Abdul Razzaq!

I was walking along the Argyle street in Glasgow city center today and I saw this man walking in the opposite direction. I walked past him thinking to myself it has to be Abdul Razzaq, I then decided to go back and talk to him. I walked back and stopped the two guys, then to ensure myself, I checked with him if he was Abdul Razzaq. He was Abdul Razzaq and I told the other gentlmen with Abdul I cannot recognise him. He mentioned he was no cricketer so that is ok. I then asked Abdul he was holidaying, he said no and he has come to play for a match. The guy next to him mentioned "Kya yaar, India Pakistan ka match hai, kya cricket fan ho". I then suddenly realised there is a friendly match in Glasgow on 3rd July. I told Adbul, I haven't got a pen otherwise I would have definitely taken his autograph and that it was nice to meet to him.

After I left the place, I was thinking "oh no, I should have taken a picture with him using my mobile". Nevertheless, I was happy to meet this great Pakistan cricketer and he seemed to be a really humble person.

I was then walking along the steet thinking if I am lucky I might be meeting some other cricketer. But that didn't happen!

Mungaru Male

Watch the melodious song from latest Kannada movie, "Mungaru Male". All the songs are really nice and this one is my favourite. Sonu Nigam has sung the song very well, it is amazing how these singers manage to pronounce all the words right without knowing the language!

The movie was recently played in London, Bristol and few other cities in UK. I heard this is the first Kannada movie to make it to European cinemas and that is some record with the latest Kannada movies.

If you are a kannadiga, you would probably have listened to this song by now. But I am sure it is worth a watch again.

Pay as you waste!

If you think you are already paying enough council tax then you have to see this news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5074558.stm

We could soon be charged based on the amount of waste we are throwing away in the bins. This is a new measure to encourage people to recycle more stuff instead of throwing away everything in the bins. It has been tried in Austria and it has produced some good results. There is also a concern that land fill sites are getting filled up. There were also worries that people could dump their waste into some one elses bins to reduce their charges...that will be interesting!

While it might be a good idea to encourage people to recycle, I don't think there are very good recycle facilities at the moment at all places. I stay in an apartment right now and I can't recycle things as there is no separate bin for recycling. If I have to recycle then I have to take the stuff and put it in the specific bins near Tesco that go to for weekly shopping. I have been trying to do that regularly these days. I guess I am getting used to recycling already :)