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Google says Happy Birthday Charles Dickens

2012-02-06T20:20:00.001-08:00

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Cool Healthy Drinks Enjoy

2012-02-06T08:06:00.001-08:00

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Btjunkie shuts down voluntarily (2005-2012)

2012-02-06T06:02:00.001-08:00

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With legal actions rtaken on megaupload and piratebay - Btjunkie decided to shut down before they get into some legal action.
We will see what follows next - but looks like this might happen to other sites too.

Cool Healthy Drinks

2012-02-06T03:18:00.001-08:00

Brilliant tweet by SrBachchan

2012-02-04T01:25:00.001-08:00

T 643 - 'I can be made responsible for what I spoke. But not for what you understood !!' ~ Brilliant repartee !! -- SrBachchan (@SrBachchan)

Agneepath (2012) - Movie Review (Its a remake - not a ripoff Rating : 4/5)

2012-01-30T05:18:00.001-08:00

Original Agneepath(1990) in which Big B played Vijay Dinanath Chauhan and Danny Denzongpa as Kancha Cheena is considered a cult revenge movie.Big B also won a national award for the same.

Remaking a movie which was famous for award winning performances and solid dialogues was much of a dare - but Karan Johar produced and Karan malhotra directed Agneepath (2012) does not dissapoint at all.

First things first : Its a remake - not a ripoff - and that works bigtime in favor of the movie. Story is same but the treatment is way different and that makes sure that comparison does not spoil anything.

Hrithik as Vijay Dinanath Chauhan - Outstanding in one word - every scene he has done shows that he has lived the character and he did not need much dialogues as his expressions and eyes do all the talking - his character is all raw no style and only focused on avenging his father's death. If anyone would have done justice to Vijay Chauhan it is Hrithik.

Rishi Kapoor as Rauf Lala : Once bollywood's lover boy and then in recent times a cool dad or character artist is menacing and he looks so convincing that you just HATE him on screen.Vetaran actor proves if given an opputunity he has very capable of shocking you - Brilliant.

Sanju baba Dutt as Kancha : The show stealer - though not all of his dialogues are solid but his mere presence paints - Evil and Devil on the screen. Every scene when Sanjay dutt walks in he creates that terror and is freakishly convincing - his physique add to the overall impact and he is sure to get the dialogue re-written:beta so ja nahi to Kancha aa jayega :)

Director Karan Malhotra makes a wise decision not to copy each scene and gives us a superb movie with high voltage action scenes and intense drama - Brilliant debut and hats off for remaking the movie.Credit to Karan Johar as a producer - it was a project he wanted to remake as a tribute to his father and it is a perfect one.

Ajay Atul music is good but whats rocking is the background score - which takes movie to a whole different level.

Flaws: The length - little trimming would have been better,Commisioner Gaitondey role.

Overall this is a movie worth watching and superb remake - very good direction and acting and amazing action,cinematography and background score makes this movie a winner.Amitabh bachchan's Agneepath will be the cult as it is till today - but add this adaptation to your collection for a different flavour.

Definitely 4/5 - do not miss this.

Underworld Awakening : Movie Review

2012-01-23T07:10:00.001-08:00

Back in 2003 Underworld was released and it was and is still the coolest vampire+warewolf action movie series till date.

Movie series detail:

Underworld (2003)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Underworld: Awakening (2012)

Part 1,2 and 4 has Kate Beckinsale playing Selene and part 3 had a different story about Sonja (Rhonda Mitra).

A reboot for this series was very much expected and so was the return of Selene (Kate Beckinsale).

As soon as the movie starts action starts as well - no time is wasted - a good flashback is on display for anyone who forgot the real story.

Best part of the movie is action,3D and last but not the least Kate herself.

There is not much to the story on the downside but it makes it up with action scenes.

Everytime she walks on the screen you know a vampire does not get sexier than her.

Action scenes are superb, setup very gothic and cinematography is top notch.

Overall a fun movie to watch and always a pleasure to watch Kate as Selene the vampire.

Rating : 3.5/5

Yummy dosa treat

2012-01-22T02:42:00.001-08:00

Work in progress

2012-01-21T03:28:00.001-08:00

Cars :)

2012-01-20T09:58:00.001-08:00

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Some random car pics clicked.

Bollywood a different take

2012-01-17T10:05:00.001-08:00

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Mirch masala Bollywood theme restaurant - featuring Shahrukh,Hrithik,Amit ji,nana patekar,sanjay dutt.
Enjoy its different.

Journey beginssss

2012-01-11T08:02:00.001-08:00

1500+ kms and 25 hrs i will br at destination 1 i.e bhopal

Happy new year

2011-12-31T11:22:00.001-08:00

Its is going to be a good new year.
Have fun and may this new year bring joy and success.

It's a pain

2011-12-30T07:03:00.001-08:00

We use 'it's a pain' phrase/statement very often without paying too much attention.
I read this somewhere:
We must all suffer one of two things:the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and dissapointment.
Now rethink wellll it's a pain anyways,so why not choose the better one :).
Farewell 2011 and best wishes to everyone for 2012.

Random clicks

2011-12-29T13:44:00.001-08:00

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A punchline to remember

2011-12-22T01:00:00.001-08:00

Found this punchline on a tshirt while I was shopping

Embed and make a tweet story

2011-12-21T09:16:00.001-08:00

We all know that twitter has increased the character limit to 140 and with a cool posting site like posterous we can take it even further.

Make a better and extended twitter story along with posterous.

Have you tried embedding your tweets yet?Expand your tweets into stories beyond 140 characters - blog.posterous.com/introducing-em…
— posterous (@posterous) December 21, 2011

On security

2011-12-17T03:45:00.001-08:00

A simple security message for everyone , whether at home or work

Lord Ganesha

2011-12-16T07:27:00.001-08:00

Beautiful idols of Lord Ganesha

Coffee day celebration

2011-12-12T10:58:00.001-08:00

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It is said ' good service is good business'.
Usually in bangalore most of the coffee day centers are innovative in design and they provide good service , today at ccd forum kormangala we saw another example.
Not only did they serve good coffee but they also invited all of the customers present at that moment to celebrate their employee day and requested we cut the cake if we liked the service , here are few pics of the event

A maggie tale

2011-12-05T03:25:00.001-08:00

Long ago very very long ago when God realized kids do not enjoy everyday food and snacks , GOD made humans create something which was and is the most enjoyable snack, breakfast dish of all time.
It eventually also established itself as the best ' student survival food'.
Maggie with tea remains my all time favourite till date.

Tests Run machine 2011

2011-11-28T04:17:00.001-08:00

Dravid is the only batsman to score 1000+ runs in tests this year
11 tests 1067 runs

Super hot soup with garlic bread

2011-11-28T03:28:00.001-08:00

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Wish (College time) came true : Metallica In Bangalore

2011-10-30T13:42:00.001-07:00

I am not sure but it was 1999-2000 or around that time that one of my friend Amol Kolhe copied a 15 GB rock/metal collection to my hard disk (15 gb out of 40 GB was a big deal at that time) which consisted of ACDC,Iron Maiden,Deep Purple and GnR,Metallica to name a few.

First songs from Metallica i heard were - Nothing else matters (no surprise here) - Fade to Black - Fuel and Sad but true,Unforgiven and Seek and destroy and Master of puppets and trust me rest is history.

Since that day i have always been a great fan and always wanted to watch them live.

When i came to Bangalore i saw lots of bands performing here and so expected Metallica will perform soon but it took almost 8 yrs(wait-time for me - for India it was 20 yrs) for them to perform here in India.Now add a little drama there - Delhi show got cancelled and my friends and i were not sure if this would happen in Bangalore.

But anyways we watched them live at Palace Grounds Bangalore and it was worth every trouble we took (around 7 hrs and little more on our feet,rain,mud everywhere,insane crowd(insane by numbers around 22k tickets were sold) and last but not the least - our poor aching legs but you know what: IT WAS FRIGGING WORTH IT.

Hetfield screamed - Bangaloreeeeee we are with you are you with usssssssssss and it was all magical from there on.

A college time craze/wish came true it was an experience worth remembering - memory worth cherishing with my best buddies Ansari and Shama it was just icing on the cake.

Thanks Metallica for the killer show Bangalore Loved it.

Google Chrome Processes and Memory Usage

2011-10-23T06:43:00.001-07:00

Google chrome is about to topple Firefox as the no 1 browser.

Firefox was always critized for being a memory hog but chrome also is doing pretty much the same - the only difference is the way it handles tabs as seperate processes.

However what's suprising is the number of processes it launches for just one tab and every process has its own memory usage.