The Pizzazzy

What a historic day? This day puts India in the world cricket history as the very first Champion of World TwentyTwenty Cricket. Amazing game and good cricket. We won against our archrival Pakistan.

Thanks to TwentyTwenty for rekindling my love for Cricket once again. But it is still limited to matches in which India is playing. And mostly for India Vs Pakistan.

Today’s match was worth a life time of cricket. The whole match was a roller coaster ride. Pakistan bowlers managed to restrict the Indian score to a 157 runs. Although it was a good score for twentytwenty format, anything can happen when India is playing against Pakistan. The match was very unpredictable.

Indian team had the game quite in control with an asking rate of 10.5 and going run rate at 6.5. And towards the end the pressure started building up within the Indian camp when the Pakistani Batsmen started hitting fours and sixes. But some quick wickets taken perfectly by Indian bowlers had the pressure mounting on Pakistan camp as well. And just when Pakistan thought they got the world cup we got our winning catch.

We lived through the pressure of seeing the game proceed towards losing it, and for the whole of the last 3 overs the pressure was too much to take. Heart beats racing and nail biting moments and then we started getting Pakistani wickets while Pakistani team started getting sixes and fours. The final catch.. oh what a moment it was!!! We practically thought Misbah had hit a winning six and realised that it was instead the winning catch by Shreeshanth.

We missed being in India on this day. Everywhere in India there would be fireworks and celebrations. On the screen the excitement of the win could be seen on the faces of the Indian team who kept screaming and hugging and falling… Amazing game. Immediately the phones started ringing and friends and families started calling. Its really is a great win. And everyone is individually a winner today.

Although it is difficult to forgive the disaster that happened in World Cup earlier this year. But every Indian is proud of our Cricket Team today. We did it.

PS: I just couldn’t resist writing a post on this historic event.

A truly proud Indian.

Lantern Festival is a mid-autumn festival also known as moon-cake festival. Its a showcase of beautiful arrays of lanterns. Every year in Singapore this festival is held in the Chinese Garden.

This festival started on the 5th September and will go on till 30th September. So this Sunday me and Anand went to the Chinese Garden. From the MRT we could see the beautiful seven storeyed Pagoda lit beautifully. In the backdrop of the twilight the lit lanterns presented a spectacular view. We decided to take a round of the whole garden, click snaps and then catch the shows at the center stage, and then after dark again do a round of clicking snaps and hit home.

This years theme is “Magical Ocean” and true to the theme we could see assortment of lanterns based on water: mermaid, lotus, polar bears, penguins, fishes, corals, sting rays, sea horses. Along with some mythological chinese characters and dragons etc. It was quite an eyeful.

I was most excited about the free lanterns that we collected at one of the counters. I lit them as suggested by the lady behind the counter and carried them around till the candles burnt out.

Now some facts and figures, there are around 5000 plus individual lanterns making up an array of 23 breath taking displays. The whole set up cost around 1.2 million SGD. 45 professional lantern makers from the Sichuan and Zighong provinces of China were in Singapore for the whole of August and they manually constructed each of the lanterns. This year’s festival also aims to enter the Singapore Book of Records for the most number of marine lanterns in an event. Troops and famous bands are performing and also there is fireworks display. I heard the deejay mentioning that Tuesday would be fireworks display at 9. Going to miss that.

The garden also houses some shops for some traditional paper lanterns etc and some food stalls where one can taste some chinese delights. Check out some snaps from the festival.

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