Weekend.

Saw the Hulk , again ... just loved the action scenes and the amazing soundtrack. Tagline: The inner beast will be released . Laws of attraction : top there with You've got mail /Sleepless in Seattle /Notting Hill . Pierce : " Call me oldfashioned,but i believe , when you love someone you must be unselfish as to give them what they want . Pierce Brosnan delivers this dialogue when Juliane Moore asks him for a divorce !! Hah . National Treasure is viewable , bit more into American history , though. Constantine : Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him . K Reeves is at his best ... Looking forward to this film ..action scenes are MAST.

Earrings

Well this post is dedicated to all the female bloggers . :)

Maria lost today ... :( Name this guy .

Jai hind.

January 26, 1950 is one of the most important days in Indian history as it was on this day that the Constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state, a totally republican nation. The country finally realized the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and the numerous freedom fighters who, fought for and sacrificed their lives for Independence. This auspicious day was decreed a national holiday and has been recognized and celebrated as the Republic Day of India, ever since.

a little dose of laughter

A five-year-old kid raised his hand at school. The teacher declined to let him leave the room. Five minutes later she reversed herself. She said, "All right, Sonny, you may go now." The little boy looked up and said, "I don't have to." She said, "What do you mean you don't have to?" He said, "I opened up my geography book and went in the ocean." My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes .

Name this tennis player from the US of A . yep he's in the Australian open .

Reminds me of my sister :) .. Thank god she's not visiting my Blog ..hehe It seems like any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena are being attributed to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and this collection of pictures is more of the same. Although they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami .They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. Check this site http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp

:)

An Indian Beauty ..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Need a haricut....

Found these really funny lines.... You either have to lose weight or make more friends -- six pall bearers isn't going to cut it. She is so fat, he danced with her for half an hour before he realized she was still sitting down. There was a hijacking this afternoon. They hijacked a bus filled with Japanese tourists. But thank God, they got over two thousand pictures of the hijackers. And we are told in the Scriptures that at the beginning of time the Lord said, "Let there be light." But I've checked this out with a number of eminent biblical scholars. The Lord's complete statement was as follows: "Let there be light. Well, maybe not all day." You can lead a horse to water -- but before you push him in, just stop and think how a wet horse smells. If her lips are on fire and she trembles in your arms, forget her. She's got malaria.

The Boeing 747 is so big that it has been said that it does not fly; the earth merely drops out from under it.

Alternate Airport - The airport that no aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to if necessary.

Films i saw last weekend

Robin Williams was too Good .... and the below dialogue is rendered by Matt Damon :

Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot… Say I'm working at the NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk, something that no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. I'm real happy with myself because I did my job well but maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there getting shot just like it wasn't them when their number got called because they were all pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job because he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies use a little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back of course, maybe they even took the liberty to hire an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving because every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue-plate special they're serving is Northern Atlantic Scrod with Quaker Stat! e. So what did I think? … I'm holding out for something better. I figure fuck it. While I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe, and join the National Guard. I could be elected president. Thanks a ton!

Hmm the plot was a bit ...hmmm hmmm... but ok i guess...

I even saw Ocean's 12 .... Catherine aaaaaaaaaah ..... and After the Sunset ... Pierce Brosnan is tops....

Discrimination

When my fellow blogger K was talking about dangerous and scary stuff.. me and my friends were discussing about spiritualism and vedas.Hot tea , good day biscuits and vedas .. quite a combo. I asked my colleague if i could study them,as I find vedas interesting.He said yes but there are people who teach them only to Brahmins(A member of the highest of the four major castes of traditional Indian society, responsible for officiating at religious rites and studying and teaching the Vedas. ). The debate then moved on to "the discrimination". Example Ekalavya: From the net... Did you know that as a punishment, Ekalavya should have been beheaded. It is drONa who protected him from such severe punishment and the issue was settled with a finger. BTW, Ekalavya did lose his LEFT hand's thumb and he DID participate in the mahA- BArata war. As a matter fact, Ekalavya prepared his own bow to have the right grip with his thumbless left hand.He held a position of dhanurAkhya and was admired for his fierceful art of archery. He killed hundreds of mighty worriers of pAnDavas and was eventually killed in the end by Arjuna. Had DrONa been not sympathetic to this kid who learnt the art by having his guru pratima, Ekalavya would not have had a chance to participate in the mahABArata war. Weird ... More : It was the time when the Great War of Kurukshetra was being fought. Lord Krishna, supporting the Pandavas, was thinking about talented and heroic people who may join hands with Kauravas. Ekalavya's father Hiranyadhanu had died in the service of Kaurava kings. Now it was possible his son might also assist Kauravas. Though he had lost his right thumb, he was still one of the world's greatest archers, as Krishna knew. It is said in the Mahabharata that Lord Krishna, not wanting Ekalavya to assist the Kaurava army, killed him before the war erupted, ad blessed him with eternal salvation . So anyone out there know what the true story is ??

Why i don't have a girl friend

Check out Veera's post on "Why he doesn't have a GF ".. very funny ....

Monastery up up up .. way up...where only eagles dare..

From the northeastern part of the Thessalian plain rise the Meteora, sandstone peaks sculpted by river erosion during the Tertiary period. Monks established themselves there during the eleventh century, seeking solitude on the summits of these rocky towers. Gradually, there grew up a large community of hermits who, between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, built twenty-four monasteries that perch between 655.8 ;and 1967.4 ;feet (200 and 600 m) above the Pindus valley. For a long time, access to the monasteries was possible only by means of winches and ropes. Only in 1920 ;were steps and footbridges built to allow tourists to visit these sites, which have been on UNESCO’s World Heritage list since 1988. Most of these meteorisa monastiria (suspended monasteries) are in ruins today. Only five, three of which are occupied, are still open to visitors.

Eucador :

Ecuador was freed from Spanish rule in 1822 but retains a heavy colonial burden, as the place of Indians in agriculture shows. This has not changed much since independence, despite the abolition in 1964 of the huasipungo system, which obliged indigenous people to serve big Creole landowners, the haciendados. Many Indians are still employed on the haciendas on the Pacific coast, whose owners still have title to the best land, where bananas, cocoa, and coffee are grown for export. Others try to survive on a few unproductive plots in the Andes, which they have inherited as a result of agricultural reforms. There is a clear social divide between Creoles and indigenous people, not just in agriculture but in all other sections of society. The economic crisis in the country, as well as natural disasters (such as volcanic eruptions and el Niño), periodically act as a reminder of the depth of this divide, as the poorest people are always most vulnerable to them.

Grrr

BAD DAY : So what do i do ?

I check out my oooooold photo blog ... http://vinodc13.blogspot.com/

haa the nostalgic memories, the pics , i was so so ... dumb ..and enthusiatic ... hah ....

Funny no one stumbled on it ..... hmm must update it one of these days ... with lots of pics....

A simple one....from the Reader's Digest .

One afternoon a very preoccupied looking young woman got on my bus. About 15 minutes into the ride, she blurted out, "Oh, my gosh, I think I'm on the wrong bus line." I dropped her at the next stop and gave her directions to the right bus. "I don't know where my mind is today. I must have left it at work," she apologized. Just before she got off, I noticed she was wearing an ID card from an area hospital. "Are you a nurse?" I asked. "Oh, no," she said. "I'm a brain surgeon."

Zeitgeist

Google have produced their year-end the 2004 zeitgeist , detailing the most popular searches for the year. and oh don't know what Zeitgeist is : zeit·geist Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt Function: noun Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) Date: 1884 Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Have you been possessed ?

One of my office colleagues had been to Sabarimala in the month of December. I took down notes at the cafeteria as he was describing his pilgrimage. "It’s a 2 day journey to the Temple of Lord Shree Ayyappan and the devotees usually stop enroute at various Temples and shrines. We were a group of 25 people traveling in a mini bus. After a tough day's journey, we reached a village some 90 kms off Trivandrum, Kerala. This village was completely surrounded by dense forests and the Lord Vishnu's temple was simply too beautiful to describe. At the entrance of the temple, we saw a couple of huge decorated elephants and a band of people beating the drums. Doom Doom Doom. It was unlike any music, I had heard. Very very rhythmic. We joined the group and started chanting the lord's name" Swami Sharanam Ayyappa Sharanam", suddenly the villager next to me got possessed. It's as if the Lords above were summoning him and they wanted his body (Vc says : yep temporarily, rent free ).I was scared out of my wits . The privileged one was dancing and throwing mud on his head, hypnotized by the music. Suddenly I hear a shrill scream.... Oh God... an old lady gets possessed .She can hardly stand on her feet .Her kith and kin try to calm her down .In the next 5 mins , a dozen people are dancing widely as the music reaches its zenith ... Doom Doom Doom Doom .... My adrenalin is pumping ,I am irritated and scared.. Irritated because I am an atheist and scared lest I be the next to be possessed. The crowd mesmerizes me. One of the devotees, who is still in a trance, breaks away from the crowd, picks up a 4-inch long iron nail and proceeds towards the huge Banyan tree. The crowd follows him. He then hammers the nail to the stump of the sacred tree, bang, bang, using his forehead as a hammer, blood gushes out. ... The crowd looks on... I faint... " :) ...... ok I made up the part about this guy fainting and the part about the atheist . The rest is true . I really do believe its the music that makes us act like as if we are possessed. What do you think ? Natural or Supernatural ?

Wow Check out the earings !!! She really has an amazing collection :)

Breathtaking

a good read

Clicked on the next Blog button and found myself reading the adventures of kevin and leslie as they travel through South india.. its quite interesting.... and funny.. kevlesindia.blogspot.com

Masti Friday

Girl - Agar me kahu, mujhe tumse mohabbat hai, meri bas yehi chahat hai, to kya kahoge ? Boy - Me tumse kahunga is baat ko agar tumari saheli kehti, to accha hota...

my hometown ...

BANGALORE ... this is where i stay :)

Vlasic Mountain : Bosnia

THE BAG HAS ARRIVED

Well called Anthony ( the guy who was supposed to deliver the Goods ) , he said he would be dropping by my office , he ended the call by asking me ... " So how do you plan to take the bag home? " , I was like " dude , its a small bag... "isn't it ? So while I was having lunch ... (ate just 1 roti and some pulav) he calls saying "I'm at your office" ..So i dash to the ground floor Reception and he's in a Black car and is very courteous .. after 2 mins of chit chatting,, he asks the same question ...." So how do you plan to take the bag home? " I am suprised so ask him how big is the BAG. He shows it too me.. its HUGE.. and then a smaller bag.. I am LOST for words... I thank him and call my colleague for help ... we ferry it to our office reception.. its on the 4th floor .... Thank GOD for lifts. Its packed with stuff ( 30 items)mainly shampoos , creams ..wooww.. I could start a mini beauty parlour .... My sis has this thing about packing ..she's like Monica in Friends .. meticulous ... she even has a list which gives in detail , which stuff goes to whom.. I'll post my stuff later on .. I think I'll be spending the weekend giving away presents.. .. Wonder who gets the i pod .. I think its my Brother in law's friend... anyway got a cool pair of Blue goggles.. :) and a CK/Hugo perfume.... Must write a thank you note ....

Question of the day ...

Who is Sweety ? Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings -- they did it by killing all those who opposed them.

check out the chick and oh,, the cheetah too,,

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.

You've Got No Mail

A blonde is speaking to her psychiatrist. "I'm on the road a lot, and my clients are complaining that they can never reach me." The psychiatrist asks, "Don't you have a phone in your car?" "That was a little too expensive, so I did the next best thing. I put a mailbox in my car. "How's that working?" Actually, I haven't gotten any letters yet," the blonde replies. "And why do you think that is?" The blonde says, "I figure it's because when I'm driving around, my zip code keeps changing." :)

Where is the Black Bag ...

Well as you know my sis sent me a bag off goodies , via , one of her friends who came down to India to get married . Well according to my sis the bag reached safely at the Mumbai airport , but this dude lost his baggage :( .... Anyway the airport authorities then got hold of it and sent it to him . He got married on Sunday and the bag is supposed to be reaching Bangalore today ... But as John Becker says : No Expectations No Disappointments.

A Good one for Techies...

May the year 2005 give you - Independence of Java Power of Unix Popularity of Windows Extensibility of J2EE Luxury of .Net Efficiency of C Ease of VB Robustness of Oracle Vision of UML Simplicity of HTML Style of Mac Dexterity of Photoshop Enormity of 3D Max Vastness of Internet Compactness of JPG Richness of BMP Coverage as Yahoo Reach of Google Prudence of Froogle Security of Norton & McAfee Intelligence of Unreal Realism of Max Payne Speed of NFS Fun of RoadRash Intelligence of Chessmaster Impression of Quake3 And the goodness of all software that comes for free .....