Musings of an Idiot

Netball, Biking & Rain

‘Memories’ has just been officially selected to screen at Zion Independent Film Festival in Utah and is in the feature competition category. I am thrilled to pieces about it as that’s its fifth film festival selection. I will also be doing a phone interview with a website called In the Q – which they will podcast across to their subscribers. That should be an interesting one.

The past 2 days have been windy, stormy and rainy days, with gale force winds slamming the city and the temperature dropping steeply. I started off Sunday by going to the Hedgehog – the bike shop where I got my accessories from and the main guy at the shop heard my problem with the combination lock and promptly fixed the problem by getting to my scrambled lock code and resetting it. It really was amazing as it took him less than 2 minutes to break the code. The scary thing was that there was a 8 year old kid in the shop, who was shopping around for a bike and he volunteered to help break the code – his precise words were “I know how to do it. Can I do it?” Obviously the shop owner did not think that suitable and did it himself.

We had a change in fortunes in our netball league matches and managed to win our first match in the second round. It was a thrilling and exciting match, which we won by 23-20. You can imagine how close it was when you read that we were 20-20 with less than 1 and half minutes of game remaining.

It was sunny for a while, so I thought it would be a great idea to try out the bike and ride to the bike shop again to get the front mud guard fixed. I still can’t get my head around the 21 gears and their usage – maybe I will get a hang of them with use. The friendly sales guy at the bikeshop tried fixing the front mud guard but it was not to be as there seemed to be some problem in the sizes of the frame and the nuts but he ended up having a quick look over my assembly and corrected the brakes, the handle bar and front wheel.

I took a long route back home and the weather changed suddenly and it was incredibly tough riding the bike – I had to stop completely for almost 10 minutes as the winds just reached a forceful level. I also managed to loose my rear mud guard somewhere, so I guess I will be riding the bike without the mud guards. Benji rightly said in one of his emails, you start looking at hills in a completely different light –depending which side of the hill you are on and I have to say I wholly endorse that statement, especially after riding through wind and rain.

I missed the advance sneak peek of ‘Serenity’ – I logged onto Village cinemas website to see when the movie was getting released and I found a session time for today. Tried booking a couple of tickets but it was sold out. Damn!!!! Now have to wait till mid-November to watch the movie.

We lost our netball game tonight. Another thrilling game but we were slightly outplayed. The score stood at 38-25 but it does not tell how much of a fight the game was. Lance lent me one of his digital cameras and now I can get back to snapping away pics randomly as well as with a purpose. So you should be seeing more of them in the coming days and months.

The weather doesn’t look too great till Friday – which means I can’t bike to work till I get myself some wet weather gear. It is still raining outside and it is like winters again - freezing. I am off to bed for now.

Amit

posted by Amit @ 10:45 PM