Whenever my son goes to washroom, he is never back soon. He sometimes is lost there for more than 15 minutes. On repeated knocks on the door, he emerges with my mobile in his hand. And now with half a day school sessions and IPL time, my mobile and even my laptop/ tab is never under my control. while my daughter is glued to the laptop in her room, my son is with my mobile happily watching the football matches and IPL. Now i am no cricket fan and so it irks me at times when the two war over their favorite teams and to top, I find both my gadgets in their hands. Thanks to Starsports.com ( My TVcable operator does not beam starsports anymore). But I try to keep calm.
Everytime, the IPL fever starts, they come up to me to ask whom would i support? My son a dhoni loyalist would say "Amma, support CSK, remember you were born in chennai" and my daughter would say"ma, don't forget you were raised and your family lives in Bangalore. Now don't be unpatriotic, Support RCB"
I say to them, " I care less and am not interested who wins or loses".
Yesterday's RCB loss over KKR triggered a verbal duel between my CSK supporter son and My daughter an RCB fan. Sad with the loss of RCB and her bro's taunt at RCB, my daughter was cribbing and ranting. And i could'nt keep my calm, I yelled "Stop being crazy and don't fight over a sport. The teams are having fun playing and making money, while you are wasting your time and energy".
That was then my daughter caught me and I was totally bowled over by her statement. "Amma, you don't understand this now and find it crazy. But you were a teen once and how many times have you recollected your cricketing stories of how you made scrap book and bunked school to watch cricket".
I could now relate to what she said. Once upon a time, I was a huge cricket fan and have done some crazy things. One of them is to maintain a scrap book. The scrap book contained photos of cricketers, their bio and other cricketing stats. It was a red diary which my dad had gifted to me . I would cut photos of all those cricketers whose interviews appeared in sportstar and other magazines like Illustrated weekly, Femina etc. Not just cricketing stats, I would even stick photos of their family and have extra stats. Like Vengsarkar's wife was Manali, Gavaskars wife was Marshneil, named after a variety of rose, Sandeep patils first wife was archana, binny's wife was cynthia, kirmani's wife was habiba and so many more like Kapil dev's hotel in chandigarh , who were the knighted cricketers etc. Infact , my parents would say, I did everything short of doing "aarti".
The craziest I have done was when i bunked school to watch "The prudential cup" in 1983. My school worked second shift from 11.30-5.15 and so i could'nt wait for the school to finish. I wanted to watch the match from the toss to the uncorking of champagne and so I and my friends bunked half a day school to reach home. Each one of us cited an excuse but it was only the next day our friendly teacher told us she knew about our plan.
Another crazy thing was when I studied in class VIII B. The whole class created lots of noise because the school did not declare holiday for a 5 dayer held at chinnaswamy stadium. The principal who walked by our class, found the reason for the noise and made us stand in the hot sun for the whole period.
All those memories I have narrated at some point of time to my children and sometimes even I wonder how cricket crazy I was as a teen. I then smiled at my daughter and thought to myself " Yes, crazy and cricket go hand in glove in our country and now with starsports.com IPL is at its craziest."
While I bunked school to catch the match, today's fans can catch it on action recap , courtesy starsports.com Recently, my housing society organized a gully cricket match called Force 4X4, 4 members in each team playing for 4 overs. My family participated and so could not catch IPL. They came home and caught it on starsports.com( action recap) and people at workstations can be connected parallely to the scoreboard through fastest score board of Starsports.com . As for me, i am no cricket fan, but i love the starsports.com song " Kanna, keep calm and watch Pepsi IPL on starsports.com"
This post is a part of Starsports.com Cricket just got better! by starsports.com in association with BlogAdda.com.
Everytime, the IPL fever starts, they come up to me to ask whom would i support? My son a dhoni loyalist would say "Amma, support CSK, remember you were born in chennai" and my daughter would say"ma, don't forget you were raised and your family lives in Bangalore. Now don't be unpatriotic, Support RCB"
I say to them, " I care less and am not interested who wins or loses".
Yesterday's RCB loss over KKR triggered a verbal duel between my CSK supporter son and My daughter an RCB fan. Sad with the loss of RCB and her bro's taunt at RCB, my daughter was cribbing and ranting. And i could'nt keep my calm, I yelled "Stop being crazy and don't fight over a sport. The teams are having fun playing and making money, while you are wasting your time and energy".
That was then my daughter caught me and I was totally bowled over by her statement. "Amma, you don't understand this now and find it crazy. But you were a teen once and how many times have you recollected your cricketing stories of how you made scrap book and bunked school to watch cricket".
I could now relate to what she said. Once upon a time, I was a huge cricket fan and have done some crazy things. One of them is to maintain a scrap book. The scrap book contained photos of cricketers, their bio and other cricketing stats. It was a red diary which my dad had gifted to me . I would cut photos of all those cricketers whose interviews appeared in sportstar and other magazines like Illustrated weekly, Femina etc. Not just cricketing stats, I would even stick photos of their family and have extra stats. Like Vengsarkar's wife was Manali, Gavaskars wife was Marshneil, named after a variety of rose, Sandeep patils first wife was archana, binny's wife was cynthia, kirmani's wife was habiba and so many more like Kapil dev's hotel in chandigarh , who were the knighted cricketers etc. Infact , my parents would say, I did everything short of doing "aarti".
The craziest I have done was when i bunked school to watch "The prudential cup" in 1983. My school worked second shift from 11.30-5.15 and so i could'nt wait for the school to finish. I wanted to watch the match from the toss to the uncorking of champagne and so I and my friends bunked half a day school to reach home. Each one of us cited an excuse but it was only the next day our friendly teacher told us she knew about our plan.
Another crazy thing was when I studied in class VIII B. The whole class created lots of noise because the school did not declare holiday for a 5 dayer held at chinnaswamy stadium. The principal who walked by our class, found the reason for the noise and made us stand in the hot sun for the whole period.
All those memories I have narrated at some point of time to my children and sometimes even I wonder how cricket crazy I was as a teen. I then smiled at my daughter and thought to myself " Yes, crazy and cricket go hand in glove in our country and now with starsports.com IPL is at its craziest."
While I bunked school to catch the match, today's fans can catch it on action recap , courtesy starsports.com Recently, my housing society organized a gully cricket match called Force 4X4, 4 members in each team playing for 4 overs. My family participated and so could not catch IPL. They came home and caught it on starsports.com( action recap) and people at workstations can be connected parallely to the scoreboard through fastest score board of Starsports.com . As for me, i am no cricket fan, but i love the starsports.com song " Kanna, keep calm and watch Pepsi IPL on starsports.com"
This post is a part of Starsports.com Cricket just got better! by starsports.com in association with BlogAdda.com.
So never a dull moment in your home. Something similar happened in our home too. This is regarding the American Football. My son's favorite team is Dallas Cowboys. My favorite team is San Francisco 49ers. My daughter’s favorite team is Miami Dolphins. My son and daughters asked my wife what is her favorite team. She said her favorite is the team in Pittsburg. (She did not even know the name for this team, which is Pittsburg Steelers.). That year, the Steelers was the sorriest team and in the last place. All 3 of us asked her why she picked this sorry team. She said it is because the Venkatachalapathi Temple is in Pittsburg.
ReplyDeleteFinal Result. Huge upset. Pittsburg Steelers won the Super Bowl and became the champion.
So venkatachalapathi came to the rescue of Pittsburg steelers:) yes, SG with holidays now, there is no dearth for dull moment at home.
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ReplyDelete“Madam – there’s a fundamental difference that you can point out to your daughter. You were mad about a noble game, a game called cricket.
They are obsessed about something entirely different called I, P …… that should not be mentioned in the same sentence along with cricket JJ
By the way, from the title of the post I figured Mr B would feature somewhere ????? “
Thank you Ramesh for taking the email route to comment on my post. Hope the problem with the comment form gets resolved soon.
Deleteregarding cricket, i think it is the generation gap, they don't understand the fun of those days.
Aw, that is such a heart warming post! Loved the way you described the entries in your scrap book!
ReplyDeleteThank you Swapna. I wish i had preserved those scrap books.
DeleteThis is such a cute and a heartwarming post, Asha! I can relate to this so much as KG and AG also push me to take sides of their teams and I am just not bothered :D I can relate to your scrap book, even I did something similar... I would write facts and scores and trivia in a diary too and it had very few pics though!!
ReplyDeleteAll the very best for the contest, Asha :)
In your home too?! LOL i think this is ghar ghar ki kahani, shilpa:)
Delete:) I am supporting Kings XI punjab ..
ReplyDeletewhat a warm post , loved reading it. I am definitely a cricket fan have some memorabilia that i have collected over time , I will blog about it sometimes for sure ...
Bikram
Do blog about it Bikram. Would love to read it:)
DeleteAnd to think that long back people used to play for 5 long days, some times with no result (draw)
ReplyDeleteTrue. But those days nobody knew about fast life and so like all things even cricket was slow and was played long i suppose:)
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