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Movies Update
Slumdog Millionaire -
Finally watched Slumdog M. Liked the narration and actually the entire plot. There have been a few debates off late about the way India is portrayed and what is shown. Yes the portrayal of slum life, the cheating, begging etc.. may have their own exaggerations in it, but what the heck its a movie. We have seen movies giving a ( Read more... ) -
Delhi - 6
Watched Delhi 6 last friday evening ( Read more... ) -
Loosing my virginity
Read this very interesting auto biography of Richard Branson. This has detailed notes of Richard's life till 2001. A very good business man who dared life many times through the various sports he got involved with ( Read more... ) -
Brida
Brida is a novel by Paulo Coelho. Its about an Irish women who is in search of wisdom. The story is paced very well and does have lot of details about witchcraft, magic, and does give an in depth view of the traditions of sun and moon. All of this was quite new to me and with a totally outsider view did find it interesting ( Read more... ) -
Road trip details
bangalore-tumkur-chitradurga-haveri-hubli (NH4) - Dec 22nd
Hubli-kittur-dharwad-hubli - Dec 23rd
Hubli-Navalgund-Nargund-Bagalkot-Almatti- Bijapur - Dec 24th
Bijapur-BasavanaBagewadi-Aihole-Pattadakal-Badami-Ron-Gadag-Hubli- Dec 25th
Hubli-Dandeli-Joida- Hudsa-Syntheri Rocks-Hudsa - Dec 26th
Hudsa-Doholeri-Kali Rafting-Dandeli-Hudsa - Dec 27th
Hudsa- ( Read more... ) -
year end trip - day1
We started around 11 30 AM from Bangalore yesterday and the ride was fantastic. The road all the way through the NICE road and then the NH4-user fee road till Chitradurga is in very good shape. We managed to reach Chitradurga is just over 2 hours. The max speed clocked was 170kmph a personal milestone for me and my car:) Wind mills welcomes one to ( Read more... ) -
Men in blue - dont choke this time!
Am really excited at the propect of a series win in England and looking forward to watching the final test(if star cricket continues come on TV).. It will be an amazing feat for the aging superstars that we have and a fitting last series for some of them. I am not sure as there are high chances atleast one of them or may be even 2, may be around ( Read more... ) -
Chacha search
Was playing around chacha search! The results are pretty neat. For novice users who are new to using search engine, I found the feature of talking to guide and asking him to tune the search on one's behalf to be absolutely cool.
Wonder how they can scale, lets say this goes to millions of queries.
