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Amidst all the intellectual comments made by our professional politicians who are paid to progress the economy of our country by driving a few poor illiterate Indian youths to smear cowdung on posters of cricketers, and burn effigies (pun intended); I've decided to form a dream team with tremendous vision and abundance of passion to reach the Finals of the Cricket Word Cup 2007 quite comfortably. And, who better than the politicians, bureaucrats and past BCCI bastards of India can hold a straight bat, dive to save runs, bowl a googly, and face 150Kmph beamers! So, here is my Dream Team....Ooooh AAAh India! Somnath Chatterjee ( Speaker of the Parliament of India ) - Captain cum Opener a.k.a The Waaaaaaalllll Laloo Prasad Yadav ( Union Minister for Indian Railways ) - Vice-Captain & Opener aka Amar Singh ( Crook No.1 ) - Point fielder & Genuine 1-down batsman Ram Vilas Paswan ( Youth Instigator No.1 ) - Slip fielder whom you can always rely on Gurudas Dasgupta ( Commu...

Wow, this has to be the most satisfying day in my short career in photography. And all the applauds go to my favorite camera, the Canon Powershot IXUS S330 and a hundred claps to Flickr . I love the new feature introduced in Flickr called the Camera Finder . A dozen images of mine feature in the Interesting Macro Canon PowerShot S330 section. Thanks buddy, you just made my day!

Nike Commando Series Originally uploaded by McGun . Spotted your profile on Rediff.com's shopping portal, you were being sold for a Thousand bucks (1000 INR) under the finest brand name - Nike ! Along with you came a FREE Nike Travel bag. I was desperate to get a good protector for my feet. I was dead sure I wanted you, and used my HDFC Netbanking facility for the very first time to seal my 1st purchase on the InterNet. And boy, what a find you were! U were delivered double-sealed with Rediff's logo as an assurance on the 18th Oct, 2003 . On unpacking you, I was taken back by the looks and design. U looked different from what I saw on the Net, but you looked unique. I was disappointed that day wondering if I made the right decision. I sat the whole night thinking of the stupid remarks you and me would get for such a funny looking combination! There was a saying that a person is judged by the way he dresses, communicates, looks & the SHOE he wears ! I took you as a new ...

Fellow Indians, please join me in voting the Pepsi Blue billion ad as the Lamest Ad of Indian advertising. Are they trying to sell their soft-drink contaminated with gas and pesticides, or trying to sell tens and thousands of shameless Indian public to the Indian cricket team. Oh, and talking about the Indian cricket team, they are all paid-handsomely by Pepsi even if they don't play for the next one year. Whether we win or lose doesn't matter, Pepsi is always there 2 support the Indian cricket team. Tell me honestly Mr. Shahrukh khan (King Khan as u r often called), Saurav Ganguly (crying for a hopeless flying T-shirt comebac) & Indian cricketer , are you guys touching your conscious and promoting this kind of pathetic ad when you for sure know that you cannot find ONE BILLION Indians to support the Indian cricket team. Half of India's population is under the poverty line, small children don't get two meals per day to survive, and finding pure clean drinking wa...

Finally, the Prarthana drive-in OAT has decided to screen a non-local dialect movie. And what a way 2 begin, Lage Raho Munnabhai , the biggest blockbuster of 2006. Not sure what lightning struck them did they decide to screen a Hindi movie, was it finance problems or did they stumble upon my previous blog on this OAT ? Whatever it maybe, I'm pleased 2 hear this news & pray this is not a one-off case scenario, although I'm pretty sure this could be a trial run to figure out the returns and other financial gains if they intend to screen English/Hindi blockbusters on the same day as the multiplexes. lage raho Prarthana.......cheers! Update : as xpected, the movie ran only for a week and I managed to see it in nic of time yestday. From today (18/10/06), Thimiru being screened.

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The LageRaho Munnabhai success has suddenly transformed the Father of the Nation to a new modern war hero, and has put him ahead in the league of elites like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and other non-violent heroes of the world. The popular Bapooji has been pushed to the backseat and given way for a cool-funky Gen-x name - Gandhigiri . Wats more, he is being hailed as the Comeback Man of the Millenium...OMG!! Across the media, this name is being popularised, and Gandhiji is merchandised 10 times better than Che Guevara ( now, thats wat I call stiff competition ) his photo being printed on mugs, T-shirts, bags and even on a mouse-pad ( sounds a bit lame ), but would u believe it? Gandhigiri is all across the net, on wikipedia Orkut community Mahatma Gandhi store Cafepress.org and what not...the list is huge!! I'm pretty sure there would be quiz contests all across the nation on the 2nd Oct only on Gandhiji and his principles, teachings, etc, no wonder the sale of boo...

Waiting patiently for their next big release RATATOUILLE... ah, how do you pronounce it? Watch its trailer

hahahaaaa....I've never laughed so much in a day after getting a FOUL message when playing the 3D Ultra Cool Pool Demo game today (played it after a gap of 3 years). My first shot threw the BLACK ball ( No.8 ) out of the table. Going by the legal rules, the computer should have won or the ball should have been placed back on the table. But the game continued and even I didn't realise that the BLACK ball was missing until I arrived @ this Catch 22 situation: Me and the computer player were left with only the Cue Ball to pocket. With no other option, I pocketed the Cue Ball and got this message " FOUL: Cue ball did not hit any balls. " Technically, I should have won, but even the Computer player got the same message. Finally, I decided to end the game after 15 minutes . FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF POOL, THERE IS A TIE ...hahah I'm happie :)

I was alwayz confused if I belonged to the Scorpio / Libra zodiac (born on the 23rd October), so I decided to dig deep using some free astro charts on the web and this is what I found.....hurray, now I'm Dead confused . But, itz better to have traits of both zodiacs, rather than stick to one :) If anyone understands my birthchart, plz do tell me if I'll be able 2 get my dreamjob (dunno myself) with a hefty paycheq, a good wife who can poilsh my Nike Commando shoes...and most important of all.... WILL I EVER BeCoMe FAT ? If you got the answers, plz comment!

Less than 3 months into subscription, and my "O -Ve" BLOOD IS BOILING @ 400 deg FAHRENHEIGHT ...wanna know more, u'l have to wait until I get my SET-TOP-BOX from REPAIR. 14 days since the STB crashed after a software upgrade & I've not got a replacement yet....! Meawhile, check out more sad user reviews on DISHTV @ Mouthshut . My 18 days of FRUSTRATION 4th Sept - The Zenega STB undergoes a Software upgrade on its own. Users need to just press OK to complete the process . Me and thousand other customers struggle to understand the software upgrade. The navigation is pathetic this time, how the hell can they call this an easier to navigate menu? absolute nonsense ! 5th Sept - The Red light in the STB stops glowing, first I thought its a power problem in the power socket, but later realise its a STB problem. Call up dealer to get DishTV's Service Number. 6th Sept - Gave it to their only service centre in T. Nagar, Chennai ( the first scapegoat city wher...

Having seen most of their big hits like Toy S tory Part1&2, The Incredibles , Finding Nemo , Monsters Inc. , A Bug's life ; I was desperate to check Pixar's latest offering Cars . Trust me friends, you'll love this one for sure. The concept of cars being compared to humans with the basic similarities: 2 eyes ( headlights ), 2 hands ( front tyres ), 2 legs ( rear tyres ), a big fat mouth, etc. has been used in many animation videos. This one is altered a little bit with the eyes placed in the car's windscreen and headlights as nostrils...the big fat mouth stays where it is. Though the movie stretches to almost 2 hours, the scriptwriters have blended it well with a storyline that frequently throws a social message to the real-humans. You'll figure it out yourself. Not many know this movie honours the Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died in 2002, and not much refs to Steve McQueen . The story is about a how an aggressive rookie sens...

My recent trip to the Prarthana drive-in Open-Air-Theatre ( just 5 kms from home on the East Coast Road ) to watch Kamal Hassan's latest release " Vettaydu Vellyadu " forced me to write a blog. Well, neither am I going to review this movie, nor talk about its 70mm screen, amplifiers, car-parking, fresh air and romantic mood with your babe, or the mosquitoes sucking your +ve/-ve blood. It’s about this classic form of entertainment loosing its charm to the dozens of multiplexes sprung up in the city, or for that matter the country. Gone are those days when you couldn’t sit on those hard butt-breaking, spine-cracking seats in theatres, or suddenly find a rat climbing through your pants/sarees/skirts (ahem..). Today, the entertainment industry has changed so rapidly in Chennai with Satyam Cinemas leading the pack in movie entertainment. Housing almost 5 screens that transmit movies to an intelligent audience one after the other, coupled with high-quality DTS surround sound, ...

Being jobless is sometimez a good break in life provided you have a good cable connection ( like the 3-month old DishTV @ my place ) and tons of movies, music and sports to watch throughout the day, in short an excellent chance to be an honest couch-potato. A few days back, I stumbled upon this movie on ZeeMGM called One, Two, Three . Being a Monday morning, I initially thought this movie would put me 2 sleep again, and switched to HBO which was showing " The Matrix ". On 2nd thoughts, I told myself enough of the red & blue pills and rabbit holes (no disrespect to Matrix fans) , letz chekout One, Two, Three . Thoughts proved lucky for once, this is easily one of the most hilarious comedies I've ever seen, no doubt it was nominated for four awards in 1962, including the Laurel Awards " Top Comedy ", thanks to James_Cagney 300kmph dialogue delivery, so smooth and crystal clear that even a Britisher could understand. Note : Voice accent trainers and trainees i...

While some people loose jobs ( lost mine recently ), some resign, some fail to get the job of their choice, some just don't bother to get a job! If you are jobless ( to be more polite: without a job ), think again; you are not alone, there are millions in India without a job. A very popular term for people like u & me in Tamil is " vetti officers ". " Your dreamjob available @ the click of a button ", " Your next big fat cheque is just a phonecall away ", " The Job of your dreamz "...well, these are some of the few punchlines of a dozen jobsites in India splashing across newspapers, mags, hoardings and now on the idiot box. So, why take the headache of jobhunting when there are professionals recruiters and consultants who make life easier for thousands by narrowing down the best job for you. Well, thats their job, they do it for free and you dont pay a penny :) So, what are you waiting for, just dial " +911ndianjobsitez.com " ...