Wow…Fantastic….Yuppii…..We won……Well Done Team India...!!!
Yes..I wanted to start with these words to show my happiness towards India’s victory against Pakistan… What a day that was…
Yesterday 30th March, at Mohali two teams Ind-Pak were playing (battling, I would say.. ) in WC 2011 Semi-final match (The Mother of all matches..!!) and around 35,000 supporters, prime ministers of both nations, film stars, VVIPs gathered to support their teams. Atmosphere at Mohali Stadium was electrifying. Whole nation was like dying to see this biggest battle and finally day has came. Many government offices, private companies have declared half or full day of holiday to watch the match. Many of my friends had taken leaves to enjoy the match with their dear n near ones. In fact few companies have arranged TV sets or Large Screens to show the match in office only, so no one can miss those most awaited battle. Roads were empty like it may have curfew imposed on the streets, everybody made some or other arrangement to watch the match without being miss a single ball, So all set to watch the match. That was the scene in India...
But here in UK, you wont get that kind of atmosphere. Even though here also we Indian people are very passionate about to watch the match, we are not so lucky to manage holiday or leave but however we ensure that we can see the match. And we managed to watch in office only, of course not on TV set but on Laptop via Internet. We had celebrated wickets, boundaries....though we controlled our joy and emotions due to be in office, but on fall of final wicket we lost our control and cheered our victory very loudly. So that was nice experience to watch that match in office....After coming from office I watched the victory celebration out there in India on India new channel..that was magnificent & astonishing....every corner of India was celebrating the victory like Diwali...Fire Crackers and Public rally on the roads with soar of "Bharat Mata ki Jay..", "India..India.."......That was unforgettable scenes out there in India...Another thing which I personally feel is expressing their joy on FB & Twitter...people went crazy..they were updating their status like mad...everybody feels thats their way to celebrate...share joy....No wonder if FB &Twitter servers may have got high CPU usage spike.. :) :)...So that all about the match..
Few things worth note down for this month, first and foremost Holi...we celebrated holi at our Leeds Hindu temple with few friends. We had fantastic time at there but really missing the Holi celebration in India... :(
Also one of the worst accident I have ever seen... I saw a dead man crushed by big lorry. Accident took place on the way to my office. That day it was very windy and that area is one of the deadliest windy area of Leeds. unfortunately, due to heavy wind the lorry was flipped and passing by fellow had bad luck on that day and was killed. God Bless him...
Waiting to see WC in Team India's hand...Especially Sachin's...
Till then Bye....and best wishes to Team India...
Pritesh
