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 ;)

BEST OF DILBERT

I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM.

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to
myself, "where the heck is the ceiling?"

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier.

A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the butt.

If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

When everything is coming your way......you're in the wrong lane.

And my favorite one is.......

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.

STICK FIGHTER GAME !!

This one is a super awesome game!! just amazing fun. I spent hours playin this one.

Enjoy maadi

PLAY GAME

AWESOME ANIMATED GAME

THIS is awesome....take some time to look at the sketches as well. Click on GAME to play !!

A BALL GAME YOU ALL WILL ENJOY

If you are wondering where i get these sites that I have been recently uploading, Stop wondering and just enjoy this game!!

GO TO THE GAME

TRY TO GET OUT OF THIS ROOM !!

You are in a ROOM. Try and Find a way out. Its nice.
ENTER THE ROOM

Last book I read:"WIT'CH FIRE"- John Clemens

Genre: Fantasy

I liked this one....this book is the first book in the series of the "The Banned and the Banished". Like the tradition....the first book normally starts with a legion being formed. (Remember "Lord of the rings:Fellowship of the rings"? where a group/fellowship is formed to protect the ring).....so too in this novel. A legion/group is formed to protect "Elena" the little girl who wields "Magick". The Legion consists of "TolChuk" an Ogre. "Meric" an Elvin. "Neelahn" a Tree nymph. "Kral" an axe wielding mountain man. "Mogweed" and "Fardale" both Silura or ShapeShifters. "Erril" a mighty one armed warrior destined to protect "Elena" from the Dark Lord of GulGotha. And so the journey of magick begins in "Wit'chFire".

World of books

Its a beautiful place....no matter how tensed or sad I am. When I immerse myself in a book its like being transported to a whole new world. I momentarily forget the real world and just enjoy travelling through the story with the characters. I am sure my fellow travellers in the world of books experience the same. Its much better than watchin a movie !!Reading a book is the most beautiful addiction.

My favorite characters in movies

1. Rajesh Khanna in "Anand"(Joy)
2. Johnny Depp in "Edward Scissorhands"
3. Sean Penn in "I am Sam"
4. The Kid in "Bad Santa"
5. Maria Tomsei in "My cousin Vinny"
6. Tom Hanks "Forrest Gump"
7. Anant Nag in "Beladingala Baley" (Moonlight Maiden)
8. Nicole Kidman in "The Others"
9. Mel Gibson in "Payback"
10. Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs"

These were my favorite......do post in your favorite characters.

I am Sam V/S Main Aisa Kyon Hoon

Pathetic actor Ajay Devgan is attempting Sean Penn's role as a mentally retarted father trying to win back the custody of his daughter after his wife deserts him in " Main Aisa Kyon Hoon" all I can say is "yeh hindi movies Aise kyon Hain?"....I dont understand why these Film makers have to get "inspired" by hollywood movies. Sean Penn's Character in "I am Sam" was easily one of the best performances by an actor. Ajay Devgan will make a fool of himself on the silver screen.

TITANIC in 30 Seconds

Now isnt this interesting?
The Bunnies look very funny