Literally

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technology

And then theishu was tagged

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Books, Miscellaneous, Movies, Travel

I’m finally getting off my lazy butt and succumbing to the tag fever that’s doing rounds all over the blogosphere. Athena and ThoughtfulTrain, I’m keeping my word by taking up this tag:

4 Places I Have Lived

Chennai – Spent the longest part of my life there. Unexpectedly, I love this place above all else, because this is the only city I’m confident of not getting lost in

Vijayawada – An on-and-off relationship with this cozy town, which I have always kept returning to. Planning to fade away into a quiet neighborhood here after I’m old (and filthy rich)

Pilani – Dusty, dirty, boring, dry, highly inaccessible and takes forever to reach. And yet spent the best 4 years of my life here.

Indore – If it weren’t for the wife factor, Indore would outrank Pilani. Unforgettable hilltop, irresistable highway, insane race against time on a bike at 10.40pm and above all, friends for life. Life begins outdoors in Indore.

4 Favorite TV Shows

F.R.I.E.N.D.S – (That was so obvious!)

LOST – One of the best storylines ever with great production value, in spite of some unnecessary subplots and a few contrived twists

Everybody Loves Raymond – Best time to watch: a few months into married life

Coupling – Not exactly PG-13, I know. But this one is undeniably hilarious!

4 Vacation Spots

Maldives – Wife is proud of my research for the best honeymoon destination in the world. Hands down winner!

Ooty – Not exactly dazzling after all these years, but got some great memories with my family.

Hyderabad – A bit overqualified for this category, but if the traffic was any more tolerable in the long run, I would bump it up to the first group. Never settled down + had loads of fun with everyone I cared about = Vacation spot.

Bora Bora – Haven’t been there yet, but who said that was a disqualifying factor?

4 Favorite Foods

I’ll answer this when they forward a tag with 400 items instead of 4

4 Daily Websites

Gmail

CNN

NYTimes

Twitter (haven’t been there for a while. Hmm…)

4 Places I’d Rather Be (seriously, what kind of a dumbass question is this?)

Heaven

Home

Parents’ home

A swimming pool

(I bet you can’t even tell I’m frustrated by now)

4 Things To Do Before I Die (question sponsored by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, I suppose)

Eurotrip

Write a book

Be regarded as ‘exemplary’

Save a life

4 Books I Wish I Was Reading For The First Time

Papillon – highly recommended

Lord of the Rings – because even I cant do this a second time

The Green Mile

A Brief History of Time – so that I won’t know I’ll stop understanding it after a few chapters

4 Movies I Can Watch Again & Again (NOW we’re talking!)

The Man from Earth

The Dark Knight

Golmaal (Please! The Amol Palekar version)

Cast Away

Whew! It’s done. And I’m NOT gonna tag anyone else because I’m probably the only one left.

And then his newest fan moonwalked

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Childhood, Kids, Michael Jackson, Music, People

Watching the news, when my friend’s 6-year old walks in:

She: “Who is Michael Jackson?”

I: “He is the world’s greatest dancer. You know, I’m a big fan of his.”

She: “But you don’t dance”

I: “Yes, but I still like his dances. There are a lot of people who can’t dance, yet they like him the best.”

A thoughtful pause.

She: “Why are those girls crying?”

I: “Because they are big fans of Michael Jackson. They liked him a lot.”

She: “Did you cry too?”

I: “No, but I was very sad.”

She: “Why are all those people standing there?”

I: “They came to say goodbye. He was the favorite of lots and lots of people.”

She: “Why?”

I: “Well, because… because when they heard his songs and saw his dance, they found that everyone else did too. So all the people became friends and listened to his songs together”

She: “That’s cool”

I: “Yeah, I know. That’s why he is the greatest”

She: “He looks really scary”

I: “Well, that’s because he became old and sick. You see that picture right now? That’s what he used to look like before”

She: “Why did his face change from black to white?”

I: “Hmm… that’s because of plastic surgery”

She: “What is plastic surgy?”

I: “It’s uh… He became very sick, so the doctors had to change his face to look like that”

She: “It looks very scary”

I: “Yeah, but he wasn’t always scary-looking. See him singing there? He looked much better when he was a kid”

She: “How old was he then?”

I: “I’m not sure. Around 10 or 12. That’s when he started becoming famous.”

She: “At 12? Wow.”

I: “I know”

She: “They are not showing him dancing”

I: “You want to see him dance?”

She: “Yes”

Playing a Youtube clip…

I: “This is one of his best dances. See the way he’s walking?”

She: “Why is he doing that?”

I: “That’s just a style. He is going backwards, but he looks like he is walking forward”

She: “Can you walk like that?”

I: “No. Only a very few people in the world can do that”

She: “Are they famous too?”

I: “No”

She: “Why not?”

I: “Because Michael Jackson can sing, dance as well as make really good music which everyone likes. Most people can do only of those at a time”

She: “Oh”

I: “So you like his dance?”

She: “Yeah. I’m going to walk like that from now.”

And then I got more jobless

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Miscellaneous, Photography, Pics

I started a new photoblog.

And not because I too wanted a second blog. It’s just that I hate Flickr’s upload limit, I don’t want to share my Picasa albums with everyone and Orkut/Facebook simply make pics look ugly. And most of all, every good picture has a story worth telling and it just doesn’t fit into the caption box below the picture.

So go on, take a look and share your photos too. Visit Klik.

And then the Pied Piper returns

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Miscellaneous, Music, People, Video

Who knew mob mentality had a positive touch too? Check out this viral video demonstrating ‘the Power of One’. Came across this one on Twitter.

And in case you are going to watch it again, look out for some real funnies among the people - like the woman in blue bulldozing through the crowd at around 1:30 and an obviously overjoyed, screaming fellow human at 1:45. Share more such brilliant gems in case I’ve missed them.

And then Jackie Chan fainted

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India, Media, Miscellaneous, Movies, People

I have to admit, the following is NOT my original work. Taken verbatim from a comment on Jackie Chan’s blog:

Hi sir, great fan of yours, i am from India My Name is <name masked>. As you have done such graet job in your film life and still working very hard, just few points i would like to sugesst you if you plase read it, i belive it would work for people who know you or for other who are still dont know more about you, Bellow mentioned Points 1.Make a documentary on Martial art and visit personaly in another countries to learn the arts and show those fights in that program. (like Fight Quest which is runing on Discovery Channel) and telecast on Discovery or National Geographic, i belive you are only one who can understand the tips of fight and when you will fight on the screen people realy would love to see this…. Note : It would not real fight but kind of real… 2. Make a movie with Bollywood stars, Sublect should be a coman man who live in North East (India Near Chaina Border)with family and try to sevive with there family because he is now around 45,50 so no body is ready to give him the job and his son is not in a good company some bad boys are his friends, earlier that old man was a fighter who fight for money but now he is old, suddeny the family got in Trubel and the old man came back in his old life becouse the lion alway a lion while he is old or young… 3. Shunjuku Incedence is the good stap for future keep it up please…. I hope you will think on those points Thans & Regards <e-mail address masked>

My heartfelt sympathies for Jackie Chan.

And then we take-off again

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Miscellaneous

 

That’s just it. No post here. I like it that way.

Let’s see where this goes.