Lets move on...

Mindful of our highest aspirations, Bound by common faith and purpose, And, yet, beginning with ourselves as we are, Let us take one more step, together, in our unending quest for dignity, justice,love and chokis. Amen. Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection

Asterix and the Flying Carpet...gosh hilarious..i meant dogmatix :)

Of plum cakes and @#$@#$ films...

Naah I didn’t have a white Christmas, but I did have a filmy Christmas. I watched a lot of B grade movies. The best part of these movies was the background score. It truly stands out. Inside Man: Must watch this movie again.

Firewall : Forget it. Crank : ewww. Old School: Too Funny.

Black Hawk Down :You must own this DVD.

Hostel: ewwww It seems this horror flick was voted Best horror movie for the year 2006 Reservoir Dogs: Wow with background commentary. You will use the word ***** in all your sentences…atleast for 24 hours. Bhagam Bhag: Yep you’ll want to run away. Got bored and tried playing Eragon ..man o man controlling the Dragon is just amazing. I was asking a friend if he had heard of the film/game/book Eragon and his reply…”Sorry the only thing I know is Paragon” grrrrrrrrrrrrrr Got another classic game called Oblivion: Elder Scrolls IV …will be playing this RPG soon….ofcourse have to go get my xbox 360. I think I’ll bunk appice on Friday. I’m losing weight these days, it must be because of all the nutritious snacks that I eat instead of plain old dinner. Potato Chips, pani puri, plum cake and cookies are so much better than rice and radish sambar. Listen to this……It seems you become more articulate when you fall in love…..yapppppppppa….

Borrowed it from a friend..just too cool.Thanks Amigo.

Really ?

http://vinodc.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_vinodc_archive.html It seems, my archives, made someone smile ....sigh*

@ the club cabana resort...

Liked the diya.....some hotel in Mysore...

Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.

My first memory of watching a film on the big screen is Star Wars ( Voooooooom Voooooooom ) at Galaxy and then “ Bermuda Triangle” at Rex. I was too young to remember the details. But the mast time I had watching “ The Gods must be Crazy “ with my cousins was memorable. Yes partly it was because of the hilarious film, but mostly it was because of the pain. We had received our chlorea/malaria shots and it pained like hell. So while watching the film we would hit each other jokingly and aaaaaaaaaaw the pain mixed with the laugher ( wipes a tear). The previous Sunday, I and my bil went to this local film called “ Kabul Express”. Awesome documentary, wonder why its called a film. Arshad Warsi is wasted and so is that American chik. I was really disappointed with the film. Che che how come they show such great “Trailers” but the film is so Yuck?? . I have seen better documentaries on the Discovery channel and NGC. That reminds me I don’t have cable at home grr those damn monkeys..grrr.. and I didn’t even watch a single ball of the just concluded test match. Not one ball. No wonder India won ….yipeee. Sssssssssssh so where was I ? aaaaah Kabul Express is one huge flop buster ( Sajjan, you should watch it with your fiancé , want me to mail the DVD ?? ).

Things I noticed in the film were : No naach gaaana , Nope not even that Kabul Fiza song..No item numbers ..No belly dancers.The duration of the film was like 2 hours. just 2 hours… Sigh*. The full film is shot in the desert and not once do they, I mean the good guys , drink water. Yep they do eat kaababs but you see they come across this huge overturned truck which is filled with pepsi cans and they don’t even take 1 tiny winy sip !!…. And gosh the background music is so gloomy and the shots of the mountains are great for the first 20 minutes ..then you yarn for an apple tree……sand sand everywhere… The jokes are so lame . Can you imagine 2 unknown people quarreling over who was the better allrounder, Imran Khan or Kapil Dev ? gosh !! And the bad guy is named Imran Khan Afridi…..yappppppaa

Wait I think I missed someone in the film ..some dude…naah.. moving on.. I watched this other film “WTC” …….God ..why me…its about 2 people ..well…( wink wink) Have you played Eragon the Game ?? oh you guys don’t even know who Eragon is ..right ( and NO Kirthi I did not misspell DRAGON) Hello does anyone have a remedy for freckles? ( there Dee I have asked the question and haven’t named you..see see me so smart no) Hey let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a merry Christmas…hope you have a blast this Christmas…3 cheers hic hic and ..i think I ate a champagne choki and it was so ..passed out even before the wrapper hit the floor. So can someone send me more choki’s???? pleaseeeeeeeeeeee ..hic hic hurrrrrrrray… Did you people have a chance to read last Sunday’s TOI Times Life ? No ( yipeee) well its like this ..you know that …areh …..( wink) go read it .

Move it baby..

Its been another of those hectic weeks...gosh can't wait for Christmas... 3 days leave..yipeee and to top it..the XBOX might just make it India...

You must watch out for....

Too Fast Too Furious : Tokyo Drift It started with The Fast and the Furious : Awesome movie the cars were wooow and the chase sequences .. breathtaking especially Vin Diesel ROCKS!! Vroooooom Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrom Next it was Too Fast and Too Furious : I remember coaxing my friends to watch this movie at the Plaza theatre. All that Sajjan and Anand can remember is Vroooooooom clutch Vroooooom Clutch Vroooooooom and blur images of color color cars passing at insane speeds… RB was asleep :( and Sri was passing loos comments……Ofcourse they later bought the dvd’s . Part 3 is called Too Fast Too Furious: Tokyo Drift . I was not impressed by the title..Tokyo Drift ?? What do the japs know about driving ?? Then I saw the movie ..and saw that Japanese guy drifting ..and I went wowwwww..let me tell you what Drifting is…drifting refers either to a driving technique, or to a sport based on the technique; this article deals primarily with the sport. When the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, and the front wheels are pointed in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right), and the driver is controlling this, the car is drifting. Got it.. in plain language : the car moves sideways and its useful when you have sharp 90 degree turns . It’s a visual treat for the eyes. Vivah : Awesome Suraj Bharthajiya movie that will test your patience.Its this mushy mushy film in which the heroine has her head bowed at 38 degrees and the hero keeps smiling and the background score..gosh……uhahahhhaaaaaaaaaaha More later now I have to go home and cook dinner ( yeah right !! ) Oh i forgot please do visit Dee's Blog ...she's funny but ofcourse i'm the bestest :)

Just because there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's no fire in the furnace...

Come down off the ladder.

Wash out that paintbrush.

Shake the sand out of your shoes.

Get up off your muddy knees, and give the garden a morning off.

Fold up the newspaper.

Turn off the coffeepot.

Close up your calendar,

already filled with dates,

and times,

and people,

and places that claim you.

This post is dedicated to all those people staying away from home, away from Mom’s cooking, away from the traffic and pollution, away from the pungent smelling Niligiri trees …in short far far away and to the blue angel .....wink wink What do you dream about ? I know some people just don’t dream, sigh* neither do I. Well not when I’m sleeping on my bed but I do dream while traveling in the cab, late at night . And its always that recurring dream in which I misplace the house keys..grr.So I gave my neighbour a spare key hehe I am so smart no …but the next day I dreamt that I mislaid the key ( again) and the *@*#$@$ neighbor went on a vacation. I was stranded grr… I must spend more time in my apartment, the other night, the apartment security guard refused to allow me in.. I mean he thought I was an outsider..grrr… Oh did I tell you this one incident in which I forgot to close the kitchen windows ? I came back to see the hall in shambles. The bedspread was on the floor along with the cushions and the other wall hangings. It was the work of my long forgotten relatives the local monkeys.Yeah our apartment is infested with monkeys.I think the young monkeys came in through the open window and as they couldn’t find any food ,they were a bit frustrated. ( Sigh! Aren’t we all !!) . I was not angry at them, it was my fault , I was a bit irresponsible but what irked me was not finding the TV remote. The brats had hidden the @#$@#$ remote under the diwan. Grrr took me 15 minutes to find it. After a hectic and busy 2 months, I decided to bunk office and attend a friend’s wedding.I was unable to attend the reception but Sajjan says it was fun, especially meeting old classmates all of whom are married and are healthy ( put on weight) uahahahaaaaa. At one point of time, it just hit us that we were the only bachelors left …. (gulp) Sajjan and I decided to go to Dhoom2 and we checked the local listings and landed at the Garuda Mall. Sajjan has never been to this mall and the first thing he said was “ Damn its just like a typical Mall in US “ and I waited patiently and then he saw all the people and he said ..”Aaah I take back my words,you don’t get to see all these beautiful people in US” . Well it turns out that all the malls in US are infested with Indians but the main difference is that in India its usually a bunch of girls bunking college and hanging out but in US its Indian couples, holding hands and window shopping. Unfortunately all the tickets were sold out and we had to go to a different theatre. For the love of God it’s a @#$#$ Thursday , a weekday and the mall is filled with people of all types of sizes and shapes…grr Nope I am not writing a review on Dhoom 2. Its just not worth the hoopla, it’s a film where Hrithik doesn’t wear clothes, dances superbly and looks more like a French dude. Ash looks like a Barbie doll and I dare you to show me an ounce of fat on her body.All her dialogues have the word ‘like “ , like are you checking me out…ewwwww. Bipasha is wasted, she’s more like a lamp post. Uday Chopra , well he’s got more dialogues than Abhishek and Arshad Warsi would have rocked this role. AB duh !! he’s like so Unreal ..He didn’t even get a chance to comb his hair and was grossly under utilized. I mean check out the wardrobe of the villain and compare it with ACP Vijay. Overheard : I hate this Abhishek guy , you know why, areh iss umar main bhi apne baap ko kaam karne detha hai… ( eeks) Overheard : Areh are these guys really going after thieves ? They are aptly dressed for a beach party. Hrithik takes off his clothes : Girls Screaming …. Bipasha makes an entrance : Boys whistling , a dude screams “ come to me baby “ gets a pattar from his GF. Overheard : After the film, a cute girl, “please hold my hand, chakkar aaraha hai”…and she was trying to hold my hand !! Of course it was dark..and it was a mistaken identity.(wink) Yeah you must watch the film for some awesome cinematography but overall 3 stars and I don’t seem to recall the songs …nor the chase sequences. Its more of masks…and skin. More later…. Regards Vc