Back to blogging after a gap, there have been lot of changes in my life from the time I had my last post. I had to bid good bye to some of my close friends with whom I spent the last one year and to the team with whom I spent the last fifteen odd months. After all the emotional farewells, good bye parties and experiencing an earthquake etc., I finally moved from Hollywood to Mile High City.
08-08-08 was my last day in the project that I spent about 15 months where I had made some good friends and had some memorable times. Luckily I believe the timing of moving to a new project has coincided with the 29th Modern Olympics, as I had the opportunity to watch these games over the television from the hotel I will be staying for a month.
The move from LA, California to Denver,Colorado has been cool, a bit emotional, as LA was second home. The first impressions of Denver left a feeling that I moved from a metro to a normal town. But Denver, lived up to the expectations that I have had from this place as it has been cloudy and gloomy temperature all around the week. It has been raining for the last two days and it seems that there was a good snowfall in the mountains. The stay in the hotel has been peaceful and happy to say, the only mode of entertainment in watching Olympics and some inspiring movies. Apart from that an important update boys, I am back to driving and started off with my favourite Hyundai Sonata, I am not great fan/freak of cars. But one thing is for sure that I enjoy driving Sonata, this is that fuel efficient, comfortable and a nice car to drive in its class. I have had this strange experience of living all alone for a week time. If not for these Olympics and the car driving I would have really gone mad. And I sincerely realise, how my friends who lived in the distant towns of California alone for months together would have felt. At that point of time I could not completely understand the suffering they had, in spite of talking to your family and friends over the phone you seriously want to have someone with whom you can directly talk to. It's really difficult to stay alone, I was thinking it would be simple but I was wrong. Sincerely apologies to one of those old friends.
Anyways, back to the 29th Modern Olympics. To start with let me congratulate Abhinav Bindra for winning that first individual Gold Medal for India in the history of the games. Kudos to Bindra!! There are the Indian boxers who are still in contention for the medal and lets hope they come up with couple of medals for India and lets wish them all the best in their efforts. Stay tuned! At least this time around India should overcome the jinx of a single medal every Olympics.
Today was one of my lazy days for me as I did nothing but watch TV. But luckily enough I witnessed history made at the Olympics. Now the synonym for swimming at Olympics is none other than the phenomenal Micheal Phelps. What a performance! & What a determination! Amazing! Hats off to this guy who has re-defined the game for ever with 8/8 Golds in a single Olympics. As one of the promotional advertisements was saying, there are no adjectives to describe his achievement. At the age of 23 he has 14 gold medals to his name in just two Olympics. It's incredibly amazing achievement! He had won all the events that he has participated in. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch one of his finals which he has one with a different of 1/100th of a second. At one point of time it looked as if he has lost, but he never gave up and won the gold with a difference of 1/100th of a second. If not for the latest technology that we have today, to a naked eye it looked as Cavich (the fellow Serbian swimmer) who won the silver, appeared as the winner. Considering the amazing determination of Phelps, he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Phenomenal Phelps!
Lightning..is the only word that can describe the Jamaican sprinter Ussain Bolt, the worlds fastest man ever. He won the men's 100mtr sprint in a record time of 9.68 seconds. One should watch the race to know the speed and the confidence with which he completed the race. If not for his premature celebrations he would have completed the race well withing 9.5 seconds, imagine the confidence the guy had to celebrate his victory even before he had completed the Olympics final. In the same race he has comfortable overcame his fellow compatriot and the former world record holder Asafa Powell, who like his previous Olympics had finished 5th.
Apart from this in the marathon race it was really interesting to see a 38 year Old Romanian Lady winning the marathon and a 41 year Woman swimmer winning the two silver medals in different events in swimming, that were just 40mins apart from each other. Congratulations to these people and hats off to their determination and will power.
These athletes are proving to the world that there is nothing called impossible if one gets going.
The one thing that was common among all these people was the support that they received from their family members. One really needs to have the backing from their parents, friends and the fellow country men to succeed. Now this brings to the approach Indians think about Olympics and the importance the government and the people have. Of course, the government does not have enough time to maintain peace in the country, they are busy in creating controversies, adding fuel to the already disrupted communal harmony in the country and busy announcing the ex-gratia to the people who are victims of the serial (often) bomb blasts, appeasing the minorities and trying to find the terrorists in the nation. Where can government buy time to think about sports and Olympics. The common man is busy watching cricket even though we continuously fail to win, and watching all the hybrid versions of the game that are played just for the sake of business, exploiting the market. The common man does not have time to think about other sports leave aside think about the people representing the nation in those sports.
Even the media always hovers around cricket as if that is the only game in this world. I was talking to my brother earlier this morning and he isn't even aware of that the games are not yet compelte. He was telling that all our atheletes are back home, where as infact we have three Indian boxers still in the contention for the medal by defeating the world champinions. Can imagine the amount of exposure the media gives to our atheletes! Pity!
Let's hope that India will leave a positive mark in the history of Olympics. As Hope is the only thing that drives life!
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