Look back, smile, laugh ...

today, i was rummaging through my bookmarks in IE and stumbled upon a page that made me smile & then laugh.

long long ago(almost THREE YEARS back), one fine evening, finding myself idle at my company(well, that doesn't mean i din't have work. all it means is that i just din't feel like if-ing and else-ing at that moment), i typed out a page of words - a tirade against the indian media that was going bonkers over india's chances of winning the cricket (what else?!) world cup 2003. i mailed it to a prominent portal's cricket column editor.

to my eventual surprise(just kidding!), i found it published in the
Letter of the Day column.

reading it again today, made me laugh at myself. i don't know why it's so. but most of the things we do with passion at one point of time in this beautiful (yes, i mean wretched) life, look very silly when we glance back at them from a later point of time. more the later, more the sillier they look!

p.s.:
of course, my predictions in that column came true, india did not win that world cup. (it's really easy to be cynical anytime, isn't it? but more importantly, it's safer too!)

they lost the finals to the Aussies due to a pathetic bowling performance conceding three hundred and fifty nine runs in fifty overs!! if i remember correctly, "india's spearhead" srinath (a collegemate of mine used to mouth words that can't be published here whenever someone in the media described srinath like that!) went for 89 runs off his 10 overs.

but the irony was, the indian bowlers had not performed that bad in the run-up to the finals. in fact, they had played an equal part with the batsmen in taking the team there. but anyway, they looked clueless on D-Day. as i had written, they neither had the fire in their hearts that day nor some tricks in their bags! (how silly one can get when writing such things!!)