With India slowly being runaway by floods the Indian authorities are running to help those who are trapped in floods. Poor drainage, lack of dams, and blind eye towards monsoon destruction every year has led to death of more than 60 people this month.

Every year our country has a season called 'Monsoon' which brings hell alot of rain. It gives respite to many farmers and people suffering from drought and water shortage. But every year excess of rain leads to destruction of many areas but we have no solution at all. Uttarakhand being the most affected region.

I ask one thing why don't we look for alternatives and use the excess water as a alternative energy source. We need more dams in the hilly regions with more capacity, but then environmentalists will stand up against it. We need to be practical, Surely dams will wipe out forests and species but we are looking to save scores of human lifes. 

Water is unconventional source of energy, but the amount available in our country every year makes it more or less conventional. This amount of flooding if used in a useful manner can be used to produce good amount of electricity.

Shawrix

 

For a moment i thought Rajesh has been selected for the India cricket team.  but wait....

Well i have got my second semester exams tommorow. So pray for me..

Apart from all this i keep hearing about match fixing going on and some players getting caught. I don't understand what the 'hulla bulla' is all about? This was going on for ages just under the nose of the BCCI and the BCCI themselves turned a blind eye towards it.

Match fixing has no solution...thats what the BCCI says it. You know what i say..shut the BCCI, thats the solution to match fixing.

I dont get it..is there a single government organisation in India that is not involved is some kind of scam, scandal, or some sort of mischief ?

I have one thing to say about match fixing..''Retire before you are caught''. And that's the thought that came to my mind when i decided to write this post.

I'll get back to maths..time for one last revision..and then sleep..yawn..zzz

You know who.
शारिक 

Hello Folks!
Seems like everyone's busy with there works, studies and so on, So am I. I don't do any of these but I still don't get time from playing cricket, parties and so.

Just Came from a wedding party and it wasn't the best one. First of all, how am I suppose to do bhangra on Gidha or a romantic song???? Secondly, there was no pepsi at all!!!! My Turban was good though, and just in case someone didn't liked it, it was a new one...:P. I don't tie it all the time, but when I do, I feel proud if it. Also, I just like it how people react when they see me after a long time.

Well that was about the party, talking about cricket now. I have got off to a great start here in Canada, Hasn't been the best of the starts for the team as we have had 4 games and 2 of them have already been washed out having won the other 2 comfortably.

The last game was  a great one for me as I got useful hands in all the departments. The best part of it was the bowling where I took 3 wickets in 7 overs, all of them coming in 6 balls and all of them were bowled, what was even more amazing was that all 3 of them pitched on middle and leg and went on to hit the top of off stump. I still have the picture in my mind, it was a great feeling. Also, took a splendid catch while fielding at the second slip. It was a leading edge of a spinner's bowl which was travelling very low to my left.

So far, we look like the team to beat in our division and hopefully we will win this division. Lehgo Lions!!!!

You can check the rest of the stats of this link: http://www.bcmcl.org/index.jsp?form=matchrev&r=matchrev&game_number=104&season_id=2013REG

Meanwhile, Mom, Dad and brother are back, which means that I can enjoy more on the field without caring about my clothes and injuries. Hoorayyyyy!

Tata!

What's up folks!
Gurpreet Bin Khalifah reporting walahi! lol. Ever since I started my cricket practice here in Canada, I have hardly managed 5 wickets in 3 practise sessions, I'm much slower than how I use to ball back in days, but I've had 5 different names over the last 2 weeks. Starting with Gill saab to Dubai Express, Sheikh, Al Khalifah and Gurpreet Bin khalifah, just a correction of Al Khalifah.

Most of it actually started when I told my teammates about some Dubai facts last weekend, it took me one complete medium size pizza(as we were siting at a pizza place) and half n hour extra to explain them about U.A.E, Burj khalifah, Burj al arab and a couple more places. The best part of it was when I told them that Dubai Isn't a country, They were all shocked for a while.

Meanwhile, I'm still loving the couple of places I went last week. Starting with Victoria, The capital of B.C. I didn't really love the place but the drive from Nanaimo and the ferry was the best.Driving with 3 drunk people was always going to be funny, and when you have vegetarian burger in breakfast with lots of non-vegetarian jokes it's just like extra toppings on pizza. There was this uncle with us who was actually 65+ but looked very young from his knowledge and his jokes...

The funniest part was him explaining the difference between methanol and ethanol after having 3 pegs and then saying that he won't have more, but he still had 4 more pegs after that. There was another guy with us, a very famous guy in BC. The so called "Tandi mangta", Priyanka might know her. It's same guy who calls on every talk show on every radio channel and talks all the rubbish until his call is eventually put down. I didn't knew that it was him and he never looked like the whole time as he was so quiet, until my cousin told once we dropped him. But I should say that he is a hardcore cricket fan. OMG! throughout the whole time that guy was just asking me about some of the cricket shots. I was teaching him the straight drives and the cover drives even in the restaurants.

Also, saw a couple of killer whales on the way back from there,But they were not looking deadly at all!WTH! They were looking like a newly married couple having romance. I don't know who named it killer whale.

The other place I went to was "White rock" and it's a very beautiful place too! The drive on the beach side was amazing, specially with a twin turbo sports car with dual sub woofers and lots of girls on the street...;)

Meanwhile, the biggest news coming forward is that some 12 people from 2 German football clubs are accused of raping Barcelona and Real Madrid. They are Lewandowski from Borussia Dortmund and the whole of Bayern Munich playing 11. Well, for all those who missed it, It was nothing less than a rape for 2 of the biggest and strongest clubs in the world. losing 4-0 and 4-1 within 24 hours. Hiter's army is back! That's the reason why I support Germans!!!...:P

Bin Khalifa signing off!
Time to buy some buildings... Hmmm

Hello Folks!
There I was all packed up, all set to leave for the airport, heading back to Surrey when suddenly a friend of mine turned on my laptop despite me yelling at him for doing so. The first thing I saw was a call on Skype, it was cousin from San Antonio. He straight away asked my passport details and my landing time in Seattle. The next thing I saw was my ticket from Seattle to San Antonio via Phoenix. I was shocked, Surprised and happy all at the same time.

There is always that pre planning and that stuff when you know you are going to a place you expect yourself to be at, But it's a completely different experience when you are not prepared, It's something amazing! So after travelling for than 24 hours changing 3 different flights, sleeping like a dead guy on my 3rd flight (only to be forced to wake up by the air hostess after requesting for 5 minutes or so), I finally reached San Antonio after midnight. That's when I came to know that I was there on my Niece's birthday party.

The party was pretty good, the pool wasn't as I lost very badly to almost all of them. But yes! every single dude in the party was taking tips from me about my turban, felt really good. Had an amazing time out with cousins, having party on one day, starving for food on the other and overeating on the next day just to be on the safe side. The kids were just lovely. I never met them before but still they were just around me all time for the days I stayed there.

Some of the places were really good, I mean I wasn't expecting Texas to be so good after all that I've heard about it, it was an unexpected journey with unexpected experiences. The food was good too! and more importantly it was different all the time.

I want to write more about it but I just feel very tired, will write about the complete experience some time later. Meanwhile, my poor luck with my electronics continues and I can proudly yet sadly tell another story about my device getting damaged unluckily. :(

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Shariq Shahid