Friday, August 17, 2012

#London2012

London 2012 Olympics came and went in 19 days. Whole world stopped for 19 days and turned its attention to London. For 19 days Social networks were filled with Olympics updates. Even though the whole country knew that Sri Lanka wont give any hardship to those who maintain the medal tally, we Sri Lankans followed the Olympics. Every one became an expert in a sport they have never seen before 5 minutes.
As I said earlier Twitter went berserk over London 2012!! 
Here are the tweets I chose as the best about London 2012 tweeted by those who I am following!! 

 Opening Ceremony 
Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle, Only way to that was getting James Cameron to direct it! This year Olympics had it all, James Bond parachuting with the Queen, Mr Bean , Voldermort and everything else!!


Tweet from the parody account of Prince Charles!
You'd have to be stupid to think that Mother actually jumped out of the helicopter. She was pushed.

Only part the public didnt like about that awesome opening ceremony was its lengthy parade of countries.
@Lord_Voldermort7

 They should just start making up fake countries to see if anybody is even paying attention. #OlympicCeremony

 Bolt was the captain and the flag bearer for Jamaican Contingent!
@BluesChron
Oi! Usain! SLOW DOWN! The rest of your team is about 200yards behind you!

 @sidvee
We're still in E! I could have run around the world by now- Usain Bolt

 @shockerhess
You know what really lengthened Olympic Opening Ceremonies? When the Soviet Union broke up... jirre, al daai countries my bru.

 @ShitOlympics
Pretty sure Central African Republic is a made up country. #OlympicCeremony

 @laurenbrookes92
Oh god how long is this going to take?? The countries I've never heard of are only funny for the first hour..

Even Lord Voldermort himself made an appearence in this Opening Ceremony!! And the announcers had enough nerve to call him by the name!!
@Lord_Voldermort7
You'd think the announcers would know by now to say "you-know-who". The Dark Mark will be appearing any moment now. #Voldermort #Olympics

 All in all the Opening ceremony was an out of the world experience and had exceeded imagination!!
@innobystander
This is Rio calling......no Opening Ceremony in 2016, we surrender!!!

Swimming and Phelps

"Michael Phelps is going for only 7 events this time". Lazy bastard.
And for the record Phelps took 9 golds in the last Olympics!!

 Phelps have 15 golds and 2 in sliver and Bronze (In all Olympics)!!
I seriously think Phelps would forget all those gold medals. But those silver and bronze moments will be there for his lifetime. 
3 Golds and 2 Silver for Phelps in this Olympics!! This is by far the worst performance in an Olympics from Phelps!! 
15 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze for  in Olympic History! 9 Gold 4 Silver 8 Bronze for India in Olympic History! India arent that Bad!

 Next one is specially for "Percy Jackson" fans, others disregard it!!

Michael Phelps is ADHD? Guess that settles it. 

 And this one is for Harry Potter fans, others go and read the book!!
Michael Phelps definitely would've won the second task in the Triwizard Tournament.

, he'd never have won a medal. Why? He'd have found it impossible to stay in one lane.

 And the funniest one came from the father of Le Clos (South African gold medal winning swimmer) 
 
My swimmers created this swimmer - . Where is my bloody medal?
Shooting 

I think, in , if a participant smiles between shots, he or she is instantly disqualified.

 If you cant understand the next tweet, you can proudly say that you are a good guy!!
And others can you please explain me that tweet, dont understand it!! :D
Standing and shooting. Kneeling and shooting. Lying down and shooting. Is this Olympics, or the making of a Sunny Leone movie?

 It would have came in as really shocking for Somalian Pirates!!
Head of the Somali Olympic squad has apologized on behalf of their team, after realising that shooting and sailing are two separate events.
Beach Volleyball

 It was a shocking revelation for me also!!

Shocked to discover that beach volleyball is also a game played by men.

 What's the point in playing Beach Volleyball if you are going to cover your body with thermal clothing!!

beach volleyball isnt the same with thermal clothing :(

Badminton 
Niluka of Sri Lanka went down to Indian shuttler Kashyap in the round of 16 !!

Last time Kashyap fought against Indians who came to fight for his brother Mugalan!! This time he comes to fight Against SL for Indians!
Excessive celebration warning for the Sri Lankan. He did what Virat Kohli does when he makes a regulation stop at Covers.

 If not for Saina women's badminton would have looked like a Chinese national badminton trials!

OLympics Badminton Semis - China, China, China and Saina.

 Sania Mirza couldnt get into the Tennis quarter finalsl!!

How to tell Saina from Sania - Saina's the one in the quarter finals

 Synchronized Swimming 
Synchronized swimming is obviously the most hated sport in Olympics. It is just dancing, only you are doing it in water!!
Synchronized swimming is how to look like you're drowning in the most elegant way.

How on earth is synchronized swimming an Olympic event? Might as well get air guitar in while you're at it...

 Obviously North Koreans can do something other than Nuclear bombs too!!
North Korea has synchronized swimmers..Thought they were all brainwashed fucks 

 Soccer 

 Brazil lost to Mexico in an upset Gold medal match. And their Gold less streak continues in Soccer!!
'BRA' couldn't 'Triumph'.   Football
He who bet for this scoreline at a pub yesterday night will be a billionaire by tomorrow! 
SoccerFinal

 Diving

One for Chelsea haters!

So Drogba leaves and moves to China. A few weeks later China clean up in the Olympic diving medals. Coincidence?

 Hockey
Kudos to New Zeland for doing it with out any help from Sharukh Khan!!
Women's Hockey: NZL beat AUS 1-0. Now that's a winning feeling even we have experienced...in Chak de India.

Usain Bolt (Athletics)
Usain Bolt runs tomorrow. Do take out 9 secs from your schedule.

 Scary and interesting fact next!
Usain Bolt runs at 31mph which sounds good, but if he hits a child there's a 40% chance they'll die.

Blake is officially the fastest human on earth! Bolt is too fast to be a human, ALIEN!!

He slowed down at the end of all his individual races!
Why did he slow down, because he can!! You dumbasses #BOLT

Bolt didnt stop with 100 and 200 m races, took a world record gold in relay too. And did some Mo Farah (British athelte who won 2 golds in long distance running) impressions after the victory!!

Perfect to see Bolt doing a Mo there, after finishes his relay finals. I was expecting some pushups too! 

 Bolt also got into a quarrel over Baton, he wanted it and officials threatened him if he dont give the baton back his team will get disqualified!

What officials would've done had BOLT ran away with the baton?? Try and catch him!! good luck with that!! 

 Because of this relay race Blake finally got a gold in Olympics. 
Who thought that Yohan Blake could win an Olympic gold before BOLT's retirement! 

 Oscar Pistorius and Natalia Partyka are the most loved athletes of this olympics (barring Phelp, Le Clos and Bolt).

Oscar Pistorius has no legs, and he still runs faster than Munaf Patel.

The fast walking competition looks like a race to go to the nearest toilet.

 Triathlon

TRIATHLON: Any event that involves taking shoes off quickly deserves to be treated with fear and respect.

Olympics in common

Australians weren't as good as what they used to be.
BREAKING: Olympic officials are warning all visitors today about an unknown sound that may be played, the Australian National Anthem. 

Olympics committee provide 100,000 condoms to every Olympic village. In Vancouver 2010, 7000 athletes finished them within twelve days.

 Ladies excuse me, this is not my tweet!!
Parallel Parking for Women. 
lots of the seats empty at the Olympics are journalist seats....must be empty cos they are too busy writing stories about empty seats...

If only there were gold medals for solving humanitarian crises and banking screw-ups, we might all live in a much happier world.
And China would stop all those interfering and ruining other country affairs!! (I am bit against China, excuse me for that)

I wont say these are the best tweets I saw, but these are the ones I liked!! 
In most people's view London 2012 is the best Olympics so far. Phelps and Bolt had more compettition in their races this time around. Lochte and Le Clos gave some tough fight to Phelps and Blake the beast gave some tough fight to Bolt. Opening ceremony of London 2012 was also better than the China's one (Again the popular view) . Medal tally was more closely fought this time around.


But personally speaking I had more memorable moments in Beijing 2008 Olympics. Bolt celebrating and waving to the audience even before finishing his 100 and 200 m races and finishing with a world record will always be there in mind. And he was a unknown name for all of us before that race and him winning like that was fairy tale-ish. London 2012 also had its moments, but not as good as that Bolt moment. But apart from that London 2012 was also good with closely fought battles. And USA leading the medal tally gave me some extra push in liking this Olympics!  
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

What is the unluckiest team in SLPL?

I am back,
 I know you all have been waiting for my next blog post for over a month (I am not expecting any comments regarding this opening, so dont) . If you have been waiting for more than a month, you certainly have missed my last blog post, .
   It is not a co-incidence that I came back to blogging on the eve of SLPL. Since the first season of IPL I always wanted to watch the Sri Lankan version of IPL. If watching some International players playing with Indian domestic players could be that interesting then how interesting it could be if we can watch our domestic players play in that kind of a tournament. So I am not going to miss a chance when it comes on my way (Finally).
  SLPL will be played for the first time this year after going through a lot of internal and external problems. Non participation of Indians (Love them or hate them we need them for the financial viability of the tournament) , Non participation of some of the best T20 players ( True to be said apart from Gayle, Afridi and Morkel there aren't lot of famed specialists in this league) , Next to nothing publicity from SLC and they haven't announced tickets for the league yet (Just 3 more days to go). But yet SLPL will be played despite these reasons.
  So I have announced my loyalty to SLPL, but I still need a team to support in SLPL. One might love football and EPL, but you need to support a team to enjoy the game to the fullest (Btw, I support Arsenal). So I am here to choose a team for me to support in SLPL. .
 But a word of warning beforehand, the team I am going to support has always been the "Nearly team". They will always look like they are going to win, but they wont. (Again, I support Arsenal in EPL, RCB in IPL and Sri Lanka in International cricket matches. Enough said).
Before starting it I would like to thank SLC for getting rid of those Alliteration names (Not that the new names are good, but better than those alliteration names)
Points given at the end is strictly based on my liking toward to the Franshise, not about the strength of that particular team.

Basnahira Cricket Dundees 

Dilshan is the captain of the team, though I dont have anything against him (Other than the fact he is a bad leader) him playing fro BCD is not enough reason for me to support the team. Jeevan Mendis and Marlon Samuels are the only players I like who are playing for BCD. And I hate the name of this franchise.  5/10




Kandurata Warriors 

Originally supposed to have Sangakkara as it's captain. My second favorite player,That plays in their favour. But sadly he wont play for them this season (Which is not helping their case). And Kithruwan Withanage from Royal College is playing for them, and I know for a fact he is a great T20 player. So all the more reasons to support them. Albie Morkel and Thisara Perera are also playing for them, 2 of the most feared fast bowling all rounders. And the most important reason to support them is Sanath Jayasuriya will play for them and will captain them. Which makes that he cant commentate for SLPL. Because of Kandurata we can escape from his so called commentary stints. And if you ask me of all teams this one seems to be the strongest of all teams!
And lastly Kandurata Warriors is my 100th follower on Twitter. 9/10

Nagenahira Nagas

Only team who didnt change their name from the start. Rather than the fact that Angelo Mathews is captaining them there arent any reason to support them. My another favourite Kulasekara is also playing for them (Love the way he tries day in day out, and those extravagent inswingers).
And this is one of the few teams for which any Royalists aren't playing for.  6/10




Ruhuna Royals

Malinga is the captain of this team, and As far as my memory serves I think this is the first time Malinga is captaining a professional team. So thats a plus and I love Malinga the bowler, It would be very hard not to support him while he is bowling. One of my other favourite batsman Thirimanne is also playing for them. And most importantly Old captain of Royal College and a batch mate of mine Ramith Rambukwella is also playing for them. And they are also following me on Twitter and they are really active on Twitter too, reply to all the mentions. And what did I miss, ah Afridi is also playing for them. This Franchise has one of the few names which doesn't want to make you tear your hair apart.
8/10

Uthura Rudras

Muralitharan is the Icon player, but he wont captain the team. Seems that we can never see him captaining a team. How can I not support a team Murali is not playing. And Arsenal is the only team I support in which Murali doesnt (Didnt) play! And the team's captain is an old Royalist Jehan Mubarak.
My hometown is Jaffna and this is the team which is representing my place. And that is why they have put Murali as it's iconic player even though he is from Kandy by birth. So some might say I am obligated to support them, but I dont support teams for that kinda reasons. And to boot Except Murali there aren't any tamils in the team too. And Kapugedara is playing for Uthura, So this is the team which comes close to Sri Lankan cricket team!!(Now a days he seems to be a definite starter for Sri Lanka, regardless the form)  8/10

Uva Next

If I am going to choose a team like I choose for other leagues this will be my team. Normally I support the team Chris Gayle plays for. Chris Gayle is my most favorite player in the world (Sanga and Murali coming in close second), how can I not support a team Chris Gayle plays for. And to boot with Chris Gayle Bhanuka Rajapakshe is also playing for Uva Next. Captain of Royal College during our AL batch (Makes him the third Royalist from our batch to play in SLPL after Kithruwan and Ramith).
BREAKING NEWS:  And just after writing this piece I read the news that Chris Gayle will not play for Uva Next in this season. Huge blow not just to Uva Next, but to SLPL itself!
If Gayle had played in this season I would have given the team 10/10. Now it should be content with 9/10.


 Wayamba United




Captained by Mahela the best captain in the International cricket (Strictly my views, and I may have been biased since he is the captain of Sri Lanka). Him being an elegant opener is another plus for them. Abdur Razzak and Kemar Roach are my favourites of their foreign contingent. And Kushal Janith Perera another Royalist is also playing for them. 7.5/10



If Chris Gayle had played in SLPL I would have supported only Uva Next (Despite that stupid name) , Now going to support Kandurata Warriors and Uva Next in SLPL!! 
So that means any of the other 5 teams can win the title in SLPL!!
I want to write more on this article but now I am too upset with that Gayle news, in no position to write anymore!
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