"GOD" of Cricket... Little "Master" Blaster's

Only Batsmen in the history of cricket to score a Double Hundred.

Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 13447 Test runs.

Highest run scorer in the history of ODI cricket with 17598 ODI runs.

Fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history (Shares the record with Brian Lara).

World record of runs scored in Tests away from home 7429.

Highest number of Test centuries(47). Highest number of ODI centuries(46).

World record of five centuries before he turned 20.

Scored centuries against all Test playing nations.

Most Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185. (25Apr1990 to 24Apr1998).

Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds.

Record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007.

Record for the most fours (boundaries) in an innings (25 fours in his 200* stand).

Only player to score 5, 150+ (186*, 152, 163, 175 and 200*)scores in ODI cricket.

Most centuries against One Team - Australia 19 (10 test+9 ODI).

Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

Most centuries in Final Matches 6 & India Win All Matches.

Most ODI Man of the Match Awards: 61 Man of the Match Awards.

Most ODI Man of the Series Awards: 14 Man of the Series Awards.

Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

Most runs (1,796 as on 20 March 2007) in World Cup Cricket History including 4 centuries & 13 fifties.

673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup.

Highest Century stands by a player in international cricket. (93 - 47 Test and 46 ODI).

Most overall runs in international cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s) with 30,000+ runs overall.

Record maximum number of 90s in international matches. He has been dismissed 25 times (18-ODIs(most again) and 7-Tests) on scores of 90-99. Most dismissals at 99 - 3.

Most 50+ scores in ODI Cricket 139.

Most number of ODI runs in boundaries 8818. Most ODI fours - 1927, the next closest is 1500.

Most number of Test runs in boundaries 7314. Most Test fours - 1746.

Highest Number of Fifties by a player in international cricket. 147 (93 ODI and 54 Test).

2 Matches (each) away both in ODI and Tests, to become the Most matches in career.

When I Knew About My Love?

When I Knew About My Love?

It all Started with smiles exchanged,
Her eyes moved my heart
Thats the sweetest thing I have ever seen...
and that feeling lasts for a lifetime...
She used to sit around a corner on way,
and the helpless me kept moving there....

What I Knew About My Love?

The smallest distraction
that made me move from day to dawn
You had to look my face the 1st days
I wanted to say her - which never happened
"You're in your head every where I live to think,
Somewhere else I dont even know if I would either"

What I Knew About My Love?

Except that she kept smiling always...
The Smile that cut me throught the deepest....
The Smile that spilt all over like rain of happiness....
The Smile that, like the brightest light in darkness....
The Smile that I always jus wanted to keep watching...
The Smile in which I Lost my mind.

What I Knew About My Love?

I knew I would never feel the same again,
Except that I didn't kept a different me,
Only when I understood its not me anymore
What Do I Know About Love?....
It's not the attraction or beauty....
The very look made me on heartbeat....

I never told her....
I know she knows that too....
What I Knew About My Love?
What I Knew About My Love?

Mother's Love

Mother's Love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems . . .
It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendoured miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God’s tender guiding hand.

the love of my life.. the love that I need

Like all the people... let me reframe..
Like most of the people I too have many frnds,
But of all those I have, theres one the best and closest,
She never makes me feel alone, and never lets me feel bad,
Anytime I felt sad or any toughtime were around,
she used say dont wory I'm with you,
and all the pain felt like just blown away,
sometimes even when I was in between many people around,
I felt like she was the only one beside me.
Slowly I learnt, she also had many other friends
she is always looking for a friend,
she found me once and been around since then.
she never waits by the door, just sweeps right through
and will never be ignored...
the love of my life.. the love that I need,
the love that say is in life for free,
the love of my dreams.. the love that I want
people name her Loneliness..

How she knows you love her…

How she knows you love her…

A man wakes up with a big hangover the morning after attending his company’s annual Summer Party. He can’t even remember how he got home from the party let alone how he got so drunk and is deathly afraid of what he may have done or said the night before to offend his wife.

The man forces his eyes open, however, and the first things he sees are two headache tablets next to a glass of water on his night table, and, next to them, a single red rose! He sits up with difficulty and sees his clothing hung on the back of his chair all clean and pressed and the rest of the house all spic and span and in perfect order.

Incredulous, the man takes the tablets, then winces when he sees a nasty black eye looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. Then he finds a note next to the red rose on the night table: “Sweetie, breakfast is waiting for you on the stove. I left early to buy the ingredients to make your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! The note was signed, “Your loving wife”.

The man then stumbles into the kitchen and incredibly enough, there is a hot breakfast waiting for him along with steaming hot tea, and the morning paper. His daughter Jessie is also at the table, eating. “Jess… what happened last night?” The man asks, with some trepidation.

“Well, you came home around four o’clock in the morning, drunk and out of your senses. You tripped and fell onto the coffee table and broke it, and then you vomited all over the bathroom floor, and got this black eye when you crashed into the table edge.”

Baffled, the man asked Jessie, “Then why is everything in such perfect shape and so clean? Why is there a rose on my nightstand, and breakfast on the stove waiting for me?”

“Oh that, Jessie replies, “Well, Mom pulled you into your bedroom, and when she tried to undress you, you yelled, “Leave me alone, I’m married and I love my wife!’” :) :)

life's been passing by

Feels like my life's been passing by
With happiness just bein' a lie
How did I get here, where am I going?
One more day without knowing
Struggling for one more breath
As I'm drowning in a painful death
Can someone reach out for me?
In this dark and dreary sea

'Cause it seems like no one can
Hear the voice that's calling
Try to take the most I can stand
But I keep falling

I try to chase the memories away
But they haunt me everyday
I hope I get over this phase
'Cause I'm stuck inside this haze
All I need is a simple lift
Such a sweet and precious gift
So I don't lose it all before
What I have left is nothing more

In my isolating misery
I feel like the epitome
Of darkness and despair
Just leading onto nowhere
Will I be able to win this race?
I'm runnin' at a slow pace
Trying hard to press on
But the motivation's gone

'Cause it seems like no one can
Hear the voice that's calling
Try to take the most I can stand
But I keep falling

I try to chase the memories away
But they haunt me everyday
I hope I get over this phase
'Cause I'm stuck inside this haze
All I need is a simple lift
Such a sweet and precious gift
So I don't lose it all before
What I have left is nothing more

It may not have to be this way
Waiting for me they could be a new day
Maybe I can revise
And escape from the lies

I try to chase the memories away
But they haunt me everyday
I hope I get over this phase
'Cause I'm stuck inside this haze
All I need is a simple lift
Such a sweet and precious gift
So I don't lose it all before
What I have left is nothing more

There could be something more
To what my life may have in store
I'll move from where I began
Keep on pressing through to the end

Dont give up on me babY,

Dont give up on me baby,
Dont make the wrong seem write.
Its written in the moonlight,
Painted on the stars.
We cant change ours!

Dont give up on me baby,
Lord knows we've come this far.
The angel and the dreamer,
Who sometimes plays the fool!
Dont give up on me i no
We can still pull through!

Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders

Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me
Cus sometimes it feels like the world's almost over

People make jokes,
coz they don't understand me
They just don’t see my real side
I act like shit don’t phase me,
Inside it drives me crazy!
My insecurities could eat me alive

Some days i sit, starin' out the window
Watchin' this world pass me by
Sometimes i think there’s nothing to live for
I almost break down and cry
Sometimes i think i'm crazy
I'm crazy, oh so crazy!
Why am i here? am i just wastin' my time?

Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me
Cus sometimes it feels like the world's almost over

82nd Oscar Nominations Out ---- 2009

Performance by an actor in a leading role

    * Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)

    * George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)

    * Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company)

    * Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)

    * Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    * Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
    * Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
    * Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
    * Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

    * Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
    * Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
    * Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)


Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    * Penélope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
    * Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
    * Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
    * Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
    * Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year


      *"Coraline" (Focus Features)    Henry Selick
      *"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox)    Wes Anderson
      *"The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)    John Musker and Ron Clements
      *"The Secret of Kells" (GKIDS)    Tomm Moore
      *"Up" (Walt Disney)    Pete Docter

Achievement in art direction

      *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
      *"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
      *"Nine" (The Weinstein Company)    Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
      *"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.)    Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
      *"The Young Victoria" (Apparition)    Art Direction: Patrice Vermette Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Achievement in cinematography

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Mauro Fiore
    *"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.)    Bruno Delbonnel
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Barry Ackroyd
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Robert Richardson
    *"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Christian Berger

Achievement in costume design

    *"Bright Star" (Apparition)    Janet Patterson
    *"Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Catherine Leterrier
    *"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Monique Prudhomme
    *"Nine" (The Weinstein Company)    Colleen Atwood
    *"The Young Victoria" (Apparition)    Sandy Powell

Achievement in directing

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    James Cameron
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Kathryn Bigelow
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Quentin Tarantino
    *"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)    Lee Daniels
    *"Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)    Jason Reitman

Best documentary feature

    *"Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope) A Magic Hour Films Production    Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
    *"The Cove" (Roadside Attractions) An Oceanic Preservation Society Production   
    *"Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures) A Robert Kenner Films Production    Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
    *"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" A Kovno Communications Production    Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
    *"Which Way Home" A Mr. Mudd Production    Rebecca Cammisa

Best documentary short subject

    *"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" A Downtown Community Television Center Production    Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
    *"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" A Just Media Production    Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
    *"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" A Community Media Production    Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
    *"Music by Prudence" An iThemba Production    Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
    *"Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution) An MS Films Production    Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Achievement in film editing

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
    *"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)    Julian Clarke
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Sally Menke
    *"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)    Joe Klotz

Best foreign language film of the year

    *"Ajami"(Kino International) An Inosan Production    Israel
    *"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production    Argentina
    *"The Milk of Sorrow" A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production    Peru
    *"Un Prophète" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production    France
    *"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production    Germany

Achievement in makeup

    *"Il Divo" (MPI Media Group through Music Box)    Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
    *"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)    Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
    *"The Young Victoria" (Apparition)    Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    James Horner
    *"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox)    Alexandre Desplat
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
    *"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.)    Hans Zimmer
    *"Up" (Walt Disney)    Michael Giacchino

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

    *"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)    Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
    *"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)    Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
    *"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
    *"Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)    Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
    *"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)    Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year

    *"Avatar" (20th Century) A Lightstorm Entertainment Production    James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
    *"The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.) An Alcon Entertainment Production    Nominees to be determined
    *"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production    Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
    *"An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production    Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production    Nominees to be determined
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production    Lawrence Bender, Producer
    *"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production    Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
    *"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production    Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
    *"Up" (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production    Jonas Rivera, Producer
    *"Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) A Montecito Picture Company Production    Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Best animated short film

    *"French Roast" A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production    Fabrice O. Joubert
    *"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Brown Bag Films) A Brown Bag Films Production    Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
    *"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)" A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production    Javier Recio Gracia
    *"Logorama" (Autour de Minuit) An Autour de Minuit Production    Nicolas Schmerkin
    *"A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations) An Aardman Animations Production    Nick Park

Best live action short film

    *"The Door" (Network Ireland Television) An Octagon Films Production    Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
    *"Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute) A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production    Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
    *"Kavi" A Gregg Helvey Production    Gregg Helvey
    *"Miracle Fish" (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production    Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
    *"The New Tenants" A Park Pictures and M & M Production    Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Achievement in sound editing

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Paul N.J. Ottosson
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Wylie Stateman
    *"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)    Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
    *"Up" (Walt Disney)    Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Achievement in sound mixing

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
    *"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)    Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
    *"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount)    Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson


Achievement in visual effects

    *"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)    Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
    *"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)    Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
    *"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)    Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Adapted screenplay

    *"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)    Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
    *"An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)    Screenplay by Nick Hornby
    *"In the Loop" (IFC Films)    Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
    *"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)    Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
    *"Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)    Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Original screenplay

    *"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)    Written by Mark Boal
    *"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)    Written by Quentin Tarantino
    *"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)    Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
    *"A Serious Man" (Focus Features)    Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
    *"Up" (Walt Disney)    Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy