We didn't lose

:)

It's the 2007 World Cup all over again. Reach the finals undefeated only to lose heartbreakingly. :|

But no matter. We gave a good fight. And we won every single game that led to the finals. Congrats to Sanga and the entire team.

Dilshan, Mendis, Malinga, Mathew, Sanath, Murali, Mahela, Mubarak, Udana, Chamara, Kulasekara... well done, boys!

ETA - Sanga thanked the spectators in Sinhala! Fuckin' AWESOME! Didn't see that one coming. I'm not sad about losing anymore. :)

WE WON!

Man, that felt good.

And now we wait...

Did you watch the match?

Was that a nail biting finish, or what?

It was Sanga and Murali who saved the day for us. Even after getting the Bangladeshis bowled out for a measly 152 we were struggling as if we were facing Australia and South Africa combined!

But we won, and I guess at the end of the day that's all that matters. I think Sanga summed it up best when he apparently said during a post-match interview that it was our experience in playing finals that took the game away from the Bangladeshis who, to their credit, played exceedingly well.

But that's no reason to brush aside and ignore our less than perfect performance with the bat today. At one point the scoreboard actually showed more wickets than runs (6 for 5). Yikes!

Oh well... we won, and even though we SUCKED today (for the most part), we wouldn't have made it to the finals if we weren't the BEST FRICKIN' TEAM in the whole of South Asia (if not the world)... which, by the way, we ARE! (Yes, that's a fact :p ).

Sri Lankan Cricket ROCKS, man!

Happy New Year (I think)...

OK, it's been more than a month since my last (first ever) post. Work (read idling) got in the way of getting this thing off the ground. Can't complain, can I?

Anyway, a lot has happened during these one and a half months, but nothing that could not have been predicted.

A new year dawned, and everyone wished each other a happy and fantabulous new year. Whether or not any of us is actually having a happy and fantabulous new year is the real question. The "independent" media of this country sure as heck isn't. And neither is, it appears, this guy.

We seem to have officially started racial profiling (that dreaded website everyone seems to be talking about these days).

Kilinochchi and Elephant Pass have been captured.

King Khan still wants to say Hello to the same people who bombed him four years ago, and there's talk that at least one of the current mobile operators will have to start packing their bags soon.

WE ARE WINNING THE TRI-NATION SERIES IN BANGLADESH.

The global economic meltdown is said to start melting down the local business community, and by extension the public, "sooner or later".

Man, did 2009 start with a bang, or what?

On a much lighter note...
Have you seen this?