Monday, March 30, 2015

Day 35 - Pacy Ozzie Cup!


Well, all the other pretenders contenders were shown their place by the Aussies!

In a 45-day span, their pacers terrorized the opponent batsmen; their batsmen hustled, bustled and blasted the opposition; their fielders seemed omnipresent resulting in a fantastic over-powering performance from the gold-and-green!

I see another long dominant decade by the Australians.

Spare a thought for the Kiwis. They played a very attractive (read as attacking) brand of cricket - though I would say that Brendon McC did the corporate thing of giving his vision sufficient air-time for people to go gaga over! Not that Clarke wasn't as attacking as Brendon
was :-)

G-Section:

They don't call these as Sweepstakes for nothing.

Siva* hit the jackpot in the last leg and has leap-frogged to the top of the pole!!



Congratulations to all the winners: Siva*, Rambo, Vishal and Shanky! Yes, all the four guys who ended up with a positive balance will get a book prize!

Settlement details via a separate email to the respective participants.

Q-Section:

The bumper issue of questions drew some interesting responses.

Q30 - Remember Shakti is the answer. John 'Mahavishnu' McLaughlin, Mandolin maestro (late) U Shrinivas (one of his pieces was in Eat Pray Love), Ustad Zakhir Hussain (arey hujoor, wah taj boliye!), Shankar Mahadevan (one of the music directors of KANK),  V Selvaganesh (music director of VKK) [AngelAsh, Bhuvana - 5 points each]

Q29 - John Lillywhite and Darrell Hair are the two great umpires who got embroiled in the controversy of no-balling 'errant' bowlers. One for overarm bowling and the other for throwing. And the story of how the overarm bowling came about due to female wardrobe impediment avoidance is delightful on its own. The second picture is a zoomed up version of a hair. [Raghav (3), AngelAsh (4)]

Q28 - Those graceful dancers are Siddis. They had settled in India who moved to India having descended from Southeast Africa. [Guru, AngelAsh, Raghav - 3 points each]

Q27 - Listen and watch this beautiful Sanskrit song by Sa Dingding supposedly the only Sanskrit Pop singer around. And the lyrics are: The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra [Good one, SriG ;-)]

So at the end of the mandala-long event, here are the Winners of Q-Section:


Have to say that AngelAsh and Raghav kept me on my toes throughout. Admirable trait, young people! Guru was steady as usual and the surprise package was the fourth-place winner - she would search for the answers in such innovative manner that Google apparently are planning to reach her for search optimization and analytics :-) 

Pure, unadulterated fun! Congratulations folks!!!

I always say that the Q-Section is 'the' fun part from my perspective and this installment has not been an exception either.

I will reach out to all the participants and winners separately.

So Long, and Thanks for all the FUN!

1 comment:

Aiswarya Premchandar said...

This has also been quite an enjoyable experience for me. Right from getting a cool nickname, spending an hour a day to read and learn about some lesser known facts (I mean, who knew that there was a language named limburgish??), rack one's brains on answers that are right in front of one's eye etc. Not to mention the cheap thrills of beating a certain pal'o mine'o :D
Kudos to the "Gamemaster" (y) _/\_

Cheers!

AngelAsh! :P