Rahman had taken the center stage with majority of the vocals, or atleast I got the feeling at the end of the song that he sang a greater portion.

Interestingly this is also my 100th post officially, even though I havent posted all of them!

My Birthday Cake & Gift!

Blogging from a land far far away.. After a long time I had a birthday cake, I think after exactly 4 years.. and the Seinfeld dvd gift with seasons 1 & 2 kick starts my attempt to collect all 9 seasons covering around 10 years and 180 episodes of the show. If I had to rank all the tv shows I have watched since I was a kid, a lot of HBO shows would rank right on top but Seinfeld would rank as the numero uno! So I decided that Seinfeld would kickstart my dvd collection.. and so it happened!