Last weekend was spent in Rotterdam in bitting cold. A friend of mine came to visit me and as I have already been quite a time in Netherlands, I showed him around. Its pretty difficult to show Amsterdam, if you remove the Museums.I should work on my photographs from now. My 10x Olympus camera allows [...]
Archive for January, 2006
Through the Lens
Posted in Movies, Personalities, photos, Travel, World Cities on January 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A Baby and a Baby
Posted in Experiences, Friends/Family, musings, Personal on January 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Jolanda (pronounced as Yolanda) is my dutch colleague. She is somewhere in early thirties. She is short by Dutch standard, somewhere about 5 Feet and she is pregnant. Two days back Jolanda gave us sweets and cakes and muffins and announced her pregnancy. Her idea is instead of telling everybody one-by-one why not announced it [...]
Republic
Posted in Events, Photo Blogs, photos, Politics, Thoughts on January 26, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Today is the 57th Republic day of India. India steps into the new century and into the big league. Corruption is still rampant. More than 40% of the people are still below poverty line. India grows into an IT power house. Once considered as a weakness, India uses its population to attract foreign investment and [...]
Woh Bhuli Dastaan – 6
Posted in Series, Television on January 23, 2006 | 86 Comments »
The sixth in the series and still more to come. Sanja Chula I remember the theme song and maybe just maybe had Rama Vij in an important role. Ulta Poolta I was in school those days and before going to school, I use to watch TV every morning. Ulta poolta was kind of filler for [...]
Big Fish (2003)
Posted in Movies, Non-Indian, Reviews on January 21, 2006 | 3 Comments »
“Big Fish” is about lies, tall tale and fantasy and still its about the way you live your life. When the movie ends, you don’t know what to believe in and what to not. Tim Burton directs this fantasy about a dying man and his son. Tim Burton gave the wonderful Edward Scissorhands earlier.“Big Fish” [...]
Selling India
Posted in India, Politics, Thoughts, Tools, Travel on January 20, 2006 | 5 Comments »
The title indicates that I am out to sell India like the great villains in Hindi Cinema do to phoren people. Remember Amrish Puri in Ketan Mehta’s “Oh Darling Yeh hai India”. He wants to auction India. No, I am certainly not selling India although a number of Indians are available for sale looking at [...]
None
Posted in Diary, Experiences, Memories, musings, Personal on January 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I screwed up big times yesterday. Its amazing how I can do that but I managed to screw up. And then to make matter worse, I cried. Exactly 3 years and 1 day after papa passed away and exactly 3 years and 1 day since I last cried, I cried again. Why did I cry? [...]
Stupid! Me? Of course
Posted in Events, Friends/Family, Humor on January 12, 2006 | 10 Comments »
I took the stupidity test today. The test gave me a score of 85%. It means that I am 85% stupid. Which means that I join the elite 85% people who are as stupid as me. It was a emotional moment for me. My eyes turn moist.No! Don’t take me wrongly or rightly too. Remember [...]