Oscar Weekend... with sunny warm weather & Raspberry

This was a nice weekend. Weekend of sunshine, nice warm weather, lots of relaxing & sleeping, almost no work done... and Razzies & Oscars. Well, the weather kinda cheated. It said it'll ran, but it didn't. It was all nice, sunny & warm & beautiful. I am not complaining, just saying that proper noice would be nice. Friday night was cold which I spent watching Bang Bang Club preview. Saturday was spent at gym & home (I am working out a LOT). I did have a Shake Shack Burger from uptown. Al I can eat there is the veggie burger (rest all is BEEF) & there black & white Shake which is NICE.

Sunday was spent resting mostly. There was supposed to be an Oscar viewing party in Lincoln Center whichI found was canceled after getting there all dressed up. So I had to settle for watching the Academy awards aka Oscars at home. I was quite please by the awards this time. Not as much by hosts. James Franco & Anne Hathaway were the youngest people to host Oscar, also the first (straight) couple. James looked high (wassup with dressing as DRAG??) and Anne was chirpy/bubbly but not fun/funny. She did have some nice dresses on, some. I find most of these Oscar dresses/gowns ugly. It's all about "who" are you wearing than what are you wearing. Mila Kunis sis have a nice dress on though.... Awards were kinda well deserved unlike some nominations (Kids are alright, really? Annette Benning was really that good??). Christian Bale really deserved his award (inspite of the fact I haven't seen The Fighter, but liked him in all his other work including Machinist). BTW, he does great British accent, very convincing. Natalie Portman did deserve the best actress Oscar for her performance in Black Swan, she's done a really good job being able to portray the full range of emotions, from sad, to happy, to sweet, to hot, to dangerous etc. I was really impressed. Inception got technical awards & Alice in wonderland for dress & cinematography. Others were good too. Really liked Kirk DOuglas on stage, he was fun & funny. All & all, a nice show!!

I didn't see the Raspberry Awards (Razzies) but heard that Manoj Night Shyamlan The Last Airbender lead the race with Sex & the City (which def deserved all the Razzies). M.Night is just suffering from over expectation. He's a nice smart guy & make good movies. I recently watched The Lady in the Water & found it quite interesting. I even liked The DEVIL. Every movie cannot be The Sixth Sense. C'mon guys, give him some space. Anyways, it's cool to see how they award for excellence & non-excellence too. LOL. That was the whole weekend and Monday today was "as usual". So until next time, Take Care & Be Happy... keep visiting/reading/commenting... Thanks & Jai Ho!!!!

Happy-Happy B'day Dearest SIS!!!

This is to express my heartiest congratulations, deepest love & all my blessings & best wishes to my sweetest dearest sister a HAPPY-HAPPY B'DAY!!!

If you grew up with a sibling you would know what I mean. Having a sibling growing up, either younger or older has a huge impact on your upringing, & who you become. They are colse to you in many way for such a long time in your foundation years. And alll those sweet & sour memories. Like I fough a lot with my siter.. we even do now sometimes but it's not that bad. And hangout & talk & everything else. How I used to calm her down & run behind her anywhere she was taken ehen she was a baby. Or when I used to carry her around on my shoulders as a small kid. Or singing duets in balcony before hig school. Or every other big & small moment we spent  together... An she's grown up now. It's so amazing to see such things. Life is amaazing. Again with lots of love & best wishes, HAPPY-HAPPY B'DAY!!!!!

Bang Bang Club

I know, sounds dirty... but it is not. It's a upcoming movie based on real Bang Bang Club. It will be releasing in April 2011 & I have already seen it, actually saw it today. That's the fun of being in NYC. I saw it at NYU Cantor Film Center as a special preview. So.... I loved the movie (almost). It's a very well done & nice movie, I realy liked it.

The Bang-Bang Club is a Canadian-South African film written and directed by Steven Silver and stars Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter, Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich, Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek and Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva. They portray the lives of four photojornalists active within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994, from when Nelson Mandela was released from jail to the 1994 elections. Malin Åkerman plays the role Robin Comley who does everything she can to publish the horrific pictures as portrayed by them. The Bang-Bang Club is a film adaptation of the auto-biographical book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva who were part of the group of four photographers known as Bang-Bang Club, the other two members being Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek.

The film portrays the struggle of photo jouranlists caught up in a war & how they try to get pictures in that environment. How are they trying to survie in middle of a battle. How they empathize (or do not) with there subjects, which could be burning human beings or dead/killed youngsters, or starving/dying kids. I liked Taylor Kitsch's performance th ebst. Surprisingly he was not the main protoganist of the movie. It was Ryan's charcter & he did alright. But there was not much range in his character. All the other characters seemd to ahve more content, range & bettre performances too. The batle scenes were extremely well shot (including a very nice & potential coke commercial: Greg runs in between firing bullets in the battle, to get 2 bottles of coke-coca cola). Theres also a nice seen with an african girl playing with a bird (or a vulture waiting for his meal). Women characters are really week btw, just like to support their men (as they are supposed to, right? lol). The movie also had a good mix of humor inspite of the serious subject. Some very well done pics as well (I hear some of them were real & some done for the movie). And it's based on real events which makes it really interesting.

So, go watch th emovie whenever it releases. And keep coming back & readung my blog too. Thanks & take care!!... here are the two real pics which won putizer award:

Long weekends are AWESOME

Or is it just me?? I had a great long weekend. Ability to sleep-in late on a monday morning is like a super power, right? But that's not the only reason this weekend was awesome (I anyways didn't sleep a LOT this weekend)... I just had a great time (& it hand nothing to do with President's day actually)!!

Well, I was able to accomplish some shopping for home (like racks, stacks, etc) from Bed Bath & Beyond (I have never been to the Beyond section yet, but would love to sometime.. do they have beyond 20% discount in Beyond section??). They have this nice handle packing of stuff in NYC which makes it so easy to carry (I still ended up taking a CAB ride home, which I hate. However cabs in NYC are not bad in terms of money & efficiency). Cleaned up my place & did some arranging etc, looks GOOOOD. I got this crazy awesome Atomic watch from TIMEX (I am a TIMEX guy now, I have all 3 wrist, table & wall clocks now) which syncs time directly from Atomic Time server in Colorado. Automatically date, time, day, location etc is synced along with daylight savings. I love technology. Sill need to put it on wall & do more arranging of stuff at my place. It's been more than 6 months & now I am actively doing this, am i late.... Better late than never!!

So this is one of my crazy long blogs. Should I break them or write more but smaller? You know what? I am putting the movie blog separate right now and link to that one here. So now it's kinda shorter... SO thanks for visiting/reading... keep coming back & continue reading/commenting.. until next time... Good Bye & Good Luck... JAI HO!!!

Machinist, Secretariat & COCO.... Netflix-BluRay

This is just an extension to this blog of mine, just didnt want it to go so long...

I was home Friday night & watched The Machinist. Good movie, totally 7/10 (maybe 8). Christian Bale is s great actor & he looks ridiculously thin/anorexic in the movie. But thats not only why movie was good, its confusingly nice story line & performances as well. A movie which makes you not guess end till end is good movie at the end for me (too many ends, I see). I also watched Secretariat over the weekend and it was nice too, again 7/10 (or maybe 8). Those who don't know, it was one of the greatest horse in horse racing world (not the greatest though) & won triple crown in 1973. The movie is his story (Now horses  are getting movie made on them, What the Funk!!) & her owners. I was told horse racing looked fake in it, but I guess that's acceptable for the movie. If those horses could race they won't be acting in movies (or would they?). I watched Coco before Chanel as well, its alright 6/10 (maybe seven). Couldnt understand much of it... Ohh actually it was in french which I dont speak yet. Audrey was good as usual, I liked her in Amelia. The movie is about Coco Chanel, he founder of Chanel designer brand & very well done. I just didnt enjoy it that much so... Thanks to Netflix I am enjoying lots of movies & many of them on Awesome BLU Ray, Netflix & Blu Ray are AWESOME!!

Good Morning to a beautiful day of sunshine & happiness where you/we will say good things, do good things & have good things!!!!!!

This is what came to my mind today morning, a beautiful sunny morning today... the sun was shining, the breeze was blowing & the world look beautiful with sunshine. How much difference the sun & weather make, right? And I was feeling very happy & content while entering at work. BTW, so happy that I decided to be late to work by half an hour... why?? decided to take a morning shower!! ( I do shower everyday almost, no actually I do shower everyday after my evening gym class. sometimes i skip second shower in morning if I am getting late). I was excited about a wonderful day and got to work all happy & excited. Was talking to people about the nice weather & pretty day and it was all very nice. Went out to lunch in sunny (but windy & cold) weather. Had a decent soup & sandwich combo from Le Financier... Came back to work that the wonderful day hasn't really added a lot to my productive-ness for the day... and the day is getting over. SO, got lil upset & started doing the work (the daily job work, everyone knows how much exciting & fun it is!!). And as the sun was setting outside so was my happiness & joyfulness!! SOOOOO much for a beautiful day... LOL!!

The weather's been nice but I hear it'll be cold again over the weekend. Chuck was not that right it seems. I've been doing pretty well. Was in DC over the weekend & had a nice time there. Back to the city NOW. Watched the movies Guzaarish (5/10: an okay movie about euthanasia request by a ailing magician played by Hrithik & taken care by pretty nurse played by Aishwarya. Kinda week in presentation for regular audience. Seems SLB is making movies for Oscars only since he got dumped for Devdas) , Manhattan (6/10: A decent Woody Allen movie dealing with lots of emotions & relationship stuff. Again kinda complicated fro regular audience but well done movie) & Waltz with Bashir (7/10: Very interesting & nice movie about 1982 Lebanon war and Sabra & Shatila massacre, well done graphics & nice presentation, quite FUN). So that's it for now friends... keep visiting/reading/commenting..... l8rzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

HAPPY V'DAY!!

My dad called me today to wish me Happy Valentines Day..... Happy Valentines day to al of you as well... I have always asked, is it something to really celebrate about? A celebration of love... doesn't sounds bad at all.... a marketing gimmick so companies can sell tons of gift items & make money on anything & everything they can. However, if you have true love in your life.. everyday is a VALENTINE DAY.... Here are some weird/interesting/fun facts about V'Day:

• The average American will spend $119.67 on Valentine’s Day this year, up from $100.89 last year. (economy is growing as you can see, we are OUT of recession!!)
• Men spend almost twice as much on Valentine’s Day as women do. This year, the average man will spend $156, while the average woman will only spend $85. (I bet... doesn't it sucks to be a MAN, LOL)
• More than one-third of men would prefer not receiving a gift. Less than 20 percent of women feel the same way. (Well, I know they are not talking about ME here...)
• Around this season, a dozen long-stemmed roses can cost an average of $75, or about 30% more than the normal price of $58. (That's why I don't buy roses, they look more beautiful on trees/plants, or wherever they grow... like in botanical gardens etc)
• More than nine million pet owners are expected to buy gifts for their pets this Valentine's Day. (damn.. doesnt it sucks to be human sometimes?? who's running the world???)
• 15 percent of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day. (Awwwwwwww... aren't there some desperate ladies out there... Awwwwwww)
• Teachers receive the most valentines, followed by kids, mothers, wives and sweethearts. (Well, not my teacher... rest, ummmm... I would say yes!!)
• Over 50 percent of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased in the six days prior to the holiday. (I didnt purchase any cards... may be I should sell some!!)
• The oldest surviving valentine dates from 1415. It is a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife. At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (What better can you write while being held in captivity... crazy mind does crazy things.... you b%$#@&d)
• One billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making it the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines. (Good job ladies.. about time you start making that money yourself & then spend it... no???)
• Hallmark produced its first valentine in 1913. (& have been ripping us off since then)
• Today, Hallmark employs an 80-person research staff to analyze the sales pattern of previous valentines. That analysis, combined with more than 100,000 annual customer interviews, focus groups and in-store observations, will help create roughly 2,000 cards in Hallmark's core Valentine's Day line. (I hope they know there are kids startving in third world nations across the planet, global warming, recession & many other issues in this beautiful planet of ours)
• In Japan, women are expected to give chocolate and other gifts to men on Valentine's Day. This tradition was started as a marketing campaign by Japanese chocolate companies. Men are not off the hook, unfortunately. They are expected to return the favor on March 14th, commonly known as White Day. ( Jap-Boys.. it seems you only have 27 days to celebrate!!)
• BBC reports that Shiv Sena, a nationalist political party in India, has spoken out against Valentine's day, calling it "nothing but a Western onslaught on India's culture to attract youth for commercial purposes." (Well.. what else a bunch of girlfriend-less dudes do... poor boys!!!)
• The Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate. In 2001, the U.S. State Department reported child slavery on many cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. A 2002 report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture estimated there were 284,000 children working on cocoa farms in hazardous conditions. (Don't they say love is hard, it costs a lot, it's painful, it hurts..... now you know why!!!!)
• "I love you" in German is "Ich liebe dich." & in Hindi is "Main tumse pyaar karta hun"!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just want to FUNK with you.... what the FUNK???

Have you heard this song?? I just want to Funk with you... what's this about?? This is some song from some movie/album called 'Gaane bhi do yaaron' from ' A Band of Boys'. I remember song writers & lyricists using weird/confusing wordings to make songs attractive or controversial. Remember 'jab tak rahega samose mein aloo'?? Or many-many others. But who are you fooling???? Gone are the days of beautiful lyrics and wonderful & meaningful songs. And we have to deal with this now....

What the FUNK????????

Happy Groundhog's Day 2011

Well, you don't knwo what is it? I heard it from the Bill Murray movie Groundhog's Day but found out that it's real. Read more here... It's been ice raining here but didnt snow as it was being warned for last 2 days or last one week actually... & well... Chuck Said that it'll be an early Spring here.. so lets see what happens!!

Alcatraz and Drive on CA-1 to 17 mile Drive & Big Sur!!

I came back from SFO today (yesterday actually). It was a nice trip... San Francisco is nice, but it was rainy all the time.... like last time when I was there in April, not much cold though. I was there for annual meeting of my company located in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, San Francisco Bay Area). The meeting was nice & so was meeting all these people at work... pretty NICE!!! I like California, but somehow not as much to move there. East Coast is nicer, specially DC & NYC... feels like home in USA to me. Nice weather variation, to see all four seasons distinctly... hot summer, cold  snowy winter & nice falls & spring too. It's just awesome!!

You know I had flight issues in beginning of trip (read here), but the trip overall was really great. First stop was Stanford University & Palo Alto, nice as usual but nothing special (or maybe there was something special). Had dinner in Junoon, nice Indian restaurant & all the food was really awesome. Then next in San Francisco, we saw Alcatraz Island/Prison in SFO, really interesting. They have this nice audio tour which is really nice (nice is nice... really??).One of the speaker on tour was Darwin Coon whose Book "Alcatraz: The True End of the Line", I read recently. Not a great writer but really good writing & interesting story. They have created the audio tour really well, but its just for the prison and not the whole Island. Then went back to San Francisco city & had dinner at Japanese place called Katana-ya, pretty nice place & good raman noodles & sushi too.

Next day was trip on CA-1 to 17 mile drive & Big Sur... pretty nice. Last time I drove to Santa Cruz which was one of the very nice & beautiful drive I have seen. But this was different & beautiful. Sea shore on one side & mountains on other, kinda aweosme. But we got late reaching to Big Sur & it got kinda dark, maybe need to visit next time (drive from LA). 17 mile drive is beautiful but repetitive, may be nicer in good weather when you sit somewhere & enjoy longer in place of just driving through it & not doing much except running around taking pictures etc. Can't say much about Big-Sur, I gues its nice. We did have dinner at Big Sur Bakery & Restaurant, had Duck Pizza & some fish dish with veggies. Fish dish was nice but Pizza kinda sucked. Dessert was nice, (some kinda Brouche?) & had good pistachio ice-cream. They did have a creepy restroom there though.. really creepy & back in woods. LOL... & then drive back to SFO (real SFO, the Airport). So the trip overall was awesome!!!!!!

Ok... This is old news, so the Last time for this year: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!

JFK & American Airlines sucks.... Airport, Airlines & Flying woes!!

BTW, big news: For the first time in my entire life (entire!!) my flight got canceled on last Thursday due to snow. They were giving me something on late Friday but I called & convinced them to give me early morning flight. But Airtrain was not running in morning at JFK & I couldnt make it to morning flight (as per them). The flight was at 7.00 am, I was at Jamaica Center for Airtrain at 5.30 but there was no train for an hour. I got in Train at 6.30 & managed to reach the flight counter before 6.50 am. I had an email from American Airlines that flight is at 7.30 am & I was there in time. On the video display at airport it said "Boarding". But at the counter they didn't let me in. They said flight has left. Whata bunch of liars. The flight was right there but they probably over sold or sold my ticket to someone else but didnt let me board the flight. They gave me 10 am flight & I got to SFO really late.  American Airlines & all the airlines suck at stuff like these. They are mostly not helpful & they let people suffer if there are any cancellation or delays. This is not GOOD. I am not going to keep shut & I am going escalate this to higher authorities, lets see what happens.

Happy INDIAN Republic Day!!!

Today is Republic Day in India. First thing it reminds me of is the 26 January parade (or here). The annual parade in New Delhi telecast on DD (Delhi Doordarshan, the national Government TV Channel). & also the Flag hosting ceremony in school with free sweet s at the end (& early day off!!!). And second thing is the long essays we had to write in most of the exams & tests in Primary school for Republic Day.... here's the link to last two blogs I wrote: Blog1 & Blog2.

Happy Republic Day INDIA... Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.... JAI HO!!!

Lazy weekend... & I made JETS lose!!

I had a very lazy weekend, very-very-very... UGH, what's going on?? I mean, this is not the first lazy weekend any more, its been like this all this year (which is 7.6923076923076923076923076923077% over). Time passes by sooooo FAST. I did party with folks from work on Friday night (all night till morning 4am), it was fun. Also slept a lot over the weekend which is not bad (i.e. very good but LAZY!!), but didnt do some important things I should've done, which sucks!! Need to prioritize things properly & do stuff as well. I am going to California/SFO (I tend to say it SFO, which people hate cuz its the neame of Airport... but still, is it so bad to call it SFO??) this coming weekend for work. Would do some nice stuff & sure will have LOTS of FUN....

So... JETS lost an important game., kinda sucks!! I mean you know, I am not BIG JETS Fan or even big football (Why the hell they call it Football?? Like International Football championship/worldcup in which only US plays... WTF??) FAN but I went to one of there games which they won. I watched last game which they won. Didn't get to watch this one cuz I got (supposedly) busy & they lost. OOOPS!! Bigger OOOOOOOPs for upcoming weather. Its damn cold tonight & gonna be colder in morning. Would be in single digit temperature & would feel even feel colder, like negative. if it feels negative, it is negative.. if its temperature.. no?? W/e, gott abe preared for NYC COLD. So good luck folks.. thanks for visiting & reading & comenting (which you havent done BTW!!), Take Care!!!

life sucks..... but so what?? suck it up, it might taste good!!!

Am I right or what?? I just made it up... totally!! Some of u, my fans & foollowers & lovers will love this. And my haters & others might hate it... That's ;ife too. But every other day we feel that life sucks, soooo much. But then what? You think you are alone? You think you are the only one suffering? Why ME?? Isn't that the question all the time?? But..... have you tried looking at others, th eothers who are suffering much more.. or just at yourself sometimes... how much you might have suffered in the past, but this one isn't that bad... or could've been worse!! I mean, c'mon... give it a shot.. go with the flow, just do it, live it.. suck it up!! It might taste good!!!! Many times in life we just don't do things.... don't take that extra step... & keep sulking about it.... to feel that what only if we would've done it. How would you know if you don't try?? Most of th etimes the thing sre already bad enough that your small attempt can not make it worse... or even if there is a risk, is it worth taking? What's the trade-off?? Life is a business everyday, and you make right decisions to keep going, keep moving & being successful!! Or even if not, then at least keep learning, getting better... isn't that what life is all about???? life sucks..... but so what?? suck it up, it might taste good!!!

So... week's been okay so far.. not bad not too good or special either. NYC is not really good with handling snow. It snows & not gets cleaned/cleared like Boston or others. It's kinda surprising. Anything else special/cool... ummm.. nope. So thanks for visiting & reading. Please come back & comment too, it would be nice to know what u think & interact. Good Luck until next time... B'bye & Take Care!!

First long weekend of the year... Munnabhai MBBS

Hellozzzzzzzzz... first long weekend of the year was good, Very Good!! This one was also mostly a lazy/slow weekend honestly. But you know, one of those times/days which feel nice & good & happy even when they were lazy (like all the others, no?? which lazy days don't feel good?? they are always awesome!!). I was in DC (is it still home?? feels like it, but really?? I am a New Yorker (& I care!!)) and it was nice. Had some great food: aloo-gobi, til-laddoo, asian stir-fry, raitas & awesome chocolate cake too (thanks-thanks!!). Did lot of Netflixing too (I just made that term up). Watched my super-fav Munnabhai MBBS (9/10), Blue Umbrella (6/10), Jaws (7/10), National Geographic's Illicit Trade (7/10) & leftover episodes of Flash Forward on my bus ride to DC from NYC (why did they cancle the show, i loved it.... didn't you??).

Also spent weekend discussing who should be cast in Hollywood version of Munnabhai MBBS, here's my opinion/decison:

• Munnabhai - Chris Rock or Will Smith (or maybe Eddie Murphy??)
• Circuit - Carlos Mencia or Russel peters (or Me)
• Munna's father - Morgan Freeman
• Chinki - Natalie Portman or Jessica Alba or Amy Adams
• Dr Asthana - John Malkovich or Jack Nicholsan or even Ben Kingsley
• Zaheer - ME!!!
• Dr Rustam - John Oliver (or someone European with accent)

What do you people think? If you haven't, you should see the movie. Its an awesome-awesome movie..... So its been mildly snowing/ice-raining etc in DC & NYC. Hope things will be good (which basically means, it'll snow a lot & i'll get to WFH :)..... Thanks for visiting & reading, come back again... A final Happy New year (not only for new visitors this time..) & Take care!!

First SNOW of the year...

It snowed tuesday night till morning y'day(was supposed to snow 24 hrs), but it really snowed this time.. the first real snow of 2011. Almost a foot of snow... but not bad this time at all (I have become pro after handling the BAD snow in DC last year)... I woke up in the morning with roads not looking bad (I was surprised, bcoz I had planned for WFH & so woke-up an hour late... you can imagine how much that sucks). They handled it pretty well this time.. & it didn't snow as bad as last time either. But after two hoax snowfall warnings, it's better this time. I don't know if I like snow that much anymore, it only looks good in movies with crazy action sequences or pretty actress singing-dancing clad only in sari/skirt (bare minimum) when actor is wearing FUR overcoat!!

But I did good yesterday. I cleaned my place (finally!!), had 4 bags worth of trash (not including me) to throw.... can u believe I had so much trash?? When we start cleaning we realize how much trash we have. All the trash we've been hoarding. Having a big place in NYC is not easy, but keeping it clean is worse. I need a drawer/cupboard soon. Should I try IKEA or local shops in NYC?? But my place looks AWESOME now.... basically because I put lots of pics of me on the walls everywhere, LOL.... There is one way to make it more awesome, guess what?? By putting more pics of ME!!! I went to gym today as well. There was a Virgin Yoga class today, I took that. Yoga class feels so good. The girl Melody who runs the class is really good. Drives the class so well. And I end up doing the (so called) advanced stuff/poses/asanas. I haven't done yoga for almost 14 years since school. & Yoga in america is little different (not like Baba Ramdev's yoga). But it's good, really GOOD!!

Thanks for visiting & reading, come back again... Happy New year (only for new visitors this time..) & Take care!!

Second weekend of the year... PS3 & SONY

Well-well... the second weekend was spent mostly sleeping (after the Times Square Ball Drop expedition plus being sick weekend)... and doing NOTHING.... Hope I am okay... what else I've done.... nothing actually.. didnt even manage to clean my place.. which I am supposed to do for LONG time... Watched the JETS game at a bar y'day night, JETS won so ppl were happy. I wouldnt care much.. but I've been to a JETS game with my friend (& they won, every time I watch.. they WIN) so now I am kinda interested. Been watching movies on NETFLIX too, FUN.

Also went to Sony Wonder Technology lab to watch there free movie. But even this 2nd time couldnt make it. They were sold out 15 mins before the show. HUH!!!! I was checking games for my new PS3.. so expensive!!! & MOVE is $100+.. no wonder how they make money. And I dont understand why do they have a device for just games (PS3) & another for internet TV (Google TV).... you should integrate it into one... NO??? I checked some SONY TVs too, wanna buy a TV, 32" or 40"??? Suggestions?? Should I get 3D TV now? looked at one 40" & was 1100 or so.. looked nice... I like SONY, they gotta do better for me :)

Anyways... that's it for NOW. rest, rest & rest... Hope y'all doing good so far...... Thanks again for reading & Happy New Year 2011.... cant believe its 2011!!!!

First Friday of the year... SNOW in NYC!!

I still dont feel well 100%, I am at like 85% (80-90 maybe.. yeah I have recently started talking in %age).  The weather's been cold but not too bad.. some false alarms about snowfall. It sucks how NYC handles snowfall though... Can't believe they dont have a good system in place. It used to be so good in Boston (I still stick to fact that I didnt like Boston). It was a mess in DC last year ofcourse, but they are not prepared for that kinda snow. It doesent snow like that in DC area, so they are never prepared & they werent last year too. But NYC.... it's a mess here. It's been 2 weeks since last snow & snow has not been cleaned completely yet. WTF?? i expected better from NYC....

Anyways... Thanks again for visiting & reading &..... Happy New Year 2011 again.... I still cant believe its 2011!!!!

First work day of the year... NETFLIX is awesome

Well.. for me.. when I went to work first time for this year..... yesterday I was WFH.. recovering from sickness. Well.. most of you don't know (because I don't tell) that I was sick all last week, with cold & stuff. And going out on New Year's eve for the Ball Drop in Times Square didn't help (need to write more about it for sure, will do soon). So, I spent my weekend in bed being sick. But I did go to Patel Brothers store in Jackson Heights, Queens and bought LOT of frozen & ready to Eat Indian food... I have been eating out since I moved to NYC & need to change the habit to save money & health too... Might not be best option to eat this food.. but whatever.. who cooks in New York (mexicans, chinese, bangladeshis etc.. i meant the cooks at all those cheap food places).. well not me!!

I also watched Cloverfield on Blu ray... I got NETFLIX, its AWESOME... BTW, I also got a PS3 last week.. from Craigslist.. yeah.... Can you believe it.. the role Craigslist is playing in my/our lives. One of most used sites including Google & Wikipedia... but most direct impact.. umm.. should write a separate post about this.. yeah... So I got a PS3 from CL & Used it to Watch Cloverfield.. I liked Blu-Ray & liked the movie too... the hand-held motion style makes it very involving.. like you are there & watching a areal thing.. very nice special affects work & very good performance (by the Monster.. he was trying to hide very well.. very camera shy)... if you've missed it: make a point to watch the end scene where something falls from the sky when they show the old scene in video. I'll give it 7/10. Taht's it.. will try to write again soon.. Thanks & Happy New Year 2011 (believe me, I wrote HNY 2010 most of the places/messages.. cant believe its 2011)!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!!!!!!!

Its 1/1/11 today.. aweosme.. isnt it?? Cant believe its really already 2011.. wow.. just like yesterday we were entering new millenium (2000) & its 11 years.... wow.... life goes fast, it really-really does. Remember my last year's blog (I dont, damn it was BS... no wonder I dont remeber)?? I wrote 31 blog in 31 dayas (& then number reduced like Obama's popularity), LOL. Or the New Year's blog on Falana-Dhimkana Blog (which hasen't been addressed like lal my desires & dreams yet, or most of us's... LOL)?? Anyways... New Year is to be new (is it?), atleast to try & gove it a shot.... Lets DO IT!!!! (DO what??... go figure, I have!!!!!)

So... wishing Happy New Year to all the important people in my life who I love, who have made a difference in my life & who I really care about & who really matter to me &....................

1. Mummy-Daddy
2. Kavi behna
3. Daadi-Baba
4. Naani-Nana
5. Chacha-Chachi
6. Bua-Fufa
7. Mama-Mami
8. Mausi-Mausa
9. Cousins & kids
10. Rahul P
11. Praveen
12. Jaswinder
13. Krishna
14. Shree
15. Naresh-Sarita-Rishi
16. Harish
17. Sandeep-Vandana
18. Sumeet-Sonica
19. Sunil-Jyoti
20. Tani

(Please dont misunderstand this, its just in order of appearnace in my life & not a priority list)

And everyone else not in this list because they couldnt make it (bad for you, naah not really for most of U!!!!) but still... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!!!!!!!