thursday's here again

despite all my good intentions of waking up early and going to the lab, i could not - the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak, sigh!! ;-)) just played around a bit with the blog, and made some modifications and stuff. you will have noticed the My Photos and My Poetry sections on the right hand column (not all is original - you can tell my stuff way before you reach the credits at the end!!). by the way, shavi and abi, saurabh gupta of your wing is coming here for a couple of days tomorrow.. he's currently in pittsburgh at carnegie-mellon for his summer training.

effectively did nothing constructive today then; no going downtown for Thursday At The Square since i had to go to the archi. dept to help out with the cleaning, then was fiercely hungry, so came home and cooked.. mal, nats, sank, vip and ash all came over.. and we had to watch 'Main Madhuri Dixit Banni Chahti Hoon' yet again.. raja of course stole the show: "sab toh nahin dekh pahte hain.." and "bhaiya chai faltoo hain kya?"

england got knocked out on penalties yet again in a major tournament, by hosts portugal this time. they did have reason to feel aggrieved though, since they had what looked like a perfectly good goal disallowed due to goalie ricardo's antics.. the 'silver goal' rule didn't ease tensions either.. and the penalty shootout was a thriller too.. beckham has not exorcised his penalty demons yet has he?! ricardo also committed himself too early as three consecutive penalties went in dead centre.. did anyone notice he was keeping in the shootout without his gloves!! poor vassell looked overawed as he shot tamely at ricardo, who picked himself up too shoot very well into the bottom left corner and send the host nation into raptures. just a quick note about wayne rooney - no doubt he would have been a major influence to the game had he not limped off after 20 minutes.. and from a very selfish evertonian point of view, hopefully now the big team scouts will stop hounding him!!