This post is dedicated to one of my close friends Samir Thakkar . Before you scroll down thinking this to be an obituary, lemme warn you,this is not one!
Sam(that’s what we call him most of the time) is my classmate in MBA. I know this guy for some time now. Describing him is a cakewalk. He is a no frills attached-low maintenance-unassuming-brainy guy. The proverb ‘calm water,deep sea’ suits him to the tee. He talks less and allows his actions to do the talking. Our(Rupal, Payal,Divyesh and I) favourite pastime is to bully him and he is such a sweetheart that he doesn’t resist…or may be we don’t give him an option!
24th February 2010 is a historic day for him. I guess in his diary he will mark this day as a red letter day! Any guesses??!! Date , girl, job, score..??..?? it is believed that your happiness increases manifold when your LOVE is happy. On 24th February 2010, his LOVE created history. Did I tell you who his first love is? He is in love with his LOVE since last 20 years! Never misses a chance to follow his LOVE. Closely monitors his LOVE’s moves and yesterday his LOVE created history and the entire world watched his LOVE do that! Are you still guessing? Oh ..dont strain your brain much…his LOVE is none other than SACHIN TENDULKAR!!!
Sachin Tendulkar is his first LOVE, his passion! He calls him ‘the last action hero’. As a matter of fact he is one. Sam is a calm guy most of the time except when Sachin gets out. For him a cricket match ends the moment Sachin is out. I remember him telling once that he had gone to Chinnaswamy stadium, B’lore just to watch Sachin bat and came out when his innings was over! He even responded to the IDEA ad which flashed a particular phone number allowing people to talk to celebs, Sachin was one of them. I can write pages describing his madness for Sachin but I leave that to him. I am sure by now he would have posted something on his blog related to Sachin.
Currently I am not much into cricket but thanks to Payal and Sam I get forced regular updates about cricket matches. Somehow yesterday I was not aware about the cricket match. I happened to call him precisely in those moments when Sachin was nearing his double century. He picked up the phone and I started hearing commentary, not the match commentary but Sam’s commentary. Praising Sachin and cursing Dhoni, simultaneously. I was feeling sorry to have disturbed his reverie in those moments and offered to hang up which he dint hear probably, as he was busy describing his LOVE, Sachin! Finally after showering a million swear words on Dhoni, Sachin finally took the strike and then he reached the milestone, created history, he hit a double century! Needless to say, Sam was dancing, cheering. He was so over excited that on that moment he announced that he would be throwing a party to celebrate this feat. And gluttons we are! Today, we robbed him at Domino’s! He brought a cake written 200 on it! Nonetheless, the party was fun.
I really wonder whether he pays(or will pay) this much attention to his girlfriend…poor girl!
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Oh My God....Sachin, and some other God as well. This is a pleasant surprise! I can't believe you wrote about me and my first LOVE!!! I had never thought neither expected that some one would write about my LOVE! It becomes more special when you write about my love you love to hate, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYou are very right, I just LOVE him. I grew up watching him play. He is cricket for me. I am all praise for him. Well, now I should be all praise for you as well...
I was waiting for this moment since 1998, when for the first time I had thought that he could actually score double hundreds in ODI. He is late, but as said, better late than never!
And thanks for dedicating this post to me and my first LOVE. I think this is just the beginning. I will have many more blogs written and dedicated to me, just as my first LOVE.
Thanks a lot...
hey i dont hate Sachin. he is living legend of cricket. but i do get irritated when u start singing THE SACHIN SAGA whole day long! ahhh..my ears start paining !
ReplyDeleteI can't stop myself talking about him, I hope you can understand. I feel I have so much to tell the world about him that they already know!
ReplyDeleteBTW it's good to know that you don't hate him, so now we all five have agreed to at least one thing, Sachin is a legend!
it was a nice and beautiful starting.
ReplyDelete@ RINU...thank u :)
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