My experience at M.A.C - Simply Superb!!!!

My experience at the M.A.C stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, was terrific.. Me and my friends got the opportunity to watch the first test match between India and South Africa at chennai.. This is my first time Stadium-experience and it proved really mindblowing!!

My first day at the stadium was on the 3rd day of the 5-day match.. We guys enjoyed a lot on that day and the main cause for that was Virender Sehwag!! He was one man stealing the show with his master strokes.. He gave us many reasons to celebrate which includes his reaching the 100, 150, 200, 250 and the 300 mark!! He kept the audience spell bound with his awesome 300 plus mark which made him to be the Man Of The Match!! Numerous boundaries, classic drives, trendy strokes and what not!! One more highlight of his innings was that, he became the Third player to score 300-run mark twice in Test Cricket, the other two being Brian Lara and Don Bradman( if i am not wrong!!)!!!! In short, Sehwag made us feel contented with his commanding innings!!

On the next day( Day 4 ), we entered the stadium with our hearts filled with hopes to witness Sehwag reaching his 400th run.. But unfortunately Sehwag was caught at the slips which marked his innings with lovely 319 runs!! With greater expectations and greater celebrations, we waited for Sachin to open his innings.. But unfortunately, he was dismissed for a duck!! Being an ardent fan of Sachin, my mindset at that moment was,"Its a world record even if its a duck, when Sachin gets it!!!!".. With such an idea, we continued watching the play.. Later, our attention was grabbed by The Wall Of India- Rahul Dravid!! Infact, he gave us some reasons to jubiliate, which includes Dravid crossing his 10,000 runs in test cricket( the third Indian to reach this, apart from Sachin and Gavaskar!! ).. Also, Dravid scored his 25th century in test cricket on the same day..

Once the Indian innings came to an end, our players entertained us with their work on the field.. And obviously, the very presence of Sachin on the field made us feel excited.. The way he acknowledged the crowd was simply fascinating..!!

Our next day on the stadium was not as excellent as the previous ones, but still i liked it.. The highlight of this day was naturally the presentation ceremony as it gave us great pleasure to watch Sehwag recieving the Man Of The Match award!! On the whole, this experience at the stadium, filled us with great memories to be cherished upon!!!!

Its Time to Celebrate!!!!

Its time for all Indians to celebrate!! Indians have won the CommonWealth Bank series in the finals against Australia..

As we all know, winning a series against Australia, that too in the Australian grounds is quite amazing.. And today, Indians proved themselves by winning the CB series(a tri series between India, Australia and Sri Lanka)..

After getting selected for the finals, by crossing all the league matches, the Indians made a solid victory on the first final.. And today, being the second final match, it became the Do or Die match for the Australians.. So, with lots of expectations, the match started and of course, it was a pretty good start by the Indain openners, who chose to bat first.. It was Sachin's knock of 91 runs today, that turned out to be his unmatchable 89th half century..

The entire team performed well and managed to score 258 runs at the end of the innings.. When the Australians came out to bat, Indian fast bowler Praveen Kumar took early wickets of Gilly, Ponting and Clarke.. These early break thrus took our team to the commanding position.. It was then Hayden and Symonds whose partnership proved to be challenging as Hayden made his half century to reduce the burden on the team..

Later, in the 26th over, Aus lost Hayden and Symond's wickets.. But then, it was again Hussey and Hopes, who fought their best to reduce the chasing margin.. With these thrilling moments, it was Pathan who took the wicket of Hopes in the last over and marked the victory for our team!!

In short, all the players in our team, did their best in paving way for our success and it was Sachin and Praveen kumar who were the Stars today..

With this victory from the senior players on one side, we have the Under 19 team, who are presently the World Cup winners in their division!! So, we can say that India is shining in all spheres of cricket... Hats-Off to all those players, who were responsible for taking India to this winning position!!!!

Yet Another Laurel!!!!

Yet another laurel!! Yet another record!! This day marks an imprint in the histroy of cricket and obviously, its Sachin Tendulkar making it!!!!

Sachin Tendulkar scored his 42nd ODI century with his unbeaten 117(not out!!) against Australia.. As usual, Sachin was awesome on the pitch as he came up openning the innings and remained unbeaten till the winning stroke!! It was a nice treat for all Indian fans to see the God of Cricket playing his excellent shots.. Numerous Coverdrives, Inside-Outs, Square drives, Flicks and what not!!

With Sachin missing 5 centuries last year( as he was taken in his 90s ), he broke out his Nervous Nineties pattern today!! This infact raises the expectation for the upcoming matches and no doubt, Sachin is really gonna rock!!

With nothing to stop him, I wish him All the very Best for his upcoming centuries and laurels!!

Indian Premier League ( IPL ) Rockzz!!!!

The Indian Premier League, IPL just rocks!!

Yet another reason for cricket lovers to enjoy!! The IPL has come out with the list of teams for the T20 series scheduled to begin in the month of april 2008.. The board has given a set of rules while selecting the players, which includes:

* Each team can have a maximum of 16 players..

* Of these 16, a maximum of 8 foreign players and a minimum of 4 under-22 players must be selected..

* Four players from the catchment area where the team is based..

Fulfiling all the above mentioned criteria, the various teams have their own list of players which was selected on a bidding basis.. The various contesting teams are Chennai(Chennai Super Kings) owned by India Cements, Bangalore (Bangalore Royal Chalengers) owned by Vijay Mallya, Delhi(Delhi Dare Devils) owned by GMR group, Hyderabad owned by Deccan Chronicle, Kolkata owned by Shahrukh Khan, Mohali by Preity Zinda, Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani and Jaipur by Emerging media..

The players for these teams were selected on a bidding basis and in this regard, M.S.Dhoni has become the highest paid player with a salary of $1500000, and he is playing for Chennai Super Kings.. With several other players worldwide, like Warne, Muralidharan, Kallis etc.. the IPL has set up several expectations in the hearts of millions!!

Adding to the list of selected players, each team has one player as the ICON player whose salary is 15% more than the salary of the highest paid player in the team.. The panel of Icon players include Sachin, Yuvi, Ganguly, Sehwag and Dravid..

With all these mind blowing aspects, the IPL is ready to launch the series of matches and as a cricket lover, am eagerly waiting to witness the stars playing!!!!

A.R.Rahman's music school!!!!!

The dreams of several millions is going to come true in a short span!! I recently came to know about A.R's idea to open a music school!!

It seems that, A.R. is going to launch a music school very shortly, to nurture young minds with the musical gift.. He calls this to be his dream coming true!! His idea behind this is to create a well reputed and a top class music school.. In this regard he has even selected a place near Chennai Airport, where the construction works will be proceeded..


In his words,
"I feel young talented musicians in our country, specially those who want to learn Western classical music, have nowhere seriously creative to go. We need to cultivate a taste for Western symphonic music so that an average musically-inclined young musician would be as enthused about learning the violin as the star.. " - - A.R.Rahman

He also adds " We'll soon be working round-the-clock. I want it to be one of the best music schools in our country"!!!!

With this act of starting a music school, Thala has entered into another dimension of becoming a teacher!! As everyone knows, Thala rocks in whatever he does and so is the music school.. With lots of expectations, i extend my heart felt wishes to his new endeavour!!!!

Interface2k8 !!

Interface2k8..- Here is an opportunity for young talented brains to express yourself!!

Very recently my friend Saravanan(a very close friend of mine) told me about the technical symposium conducted bt C.I.T, where he is doing his third year in Computer Science dept.. As we all know, C.I.T is one of the highly reputed institutions and i think, this is a nice opportunity for all Engg. students to expose their talents.. To know more about it, check out

http://www.interface2k8.com/

All that you need to do is, just register yourself and take part in several online events.. Follow the link and Rock On!!!!

Munbe Vaa..- The song with a Difference!!

As we all know, the song Munbe Vaa from the movie Sillunu Oru Kadhal is an evergreen melody.. Always fresh and melting!!



As an ardent fan of A.R.Rahman, i just love almost all his creations.. But then, what made me write about this song in particular is that, i feel there is something more than just music in it.. We always have a set of songs which will take you through some precious memories.. And this is one such song for me.. When this movie was on the screens, we had immense craze about this song.. Infact, we have listened to this song for hours together.. Even today the song remains fresh and heart provoking!!

One more thing, that adds spice to the song is its picturisation.. Surya just rocks in it!! His style and expreesions just adds beauty to the song.. From the cinematic point of view, this song has its own uniqueness that, no other song has its starting with the phrase 'Munbe Vaa'..

On the whole, the heart throbbing song is a gift to kollywood cinema and thanks to A.R. for fetching such a masterpiece!!!!