The second version of the IPL is here … and to make it even more interesting .. we decided to have an interesting game called “The IPL Syndicate”. Here is how it works –
There are 4 owners taking part in “The IPL Syndicate” – Gopal, Kumz, Bips and Adi and each of them owning 2 teams each – a primary team and a secondary team. For every win, the owner stands to gain 50 points and for every loss he losses 50 points. At the start of the competition, everyone starts with 500 points to his credit.
The team selections happened on Friday (17th Apr) with Gopal choosing Delhi Daredevils, Bips opting for Kolkatta KnightRiders (more for Shahrukh than for the composition of the team), Kumz taking Chennai SuperKings and Adi going for Bangalore Royal Challengers (ever loyal to the RC and ‘Kumbls’) as their primary teams.
The secondary teams would be selected by the rest of the 3 owners and vested upon the 4th. So for Bips, the secondary team was Kings XI Punjab, Kumz was unanimously given Deccan Chargers, Adi got Rajasthan Royals and Gopal had to be content with Mumbai Indians.
After all the teams were selected, it is now for the games to begin and see who stands to gain from this tournament. Also, in order to level out the playing arena, after the first round of matches, each of the owners would have to drop one of their teams and choose a different one, basically a trading of teams between the owners.
May the best team win !!
Monday, 20 April 2009
Monday, 13 April 2009
Temple visiting...
One more long weekend and one more trip in the pipeline ?? Well.. yes you guessed it right .. Decided that this would be more of a pilgrimage trip rather than just the usual fun trip (not that there was no fun here.. )
We were 5 and 4 of them left on Wed evening to the small temple town of Tirvannamalai. Basically, this place is about 200 kms from Bangalore on the B'lore Pondy route. The residing diety here is Lord Shiva representing fire (one of the 5 elements of nature). The speciality of this place is a ritual called "Girivalam", wherein the devotees walk around the hill and cover a distance of about 14 kms. The other 4 in the grp would do the Girivalam on Wed evening and head to Pondy on Thu where I would meet them on Fri mornin.
The journey to Pondy was a decent one.. took about 8 hrs on road and reached there early Fri mornin. Fri we did Chidambaram which is one more temple town and the temple there dedicated to the dancing form of Lord Shiva, more popularly called Lord Nataraja. This is a temple which is centuries old and the feeling of being amidst the wonderful stone pillars and intricate carvings is just too good.
Got back to Pondy for lunch, which we would never have, since afternoon thru late evening we were all in the beach (which was more like a private beach with hardly any one around !!). After dinner, 3 of them were all too exhausted and hit the bed but me alongwith Paddhu decided to explore the (very well known) French colony at Pondy.. and in due course had some yumm ice creams and got back to rest for the day !! Wat a wonderful day it was .. temple, beaches and a walk by the sea in the French Colony !!
Saturday, decided to head back to Bangalore. On the way visited the world famous Auroville .. a universal town with people from varied countries and religions live together. Most of us did some shopping at the boutique there picking up clay mugs, candles, bags and not to forget some special eateries.
We got back to Bangalore in close to 6 hours thus ending a pilgrimage trip that had its share of fun and frolic !!
We were 5 and 4 of them left on Wed evening to the small temple town of Tirvannamalai. Basically, this place is about 200 kms from Bangalore on the B'lore Pondy route. The residing diety here is Lord Shiva representing fire (one of the 5 elements of nature). The speciality of this place is a ritual called "Girivalam", wherein the devotees walk around the hill and cover a distance of about 14 kms. The other 4 in the grp would do the Girivalam on Wed evening and head to Pondy on Thu where I would meet them on Fri mornin.
The journey to Pondy was a decent one.. took about 8 hrs on road and reached there early Fri mornin. Fri we did Chidambaram which is one more temple town and the temple there dedicated to the dancing form of Lord Shiva, more popularly called Lord Nataraja. This is a temple which is centuries old and the feeling of being amidst the wonderful stone pillars and intricate carvings is just too good.
Got back to Pondy for lunch, which we would never have, since afternoon thru late evening we were all in the beach (which was more like a private beach with hardly any one around !!). After dinner, 3 of them were all too exhausted and hit the bed but me alongwith Paddhu decided to explore the (very well known) French colony at Pondy.. and in due course had some yumm ice creams and got back to rest for the day !! Wat a wonderful day it was .. temple, beaches and a walk by the sea in the French Colony !!
Saturday, decided to head back to Bangalore. On the way visited the world famous Auroville .. a universal town with people from varied countries and religions live together. Most of us did some shopping at the boutique there picking up clay mugs, candles, bags and not to forget some special eateries.
We got back to Bangalore in close to 6 hours thus ending a pilgrimage trip that had its share of fun and frolic !!
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