1/01/2006

M&B - start

New series of mamoo-bhanjaa activities aka M&B.

Bhanjaa gets a 6 pound ball, the railings are pulled up and bhanjaa drops his first bowling ball onto the lane at 3:17pm (+/- a few seconds). And guess what he gets 9 down on his first try. Mamo gets a 10 pounder, the railings are still up and mama drops the ball for the umpteenth time and all that he manages are 6 pins... oh well, things can only improve from that point onwards...

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your ice skating skills looked pretty good, mashaAllah :) Better than me, though-- at least you made it inside the rink! T2, why did you bail?

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T1 did not call me. None of the guyz were intersted, so I helped my friend move to new apartment.

Anonymous said...

I object, you make it sound as if i am the culprit. egypshun was there as well!!

Anonymous said...

Awwwww, that's so sad. T1, you shoulda called T2! Now you have to buy him the Friends DVD collection for his birthday...

T 1 said...

not convincing enuf to spend so much on a grad student

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T1: r u serious that egypshun was there. That guy said he is not going.

There goes your birthday gift. I will just buy a $1 ballon from safeway now, instead of buying from your froogle wish list.

Anonymous said...

Come home sometime after next weekend (probably during india-pak game) and pick them up. But first wwhen is your bday? If it is already over i will wait till next year ;)

Anonymous said...

Lagta hai poorai Phoenix mein akeli office mein kaam kar rahi hoon... :( Told you I was overworked!!!

Anonymous said...

Oh, yeah and when India and Pak are playing I won't be associating with you guys... as someone very wise once said to me, "self before country unless it's cricket and then it's country before self".

May the best team win :p

Anonymous said...

why, what happened to the two other musketeers?

If there is one more such incident I shall induct u into the hall of workaholics.

Anonymous said...

that guy must have been wise - his bearings are in the right places. In cricket always country before self.

Anonymous said...

The first musketeer (Salam) resigned a couple of weeks ago cause she moved back to Kentucky. The other one, NE was here but then bounced after our internet went down... actually we were gonna call you and ask for your techie skills to see what the problem was. But then I just unplugged everything, counted to 10 and plugged them back and voila! Here I am now, waiting for 5 PM to roll around so I can leave!

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T1 : jan 13th

T2: do u have entire collection at home?

BK: Pakistan is fav to win... reasons.... winter, fast pitches, shoaib n sami in good form...

I was hardcore cricket fan, but after that match-fixing epsisode, I stopped watching it. I watch (rarely) for the sake of game, but I dont support anyteam.

Anonymous said...

interesting. i did that same thing yday night when the speed was too slow!!

T2 I dont know what i have but feel free to check that. Also you always have a reason/excuse for not supporting any sports, so I am going to ignore your comment about Pak winning. Pathan is more deadlier that Shoaib. Booo !!!!

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T1: I like pathan, he is awesome bolwer. I do feel shoaib is not test bolwer but pak has good line up. I have not seen their line up, but they are getting back hasan? gul and Azhar mehmood.

indian side wasim jaffer (bombay) is surely a plus, if he performs against sami and company.

do you know that yusuf youhana became muslim recently?

Anonymous said...

Lol! I love the emotions that an impending Pak-India cricket match bring out :) Youhana converted quite a while back mashaAllah... and I read an article recently about how a lot of the players have turned to the deen. A big turnaround from the 90's when they were surrounded by scandal...

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

Do you remember Saed Anwar having a long beard few years back?

He was a great left hand batsman.

inzy has a beard now.

Pak-India match is like war. Some times more than a war going between these two countries.

Anonymous said...

the extent of my cricket knowledge stops at lagaan... :)

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

Lagaan pretty much explains all the rules of the game.

Modern cricket 'evolved' a little bit.

Anonymous said...

Yes, we do the dancing whenever a pak wicket falls or when their bowlers get beat up. Thats Lagaan... Only we dont have heroines who join us.

Anonymous said...

now who is 'we'?

I dance when ganguly gets out. OK, OK, I am hyderabadi, can't help it. We were supposed to be hyderabadi team, not indian team. Hyderabad team beat england somewhere in 1930's. Nawab Patuadi and Ghulam ali?? used to play for hyderabad team (actually for both indian and hyderabad).

Anonymous said...

although i must mention....my loyalties reside with pakiland :)

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

Jeetegaa bhai Jeetegaa
Pakistan Jeetegaa!!

Always support 'green' flag.

There was a muslim girl in my high school who used to distribute sweets when pakistan wins. Class had 90% hindu population and 10 percent muslim.
India team supporters - 95%
Pakistani team supporters- 5%

But everybody will take sweets from her.

Anonymous said...

sab bewafaa. sab haarenge!!! ;)

For t2, we = other people who come over to watch and dont ditchoo at the last moment.

basically pakis had a fighting spirit at the time of imran khan, miandad. now, they are only fighting match-fixing charges.

Anonymous said...

Ok, guys I just finished watching Mangal Pandey... what a movie! I'm so charged now that I can't sleep which is bad cause usually I'm in bed by like 10:30...

T1, looks like you can't handle the loyalties of T2 and RN to my team... koi baat nahin. When you are crying that India is getting beat down, we'll take you for ice cream (Tuesdays are the $1 scoops, right?).

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T2 : whatever

Fighting spirit of Pak makes them watchable. India is predictable almost always, only time they were watchable were when they used to mix matches. Leader of the den, who else, Azzhu bhai Hyderabadi. Poor guy.

BTW 'Pakis' is consider derogatory by some.

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

BK: now dont tell me u liked mangal pandey.

Anonymous said...

I thought you were t2 and the owner of this blog was t1? I'm confused...

Yep, the term "Paki" is considered derogatory simply for the fact that the Europeans (specifically the Brits) use(d) it in a negative way. But I know the intention here wasn't that, so it's all good.

I loved Mangal Pandey!

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

I am confused, lost, mad, with no work to do. I was never so lost in my whole life.

Winter break is really boring... I should have stick to Aspen colorado plan.

T2's summer plans -- 'Dont stay in phoenix'
Latin america trip on motor cycle.. aka motor cycle dairies.... else Euro train trip across 7 countries.
InshaAllah. or worse work in small office somewhre in seattle....


Mangal Pandey : I felt, Its is worse than some of the TV shows. Only saving grace is Aamir khan, and he was wasted. Whats up with all the songs poping up at wrong time.

Better 1857 movie: Junoon
http://www.ultraindia.com/movies/filmography/filmography.php?choice=1&na=JUNOON
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077783/
I watched this when I was kid, and still remember Naseeruddin Shah's performance and his one dialogue "hum dilli hargaye" ... symbolizes we lost everything. And also shows why muslims lost power(dilli) in india. InshaAllah muslims will rule Hind again.

Anonymous said...

i really pity that you all are blindly following a team just because you know how to spell pakiiland.

BK, I pity you for mangal pandey. luckily you were not in the theater when I was there, else u could have heard my jokes.

T2 are u a phD student or a wannabe?

Anonymous said...

the term paki is derrogatory to indians

Anonymous said...

something strange. I posted a comment in the morning and only see it now!! andhera chhaya rahe....

Anonymous said...

I liked Mangal Pandey! It was way better than Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya which I saw tonight and was completely retarded. Bollywood needs to cut back on the stupid movie... it's getting annoying now.

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

T1: I am (officially) a phd student since last semester. Research wise, I am almost third year phd student. I delayed my Master thesis defense till I got i20 for phd. You got anything for me? Intel hiring?

BK: dont watch any random bollywood movie. most of them are really bad. I dont even watch them for 2 mins.

Recent good ones are Parineeta, Yahaan (kashmir story), Iqbal and Hazron Kwaishen Aisi and oo ya, Salaam namaaste... black....

May be I will write a blog how to avoid bad bollywood movies without watching it.

Yep, some hardcore indians feel offended if you call them pakistani

T1 : Jeetegaa bhai Jeetegaa
Pakistan Jeetegaa!!

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

Sorry guyz i will keep my comments short from now onwards....

my younger bro is coming from hyderabad tomm to phoenix, inshaallah.

Anonymous said...

YAY! How long is he here for?

s. Toufeeq a. Ahmed said...

inshallah, he will be here for Eid and leave on 12.. i got him a ticket for 12... Now I am thinking I should just drive him down to San Jose..