We were planning a Hawaii trip since long but somehow we were not able to finalize anything. But one fine day, out of nowhere along with our other friends, we decided to hop on to Hawaii for a week long vacation. Leaves got approved and even the air-fare was fitting in our budget. So now we had no reason to step back and we went ahead and finalized everything.

As you know Hawaii is made up of 8 islands. But due to time constraint, we covered two islands Big Island and Maui ..

I’m sharing my complete itinerary so that you can enjoy as much as I did and also one can get a fair idea about what to do, where to stay and how to enjoy in Hawaii.I would say that one’s real experience gives better idea than reading a book on Hawaii.

Big Island:

We flew on 3rd Sep (Saturday) from San Jose to Kailua-Kona (KOA) – BIG Island. We reached BIG Island at arnd 10 AM.

About Big Island:

Big island is less scenic. As such no activities there. BIG Island has only volcano national park as the main attraction. One can plan to cover the whole of the island in two day.

From airport, Volcano park is 3 hr drive. All luxurious resorts and hotels are near airport. so one needs to decide what is the priority:

•  Luxurious stay then stay near airport but drive 3 hrs OR

• Ordinary stay but no commute then stay near volcano park

Activities we did in BIG Island:

• First day, in the evening we went to volcano national park to see glow show. After sunset, the smoke that comes out of crater looks golden. It surely was an amazing sight.

• second day – we again went to volcano park and did some hiking which takes you to the ground where lava has dried up and you actually walk on dead l. Your hiking ends with lava tube (a tunnel kind of thing which has dead lava). The hiking was of arnd 6 Mile total and the most astonishing part bout it was, it was circular hence you dont come back to the point from where you have started the hike via the same route. You start at a different route and come back to thatstarting point via a different route. So no repetition of sights. That was amzing.

• Also visited, black sand beach. Due to active Lava pouring into ocean few decades ago, the ash has turned the ocean sand into black color. Also we saw some huge turtles taking a sun-bath near the shore.

P.S: Volcano National Park has very good visitor center where some volunteers can appropriately guide you as per your timeline, schedule and interests.

Activities we did not do but recommended:

• helicopter ride to volcano (Around $175 per person – a must thing that we did not do )
• If you guys wanna do some real and tiring hike then green sand beach is the best beach out there.

Stay:

• 1st night we stayed in La’i Aloha House which is near Volcano park to avoid commute..
• 2nd night: After completing our volcano park activities, we drove 3 hrs and stayed in Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa

Other option for stay:

• Aston Shores Waikoloa
• Hilton waikoloa – The most gorgeous but expensive

PS: Big Island is definitely not the island to relax.

Maui:

Monday 5th September, we flew from Kailuia-Kona(Big Island) to Kahului(OGG), Maui. It was a 9 seater plane just like charter. Flight time was arnd 1 hour. Unfortunately, we had to pay some extra bucks for the luggage. We were not informed about it when we first booked our tickets. So be ready to shell out few pennies if you are doing island hopping by air.

About Maui:
Maui is a definite place to relax and enjoy.Good scenic beauty, good beaches, great waterfalls.

Activities we did in Maui:

• Hana drive -  Scenic Drive with beaches, mountains, water falls. Many vista points to cover so before going there, plan which vista points to cover/stop on. A convertible car is a must to enjoy the scenic beauty and the sun of course. It will surely take one full day of your itinerary.

• Halaekala Mountain/National park: Here, we selected Haleakala Bike Company as our bike company. You have to wake up at 2 in the morning and report it to your bike company at around 3. They will take you to the crater which is like 10,000 feet above the sea-level. Then you see the mind boggling sunrise as you are standing above the clouds and as the sun is coming out, it highlights golden border of clouds. What an amazing sight that was .. It was chilling but then once the sun strted coming out, we all forgot about the cold and we were just enjoying the beautiful sight. After that you get on your cycles and come down from 6000 ft to ground. As it’s a downhill, you dont have to pedal anytime – just the brake and steering. Awesome fun. Midway, you find some restauarants fro breakfast. It was around 27 miles but it took us arnd 3 hours with breakfast break.

• Apart from these activities, we just chilled out at beaches / pools of our resort.

Activities we did not do:

• Submarine ride
• Para sailing
• Lahaina town, Luau(Hawaiian dance) – A must that we missed out

Stay:
We stayed in Honua Kai Resort ( It was an awesome resort)

Other Options for stay:
Royal Lahaina Resort
Karappalli beach resort
There are hundreds of options to stay in Maui. So any resort with 4 start rating and a good deal would suffice your luxurious stay requirement.

PS: Maui is the place to relax and enjoy your vacation and some good company of your life partner

After completing Maui, We came back to Bay Area while our other friends went to Kauai.

Kauai:

About Kauai:
Most scenic island of the three. Less commercialized yet.

Things to do in Kauai:

• Dinner cruise to Napali coast which also included whale and dolphin watching. 

• There are many look out points, hiking trails, canyons on the way.

• You can do mountain tubing, Kayaking if time permits.

It was a memorable trip for all of us. We enjoyed it thoroughly. I hope you guys too have enjoyed reading my experiences.

Soham

_I feel really lucky to be writing a post on my blog as my blog was hacked and was turned into a complete disaster.

Few days back, when I opened my blog, I found following error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/95/7248995/html/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 400

I had not played with any of my wordpress setting or config files so I was perplexed to encounte this error message.I had this gut feeling that my website is compromised and some malfunctioning script must have been inputted by hackers. So  as an avid forum-person that I am, I asked a simple question describing my error message and code of wp-setting.php file to wordpress forum and within a blink of my eye, I got a reply with definite YES that my site has been hacked and it’s been going through millions of websites/blogs running with WordPress platform.

There are many kind hearted souls in this world who helped me day and night to recover my website, backup my posts/comments, cleaning the malfunctioning scripts and restoring the database and making my blog what it was before. I really cant express my gratitude towards them in words.

So I would  like to highlight few points to make sure that your website/blog does not get hacked and you don’t have to go through the pain I went through :

• Frequently change passwords of your Web hosting, WordPress admin and Database. Always choose password which is a combination of upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters as such password is hard to break using Brute Force as compared to simple lowercase/uppercase password. http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

• Always take backup of your database(posts/comments) and of your wordpress theme setting so that you don’t have to start from scratch if something goes wrong. Take backup at regular intervals – may be every 15 days.
  Few useful blogs:                                                                                        http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_WordPress_Files
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

If you feel that your blog/website is hacked or compromised:

• you can visit following links for better understanding of your problem:
  http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
  http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/
  http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/

• After that, uninstall your wordpress application. Install it again.

• Restore your theme from your backup using FTP client. Restore your database of posts and comments.

• Update your wp-config.php file to edit it so that it points to proper database source so that all your posts and comments are visible on your blog. You are all set to writing again

I hope this is helpful to you.

Fortunate to be here

Soham

Anna Hazare

Well, I admit that I’m fortunate to see after a long time that one common man without any political power, muscle power or money power has taken our country by storm .. A man with no personal agenda or any political gain has awakened the sleeping India .. A man who has nothing on his plate has completely shaken the government which has too much on it’s plate .. The man knows as Anna Hazare and commonly addressed as Anna Saheb ..

The Jan Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill) is a bill/law/method that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), bureaucrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their (mis)deeds.

In a nutshell, Anna Saheb is advocating for a Jan LokPal Bill and demanding that Indian government must pass LokPal Bill in the parliament .. His other demands also include 50% Govt – 50% public participation in Lokpal .. Basically there are two versions of LokPal Bill – the one that govt has drafted and the one Anna’s team has drafted – known as Jan Lokpal Bill.The LokPal Bill a law or a mean by which corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, authorities, judiciary and even Prime Minister of India can be made accountable for corruption and can be brought under a trial. Though government’s bill exclude Prime Minister, parliamentarians and Judiciary from the LokPal Bill, while Anna’s version includes all and demands that no one is above the law. That’s where the problem started as government is not ready to accept what Anna Saheb is demanding. I have not studied both the drafts of Lokpal Bill so I may be wrong somewhere in what I’m conveying. But I have tried my best to lean on a true side.

To fulfill his demands, Anna Hazare and his supporters announced that he will sit on indefinite fast from 16th August at JP Park in Delhi. He always stated that he is a Gandhian and his protest will always be peaceful and non-violent. Fearing a law and order problem(?), Delhi police which basically report to Home Minister arrestd Anna from his home while he was asleep. And that’s where govt fell upside down. People’s anger came on streets in form of protests, arrests, candle-light vigils, facebook-twitter updates and so on. The same set of vocal people like Ambika Soni, Diggy Raja,Manish Tewari, Kapil Sibbal who always portray biased views tried their best to defend govt’s action but my friends, sometimes you just can’t defend the indefensible & they ended up being nothing more than a laughing stock .. As per latest update,Anna was taken to Tihar Jail .. And then at aroing 9 PM, it was announced that Anna will be released without any charges(!!) and but no Anna doesn’t want to go from jail .. More problems to Govt ..

Now, let me come to my opinion. As I mentioned I don’t have any deep knowledge of Lokpal Bill nor I care to study both the drafts. I just believe that any citizen of India has got every right to stand against government and to hold non-violent protest. After all, we are the largest democracy in the world and in the name of freedom of expression/art/speech, Haven’t we already given free hand to so many anti-national people to defame/abuse India?

Rahul Easwar rightly said following on Twitter which resembles my thoughts:

• Arundati Roy had freedom to shout “Destroy India”,
• MF Husain painted “Rape of India”,
• Geelani said “Kashmir belongs to Pakistan.”
• So why single-handedly harassing Anna and his supports just because he is standing against you?

I know this is not going to end corruption .. Corruption in India is not only limited to policians. Corruption and dishonesty is rampant in every sphere of life – every field and proffession is affected by it .. If we really want our top brass to be corruption free, we ourselves need to step up a bit .. We will have to stop indulging in corruption and bribes .. Lets change ourselves first and then lets dream of a betetr world ..

But the way Anna’s movement was handled – it calls for oppose/anger and frustration. Autocratic and authoritative govt we have always hated .. Cong should remember how it was wiped out just after Emergency was lifted ..

Looking at the approach taken by Congress, one thing is very sure that:

• Whoever is advising Cong high-command, he or she seems to ave a sole agenda to destroy Congress OR

• Congress is going by history. It feels that middle class will rave and rent about it for some time and after a while, it will still indulge in caste-based, religion-based voting pattern which always benefited Congress.

But one thing is sure that more this government misbehaves with its own people, harder it will be hit by the same people ..

And the day full of panic, anarchy, chaos and a little satisfaction ended by a loud laugh : Congress-funded media houses NDTV and CNN-IBN were praising Rahul Gandhi as he intervened and demanded that Anna should be releaed .. Earlier our Home Minister stated that Delhi Police has arrested Anna .. So when arrests come, it’s Delhi Police and when release comes, it’s Rahul Gandhi ..God PR job guys – you gys are value for all the money spent !

Goodbye but don’t bid bye to this movement, this struggle, this revolution ..It’s time to rise-up and make the difference .. Spread the anger – spread the word – spread support .. जागो सोनेवालो ..

So do you all support Anna Hazare? If no,then how do you plan to curb corruption from India? What are your views on Anna and also on Lokpal Bill?

Jai Hind.. Vande Mataram

Soham

Welcome to my new blog !

Well, this is my first post on this blog and I could not express in words how thrilled and excited I’m to begin with !

I m hoping to be quite active with frequent updates ..

I am also planning to keep my old blog live for few months before I redirect traffic from old blog to here .. So you can still visit my old blog here : http://sohamwhispers.blogspot.com/

I have also imported all my old posts from blogger account so you can also visit my old posts from this blog only ..

This blog and its design is still under construction so you may notice frequent changes once I finalize everything.

Wish me luck for my new beginning – new start !

Soham

To explain what happened, I need to go back to my teen days in the year 2000 .. I just had appeared for my HSC(12th std exam) and when I went back home after my last exam, mom-dad gifted me a mobile .. Mobile was Nokia and the service was of CelSuvidha .. It was a prepaid card .. At that time, outgoing call used to cost RS while incoming calls RS 3 for that matter .. It was an expensive gadget to play with !!

Then I took admission in Engineering and I was the only one which cell phone in my entire class .. Sometimes I felt awkward too but I was enjoying it .. The service CelSuvidha which I was using has been now called as Hutch .. Using the same number, I talked to so many people who are now my close friends .. By using the same number, I first time talked to that special strange of my engineering class who later became my friend, then a good friend, then a very good friend .. And it then went on from close friends to best friends to girl-friend to fiancee and today my wife .. Those long nights of free-night calling of Hutch, those free 2000 SMS per month of Hutch etc are unforgettable memories .. I have had this unexpressed sentimental attachment with my number .. So being a mom a mom, she knew about my affection to this number, she even recharged and continued the same number when I went to US for higher studies .. Even though, no one was using it, mom made sure that number does not get deactivated .. Meanwhile all this happenings, Hutch had turned into VodaFone

When I returned from US for good and started my job in Mumbai, I still continued my Ahmedabad number .. So now I had two numbers – one from Ahmedabad and one from Mumbai .. Both from VodaFone as I really had no problem whatsoever till now ..

But then, before 7 months I came to US for a project assignment and got so busy in day-to-day life that I forgot to recharge my Ahmedabad number and it got deactivated .. Mom one day called and gave me the sad news.. I called VodaFone customer care and they said that as I ave not recharged my number, it got disconnected and it has been assigned to someone else .. So I cannot buy back that number .. I was saddened to hear that .. I tried calling that number but it still said “This number is temporarily deactivated” .. So I had little hope that it may still haven’t been given to any customer
So I googled the names and emails of the Nodal Officer of VodaFone of Gujarat/Ahmedabad circle and I emailed him my pain and agony of losing this number and my emotional attachment to it .. Companies in India re very well known for their anti-customer approach but I had this mysterious kind of hope in some place of my heart that I may get lucky here !!

And the magic happened .. Mom got a call from VodaFone executive and she told her that they have received an email from me and they are trying their best to locate the number .. And mom being so passionate about whatever she does, she just followed up with the executive for 2-3 days and as she was getting proper response from the executive, she became hopeful too .. One of my close friends Shridhar who was working for Idea cellular few years ago too helped me as he had many contacts in mobile arena .. Hence after 3 days, that executive called mom and asked her to go to any VodaFone store and asked her to recharge the card so that they can activate it again on my name .. VodaFone Nodal officer also replied to my email confirming the same .. After recharging it, mom called me from the same number and I was so happy to see that number flashing on my cell ..

A small email requesting to activate my number after I lost it completely had done the trick .. And it is not possible if we don’t have such customer-friendly, customer-caring people in VodaFone .. This is just unbelievable for me to even think of ..

I would like to express my gratitude and a big thanks from the bottom my heart to Ms. Maulika Chandramouli (Nodal Officer VodaFone) and Ms. Jigna Raghwani(Executive who called Mom) for their cooperation, help and support throughout .. Without you guys, my happiness would have not been possible .. You have brought a smile on someones face- may god bless you both !!

VodaFone Rocks !!

Soham

Last Sunday, I went to Ahmedabad from Mumbai to cast my vote in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation election. Along with Ahmedabad, five other cities too were observing civic polls including Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar .. The way dissatisfaction and disappointment have been shown by BJP workers for the ticket distribution, it seemed that this election will be an uphill task for BJP as BJP had captured all six municipal corporation five years ago .. So it was predicted that anti-establishment, anti-incumbency and demotivated BJP workers may make BJP’s win very tough ..

But this guy named Narendra Modi has this uncanny knack of surprising people and crushing his opponents .. He went to public with one and only one agenda and that is the development and progressive work that he and his government are doing since last 10 years of his regime .. And he was not made disappointed again by people of Gujarat .. People of Gujarat has again shown faith in NaMo and BJP .. The results were out today and BJP has won all the six Municipal Corporations (Ahmedabad, Rajkot, vadodara, Surat, JamNagar and Bhavnagar) with thumping majority .. Urban voters of Gujarat has given clear mandate to BJP and NaMo .. Congress is stunned and crushed .. Congress has no escape route and it might have to do some rigorous soul-searching to save its very existence in Gujarat ..

Final Results of 2010 Civic Polls of Gujarat:

Ahmedabad (Total : 189)
BJP wins 149
Congress wins 37 seats
others win 3 seats

Surat (Total : 114)
BJP wins 98 seats
Congress wins 14
Others get 2

Rajkot (Total : 69)
BJP wins 58
Congress 11
Others 0

Vadodara (Total : 75)
BJP wins 61
Congress 11
Others 3

Jamnagar (Total : 57)
BJP wins 35
Congress 16
Others 6

Bhavnagar (Total : 51)
BJP wins 41
Congress 10
Others 0

Despite of the relentless attack on and slanderous campaign against Narendra Modi by electronic media, Congress and BJP-Rebels, he has always come out winner time and again .. Under his leadership, Gujarat has taken giant strides as far as development, infrastructure and progress are concerned .. He has made Gujarat one of the foremost progressive states .. Even the Planning Commission has praised the Gujarat government for the judicial way of spending the money allotted to that state .. He has created confidence in investors in various projects that Gujarat is a safe place for investment .. He has proved this definition ‘Good Governance is Bad Politics‘ wrong again and again ..

Other feathers in the cap of NaMo:

• 2002 Assembly Election (LandSlide Victory — 2/3rd Majority)
• 2005 Civic Polls (Wins all six Municipal Corporation with huge margin — 2/3rd Majority)
• 2007 Assembly Election (Thumping Win — 2/3rd Majority)
• 2008-2010 Bye Elections (Won Congress Bastion like Danta, Chotila, Kathlal etc which BJP had never won)
• 2010 Civic Polls (Results are out today and BJP wins all six corporation with 2/3rd majority)

Narendra Modi is one of the most articulate, intelligent and gifted public servants currently in office in India. Without a doubt, the credit for Gujarat’s progress and development goes to NaMo .. We Gujjus owe him a huge debt for his courage, tenacity and dedication in putting Gujarat back on its feet after earthquake and godhra-riots ..

** Take a bow LEADER **

I will conclude by mentioning the lesson that I learned by watching and analysing Narendra Modi’s life :

“IF YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND KEEP WORKING FOR YOUR GOALS, YOUR EFFORTS WILL REAP RICH DIVIDENDS INSPITE OF ALL THE ADVERSITIES”

Soham

Hello all .. I’m back to my blog after almost 4 months .. I really had faded in oblivion .. Work and hence life is keeping me very busy and I’m also facing a huge writer’s block .. But I guess Krishna Bhagwan came to my help to subside my writer’s block ..

I’m not gonna write a whole new post but on this holy and pious evening, I would like to share one of my old posts which I wrote two years ago on the same day and almost at the same time ..

My SMS inbox is pouring with SMSes from my friends-relatives wishing me Happpy Janmashtimi so let me get back to them ..

So before we depart, let us chant loudly:

Soham

So it’s 1st May again .. But this year 1st May has double importance .. Because in 2010, both Gujarat and Maharashtra are completing their 50 years of foundation .. A Swarnim (Golden) Jayanti (Jubilee) for both the progressive and highly successful states ..

It was the day when Gujarat and Maharashtra were separated from each other on the basis of language spoken in each region .. Majority of Gujarati people were granted a new state Gujarat while majority Marathi-speaking maharashtrians were given a new state Maharashtra .. But still many Gujarati stay in Maharashtra and many maharashtrians stay in Gujarat..These two communities have mixed together so well that it reminds of how sugar gets absorb in milk…

So I am feeling an immense pleasure in wishing Gujarat and Maharashtra a very happy birthday..

Narendra Modi – the CM of Gujarat – has planned several Swarnim Gujarat events to celebrate this auspicious day .. As usual, Congress has shown a red-face to these functions and they are celebrating Gujarat Day on its own .. Poor politics and poor congress who even does not have a single leader in Gujarat who can stand shoulder-to-shoulder when it comes to charisma and good governance of Mr. Modi ..

Our print & electronic media and pseudo-secularists have tried their level best to spoil the image of Gujarat and Gujarati after Godhra-riots .. Gujarat has silenced its critics by providing development, safety and a great infrastructure to education, industtry and agriculture areas .. Following facts are surely worth mentioning about Gujarat…

1. Gujarat is one of the most prosperous states of the country, having a per-capita GDP 3.2 times India’s average.

2. Gujarat holds many records in India for economic development: 20% of India ’s Industrial Output · 9% of India ’s Mineral Production· 22% of India ’s exports· 24% of India ’s textile production· 35% of India ’s pharmaceutical products· 51% of India ’s petrochemical production

3. Gujarat is having the longest sea shore compared to any other Indian state

4. Gujarat is having the highest no. of operating airports in India (Total 12).

5. India ’s 16% of Investment are from Gujarat .

6. Surat is the fastest growing city in the world.

7. Gandhinagar is the Greenest Capital City in whole Asia .

8. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is Asia’s 1 st and world’s 45th ranked management college located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat .

9. Gujarat is the safest state as the Crime rate of it is 8.2 which is the least in India even after considering 2002 communal riots, stated by India Today 2005 report.

10. Gujarat is having least crime against women among all Indian states (excluding Goa).

11.Ahmedabad which is the seventh largest city in India is the lowest in crime rate among all Tier-I and Tier-II cities of India as per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.

12. Ahmedabad is ranked 2nd in Real Estate – Ahead of Bangalore,Chennai, Hyderabad, Mmbai & Delhi. 3rd in Policy Initiatives – Ahead of Bangalore , Chennai, Kolkata , Mumbai & Delhi. 4th in Manpower – Ahead of Bangalore ,Chennai, Mumbai & Delhi.

13. Last but not the least, Gujarat has NARENDRA MODI as its chief-minister.

Once again a very happy birthday to Gujarat and Maharashtra..Nobody can stop you from growing and flourishing…God bless you ..

Proud to be a Gujju and a Mumbaikar !!

Soham

Hey Folks .. How is it going ???

Well, I wrote my last post exactly on the day when IPL started and now this post exactly on the day when IPL has ended that too in a very disappointing manner with all the allegations, scandals and other off-field incidents .. This IPL was special to me as I saw opening ceremony, closing ceremony and one other match(MI vs Deccan) at D Y Patil Stadium & one match (Royal vs KKR) at Motera, Ahmedabad ..

I may sound like a maniac but I’m not able to imagine a life without IPL .. I may take some time to come out of this sudden (not really !!) shock .. Since last one and half months, at this time I was just glued to my idiot box watching and enjoying IPL matches .. But now IPL is over and I feel like I have lost a dear and close companion of mine .. Yesterday since 8 PM, I am feeling like something is missing in my schedule .. This was the charisma of IPL .. It really made me(us !!!) addicted .. I hope that all other cricket fans are also passing through the same phase and also suffering from the same ‘missing-IPL’ syndrome .. But no matter what, I’m not gonna watch Indian Idol series yet again with all the melodrama and less talent ..

Before I again fade in oblivion, I would like to thank Mr. Lalit Modi for such an amazing tournament and such a grand execution of it .. It made Cricket and thus in return, India a global brand .. IPL may not be L.Modi’s idea but he surely has executed and planned it with perfection .. It’s really sad to see him go like this .. But I feel he’s a fighter and he will fight the battle bravely .. At least he should take down other culprits with him .. I’m not sure whether IPL – 4 will take place or not so this year I enjoyed IPL as if there is no IPL next year ..

Are you missing IPL???

Soham

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee !! .. What more an ardent and avid cricket fan like me can ask for ?? .. IPL is going to commence from next week and that too in India .. Wow !! .. I’m so much excited !! .. Whether you call it “Indian Premier League” or “Indian Paisa League” or “Indian Pawar league” but it certainly has created hype and interest among the cricket lovers all over the world .. Huge money involved .. So much glamor involved but most importantly so much of thrill and excitement are involved ..

Its inauguration ceremony will be held in Navi Mumbai on Friday .. It seems that it will be grand and fabulous .. Shahrukh, Preity Zinta, Katrina Kaif etc will be sitting in the stadium and will be watching the match .. Spectators will be in huge dilemma – what to watch for : So many international cricketers on the field, Towering sixes and awesome deliveries, Film stars in the stands or ‘Hot and Beautiful’ Cheer-leaders near the boundary ropes .. It will surely be a stunning celeb-packed night .. And the most exciting part is – I MIGHT GO TO WATCH THIS MATCH !!! …

By the way, this time once again, there is no team from Ahmedabad in IPL .. So I will be cheering for Mumbai Indians because Mumbai is my work place .. It’s the city which gives me my bread and butter…My Karm-Bhoomi .. Another obvious reason is the presence of almighty himself – Sachin and Jayasurya in the team ..

So now Everyday at 8 PM after coming to office, I will stick to my TV ignoring the bunch of activities and people !! .. It is awesome to watch so many different players of different nationalities get togather and play as a unit .. I hope I will have a gala time in future ..

Yeah .. The one more thing I will be glued to is IPL Fantasy Cricket on http://fantasyipl.sportspundit.com

It’s a website where Members can create a profile and receive a Fantasy Budget to create their own ‘Fantasy Cricket Team’ of 11 players of the IPL .. This Fantasy team will then receive points based on the real life performance of the players selected .. Every member will be allowed to enter one team only .. More details about the game, you can heck out on the website that I have mentioned ..

And more importantly, there are grand prizes are also to be given .. The team with the highest total score after the league is finished will win a cash prize of $500. Second prize is $300 and third is $200. The best team each week will win an IPL cricket shirt of their choice .. Wow, I’m surely gonna rock this time ..

So for all the information about crcket world and IPL, go to:
Cricket News
Fantasy Cricket

So guys subscribe for it and have a ball out there while watching the IPL .. It sounds like a real fun ..

All the very best to Mumbai Indians and I hope they win this time ..

Soham