Once again the reliable Reliance connection ruined my weekend, full 36 hours of blackout and my unread feed count reached 858. I don’t understand the problem, on weekends their system goes down. This time http traffic was not possible at all, but I managed to download 800MB through torrents.
I was excited to find out about how to take Wikipedia offline using GearsMonkey and was experimenting with it and got disconnected. I had to watch No Smoking, Saawariya, Hot Fuzz and would agree that the reviews of movies were not good. Thanks to tweets that I was well informed, Thej’s adventures in Udaipur and Jaipur, info from Wesleyneo about the cancer treatment (I was unaware of BARC’s involvement) and Prasoon’s updates kept me awake. Manchester United-Bolton match was a disappointment and was wondering how performance of a team differs in both halves.
No smoking is a totally different kind of movie, a movie apart from normal Bollywood flicks and that’s why bad reviews, movie is about how we react to situations, not in the way we want to react, but how society wants us to react. It’s a pity that our reviewers could not understand the depth and discarded a good movie. As Geo points out many times, movie makers are under-estimating the potential of audiences and always come up with same genre of movies and I agree with him at-least with the kind of response given by reviewers.
Saawariya, again is not a bad movie as portrayed. It’s a nice movie, well made but some extra songs and same kind of dialogues makes it sluggish sometimes. But if you can concentrate on other aspects, grandness then you might be able to like (not love) it.
Hot Fuzz is a crazy movie, superb comedy, potential to be a cult comedy movie. After watching Blazing Saddles, Monty Python & Holy Grail and Airplane during the week I was not expecting to laugh this much, but it’s a different class of movie.
I finished Street Lawyer by John Grisham, it’s not a gripping thriller as always, but this book makes you think a lot. If USA can have compulsory pro-bono work, why in India we don’t implement things like that, as a software engineer how can I contribute to society? I was aware of problems with homeless people in India, but never expected that USA also faces problems like this.
Star VOI is hurting me a lot and I want to sue those people, whenever I am surfing channels and I reach there, they only talk about regional votes. I hate it, they are openly promoting regionalism and someone should stop them.
And here I am, back to office, enjoying the six wicket victory
