As I’ve told already, I hate Oz. Now, after seeing the outcome of second test match, I can tell that I found a reason to hate it even more. Thinking from their perspective, they always had a problem with India. It became visible when they lost to India in the T20 World Cup. With that trophy, they wanted to complete their cabinet and name themselves ‘true’ world-champions. But, India has shattered their dream and sent them home without that trophy. After that, they have seen a whole country celebrating the victory their team and making their team damn rich and super heroes.

Now, from their perspective, one can easily tell that, if - Indians perform like Oz, they are anyway now treated as sample-Gods, they would have been treated like real-Gods. On the other hand, Oz, even with their fantabulous performance, only 59% of their Aussie population is interested in cricket. Infact, ‘Footy’ is ‘most’ watched sport in Australia and more Australians tend to participate in Swimming than Cricket. These reasons are enough for Australian Cricket Players to hate be jealous of ‘Indian’ Cricketers. The outcome of that jealousy is nothing but their desperate attempts to win the game.

Well, yeah. Australian cricket team + 3 Umpires, managed to convert a losing-game into a draw-game and later into a winning-game today. Hats off to Indian players for their patience. I became sick after just watching those replays in news. I’m sure that many Indians who watched match would have been even more pissed off. Indian team proved that they have very good patience at the end of the match by not hitting any of the umpires of Oz players.

Well, yeah, just another fact before ending this post. This post is not to support bad game of Indian team. This is just to make note of bad attitude of Australian team. Indians indeed played badly, but not as bad as to lose the match. For Umpires, Steve Bucknor Fucknor, this is the time for you to retire and Mark Benson, what the heck were you doing on a cricket ground ???

There was a photography competition held by a group at my work place. I submitted one of the photos I took. I knew that its not good enough to win, but I just wanted to try. Finally, the results are released and as I expected, I didn’t see the photo I submitted. All my anxiety was to look at the winning photos. If you know your competition, there are good chances of winning atleast the next time. So, I wanted to analyze my competition first.

As soon as I saw the first photo, I can feel that I was too stupid to submit. The photo is damn good. Second and third photos were excellent. I became happy rather than being disappointed. I lost to great photos. I would have been very disappointed if the winning photos were not that good.

But, my happiness ended when I started to look for specs of those photos as I wanted to know how the best photos were taken (I wanted shutter speeds, focal lengths, apertures, camera makes etc) Some of them don’t even qualify as per competition rules. Competition rules were, photo must not be older than an year - one of the photos was taken in 2005, Photos must be of >300dpi - most varied from 72dpi to 180dpi (I’ve no clue why they kept this stupid rule, but its a rule !!!) Photos must be original - Some of them got Photoshop CS2 tag and one of them looked too good to be original (for Canon Powershot G3)

But, I should accept that some of them were classic and they remind me that I should learn a lot before trying to compete with them. Well, I’m going to give them a tough competition next year.