Here I am after a long hiatus (well not too long ...just a couple of weeks).
Now let me think what has happened over the last few days......the first thing that springs to my mind is Wimbledon.......Paggy had been to my place for Wimbledon....he arrived around 11....and had me worried abt the number of hrs of sleep that we 'd get before we take the train to Wimbledon and as expected we got @2 hrs of sleep. Reached Wimbledon at 5:30 am....and started our walk to join the queue....and bow it was some queue.....while we were walking, saw a familiar figure looking all lost and dishevelled and it was Uppi.....bot of us recognised each other at the same time and she told me to rush down and join the queue as the line was only getting longer......finally we got into the grounds at 10 and very smartly both me and paggy asked the guy at the counter whether we cd get Centre Court tickets......he gives us a disgusted look and tells us that if u wanted Centre Court u shd hv joined the queue at 4 the previous afternoon.....well.....i really wanted Centre Court, but not so much that I wd queue for 20 hrs.....So we had to settle for ground tickets.....
the first match we saw was the doubles of Leander and Zimonjic(pronounce Zimonic....gawd knows why the ''j'').....all of us were cheering and Leander was enjoyin the attention.....of his desis....:-)).....In between we felt that they wd lose but ultimately they won.....and it was agood start to the day.....
Then we went on to see another doubles match .....the pairing was weird.....Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amelie Mauresmo against 2 unknowns.......boy o boy......these women are so athletic.....its not a wonder that they are ranked as No5 and No3.Sania will reallly need to work hard on herself physically if she wants to reach this league.......Well at the start of the match I told parag that I expect a 6-0 , 6-0 result and funnily the result was not very different......I think it was 6-1, 6-2.....ofcours ethese were points which the duo just granted to the opponents to make the match a bit less embarassing to them. Anyways....that was a one sided match....but watching thes eplayers play.....was apleasure....
Finally the match that we wante dto watch......another doubles...Sania and S Aspelin playing against 2 ppl whom I hvnt heard of.When the game started there were not many Indians around.....but as soon as word got around abt Sania Mirza......ppl started flocking the court and before long it was jam packed.The matchw as good....and Sania does play pretty well......justa little bit of improvement and she will give the rest of the players a run for teir money.....The support that she had from the spectators was amazing.....there were chants of ''Bharat mata ki Jai'' which was so funny that she herself cd npot stop laughing......during one of the rest periods...her partner was asking her to explain to him what the ppl were chanting.......and he too was all smiles......Even the umpire was smiling looking at the support.....Anywyas to make a long story short....they won the match ...which was good.....after all the support that we gave her....:-)))
We got back home at around 10....and boy were we knackered.....just made soem curd rice and crashed......
I visited Wimbledon last yr too......but its always a great experience ....there is so much excitement in the air......and its an absolute great feeling when someone whom you want to win actually wins.....now I can understand the craze of football fans here....
In all a great day.....and I wd surely want to do it again next yr...if I am still around here in London....

Just missed Divya being here.......she wanted so much to be here.....but unfortunately....if wishes were horses...... well....TT...no probs if we are here next yr.....will take u there......:-))

Have got a few snaps......will post them later....