a lazy evening!

dear blog

i'm in delhi. Its six pm and quite dark outside. i'm sitting on a bed. two, probably three blankets are strewn over me. my little cousin- B2 is in the room too. His favourite time-pass is football. a football and a wall can keep him busy for hours at stretch!

looking at the ball, i remember the time we(my cousins and i) went to a mall in noida.
B2 wanted to buy a football. after many discussions, arguments, pleadings with his parents, he had finally convinced them that he really needed a branded football. so there we were in a noida mall, entering every adidas, nike, reebok showroom looking for balls.

i'm not so much involved in sports. my only stint with football was when i was the permanent goalkeeper of my colony team in Pune. it was in the mall that i realised how diversified a seemingly simple thing like a football can be! there were some balls for grass terrain and some for 'Indian' terrain. everything of a football can be varied, apart from ,of course,its spherical shape. some balls did not even have trademark hexagonal pieces! different brands also had different 'theme footballs'. they could be anything- a skull painted black ball, a bluish ball with a cool quote, ball of some particular club etc. however the ball which held my attention for the longest time was the one which was claimed to be the replica of the official ball for Euro Cup this year. I think it was at adidas. the ball was said to be specially designed for maximum swing! we all gathered around that ball and touched it in turns. it was a very soft ball. but it was too expensive to even think about buying. then we moved on to another showroom. there, right on entering, a ball caught B2's attention. it was a whitish ball with some red stripes. it was quite a decent ball. B2 bought it quickly.

he couldn't wait to play with it. so, he kept on dribbling it on the way out. it was a long way out from the 4th floor. he just went with his ball everywhere-lifts escalators, stairs... it was when we came out of the mall that his mom took kis ball away, irritated!

now one year has passed. still B2 is before me, playing with the same ball. although he has an exam on monday, he wont leave his ball now. he ahs closed the doors of the soundproof room. so, bhua thinks that he is studying!! just now he asked me what i was doing. when i told him that i'm writing about him, he has got a little self-conscious and is missing every shot, trying to make it perfect!

"way to go, Ronaldo!" i tell him. before he aims for my laptop next, let me post this thing.