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It’s actually amazing if Kohli did decide to retire on this high from t20. That said I don’t think he will stick around in this team too long with Gambhir taking over coach. I think he is getting ahead of the eventual clash with Gambhir anyway. Great move by him! I will bet he will not continue with Gambhir too long.

This Pant comeback is a story for ages. Almost couldn’t walk after a tragic accident to be part of World Cup winning team. Fairy tale life this!

OMFGWHATISHAPPENING!!!

Is the Amit Shah fix in? Time will tell.

Yep hard to see India pulling off a miracle here. Who knows what can happen but this SA unit is looking on fire!

South Africa will be stupid to lose from here.

Good thing I don’t care about t20 as much so I don’t really care if india wins or loses.

My daughter’s name is only 4 letters. There is absolutely zero reason for any fucking body outside of India to get her name wrong and I will call you out on it.

lol India choking again? Good thing I am at a swim meet.

Not gonna read any reviews but man The Bear S3 episode 1 was such a master class in framing and direction!

Gujarathi in a coke studio Pakistan song? That was wholly unexpected and totally awesome!

On my way to Seattle earlier this week a gentleman took the window seat in my row. He looked like an Indian but I couldn’t be very sure. We got lucky with an empty seat between us so after initial hellos I retired to my now expanded seat and watching movies. After what felt like 3 hours into the flight, this gentleman turns to me and asks, How much longer to Seattle?. I say 3 more hours, and the man is completely surprised that it was going to take another 3 hours; he seemed legit shocked that it was a 6 hour flight. He even remarked that his ticket said he was going to land in Seattle at 8 (and our flight took off at 5 from DC), and he assumed it was a 3 hour flight. I told him he missed the extra 3 hours in time difference and it honestly felt like he couldn’t comprehend this at all. Back of my mind I am like what the F is going on. How hard can this be!

Then he changed the topic and stuck up a conversation. Turns out he was Syed Ainul Hasan (Yes I googled him at home), and he’s an incredibly accomplished man. For the next 2 hours he talked about all the research he has done about sociology, cosmology and astro physics. He remarked he was an invited guest speaker in DC, Chicago and other universities here so he keeps visiting. He worked with Einstein’s lab in older days and published many papers with them. He talked frigging indepth about Upanishads, Vedas, Mahabharata and other ancient scriptures of India. He talked about so many of today’s discoveries and inventions were hinted at in the books. He talked about marrying scientific disciplines with sociology and humanities. He lamented about how today’s generation has become technology obsessed and not thinking about societal impact of technology. He also quipped how I have forgotten my own Indian history. He spoke multiple languages including Persian with much ease he said.

It was only much later he introduced himself as Hasan Ainul. Then he quipped to me that he was a muslim but he knew more about Hindu scriptures than most people, to which I basically said, you probably knew more than 99.99% of the country. He was an absolute gentleman and offered to send me his papers to read. He took my number, and true to his word he sent me a few of his papers! Because whatsapp sends out his full name, thats when I came to know his full name was Syed Hasan Ainul. And then i googled him to find him on Wiki. At the back of my mind I am like, this is kind of people India’s Hindutva is losing. His kids are all settled here now, and he mentioned about desire to move here at some point anyway but he loved India too much to leave right now. I kept thinking how many more like him has Modi’s India sidelined? Anyway, thanks to him it made my journey to Seattle memorable.

Just for funsies I want Joe Biden to come out and say, You know what, you are all right. I should drop out and I am dropping out today. I am not endorsing anyone. Please figure it out and I will back whoever you nominate! and just go dark.

This is Biden right after debate. WTF? Where was this guy at the debate? He sounds normal and coherent and funny. So what the heck went wrong? Feels like the rules and regulations that democrats made up for debate came back and hurt him more than Trump. Maybe there should have been an audience. Truly bizarre.

My assessment of this remains the same. Only Taylor swift can rescue Biden in November.

Just came home and started watching the debate only to turn it off after 10 minutes. Biden is sounding bad but not terrible. What is bad though he is not piecing together coherent 60 seconds of sentences. Of course we are all backing Biden but this debate is not helping in anyway and the sooner public forgets about it better. It almost feels like he over prepared for the debate and wants to cram as much info as possible to his audience. Less is more sometimes!

What’s going on in the debate? Is Biden really gone?

After three days of offsite just when I was ready to head back my manager drops a bomb that he is moving on and I am going to report to the skip level. I really liked this guy and he was really more of a great friend and mentor than a manager so I am really really bummed to see him go. I am glad that we got drunk last night but I had no idea what he was going to drop today.

Not following the semis but just looking at the score gives me the World Cup final feels! Hope the outcome is different though this time.