Powerless

Yeah, its a sweet song by Nelly Furtado, but no i am not gonna write about that. Powerless is just how i felt this weekend.

Saturday, i just had no control on when i could go and search the house. The broker was having all the power for it ;). He never turned up. My room-mate has bought a new DVD player, so we watched a comedy-horror movie called "Evil Dead - III". I really dont know how they could call it a horror movie. Anyway, we enjoyed watching the comedy part of it [ Mind you, there was no horror part in it at all :p ]. Now that EURO 2004 has been flagged off, we spent our complete evening and half of the night watching the 2 initial matches. Greece winning over the hosts Portugal was the biggest surprise of the day [ oops, it was the first match, so it was the only surprise till then ;-) ]. Spain had to struggle a lot to win their game against the Russians. I watched just the first half and gave into my sleep.

Sunday, we were all planned and ready for the biggest match of the year ... France v/s England. France being the reigning champions, this was ought to be a killer. After watching Rambo I and Rambo II in the noon time, we spent the early evening searching for houses and found one very spacious single room with a huge balcony, the balcony is actually bigger than the total room size, and its on the third floor, having a beautiful view of Indiranagar and most parts of Bangalore. But, i want to keep my options open and have not yet finalised on this luxurious balcony-cum-room. :p

The first match was between Crotia and Switzerland, which eventually turned out to be a goal-less draw. We could not afford to watch this boring match till 12 midnight and be awake for the biggy. So we bought another DVD [ Master and Commander ] and spent the night watching it and waiting for the clock to strike 12. This movie was damn good. Watching it in the DVD added the much needed flavour. Luckily we had the subtitles to our help, with Russel Crowe eating up most of his words. But, we still hadnt seen the biggest surprise of the day, I should rather say night. Just before 5 minutes for midnight, our rooms turned dark, with the BESCOM authorities deciding to switch off the power for the night :-(( .. We were sooooo Power-less :-(( .. We waited for another hour, but to no vain. We finally called it a day, and slept. To our dismay, the morning news showed that the France v/s England match was a damn thriller, with Zidane scoring 2 goals in the final 120 seconds of injury time to beat England 2 - 1. Earlier, in the first half, Becham took a free-kick and gave a beautiful pass to Lampard in the D, and helped England take the lead. Now in the 90th minute, Zidane took a breathe-taking free kick right on the edge of the D, to level the scores. The English goal-keeper did a blunder by bringing Henry down while going to save an attack in the very next minute. This was just the right occassion for Zidane to score from that penalty in the dieing moments of the game. So France scored in the last 120 seconds of the match to win this thriller. Earlier, Barthez made an amazinging dive to save a Bechkam penalty kick. This really cost the Englishmen the match.

Apart from writing this long post, today has been a real colorful and manic monday as usual. Had to create a very colorful bug-report, to show the progress made on Evolution/Connector. Time for some TT now ;-) and more house hunts ...