Woke up on the wrong side...
When I went to bed on Friday night, I was looking forward to Saturday. In fact, I did not indulge in any TV watching, xbox playing just to start the Saturday as soon as possible.
Then Saturday started.
1. ESPN could not show Agassi-Nadal live because of NBC contract. NBC showed it on tape delay overlapping with England-Portugal. I followed the match at wimbledon.com and Agassi lost. I knew he would lose but I was hoping that he wins at least one set. I did not want him to say goodbye with a straight set loss.
2. Then England lost to Portugal. I don't think I can discuss this anymore.
3. I had picked Brazil to win against France. Really I did not care who won but since I had picked Brazil in a friendly pool that we are having, France won.
4. So what no results went my way? At least, we had our new mattress delivery scheduled on Saturday. Turned out that the guy came, rang the bell, called us up and left after 15 minutes. I was busy watching England lose the whole time. Delivery now scheduled for next Saturday, hopefully I will not be as busy watching the consolation match.
So after all this, I was sure that "Superman Returns" was going to suck. After all we had booked good seats in advance for the IMAX experience on Saturday evening. We told ourselves to bring down our expectations given how the day was going. I was so sure that no matter when we start we would be late, that we did not bother to give a big buffer.
I think that is when the luck started to change a little bit. The movie started about 5 whole seconds after we settled down in our seats with popcorn and pepsi (not by choice, they don't sell coke there). It turned out to be a nice movie to watch. Frankly, I still say that "Batman Begins" is better but Superman has a different charm and nostalgia attached to it.
At least the day ended on a good note.
And on Sunday India finally won the last test and with that the series after about 35 years.
A soccer team loses, a cricket team wins, Fair trade!
(plagiarism source: Sin City)
Then Saturday started.
1. ESPN could not show Agassi-Nadal live because of NBC contract. NBC showed it on tape delay overlapping with England-Portugal. I followed the match at wimbledon.com and Agassi lost. I knew he would lose but I was hoping that he wins at least one set. I did not want him to say goodbye with a straight set loss.
2. Then England lost to Portugal. I don't think I can discuss this anymore.
3. I had picked Brazil to win against France. Really I did not care who won but since I had picked Brazil in a friendly pool that we are having, France won.
4. So what no results went my way? At least, we had our new mattress delivery scheduled on Saturday. Turned out that the guy came, rang the bell, called us up and left after 15 minutes. I was busy watching England lose the whole time. Delivery now scheduled for next Saturday, hopefully I will not be as busy watching the consolation match.
So after all this, I was sure that "Superman Returns" was going to suck. After all we had booked good seats in advance for the IMAX experience on Saturday evening. We told ourselves to bring down our expectations given how the day was going. I was so sure that no matter when we start we would be late, that we did not bother to give a big buffer.
I think that is when the luck started to change a little bit. The movie started about 5 whole seconds after we settled down in our seats with popcorn and pepsi (not by choice, they don't sell coke there). It turned out to be a nice movie to watch. Frankly, I still say that "Batman Begins" is better but Superman has a different charm and nostalgia attached to it.
At least the day ended on a good note.
And on Sunday India finally won the last test and with that the series after about 35 years.
A soccer team loses, a cricket team wins, Fair trade!
(plagiarism source: Sin City)
posted by Nikhil at 10:31 AM
2 Comments:
you can read my review on "superman returns" here. i did not like it one bit
oops! here is the URL
http://ramanathank.blogspot.com/2006/07/superman-returns-kal-ho-naa-ho-vs.html
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