Day 99 - 13th October 2010

Today was the official launch of the cricket season at MICA, with a match between PGP1 and PGP2. What an anticlimax it turned out to be - we got thrashed! Were bowled out for 89 and PGP2 comfortably chased down the target. To their credit they fielded brilliantly, withh 3 stunning catches. Yours truly couldn't make too much of a contribution, scored only 10 runs. Anyways have 3 months of cricket to look forward to now.

Apart from that had only 3 lectures today, could attend only 2 as quite a few of us got locked out for reaching 5 minutes late for the DC lecture. Utilized the time to finish of some pending work. After the lectures, saw a bit of the India Aus match at Bangalore. Unbelievable series , who would have thought that India could have had a clean sweep against Australia. Slept for a while after that before heading to the play the match.

In the night Mallu, Maushi and I went to NID for their Garba festival. Wanted to see how garba is actually done in Gujju land. It was pretty ok. Cant help but quote Mallu "I've been to funerals with better music", thats Mallu for you at his optimistic best:-P

Day 96 - 10th October 2010

First rest day of the term and first trip road trip after coming to MICA. Went to a place called Adalaj which has a stepwell. Its a pretty nice place to go to with some good wall carvings and brilliant symmetry. We were 11 of us who traveled by 3 bikes and a car. The roads were really good, rode on such an empty stretch for the first time :-P From Adalaj we decided to go to a place on the way to Mehsana through which the tropic of cancer passes, rode for so long that it felt like we had even crossed the equator! Headed to upper crust for lunch from there, had heard a lot about the place and it is totally justified. Had to finish lunch quickly and come back to campus by3 as we had a practice match against PGP2. As usual it was a close match and we ended up winning it of the last ball by one run! Yours truly helped the scorers by not troubling them at all but the fact that we won made up for it :-) Was dead tired by evening, riding nearly 100 kilometres and playing cricket for 3 hours can definitely take its toll. NID had invited MICA students for garba to their campus. Most of PGP1 went but I decided to take a rain check, was in no state to stand/dance. Read a bit of the cases for tomorrows classes and didn't even realise when I slept off!