Prison Break makes you an addict. You can’t wait to watch the next episode on TV. Your eyes might be dead and tired watching the episodes back to back (I got it downloaded from the Net), but your motivation to keep watching it is so high that your eyes can’t do a thing about it. [...]
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Posted in Books, tagged , Books, expats, foreigners, Gregory David Roberts, India, NASA, Ratan Tata, Sania Mirza, self-help, Shantaram, Shilpa Shetty, Vikas Swarup, Yann Martel on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
India is shining indeed. After much auctioning, the Tatas took over Corus and became the fifth largest steel maker in the world and only the second in Europe after NRI Lakshmi Mittal’s company. And then, you have Shilpa Shetty’s victory over alleged racism on a TV show that got her Rs 86 crore in endorsement [...]
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For once, I didn’t see actors as actors but as characters. Thank you, Chak De! For once, I thought sports can go beyond cricket. And for once, I thought Chak De delivers the message that most other films try to but fail miserably. Director Shimit Amin has done his best to get the best out [...]
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Prior to 2004, remembering dreams had become a long-forgotten art for me. Either I was having dreamless nights or my dreams were so inconsequential that they never rose to the conscious level and nudged me into remembrance.
Just when I resigned myself to more dreamless nights, the reigning Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan came along. No, [...]
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Posted in Software, tagged Allah, Bangalore, cricket, Dr Love, India, Iran, Iraq, Karnataka, Kuwait, love calculator, Pakistan, Windows 95 Freeware, Zahid H Javali on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
When I am unsure, when I need to decide, when I need to read someone’s mind, I consult Dr Love. Nah, it’s no shrink out to rip me off in my hour of need.
It’s a Windows 95 freeware that throws up startling facts about interpersonal relationships, and it’s all in percentages. I might not take [...]
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Posted in General, tagged asterix, asterix786, Bangalore, blogger, blogging, India, journalist, photographer, Word Press, writer on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
After my friend recommended that Word Press is the best place to blog, i have moved bag and baggage out here… yes, i am going to transfer all that i had written in my earlier blog out here… one by one… so everyone thinks i hav been updating almost every day…
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