Our sense of humour deteriorates with age :P

I did my engineering in Bangalore from PESIT. Bangalore is a modern city and has a pretty open culture and people from different parts of the world come here for higher studies or do some job. My college was awesome and the students added more to the awesomeness of our college.
I gelled up pretty well with the folks and stayed in hostel there. Apart from studies, we participated in every freaking activity that happened in or out of campus. Be it cricket or be it introduction of our juniors or simply sitting on the stairs and checking out every girl that use to pass by and comment "Bhabhi hai tum logo ki".
One such activity was PJ (Poor Joke) competition. Me and Avinash Chandrashekar use to crack up deadly pjs and to our surprise, we had a huge fan following. We use to gather near the bus after the college around 3:30 PM and crack some killer pjs or mock a faculty or tease a fellow colleague. Everyone use to enjoy this including the person who was being targeted (I am assuming this !).
Me and AC (That's what people called him fondly !) use to ask some stupid questions to any random people and wait for their baffled look. Some were really sporty and gave us some really smart answers while those who were not that sporty hurled abuses and curses on us. As time passed, we became smart and choosy as whom to ask such stupid questions and wait for their smart answers. After the answer we were in splits after a moment pause. We really enjoyed this.
Time passes faster than we expect. We graduated out of college and are unaware of the whereabouts of many of our folks. Even now if we recollect the memories and see old photos, i realize that its been four years I visited my college. But the memories are so fresh like it happened yesterday. Best of all is that the pj thing in me never died. It still come up with some stupid and unexpected answers whenever I get a chance. I sometimes crack it when we are having some serious discussion with my lead in the meeting room and he feels pretty annoyed with it. Although, my manager smiles at it as if he enjoyed it. Whenever my lead tells him of some answers I said in the meeting, he looks at me with some amazed expression and asks "Did you seriously tell her that ?". The only thing that changed is that few people appreciate it now. I guess as we grow up, our sense of humor decreases or we feel shy to laugh like a kid. 

Why spin friendly track in India !!!

India team director Ravi Shastri may have vented his ire at the Wankhede Stadium curator (Sudhir Naik) for not obliging the hosts with a turning track for the fifth one-dayer. But the demoralized Indian side have some good news ahead of the four-match Test series. With the South Africa pace bowlers looming as the biggest threat, the hosts are pinning all their hopes on turning tracks to overcome the visitors.
Initially, I was not in favor of this as it took the jest out of the game when it is not balance. I really cant imagine Dale Steyn to go wicket less even after bowling 20 odd overs. Also this doesn't mean that I can see the only two fast bowlers of India, Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav, to go wicket less too. It is very demoralizing for a quick bowler.
But we all know that the South African team, with player like AB De Villiers, Hasim Alma, Miller and Faf Du Plessis, can handle any attack (Bowling Ofcourse !) in the world better than anyone else. Bowlers like Steyn, Philander, Rabada and Imran Tahir just adds up to the woes of the opposition team. Its good to see Kagiso Rabada bowling with the similar temperament of Makhaya Ntini. He really performed well in the one day series against India in India (Ironic).
I recently had a casual discussion with my manager about the tracks in India favoring spin and it changed my whole perspective and I started liking the idea of producing spin tracks in India. It is something to do with the home advantage. It also tests the opposition's strength on our spin attack. We have really good spin bowlers like Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Jadeja (I have to mention his name as he is the man of the match for the first test match) who are capable of turning the match around in just their allocated quota of 6 balls.
Finally we were able to win our first test match with 108 runs, thanks to Ashwin and Jadeja for bowling some really good spin bowling which left the South Africans biting their nails in the dressing room. Although they also bowled really well with Dean Alger (Slow left arm) giving India the taste of their own medicine with four wickets haul in first innings.
Lets see what's in store for us in the Bangalore pitch, where the South Africans hold a much better record against us. But records are meant to be broken !!!