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Annie Hall (10/10)

2012-02-08T00:30:00.000-05:00

La-dee-da, la-dee-daa... I just watched Annie Hall, one of the most wonderful, entertaining & fun movies I have seen. Yeah.. I am giving it 10/10, cuz I loved it so much. It's funny, it's neurotic, it's crazy, it's silly, its smart & it's AWESOME!! It's my kinda movie, like my style... Woody Allen is so smart with his dialogues, his ideas, his actors, & everything... His frequent breaking of

NY Giants WON Superbowl

2012-02-05T23:59:00.000-05:00

That's the biggest news of the weekend of course. Second news is I went to Metropolitan Museum of Art which is not just an Art Museum as I thought or people may expect but has lots of awesome artistic & historic & cultural artifacts including, sculptures, paintings, crafts, designs and lot of awesome stuff from all over the world. I saw some Egyptian & Indian stuff only with little Japanese &

Agneepath (8/10) & Underworld 4 (5/10)

2012-02-02T00:30:00.000-05:00

After last "Quite a Weekend", I watched 2 movies today.. Agneepath is definitely a great movie.. very well acted, very well presented & very well done. As most of you may know that it's remake of 1990 movie of same name with Amitabh Bachchan in lead role & directed by Mukul S Anand. I honestly do not remember a lot from the movie except Amitabh's introduction as Vijay Deenanath Cahuhan, his

Quite a Weekend.. Really!!

2012-01-30T12:01:00.000-05:00

Why? Well.. it all started on Friday when I was supposed to take Bolt Bus to DC from Newark and I ended up on bus to Boston.. yeah!! The driver checked the ticket and didn't say anything and I thought it was bus to DC as it was on same spot & boarded it. No announcements made either.. Half way through I realized I am on wrong bus and asked the driver, he tells me I need to go to Boston & take

Happy India Republic Day 2012!!

2012-01-26T12:06:00.000-05:00

Jay Leno's insult to Sikh

2012-01-24T15:12:00.001-05:00

US defends comedian Jay Leno jibe Really? Why so?? With republic day coming tomorrow.. I mean, maybe be more open to humor... I do not personally approve of what Leno did, I don't even like him actually. But this is right of free speech and what he showed what just sarcastic skit. Didn't say anything in particular about Sikhs or the religion at al in this skit. So maybe loosen up & take it

General Motors Diet Plan & SNOW

2012-01-23T23:49:00.000-05:00

Should I call it Part 2? Returns? Back? Again? Or what?? I was on the GM Diet Plan again, today being the last day. How was it? Good!! (I did cheat once on Day 3 by eating 2 rusks and 2 kachoris, real bad of me huh). I started last tuesday and finished today. I have not been back to Gym since last August due to various reasons and just wanted to lose some weight, detox & feel good. I do feel

Wikipedia Blackout - How to bypass?

2012-01-18T00:55:00.000-05:00

As usual, I was searching for something yesterday after midnight on Google & then clicked on Wikipedia link to it.. lo'behold (does that mean anything? is it appropriate??) Wikipedia is on blackout for 24 hrs & this is what they say: Imagine a WorldWithout Free Knowledge For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the

New Hope PA & Lambertville NJ | Princeton University | Jersey Gardens Outlet Mall.. & Movies!!!!

2012-01-15T23:46:00.000-05:00

Yep. that was my long weekend. Full of activities - Really FULL. On Saturday, went to New Hope PA & Lambertville NJ which are right on the banks of Delaware river on either side. It's a beautiful little town with nice restaurants & small non-chain shops (I bought Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh in 3D, without glasses) & all that.. pretty & cute. We had a meal at Marsha's Brown, a protestant

Got my New Jersey License & Car Regn.

2012-01-04T17:43:00.000-05:00

So, today I got my New Jersey Driving License. Also, got the Car Title & Registration, moved to New Jersey. I went to the center in Jersey City and it wasn't bad at all. Took like an hour or so to get all 3 done. I was impressed how easy it was. For license, just make sure you have proper 6 point verification documents. Go to the reception, where they give you 2 small forms. Fill all info, get

Happy New Year 2012!!!!

2012-01-01T22:00:00.000-05:00

After 2011.. Happy New Year 2012 to all my followers/readers & everyone!!!! Had a good new year's day taking stroll in Liberty State Park.. eating at India Street at some new 'Haleem restaurant' with delicious chat & nice haleem.. and then watching Pirates of Caribbean's: On Stranger Tides (5/10: not really good, not funny, not nice action and not understandable either. lemurly lemurable).

The year that was.. 2011

2011-12-31T12:00:00.000-05:00

Can't believe that the year is over. It was okay.. nothing special, except MnD visit. or was there more?? Lets see as per my blog, what this year was about: Alcatraz and Drive on CA-1 to 17 mile Drive & Big Sur!! Maximum India @ Kennedy Center DC: Kailasha with Kailash Kher.. Symphony with Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan Maximum India @ Kennedy Center DC: Ismat Apa Ke

War Horse & Don-2

2011-12-29T23:59:00.000-05:00

Watched War Horse (6/10) and I don't think it's really great. Just okay.. Not bad, but not great either. Somehow, couldn't feel the emotions. No connection to chracters - the horse Joey, the boy Albert or anything else. The french girl story was the most emotional/touching.. and a scene od the british & german soldier saving the horse together. But not as great as I expected.... Don-2 (8/10)

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2011!!!!

2011-12-25T00:00:00.000-05:00

A very-very Merry Christmas (to all Christmas celebrators) & Happy Holidays (to everyone else). Holiday time of US has started with Christmas & goes untill New Years aka Dec 24th to Jan 1st, which is like more than a week. People ususally spend time with family & do things & have fun & all that. I am celebrating my Christmas in Boston with Tani & her parents and seeing/enjoyig with other

Misssion Impossible: Ghost Protocol & Girl with Dragon Tattoo

2011-12-23T00:35:00.000-05:00

MI4 aka Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (7/10) is quite good. Good to see Tom Cruise back, good to see him in action,, good to see him in style.. so, it's basically his movie & he has doen very well. The movie is about Nuclear launch control device & codes have gone missing and Ethan has to track them down & stop them . The chase takes him to Kremlin, Dubai & India (where you see Anil kapur

Another day without water, second time..

2011-12-20T15:58:00.004-05:00

Basically the water supply is gone for the day today from 8am in morning to 12 midnight. It's not as bad as last week when water was suddenly gone in the late evening until next afternoon. I practically had no water except half a jug for drinking. This time I have filled & stored a little more. Also, the steam heat here gets shut off if there is no water. So, it's going to be cold as well. I

Weekend with Sherlock, Harold & Kumar!!

2011-12-19T16:35:00.000-05:00

Another nice weekend.. Why? Just had a god time meeting friends & hanging out & shopping & all that. Got stockings for Christmas, a nice rosy watch & many other things, JLT. Good mexican & vietnamese food (PHO 98) & Naked Pizza, homemade cookies etc etc. Sounds pretty festive, it was, it is. Watched 2 movies as well.. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (7/10) was pretty good. I would say as

A really nice weekend...

2011-12-11T23:34:00.000-05:00

This was first weekend after MnD's departure back to India. I miss them, a lot. However, still the weekend was good. Starting from all the awesome food that my mom has left for me in fridge & some frozen too. To a wonderful dinner at Komegashi too (really great japanese food, not that much of a city skyline view except tip of the south if you are sitting at a good spot. but you can be seated

MnD left.. back home to India

2011-12-06T22:34:00.000-05:00

MnD left today to India. After a stay of almost 7 weeks, they left. It was so nice to have them here, very-very nice. It was one of my best times of my life and specially of my stay in US. It was sooooo GOOD. MnD's love & affection & caring, hanging out every weekend or even more, movie every sunday & more and on top of everything - the love & caring. I am going to miss all of it ofcourse. But

MnD @ Liberty Science Center

2011-12-04T20:54:00.000-05:00

My dad really been wanting to see Science Museum since he's been here. So as part of free BOA museums, I took MnD to Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ. It's basically right next to Liberty State Park ,which means its 10 mins drive from me. Lucky like we have been many times for my visits with MnD, we got free street parking right in front of museum. Or it's like $10 I think. I think

Dev Anand is Dead... RIP :-(

2011-12-04T10:48:00.000-05:00

Just after Shammi Kapur, the legendary Dev Anand passed away as well today :-( Such a super star, the real evergreen super hero. He was one of those actors who created his own style & people started imitating him & copying him. Tons of people are making money by just copying & imitating him. He's one of the senior most actors of bollywood with Dilip Kumar. Just makes you think how time doesn't

MnD in FIDI, Downtown NYC

2011-11-30T17:25:00.000-05:00

MnD visited FIDI (Financial District in Downtown New York City) yesterday. First thing was the free ferry trip to Staten Island. I have done that too, more than once. And it's prettty cool I have to say. Good view, nice breeze & all that, for FREE. Then I walked them through the famous Wall Street of New York City and we reached NYSE, The New York Stock Exchange. Not only that, but I took them

Thanksgiving Weekend....

2011-11-27T23:30:00.000-05:00

This Thanksgiving was nice. Didn't do much though.. What did I do? What did we do?? Was at home all day. We had a nice lunch I think & normal dinner. No turkey, ofcourse. Did watch Parineeta (8/10), very nice movie. What else? Nothing I think.. Oh yeah, we didn't go out. I mean, we didn't go to Thanksgiving Parade as my dad was not up to it. So, we just watched it on TV. Although we did go for

Happy Thanksgiving 2011.. THANKS

2011-11-24T01:28:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone.. No turkey for me, but still thankful to god, to my MnD (who are here with me), my sister (who doesn't have MnD with her these days) & myelf (just cuz I am awesome!!) and "everyone" else, for "everything wonderful" I have.. THANKS!!

MnD in Manhattan & Hugo 3D (8/10)

2011-11-19T23:53:00.000-05:00

We finally went to visit Manhattan today.. me, MnD & Tani. After a nice & elaborat enorth indian thal/meal - paratha, palak paneer, aloo bhindi, dahi vada, arhar/toor daal, salad & kheer; we went out to the city. Took PATH from Jersey City (to get 25% discount with PATH Smartlink Pass, you need to buy 10 trips for $15 or more) & then Subway to Central Park. Enjoyed the skating rink in Central