Brokenshard

2005-02-15T16:42:00.000+05:30

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Happy Valentine's Day ...

2005-02-14T17:04:00.000+05:30

Sometimes pianos are also interesting...

and I like the way she plays her piano too.

Happy Valentine's Day.

It was so simple in the old days...

2005-02-14T13:28:00.000+05:30

I remember those days when Internet Explorer was the only king. Now with Firefox and Opera jumping in, I end up using all three for different reasons. Each browser has its share of pros and cons, which in the end is a fuckin problem.

Internet Explorer: Pros:

Compatibility
Universal support ( i.e like from external apps)
Popup Blocking
Free

Internet Explorer: Cons:

No Tabbed Browsing
Heavyweight process
Huge Memory Fingerprint
No integrated Ad bocking (apps are available though)
Slow "Web page Save" feature
Needs to be all patched to remove all security holes

Mozilla Firefox: Pros:

Tabbed Browsing
Extensions
Popup Blocking
Compatibilty
Free

Mozilla Firefox: Cons:

High Memory fingerprint
Bad tabs support
Is good only after extensions are installed
Fucked up with blogdrive's commenting system

Opera: Pros:

Fast... And I mean vrooooom-like-fast
Lightweight
Low memory footprint
Excellent Tab Browsing implementation
Mail + RSS/News integration
Popup blocking
High degree of customization

Opera: Cons:

Doesnt support some sites. esp. Blogger.com (only if you want to post/edit stuff using the blogger interface)
Not absolutely free. Displays Ads until registered. (Doesnt contain any adware/spyware)
No good Ad blocker available.

So basically I use Opera. But if I need to post from blogger, then I use IE/Firefox. If I need to comment on blogdrive, then I have to use Opera again. I love the adblock extension for firefox, but I hate the clumsy-ness of firefox's tabbed browsing. I love Opera's speed but it lacks a good ad blocker, even though there are some out there, none of them are as good as adblock. IE is good when its all patched up, but its web page saving feature is slow. Moreover, I have to use something like Maxthon, to get all the tab browsing and other features.

On the whole, I end up using all three browsers at some point of time. This may sound a little too picky, but thats the way it is. As of now I am sticking to Opera. Opera is still the best browser out there. But to become the king, it needs, in my opinion, an Adblocker and support for sites like blogger.

see ya

Damn it.... the poll got all screwed up

2005-02-14T13:14:00.000+05:30

Bascially you need to re-poll your vote. :)

see ya

Update 1: The poll's broken, so dont vote. damn it. New poll coming up soon. :)

Update 2: The new poll is up. back to pollhost till I figure out whats wrong with mypolls.net, and yeah vote away...

Give me some names...

2005-02-14T12:25:00.000+05:30

Its been three days into the holidays and I am running out of options now. I have been watching movies all this time, but I am running out of them as well. I have till now seen these:

The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Shawshank Redemption
Page 3
The Pianist
The Terminal

and I have these lying around to se:

Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Lilo and Stitch
Taxi Driver
The Graduate
When Harry met Sally

Of those, I am not very excited about watching "When Harry met Sally" and "The Graduate". The rest I will watch within the next two days. What I need from you guys is to suggest me some good movies. They need not be new movies, but they must definitely be good ones. Movies with their DVDs out are preferred. Check out my old movies list, so that you dont repeat any of them. ;)

The one who suggests me the most movies and if I like 50% of them, they get a prize. So go go go...

see ya

PS: I would like some suggestions for prizes as well. :D

fizzzle!

2005-02-12T22:33:00.000+05:30

Check this out

Guaranteed laugh. ;)
This is what happened to my sis' entry...

Guest Blizzay 1: Blogg'n n you
My fizzay "Guest Blizzay ... yay!

Blogg'n n you
-by Ruchi Saxena ( mah big drug deala ;) )

I don’t kizzle if this is true or not... But I guess if you stizzart perpetratin'. you start ta enjoy life!!!!

Thizzink of it…

If you start ta bizzle & somehow if you git addicted ta Ho-slappin'. you may
stizzart ta look at life in a vizzle different light... you may "in F-to-tha-izzact" stizzart trippin' at incidences in yo life (or someone else’s) as potentials ta be on yo blog... anyth'n tizzy is a bit funny, interest'n or embarrass'n would be considered a bootylicious shiznit ta put on tha blog mah nizzle.

Thiznat ways, you may actually stizzay mobbin' life…

Rhymin' attention ta tha smallest possible humour element in a bor'n conversizzle. (Yeah, ho-slappin' conversizzles is also a subject ta blizzay 'bout) & you may even end up being a "human" reada..

There may be many more good th'n you may end up dippin'.

So, hey blogga….

PS . Ya fuck with us, we gots to fuck you up: Though this may sound like a “Blog now” kinda advertizzles. It is not . Relax, cus I'm bout to take my respect. It jizzy happened that I decided ta write sum'm sum'm fo' mah brotha’s blog… & wizzell, I didn’t know where ta start…

PPS: And Brokenshard is not pay'n me fo' this… :(

see ya

PS: Sunny is translated to S-U-Double-Nizzy. How cool is that?!!! :D

Time for a new poll!!!

2005-02-11T15:18:00.000+05:30

Ok so the last poll went fine enough, with most people voting for "I dont wake up that much" (5). Also a cool total of 11 votes... yay!.. hehe....
Anyway this week's poll is kinda "me me me" one... so go on and tell me how much you missed me.
see ya

You know when you are bored...

2005-02-11T14:56:00.000+05:30

You know you are bored when you wander around inside the house searching for things you can juggle with.

You know you are bored when you wake up at 1:00 am in the morning to watch an episode of Friends.

You know you are bored when you visit www.bash.org 32 times in and hour.

You know you are bored when you wake up all grumpy even after a good 4 hour sleep.

You know you are bored when you spend more time watching TV than sleeping.

You know you are bored when you fingers dont ache changing channels on your TV.

You know you are bored when you start visiting warez sites just to catch something interesting.

You know you are bored when soap operas start sounding cool!.

You know you are bored when Gordan Freeman with a crowbar aint interesting enough.

You know you are bored when you spend a whole bunch of moolah buying chocolates.

You know you are bored when you start watching golf, LIVE!.

You know you are bored when the best site on the web are the news sites.

You know you are bored when you put your single song playlist on infinite repeat.

You know you are bored when you start searching the web for good screensavers.

You know you are bored .... I can go on forever.

I am bored for eternity.

see ya

PS: entertain me ? ;)

The "I am Back" blog

2005-02-11T14:35:00.000+05:30

OK this is just here cuz I love doing it. :)

Guest Blog 1: Blogging and you

2005-02-08T01:09:00.000+05:30

My first "Guest Blog" ... yay!

Blogging and you
-by Ruchi Saxena ( my big sister ;) )

I don’t know if this is true or not...
But I guess if you start blogging... you start to enjoy life!!!!

Think of it…

If you start to blog & somehow if you get addicted to “Blogging”... you may start to look at life in a very different light... you may "in fact" start looking at incidences in your life (or someone else’s) as potentials to be on your blog... anything that is a bit funny, interesting or embarrassing would be considered a great stuff to put on the blog.

That ways, you may actually start enjoying life…

Paying attention to the smallest possible humour element in a boring conversation... (Yeah, boring conversations are also a subject to blog about) & you may even end up being a "human" reader... Yeah, otherwise how would you explain the actions & gestures a person makes while talking on paper...???

There may be many more good things you may end up acquiring...

So, hey bloggers….. Do you think "Blogging" has changed the way you look at LIFE? :)

PS: Though this may sound like a “Blog now” kinda advertisement... It is not. It just happened that I decided to write something for my brother’s blog… & well, I didn’t know where to start…

PPS: And Brokenshard is not paying me for this… :(

Anyone else interested in a "Guest blog"!? mail me at brokenshard AT gmail DOT com and become famous.... hehe... kinda famous... atleast 5 people will know you for sure !!! :D

see ya

Exams...

2005-02-02T18:59:00.000+05:30

Heya,

Feb 2, 2005:
Exams. exams. exams. busy. busy. busy. exams. exams.

Feb 11, 2005:
free. free. free. blog. blog. blog. free. free. free. free.

see ya

Crappy project mentor!

2005-01-31T19:31:00.000+05:30

The project submission viva:

Project Mentor (The guy who knows nothing, but is there to ask questions): What did you do in this project?
MeH (in my head): Obvious question...
Me: Design and coding.

PM: What is that?
MeH: WTF!
Me: Sir that means along with writing the actual code I also came up with the design of the software.

PM: Yes. What is that design?
MeH: *modified dialogue from some movie* you are either incredibly stupid or amazingly smart.
Me : *flipping to the pages with the GUI in the documentation* The design means the interface that a user uses to interact with the software.

PM: OK, so what did the other guys do?
MeH: Like I didn't see that coming...
Me: They also did parts of the coding and helped\corrected me in the designing part.

PM: So you have used... .NET, XML... why did u use .NET?
MeH: no seriously is this a default question that you have to ask everyone????
Me: cuz sir all of us were acquainted with .NET and hence comfortable with it.

PM: tell me another platform similar to .NET.
MeH: ...
Me: Java, sir.

PM: So why didn't you use java?
MeH: Ok he is really dumb.
Me: Sir as I said, we were comfortable with .NET, and so we used it.

PM: But you could have used java?
MeH: seriously d00d... ask me something about the project!
Me: yes sir we could have.

PM: Then why didn't you?
MeH: LMAO
Me: cuz sir the .NET IDE is much better than that of java and is better suited for rapid action software designing.

PM: OK.
MeH: I bet you didn't understand a word... did ya?
Me: ...

PM: Tell me why did u name your project Web-Center?
MeH: Ok I will take satisfaction in the fact that at least its something about the project!
Me: Well sir we have two applications here, an RSS reader and a web browser. We have integrated them together in one interface and named it Web-Center.

PM: No. but why web-center?
MeH: I want to go home....
Me: sir cuz both the apps are web based and we have integrated them into a single "centralized" application.

PM: yeah...
MeH: oh you needed that fucking keyword... its not google you know!
Me: yeah sir.

PM: So which language did u code it in?
MeH: ...
Me: VB.NET

PM: Why not something else?
MeH: dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
Me: Sir cuz. we. are. acquainted. with. vb.. net.

PM: *stares*
MeH: damn it.... there goes my marks
Me: *BIG SMILE*

PM: OK you go.
MeH: seriously! don't you have anything else to ask me? Like what is my name? where do I live? or maybe ask me the difference between java and Hawaii!
Me: Thank you sir.

MeH: I am going home..... w00t!

Guess I got the answer....

2005-01-30T13:47:00.000+05:30

Remember when I posted about The psychology of a blogger and I tried to escape the question merely because there were way too many reasons for it. But then there are people who have a lot more time than I have and they think much better as well. Just saw this over at rediff and it truly gives an insight to a blogger's psychology. I disagree with some of the points he makes but more or less they are all pretty good reasons. Take a read...
see ya

Help me!

2005-01-28T20:09:00.000+05:30

"In prison, a man will do almost anything to keep his mind occupied"
- Red, Shawshank Redemption

Right now with almost nothing to do, home kinda feels like a prison. I need myself to be occupied with something. I just need to figure out that "something"!

Smiley extension test

2005-01-28T15:51:00.000+05:30

This is a test post, with lots and lots of smilies....

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PS: get the smiley extension for firefox here .

Ahh! Coincidences!

2005-01-27T17:38:00.000+05:30

So I was sleeping and all and suddenly I hear this loud thundering noise. The incredible laziness of mine didnt even bother to wake me up. I kept sleeping and start thinking what the hell can that be???. I thought it was an earthquake. But earthquakes make things shake and there was no such thing going on or atleast I didnt feel anything. Maybe its like that sound and light thing, maybe the shivers come in late after you hear the sound. But naah nothing happened. Just when I was about to get back to sleeping...i mean continue with it, I heard one more BIG thunder. OK this time my laziness was not my first priority. I dont want to go to hell and curse my laziness for my death. Cuz that will be plain old pathetic. Anyway I stood straight up, which btw took a good 10-20 seconds. I guess the laziness thing drives my body.
OK, I think i had opened my eyes by now, but everything was still dark. Kinda freaky though, scary actually. Anyway I turn around and see the disco lights and feel relived. Yes I said disco lights and no I am sure about it. Basically if I switch on all the electronics stuff in my room, I have a green LED on my computer tower, one green LED on my monitor, one green LED on my speaker, one green LED on my keyboard, one green LED on my UPS system, one green LED on my other UPS, three green LEDs on my cable modem one red LED on my USB card reader, one red LED on my UPS system, one bright LCD on my mobile, one bright orange light from my mosquito repelent thing and one red light from my mains. OK so if you guys counted then it totals upto fifteen LEDs in all. Now about half of them fluctuate with their operation. I hope you get it now what I meant with disco lights. :). The shard is a very colourful guy you know. :)
Anyway, so once I saw all those lights I did realise that okay I can see and that there is no need to panic. So what was that thunder all about? Now here comes the coincidence. Its pretty cold these days so I had all my windows closed. And I was not able to tell by looking at the clock whether it was day or night. And before you ask, I didnt had any idea at that time about when I slept. Okay so instead of opening the window and just looking outside to tell what time it is, I decided to look at the time on my computer. I got off my bed and started moving towards my computer, which btw is not very far away. Two steps to be precise. Wonder why I talk about being lazy so much. Okay as soon as I moved my mouse to get rid of that Mac-like flurry screensaver, whoop! it shutsdown!! And I go....awawawwww????%@$#%^???? WTF!!!! Before I could realise what the hell happened, I hear that loud thunder again. Scared? a little, but as long as nothing is shaking or dropping on my head, its fine. Soon I realised that all my LEDs have gone off as well. Now everything made sense. It was just a power failure.
So I decided to just open the goddamn window and see whats going on. I had to walk back the two steps, climb on my bed and open my window, all the way thinking that if teh computer would have gone off a little earlier could have just saved myslef the two steps I had just taken.
Anyway, so I opened and to my utter surprise, it was raining. It was fucking raining! Its strange, cuz it never rains around this time of the year in this part of the world. But now, finally everything made sense. The thundering sounds, the power failure. It was dark outside so I assumed its early morning, which I was right. I think. The sweet smell of the soil made me realise that I was on the bed and a very cozy blanket was lying nearby. It didnt take me long to take that decision and I curled up inside in a ziffy. See we lazy people do work hard for being lazy. I bet nobody can make their way inside a bed as fast as I can.
I woke up late at around 10:30. Normal. It was windy by now and hell it was chilly. Wait a second...... goddddammmn this post will take up the entire page.!!! you still reading??? hello??? hello??? anybody there???? arghhh....
see ya

New Poll time

2005-01-27T11:35:00.000+05:30

So most of my voters are either the laziest people on earth or are students. Well...

Anyway, a new poll is up and this time around you can comment on it as well. This one looks kinda better free poll service. So... see ya.

Questions...

2005-01-26T14:51:00.000+05:30

1. If you sleep at an unknown time\date and wake up in a closed room with nothing but an old style analog clock/watch, would you be able to tell whether its day or night just by looking at the clock?

2. The genre of "Rock" music has a huge number of variations. What among them are "true" rock? An explanation with examples would be cool.

3. Can an animated movie ever get nominated for "best film" at the oscars or has it ever happened?

4. Who started the rumours about Arethusa and violent threats?

5. How long can you go without sleep?

I have more but for now let me stop here.... :)
see ya

Seems all slow...

2005-01-24T13:19:00.001+05:30

The blogging world seems all slow to me.... :(. I leave you guys for some days and all of you go to sleep indefinitely. WTF!?. I guess I will have to gather up all of Arethusa's peer pressure to make everybody blog more often. :)

Arethusa was on a break, for reasons still unknown. But now that she is back, start posting!!.
Darth, it seems after feeding himself with delecacies from all over the world is busy playing with his Mac Mini! Damn it :(.
DK has already taken a fucking retirement from blogging. Again for reasons unknown.
Kiranmoy seems to blog now only in a couple of weeks. Like a summary! WTF!
Nando is ... well.... leave it. No point. :D
MAsh I expect is busy with his college fest. So cant blame him a lot. See guys, the advantage of "giving a reason", you dont get all this crap from the shard. :)

All this time only cedia had me thoroughly ... ahem... entertained... she's been wwayyy too horny lately. :)
Come on guys... start blogging again. :D
see ya
PS: Radio blogs dont count. :)
Note to self: Blog dumbhead!

I love "I am back" posts :D

2005-01-22T23:31:00.000+05:30

After my couple of days being busy, I was blessed with a burnt up motherboard and a screwed up power supply. To the less informed that means my computer was all fucked up!. After a couple of days of "relaxing" without any access to computers, I finally got off my lazy ass and got the necessary replacements. Now as I type, everything seems to be running all fine and cool. Hope it stays that way for atleast 6-8 months. ;)
So basically what I wanted to say was that, "I AM BACK!". hehe.... I AM FUCKING BACK! :)
phew... now that felt great!.
Btw, You know what's not great!?.
Kisna.
I predicted that it will either be a great movie or a very bad one. BUt unfortunately I was wrong. The movie is excellent for the first half of it. But after the intermission its one massive freak show with Ghai(the movie's director) having no fucking idea of what he is doing! I mean he literally ruins the movie and makes it from something groundbreaking to something that will be best buried and forgotten.
I will laugh like hell if somebody still goes to watch that crappy movie. I still cant believe I am saying all this even though the first half of the movie was amazing. blaaah. fuck.
see ya

PS: I AM BACK!!!! :D

Busy busy busy...

2005-01-18T19:30:00.000+05:30

I will be very very busy for the next couple of days or more. Expect a low frequency of my blabbering here.

Feel relieved.

See ya

New poll Time :)

2005-01-17T18:11:00.000+05:30

If the last poll wasnt crazy enough, here we go again... :D
As for the results of the last poll (as if anyone cares!), most(3) voted for the top floor penthouse. I disregarded 3 votes from nando, cuz they were rigged. again.:).
So see ya and vote away....

This is just tooooo godddaamn funny

2005-01-17T11:29:00.000+05:30

Click here and have the biggest laugh of your life

see ya

Movies in 2005 : List I

2005-01-16T22:10:00.000+05:30

The Bollywood List:

There is this article over at indiatimes with the hottest movies to watch out for this year, and I must say there are some big ones coming this year. Here is my list, arranged in order of most anticipated to the least:

Kisna - The Warrior Poet : This movie according to me will be either too good or well... just plain bad. Guess we have to wait and watch. Meanwhile guys, help me out a little. Watch this teaser here and this trailer. Wait till the last where you see that one legged dance move. Fuck!, explain how that was done :o.
Dus : This movie was being touted as one which will changed bollywood forever. Unfortunately the director died before he could finish it up. Its songs got pretty popular. Its been picked up again and I hope it lives upto those expectations.
Black : I hate Sanjay Leela Bhansali. I hate him. I simply fucking HATE him. I mean what the fuck was "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". And what in the blue hell was "Devdas" .... Devaaaaaaaa ... Devaaaaaa... Anyway, I love Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee plus its storyline seems so cool. I hope it changes my views about that I-will-bring-my-mother-everywhere-director that is Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Shahrukh Khan's next home production : I have become quite a fan of SRK within he last few months. Not a "Fan-boy" type of fan, but a general I-dont-fucking-hate-him kind of fan. And to be very honest, I loved "Asoka" and "Phir bhi dil hai hindustani", so this next movie of his is pretty high on my hitlist.
The Rising : Amir Khan's new movie after Lagaan. Now that was quite a lonnng break I must say. And considering that Lagaan did make it to the Oscars, I have some pretty high hopes about this movie. Lets see...
Koi Mil Gaya Sequel : Just for the heck of it. What can they do? I just want to know that. They run the risk of blowing it up! and kill the fun and charm of "Koi Mil Gaya".
Phir Hera Pheri : If comedy is something you like, then Paresh rawal is what you love!. And Phir Hera Pheri (Sequel to the best new age comedy Hera Pheri) is what I will wait with all eyes popped out of my eye ball cavities(!!!! what a sentence !!!!).

So these were my anticipated movies this year. I know most of you didnt understand all that. Dont worry coming up next is the Hollywood list for my ...ahem... well.... "international audience"... :D.
see ya

Google facts!

2005-01-16T11:32:00.000+05:30

Such a huge company and yet so rare!. These are some of the facts about google...

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked 'Whats up?' to which they replied "We are waiting for the rest of it". To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.
One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the "Did you mean..." feature. This instantly doubled their traffic, but they had some interesting discussions on how best to place that information, as most people simply tuned that out. But they discovered the placement at the bottom of the results was the most effective area.
The infamous "I feel lucky" is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
Orkut is very popular in Brazil. Orkut was the brainchild of a very intelligent Google engineer who was pretty much given free reign to run with it, without having to go through the normal Google UI procedures, hence the reason it doesn't look or feel like a Google application. They are looking at improving Orkut to cope with the loads it places on the system.
Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
Google has the largest network of translators in the world
They use the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the 'Advanced Preferences'.
They have found in user testing, that a small number of people are very typical of the larger user base. They run labs continually and always monitoring how people use a page of results.
The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'
Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn't emailing a blackhole.
Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.
This wasn't a technical talk so no information regarding any infrastructure was presented however they did note that they have a mantra of aiming to give back each page with in 500ms, rendered.
Quote: Give Users What They Want When They Want It
Quote: Integrate Sensibly

click here for the source.

see ya

Technical problems ruins the day(s)

2005-01-14T15:33:00.000+05:30

Yeha, sometimes tech sucks. I wasnt able to blog for the last 2 days because of my box going way too crazy. Nothing to do with Windows (tooo much Mac love all around). It was some hardware problem which will be too boring to explain here. Anyway this did mess up my "I will try to blog everyday" thingie. But since it was purely technical and as I said I will "try" to blog everyday, I think I am still going to belive that I am doing a pretty good job (I would ignore any opinions regarding this statement of mine ;) ).
The next couple of weeks look tougher than ever. I have my internal exams, sessionals, project submission, the webdesign stuff and my end semester exams. WOW! That was indeed a long list, wasnt it!
OK then see ya. Look forward to some cedia like absolutely bitching posts about the upcoming days. I am sure they will be hell-turned-around-to-kick-me-in-my-ass kind of days.
See ya
PS: Wishing the sleeping blogger DK a happy "13th January" birthday.

Flexible Keyboard!

2005-01-11T19:51:00.000+05:30

Spotted this on 3dvelocity today, and I must say it looks kinda useful. Imagine having a keyboard which doesnt make any sound while typing, is thinner than any other keyboard out there plus can be folded and flexed all over!. Even though I would miss the sound of the key tapping, this looks pretty neat. I dont know how use-able this thing is but it sure wont freak out if somebody spills some liquidy stuff over it. :D

See ya

Tough day huh!

2005-01-10T22:52:00.000+05:30

Funny pic... courtesy my sis! :)

see ya

Why do we blog? The psychology of a blogger...

2005-01-09T15:30:00.000+05:30

I was talking with my sis the other day and she played the intellectual card of "Why do I blog?". Dont you just hate it when somebody asks you a very obvious question but you dont have the slightest idea of what the answer is?. To top it all, she followed it by an even more scary question of "What is the psychology of a blogger?". That was it for me. Being the stupid thinker I am, I wasted quite some time (15 minutes to be precise) thinking the answers for those two questions. This is what I came up with.

Q: Why do I blog?
A: I blog because I was bored and had nothing else to do. The Blogging medium helps me jot down stuff I would otherwise just blabber about and forget. But the most prominent reason to why I still blog is because of the readers. People who actually read what you write and comment about it. The simple fact that the blog becomes a small community of yours is simply incredible. So there, thats my reason for blogging.

Q: What is the psychology of a blogger?
A: 15 minutes were not enough for me to think about that.

so there... my 5 bucks.

see ya
Note to sis: Please dont ask such questions again. I dont like to think a lot. :p

Crazy!... again.

2005-01-08T13:36:00.000+05:30

If the last few days werent crazy enough... I had a completely weird saturday as well. :o

My college starts pretty early in the morning(7:30 AM is definitely early morning). I am usually late to college. Though its generally courtesy durgesh. Damn he always wakes up late. Even after I call to wake him up. Anyway we were late again. But I still went through and pained my way through the first class. Then came a brilliant idea! Me and one of my friend decided to bunk the second class and go for a "morning walk"! Yeah, true. We were pretty bored and niether of us wanted to do the class. We got out of the class, just in time if I may add, and started walking. We have now decided that we will bunk one class everyday and go for a morning walk. :)... weird heh!.

If that was not enough for the day, we came back and attended two more classes of even more utterly boring subjects! Sometimes I wonder what went wrong this week. Everything started and ended in the most weirdest way possible. Brilliant start to the New Year! :D

Btw its amazing taking a walk on late winter mornings. Fun! :)

see ya

PS: Btw, I am never late and mostly attend all my classes. Just been weird lately. :D

Downright crazy!

2005-01-07T22:21:00.000+05:30

Blah! Blah! Blah!
Blueh! Bluah! Bleeh!
Bhulla! Bhulli! bhullu!
Blaaa! Bleee! bluuu!
Bleenk!
Blueh! Bluah! Bleeh!
Bhulla! Bhulli! bhullu!
Blaaa! Bleee! bluuu!
Blaank!
Blueh! Bluah! Bleeh!
Bhulla! Bhulli! bhullu!
Blaaa! Bleee! bluuu!
Bluunk!

Sorry about that. Some crazy guy with a strange vocab took over. :D

See ya
PS: thanks for liking my BSM|GSM|WSM post. :)

Vote for Aishwarya!!!

2005-01-06T22:41:00.000+05:30

yeah vote!! No! not on my poll... its crap anyway.

Vote at Hellomagazine.com and help Aishwarya Rai become the most Attractive and Elegant women of 2004. She is the lone entry there from India. :(... so go go go ... vote away!

Link: Most Attractive Women and Most Elegant Woman

From the current voting it seems she will win the Most Elegant Woman thing very easily, but she is trailing by a huge margin(though at 2nd spot) in the other category. Now we dont want her to come 2nd, do we?

see ya

New poll time :)

2005-01-05T22:48:00.000+05:30

Paparazzis are bad(3) and ugly(3) as well. Overwhelming victory for paparazzi haters. So, I wont blabber much ;).
New "crazy" poll is up. Answer wisely and leave a comment for you answer. :)

see ya

Bored.... Talking to myself

2005-01-04T22:56:00.000+05:30

The good side of me (GSM): Dude, the last week or so has been so bad...
The bad side of me (BSM): Fuck you d00d, its great I say. Population control, I say.
The weird side of me (WSM): What are we talking about?

BSM: *whacks WSM on the back of his head*... Use you head fuckin dumb head.
GSM: Come on take it easy. We are talking about the Tsunami tragedy across South Asia.
WSM: oh ok.

GSM: How can u be so ruthless BSM? So many people lost their lives and you say its population control.
BSM: Well, yeah people died... I say better die in masses than die here and there all over the year! Ah that fucking rhymed!
WSM: Are we rhyming? Cuz I am bad at that. :(

BSM: Yes WSM we are rhyming. Cuz we know that you suck at it! :D
GSM: No WSM, we aren’t rhyming. BSM is just teasing you. Seriously though BSM, I don’t like what you say. We are talking about lives here, not shopping.
BSM: What’s the big deal?
WSM: Can we talk shopping?

*long pause. nosy stares. wtf?*

GSM: Anyway, I think this was the way Mother Nature wanted to strike back. It was long overdue...
BSM: Mother Nature! What fucking mother? She must be one cool bitch, cuz she took out over 100,000 people in one freaking swoop! ... Damn her kids are screwed.
WSM: Mother Nature? I didn’t knew our Mother's name was nature. Why are you guys deviating from the topic? :-?

*long pause. nosy stares. deviating?... Big word. wtf?*

BSM: I think it’s about time we strike back at Mother Nature. Let’s go cut some trees and pluck some flowers. What do you say guys? Rock and Roll!!! :D
WSM: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
GSM: Come on guys please... this is serious stuff. Don’t make fun of it.
BSM: I am not making fun of it. I am fucking serious.
WSM: Fun is good.

*long stare at each other*

BSM: Listen d00d, its not that I don’t give a damn. I do. But why do we worry for their carelessness? They should have put some warning system up there! Like the rest of the world has.
GSM: Yes you are right. But this has happened for the first time in the history of Indian Ocean. People only learn from their mistakes and experiences. Cut them some slack.
WSM: Indian Ocean? I thought we were talking about Tsunami. What has she to do with the Indian Ocean? She sounds to me like a Japanese or Chinese chick.

*whack by BSM... followed by another whack from GSM*

GSM: Sorry WSM, but that was utterly ridiculous.
BSM: hehe.
WSM: Sorry. :(

GSM: BSM, even if they had a good warning system, it wouldn’t have helped them a lot. It’s hard to predict earthquakes you know. In fact it’s impossible.
BSM: Actually I was talking about putting in more Lifeguards.
WSM: Now I am totally lost.
GSM: Shut up.
BSM: Shut the fuck up.

GSM: Lifeguards? How would they help?
BSM: Have you ever seen Baywatch? Yasmeen Bleeth and Pamela Anderson can do anything to save lives. I mean fucking anything. yeah that. ;)
WSM: I like Yasmeen Bleeth.
GSM: You sick perverted idiot. Can’t you think of anything else other than Yasmeen Bleeth.
BSM: Yes, I did mention Pamela Anderson as well :D.
WSM: yeha... yeha. I love them when they run!

*BSM High Fives WSM. GSM stares with shock*

GSM: OK that’s it. You guys are beyond me.
BSM: Well I never said that we were.
WSM: What’s beyond us?

GSM and BSM in chorus: For ONE FINAL TIME SHUT THE FUCK UP.

GSM: Ok that does it, I am off to watch some news or something.
BSM: Yeah I am going as well. I don’t give a damn to your views. Anyway, I have to catch up with some pr0n.
WSM: Can I come?
GSM: Yeah sure WSM. I would be glad if you could join me. :)
WSM: I wasn’t talking to you.
GSM: Damn it.
BSM: hehe.... that was a GOOD day.

see ya

Damn it!

2005-01-03T22:54:00.000+05:30

Its 1 hour to go before the day ends and I dont want to fail "trying" so early in the year. So, this blog. :D

see ya

1 fucking TB!

2005-01-02T16:26:00.000+05:30

OK Gmail started it all. But this is getting wayyyy crazy.
Here is a list of free mail services that are giving out more than a GB of mail space.

Gmail: Whoever came up with this idea was a fucking genious. I donno whether the other services will hold up, but Gmail is here to stay.
Mailbox Size: 1000MB
Crazyness meter: Extreme
Rediffmail: Our very own Indian portal. It was the first mail service(I think) that came out after Gmail with huge amount of space.
Mailbox Size: 1024 MB
Crazyness meter: WTF?
Omnilect: This was the third service that I encountered through nando. It has a simple interface, but nothing new and exciting.
Mailbox Size: 2000 MB
Crazyness meter: High
United Email Systems: This one is by far the most strange of all. It has an excellent interface. Plus an advanced interface for IE6 + WinXP, which simply rocks. Though its not that good to make me move back to IE.
Mailbox Size: 3072 MB
Crazyness meter: Strange
Hellacious Riders: This one tops it all. Its a mail service provided by a motorcycle site! what! yes.... and it surpasses everything you can think of. Btw, its sponsored by Kawasaki! :D
Mailbox Size: 1 TB ( I dont even want to know how much that is in MB!)
Crazyness meter: Diabolical

There may be more services out there which I dont know of yet. Lets see where this chaos will eventually end up. As of now, for me, Gmail is the king.
see ya

25 + 1 things I will try to do in 2005: (psst.... these are not resolutions)

2005-01-02T02:21:00.000+05:30

I will try to sleep less.
I will try to blog everyday.
I will try to eat more.
I will try to watch more TV.
I will try to sleep early.
I will try not to comment on political issues.
I will try not to preach.
I will try to watch a lot more movies.
I will try not to say NO again to free food.
I will try start wearing formals.
I will try to resist Black.
I will try to obey rules.
I will try not to hate authority.
I will try reading blog poems.
I will try to stop visualising the jokes made on actiontrip.
I will try to start reading comics other than Garfield.
I will try to be polite.
I will try to better my programming skills.
I will try to listen to music genres besides rock.
I will try not to write anymore of my crappy poems.
I will try to come up with better polls.
I will try to get angry more often.
I will try to get a haircut more often.
I will try to not get scared from flying insects.
I will try to keep my options open.
I will try not to do things I try to do.

see ya

January 01, 2005. yay!

2005-01-01T03:30:00.000+05:30

Happy new year!!!
I could have written that in BIG RED BOLD text... but naah nando has already done that ;).

Just finished watching "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind" and wow!... thanks to arethusa's list. Once again. :)

Lets see how this year shapes out.... Btw, No resolutions this time around. Yipeeee!!! :D

Please bear with me

2004-12-30T13:56:00.000+05:30

Some days back I woke up to find my computer's speakers all fucked up. They were making some sound, though it was something definitely out of this world. High treble and no bass plus no volume! It sounded like those UFO ships with the beeping sound and all. ahem... yesh! I have seen an UFO! Just that its not an UFO, cuz its not Unknown anymore... well... I know... so it was just a FO - Flying Object. Crap. Right. As I said, please bear with me. Just this one more time. Anyway, after hearing them and turning all possible knobs to all possible directions and beyond, I finally gave up. Yup! I waste a lot of time before I give up. Good thing na? yeah right!. That was it. I was cursing my luck like hell. All I could see was that stack of DVDs lying nearby, looking at me with all the innocence in the world. Now what? Repair them? Buy new ones?... yeah baby! Buy new ones!.

Ok so I need to fork out some bucks again from my folks. Luckily my sis had arrived the same day, so the movie maniac support was with me!. That was good enough. She handed me the ATM card and whooosh I was. Nowadays I dont give a damn whether I am getting a good deal or not. I just need that thing and I wont run along a lot of shops just to get the best price. So I looked at 2 shops in all and bought a cheap but nice 5.1 speaker set. Now finally after 4 years I have a decent and loud sound system. Its freaking out my mom though. But what the heck... its cool!.

I have a lot of movies queued up for today. Most of them are the ones I wanted to watch plus some movies from arethusa's recent movie list. Will be watching "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind" followed by "Gangs of New York". Sis will be watching "I, Robot" which means I will watch it again for the 3rd time.
Ok thats it... I have had enough... need to sleep. :D
see ya

The year 2004, word by word, event by event

2004-12-29T14:25:00.000+05:30

Events that, well kept me busy for a while in 2004.

Brokenshard: Finally a nick that I will stick to forever.

Blogging: Settle. Blabber. Comment, and people read it too! Great!. And I am happy to have such cooool readers. :)

Antar-atma (soul): Sonia Gandhi used this word repeatedly in her epic "I won and let me shock the nation now" speech.

And make no mistakes about it: George W. Bush's pet line. He was in for for good and bad reasons. All reasons were bad for me though.

PC: No, not Personal Computer. PC only meant P.Chidambaram this year.

Nokia Ngage: Browse through my blog and you will have rough idea what the fuck does those two words mean to me.

DPS, MMS, Mid-Day: Yay! the rise of the paparazzi.

Reality shows: Super Singer, Indian Idol, Harsha ki khoj... just too much.

Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore: For silver at the Olympics.

Movies: Cuz I think there were many that rocked big time. Main Hoon Na and Ab Tak Chappan top the list.

Veerappan: Finally he died... but not without a bang.

Cricket: The ups and downs... fun as always.

The Ambanis: The perfect family. The most incredible fight.

Vibranz '04: I was never this busy. I was never so excited.

P.V.Narsimha Rao: I will remember him for all the worng reasons.

Kalinga Institute of Technology and Science: Cuz I played with those 6 words with disastrous results.

Half Life 2: The biggest hype, mammoth expectations, incredible live-up.

Thats all that I can remember as of now... will update as I rememeber :)

Tsunami: Wrath of Nature.

This link sums it all.

See ya

Testicles of the Dried Skeleton!

2004-12-29T01:44:00.000+05:30

I bet you arent hearing that for the first time. That line/sentence/phrase, whatever it is, came out of nowhere when I was suggesting kmoy some names for an orkut community. And amazingly enough it has evolved into a Blog of its own now. Thanks to kmoy's initiative. Check it out here. I recommend you bookmark it, cuz typing that long a URL aint something I would prefer myself. I said bookmark it, not that read it everyday. Though I would love that as well!. If you are wondering whats it all about?, I say go check it out. Its not something that will interest everybody, but what the hell at least it will get some publicity! :D.
See ya

Anonymous poster mystery - Solved!

2004-12-29T01:10:00.000+05:30

Ok, I knew this from day one, but as I said earlier since it was anti-nando and well wasn't harming anyone... I just wanted to have some fun. But since the anonymous poster declared himself as nando, it became a little personal, though I was still having fun. Now for the interesting part, Who the fuck is the "anonymous poster"?. Lets break down the clues, shall we.

Clue no. 1: The post itself. It was anti-nando. Which means almost half the world!. But then atleast we got rid of the other half.
Clue no. 2: The occurrence of the post. The post said "Garfield sucks". This statement immediately for me took out nando himself from the equation. Though I may be wrong, but nando doesn't hate Garfield, even if he doesn't like him. So that leaves half of the world minus one.
Clue no. 3: The posting times. The Garfield Sucks post was made at 23.12.2004, 10:41:44. The next post made was at 24.12.2004, 10:16:40 by MAsh which said "i know who this Anonymous is? Its Nando". A whole day later. Considering that MAsh is generally online 24x7, I leave him out as well.
Clue no. 4: My extremely slow brain. Yeah! It figured out a simpler way to know. So I logged in to my account and checked all the IPs.

Final Result: The IP of the Anonymous Poster and a certain someone matches exactly! The IP range was 217.173.xxx.xxx. Now of all the readers there is only one person with that IP range. Two consecutive posts had the exact IPs. They were 217.173.59.11. So who is the fucking asshole?

And the "Anonymous poster" is MAsh.

So here ya go...
PS: I can be wrong, but I can say that I am correct to 99.9%.
And here is a tip for MAsh. Use a fucking proxy from the next time, at least that will stop me from identifying you and you can bash nando as much as you want to!

C..ann..t S...t..op L...a..u.g.h....i..n..g

2004-12-27T22:05:00.000+05:30

One day I will die laughing to the jokes of Actiontrip. This one will keep me laughing forever!. For more info about what the hell "WoW" is, then head over here.

The "mystery" of the Anonymous Poster

2004-12-27T21:40:00.000+05:30

For the last couple of days, some jackass has been posting "anti-nando" messages anonymously. Even though its kinda fun, it has to stop. And if it doesnt stop by itself, I will reveal that person's identity myself. Yeah, I know who that fucking moron is. Its very easy to find out such stuff. And yeah, we all know him. :D
Lets wait and see for a day or two....
see ya

I wont be using "hehe" again!

2004-12-27T13:04:00.000+05:30

I use the word "hehe" instead of smileys when I am online.
Thanks to Trillian's new dictionary-kinda feature, I wont be using that anymore!

The Hehe (also Wahehe) begining as a number of independent chiefdoms made up of mixed people who were in some instances relate to one another and are a Bantu tribe who live primarily in the Iringa region of Tanzania, numbering around 192,000, with no chiefdom over 5,000 people sharing a common language and culture. The Wahehe had
no political unity until in the mid-1800s, the were unified by Chief Munyigumba of the Muyinga dynasty and became the dominant tribe in theregion, becoming famous for their remarkable success in war. Under the rule of Munyigumba's son, Chief Mkwawa, they encounted and fought fiercely with the colonising German Schuttruppe forces but had little bureaucracy or rituals, myths, or institutions of a civil nature (see
German East Africa), and were ultimately defeated, and in 1898 Mkwawa committed suicide rather than suffer capture.

It was Munyigumba who began to create the beginnings of a 'state' by
both marriage and conquest. A good deal of this was at the expense of
the Wasangu, using the Sangu's own military tactics and utilizing forms
of the Sangu language to rouse Hehe warriors to battle. Munyigumba even force the Sangu, under Merere II, to move their capital to Usafwa.

With Munyigumba's death in 1878 or 1879, a civil war breaks and a Nyamwezi slave, married to Munyigumba's sister, was able to kill Munyigumba's brother, leaving the unhappy prospect of dealing with Munyigumba's son, Mkwawa. Mkwawa kills the Nyamwezi slave, Mwumbambe, at a location called "the place where heads are piled up". Mkwawa now take central stage with his brutal cruelty, quick moving intelligence and the 'praise-name of 'the Madness of the Year'

It was Mkwawa (the 'M" refers to an individual in contrast to 'Wa' the group, or 'U' the region) who, by 1880, dominates as sole ruler over Uhehe through war and intimidation. Mkwawa continued expapnding Hehe power, raiding northwards towards the central canravan routes and afflicting the Wagogo, the Wakaguru, the Germans, etc., and inthe south anyon...

To borrow my friends' tagline.... WTFDUDE!!!

Google zeitgeist!

2004-12-27T01:30:00.000+05:30

First of all, for guys with horrible vocabs,

Zeitgeist: The spirit of the time, the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation.

Or in a google sense, the year ending list of the top searches. Check it out here.

Damn these kids. How long will it take to de-throne Britney Spears. Come on guys get a life, search for Angelina Jolie :D. Btw, Angelina Jolie is getting popular as well. She is 6th(!!!!!) in the most popular women list. India(yay!) stands 3rd in the most queried about countries, which I donno is good or bad :-?. Orlando Bloom is the moste searched for male this year. And I thought my sister was the only one crazy about that funny looking archer from LotR, a.k.a Legolas Greenleaf. Seriously, if Tolkien was alive now, I would have slapped him for those names. But then, he would have slapped me back for my nick - Brokenshard. Damn.

Ahh year endings are cool... you get to recap all the crap all over again. :((

See ya

GOTY Time :)

2004-12-26T22:28:00.000+05:30

Since I blog now and some(!) people read it as well, I guess I can blabber about my favourites more often now. Which brings me to yet another list of mine - "The Game of the Year(GOTY) list". 2004 was a fucking great year for gamers like me("gamers like me" mean the Elite people who dont care about anything else but their mouse and keyboard :D). Every game that was released this year was above average, obvioulsy leaving out the ones which were... well... below average. doh. I have been reading quite a few GOTY lists all around the web these days and almost all of them to me were flawed. Flawed by the hype, flawed by the fan-boyish-thingie. So instead of bashing them on all round corners, I will present my own "Elite" list. So here we go!

Game of the Year: Far Cry. Runner up: Half Life 2
Best FPS: Far Cry
Best RPG: Didnt play any !!!, or I cant remember. :(
Best RTS: WTF! RTS games suck! I dont give a fucking damn to them. psst.... exclude Warcraft III.... its coooool.
Best Sports/Racing Game: Need for Speed Underground 2. (I hope they come up with smaller game titles from the next time on... sigh)
Best Multiplayer Game: Unreal Tournament 2004
Special Mention: Doom III, well I had to put it in somewhere.... its not the best in any genre... but it definitely was "worth-it". Plus id was generous enough to make Doom III support G4MX!!! :D :D :D

ok, so thats my list, and it pretty much suck. It may change as I play more of the 2004 games. But as of now it stays as it is.

See ya

I have lost track of it....

2004-12-25T01:55:00.000+05:30

I just cant start another blog entry declaring "I am back" or "The Shard is back" or like "The Shard is now broken!", cuz I donno how many times I have been BACK!. This time around though, I am pretty damn sure that "I am BACK", The Shard has been broken again and blah blah blah, and yeah.... I am free like a dog. :D
Since I have a lot to blog about I will start off by closing the last poll which went too long for its own good. A total of 31 votes were logged and believe me they were all rigged, courtesy wtfdudette and nando. But since this was a poll for my audience, people who read my ramblings... I will consider the hard work put in by these two fellows in repeatedly voting for their beloved browser. So the winner is... OPERA!. Btw, I wouldn’t have considered the votes if it were for Firefox. :) ... yay! for Opera!. This brings us to this week's poll. Now everybody here knows about the latest "smooching video leak". So go ahead and vote away. As for my vote, it goes to "just doing their job".
In other news, I have occupied myself with Need For Speed:Underground 2 since yesterday morning. Until now it’s looking ultra cool. Plus many sites have been releasing their "Game of the Year" listings, which btw all are ending at Half Life 2, with no Far Cry anywhere near :((.
That will be it for now... I have a lot many blogs to catch up with... see what my fellow bloggers have been upto these days.... see ya

Its here..

2004-12-19T01:09:00.000+05:30

The day has finally arrived. My college fest starts from tomorrow... i mean today... arghh... i mean 19th December 2004... whenever that is. In 5 days time I wil be free like a dog. So till then wish me and the fest lots of good luck!!!

Also a very happy holidays to all of you fellow bloggers!

and a very big hug and a happy birthday to KRM!

see ya... meet you on the other side...

Half Life 2 - Best shooter ever?

2004-12-17T01:30:00.000+05:30

Q. Completed Half Life 2?
A. Yes.

Q. What are the pros of HL2?
A. Amazing storyline. Great new charaters. Gameplay. Music and Gfx scalability.

Q. What are the cons of HL2?
A. Tiring. Bad ending.

Q. What is the best part in the game?
A. The vehicles.

Q. Were the prerelease reviews correct?
A. Partially.

Q. How much will you give it from 10?
A. 9.

Q. Is it the best shooter ever?
A. No.

Q. Is it better than Doom III?
A. Hell yes!

Q. Which is the best shooter ever?
A. Far Cry.

Final Verdict: Far Cry > Half Life 2 > Doom III

*waits for Halo 2*

Blah blah blah

2004-12-15T20:01:00.000+05:30

Give me a cool knife and I will cut myself to pieces,
Give me a ultra cool sword and I will fight myself to death.

Thats how my last couple of days have been.

Now I am relatively free. My college fest starts from 19th and almost all my job is done.

Meanwhile check out some pics from Calcutta's Coffee house. This is how coffee houses/cafes should be.

Days like these....

2004-12-13T23:48:00.000+05:30

Morning: Had a small accident. Got some bruises. Nothing hurts. :)

Afternoon: My designs get rejected. My leg starts to pain. :(

Evening: I get some more designs to do. My leg is now officially in hell. :(

Night: Did all the work. :). Cant walk. :((

Songs...

2004-12-13T01:16:00.000+05:30

Inspired from arethusa's songs list, here are some my favourite ones.

1) Frozen - Madonna
2) Links - Rammstein
3) Powerless - Nelly Furtado
4) Zombie - Cranberries
5) M.I.2 Soundtrack - Limp Bizkit
6) Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit
7) Skater Boy - Avril Lavigne
8) But it Rained - Parikrama
9) A little less conversation - Elvis Presley
10) The apple song - Black eyed peas
11) Reise Reise (The whole album) - Rammstein

Check out the linked track.... :)

see ya

Is this wierd?

2004-12-11T22:13:00.000+05:30

Is this wierd? ... While travelling/driving, looking at every possible license plate on the vehicles around you and adding up the digits of its number, just to see if it adds up to anything that is a multiple of 7!!

Movies!!!

2004-12-09T01:16:00.000+05:30

Here it is... LONG list... so... ;)

Movies I Like:

The Ring, for the freaking story
Blair Witch Project, for the way it was made
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold!!!!
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, Sean Conery and Ford's comedy
Shrek, sweet and romantic.
American Pie, Downright funny
Rush Hour, Amazing amalgamation
Matrix Trilogy, Every Geeks dream movie
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Epic!
The Last Samurai, Incredible story... overshadowed by LOTR: RotK's release
Ice Age, cute characters
Toy Story, Buzzzzz Lightyear(!)
I, Robot, Brilliant story... and a cute robot named Sunny. :)
Resident Evil, Best game to movie conversion
Resident Evil: Apocalypse, same as above
Wild Things, nice twists and tits
Cast Away, best "close-to-a-silent-movie" ever
Big Fish, a very different style of movie making
A Beautiful Mind, the last 40 minutes
Schindler's List, simpleness
Malena, Monica Bellucci
Edward Scissorhands, Jhonny Depp at his best
Good Will Hunting, Super story backed by great performances by Robin Williams and Matt Dillon
The Paper Brigade, simple and cute children-kinda movie
Speed, a movie with the highest replay value
The Station Master, ahh... the peaceful movie
Sixth Sense, Biggest Twist EVER in the history of hollywood
The Godfather, Seen only the first part.... Al Pacino
Life of David Gayle, very true opinion
Hero, best foreign movie I have ever seen... amazing storyline
Shawshank Redemption, The best fucking prison movie ever
Life, the second best prison movie ever

Reminded by sis:
Stay Tuned, my first english movie... great comedy
Back to the Future trilogy, 1.1 Gigawatts!!!!! the doc... and Einstein.... and the story.... wohhooo!

Movies I Hate:

Lost in Translation, WTF! was going on!
Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom, below expectation
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, didnt like it... wasnt worth all the hype.
Sleepy Hollow, bad bad bad movie... Jhonny Depp shouldt do such movies...
Forest Gump, NOW wait a sec... dont hate me!!!!.... I just thought it was too unreal a movie and well I had higher expectations
Casper, way too cocky...

Movies I want to watch:

The Manchurian Candidate
The Village
Collateral
Amistad
Old James Bond flicks
And a lot many classics...

TV Shows I like:

Home Improvement, The best comedy ever
Becker, I associate myself with the show! ;)
That 70's Show, incredible idea and then of course the implementation
Grounded for Life, very nice way of flashbacks... great characters.
F.R.I.E.N.D.S, all seasons except maybe season 7. I havent seen season 9.
Everybody loves Raymond, Initial seasons only.
I dream of Jeannie, my first english tv show. Roger!
The Bugs Bunny Show, hmm...Whats up doc?
Dexter's Laboratory, DEEDEE!
Titus, Big boobed girlfriend.... :D.... the father and the son thing...
The Amazing Race, just the concept.
Eco Challenge, everybody should watch this atleast once....

TV Shows I hate:

Fresh Prince of Bel Air, bad comedy
Bewitched, bad characters
The Apprentice, wtf! is this all about!!!!
Survivor, good for the first reality show... but season 2 sucked
All game shows, yup... I hate them all
Everybody Loves Raymond, later seasons.... they kept shouting a lot!
The Idol shows.... wtf!

Favourite Charaters:

Tim Allen in Toy Story and Home Improvement
Mathew Perry in F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Bugs Bunny in The Bugs Bunny Show
Becker in Becker(!)
Naomi Watts in The Ring
Eddie Murphy as Donkey in Shrek
Jhonny Depp in Edward Scissorhands and Pirates of the Carribean
The dwarf in The Station Master
Roger in I dream of Jeannie
DEEDEE in Dexter's Lab

Damn... see thats why I dont do such stuff... things get LONNNNNNGGGGG..... ;)
see ya

The Breeze

2004-12-08T22:52:00.000+05:30

Everybody sat around the 4 bottles of Bacardi Breezer and the first cranberry flavoured breezer was opened. The first guy(Mouli) picked it up and smelled it. I donno why people smell, even though they know that they are going to taste it anyway. After the first sip came a smudge on the face.

"Fruit Juice", shouted Mouli.

Well what do you expect from something that looks absolutely red in colour and has only 4.8% alcohol content! Anyway, the bottle was then passed on to Srinivas(the other guy). He followed up with another strange comment and a tweaky face. Then the bottle reached DK and he drank the rest.

"Fine", said everyone. The bottle was kept aside and the next Wildberry flavoured bottle was opened. Once again the smelling thing was done. Mouli took the first sip again (poor guy :D).

"Yak!, tastes like tonic!", said Mouli. I was literally laughing my ass off by now. The bottle was passed on to Srinivas and he could just come up with a couple of slurps and said, "Damn it, it would have been better if you guys would have just got some beer instead. Atleast we would have felt a little high". That summed it up. DK ran through the rest of it agreeing to Mouli's initial statement. Tonic. LOL.

We kept the Orange and Lime bottles for the last thinking that atleast they are tried and trusted flavours and wont screw us up. But hell has no mercy. The Orange bottle was popped open and Mouli once again took the first sip. Strange face again. Bullseye comment again.

"This tastes like the juice of the peel of an orange!", said Mouli. His statement was seconded by Srinivas, who by now was cursing the Breezer with all possible profanities. DK was then handed over the bottle and well he finished it up... the comments, strange faces, profanities... continued.

The last lime bottle was picked up and Mauli took the first sip. Again. The same thing happened though this time around Mouli didnt have the exact words to describe the taste of it. Srinivas was by now just drinking it... no comments... nothing. Though his face narrated the story pretty clearly. DK drank it the last and he said instantly... "tastes like Liril soap!!!!"... and everybody agreed unanimously. Meanwhile, Srinivas told me how the Breezer felt. It tasted like crap and while passing down through the throat it gave a electric-kinda feeling... maybe thats what the "Breezer" is all about.

By the end... I was laughing like hell and the rest of the guys were deciding on never to drink the Breezer again and what a waste of money it was. That was it for the night... and what else?, we all went to bed. Separately. To sleep. Damn it. Quit with all those dirty thoughts.

To be continued...

"Delayed" New Poll time!

2004-12-08T11:51:00.000+05:30

Yahoo! won. :D... as expected. It had some stiff competition from MSN and the new protocol called WTF!. Also, judging by the two votes it got, the "Pigeon Transfer Protocol" a.k.a the PTP is still being used. A total of 17 votes were casted this time around, which quite obviously is the highest ever! :D. Yahoooo! ( the other Yahoo!, not the protocol ;) ).
This time around we pit the browsers against each other. I know the reality, but guys do take some time out and think before you vote for Internet Explorer. Seriously d00ds, think about it.
see ya

PS: The movie listing is coming up soooon. Never thought it will get that long!!! :)

The Breezer

2004-12-08T09:59:00.000+05:30

The next morning we set out for our real work in Calcutta - Sponsorship. After having the meetings and stuff, we realised we have more than half the day left, well to do nothing!. I as usual was feeling hungry and DK was puffing cigs one after another. Eventually I had a Chicken Roll, which btw was nowhere near as good as what we get here in Bhubs. Anyway, the rest of the day was pretty normal. We hanged inside cuz there was a "Bandh" and almost all shops were closed (Now I think that there is something with me and strikes!, yikes!... hmm... that rhymes :D).
In the night we set out for a place called "Esplanade". Its a place where one can get anything and everything at very cheap prices. Unfortunately even after the 12hr bandh, most of the shops were still closed. After a lot of walking our eyes went to a movie poster - Shola. No not "Sholay", "Shola". Yeah you guessed it right, its one of those B-Grade flicks. Dont worry, we didnt end up watching it, though the poster looked way too tempting. A dance bar music also tempted us, but we ignored that as well.
It was time to leave and DK's thirst for "any" kind of alcohol was rising at a mercurial pace(donno if thats even a term!). Soon we were infront of a liquor shop with a huge hoarding with "Bacardi Breezer" written all over it, and of course the Bat-like symbol of Bacardi. For quite some time now DK was having this strange desire to try the Bacardi Breezer. We walked in and started liquor-window-shopping. The Bacardi Breezer had 4 flavours - Cranberries, Wildberry, Lime and Orange. Also, a big banner above stated that a bag comes free with a breezer 6 pack. That was it!, DK was hell bent on having the breezer. So be it. We asked the shopkeeper to pack in 6 breezers. Just to be on the safer side, we asked him whether the bag was free or not. He replied, "There is no bag". WTF!!!. OK then wait and just give us 4 breezers, all different flavours, said DK in a very pissed off manner. We took the bottles, wrapped it around some paper and got back home.
Now everybody was pretty excited. I was excited as well though I dont drink and the Breezer has 4.8% alcohol content. I was excited simply beacuse of all the excitement around me. Anyway, the bottles were placed on the ground very neatly. They looked cool. 4 different flavours, 4 different colours. Everybody gathered around the bottles as if we were sitting near a ceremonial pyre. The opener was brought and the first bottle of Cranberry flavoured Breezer was opened.

To be continued....

Ahh...Calcutta.

2004-12-06T23:44:00.000+05:30

First things first, if you have never been to Cal before, then you are waiting to see one of the most scariest things in the world. The thing being, its also the most organised scare you will ever see. I am talking about the traffic in Calcutta. The whole fucking city is one big organised simcity game. Buses run like bikes. Bikes are nowhere to be found. Cabs are plain old beserk. And between all this chaos a freaking crawling tram will pass by you in the middle of the road. Even after all this, the city somehow manages to move, and that too as I said in a very efficient and organised way. Just that a third person would never know.
Ok so we headed off to meet our friends at the Bowling Alley. DK was looking for buses and I as usual was hell bent to take anything but the bus. Later he too agreed after realising that we will have to run and board the bus on near about a speed of 10Km/hr along with our luggages. So we got a cab and drove all the way to the Bowling Alley. The distances in Calcutta are twice when related to that to Bhubs. So it was a long ride.
We reached the bowling alley an hour later. Both of us have never been to a bowling alley, so that was a new thing as well. It was one cool place. After doing the Hi!'s and Hello's, we all sat down and I got myself a quick snack. Oh, I forgot... I was starving by then. After the snack we all stood up to play bowling... or is it to bowl bowling? ... or just bowl?... argh... anyway. After a quick "how-to" about the scoring system, I and DK picked up for the first time the bowling balls!. Godaaaam... these freaking things are heavy! How the hell will we roll then down all that way!. Anyway, once we got started it was fun non-stop. I never thought bowling could be this much fun. We played pretty nice for first timers. I even got a strike! :D, though we lost both the games we played. DK after a long time had a drink or two or three :D. We hanged out there for 2 more hours since we had nothing else to do. One of the guys was pretty drunk by the time we started to leave. He pumped up some good old desi bashing, and damn he was fun to listen to. At around 20:30hrs we took a cab to the place where we were to stay. On the way back, in the cab, this drunk d00d was firing on all cylinders. Eventually he sang a song, which by far is the funniest shit I have ever heard in the recent times. It is in Oriya. We had our food then and slept. We needed that badly. :)

To be continued...

The Journey

2004-12-06T13:03:00.000+05:30

I and Durgesh(DK from here on) packed up for Calcutta on Wednesday evening. We boarded the Jaganath Express at around 2345hrs. We didnt have time(yeah, right!) to get a reservation, so we had no other choice but to go in the General Compartments. I and DK have travelled a lot in trains.
General compartments are no problem. Sleeping with our eyes open is also not a problem. Sitting for 5-6 hours on wooden seats is also not a problem.
But everything cant be so smooth, can it?
In the night at around 0230hrs, some train ahead of us had an accident. Not an accident, like in "oh! my god, an accident!", but it rendered that line(track) useless for some 2-3 hours. This meant that our train hanged around in some desolate forest-y place for atleast 2 hours. A delay of 2 hours for some genuine reason is also a "no problem". But no... no.no.no.no.no... that wasnt it!. Our train was supposed to reach Calcutta by 0800hrs next morning. Add a couple of hours for the delay and it comes to round 'bout 1000hrs. Soon we came to know that we havent even crossed Orissa yet, and it was 1200hrs already!. (I live in the state of Orissa and Calcutta is in West Bengal). This time the reason for the stop was ridiculous. Some idiots were doing some kind of strike... nicknamed "Public Agitation" ;), and they wont let any train pass by. I had once had a similar experience when we had to stop at Godhra station for a full 20hrs beacuse of a major accident ahead, so this again was a "no problem" situation. Though it was royally screwing up our schedule. Anyway, to add to it we were stranded on a station called "Rupsa". I would give you a buck or two if anyone can come up with, where the hell that place is. It was this very small station with nothing, absoultely nothing.
Finally the train moved its metallic ass and we reached Calcutta at around 1700hrs.

To be continued...

The shard's back!

2004-12-06T00:27:00.000+05:30

Yupieee!

I am back!!!! :D

The next couple of blogs will be about my trip to calcutta. And believe me, some of them are just toooooo funny. :)
Way too tired right now, am going to sleep. But damn it feels good to be back.

See ya

Quick heya!

2004-12-01T21:28:00.000+05:30

heya!

I am leaving for Calcutta tonight. I will be back by sunday. And from Monday, I will be (hopefully) absolutely free. Keep missing me, if you havent forgotten yet! :D

see ya

Somebody fixed the broken shard!

2004-11-26T01:08:00.000+05:30

Current Status: Not broken. :(
Current Blogging frequency: 1 brief post a day.
Currently busy with:

Exams from 27th, till 29th.
2 Poster Designs.
1 Brochure Design.
Complete the fest website.

Wanted Status: Broken :)
Estimated time to achive status: 3 days.

Meanwhile, wishing nm a very happy birthday! and Congratulations to darth for his excellent new blogger template and concept.
Damn I miss writing long meaningless blogs :). I hope this agony ends soon. Thanks to everyone who misses muah :D... you do right? ;).

PS: I hope everyone stops posting about how incredible "The Incredibles" is.... cuz it just gets even more painful. This is probably the first pixar movie that I havent seen withing the first week of its release :(. I will watch it the moment I am free... and after I have blogged all that I missed. :D
See ya

Beyond Busy!

2004-11-24T00:20:00.000+05:30

Busy these days... :(

Spam Bam

2004-11-21T23:09:00.000+05:30

Ok, so there I was checking my mails and stuff, when I realised that I havent checked one of my most important accounts for quite some time now. Its the same account that I have given in my Infy resume, so its important. Its a POP3 account which I have configured to my yahoo account. The fun part(if you can call that fun!) is that it got spammed. I dont think that account of mine has any kind of spam protection so almost anything comes in there. Here are some of them, which scared the shit out of my brains:

Leona Day reminds me if I have forgotten my date. WTF!. And thats not the only thing. Apparently, Hollie Dillon also knows of my date! and asks me the same question. Delete.
This guy has some serious problems. According to him; when you live near on a farm, you get close to the animals. Now everything that made sense went out of the window cuz I could think of only one thing. Damn. Delete.
Thelma Sharp offered me something even more... well... ahem... generous. Her mail clearly stated that she will be in room 210 all this week!!! First of all, who comes up with all these names? Secondly, which hotel? which city? hell atleast gimme the country? Delete.
Hunter Calderon wanted me to meet his dog. Now only if I could explain that. Delete.
A dark chocolate lady wants to meet me. Dark - good, Chocolate - very good, lady - Excellent, wants to meet me - Superb!, but who the fuck isWilmer Pratt and hows does he know that she wants to meet me. Delete.
I found a lot many mails with references to teens, cream-y and blow in any freaking order possible. But quite strangely everything meant the same. Atleast they know how to frame sentences. Delete.
This was the most funny of them all. Jay Wooten has the cure for "Lust fever". WTF! now they are even coming up with new terminologies!!! "Lust fever"... hehe that goes into my dictionary of "randomly used words.... anywhere... anytime". Definitely Delete.

Wether I will ever open that mailbox again is a big question. But if I am feeling low and bored, I think that will be some quality entertainment. :D

Sundays are always funny!

2004-11-21T13:30:00.000+05:30

Somehow every sunday, or the weekend for that matter, I get some good quality "free entertainment". This morning started with a very funny news headline:

A new bill before Congress could make fast-forwarding through ads and previews on a DVD you watch at home illegal.
The bill allows for technology that lets families edit out explicit scenes or material. But broadcast companies have lobbied hard to keep commercials and movie trailers off-limits.

If that was not enough, I caught this very funny "joke" over at the hub of gaming, actiontrip.com:

JESUS: *I forgive you, my children.*
Gamer 1: Wow, man! Jesus looks so cool up on that cross. Look at the normal mapping and the dynamic lighting effects! I give him a 93 and an 'Editor's Choice'award!
JESUS: *I forgive you, my children.*
Gamer 2: Oh c'mon, man! His voice acting is terrible! Where is the intense emotion and the expressiveness?
JESUS: *My children, I forgive you all.*
Gamer 2: Pfft... an 80 something at best.
Gamer 1: Look, you can't deny that he's got great replay value. He's gonna resurrect a few times you know.
Gamer 2: Yeah, but his quest is completely linear. I'm sorry, I'm sticking with my original score.
Gamer 1: You're such a negative prick!
JESUS: *I forgive you, my children.*
Gamer 2: Yeah, yeah whatever. Shut up. I like Metroid Prime 2 better.

The two admins over at actiontrip.com, in my opinion are the most funniest writers ever. Their scope/humour varies from gaming to gay porn to epic battles to everything that you never imagined. :D

Beyond Happiness

2004-11-20T20:48:00.000+05:30

I am feeling that thing today, something which is definitely beyond just "happy". I am happy, happy, happy. I got my ngage's MMC card and the USB reader today. Now I can listen to songs, watch videos and play a hell lot more games - all on my little mobile. The last couple of days have really been a party for me.
See ya ... I am way too busy playing right now.... so will blog the excitement later. :)

Nice idea

2004-11-20T19:24:00.000+05:30

How cool a campaign is that!

The party begins!

2004-11-20T01:04:00.000+05:30

Slow but productive!

2004-11-19T15:23:00.000+05:30

I skipped college today. It was my urge to sleep those 2 more minutes which made me do that. For those who dont know, my college timings are 7:30am to 2:00pm. I need to wake up at 6:30 to make it in time. Its an ordeal almost every morning, with my brain and mom (she wakes me up :) ) winning most of the time. But today, I was determined to sleep. I had tipped off my sixth sense to cut off the power supply to my brain. This helped me not feel guilty and completely ignore my mom's "wake up!" shouts. So my "good morning" happened at 9:00am. Ahhh.. that felt so nice. Anyway, by this time the power supply was restored to my brain, and it was swearing like hell. Some of the words that I heard in my head, well only my brain can do that!. It was time to put that idiot to peace.
I fired up my PC and started working on my project. It was all going fine and dandy when I realised I have that designing stuff pending as well. Since, our college fest at the moment seems more important, I (and my brain) decided to do that first. I had been medling with different ideas for the website last night, but none of them looked appealing to me. So I took off to watch some TV, came back and played some AvP2 and then started again on the design part. This time around I resisted my love for black and went with a colour scheme which I have never used before, ever. I worked for a couple of hours and I think I have come up with a conecpt that I like. Its not yet done in HTML, so it will take some time before I can show you guys how it is. That btw seems to be the biggest problem right now. It will be pretty hard to put that concept in HTML as for now. Lets see how it goes...
see ya
PS: The party has been rescheduled for this weekend, so that everybody can join in. :D

Damn these little things...

2004-11-18T18:44:00.000+05:30

For the last couple of days, this blog has been working weirdly. At first Haloscan(damn... why is there no better alternative?) started acting strange by giving me "access denied" errors. Moreover I came to know that all comments will be archived(a better of saying .... "we will fuck all your comments away from you") after a period of 4 months. Though 4 months is a pretty good period, I dont want any of the comments deleted. In my search for a better commenting system, I came across one at bloggerhacks. Sounds interesting, but far from perfect. So, I will probably wait till they get everything working fine. I have my 4 months ;).
If that was not enough, the tag-board stopped responding. The site simply couldnt be accessed. Is it just me or everybody, I dunno. But meanwhile, myshoutbox started working normally, so back to that for the moment. If anybody scraped in the old tagboard in the last 2 days or so, do so again; only if it was a question or some words of praise :D.
The party is about to begin, so see ya.

Oh!!!!!!

2004-11-17T22:29:00.000+05:30

Damn how the fuck did I miss this?!!! I just hit a 1000 unique users and 2000+ pageloads. I guess I will skip the pageloads part, cuz most of them must be mine ;). But a 1000 people have actually visited my blog, atleast once! Thank you guys... this has been great fun all this time and I hope it continues forever(kinda like a year ending speech...yak!).
So this calls for some celebrations... hmm.... any ideas? :D
see ya

Long Day

2004-11-17T22:19:00.000+05:30

Wont write a lot today. Not that I dont have anything to write, my freaking mind still has a lot to blabber about, just that I have a lot to think and then work it out. Some poster, brochure and web designs for our college's upcoming annual fest. I will probably proof it through all of you guys sometime soon :). Was very busy all day, mostly doing nothing, but had no access to my computer either. One news did catch my attention though - Longhorn will be 64bit only. I donno where I read it, so have no links. I need to refresh now... time to visit bash.org. :D
See ya

Haha! how cool is this?

2004-11-16T15:37:00.000+05:30

This from ABCNews:

"Gmail is an interesting competitor," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products. "It really has raised the game for everyone and that's good for consumers."

Now all I have to think is what to do with my countless yahoo acoounts...

Off topic:
One more thing... read this. Aint that interesting ;).

My last blog about Half Life 2

2004-11-16T15:16:00.000+05:30

Yes! this is it! I am not going to bother anybody anymore with my "almost" daily Half Life 2 blogs. Its out and people are playing, and so are the gaming portals. Well they started playing a little earlier, cuz they had to bring out the review before the other portals do. So reviews are pouring in. The first two I went through were that of gamespot and IGN. Gamespot has given HL2 a "superb" 9.2 while 9.7 is what IGN came up with. But this is not what I want to blog here. My problem is that HL2 got a score lower than GTA: San Andreas or Halo 2. So does that make HL2 inferior to GTA or Halo 2? or is it just that the other two games are better than HL2? In my opinion, the hype is the reason why HL2 scored below GTA and Halo 2. If HL2 would have come out in a normal fashion, I bet it would have scored anywhere above the 95% mark in all reviews. While GTA and Halo 2 were also hyped a lot, but they were nowhere close to that of HL2's hype-r-orama! Now 9.2 from gamespot is not a bad score considering "the way they score games" and neither is 9.7 from IGN. But it somehow makes me feel that even though HL2 is a better game than Halo 2 and GTA, it has lost out in review scores simply because of all the hoopla around it.

I generally dont follow Gamespot's reviews, but they have reviewed the last 3-4 games pretty honestly. I will wait for the gamespy review, which should be out anytime soon. And I am pretty sure it will be a 5 star score, which btw I dont like. Almost any game above a score of 90 will get 5 stars, kinda like the school and college grading system. Though its good for the game, I think it sucks cuz it doesnt give you a clear-cut winner. Now we have the most anticipated games of this year, HL2 and Doom3, lagging behind games like Far Cry and San Andreas.

So now that I am done rambling, its 3 games worth playing this month for gamers around the world and 1 for me(its that PC-console thing. Now you go do the math). Havent heard any news of Vampires yet, which was supposed to release today as well.

On to some other stuff, I have put up a link to Arethusa's blog, make sure you give a read to this on her blog.
Also there has been a sudden burst of poems recently. Go to the comments section of the poem-blog below, MAsh and nm have been blogging poems there all night! and btw, since atleast 2 people have already asked me this, any poem that I post as a blog entry; is jotted down by me, unless specified. :)
See ya.

The good old lady

2004-11-15T17:54:00.000+05:30

Left and right,
aint it all so bright?
up and down,
aint it all the way to town?

I ask the lady,
why is it so?
that there is only,
one, two, three and four?

She seems nice,
and answers me wise.
There are more,
but only if you find.
Aint that hard,
to get that to mind?

She walked away,
left me nothing to say.
I hope one day,
she will come back to bay.
By that day I would have found,
all the things that I may.

She was old and icky,
but she meant what she said.
Its not what you hear everyday,
But it was something that I wanted to hear today.

I hope I can live upto those words,
and walk happily out of the door
its not that easy,
but I bet I can,
find the one, two, three and four.

Imagination gone wild!...

See ya

Ohne Dich - Rammstein

2004-11-15T11:01:00.000+05:30

Rammstein's new video was released/premiered/leaked yesterday night. I downloaded the 72MB file straight away. If you are wondering that I shouldnt have done that, well then I dont think MTV India will be showing a video of a German band. So call it a legal warez, sort of. Now about the video. Its probably Rammstein's first "normal" video, to say the least. The video shows a story about a group of mountaineers climibing some mountain(doh obviously) and the problems that they come across while doing so, but still winning in the end despite of all those troubles. The song compliments the video fine and has that relaxing touch to it. Lets see which song will be picked next for a video. Puhlessseee be it "Moskov" .... puhleeeesssseeeee :D
See ya

Half Life 2...Its time!

2004-11-15T05:21:00.000+05:30

Half Life 2 releases tomorrow. We are the lucky ones to live through this historical event. We have strayed for a whole year now. The doors of Black Mesa, rather City-17 will soon open. My crave to kick some quality alien ass is finally going to come true. It will be some time before I get my hands on my HL2 copy, but what is a wait of a couple of days when you have already waited for a whole goddamn year. So, meanwhile I will be soaking muah wet in the hype surrounding HL2. Come join me, if you have to wait as well.
To start off, read this article over at gamespot. Its a long 25 page article, but the movie like feeling it will give you is amazing. You will be sitting duck visualising each and evey paragraph of the article. I relived the whole HL2 development process of over 5 years in those 25 pages. Make sure you read that if you have been fan of Half Life or Valve Software for that matter.

PS(thats 2 PSes in a row now :)): This is probably the first article from gamespot that I have enjoyed.

Veer - Zaara, worth it?

2004-11-15T02:50:00.000+05:30

Every year Bollywood comes up with hundreds of film releases, and most of them ... well simply said ... are crap. But there is one saving grace in Bollywood. Every year also brings in some movies that are beyond the aperture of a common man's magnifying glass. Such a movie is Veer - Zaara. It was one of my and most of India's most anticipated movie of this year, and well I am sooo happy to say that - it hardly disappoints! It is easily the best movie of this year, yet. Any other movie will find it way too hard to surpass it. Now, I can go on and talk all goody-goody about the excellence of this masterpiece, but I would rather give my rather strange experience to you guys, in my own impeccable crappy style.

To start with, the movie plan was shifted one day because of all the problems that cropped up with my firends. I dont get such problems, thats cuz I am generally free and thats cuz I am useless and harldy do anything. Its about maintaining that 100% success rate, by doing nothing. Anyway, the movie started and the fun as well. I will not write anything about the movie, cuz that will ruin the fun for those who havent seen it yet. Spoilers, that is. The thing, my starnge experience, started around after the interval. Mind you this was no english movie with a running time of around 1hr 30min, niether was it a 2hr normal hindi movie. It was a good 3+ hr movie, which btw is normal for any epic movie. Read LOTR, Titanic, Devdas. So around when 1 and 1/2 hour of the movie was left, the gods of nature gave me a call. Thats ok, cuz theatres have restrooms, but who was going to leave? I certainly wasnt, and I didnt. I thank evolution and adaptation for providing us with a gall bladder and the ability to sustain such kind of pressures. Keep in mind that theatres have Dolby Digital surround sound and even with good walls you can and you will feel the vibrations. Which in my story, is not good, not good at all. But I didnt move a inch till the movie ended and well that proves my point of how good this movie was. Its a movie that every Indian, every Pakistani, hell anybody with any remote sense of good cinema and emotions should go and watch it atleast once. I certainly will watch it again.

The other movie, which I was waiting for this year, Naach, is getting bad reviews all around. Its kinda disappointing but then Veer-Zaara makes it up for that loss. And yeah btw, driving a bike at night on empty roads is heavenly :).

See ya

P.S: Those reading this, who havent watched a bollywood movie ever before and if this movie is in town, then I would recommend you to start off with it. Its a traditional song and dance movie, like every other Bollywood movie, but its completely worth it.

The 100 things thing...

2004-11-14T15:42:00.000+05:30

the 100 things... i may stop at 50 if i think its getting way too crappy.

1. I am 21
2. and I live in bhubs, India
3. I am doing my Engg. in Computer Science
4. and will be joining Infosys somewhere mid-late next year
5. I live with my parents
6. and they are cool folks
7. I love to play games and watch movies
8. I recommend "The Ring" to whoever asks for a movie
9. I like playing RPGs and FPS, though everything that is good excites me
10. I am very lazy
11. I adore Garfield
12. I think I should just go sleep
13. This is supposedly a unlucky number, so I skip this
14. I spend most of my time on the computer
15. But I am not a geek or a nerd
16. I love going to hill stations
17. Though I hate the ride to reach there
18. thats cuz I am hodophobic, buses to be precise
19. Unless I am driving :)
20. I am not very good at math
21. But I think I will successfully count to 100. or 50
22. I like to hear Rock and Country Music
23. Rammstein and Nelly Furtado
24. Limp Bizkit and Shania Twain come a close second
25. I love LUcky Ali's voice and songs
26. I just wrote 25 points
27. I have lived in India all my life
28. and plan to do so for the rest of it as well
29. Been to North, East and West
30. South will follow soon
31. I get bored almost everyday
32. but i find something exciting
33. before my brain gets fucking idle
34. the scariest thing in the world scares me
35. its children crying in the background btw
36. I try to breake the silence
37. and maintain the peace
38. I hate rainy season
39. I hate winters
40. I love summers
41. I love summers on hill stations
42. I love snow though
43. Glaciers to be precise
44. Cats are the devil's guardians
45. Dogs are doh stupid
46. I dont believe in god
47. God has the biggest fan following
48. and it is man's most innovative invention
49. I love black
50. I wear black 95% of the time
51. My mom will kill me if i go 100%
52. cuz Black is when someone is dead
53. wait a minute, I crossed 50!
54. yay!
55. and the celebrations continue
56. I am good at what I do
57. I dont do a lot though
58. I love playing pranks
59. I like telling the truth in a humourous way
60. I always speak the truth
61. sometimes I lie, just for the heck of it
62. I love snipers
63. the sound of headshot
64. Games only
65. My opinion is generally hard to understand
66. I narrow things down
67. I dont stalk
68. I admire beauty in all forms
69. But big b00bs are prerequisites
70. That was a joke
71. Had to make this thing a little funny
72. I dont get scared easily
73. I get startled very easily
74. I am very very patriotic
75. I love my cricket
76. I dont like to see my team lose
77. Yesterday was a bad bad day
78. Java sucks
79. .NET rules
80. I think love is for the weak
81. I am sure I will never fall/rise/whatever in love
82. On computers blue and gray look good
83. But #800000 kicks ass
84. I designed my blog
85. Its not entirely my own
86. I think Google will become larger than M$
87. I think very little
88. I think crap
89. My memory is weak
90. I am good at finding mistakes
91. I think I will make it to a 100 things
92. I just need 7 more points
93. This being the first
94. I hate politics
95. I dream of watching a cricket match in Eden Gardens someday
96. skateboarding will happen. for sure
97. I can rip apart someone just by talking
98. I am a little dumb
99. Now I think i can go beyond 100
100. But damn I gotta go pee

See ya :D

Time for a new poll and some blog changes...

2004-11-14T13:56:00.000+05:30

The last poll got 13 votes! I guess people are visiting my blog :). Thank you all.

So, people prefer talking(I wonder why it is so surprising?) and Instant Messengers over other messaging mediums. SMS and Orkut were second up with 2 votes each while someone stopped by and voted for Email. For the new poll, which should be up by now, vote for your preferred protocol. I myself use the Yahoo! protocol primarily because of its cool offline messaging ability, which is absent in MSN by default. Unless the pouncing thing is done. So vote away.... :)

I also added a guestmap to the blog. Check it out, its really cool. Link at left hand bottom if you are wondering how? when? where? :D. I finally put a footer as well, which kinda is a small wishlist type of thing along with a who's linking me link. I guess customizing your blog is a never-ending ordeal. :)

Seeya

Politics and blogs

2004-11-13T17:01:00.000+05:30

Many people blog. Many of them blog what they think. Many of them blog about their day to day incidents.
I have been browsing through blogs for quite sometime now and what I see is that most of the blogs are about politics. I know it was election season over in the US for the last couple of months and people like speaking their mind in one way or the other. But the sheer number of blogs about politics, about Bush and Kerry and the likes, sounds just too stupid to me. People blog as if they have a definitive opinion and they are all correct. I dont ask anybody to stop blogging politics, but isnt it getting a little too much. It used to be fun reading cool blogs which were funny, interesting and rasied a valid point. Nowadays all I see are people blogging about how stupid that other person is. Personally I hate politics, but I do have an opinion and I may even express it in my blog. But I may hardly need a couple of blog entries to get my point through. I dont need a whole blogger site to ramble all day about how cool this fella is and that whatever he did was just and right.
Its great to see people blog, but I dont agree with those who use it as a medium...
Okayeee... that was my rambling, my rant. Feel free to take some shots at me :)

The season resumes...

2004-11-13T14:31:00.000+05:30

After a long long time, I and Kmoy played some good old Unreal Tournament 2004 yesterday night. It felt so nice, that I can hardly explain. We started off with a 1-on-1 deathmatch in Alpu3. We havent played UT for the last 3-4 months, so were a lot rusty to begin with. Kmoy started off well kicking my ass to the 5 frag mark, but that was me just taking my time getting settled :D. What followed then was a tight battle with the pendulum swinging either way till we hit the 10 frag mark. That was good enough for me to, well to get the hang of it. It took me no time to finish him off before we quit at frags 15. Since this was our first battle after a long period, the competition was stiffer than ever. But soon kmoy will be rivalled and dead! :D. The days of the shard have returned and UT is my battlefield. muahahahaha ..... hehe :D.

The Diwali Day!

2004-11-12T22:34:00.000+05:30

This was a fun Diwali... not like the previous ones. I didnt get the crackers at the last moment. All of the shit did work out and the fireworks were of the best quality. All my Diwalis since I joined college have been with durgesh and this was no different, but this was probably the smoothest of them all. Durgesh had got the fireworks this time around from Jatni, which btw is the cheapest and coolest place to get them in and around bhubs. He had one of the most funniest incidents that I have heard ever while returning from Jatni, which btw he has narrated amazingly in his blog, check it out.

So now that we had all the fireworks we could have wanted for this Diwali, all that was left was to blow them up!, and boy did we do that nicely! He had forgotten to bring some rockets this time around(which btw are the best thing that those wierdy rocket scientists have given to us), so we first went to get some. When we reached, we noticed something very strange. There were like 5-6 shops in all and every one of them except one shop were thronged with customers. It looked kinda odd because that shop was no different than the others, but somehow nobody went there. So after pondering on that, we decided we go and buy the rockets from that shop. We went and asked for it, he gave us the price and we bargained and he said that he is selling them off cheaply now that its the Diwali night and that we can go ask any other shop that he is in fact selling them the cheapest. woh... that was a long grammatically crappy sentence. Anyway, so we did took his advice and went to the other shops to ask around, and quite obviously everybody else was also selling them at the same price as he was... now did he expect that we will return to him and say, "yeah, we asked around and you are selling the cheapest" .... hell no! we are lazy and not dumb!... a little dumb maybe... but not "Bush" dumb. So we bought them of the other shop. Now I wonder why nobody went to his shop! ;). We bought the "Whistling Rockets" btw, which turned out to be a screeching-kinda-sounding rockets.... very irrritating... though a lot of fun.

From there we went to Durgesh's house, lit up the candles(diyas actually, donno what they are called in english) and burned up half of the crackers. We had the most fun with those little things that you hit hard on the ground and it makes quites some noise... actually every single time we get into this battle where we try to scare the shit out of each other by hitting them as close to each other's foot... its a lot of fun though it hurts like hell if one of small rocks that come of it hit you. One of them did hit poor Durgesh :), thought not very hard, but it did hurt none the less.... then he scared me a couple of times but we ended up making another pact. We make pacts, and have made them on a lot of things... that is a different story though. So we decided that we wont do this again, ever. Then we moved over to my place and finished up the rest of the crackers.

One little thing we do almost always is fire a couple of rockets at a trajectory that will make it go very very low and scare the shit out of everybody. We did this only once today, maybe cuz we are growing up(which kinda sucks)... but that one was cool. Anyway, after finishing them up we came inside, had the Diwali food... dahi badas and sweets, watched the last two episodes of friends season 10, hanged around a bit, durgesh tried to blow away his last cracker which failed horribly... sending me into fits of laughters and then he left.... and I started writing this painfully long blog. If anyone does reach the end of this, and reads this line, you did waste a lot of time, cuz basically I could have just summed it up as - "The day was great and we had a blast - blasting.... ahem... I mean blowing .... damn.... I meant the fireworks".

See ya :D

Gmail POP3!

2004-11-11T23:05:00.000+05:30

How the hell did I miss this news is beyond me! Gmail has started providing POP3 access to its gmail mail service accounts. Here are a couple of links that will be useful to get it working:

Enabling POP3 in gmail
Configuring your Email Client

This is soooo coool.... google rules! Btw, if anybody needs some gmail invites... leave a message, I have some lying around :).
See ya

3 Xbox 2 versions!

2004-11-11T22:52:00.000+05:30

According to the inquirer, the biggest source of industry rumours ;), the Xbox 2 will be released in three different flavours. Quite obviously they are divided keeping in mind eveybody's budgets.

"The standard Xbox Next will not include a hard drive, which will allow Microsoft to cut costs on this basic unit. Xbox Next HD, as you might imagine, does include a hard drive and will offer increased functionality based on this. Xbox Next PC is, according to the presentation, an entry-level PC that runs Windows and all standard PC software. It also includes CD Burner, Wireless keyboard, mouse and controller and will work best connected to a high-definition TV or PC monitor. Media Center functionality - like movies, music and photos - is also included. The device will also play most available PC games."

I think this is a great move on Microsoft's part, cuz the Xbox2 will be then both accessible and affordable to everybody. Btw, I dont understand that the standard Xbox Next will not include a hard drive. How the hell can one save their save games without a HDD? So, except for that, I think M$ has finally given us something to cheer about. This strengthens my and kmoy's plans to grab hold a Xbox 2 as soon as possible. With all that said and done, in other M$ news, Longhorn's development looks to be going through a very sluggish phase. Read this Neowin exclusive to get the full "very interesting" observations.

I feel violated...

2004-11-10T15:27:00.000+05:30

I feel violated,
no.. annhilated
I feel contaminated,
no.. toxicated
I feel terminated,
no.. eradicated
I feel polluted,
no.. corrupted
I feel stranded,
no.. deserted
I feel terrified
no.. petrified

It has to stop some day
no.. it has to be today

I feel violated, annhilated, contamindated n toxicated.
I feel terminated, eradicated, polluted n corrupted.
I feel stranded, deserted, terrified n petrified.

It has to stop some day
no.. it has to be today

I feel violated.

I will end it that day.
It will be the day.

It is today.
It is the day.

I feel reputed, celebrated, treasured n venerated.
I feel animated, elevated, excited n exhilarated.
I feel promoted, beloved, acclaimed n accepted.

Is this the day?
Why do I still feel violated, annhilated, contamindated n toxicated.

sing it :)
see ya

November gets bigger!

2004-11-10T14:52:00.000+05:30

Just when you thought that it cant get any bigger, It slaps you right in your face and says "Shut Up!" ... it just got bigger. As I pointed out in my previous post that atleast 2 big games are releasing this month, Halo 2 and Half Life 2, one more just added itself to the list. Its Vampire - The Masqerade : Bloodlines! Its based on the source engine, which also powers Valve's Half Life 2. As for the game, its a 3rd person vampiric RPG with some amazing concepts. I never played the original Vampires, but considering its fan following and critisicm, I have very high hopes from it. So looking at this way, we have already seen Halo 2 and Half Life 2 snatch away 9.5+/10 review scores this month. If Vampires gets anything above 9 as well, this month will be one crazy gaming season. From gamershell:

Activision has announced that Vampire: The Masqerade - Bloodlines, the first person action-RPG developed by Troika Games and based on Half-Life 2 Source Engine, will hit the store shelves on November 16th (the same day when Half-Life 2 will be released).

You know what can make this month even more exciting.... Duke Nukem Forever! hehe... who am I kidding here... DNF has a release date set for 22/2/2022. :D

Get back the web!

2004-11-09T16:56:00.000+05:30

Mozilla Firefox 1.0. Released. Period.

Link: Mozilla.org

To all fellow bloggers : spread firefox though your blog.

See ya on the safer side of the web... :)

Word of the Day: Narcissism

2004-11-09T15:44:00.000+05:30

This word best describes Garfield! Actually I got it from Garfield's comic itself! Check it out.

Narcissism : Excessive love or admiration of oneself. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

I wonder how cats have such a hi-fi vocabulary... or is it just me? :(

Halo 2 scores

2004-11-08T23:21:00.000+05:30

Personally I would give a game a spin for which I have been waiting for a long time, even if every gaming site gives it a bad review. I dont care what they say, I just want to play it. There are two sites though which decide a game's fate to a certain extent in my opinion. Gamespot and Gamespy. Both the sites are huge portals and have been around for quite some time now. Of the two, I hate Gamespot. Simply, because its too critical for its own good. It has given some very cool games some very bad scores. On the other hand, I love Gamespy... its very accurate on its reviews and it is a much better site content-wise as well. Well then, Now that we are done with the rant, lets move on to the head topic. Halo 2, as expected has got some amazing scores in both the big sites. It got a coool 9.4 on gamespot and a perfect 5/5 stars on gamespy. This means that people all around the world will now keep staring at the Bungie doors for a PC release date(Well we dont expect a lot from M$, so Bungie it is), which in turn will result hopefully in a speedier PC release, which in turn is good for my bored and "craving-to-play-something" mind. One of the features that have been really praised is the multiplayer aspect of Halo 2. Personally, I thought that the Halo multiplayer sucked big time. Multiplayer gaming is mostly about the PC, so its true capability will only come out when it releases for the PC. So there we go, One more game from the Microsoft stable | Bungie stable which kicks some serious gaming ass... cant wait for this one now. Now for the main question: Anybody interested in lending me their Xbox.... for a day or two? I would do anything in return :). Not anything... ooh.... u people have very dirty minds.
see ya

Bin Laden Bomb!

2004-11-08T14:29:00.000+05:30

Want to buy the 'bin Laden bomb'? Just visit any cracker market in Bihar.
With just days to go before Diwali, shopkeepers in the state are selling a bomb named after the Al Qaeda chief.
"Though the bin Laden bomb costs Rs 1,000 per packet, it is in high demand," Manohar Singh, a shopkeeper in Patna, says.
Another retailer, Sanjit, says the bomb is very popular among the customers. "Whether one buy it or not, everyone wants to know about it."
Interestingly, there are crackers available in the name of US President George Bush and Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib as well.

WOW! Biharis have always been innovative, but this is just outrageously coooool. Would love to see a Laloo Prasad Yadav mega blaster someday!!! I betya they cant/wont do that. :D

If you think about it, there have been more jokes about Bin Laden and Bush than anybody else in history...

Bluetooth Virus!

2004-11-08T13:55:00.000+05:30

just saw this over at techtree:

A malware, SymbOS.Cabir, is spreading through Bluetooth-enabled Smartphones in Mumbai. The virus, which emerged globally in June, affects the overall performance of the device because it keeps scanning for Bluetooth devices nearby and tries to send itself to them.

A potential victim of the virus receives a message "Receive message via Bluetooth from ?" Choosing yes, the user will be prompted with message saying, "Application is untrusted and may have problems. Install only if you trust provider." If the user chooses yes again, he will be prompted to install the worm "Install caribe?"
The malware files are located in c:\system\installs
The virus hasn't been known to cause any damage other than draining the battery of the user and displaying "Caribe" on the user's device. It infects devices like Nokia 3650/3600, 3660/3620, 6600, 7610, 7650, 9210 Communicator, 9290 Communicator, N-Gage and N-Gage QD, Nokia 6260, 6620, 6630, 7700 and 9500; Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P800 and P900; Motorola A1000.

I just got the N-gage QD after a long long wait and this is just not encouraging. But I need not worry, I mostly have Bluetooth off and not many others using bluetooth-enabled devices. Basically, I should not go to mumbai. :D

Things that just get stuck...

2004-11-08T13:23:00.000+05:30

Ever been through those days when some stupid thing just gets stuck in your brain. A song or a dialogue from a movie or some quote you heard somewhere... and it just wont get out of your head. I bet everyone has had such a day. I dont mind a song in my head, cuz it cant be that bad. Humming around the song is also not very painful, though realising that you have been singing it the whole day, kinda makes you say ... what the fuck. Bat your head around a little bit and then you finally try to think of something else. But that song just comes back around and hits you like a cricket ball, and then there you are singing it all over again and doing the same thing again and again and again. But its a song anyway, how harmful can it be!(unless its a song with very extreme lyrics). Dialogues or quotes are somewhat more irritating... It happened with me once, when I kept repeating one line that I came up with during an unusal chat. I was thinking of names for our multiplayer gaming community and after giving some worthwhile names like, "Disciples of the Warmonger" amd "Clan of the Undead", I came up with something very very ridiculuos. A mere thought of it makes me say ... yak!. So tell me how does it sound?... "Testicles of the dried skeleton" :D ... as I say always... Imagination sometimes suck beyond belief. If the phrase wasnt crappy enough, it got stuck in my head. Every single time sombody asked me what? why? where? of anything, I replied with that same phrase. For example, one online buddy of mine was telling me about a bad experience he had that day, when he got stuck at the point he had to compare it with something bad.... "its like.... its like.... u know... " and I popped in right at that moment to say "its like testicles of a dried skeleton!". After a small silent period, both our chat windows were filled with LOLs and ROFLs.... and then he replied with "No it wasnt THAT bad, dude", and I was still laughing my ass off! I used it a couple of times more that day, but I think you get the idea... Today I have that KaChing! song by Shania Twain in my head..... been KaChing-ing the whole day... :D

See ya

Final year.... project time

2004-11-08T12:13:00.000+05:30

Its the final year of college and besides the study-rate droping drastically, we have to think of doing a project. Two, in fact. One of the projects will be a "minor" and the other "major". Self-explainatory. We are three in our group and all are good in the .NET platfrom, primarily VB.NET. So any java crap is out of question. We already have done some stuff using databases and so were not interseted in any database-y thing. Ideas like Library Management, Online Banking and stuff were not that enticing anymore. I suggested we made some "application", which we ourselves may use sometime. After a lot of thinking and random ideas, we decided on making a trio of apps into one big application. So our minor project is all set to be a Web Browser plus an RSS Reader plus an email client(if time permits). The Web Browser is based on the IE engine, though I would have loved to make it around the mozilla engine, we just dont have that much time. The RSS Reader looks easy as of now, but things may get itchy later on. The Email Client is optional as of now, beacuase of the time constraints. We have at max 2 months to do the stuff, which btw also includes my 3 internals, 1 seminar and 1 semester exam. Well...well... aint I screwed royally! That was the minor project. As for the major project, we have decided on "SMS Banking". It looked interesting, cuz we get to implement three cool technologies in one.... Mobile connectivity, XML and a working banking system. We should have enough time for this project, but as the things are progressing time is the last thing I can rely on. I have asked one of my "guru" friends, to provide me with some ideas of .NET mobile programming(he had done a mobile p2p project sometime back). Once that is done with the project should be easy. I will post its details when we start on it. Right now I am busy with my browser.

See ya

Ants!

2004-11-07T23:40:00.000+05:30

My last blog about ants, "Stupid Question", took me to a site called antcam. And to my great surprise this site is one big ant-information resource. I thought it was a stupid question, but no... it wasnt. These guys have a complete FAQ about ants and their behaviour. If you think I am the one asking crazy questions, look at the guys over at the antcam site, hell they are even answering them!. If you dont mind spending some of your "oh-so-valuable" time doing something entirely useless, then head over to antcam and read around. You will surely find something interesting. I am currently reading its FAQ and its quite seriously informative.
See ya

Poll Results and New poll!

2004-11-07T15:04:00.000+05:30

The last poll got 9 votes! Thats amazing considering the fact that only 3 people read my blog. :D
Well as it turns out 2 of them are "Orkut Socialites", 3 of them dont have a slightest idea of what Orkut is, couple of them like it and the rest dont. For the uninformed, Orkut is google's "meeting place" concept which is currently in beta stage and one can join it only on invitation. That invitation can be from another Orkut user or from Google itself.

This week's poll pits the messaging mediums against each other, check it out.

This month will rock! Movies!

2004-11-07T14:38:00.000+05:30

Movies this month are huge, which is expected in a Diwali season. According to IndiaFM's release date calendar, atleast two movies can easily take away the "most anticipated movie of the year" title. One of them is Yash Chopra's "Veer-Zaara" and the other from our very own Ram Gopal Verma, "Naach". Veer-Zaara according to me will be a monstrous hit, while Naach can go either way. Thats because its more of an experiment than Veer-Zaara. Considering all aspects, I am more excited about Naach than Veer-Zaara, simply beacuse its a RGV film and very very different from the rest of the movies. But then every movie from the "Factory" is very very different. Vaastu-Shastra was a huge dissapointment for me, so I have high hopes from this one. Veer-Zaara, was renamed very late becuase it turned out as huge as the rest of the love stories. I mean like Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet... and now Veer-Zaara. It sounds more like a Dharmendra heavy-dialogue movie, but its not.
Anyway, other than these two movies, two cool comedies are also in store for us. Priyadarshan's "Hulchul" looks interesting from the promos, while "Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav" has already got its bump from the hype. Overall, this month can be big business for Bollywood and a big time-killer for me :). My perspective though kinda ruins it. I mean I am waiting for a yet-another-love-story, an over-exposed reel of dancing, a comedy starring Kareena Kapoor(eeeeeeeeeeeeeek *sick*) and a comedy whose real life characters are more comic that the movie itself ( that I can bet a thousand bucks on). So there, now it doesnt feel like a rocking month ahead, eh :D.

This month will rock! Gaming!

2004-11-07T14:21:00.000+05:30

Diwali season! and if its goes as expected, It will be one cool gaming season. Lets talk about games first. Two big games release this november, the first one is Halo 2 for the Xbox and the second is Half Life 2 for the PC. Halo was an incredible game though I played it, like many others, 2 years late on the PC. Halo 2 looks much more promising from whatever previews I have read so far. But then we will have to wait till it gets out for the PC. So even though half the world is excited about Halo 2, cuz its releasing on 9th, I am not. Simply put, because I cant play it(Unless and Until some generous person just gives me an Xbox :D). So the reason for me to cheer is Half Life 2. It releases on 16th and if we go by the "preview-reviews" of this game - its going to be one kickass adventure. Been a while I wore the shoes of Gordan Freeman and kicked major alien ass. The game looks amazing, the videos releases so far points towards an engaging gameplay and the hype is just unbelievable. One more game that I will point out here is - Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault. It has already been released and is getting decent reviews. I loved the original MoH game, Allied Assault and am also looking forward to playing this one. So there, 3 games in all, 2 of which I am sure to play this month.

Blog Changes

2004-11-07T13:05:00.000+05:30

Made some changes to the blog. Added a shoutbox and replaced the blogger commenting system with the Haloscan commenting system. Also I removed some crap from the sidebar and restructured it a little. Looks better to me now, though there is not much difference. :)