Awesome Movies

This weekend I was lucky enough to have time to grab two movies that I have wanted to watch all along....
The Shawshank Redemption and Italian Job.
All I can say is that Shawshank Redemption is one of the most powerful movie I have ever watched. Its absolutely brilliant, no wonder IMDB rates it the 2nd best movie ever made !!
Italian Job is awesome too, but compared to Shawshank Redemption not much.
Both movies are must watch.

No Payne, No Gain.

Some of my Favorite Max Payne Dialogues are....

B.B.: You can't win this one, Max.
Max Payne: Maybe, but I can make damn sure none of you do either

Max Payne: You'd find lady luck was a hooker and you were all out of money.

Max Payne: [narrating] The cardinal rule in going after someone with an intention to kill was no to make it personal... Which it almost always ended up being anyway. It did with me.

Max Payne: When darkness fell, New York City became something else. Bad things happen in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City.

Max Payne: They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over.

The Best drink !!

H₂O Rocks

Somethin that made me go hmmmm.....

"Human beings have intrinsic value, not just instrumental value", so though symbiotic relationships go a long way, I figure that just calling a person your friend bcos he/she will help you in acheiving an end sucks big time.

unfortunately see many people around who seem to be in 'use and throw' relationships, Losers!!

And I wonder...

I wonder How,
I wonder Why,
Yesterday you told me 'bout the Blue blue Sky,
But all that I can see
Is just another Lemon Tree !!

Something new...

I am attempting to create my own Blog template.... started by changing(temporarily) the Black Background to Dark Grey....do give me feedback on whether the present Grey is good or the original black was better, I am in two minds.

THE ROAD TRIP !!

Well, the gang went on a crazy road trip on Sunday......It was tiring but there were moments of fun as well (as you can see from the snap). Ended the day with a game of cricket and some fun filled carrom, Now thats wat I call the perfect way to spend a sunday !!

To Sir, With Love

Oh.....I recommend this book, definite must read. The different emotions this book takes you through is amazin. I had a lesson of about 4 pages back in school about this book, however it was in a condensed form(obviously).

I have a copy of it, so you can borrow it from me.

Now that i have read the book, I so do wanna watch the Movie starring Sidney Poitier.

Shakespeare in Love

This is a real nice movie...the humor is simply amazing but the best part was this dialogue....something that Ihave been following as one of my life's philosophy's, I was surprised to see it in this movie and that too put in an amazing way....Here it is

Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?
Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
Hugh Fennyman: How?
Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.

Software Usability

Basically this means developing software that is user friendly. Now using this need not be limited to High end or huge Software projects. We can use them in our blog pages etc

Check out this wonderful link for stuff on making web pages userfriendly

I Recommend

This week I recommend

Watch movie = "Bad Santa"
Song = "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones

Read 200 newspapers from over 55 countries

Yeah....visit this place and you can read lots of newspapers from 55 countries....its really awesome. For news and views click HERE

Blossoms

"Blossoms" is a wonderful bookshop on church street opposite "Amoeba". Its a great place to spend hours amongst books....all kinds of books. The best part is they are second hand, this means that one can buy more books for a given budget. Give it a try.

I just Finished reading
"Fevre Dream" by George Martin and
"Wheels" by Arthur Hailey

Presently reading
"Detective"By Arthur Hailey

To read next...
"To Sir, With Love" By E.R. Braithewaite

Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas

Every revolutionary idea -- in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever -- evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases:
"It is completely impossible -- don't waste my time."
"It is possible, but it is not worth doing."
"I said it was a good idea all along."

I just found a place where all of Murphy's laws reside...Click on LAWS to go and Enjoy maadi

Golden Palms

A weekend spent at the Golden Palms has ironically left me exhausted for the remaining week.....were'nt weekends away supposed to rejuvenate one?? The place is wonderful....just breathtaking. The best part being the pool....easily the largest pool I have been in. And what is it that got me so exhausted.....3 hours on the dance floor, lots of snooker, a very tiring game of cricket(played after a long time), lots of table tennis and last but not the least the best part of all an awesome game of waterpolo that lasted 2 full hours....whew !!

The Rain God's smile

Sitting by the huge windows of my office on the 6th floor of Diamond District overlooking a busy Airport road has been a fond pastime of mine, the vehicles that line up at the signal actually look like the bricks falling into slots like in those hand held videogames that were the rage when I was back in the tenth standard.

Today is special as its been raining heavily!! With a steaming cup of coffee in my hand I spent 15-20mins just looking at the rain drenched city below, wonderful, the only thing missing was soft Kishore Kumar songs playing in the background.

Thoughroughly enjoyable...It does'nt rain here, it comes pouring down !!

QUOTE

TO DREAM ABOUT THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE IS WASTING OF THE PERSON YOU ARE !!

Talk the YODA way !!

There are two reasons why i am attracted to the StarWars series of movies.....

REASON ONE

The Light Saber: Awesome piece of weaponary...the sound it makes "Voom Voom",psychedellic

REASON TWO

YODA TALK: The manner in Which Master Yoda speaks is amazin, the use of predicate before the subject is my favorite. Been trying to speak like that, I am. Much to the irritation of my friends.

I believe that in a 2001 census in NewZealand.......5% of the population put down their religion as "Jedi"....Now that is what i call a cult.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT: This happened to me, promise.

The occurence of this event yesterday, that is on thursday the 19th left me flabbergasted......never have I witnessed such an event before....nor did i think that i was blessed enuf to witness an event of this magnitude !!

There were 5 of us....3 Indians and 2 Firangs, We were waitin for a rick to take us to some Godforsaken place on the outskirts of Whitefield(which in itself is an outskirt).

Most of the Autos that we approached, demanded double fare, however One auto dude (Auto raja in local lingo) agreed to take us to the place, he said he would take all 5 of us for 1.5 times the fare!! so we stuffed ourselves in the confines of the auto and reached our destination after a very bumpy 30 minute ride.

The meter showed 45 rupees, however we guyz were feeling very generous and decided to pay the guy 90 rupees: double the fare.

And here comes the bombshell....the guy REFUSED!! he said that he would not take a rupee over the initially decided amount of 1.5 X 45 = 68 rupees!!

We tried our best to convince him to take 90 rupees and he just refused. finally anti-bargained and reached a amount of 70rupees which he accepted.

NOW HAVE YOU BEEN IN OR HEARD OF SUCH A SITUATION BEFORE??

Kannada Class

Guess what?........(your response: What?)

I am teaching Kannada at office and its fun !!........We are such a diverse group. We have Australians, Canadians, ppl from UK (english), Americans, Mumbaites, ppl from Pune (also called Punekars), ppl from Tamilnadu etc.

MISSION: To learn kannada.

I found some material and gladly took the opportunity to give whatever little gyan I have regarding the language to the gang!!

Its fun to teach such an enthusiastic and bright set of people. And no I am not taking this as an opportunity to teach them any slang ;)