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Bon Jovi Concert, 1st ODI double century by Tendulkar and more

Last month (Feb 22, 2010 Monday to be precise) we went to see the live concert of Bon Jovi in San Jose. With me there were Shusmita, Shahriar, Nodee and Amin as we dropped Ahyan to Wali Bhai/Asha Vabi's house. Shusmita was interested when she heard about Bon Jovi and although I am in now way fac of English music except Michael Jackson and Hip Hop songs like 50 Cents, I agreed to the costly tickets of HP Pavilion in San Jose. We came back from office early that night and was on time at the stadium. I was understanding very well how good Bon Jovi was handling the crowd and making them stand on their feet. He has so many good songs although more than half of those I probably never heard. I enjoyed the show and his performance. So our next target in this line will be Black Eyed Peas (Ahyan's favorite) and Bryan Adams (Shusmita's favorite). While last few months were great for me cricket wise as I was able to watch online several  Bangladesh and Sachin Tendulkar cricket game...

Sachin Wins 1st Test Against Chennai Chasing 387 with unbeaten century

I followed most of the first test and almost all of the fifth day's magical chase of Tendulkar winning the test against England in Chennai with a fine 103 not out. It was a dream come true for me like many others to see Sachin in this perfect role . Read the details here - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current/story/382035.html There are so many good batting points he wrote besides his yesterday and one of those are his 3rd fourth innings century where he is ahead of Lara, equal to Bradman but behind Pointing yet. Last year, Tendulkar made a fourth innings half-century (56*) to defeat Pakistan as I observed that with intense as well like this time as I knew Tendulkar has a poor fourth innings record compared to Ponting or Gavaskar (and almost same as Lara). Not to the same scale worthy of mentioning that amongst all his fourth innings Tendulkar had 36* not out chasing 184 against Zimbabwe in 2001 and 32 * not out chasing 123 against South Africa in 2004. H...