To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Movies

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

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 :)

Buying a Wii

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

For amateur astronomers...

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

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!!

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

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

The one with Katrina Kaif

Rajasthani background

Pain of writing self-review

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 :(