Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Kajol as Sita
Hey! Looks like you are a new visitor, you may want to subscribe to my Lens RSS feed. Or my shared links Convex RSSThanks for visiting!My first reaction was “Damn, I can almost imagine Kads weeping through out “.1
Could not resist mailing few pals once I saw this on rediff. Arun replied [...]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
RSS
From
The technical acronym for RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”, an XML format that was created to syndicate news, and be a means to share content on the web. Now, to geeks and techies that means something special, but to everyday folks like you and me, what comes to mind is, “Uh, I don’t get it?” [...]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Translated songs
Oh just our suffer, one Sara waitings
Sun sad comings, is giving man zeal of loves (Kiski Tea)
ae mere humsafar, ik zara intezaar
sun sadaayen, de rahi hain, man-zil pyaar ki
I am not in my own public transport.
Deal is somewhere and I am somwhere.
Coin a stop heart’s Hindi serial
The pickle is gone
ah ah aaa haaa aah [...]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
PKSE,Dor,KKG
Arun @ 70mm :
Pyar Ke Side/ Effects (PKSE) may have ventured into a familiar territory that was explored earlier by Nagesh Kukunoor in Hyderabad Blues -1 & 2 but it still smells oven fresh. Cynics may want to write it off as a wannabe Hollywood movie or the one trying to wander in the lanes [...]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Snake Game
These days I am playing the snake game on my mobile. I knew about it earlier but had never played. Mostly I play it during waiting - for order in hotel, for bus, for someone, whem I am lonely and during other freetime (guess when!). It is a simple game alright, but a small lapse [...]
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Talk during lunch
What do you discuss during lunch time ? (Especially in office..?)
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Kajol doll
From
“I wasn’t sure how the doll would look? Would it be a caricature? Would it look like what I’d want it to look? But when I saw the package I was happy. It wasn’t like someone was making a joke of it,”
I am not sure if the doll looks so good. I would have [...]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Upset!
Greatbong is rightly upset the way India is treated in foriegn media, and more so by the “Indians” themselves.
But what about Indians themselves ? Why do Indians, the moment they write for a foreign media outlet, start pandering to the stereotype rather than trying to puncture it? Why don’t they define their own vocabulary instead [...]
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Ultrarunner
Shruthi writes about the only known Indian ultra marathon runner Arun Kumar Bharadwaj and his comment (which was his bio and a list of achievements) :
Typical training: It varies but normally 160 - 200 km/week. I sleep 4 hours only i.e. 12 mid night to 4 am and one night sleepless per week.
Injury history: None [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Rangan on Naksha and Munna
Naksha
Turns out that pesky inner voice was right – for soon after, there’s a noisy dance number with Ms. Reddy in what looks like a sequined langot, as Mr. Oberoi goads from the sidelines: “Shake what your mama gave you!” Oh, the horror, the horror. And the scene that follows is worse. This performance was [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Passion, talent and excitement….
Everywhere I went looking for passion, talent and excitement I found myself surrounded only by politics that would make a Roman Senator shrivel in fear, and programmers whose only goal in life was to make it from pay check to pay check. Design patterns- what are they? Extreme Programming what? You mean you actually write [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Status Update
How do you update the status :
Like this :
I wanted to build a house. First I bought land. I had some plan. But I was not confident, hired a consultant. He gave me a plan. I worked on the plan. I then went to an Engineer and carpenter. I told my plans. I then bought [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Imaginary blogmeet
Here Too hilarious, if you have been following those bloggers’ blogs.
Samples :
Me: “I’ll be back guys. Gotta go pee.” Comes back in five minutes. “So did I miss anything?”
Bloggerb: “Umm.. not much. Megha got 18 more comments. Manish wrote four posts at UltraBrown, and made 3 releases of RocketPost. Amit made 11 posts on his [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Poem on Lagey raho
By Pleiades. Another post is also thought provoking.
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Lage Raho Munnabhai
What a surprise packet. I hadn’t caught any promotional clips nor had observed the poster carefully and man, I was overwhelmed. Anyone who saw, kept saying, go watch yourself. I will concur that.
Hope you watched. When I had lost all hope on a sequel, after the debacle of the year Phir Hera Pheri, this [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Radio One
5-6 Fm channels in Bangalore, radio scene is great. Was hooked to it for few days when I was there. Particularly liked Radio one. Hit mele hit mele hit mele hit Actually they do play wonderful Kannada songs. And alternate soulful Kannada and Hindi songs is just right recipe for a person like me.
A [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Kank, Srk, Godzilla
Here is one of the purest of all love stories, and we are privileged to be alive to see it unfolding before our eyes, in air-conditioned multiplexes. Johar’s adoration of Shah Rukh, the way he lovingly places him at the centre of every frame and gives him God-like status, is truly marvelous to behold.
Jai elaborates
But [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Outing
Team outing which was getting postponed for nearly an year finally happened on Aug 5th. A brief minutes of meeting.
Except for the last minute drop outs, most of us arrived on time and prepared (with gifts, pots etc). We left for Muttukadu in 2 vehicles. In groups we went boating. for half an hour or [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Nenapirali
Nenapirali is a debut effort from Engg graduates Ratnaja (director) and Ajay Gouda (Producer). It has flashes of brilliance - both at technical level and at artistic level. More about that later.
Story Overview: Ekanth and Indu are seeing each other for sometime. But practically Ekanth is too busy to see Indu on a regular [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Movie Reviews by Rk
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Man who knew infinity, Abachurina Post office, Toofan Mail
On books:
Not reading much these days. But here is a small update.
After a long long time, I finished reading A Man who knew infinity, a biography on Ramanujan. A well researched book and a nice narrative - some explanations like the eating on a banana leaf etc (I now forgot, there were many such descriptive [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Krrish, Cyanide,Omkara,Something something,Vettaiyaadu ..
Krrish
There was no real temptation to watch this one but for the 3 hour A/C relief we (I & Sriram) wanted to get. There is nothing much to write apart from that it was a TP film. Targeted at children, let such films come and save the kids from disgusting things happening in other movies. [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Changes to site and updates
Finally managed to bury down the link posts, hidden from main page. Similarly have managed another Blogmela category. Intention is to keep only the original, long writing on the main page. Just so the new vistors are not confused and decide never to return! And hopefully the main feed should carry all the posts. So [...]
Comments - Posted in Site design by Rk
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
On Phone
This post was in the making since an year !
At the outset, lest my post miscommunicate, let me accept that mobile phone is a wonderful piece of equipment. Not just because it has made communication as immediate as possible, it also makes it possible a multitude of features to enhance our lives. It is [...]