Last Weekend
Last weekend was a very busy one. On Saturday morning I woke up hearing the door bell. It was 6:45 AM and the guy to change our garage door had already shown up. Then he started the work and it went on for almost 4 hours. The look of the house has completely changed with recent upgrades. I have got all the windows painted and each window has now got blinds. The look of the house has improved considerably. The garage door was the last on in series. Although the original door had still got 2 years of life if we had upgraded some of the parts but for some reasons I went for the new garage door. One was that the new ones are much lighter, insulated and do not require to be painted as it has PVC coat. The second reason is that the new door installation has insulation all over the doors and since we have a room just above the garage, this will definitely help in keeping that room warmer and as a result the utility bills will be chopped off in a longer run. And finally the changes of springs and few other components were going to cost me at least $300 and the lie expectancy was maximum of 2 years or so. But overall Seema wanted a garage door with glass windows on top and so we finally went for it. The change has brought a new life in the look of the house.
After the garage door change, we started getting ready for Hursh's soccer match. The day was going to be the final day of the season. It was the match for consolation place (3rd place) and the boys played their hearts out but eventually they again lost 5-2. Hursh was playing great and he demonstrated a great improvement in his skills in the last match. He was very aggressive and his kicks were very powerful ones. One of his kicks was almost going in the net but unfortunately his own team mate came in way. That was gem of the powerful kicks he had that day. Other kick I will remember was one which went straight to the face of another player from opposition and he simply went down, such was power in his kick. But on one occasion, he unfortunately didn't tackle cleanly and that resulted in a collision with the player from his opposition and that knocked him down near 20 yards from the the goal post. The referee awarded a penalty kick and since then they could not maintain the lead. That time they were leading by 1-0. Finally the boys were very dejected and the other side played some outstanding soccer. Reid, Hursh's team's start striker and Mathew, the star defense playe, both were not playing to their potential. Mathew was injured and Reid was emotionally broken down as previous night he had lost his baseball match as well. Eventually they could not put up a good show in last two matches, the semi final and match or third position, which mattered the most. Parents were also disappointed and we all felt that ours was one of the strongest team but unfortunately we just could not play together in last few matches. Ironically, Hursh's team had beaten all the top three teams very convincingly! Some of them were beaten with margin as huge as 4-1 and so, but then the win was not to be on their side when it mattered the most!
Finally we went for the trophy distribution and the top three teams were given individual medals and a trophy each. Hursh was very disappointed and I felt for him, for he is very competitive player and he always would tell me before entering the field.."Oh we are facing yellow team, we will beat them!" and likes. That was his spirit and he always charged up the team to the fullest! But now there he was seating a bit disappointed. To add to their insult the organizer did not call his team after 3rd position and started randomly and they got trophies at the very end!
But he was very excited even with whatever he received, though each one of them received that, it was more for participation than for what they played! Often the end result do not reflect the overall performance and this tournament was one of those!
Yash was very shy and would hide away here and there. At the end coach gave away some candies with pesonal remarks about each player. Hursh did not want to share his candies with Yash and that cause Yash to almost cry, finally he agreed to share a bit.
This is what they deserved:
Hursh and his teammates were having lots of fun otherwise. they were playing a lot in the field. He is able to do the jump and pulling up very well thanks to his teammates who showed him the way and he simply copied them:
We left for home and I finished some of my work for office from home. In the evening we were invited by Manish as they are celebrating Ganesh Chaturthe with great fun and flare. We came back in the night and I wanted to complete the scripts for my skit which I was hoping to be enacted duing the Dashara meet being organized by BACA.
Next day in BACA meeting I ran through all my propsed points for finalizing with the working committee but many of them are of diferent thoughts. While few of my suggested ideas were liked by them, majority of my thoughts were rejected, including my skit. I felt very disappointed and for a moment I decided to quit the association. It hurts and anguishes me, when people just try to follow the age old thought procrsses rather than live in the present world. The group unfortunaely do not encourage fresh ideas and just want to satisfy themselves by fulfilling their immediate goal and be content with that. My thoughts are little different. I prefer involvement of people in general in all the activities. Anyhow, when I came back from the meeting to home, I requested Binoy Prasad, one of our members of BACA to drop by at our place and have tea with us. He and his wife came and we decided to have some Bhajans in chorus and include that as this year's one of the items in the function. I was very tired at the end of the day. But it was quite an eventful week.
At the very end of this blog, I would like to share a very funny photograph with you all. I could not stop myself but take this photograph, with due apologies to the father whom I could have never asked for permission for such a photograph, but they were walking allover and what a delight was to watch them move around on a lush green grass!
