class apart

It is a pleasure to be going to the same school as she does, and this course in particular. Lakshmi and I attended a class together this afternoon after a gap of about four years. So much water has flown under the bridge since those days of late 2004! But our outlook towards Science hasn't changed a bit. In fact goals and aspirations wise there hasn't been a wane. May be more clarity has set in. Just that folks back home are a lot calmer, happy, and moving ahead with their lives. I am really glad about that. It is a nice feeling to be in control of what one really wants.

chiru korika

I wish the celestial bodies stayed where they belong, for they cease to be when they take a descent.

Nevertheless, here is a brilliant piece that is a tight slap to people like me!

no Phony thought this

TRAI allows Internet telephony, STD rates may drop.

Wish the same could be said about the venereal counterpart too!

Par Where'z, Democracy?!

"He will be remembered as the man during whose period a watershed development took place in Pakistan, which is that the middle classes, the educated classes and the people of Pakistan began to understand in a very tangible way the significance of rule of law, of a constitutional democracy." -Political analyst Nazeem Zehra


True.

High Five

it hasn't been necessarily all the while. Each one of us has seen the ebbs to go with the highs and hopefully learnt from every experience. While I had met and known some of them prior, the journey that started with them exactly half a decade ago has been defining, and enriching in its own way. It has been a pleasure knowing each one of them. What personalities!

Cheers to Avinash Waghray, Anita Agarwal, Vijai Srinivasan, Chandan Bhuyan, Lakshmi Narayanan, Priya Sundar, Matthew John, Sabariya Selvam, Pratima Patil, Surendra Mohan, Sashikanth Gollapudi, Vandana Iyer, and Subhadra Rajaratnam!

May each one of us get to do what we set out to do and everything we aspired for. Thank you all for making August 11, 2003 a date to remember.

US Open

still! and it has been advantage me in the one year that's gone by. The match point is a long way to go, and whether I play it Singles or Mixed Doubles I want this match to be a long one.

Cheers to me.

Spiel Berg

Sorry Steven! you didn't make it. Just what the hell were you thinking when you made War of the Worlds (2005). Was it a proposal film making for you? Why were you so dishonest to Rick Karter, Joanna Johnston, John Williams, Michael Kahn, and Janusz Kaminski? Did Cruise walk straight from the sets of Minority Report(2002)? Why did he seem so listless? A mere adherance to H.G.Wells' classic concept with Lucas' ILM at your disposal would fetch you moolah, and you thought so? Seriously!? What was David Koepp's screenplay all about? Horrendous. You must have outdone yourself in the quantum of cinematic liberties you have taken. Somehow looking at the bigger picture, things didnot fall in place. Extravagant and seemingly laborious production design, individually good visual set pieces do not a good film make. Pity, it is you!

For a man whose power supposedly enables him achieve just about any god damn thing in the showland, War of the Worlds is a big let down. All your talk about the philosophy of the movie proves to be a big spiel and that's a huge berg of that.

I didn't know things could get so literal, name wise.

Sunny Days

seem to be over for this Deol. I reckon this happens to people at least from performing arts who are not versatile, who peak too early, who don't try expanding the circumference of their comfort circles. This is so true when looked at his contemporaries like Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, and Sanjay Dutt, in the increasing order of their charisma, and who all started in the early 80s.

Pity, this man has had such a magnetic pull at the box office. Such a majestic roar (pun intended) has turned into a ghoulish silence. What an irony!

Czech Mate

I hope my man from Brno, Czechoslovakia finds his partner soon. Let him complete the circle of life.

Let good things happen to good people. He deserves good. Real good.