Sunday, March 7, 2010

Not so boring weekend!

To get rid of the sever boredom during weekend, I tried FarmVille in Facebook. I was never used to such stuffs like farmville, mafia, cafe world etc in facebook. But this weekend I joined farmville just to keep myself busy in something. Farming is not interesting at all, but at least I could spend the day by doing various things there. The most boring part of farmville is that it takes a long time for the crops to grow. Strawberry takes least time which is four hours. I don't think would be playing this on weekdays, but will return to the farm on weekends for sure when I don't have much options left.
Last night I watched Invictus by Clint Eastwood starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon. It was really nice. Although Matt Damon did a good job, I would give all the credits to Mr Freeman. He played the role of Nelson Mandela in the best way one can think of. It was nice to see how a simple rugby match brought a unbelievable and much needed change to the entire nation., ending the tension between black and white to a great extent. I would always recall one scene from the movie: while the final match of rugby world cup between South Africa and New Zealand was going on, some cops(white people) were listening to live updates in radio outside the stadium. One black kid (who looked like a beggar) came near them to listen to the radio, initially the cops scolded him asking him to go away. But as the match became more interesting with South Africa playing in a level much above the expectations, the cops hardly paid attention from the black kid. During the latter part of the match, the kid was sitting on the bonnet of the cops car and both the cops and the kid were cheering together. In the end when South Africa won the match, the cops were lifting and hugging the kid...it was really amazing. It seems Mandela could foresee this happening, that's why he gave so much importance to rugby during the time when the country needed much more attention from the president towards some other areas like law and order, poverty etc.

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