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[listening to: Toxic - Britney Spears ]
10:21:24 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests • Random

It's raining, which is a good excuse to sit at home and watch The Critic on DVD

This show was so funny and really neglected by local TV.

I can still remember the episode when Jay played a trumpet with his tummy - a classic.

Voiced by John Lovitz, his classic line was "It Stinks".

Love it!!

1:31:14 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests • TV

"Shane Warne spun Australia to a series-clinching 27-run victory over Sri Lanka on the fifth and final day of the second Test in Kandy on Saturday. Warne snapped up 5 for 90 as Sri Lanka, who started the day needing 51 runs with three wickets remaining having been set an improbable 352-run victory target, were bowled out for 324 in 73.1 overs. With the win, Australia lead the three-match series 2-0. The 34-year-old Warne finished with 10 for 155 in the match, his second consecutive 10-wicket haul in his second game back for Australia after a 12-months drugs ban. Warne extended his series tally to 20 wickets at 15.7 and his career haul to 511 scalps, giving him a chance of breaking Courtney Walsh's 519-wicket world record during the third and final Test next week." [more]

6:40:22 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Shane Warne and Jason Gillespie were the stars of the show at Kandy, requiring only 6.1 overs on the fifth morning to take the three Sri Lankan wickets which gave Australia an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series. Sri Lanka, who started the day needing 51 to win, came unstuck as they tried to sprint towards the target and were eventually bowled out for 324, an agonising 27 runs shy of a remarkable Test win.  [more]

6:40:22 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

The fifth day of the second Test won't enter a second session, or possibly a second hour.

After a gripping fourth day's play at Kandy's Asgiriya International Stadium on Friday, Australia require only three wickets for a series-clinching victory, while Sri Lanka need just 51 runs to square the best-of-three contest.

Friday contained a season's worth of drama inside three sessions. From Damien Martyn's highest Test score (161) to Muttiah Muralitharan's five-wicket haul of the series; from Sanath Jayasuriya's dashing ton, to the late day heroics of Shane Warne and Jason Gillespie, the second Test has ebbed and flowed at an astonishing rate.

Jayasuriya cut, drove and hooked Sri Lanka into contention, scoring a swashbuckling century and severely eroding Australia's once intimidating 351-run lead.

After Muralitharan (5-173) spun out Australia's tail before lunch - Jayasuriya (131) put the hosts back in the game. [more]

11:14:38 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Damien Martyn scored an unbeaten century on the third day of the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at Kandy with Australia 5-320 - a lead of 229 runs - as rain brought an early end to the third afternoon of play.

Players were forced from the field an hour before tea. Umpires later abandoned play for the day.

Martyn is not out 104 and Andrew Symonds on 6 in Australia's second innings total of 5-320 - a handy lead of 229.

The batsmen out today were Adam Gilchrist for 144, Darren Lehmann for 21 and captain Ricky Ponting for 27.

Earlier, Australia went to lunch on 4-299 on the third day of the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka.

At the break, Martyn was not out on 90 and Ponting was on 27.

Martyn has been lucky, dropped on 0 and 65, both times by Mahela Jayawardene at second slip off the bowling of Nuwan Zoysa.

His early life today, when he had added just one run to his overnight score, reinforced the need for patience and he crawled through the rest of the session, scoring just 26 runs in two hours.

After taking more than more five hours to make his drought-breaking century in the first Test in Galle, Martyn was set for an even longer ton here, having batted more than five and a half hours already as Australia tries to build a big lead as well as use up time. [more]

10:03:01 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Adam Gilchrist proved a worthy deputy in more ways than one as captain Ricky Ponting sat out the start of Australia's second innings with a back injury in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at Asgiriya Stadium here today.

Batting at No.3 in place of the injured Ponting, the Australian vice-captain scored his 10th Test century to lead the Australian rescue program on the second day.

While Ponting got continuous treatment for his damaged back, Gilchrist rediscovered the form that had abandoned him in the latter part of the summer.

His last century was in the first Test against Zimbabwe back in October and this ton ends a string of single digit scores for the wicketkeeper.

At stumps, with bad light stopping play, Australia was 2-221, with Gilchrist on 140 and Damien Martyn on 64.

Australia leads by 130 runs with eight wickets in hand.

12:29:14 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Shane Warne claimed his 500th Test wicket as Australia bowled Sri Lanka out for 154 to win the first cricket Test by 197 runs at Galle today.Warne became the second bowler in Test cricket history to take 500 wickets, following just world record holder Courtney Walsh into the elite 500-club. Warne, who was banned from all cricket and stranded on 491 scalps while he served a 12-month doping suspension, has been back in the sport for just over a month. But in his first Test since his suspension he has returned as good as ever, taking 5-116 in Sri Lanka's first innings and another five-wicket haul in the second. With Australia closing in on victory in the first Test, Warne claimed victim No.500 when Sri Lankan captain Hashan Tillakaratne skied a catch to Andrew Symonds. Warne was mobbed by his team-mates and saluted the crowd.

[more]

[listening to: Nature Boy - David Bowie ]
7:21:09 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

The scoresheet makes no mention of Darren Lehmann's skyward glance, the tears flowing for a lost friend. And numbers alone will never reveal Damien Martyn's excitement and relief upon ending a two-year jinx in the shadows of Galle's 17th-century fort.

Instead, raw data shows that both batsmen scored vital, match-turning centuries on the fourth day of the first Test, guiding Australia to 8(dec)-512 in the second innings and a 348-run lead entering the final three sessions. The emotions that accompanied each individual feat? Those can't be related numerically.

Having overcome injury, though not the death of close friend David Hookes, Lehmann led all Australian batsmen with a well crafted 63 in the first innings, despite a five-month absence from the international arena. His second innings began less convincingly - dropped second ball by Tillakaratne Dilshan.

But upon settling at the crease, Lehmann confirmed his status as Australia's premier player of spin, defying the likes of Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Dharmasena and Upul Chandana to raise his fourth Test century on a dusty, slow wicket. Immediately he looked to the heavens, eyes welling with emotion.

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[listening to: Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera ]
11:42:12 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

This should not have been Australia's day. With a dressing room that resembled an infirmary and a scoreboard favouring the home team, Ricky Ponting's side arrived at Galle International Stadium on Wednesday fully aware that one indifferent session would virtually ensure a Sri Lankan victory in the first Test.

Then Shane Warne added a dramatic chapter to his already fabled career, claiming a five-wicket haul in his first Test since the 2002-03 Ashes series. And Matthew Hayden continued the revival, guiding his side from a 161-run first-innings deficit with a patient, well-crafted century.

By stumps, their combined efforts engineered a dazzling match transformation - Australia advancing to a 32-run lead against the backdrop of Brett Lee's injury-enforced departure from Sri Lanka and Michael Kasprowicz's shoulder sprain.

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11:45:20 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

It's now been a few weeks since I started with Orkut.

My current stats are as follows:

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6:03:44 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests • Random

I bit the bullet a few weeks ago an ordered an XDA II. I had been lusting after this for a while. I was so excited!

I ordered it from local Australian e-tailer thehardware.ws. The ordering experience was pretty good and I got confirmation that everything was in order and I would get the phone in a few days -  that was Feb 19.

On the 20th of Feb, I got an email that said the order was delayed to the 5th of March.

Ok, I can live with a litte delay.

On the 25th of Feb, I get another note about another delay - now it will be March 20th.

Grrr - I'm getting cranky. The money has already been taken out of my credit card, so someone has my money for nothing!

On the 5th of March, I get yet another note about yet another delay - delivery scheduled for May 4th.

What the hell has happened to impule buying and instant gratification! May 4th, the phone will be superceded by a newer model and the current model will be sold at half price. This really sucks. My teeth are grinding. My breathing is erratic. I'm not happy.

But, there is a silver lining to this cloud - a new distributor has been found and March 15th is the new delivery date.

However, all I can think is "Beware the Ides of March,"

[listening to: Sparkling Diamonds - Caroline O'Connor ]
4:06:33 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Guess what I got in my inbox? An email from Krispy Kreme announcing the opening of their Sydney Store in May.

The store will be on the corner of York Street & Wynyard Place in Sydney.

Woohoo!!

9:10:21 AM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Greater Union is running a promo next weekend where they show all three lord of the rings movie, back to back! 

My boys and I did that last weekend - we watched the first two on DVD and then went to the cinema. It was hard work, but someone had to do it.

ALL THREE EPIC FILMS. ONE LEGENDARY WEEKEND. Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle cinemas announce a movie event like no other. For the weekend of Friday, March 12 to Sunday, March 14 2004, our cinemas will screen all three films of Peter Jackson’s magnificent film trilogy of J R R Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. On each of the three days, during one mammoth session commencing at 1.30pm, the quest to save Middle Earth will be seen in its entirety in The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, with a short break between each film. A special Cinebuzz member price of $23 per ticket not only allows you to enjoy all three films, but will also include your own special DVD containing never-before-seen footage. One weekend to rule them all. Only at Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema.

12:59:21 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests