Cell Phone n rains

yesterday we were discussing y people were switching off their cell phones wen they walk in rain!!! Unfortunately i was the electronics engineer in the gang and i had no answers except saying "its probably coz wen water goes into the keys the key contacts mite get shoirted which can be avoided by switch off" but my friend countered "imagine most people switch on the cell as soon as they r back from the rain. wudnt tat again end up shorting the keys"...

ne scientific answers welcome!!!

Scenery in Bombay-Pune expressway

The stretch near Khandala-Lonavla exits in the expressway is simply breathtaking. A must for anyone who loves nature and a monday morning with a lot of traffic just seems to enhgance. At the tunnels there is a stream of vehicles seemingly coming out of the mountains is simply superb

Awesome Rains

It has been raining continuously, in Pune, for a week now and havent seen any sun for sometime :) The climate is simply tooo good. Hope we get this kind of weather atleast once in a way in Chennai!!!!

The Golden Quadrilateral

is awesome.........all the way from ahmedabad to pune the road was awesome....wet...drizzling but still good good roads....good work from the government...in the rains the bus was able to average more than 60...

I love GQ

Lost in Thoughts

Sometime back i saw a joke "lost in the baloon" and the core of it was

"That man must be a manager."
"Why?"
"Three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer. Second, he was perfectly correct. Third, his answer was perfectly useless!"

Pondering on this it does look true at times but looking at it from a different perspective the same guy couldve said "Three reasons. First, he is perfectly right. Two, we asked the wrong person. Three, but still he did his best"!!!!!!!!!

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

The book by COLIN FORBES is real real good......i finished the whole book at one go n tat too on a monday night when I had two important presentations at office on tuesday....just could not put it down...awesome piece.

SILSILAY - an attempt at making fans not waste money ever again

if u want to convince sumone they shouldnt waste money on movies its this one!!! bad direction bad actress selection...no story line...crappy dialogues.....unartistic display of skin (at times it bordered on the soft porn level but it wasnt hot in the real sense!!!)...sick songs.....i don have more words to describe it

P.S. but the other choice i had was BATMAN and i have a strong funda of hating cartoon character based movies....so i will better watch this n go n curse myself in BATMAN....here atleast i cursed the director :p

two and a half hours of waiting....1 hr of train travel....20 bucks on auto n a few minutes of walk!!!!!!!!

all that for getting wet in the rain........me n joseph decided to go check out wats thr in lonavla on sunday evening. The place is awesome but as yet not much water....seems mansoon has to set b4 it will be great to visit. But train travel is painful and the station is well, pretty shady....

After a gap of one week

I just happened to notice, the whole of last week I havent made a post. A bad break in routine considering I am still trying to get myself into routine blogging. But this week was hectic training work. We had presentations to be made and even the training session (which happen to be my favorite time to blog) were conducted by higher ups from the company nd so the comps were off limits. Such a tribute to the equal and flat structure!!! But those sessions were good and even if I had had the chance I might not have used the comps. Today I am nearly fully free, just an hour of work to do. No cooking in home and it seemed a better option to come to aapis and have food :p

Chowpatti - the Pune version

Yesterday i went to this Chowpatti thing. Some one in the training batch said its a place with a lot of "restaurants" and you sit in the open and eat. I assumed a food carnival type of a thing but what turned out was a small corner with a lot of "kaiyenthi bhavan"s.

The food was really good tho. I got proper southie masala dosa and there was also the standard tandoori or maharastrian food also. Co-eaters said non-veg (read chicken) was also awesome.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

There was a lot of hype for the movie among our trng batch folk and I went to the movie yesterday. There were a few other movies in the same complex but evryone billed this as THE movie to go! Finally it turned out to be a very ordinary movie.

Some exploding action sequences, some hot ones and few comin timing action sequences nothing more to it than a very normal flick!!!! Simply Angelina Jolie cannot make it ultimate.

Worth watching once if you dont have any other movie in the same complex that you havent watched...better sleep in your home watching a vijaykant movie with some item numbers slipped in between.

Masala Chaas from Amul

Chaas is nothing but spiced buttermilk.....really tastes good.....mebbe a lil too salty for the tamil folk who like more chilli taste in it.....but for the rs.5 pricepoint its worth a try....carry it with you to places you wont get curd and quench your thirst.....try it now if u havent yet :)

Saturday!!!

wowwwwwwwwwwww the trek was ultimate fun....11 ppl started off 2 cars and two bikes to sinhagad....morning 6 o clock I am out of my home walking towards the chowk....6.45 we meet up at some place called nullstop and move to Sinhagad...the trek up was superb....it was more of a climb than a trek considering the whole of it had kind of steps paved out of the rough rocks...no stone faces no holding tree roots but it was steep at many places and was really awesome...at the top we had lunch...some stuff called baakri and some side dish made of besan....the curd made in clay pots was good....n so was the masala tak (butter milk)....way back again on the steepy path and it was slightly slippery at places......run down and catch a tree to break the speed was a great option here considering there was a good path....short cuts made it thrilling....

A long sleep after i reach home and the thots of coming to office on sunday hits sharp!!!!!!!!!

BSNL CellOne is ultimate cheap

A simple question:
I am in Pune and am calling a number in Chennai. Tell me which would be cheaper
1. A BSNL prepaid cell based in Chennai (natioanl roaming enabled).
2. A Pune based prepaid cell from one of the other providers.

I was surprised to know BSNL is cheaper even while on roaming!!!

Weekend

This weekend prospects look good. We, the trng folk at Kanbay, are thinking of a weekend trek at some place called SinhaGadh somewhere around here in Pune. Hope it would be good and it materializes.

GOAL

I have been reading the book GOAL for a few days now. The book takes you along a memory drive when you try to think what you have been doing all these days. It was good to think of all those things but the feeling that stays is guilt. I took a day or two to overcome and once I started to think of the GOAL my life seems happier. It IS good mannnnnnnnnn...the book is good....worth a read and worth the money you spend on it. But the surprising part is people suggest its a must for manufacturing folk...it looks pretty common..tho the example taken is manufacturing.

Guess what I found my GOAL was?? mail me if you do and also mail me if you want to chat about goals...i liked thinking about that :)

Relativity roxxxxx

We were travelling on a share "jeep" yesterday and the driver and one of his friends were talking

Friend: "why are you driving so fast"

The jeep is basically going at around 40 km/hr on a main road but there is a little two wheeeler traffic on the left hand side of the road and they r moving slower.

Driver: "mein tho 40 hi chala raha hoon yaar" (Its a share "jeep" u c and he wants to complete his trip and come back for the next collection)

Freshizza!

Did you try the Rs.50 pizza at Pizza Hut. Mannnnnnnnn it rocks!!! I never thot we get such reasonably priced pizzaz at PH. Go try it during lunch if you havent yet got a chance.

Travelling by PCMC Bus

Yesterday I had an awesome experience...had to go to Aundh from Nigdi and I was advised by some "knowledgeable" person that the best way to do it is to go to Pune Corporation and pick another bus. I did as was advised and the best thing happened. I got down at Aundh bus stop just to see a direct Nigdi bus overtake me!!

Getting my RX is a must at Pune

Kaal - reference to hindi movies going back in time

A good plot which moves reasonably well (considering it was hindi movie and still there were no duets in between tho there were two pairs of hero n heroine!) but finally ends up bringing up a "dead" killer. What an irony to see a direct who has the guts to direct with out any frills (many times songs are fitted simply bcoz its a good thing to have!!) but ending up with a not-so-great climax where the killer turns out to be a "bhoot".

Ajay Devgan comes out too good with his non-chalant depiction of the character while the heroines come in simply to show some skin and give the so called "oomph" which again hasnt done much to improve the audience's interest. On the whole not an option if you have any other movie you havent seen running in the same theatre complex.

Nazar - A trip across the good and not so good ways of making cinema

Nazar - What you see may kill u. The movie starts off with an item number and then goes to one of the better thrill scenes in hindi movie but then loses the plot half way where it drags a little with the heroine (god knows why but she runs to a desolate place and the hero follows her)doing a raunchy song with the hero which is totally unnecessary.

The suspense is good and there subtle references like "Mere sivai kisi aur ko us murder ki poori idea nahi hai" types which comes to our mind on retrospect but on the whole the suspense rivets you till the final few minutes. In the end they suddenly come out with a special HIV message which seems rather out of place after the way the movie went. It just make you have an exasperated look and say "After all yeh to hindi movie hei...kuch tho moral of the story hona hei". But on the whole good to watch once though not with small kids, who may get terrified from one or two scenes.

Ban to show smoking in Cinema

What a wierd thing!!! Only Indian Censor Board can even imagine this. Look at this for more views. Imagine seeing a murder scene where the villain forgets his cig lighter and it is shown with a blur......what a suspense it wud be :p

Think about our epics..Ramayana is said to tell us what is good and we need to do while Mahabharata shows what needs to be shunned...Why cant the government realize life is always a mix and facilitate people to realize the bad things in movie and shun it rather than create this kind of a unnecessary constraint? Cant the government allow people to think for themselves? If it cant accept that people can perceive good from bad, doesnt it question the very base of democracy?

The mind power

I just realized an interesting aspect of our mind yesterday during a chat with a senior person. Our mind can relate any two disparate things with in the time we realise we are trying to relate. I generally tried doing it. Just attempt to relate a plastic bottle and a hard paper cover bottle! I could see both were containers immediately.

If u have some time and interest...Just try one more. A black ink ball point pen and a computer key board! by the time i types i realize both write...one on a paper...one on the monitor.

Male/Female

I went thru my own blog and saw I had referred to a tennis championship as brother/sister! Ne ideas to as to whether its a male or a female?

My take is its a male! Reason:
* I am chauvinistic :p

Tennis and Wimbledon

Think of the tennis grandslams. French Open is the place where even the greatest of champions falter and the tour is absolutely open. It is the French which is totally different in terms of the surface from the other three. But still French Open is a step-brother (/sister) to other slams. Some of the major players wont visit because they are not given top-billing (considering the fact that the specific people are majorly serve volley specialists its unfair to expect top seeding!).

Think of the game as such. English are not a force to talk of right now. You have Swedes, Australians, Americans, Russians, Argentenians, Belgians shining but the best English name you hear is one Tim Henman! Do you think it is fair to call Wimbledon the biggest, finest, bestest grandslam?

Office bus and bus drivers

Today I happened to sit in the front row of the bus and wow wat a ride it was. I felt the power in the buses and the driver calling out "I am big and nothing happens to me if u hit me and nothing happens to me if i hit u too". I felt an exaggerated version of a rash motorbike ride....the turns and the brakes felt like the driver negotiating a phase of a cross country race rather than a peaceful trip to office :p