Don 2

After the poor debacle of RA.One, SRK owes one to Farhan Akhtar now. SRK is all stylish, sleek and super suave. This is a really good way for people to erase the traumatic memory of RA.One. Honestly.

SRK's first Don was marked to be a remake of the old classic page by page ( however ,the climax scene actually reversed the whole thing, but still ). This movie had freedom of coming out of its image of being a remake and it does justice to same. The story is pretty simple actually. Continuing from where it ends in part 1, Don ( SRK ) is now seen in Thailand. Opening scene has some fighting scenes which is just part of movie to make an entry of our hero (villian). The weird hairdo of SRK is quite funny to look at. He has all mean look btw. Don surrenders himself to Police, gets to meet his old foe Vardhan ( Boman Irani ). They plan an escape from the jail. Next up, they plot the burglary of the century. Twists and turns throughout the movie, ensure that there are not many boring scenes.

Movie has Priyanka Chopra ( Roma, who now is a police officer) and Om Puri ( Malik ) from the previous part. New entrants worth mentioning are Kunal Kapoor ( nice change i would say ) and Lara Dutta ( Replaces isha koppikar, but has even less and meaningless role. Infact her role didn't even have any oomph factor baring the one song. Waste !! )

Mission impossible , ocean's eleven, die hard, matrix -- Movies from where stills are "inspired" from in the movie. Some action scenes are really good. Car chase between SRK and Priyanka is one of them. Add to these some cheesy comments by SRK throughout the movie. and you do get an entertainment package there.

Performance wise, Its actually SRK all the way. Even a heavy star cast like Boman Irani, PC, Kunal Kapoor, Om Puri is no match to presence of SRK. In fact, hardly any scenes in movie, where SRK is not part of it. SRK has done his best to give 100% to glorify the negative role.

A perfect masala movie. SRK lovers would obviously watch it. SRK bashers, still watch the movie, worth watching i say !!

Mega reviews

I watched a couple of few movies lately and so a review toh banta hai yaar !! .. toh here it goes

I am Kalam :
Such a nice move this was. Initially i thought that this would be some children movie, but this turned out to be movie that has emotions and drama to touch heart of anyone and everyone.
The story revolves around a rajasthani boy named chottu (performed by Harsh Mayar ) who is inspired by the life of India's former president APJ Abdul Kalam , and has an undying urge to read and learn new things.

Chhotu is an intelligent boy from a poor family in Rajasthan. Born into poverty, his mother makes him work at a roadside dhaba owned by Bhati ( Gulshan Grower ). Chottu is quick to learn the tricks and languages as the dhaba is visited by many tourists. One day Chhotu watches President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam on television and it inspires him so much that he changes his name to Kalam.

The boy brings smile to your face every time he comes on the screen. The movie showcases the problem of lack of education in rural india pretty well. It makes a point in a very good way. 5 stars for this movie !!

Zindagi Mille Na Doobara: Another good movie. Starcast itself ( read Katrina ) was enough reason to watch this one. Comparison with DCH was obvious. Story is about 3 friends who go out on a trip to relive their lives and end up facing one or other "fears" in their life. The movie is nicely connected with events in their life. Farhan's character has some good funny lines. Abhay Deol proves once again why he is such an underrated actor. He is one actor with awesome talent. Hrithik is also good. Kaifu "looks" good :-D .. guess she does justice to her role. Oh, and spain is now right up in the to -visit countries list :)


Silence of Lambs :
This was on my to watch for a long time. Finally watched it. Superb !! ..


I hate luv Storys:
Why did i watch this movie ??. Sonam, please teach her to act !!. Just looking good ain't gonna work. We already have Kaifu for that and she is done just good. I guess, this was the only reason why i started watching this movie. Note to self .. Do not judge a movie from a single song ;)

Singham :
Paisa vasool movie. Keep your head out and watch this movie. nahi tar tumchi pan sataknar ;).
Good cop thrown in land of goons where rule are made and broken to suit the goon. Cop goes berserk and decides to teach the goon a taste of its own medicine. Mediocre story, but still, movie has the entertainment tag attached with it. Marathi dialogues by Ajay are so funny. And the gravity defying action stunts are must watch. The villian too has some catchy dialogues. Dabanng had bound to have some imitation and guess Singham just started the series.


Phew !! .. I guess i should watch some hollywood movies now :-D

So google rolls out a new preview pane feature. This was one feature missing since a long time. The view now makes it quite similar to what we can get using outlook / evolution . Though it messes up the existing labels / folder listing / chat windows on the left side currently. I think, big monitor screens would be better equipped for using this setting . One more good feature !!

Chillar change ...

My mom has just become aware of the the fact that coming next month, the circulation of 25 paise coins would be stopped.


The only good part in this news for me is that my monthly pocket money would now see a hefty 100% rise and i will now get a handsome amount --- 50 Paise !! Yayyy :)

Kudos to the government !! .. Its party time ..

Error message

This is another old one ... but i kind of recalled it the other day when i was using windows machine .




There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.

When asked to define "great" he said,

"I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger !! "
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He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.

Korea Part2

If you are a proper veggie and are in korea then you are in for some royal treatment. Based on my experience of 4 months 15 days i can vaguely let you know what you should expect here.

If you fall into the category of eating food which has "no meat, no fish, no egg" category ( like i am ) then surely its difficult for you here. But you can still find the below things that can be tweaked to bring that indian taste ;)

- Lassi : You get in various flavours: common one being plain , strawberry, mango, banana. Stick to plain !! , you will never regret.

- Samosa: This varies from place to place. Though, i haven't eaten like the ones you get in india though, but the ones here are usually eatable.

- Soup: Be prepared to add salt / pepper or else you feel like you are just drinking tap water with vegetables thrown in.

- Noodles: Go to some chinese restaurant and try explaining that you want simple vegetarian stuff. You will get one.

- Pizza : Go to pizza hut, point to the size of pizza you want to eat, point to all vegetable photos placed on display and you are done !!.

- Rice: You do get plain rice here, but its sticky as koreans eat rice with chopsticks. If you are not comfortable with this kind, there is a way to get biryani type rice. Read the menu and pick up the fried rice you want. Say, it has "shrimp fried rice" , Just order "shrimp fried rice without shrimp and egg !!" ( don't forget the egg part ) and you get your good old fried rice.

- Indian hotels. I was lucky enough to be "posted" in places which had atleast one indian hotel. Though food can become monotonic after some days in such places, but you don't have to sleep on an empty stomach.

- Ice creams. One of the things that i like in korea. Baskin robbins itself has 31 different flavours. Though strawberry has monopoly in the flavours available, the thing worth is the combination flavour. I kind of like it.

- Fruits . This is the best part. You get fresh fruits in all hotels ( Watermelon / pineapple and lichee being the normal ones). Visit homeplus and you get all grocery you can ever think of.

- You do get maggie too in korea in some other brand name, but i always doubted how "vegetarian" it is. If anyone tries it, please let me know :p


Right then, this is few of the things i could think of. More so, if i happen to visit korea again, i would use this list whenever i feel hungry :p

5+ years in this field, and i still have an ocean to explore !! .. Having a great experience here courtesy my current company. Apart from food and good "people" , there is actually a lot to learn this time around ( or may be am genuinely interested this time ;).

All i want now is to have one fundoo solution for a super duper critical issue .. Will be great fun ..

Korea - Part1

This time, am travelling to Korea for some days again. I hope i don't have to stay here for long time though ;). Anyways, so just an attempt for the travelogue of this journey.

Time 5:00 pm, 4th June
This was the supposedly start, scheduled, pick up time for members for the trip, M , R and me !!. At 5:15 pm i received a call from R that M's trip was supposed to be a day before. Same flight same time, but a day earlier. PANIC , Panic , panic !! . Last moment hassles and the tickets are booked for the flight. Finally journey starts at 6:30 pm.

Time around 8 pm
We stopped at a roadside for a break. Initial discussion led to conclusion that we will just have some food packed and continue travelling to save time. However, the hungry careless people we were, we not only ate food at our leisure time, i also ordered more food, just in case we don't get good food later on

Time around 11:30 pm, mumbai Airport.
Mumbai's traffic can be sometimes such a pain in the wrong place !! . After lots of cursing and hitting people's vehicles to make way for ours, we managed to reach airport, a full 1:30 hrs behind my expectation. The automated check-in system's crew was on overtime laugh mode and he kept laughing at all questions / answers he asked / told me. Sometimes people can be so weird. Then came the declaration part at the customs. M got his electronic equipments declared first. After 15 minutes of scrutiny of all his details, his letter was duly stamped. Enter me.

Q: where are you going ?
Me: Korea

Q: So you two guys from same company
Me: Yes

Q: Ok ..go
Me: Yipee !!

Took less than a minute!!!

Lesson learnt: Piggybacking is so good :P


Time around 10 am, HongKong:
Hong Kong's airport is pretty huge with over 60 flight hangers. The 4 hours transit time was happily used by some of us ( read R) to sleep , by some ( read M ) to try and check mails, and some ( read me ) to look at all people ( gori chamdi :P ) like a baby (:P) . After the usual photo session in what-not poses, i set around to see if there was a good restaurant around.And my search operation gave good yeilds when i did find a good place where i had rice and curry . Tasted good :P ..

Next plane to Incheon
Had booked window seat so that i can doze off. However, Korean girl named Kim, who could speak english sitting right next to me :p .. 3 and half hours of bliss ;) . A segment of my love for korea got a turbo boost in this 3 hrs ;) .

Incheon Airport , 7 pm KST
We had planned to take a limousine bus from airport to the hotel. But a sudden change of heart for all three and we decided to taxi along. 45 minutes and we are in the hotel lobby. Being a foodie, one of the best part of booking in such big hotels is that you get good indian food , 24 hrs :-D , which is such a rare case in korea otherwise.


To continue ..

Feels good to see your name in linux :-D ....

Feels bad that why can't i get time to contribute more :(

Reviving !!

Its over a year and half since i visited this section. This is like my n-th attempt to bring this part back to life. Hope i do so this time around ..