::Simply life

To Kill a Mockingbird

2008-05-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

Best book I ever read.
Love the characters of Finch family...

Movies

2008-05-20T23:26:00.000-07:00

Well... too busy to blog these days... but I thought why not simply keep track of movies that I saw and just add one line review...

IronMan- good (fancy robots and gripping screenplay).
Illusionist- good (Edward Norton's acting & interesing story).

Indian Jones IV- average (no story & old Harrsion Ford :( )

Good Riddance

2008-04-29T10:50:00.000-07:00

I have had a laptop that came with Vista installed. After being lazy for an year, I finally got to nuke the crap out of it, and install XP...

And I'm so glad I did... I can feel the power for 2 GB RAM... I can use my webcam... I can watch my divx dvds... I can use VPN....I can just use it...
Good riddance!!

Funny robbing commercial :)

2007-12-26T18:30:00.000-08:00

Buying a Wii

2007-12-17T21:26:00.001-08:00

I am walking in a store... this is what I was thinking... Too bad I'm not going anywhere for holidays and most of my friends will be out of town...
Can I go somewhere not paying fortune over tickets.. nah... does not seem to be possible. Oh well.... what's that? an advertisement for "Nintendo Wii for $250 limited stock on hand"...
I don't play video games much... let me find out... store employee says they don't have any in the stock but might get some on Friday morning. That's too much I think.. it's easier to buy online.
I come home and search online for Wii.. it is not available anymore.. not for affordable prices anyway... Let me get up at 7am on Friday and give a shot.
I get up and call store...
Me: Did you get any Wii's?
Response: Yes we got some but they're all gone.
Another store.. same response... and another.. same response.

Well, let me give a last shot- call one last shop. The answer there is "yes sir, we've few". Five minutes later, I'm in the shop. And five more minutes, I'm a proud and happy Wii owner.... something to cheer about finally:)

Extremes of evolution: Pistol shrimp

2007-11-11T09:44:00.000-08:00

I just saw this on Discovery and I cannot believe that a shrimp just a few inches long can produce a bubble that can burst at solar temperature...

Cheetos

2007-10-29T17:29:00.000-07:00

Whenever I was hungry late after the noon at office, one thing that I liked to buy from vending machine without thinking was Cheetos- hot and crunchy version

Today when I walked to the same old vending machine, I found baked and lifeless version of Cheetos (with flashing words "fewer calories and less fat") replacing my favortie snack at the office and hidden ... world is getting filled with those diet-minded idiots... hmm life sucks....

Amazing football play

2007-10-27T22:49:00.001-07:00

This is last 2 seconds from a Devision-2 game between two unknown small colleges. But the play is unbelievable. Tigers did 14 laterals in alst 2 seconds to win the game...

Colts will beat Pats

2007-10-22T22:56:00.000-07:00

Colts just beat Jags and are 6-0 and Pats are 7-0...
Two great teams... but only one can stay so after Nov 4th.
My pick: Colts!

Real life James Bond... from Russia

2007-09-25T23:48:00.000-07:00

This is crazy news... a teenage boy has somehow survived a two-hour flight clinging to the wing of a Boeing 737.

Here is the link.

One dream fulfilled

2007-09-24T10:50:00.000-07:00

Almost two decades of following cricket hoping that India will do well only to get disappointed time and again...

Finally then comes world 20-20 championship....
Beating England and South Africa to reach semi-finals, and beating Australia in semis and then beating Pakistan in finals...

Phew... one lifelong dream fulfilled....

Birth rate and contrasting rules

2007-09-11T23:16:00.000-07:00

As we've heard over the years, China has been practising one-child policy to keep birth rate low and had success over years.

On the contrary Russia, which has been seeing declining birth rate over decades, now has a new promotion: "Make a baby. Win a car"

Favorite song of the last month

2007-09-11T21:41:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Dhingana, Youtube, TeluguFM, and myriad of websites I can listen to so many songs each day. Of so many songs, somehow few get the most attention that I end up playing the same song in loop all day all week.
And few weeks, another song comes that just flatters me and it's in loop.
Here's my current favorite...
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

Fancy vending machine, traditional wedding, and colorful menu...

2007-09-04T23:59:00.000-07:00

For amateur astronomers...

2007-08-22T22:37:00.000-07:00

Google introduced a way to see and learn a bit about the sky and navigate thru galaxies ... something that can be a good pastime :)

Boring Monday noon

2007-08-20T15:43:00.000-07:00

It is 3 pm on a not very bright Monday...
Tea is not helping much either... time to go back to old games...
Smack the pingu :)

While scoring high is fun, getting the lowest score (of course, higher than zero)is more challenging...

Finally!!

2007-08-06T00:19:00.000-07:00

No melodrama, No crying
No gadgets, No stupidity

One man... haunted by the past... hunting for the beginning
Lot of men... scared by one man... hunting for the man

And after a long time a movie really worh $10 ...
Here is a good scene and the title track...

Been a while

2007-07-18T22:53:00.000-07:00

I can't recall the last time I made a sketch. It makes me happy that the days are brighter and merrier. Though, I still wish I had made couple sketches...
Some old sketch, copied from somewhere...

Couple more Fevicol ads

2007-07-11T23:40:00.000-07:00

The one with Katrina Kaif

Rajasthani background

Pain of writing self-review

2007-06-28T00:19:00.000-07:00

Every six months HR keeps sending reminders- "please remember to submit your self-review". May be it is their job to remind me that I am part of a company not just my team. No matter what and when, I always found it to be a painful experience to review myself.

I'm good at this, I'm not good at that, blah blah blah.... it means nothing in the end anyway. I know what I'm good at and I also know what I'm not so good at; everybody knows, my manager knows too... I'm not sure what to make out of other's comments, if there are any...

No matter what I write or what I babble I'm going to end up with what management wants... then why document all this? Why every six months?

I'm not sure if there will be a change in the system? ever? I wish there was somebody who can write my review as a service ;)
For noew, I guess I've to live with it... and go back to writing my review :(

When you're bored

2007-06-27T22:23:00.000-07:00

For simple timepass... play this
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/1.html

You can search for meaning of words but don't use answers from web search...

China to control Olympics weather

2007-06-19T23:33:00.000-07:00

Apparently China is planning to force rain ahead of Olympics so that they can bring sunshine to the opening ceremony. How I wish they make it easier to afford so we can use it in June here...

From a news article(Link): Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine.

The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the air and ensure clear skies. China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, but whether it works is a matter of debate among scientists.

Fun ideas for a rainy/gloomy day

2007-06-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

So I was thinking what I can do on a gloomy weekend day...
There are couple things like hanging out with friends, doing sketching...
Wondering what else we can do with a group...
Any ideas???

Three little words :)

2007-06-12T21:19:00.000-07:00

Funny quote for today's 70's show:

Fez to Kelso: Kelso, why don't you tell Jackie where you go. That way she can find you when she wants to do it.

Kelso to Fez: Fez, the foundation of a good relationship is three little words: I don't know.

What're you doing? I don't know.

What're you thinking about? I don't know.

Who's that under you? I don't know.

It's bulletproof man.

Corrupt state of Indian legal system...

2007-06-11T22:40:00.000-07:00

An article forwarded by a friend...

Kulkarni, the only remaining witness in the infamous BMW case catches both prosecution and defense lawyers on camera colluding to buy off the witness.

We know it always happens, but when you actually see it, it's even more depressing. The accused, Sanjeev Nanda is the son of a rich arms dealer, who 8 years back, ran over 8 people and killed them driving his BMW.

The video of the expose is on NDTV.

Indian airliners campaign war

2007-05-30T20:55:00.000-07:00

Apparently the hoardings were put up within days of each other- starting with the jet airways hoarding (at the bottom), followed by Kingfisher air hoarding (middle) and finally Go Air following the suite (top) :)

Fear of needles

2007-05-01T22:36:00.000-07:00

Daydreaming at the time of the blood test...

Some things never change

2007-04-30T23:40:00.000-07:00

There were plenty of very nice ads that I saw in India- ranging from LIC to AIG, and from RIN soap to Surf Excel, from thums up to pepsi gold. I just wish somebody will put them up soon on YouTube...

India exited very early from world cup but the faith in the team did not disapper completey yet. Couple of ads showcasing that:

An old woman sketch

2007-03-28T00:27:00.000-07:00

Making of Tom & Jerry

2007-03-22T23:55:00.000-07:00

I was talking to a friend over dinner on how earlier days of animation involved thousands of hand-drawn sketches unlike today's computer generated pictures... how 100s of hours of effort was put into a 5 minute cartoon... so here is what I found on the web.

Every second of finished film consists of 24 frames, requiring 12 to 24 drawings, depending upon the speed of movement - faster movements need more drawings per second, slower moves can be animated with less, with three or even more frames shot of every drawing (from).

And here is a small sketch that I shud have made long back :)

How to play marbles (golis)

2007-03-12T19:19:00.000-07:00

When I was a small boy, I did not play too many sports but one game that I sure did and was good at was playing marbles. There were 2-3 versions of the game that we used play regularly.

Here is one game which I liked and where I won lot of marbles from other players. It can be played with any number of players taking turns but here is the simple two-player version.

First, we etch a rectangle shaped box in the sand(called "the box"), with a readily available wall typically designated as one of the rectangle's edges.
Then, we draw a line, about 8-10 meters from the box, from where players have to shoot the marbles.

A typical round 1:
Player 1 and Player 2 pitch in one marble each.
Player 1 goes first. He throws 2 marbles into the box from the line. Player 2 has to select a marble (lets call taboo marble) which makes it tough for palyer 1 to shoot and hit a goal. Player 1 is now supposed to shoot and hit any marble other than the taboo marble. If he hits, he wins the two marbles. If he fails, the player 2 gets a chance till one of them win...

After this round, second round starts with two marbles each.

Notes: If any of the marbles fall outside the box, player 2 uses his index finger to push the marble into the box. He tries to push it closer to the marbles inside the box so that it'll be difficult for the other player to hit the goal marble.

I always had one or two favorite marbles which I used as shooter marbles. One lucky shooter marble once earned me about 40+ marbles.

If marbles are ever broken, the play is considered dead and it has to be restarted with new marbles.

One Dollar coin

2007-03-07T23:42:00.000-08:00

So, a girl walks up to vending machine with the intention of buying a snack...
'a dollar bill' is inserted in...
'oops! my favorite cookie isnt there' says she...
'return the money' button is hit...
'Ding'- a dollar coin falls down...
'a dollar coin'- it is the first time she is seeing one ...
'...' - I don't know the word for that expression ...
here's my comic sketch for that... :)

My geeky friend

2007-03-07T13:48:00.000-08:00

Talking to a friend...

Me: What's up?
Her: Hi
Me: You look different.
Her: I'm totally blank.
Me: Oh, when are you not?
Her: Really, I feel high...
Me: Hmm?
Her: I went for work-out in the morning... you know lot of exercise makes me high...
Me: (chuckle..)
Her: It's true... exercise releases Endorphin which makes people get high...
I: (faint)....

Can the world get any geekier? :)

For a change

2007-02-21T00:09:00.000-08:00

I copied from c&h...

My first "original" sketch...

2007-02-16T23:01:00.000-08:00

It's a pen-skecth...

A young boy

2007-02-16T00:25:00.000-08:00

in winter....

A view from the flight

2007-02-13T22:12:00.000-08:00

Happy ending

2007-02-04T19:38:00.000-08:00

Colts beat Bears 29-17. What an happy ending to the season...

Well, the season itself did not shape too well for the team I rooted for,Seahawks. A season that started with so many expectations after last year's Seattle's superbowl run... was full of inconsistency... team was all banged up by countless injuries throughout the season... result Seahawks' season ends up with a loss to Bears in sudden-death overtime game 27-24 in divisional playoffs game.

Losing to bears in overtime.... That automatically meant I rooted for any team that was playing Chicago. Chicago plays NO in NFC chamiponship game... To be frank, unlike the rest of the America, I didn't expect New Orleans to beat Chicago in Championship game... and that meant Chicago was in the superbowl.

Meanwhile in AFC, Colts advanced to Superbowlby beating Patriots in a mind-blowing AFC championship game... I was so happy to see that reault itself... as I was rooting for Colts in AFC playoffs...

And that sets up Colts vs Chicago... and today Colts beat Chicago.... After an exhausting football season, I can't easily describe how happy I am for Colts and Manning and of course for my self.... Thank you COLTS! Thank you Manning!

Ending of the season = What am gonna do on Sundays when Sun is hiding?
Maybe more skecthes... :)
Nevertheless a happy ending to the season = I can sleep happily till the new season starts....

Perception of being fat...

2007-01-31T23:47:00.000-08:00

Pepsi & Cadbury ads... from India...

2007-01-30T23:24:00.000-08:00

Salam-E-Ishq

2007-01-28T10:40:00.000-08:00

How come in Bollywood

2007-01-28T10:05:00.000-08:00

Weird things keep happening in the movies, again and again and again...
For all the changes that Indian cinema has been through over few decades, somethings have not changed...

Why do actors suffer from certain types of amnesia where they lose only the memories of their loved ones?
Already through an accident, why are they so careless that they will get into another toward the end of the movie? (Invariably, the memory problems from first one get resolved by the second accident)
Why does heroine suddenly stop wearing makeup, while at the same time she does all other things fine? Why will she be trying to undress in hallway and then close the door on seeing the hero...? (Few drops of glycerin falling and that's it... the girl gets up from bed and ready for another slow song)

And will Vidya Balan ever stop crying????? (Btw, I heard a PrajaShakti rumour that they've shot series of secens with Vidya Balan crying and acting as journalist/radio jackie bla blah... and making use of those secnes in different movies like LRMB, Guru, SEI... ).

I'm a believer

2007-01-28T02:17:00.000-08:00

A very nice song... thanks to A for telling about this one....

Lyrics:
I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
Thats the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams

Then I saw her face
Now Im a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
Im in love
Im a believer
I coundnt leave her if I tried

I thought love was more or less a giving thing
Seems the more I gave the less I got
Whats the use in trying
All you get is pain
When I needed sunshine I got rain

Then I saw her face
Now Im a believer.....

cricket highlights blog

2007-01-21T11:45:00.000-08:00

If you're bored... this one has the highlights of latest matches.
http://cricketvideosunplugged.blogspot.com/

First attempt...

2007-01-19T17:28:00.000-08:00

to draw a cartoon using MSPaint

Now a diet drug for Dogs?

2007-01-16T19:14:00.000-08:00

The world's first weight-loss drug for dogs has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... (news )

WTH- They have a diet drug for dogs now.
Who looked into dogs' minds to read that they are worried about their weight?
Why to feed the dogs so much in the first place anyway?

Sorry chubby, you have to stop dreaming about bones and fatty food. Your friendly humans have decided that they will watch your weight besides theirs.

What is HA4S?

2007-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:00

HA4S (Hungry At 4 pm Syndrome), also known as EHS (Evening Hungry Syndrome) is a tummy infection that lot of indoor workers suffer from on weekdays.

Symptoms:
Stop working around 4 pm.
Start pinging people online to find out tea/evening snacks plans
Important issues at work don't seem important anymore
Start checking in messenger who is still in office.

So, when I discussed this with my friend, he put it in better perspective "well- it is breakfast time in HongKong; if its eating time somewhere, you gotta be hungry" :)

Evolution- part I: The rise of Broccoli

2007-01-03T23:18:00.000-08:00

Some 1000s of years ago, somewhere deep in a European forest...

Centuries later sometime in the 19th century, a fine European gentleman saw that wild by-product and mistook it for something edible...
That moment on, people's lives and eating habits have changed forever...
(Broccoli Saga to be contd...)

Hey

2006-12-31T22:10:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!!!!

What's with the fortune wrapped in cookies?

2006-12-31T00:24:00.000-08:00

I always thought "fortune cookies" were a part of Chinese custom with simple fortune messages.

As if the life is not already complex, even the stupid fortune cookies are becoming complex...
"Seek out the significance of your problem at this time. Try to understand." - What does that mean? I wonder who comes up with these...

A day at Qwest Field

2006-12-26T12:48:00.000-08:00

After a long wait (of 4 seasons in Seattle), got finally two tickets for the last game of the regular season.

The game when Seahawks faced San Diego Chargers was probably not the best time to go as the chances of victory were less than half.

Nevertheless, it was an experience to remember for a long time:

Waiting in huge lines to get into the stadium
Getting a hot cheese pizza after 5 minute wait in the line and finishing it in 60 seconds before the cold windi could cool it down.
Getting seats near mid-field from where I could watch all the action live on the field, and not needing to look at the giant screen....
It was amazing that 1000s of small kids were there all dressed up in Seahawks colors..
Mixing up with Seattle fans in the next seats
Giving high fives each time Seahawks got a first-down
Jumping up and down on each of Seattle touchdown
Shouting constantly at San Diego offense
Nail-biting moments in last five minutes of the game: Can we hold onto the 17-13 lead??
Gasping after the last minute 37-yard touchdown of San Diego
Walking out of the stadium unable to believe what just happened

All in all it was a great experience...

Keeping fingers crossed on what will Seahawks do in Play-offs...

Guru - Barso Re

2006-12-23T11:04:00.000-08:00

Promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM1Nd1VPRxc

And another song from Ash's first movie(in tamil, also directed by Mani).
Doesn't look like she changed much in about a decade :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kt_YUWaJ2Y&mode=related&search=

Blackout

2006-12-21T15:38:00.000-08:00

Last few weeks

2006-12-06T23:28:00.000-08:00

It's been a while after I have blogged. Don't know what happened to all that interest from first two weeks after starting blogging.
Nevertheless, lot has happened in last few weeks...

1. A really fun-filled trip to Vancouver that, to name a few, included

Stay in a five-start waterfront hotel
Looking at tiny cars and crossroads from the hotel room in the 18th floor
Falling asleep looking at city skyline
Waking 2 minutes in the morning to see waterfront
Wondering why the Starbucks girl gave a chai latte with extra syrup when I asked for a simple latte...
Having fun in snow for hours
Cribbing about Seattle rain as soon as Sun is spotted in Vancouver
Asking waiter at the Tropika if water bottle is free of charge
Wondering why there is a flashing green signal in Canada
Buying a jacket on Robson street
Driving an hour to reach Jyothi Sweets, waiting 15 minutes before getting jalebi and chai, and enjoying warm jalebi after years...
Walking on the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge ( it is free :):):))
Clicking and posing forcountless pictures
Remember the honk in front of the hotel.. DCs...

2. A hectic move: Though the new place just 4 houses away from the old one, a move is a move- it is hectic.

3. Getting early morning calls from NOC for three cnescutive days and having to drive to office in the weekend. Spending 400 daytime minutes on office conference calls... By design, LSs...

4. So many movies watched:

'The Prestige' ***
'When a stranger calls' **
'Dhoom 2' **
'Pokiri' **
'Superman returns' **
'Anjali' ****
'Vivah' *
'Roja' ****
'The Departed' ***
'Casion Royale' ***
'Happy Feet' ***
'Cars' ****
I am sure I missed many others...

5. Mixed feelings about Seahawks losses to MIN/KC/SFO, and wins against OAK/STL/DEN.

Paresh rawal in a song

2006-10-25T15:15:00.000-07:00

funny... from Golmaal movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4ePPgLPLU

Don: the chase begins again

2006-10-24T15:36:00.000-07:00

So lot of "critics"(read dumb rediff reviewers) rated the movie as a bad one... but was the movie really that bad?

When I went to see the movie :
1. I wasn't expecting too much new stuff in the movie.
2. I knew it was not made to be sent for oscars or to get lot of critical acclaim...
3. I was just looking for timepass/masala.

What I found/did:
1. The original 'Don' was a movie filled with 'filmy' scenes.. and so was this one.
2. I did not try to compare this one to the original. If somebody really wants to compare heroes and thinks shah rukh is big '-', then priyanka is a big '+'. :)
Remember the first one: When Jasjit(Pran) gets out of the jail, he walks past Deepu & Munni's school; and when Vijay hides in Pran's house, that house is also located in the same gully as the jail.... so jail/house/school all within 100 feet of each other... what a colony.. ekdam filmy :)
And for the latest one: I keep hearing that Shah rukh couldn't act serious like Amitabh.. it is just by design...
My point is: both movies are equally fun... so just stop being a critic and watch it for timepass... and you'll enjoy it.
3. And some really energetic dance numbers- I thought Shah rukh's dance in 'khaike paan bane ras wala' is almost as good as Chiranjeevi's dance :)

What could have been better:
Shah rukh's acting in some patches. To make up for that, he put in so much energy into dances.

And as soon as I can, I want to get a Don kind-of shirt and tie combo, when US retailers start selling my size shirts :)

A sunny day

2006-10-22T23:18:00.000-07:00

A's demand

2006-09-28T22:57:00.000-07:00

Whatever "I have been tagged" means, here are answers as per Arati's demand:

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.
- Sorry I rarely have books around me. I looked 4 sides and there is no book

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
-I can reach wall.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
'seinfeld'

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?
11 pm- Seinfeld ended now, so it gotta be 11.

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
-11.02 pm

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
- clock

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
- Went to get bhindi from shop.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?-
a girl sitting in next sofa...

9. What are you wearing?
t-shirt and jeans...

10. Did you dream last night?
That I was a lion. See how I was to the right :)

11. When did you last laugh?
-Few min back

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Just a clock.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
This idiotic survey...

14. What do you think of this quiz?
- Thinking...

15. What is the last film you saw?
- Kill Bill Vol.II

16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
- I'll think then...

17. Tell me something about you that I dunno.
- I am not sure myself

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
- Next question please

19. Do you like to dance?
-Depends on who is watching

20. George Bush.
- Don't know what the question means?

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
-Beti...

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
-Junior...

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
-maybe

24. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
- I don't have any expectations

25. I am not going to tag anybody.
-Please do not imitate me!!

Tom & Jerry

2006-09-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

Thankfully Cartoon Network has moved "Tom & Jerry" to 8.30 a.m., about the time my alarm goes off. Getting out of sleep, siwtching on tv and start watching Tom&Jerry and start laughing- all happens in next 2 minutes.

Today one of my favorite episodes with Tom, Jerry, Spike(Bulldog) and Tyke(Spike's son) was the first one on air.
One fine day, Spike decides that it is time to teach his son three simple things in life:
1. A dog otta be a man's best friend. Dog has to make all kinds of faces to get a man's attention..dot dot dot
2. Dogs have to find bones and hide them.
Tyke asks why??
Spike says "I don't know, our fathers and grand fathers have done that and we're supposed to do that. Whenever you find a bone, you dig a hole and hide it. That's all".
3. Dogs have to chase cats. So Spike catches Tom-the cat and threatens him that he act scared whenever Tyke bowbows.

How simple is life for cartoons :)

Some funny ads

2006-09-24T23:27:00.000-07:00

Watch them at home!!

http://funnyplace.org/stream.php?id=3047
http://veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=24745
http://veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=24762
http://veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=24916

Why doesn't coffee help during work time???

2006-09-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

Why is that:

Having tea or coffee anytime after 7 pm keeps me awake till 1-2 in the midnight?

And during office hours neither of them help me even completely reading a paragraph. Why? Why? Why?

Why do I feel so sleepy from 3-7 pm?? If this were to be my time to goto bed, I am not sure I can sleep better even in east coast time zone or Carrebian timezone, but maybe in mid-Atlantic timezone ...

Pet aur Dil kush :)

2006-09-12T21:57:00.000-07:00

A long day at work.. finally reaching home tired...
what can make things better more than some nice food and some good movie..

After an hour of effort... nice alu fry, spicy rasam, and papad.. tummy happy :)
Second half of Lagaan, that I did not complete in long weekend, filled with emotions, drama, a nice game of cricket and loads of fun in sinlge movie... oh mera dil kush :):)

Waiting for the Football season to start

2006-09-06T20:27:00.000-07:00

We all love sports- at least most of the sports. I beleive this is true about most of the guys- we all take so much pride and joy in supporting our local teams, let it be our country's cricket team(Indian of course) or our city's NFL team(Go Seahawks!) or our Basketball team(Go Sonics!).

I can't easily put into words how I felt after the Indian loss in the final of World Cup 2003 and unfair loss handed to Seahawks by referees in Super Bowl XL. On both those unfortunate occassions, I felt so terrible that I just could not goto school/office the next day. It literally took days for me to get over that feeling.

And now after a long off-season, when life was filled with tough school and office schedule, and a lovely summer, another season of Football is here and I just hope that Seahawks live upto my expectations. For now, all I wish and hope is Seahawks get the division championoship. Let's see what the season has in store for the hawks.

With all that excitement, I can't wait anymore for the Football Sundays.

GO HAWKS!!

Don - The Chase Begins Again

2006-09-05T21:33:00.000-07:00

After a series of promising teaser promos, finally the music of "Don - The Chase Begins Again" is now on the web. So here go my views:
"Aaj Ki Raat"- Alisha Chinoy, after reviving her singing career with "khajra re", seems to be back in bollywood. The song has nice music.
"Khaike Paan banaraswala" - AFAIK, this probably is the first song where Shahrukh lent his voice and it was not bad. I think it was a good effort by him.
"Main Hoon Don" by Shaan was okay too. It was a plain copy of the old song with some good music.
"Maurya Re"- I personally dislike Shankar Mahadevan, especially singing with high pitch, this one seems to one of those songs where he was not over-excited. The song is just about average.
"Ye Mera Dil"- It might be coincidence or not but somehow I think this song starts with a tone similar to that in"Don't Phunk With My Heart" of Black Eyed Peas. Nevertheless, the song was as good as the original in orginal Don.
What I didn't really like is that the album has 3 instrumentals/remixes, which is boring for me. One of them- "Don revisited" has a new funny and jhinchak line in it: "Don ke dushman ki sabsi badee galathi yeh hain ki woh Don ka dushman hain" :)
Overall, I liked the music, and yes - they're the songs playing in my car deck now.

My first blog

2006-09-05T12:53:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog. So don't have much to write here now...