Drafted : 16th April 2010


If you love fantasies, you would love Avatar, the best 3D I have ever seen with amazing effects. A perfect 162 min entertainer.


If you're bored watching the romantic love stories where the heroine breathes her last and the hero sulks in her memory, you would like watching Avatar. 


I wish I would live in A.D. 2154 in the planet of Pandora where I can connect the heartbeat to that of an animal and take an easy ride, play around the mother goddess tree, Eywa. The diseases would be cured easily and relax in peace. Trust and faith are merely not two "words" and aliens show faith in you. ;)


A ray of hope that you could save the planet with mere faith in you.... 


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Drafted 12/08/2009


The IPL Cricket match commenced as I finished reading "The Zoya Factor" by first time author Anuja Chauhan with Hinglish(usage of both Hindi and English words) usage here and there. A young gal becomes the boon to the Indian Cricket Team with her presence making the team every match. 


Zoya Singh Solanki, born exactly during the time of World Cup when India won the cricket match in 1983. A happy go lucky gal enjoying her profession as an advertising professional is satisfied shooting with Shah Rukh Khan than the cricketers. Considered to be a "lucky charm" by her sibling brother, who would always drag her to the matches he played, though he would dislike her personally, for the sake of victory. :) Soon the media catches her attention and Ms. Zoya is forced to date and even sign up a couple of advertisements, travel the countries and have breakfast with the cricket team to make sure they win every match. Though, she   visits the countries like Australia without spending a penny, has a liberty bungee jumping; yet hates being a personality, she is left with no other choice. Every time, she refuses to have breakfast, India loses the match!


The lucky charm is disliked by the captain who believes only in hard work, determination and dedication and not pure luck. Zoya falls in love with him who gifts her a beautiful gold bracelet with a tiny sheep bought specially for her from New Zealand, though both hate each other at times and it is stupidity of others to rely on her for success.


The finals, ........ and Zoya doesn't turn up at the breakfast. 




Does India win or lose? Does she find her lost love? 


A complete juicy book I enjoyed reading. Kudos to you, Anuja!

Rating: 4/5

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Experimenting with my new Canon 50mm prime lens... Just another random click. 

"Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow."

  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Having clicked many pics of a monkey with my earlier camera. With my new DSLR, I decided to shoot this pic with monkey in the foreground. ;)

Couldn't think of a better title. :D

Having experienced frequent shut downs on my laptop which I described earlier, formatting Windows Vista  and installing Windows 7 did not help. I decided to visit a Sony Service station who thoroughly did a root cause analysis and found that the processor fan was not functional any more.

Here is a list of Sony Service Stations in Karnataka, I found on their website:

1. Bangalore
2. Belgaum
3. Davangere
4. Hubli
5. Mangalore
6. Mysore
7. Shimoga
8. Udupi

In Bangalore:

SONY SERVICE CENTRE

743. SRI KRISHNA TEMPLE ROAD INDIRA NAGAR 1ST STAGE INDIRA NAGAR   BANGALORE - 560038
T:25211050
**Phone no does not exist


SONY SERVICE CENTRE
NO.S-1760/G DR. RAJKUMAR ROAD RAJAJI NAGAR 2ND STAGE 2ND BLOCK RAJAJI NAGAR BANGALORE - 560010
T:25211050
**Phone no does not exist

AUTHORISED SERVICE CENTRE

PENTAGON SERVICES
64 MISSION ROAD SATHI COMPLEX BANGALORE - 560027
T:(080) 22234570


RMS TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
NO.13 11TH MAIN 5TH BLOCK JAYANAGAR BANGALORE - 560041
T:(080) 41301816-18


BENCHMARK INFOTECH
NO.5 10TH CROSS CBI ROAD GANGANAGAR BANGALORE - 560024
T:(080) 23331173


SAIRAM SERVICE
534/A DR. RAJKUMAR ROAD RAJAJINAGAR SECOND STAGE (OPP. ST. THERESA HOSPITAL) BANGALORE - 560010
T:(080) 65584958


VIGNESWAR SERVICES
NO:659 GROUND FLOOR 17TH D MAIN OPP. KORAMANGALA CLUB 6TH BLOCK KORAMANGALA BANGALORE - 650095
T:080 25525400


R.L. PROPERTIES; INVESTMENTS
606 80 FEET ROAD 4TH BLOCK KORAMANGALA BANGALORE - 560034
T:080 25505132


PENTAGON SERVICES
NO. 443 15TH MAIN ROAD 1ST BLOCK III STAGE BASAVESH BANGALORE - 560079
T:(080) 3228567

I am, now, installing the drivers for Windows 7.

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Drafted May 29th '10

If you are thinking I am 50, no I am not! Then what does the title relate to? :)

Like I said here, three years ago, how I begun to click owning Canon S3 IS. I pestered my teammates to pose for me and they were generous enough who always had a cheerful smile. :)

For more than an year, I was sketching to upgrade to a DSLR. After much confusion and hesitation to decide on the camera and lens. Finally, became a proud owner of Canon 50D, today. Thanks to peevee and A~ who accompanied to Foto Circle and spend hours together at the ever crowded shop.



Now, again like a fresher I am waiting for my salary to be credited after an account clean sweep. ;) ***cough cough***

Yet, on the greener side of 50. :D


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Y2k is a very special and a memorable year. The reason being:

I stepped out of the school with flying colors and entered a PU college. I also got an opportunity to fight with my dad that I would not take up *PCM"B" as an optional since I had hated and even now hate Di-section/killing cock roaches. You shouldn't blame or even scold me if I flunk in Biology. :D And landed into a *PCM"Cs" class learning "What is a computer, PASCAL ....." :) I still have the notes!

I got a chance to create my first email id using rediff.com which offered 2MB Inbox storage. A cousin who was newly wed and flew to US would send loads of photos often which I would store in a 1.44MB floppy disk and clear the inbox from flooding. ;) I still use rediffmail.

You should start preparing for II PU exams, book for tuitions and CET exams when you are still in I PU. The whole class would accompany you in bunking during II PU classes which eases the lectures job. You would study the tuition notes religiously without even bothering to check the text books. Language classes like English, Sanskrit are taken for granted unless your English faculty is a good looking lady with an excellent command. ;)

Last but not the least, I miss summer vacations. :(


*PCMB => Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology.

*PCMCs => Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science.

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It has been a month that my dear laptop with whom I spend wonderful moments of connecting to you all is going on continuous shutdown, forcing me to login Safe mode with networking with minimal features.

Initially, I guessed it was a problem with Microsoft Vista operating system I came across a discussion on this forum.

Today, installed Windows 7 Operating system and yet my laptop shuts down after half an hour.

RAM is perfect. I am clueless, what to do! :(

Edited on 29th June:

Thanks for all your valuable inputs. My lappie is perfectly working. The issue was dust accumulation. :)


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