DELAY' GAMES READY IN A NICK OF TIME
October 4: Hanson Media Group correspondent Leigh Anderson takes his first look at the host city of the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi or, as anyone who has been to the hist city and endured the frustration for more than a day light heartedly calls it - ‘Delay'.
You were never going to need a TAFE diploma in event management to realise when Delhi was named hosts of the 2010 Commonwealth Games it was going to be an organisational challenge of epic proportions.
Don't get me wrong the people here are amazing - they want to help, they want to deliver the best games possible but the level of overcoming political and personal bureaucratic red tape should be a Commonwealth Games event in itself. 
The Delhi Games can best be best described like being handed a pile of IKEA furniture pieces with no instruction manual - no doubt you'll give it your best shot but it's wishful thinking expecting magically to build a fully functional Swedish book cabinet.
Nonetheless the games will go ahead, they will be unorthodox and at times will test the patience of all involved from athletes to street sweepers but one thing is certain they definitely won't be is boring.
So time to face the facts at the S.P. Mukherjee Indoor Swimming Stadium and the issue of the day was that it's hot and hazy
after the boys in charge of the air-conditioning didn't get fed any breakfast.
Hopefully with full stomachs the pool deck protest should cool down prior to competition starting tomorrow, but it goes to show in this town there's never a dull moment and always a classic war story doing the rounds.
From the daily mass mosquito fumigation making the pool deck look more like a scene from Yoda's Dagobah swamp in Star Wars to the ‘Phantom of the Light Bulb' - where randomly a few times throughout the day the lighting system in the pool mysteriously goes down for about 15 seconds.
A sit-com writer would have a field day just walking around with enough material to last a lifetime - and despite it all this place has an aura and a culture about it that makes you smile and just want to keep coming back for more.
That and the Malabar Fish Curry
Random things I didn't know until today...
England has officially ditched ‘God Save the Queen' for their new national anthem labeled ‘Jerusalem' hopefully we don't hear the tune too much on the medal dias.
Norfolk Island have the shortest National Anthem in the Commonwealth at 28 seconds and ironically it's an edited down version of ‘God Save the Queen'
Defending Commonwealth champion, David Davies of Wales is currently ranked 108th in the world in 1500 metres freestyle in 2010 with a time of 15:34.81
Googling Scottish ‘Medley Maestro', Hannah Miley will only swamp you in all things Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus.