KCK

Watched a typical bollywood pakaau film, it deserves some criticism, so here I am with my rotten tomato's. First of all I would like to say ":balls" to praveen, for asking me to watch it in a theater, I cursed you all through the 2nd half.

Coming to the movie, it's all about Japanese technology, really....the whole movie is based on that!. With Japanese phone you get a smarter avatar of yourself, giving you life changing advice for free! and the phone works even when unplugged, brilliant!
1st half of the movie would manage to keep you interested, but 2nd half is brutally boring with over dosage of utterly lame emotions. To top the stupidity, the girl beside me, freaked out on every stupid phone call in the movie, I wondered if she misunderstood this to a horror movie. Only thing that got me through was, that lovely, gorgeous face of Deepika padukone, aah...I'm in love with her again!
Farhan Akhtar tried his best, but was not enough to makeup for the bad direction and lack of content. The emotional aspect of movie was out of place and chemistry between Deepika and Farhan was just not working (how could it?, Farhan is a foot shorter than her!). I do credit the movie for its ending though, It managed to explain all the "magic phone" drama convincingly at the end.

My friend, who was sitting in the front sent me a text message during the movie, it said - "Japanese tech + Indian brain = pakao movie", I burst out laughing, caz it pretty much summed up the movie.
My verdict - It not a fun movie, not a intellectual movie, nor a "timepasser", but a "moneywaster".

Few good books

Chennai is a lonely place for any non Tamilian (or anyone remotely cool)...any one who has read "Two States" would know what I mean....
I started reading a few books to kill my spare time, here is a short review of a few -

1. Two States - Chetan fan or not....this is a must read....especially if u live or moving to chennai...this book might just change ur mind. Very humorous...there are not many books as entertaining as this. Satisfied by this book I went on to read "5 point someone" and "3 mistakes of my life" too. Though I loved "Two States", I wouldn't say the rest are must reads.
   
2. Rich Dad Poor Dad - It teaches some invaluable lessons about entrepreneurship and money management. It's the kind of book, that challenges the most basic ideas we take for granted, this book messed with my head for a few weeks...it will surely mess with yours too....read it at your own risk!
3. Twilight - I loved the movie, and just couldn't resist reading the book. The chemistry between Bella and Edward is just as spicy as on the screens. Its a good romantic read...all those fans for Edward and Bella will surely enjoy it.
   
4. Fountain Head by Ayn Rand - Finally this is the book that inspired me to write this post. I'm not through with the book yet, but....fist 120 pages were astonishing and this a rare piece of work and a must read for any remotely intelligent creature (which ofcourse eliminates majority of our population).

Untill my next post happy reading :)

Dont be Evil?

About a decade ago, a new name called "Google" took on the search giant Yahoo, and the rest is history. What followed was almost a fairy tale, Google became the predominant name in the internet world, moving wider and deeper into every conceivable field of computer science technology.
Google was a revolutionary phenomenon in the internet world, it changed the cluttered ad filled websites to simple, free web based products. We all loved it and loved the moto "Don't be Evil". We trust google with all our email, search query, documents, voice chats,chats and a hundred other services.
When Gmail was released we said...wow...free mail service with 2GB space!
then came -
- Google docs
- Orkut
- Youtube
- Picassa
- Gtalk
- Google Maps
- Google Earth
- Blogger
- Books
- Google wave
- etc etc and we kept saying WOW!
I have been using Mozilla for past 5 years, I was in love with it, until.....Google decided to say..."Hey...lets get our own browser", I heartlessly dumped Mozilla and flocked onto Chrome....its was simply WOW.
Then Google says "Hey...lets get our own OS"..and so Android was released and Chrome OS is in the making.
Hmm...I thought Google to out to dominate the whole internet....then Google come up and says..."Hey we got a brand new smart phone!"......and for the first time I thought.....what the hell....dont u guys stay out of anything?.....Google basically knows more about me than my mom these days!
In the past few years google has acquired hundred's of companies, orkut, picassa, youtube being a few popular one's, but if we look at the companies Google is pocketing, we will realize how wide the Google domain is getting. It has a new language too for its developers.....Google Go.
At this point I think its considerable for us to start getting skeptic that should a company be allowed to get so powerful, of course till now it has hung on to its "Dont be Evil" moto and Of-course we cannot do anything about it, Google has the best minds in the world and very capable CEO and founder's guiding it, but it is something to think about....what will happen when Google forgets to "not be Evil".
Until then lets continue saying WOW and admire our favorite company "Google Inc".

Not a TEEN anymore

Today a kid called me "UNCLE", I yelled at him "I'm not uncle...I'm bhaiya!", poor kid ran away. The kid deserved it though, no one calls me uncle already!.

Though very far from being a uncle, I realized that I'm not a teen anymore, I have finished college and about to enter the professional world. It was period of transition form being a irresponsible college kid to a working professional, expected to shoulder a lot of responsibilities.

This realization is both exiting and depressing. As a kid I was always exited with the idea of being able to work and earn money, and now that I'm here, It feels sad to know that, those joyful childhood and teenage years are over.

I have this theory, that by the time you hit 30, most of us are married settled into a stable profession and entered a monotonous routine of work and managing the family, with no new prospective's in life. Life becomes pretty much a cycle of definite events reoccurring every 24 hours. There is very less scope left to dream, act crazy and do something out of the box. Hence, I would say, 30 years would be a deadline, for living life solely for yourself, the way you want.

Friends time is ticking, life is short, if there is some thing you wish to do, a experience you wish to have, now is the right time, for u have only 30 years to live!

It is with this idea that I have started seeing things in my life with a new prospective. It has brought a sense of urgency in my thinking, and filled me with a new found zeal toward my dreams.

I do wish that I could grow a few years younger, become a little more juvenile, reverse the flow of time, but again, I wish for a lot of things, but God apparently has no time for any of them.

Moral of the story - don't call me uncle!

The Endless Battle of Time

How does a jobless guy pass time?

Since the dawn of time, mankind has struggled to fight against boredom, there have been many sacrifices, but struggle is far from over.

Lately I, myself have been doing a lot of thinking to solve this million dollar problem once and for all!

It wasn't easy...I experimented with every activity I could think of...but the problem persisted!

I started my counter attacks by watching 50+ GB of movies, numerous TV series and cartoons that I had collected in college, just for times like this....but soon, they did run out!

Another very effective and most promising solution was...... the enchanting and bewitching "World of Warcraft"..... salutes to Blizzard Entertainment for providing a beacon of hope to millions of lost young souls out there. I was having a bawl, but it wasn't meant to last...as, soon the server shut down and I was lost again.

In dark times like these u can always count on one friend, as it is said "Books are a mans true friend". They did provide a lot of comfort and closure. I read everything I could get my hands on, a few books twice. Reading too many Sidney Sheldon's...turned his novels from awesome -> good -> boring and monotonous.

Finally I had no more new sources of books and no cash to buy new once, and so I am back to square one.

I shall not give up so easy, not so soon.

My latest quest in the pursuit of true cure to boredom is this, "BLOGGING".

I shall follow this with a lot many more, mindless and utterly useless posts, as I shall not give up!..and I request co operation of you all, as the problem in question is of utmost importance.

Thanks for your time.

Note - Criticism not welcome.