Wrath of THE chennai rickshaw driver

‘Majboori ka naam Gandhi’

A popular Hindi line… Don’t know its origins …. But it means that sometimes we have are left with the most undesirable options… I finally had to face the deadly Chennai auto drivers. my bro says only two things do not need after sales service – coffins and Chennai auto meters. haven’t seen even a single soul operating on the meter here.

Ask anyone in Chennai, negotiating with an auto is the most difficult part, even for tamilians. And above that, you need to know the exact address. a lane travelled extra attracts additional Rs10 for sure.

but.. but but but….

But interesting part of the day was haggling, no… read it as shouting on autorick driver. And sort of feeling good that I gave him less than what he shouted for. But at the same time am afraid that he will keep an eye on me. His Rick is parked around my gully… need to be careful when i step out tomm…  wish me luck…

And mind you, these are not your ordinary drivers… these are Rajnikanth styled Schumaker Swamy union leaders.

Delhi blasts – recent history

Recent history of delhi blasts:

 

BOL, the movie – kya bola hai….

BOL movie… awesome movie

preview rating: 4/5 – expected to be good. Director’s previous movie “khuda ke liye” was an acclaimed one.

the movie is about a family in Lahore, which in my opinion could even be an Indian family. The father is obsessed with getting a boy and hence gets his wife pregnant 14 times!!!! but poor chap does not get lucky and ends up with daughters. I could go about telling you the story… but then thinking of not spoiling the movie for you…. so go and watch it.

but keep in mind. It is the inconvenient truth. might be disturbing in some parts. Not gross, but just disturbing. The movie is beautifully shot. the story gets somewhat hilarious in 2nd half (at least for me), and but slow in first half. and dont understand why they picked atif aslam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol_(film)

http://bolthemovie.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1891757/

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=54580&Cat=9

Who will guard against bodyguard?

Live blogging from bodyguard screening…

Movie preview- yet another salman action flick 2.5/5
Expect sallu to be the mindless action guru and kareena the typical bhartiya naari

30mins into the film – bad jokes… not vulgar, but same old stupid jokes… and the suppporting actress looks much better than kareena… dont recall her name..

Ok.. now first half is a boring love story… or should i say boring lovely singh story

The lovely effect is like the nightingale effect… tumne meri jaan bachayee.. and now i will love you.. wow..so original..

The action director loves splits.. every other goonda ends up in a split.. poor souls… Isse toh acha maar daalta..

And for the analyst bend – cinema hall utilization at ~70percent..

This is killing me… 2hrs into the film, but whr r the fight scenes… and  sallu showing off for song!!! Yaar ek dhang ka fight toh dikha do…

Spoiler alert.

Kuch kuch hota hai ending… i rest my case

The ultimate phone buying guide – sep 2011

Yeah… Look no further my friends… This IS the ultimate phone buying guide. No, really. No kidding. Having seen my friends go through bad times (read phones misplaced/lost or having a 2yr phone which does nothing apart from calling) i have come up with a small list… or a helpful guide if i may

But first… If you are a fanboy (apple or nokia) read no further. No matter what I say, frog will not come out of the well.

So let's start the game
How much you got at disposal??
>35k – iphone (it is the best out thr)
>25k – samsung galaxy s2 and htc sensation (in that order)
>15k – samsung galaxy ace, nokia e7 series
>10k – sasta nokia e series
>5k – nokia C5
<5k – samsung hero

Hav fun

book cover – iFraud

callcenter-fraud-lovestory. novel by Ananth. .

 

iFraud – a book by my friend Ananth. Designed the coverpage for the bookread more about the book

 

www.ifraudthecallcenter.com

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004WG5LMU

 

http://www.pubmatch.org

Science fiction

Somewhere in distant future:

Boy1: this is the tiger spacecraft
Boy2: What is that?
Boy1: it is the latest inter galactic solar powered….
Boy2: no, what is a tiger?

To see or not to see (in HD that is)

Always failed to understand the hoopah-hullah behind HD tv, HD movie, HD games or HD anything… For me everything was standard definition.

And one fine day the difference between standard definition and HD was crystal clear. I attained HD nirvana. Not from a state of the art LED TV with some Bravia-silver-nano or a 1080p home projector. Neither from some Tata sky box which amir khan wants to desperately sell to me. And my laptop doesn’t qualify as it’s old news. IMHO laptop’s had HD resolution since ever and the TV’s are just trying to catch up. So just leave out the laptops for this case.

No gizmos. Just plain simple old-fashioned glasses. Or rather reading glasses. Yep. Plain simple reading glasses. The effect is quite dramatic. With tears in my eyes I watch the beautiful world unfold by me… The leaves more visible, number plates started to make sense, billboards were more than pictures…. And most importantly, Sheila ki Jawani didn’t ever look so jawaan…