It all started in a mad rush with me having to leave for the tournament within four hours of my sister’s wedding. I don’t think I managed a proper goodbye either, of which I would have had a lot of chances because on their way to the Andamans, they ( Ro n Arti) had to deplane coz my sister had left her handbag in the terminal. So that basically meant a shorter honeymoon!
I have always been told that Chandigarh is a beautiful and organized city but I never really understood the statement till I was in the city. Beautiful roads, lined by trees on both sides and perfect symmetry maintained with respect to numbering of the sectors gave the city a very elegant touch. It was more like a magnified version of Lutyen's Delhi.
I also bit into a temptation which I had managed to avoid with steadfast resolution. Spent the last few months of college playing flash, using Garry’s scrabble pieces as tokens. so I was all game for it when the guys said “let’s play flash”. It’s only when they asked me to cough up money after giving the tokens did I realize what I had gotten myself into! Unfortunately, I must confess, it was good fun and I was tempted to give it a shot again the next day. Greed is the root of all evil! Something that the tournament director found out to his misfortune :). No wonder then that he took the first flight back home the day the tournament finished!
On tour one gets the opportunity to meet and interact with so many players and other people that you feel you are looking at the start of new friendships.That, I like, for sure.
The week has come to an end and with all the wonderful newspaper clippings in tow, I write this on my way back on the Shatabdi that lets my Data Card access the cyber world with astonishing ease.
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Highlights of the week
* Rashid won his third straight title on the National Amateur Tour
* I had a phone conversation with Peter Thomson, five time winner of the British Open
* Apparently ‘cards’ is also played with money!
* Chandigarh is as much Haryana as it is Punjab
* APPARENTLY ‘cards’ is also played with money
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While Geroge Bush was saying something on T.V. , my room mate looks at the screen and says-:
“Doesn’t he look a little bit like a monkey”
DUDE! A little?
Anyway, Ab Dilli door nahin.
p.s. there was no other way you were going to read this ;-)
Get Lost you Mallikaphiles.
I have always been told that Chandigarh is a beautiful and organized city but I never really understood the statement till I was in the city. Beautiful roads, lined by trees on both sides and perfect symmetry maintained with respect to numbering of the sectors gave the city a very elegant touch. It was more like a magnified version of Lutyen's Delhi.
I also bit into a temptation which I had managed to avoid with steadfast resolution. Spent the last few months of college playing flash, using Garry’s scrabble pieces as tokens. so I was all game for it when the guys said “let’s play flash”. It’s only when they asked me to cough up money after giving the tokens did I realize what I had gotten myself into! Unfortunately, I must confess, it was good fun and I was tempted to give it a shot again the next day. Greed is the root of all evil! Something that the tournament director found out to his misfortune :). No wonder then that he took the first flight back home the day the tournament finished!
On tour one gets the opportunity to meet and interact with so many players and other people that you feel you are looking at the start of new friendships.That, I like, for sure.
The week has come to an end and with all the wonderful newspaper clippings in tow, I write this on my way back on the Shatabdi that lets my Data Card access the cyber world with astonishing ease.
-X-X-X-X-
Highlights of the week
* Rashid won his third straight title on the National Amateur Tour
* I had a phone conversation with Peter Thomson, five time winner of the British Open
* Apparently ‘cards’ is also played with money!
* Chandigarh is as much Haryana as it is Punjab
* APPARENTLY ‘cards’ is also played with money
-X-X-X-X-
While Geroge Bush was saying something on T.V. , my room mate looks at the screen and says-:
“Doesn’t he look a little bit like a monkey”
DUDE! A little?
Anyway, Ab Dilli door nahin.
p.s. there was no other way you were going to read this ;-)
Get Lost you Mallikaphiles.
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you anglophile, he's also a three-time winner of the indian open! :)
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