Wimbeldon , WCF and weekend

Weekend…it was one word unheard of in my hometown, Latur (at least for me). All that we knew is ’study hard’ and crack the HSC [12th std] exams. Weekends worked well to revise week before and plan next week. Guess that worked. No complains, only a merit rank!

Life moved on from Latur to Mumbai to Ahmedabad to Delhi to Hyderabad and now London.

The jounrney of Latur to London in last 10 years has also changed the concept of weekend, very gradually though.

Wimbeldon is on the tele. Its Federer-Nadal final as you know. Wimbeldon is only 11.6 miles and 27 minutes away from my couch in the hall. I am certain Federer will win the game. I have fond memories of watching him play at center court last year. Oh Boy, its a super feast, I must say. Dont forget to add it on ‘N things to do before i die’

Then there is World Cup Final in the eve. France-Italy. It would have been great to have a south america—europe match but then its football. Lucky (3 time winners though) Italians shooting two goals in last 2/3 minutes against host germans were kinda not so obvious candidate for the final match. Anyways, i had a super treat with my laturite udctian co-alum in town and a couple of TCSers joining for the match at my place. Today is another such day. We are meeting at a TCSers place in hounslow. There would be more than 100 TCSers in town of hounslow. A few of them who work in london office are good family friends. We made one of the families volunteer to host us for this big match and we are all set to enjoy barbeque and world cup at the hosts Lawns.
So thats wimbeldon finals and Football world cup finals on the same sunday. I couldnt have asked for more…

…actually one can ask for the Ultimate. A box seat for Federer-Nadal match at Center Court, a limo taking me from SW to NW of london for terminal 1 to get in tele-checked in for business class BA flight going to tegel (Berlin) for the evening 2000 hrs France-Italy match at Olympiastadion. Is that asking for too mcuh…