Archive for April, 2008

Tashan – the review

“First imprejon is de last impression” says Anil Kapoor and it is definitely not good. I really do not even understand how anyone could even make such a movie. Is there no system of quality control..Didn’t anyone watch the movie before it was released in the theatres. I am forced to watch Akshay kumar jumping(flying) from rooftops, window sills and the whole thing looks like I am forced to watch an extended Thums up ad. Anil Kapoor has been wasted throughout the movie..Saif tries to act, but then it is not easy to do so in such a terrible movie..Akshay tries to act too..every now and then..

If you though that Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was bad..This is terrible. You have anorexic Kareena in a bikini (my earlier post) , but that won’t sell a movie this bad. In fact, nothing will..There is not a single memorable song. (ok, dil hara will grow onto you if listen to it repeatedly…) but then all that is not reason for you waste your money on such a movie..Everyone who is a part of the movie should cleanse their sins by bathing in the Ganges…The plot is almost non existent, but whatever is left of it, is filled with gaping loopholes…The action scenes are amateur, the graphics terrible..Please please grow up bollywood..Even if I left my brains at home…its still very nonsensical…I do not want to go and watch an amateur video of the directors and actors having a bizarre party, I get better stuff on Youtube..

If someone has watched the movie…please do tell me why at all Kareena choses to tell her part of the story to Saif and not to Akshay Kumar in the end? Just so that we could stretch the movie or did she deliberately want Akshay to get electrified?

Krazzy 4

I watched this movie really sometime after the movie got released..I read a lot of reviews on this movie and all that made me feel that I would be wasting my money on this movie…But then it was the late night show and I had no other options so I decided to go ahead and watch Krazzy 4…Here is a quick review…First things first..the actors are all mindblowing…Everyone played their part well..Everyone acts mature enough to handle the role…its fun popcorn entertainment with a level of decent thinking put into it…If people can watch movies like kya kool hai hum, then I guess those would be the people who write bad reviews about a movie like this…Arshad warsi is mindblowing in the movie..plays his part very well..and the best part is noone overreacts..
yes, there are lot of irrelevant and haphazard scenes such as the actors breaking into a song because they need 1 rupee..but then, please understand that this is after all bollywood..I hated Rakhi sawant’s item number…it was pathetic…not at all required in the movie…I hated Shahrukh’s item number, it was worse…He really looked gay in those clothes and the way the guests were watching him dance..it was really really gay…maybe the should’ve interchanged songs…lol…
Hrithik’s spl appearance song was great..great dancing…Other things I disliked were the finishing lectures from the Krazzy4… and the fact there is no mushy romance and running around trees…But overall, I loved the movie..do drop in ur comments abt what u think of the movie or what u think of my comments…I really know now that sex sells…how do I know that? I tag a post with the word “bikini” and I’ve got so many page views already…but of course its all by people who do not wish to comment, lest they be seen…lol…

10 step guide for the big web company to invest in web 2.0

Well, how does it go about it?
Step 1: Go to Go2web2.0
Step 2: Decide what you are going to buy today
Step 3: select the interested subject in the tags *even random clicks will do
Step 4: find your target web 2.0 start up company *even random clicks will do
Step 5: Analyse company’s competition (is it worth fighting over?)
Step 6: Contact start up company
Step 7: make secret deal for undisclosed amount *very important
Step 8: Buy company and use your signon for logging into that site
Step 9: kill competition example 1
example 2
example 3
example 4

I could just go on and on with the examples, but I am sure you would have learnt that the steps work well right now…There you go. saves u time, cost(of course it does, trust me) and all the pain of innovating (you aren’t good at that anyway ever since your only creative employee left you last december to create his own web 2.0 start up)

Need more help to decide what to takeover go here

Tagging along

A is for the alphonso mangoes I like, the aspiration that drives me inertly…

B is for the bed which allows me to sleep and regain all that energy for another great day and all my blogs which I really like..

C is for staying cool, and cold when I am with those whom I dislike..and the care which others shower upon me and computers which are so much a part of me..

D is for the darkness, the greek lord of which is Erebus…

E is for all the energy in me, that which allows me to do things never done before, in ways never done before

F is for the fun and frolic I have in life…and all my friends who are my biggest strength

G is for the God in me and the God I am

H is the health that keeps me and those close to me happy and hale…and the happiness which I believe is the foundation of life..we should aim at happiness of self and others…

I stand for myself, and everyone I love and care for…

J is for japanese anime, which really entertains and interests me, Jin Kazama who is still my fave gaming character

K for the kisses that make me stay alive

L is for the love without which I cannot be what I am…

M is for my mother whom I love so much…

N holds nothing

O is for the openness that I use to deal with ppl…

P stands for all the people without whose help I wouldnt be what I am…

Q for any queue I hate to stand in, if there is something I hate, its waiting…

R for the ra

S for the speed I love, the suzuki I drive

T for all the tr

U understands everything that goes on…

V is for being valiant even in trying circumstances

W is wealth and water both of which are needed to sustain life…

X for all the XXX i watch…lol..

Y for you who needs to be thanked for reading this…

Z for the gentle zephyrs which make me feel so alive…

I tag…my twitter friend, badbadivy (her post) … (posted after being tagged by swati)

Microsoft Surface – The Possibilities

I have been waiting for a few years for this to come really out and succeed…Where is it? Its such great technology..simply put, a highly enhanced table sized iphone…Why isn’t everyone talking about it?

Answer: link

Thanks to jrjflick for that one!

Maruti Swift Dzire

The maruti swift dzire is here..The latest version of the swift (the erstwhile esteem) is here in India.

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The maruti swift dzire is here..The latest version of the swift (the erstwhile esteem) is here in India. I haven’t seen many on the roads, but happened to come across the demo car and found that it really looks spacious and big..The boot has been designed in such a precise way that it doesn’t become a misfit on the swift..

I would only complain about two aspects..One, there is nothing but the grille to differentiate the dzire from the swift when looked at from the front..Two, I personally am not too impressed with the name of the car…

Driving home the point

towards the sunThis post is thanks to a wonderful service called writetomyblog.com…I really wanted to write my blog today and there’s no way I can blog from office…

I drive 50 kilometres everyday to office…That makes it 100 kms. everyday..For the ones who read in miles, thats around 120 miles of driving everyday…The best part is that more than half of the distance I travel is outside city bounds on the expressway…I have heard people who would sulk and say how far office…but look at the brighter side, I would be one of those rare people in India who dont sit and sulk in terrible traffic, instead I am doing a 100kms on lovely stretch of expressway…This is precisely the point I want to drive home today (pun intended)…The fact that there is always an interesting way of looking at everything….Only that we always forget to look at that side and instead spend our time complaining about what life hasn’t offered us…I have always beleived that life is whatever we have today, this hour, this minute, now…and we must enjoy it to the fullest in the present…I am not against those who plan..Maybe it is wrong that I do not plan…but, thats how I am…It is just a parallel school of thought…I look at the wide blue skies, the lovely open roads, the dense forests on the way and dream away as I listen to Robert miles…Music is such a lovely companion on open free roads where you do not have to worry about who is honking behind you…Life is not about money…Life is not about status..Life is not about anything which learn…Life is about happiness and being content…I really sound like some ascetic I guess…

It is not in our right to change what life we own. But we are powerful enough to love what we do everyday…to be free and happy…After all happiness does not reside in any other person, place or thing..It is within us and we only need to recognise that…

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The Adult, child and the parent

Its late night when I sit down to blog today…I guess its time I wrote something about transactional analysis. I learnt transactional analysis when I was completing my education…I had further insights into TA during my stint at various organizations through their induction and training sessions..

Transactional analysis treats every interaction between two or more persons as a transaction. An exchange of words, feelings, reactions which they exhibit constitute of the transaction’s elements. Every interaction between them is analysed on the basis of concepts of transactional analysis.

Let us take a look at these concepts:

1) Adult (neopsychic)

The adult ego can be simply put as our assertive true self which if were to indulge in would result in calculated, well-thought out, analysed and perfect transactions. That is, this refers to interactions which would be in a way in which a mature person would behave in. No tantrums, no bossy nature, just clear facts and statements

2)Parent (exteropsychic)

The Parent ego is the state which our personality takes when we are to take care of someone, when we love someone (in some cases, this would also move into the other states, still). Simply put, the way a parent would behave with a child.

3)Child(archaeopsychic)

The child ego must now be self explanatory. It is characterized by tantrums, demands, naughty behaviour, scheming, creativeness etc.

Let us understand the concept with a simple example in here.

If I ask you:

Kindly get me a cup of coffee (neutral expression, maybe a small smile –> adult ego)

Come on dear, please get me a cup of coffee (caring attitude, smiling –> parent ego)

I want a coffee now, get me one (indignant –> child ego)

The above example is merely indicative and I merely use to further clarify the concepts. Since, the same sentences would be take on another ego all together, if they were stated with a different mood. So thats about the basics of TA.

Now how do u go about using TA. First by understanding that when there is no match in transaction, conflict arises. Person A takes child ego –> Person B takes parent ego or vice versa; Person A takes adult ego –> person B also takes adult ego. These are the only combinations which would avoid confrontations, conflicts and mismatch. If I were to ask you

  • I want a coffee now, get me one (indignant –> child ego) (ok dear I will get one –> parent ego)
  • Kindly get me a cup of coffee (neutral expression, maybe a small smile –> adult ego) * (sure, I will get you one –> adult ego)

The above statements merely mean that in real life, we need to counter these transactions with corresponding transactions.

  • I want a coffee now, get me one (indignant –> child ego) (kindly get one yourself –> adult ego) Conflict ensues
  • Kindly get me a cup of coffee (neutral expression, maybe a small smile –> adult ego) (yay…I will get you one…—> child ego) mismatch

Even within these ego states there are subdivisions. For eg. the adult ego would consist of nurturing and the criticizing. But more on that another day…

Windows 7 soon going to be out

Here is something, I thought Vista was newest one and there are sounds of a newer version just around corner…Makes me wonder why anyone should not bypass vista all together…

Windows 7 or so it is called, should be out for 32 and 64 bit systems and I guess during development, it was codenamed “Vienna”. And as usual it will out in consumer and enterprise editions..The new version should be out within the next 3 years I guess

I really don’t understand why Microsoft is in such a hurry to come out with the next version…I really think they need to give Vista some more time, after all people take time to move to the next operating system…It is not like a browser or an antivirus which people can upgrade every now and then..
Read about the idea to bring out windows 7 here…

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Tashan – Kareena kapoor

I was watching the much hyped about bikini song playing exclusive on MTV…I could be wrong but I really am not so impressed with what Kareena has done to herself..She look sort of anorexic…Here head actually looks quite big on her very very petite body…I just wish that she had not starved herself to look this slim…I liked earlier…I still do cos I really am a great fan of hers..Here is what wikipedia has to say about Tashan

I loved watching her in Jab we met which I guess would have anyway got her lots of fans..I admired her even for her mini role in don and the strong role in chameli…Do let me know what you people think about Tashan…after all pre release views are really important…

I read somewhere that she is planning to get married to Saif post the movie..Now I dont know about it..but then there is always gossip doing its rounds in the film industry…

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