The melt that was inevitable

This article stirred up the memories of those times of my addiction to cricket. Hours were spent watching, many more hours were spent discussing. Much of this addiction had to with that exhibition match that is mentioned in the article. I distinctly remember Abdul Qadir laughing at Tendulkar as he looked a complete novice the first few deliveries he faced. And then started the most ruthless decimation of the bowling attack which became his trademark for years to come. What elegance, what style, I was completely bowled over. Somehow his emotions seemed to permeate through TV, that fearless determination, the self-belief, that desire to be in the driver's seat and yet there wasn't a touch of arrogance or ugliness in behaviour when things didn't go his way: just a supreme being.

Change of sport

You know your loyalties have had a major shift when your youtube search is for tips on double handed volley rather than how to screen and roll. 

If you are also in search of that elusive killer volley......... here are a couple of links that I found really nice: this one on how to keep the back swing to bare minimum and the next one on watching the ball till it impacts your racquet and keeping the grip soft.

Flavour of last week

I still remember on our farewell day at school, most of us had come equipped with a little diary. A diary with multi-coloured pages with some cute picture lightly printed in the right bottom corner of each page. As we sat together as a class the very last time, these diaries circulated and their pages filled rapidly archiving our emotional outpourings for years to come. I can still recall how I struggled to write something on each diary that was short but personal, that captured the essence of my interaction with that particular diary owning friend of mine, thinking that with some of them perhaps this would be my last interaction. Finally when my own diary made it back to me, I flipped through all the messages, the only message that I can still remember, "Life is an ice-cream, enjoy before it melts." "How cliche!" was my reaction then but now I see the point. You got to identify the ice-cream like bits of life and enjoy them because the melt is inevitable. When the servings are in short supply, you can make some of your own ice-cream like moments.
  
There has been a relapse of the banana-ice-cream craze. The latest flavour: bananas and oranges.
Two of each fruit. Peeled, chopped and frozen. Here is how they look after coming out of freezer:

A spoon of sugar per fruit. Zip in a blender. Pulse it, so that all pieces break down evenly.

Though avoid blending till it is perfectly smooth, some chunkiness is highly recommended.