March 2009
1. World's Greatest Shave.
The World's Greatest Shave is a fundraising event held every year to raise funds for The Leukaemia Foundation, who provide support for those with leukaemia and blood diseases and their families. People joining in the World's Greatest Shave can choose to shave their hair off, or take the less extreme step of dying their hair.
In 2009, I joined in for the first time by shaving my head. I went down to a number three, with a kickass mullet on the way. I was pleased to discover that I don't have a badly shaped head for being largely bald - just really very round, like a bowling ball.
Check out my sister's photos of the event on her (poorly updated) blog.
2. Watchmen released in cinemas.
Though it largely got a bit of a pasting from critics, I thought Watchmen was brilliant. One of the chief criticisms of it was that it was too faithful to the text, which was what I found so good about it. As far as I'm concerned, the comic is pretty much perfection - so why would you want to mess with that? The movie beautifully augments the comic, adding the extra dimension of the visuals changing within the frame.
The one beef I have with the film was the casting of Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, which was both awful and thrown into even starker relief against the fact that the rest of the casting was perfection itself - better than any other adaptation I've seen.
3. Shooting attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
Pakistan's status as a venue for international cricket was thrown into even further jeopardy after 12 gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan's team bus and a minivan travelling behind the bus carrying several officials, including the match umpires. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed in the attack, which also injured several of the Sri Lankan players and caused the tour to be abandoned.
Australia and New Zealand both played Pakistan in 2009, but in the neutral territory of the United Arab Emirates. And Pakistan had been due to host some of the matches in the 2011 World Cup, which the ICC removed and redistributed amongst the other co-hosts, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh after an unsuccesssful attempt by Pakistan to convince the ICC to hold these matches in the UAE. This has led to serious concerns for the future of cricket in Pakistan. Will the team always have to be abroad? Could a permanent venue for the team's "home" games be made in an a neutral location?
Whichever way, it's very sad to see terrorism once again rearing its ugly head to spoil things that people should be able to enjoy.
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