Aal is Well

I wanted to put an exclamation mark at the end of this title. But thats so cliched now-a-days. So much so that it is appearing as a strict no-no in many recent design articles. But as "woh kah gaye" ... bad habits kambakhath die hard. Now, blogger is giving me hard time with the spell checker.

What prompted me to write this post? Well, its pretty much obvious from the title that I must have just watched the movie. Yes, I did. Not without a struggle though. I had gone to the cinemas twice returning without watching the film as it was sold out. The turn out is good especially during Christmas. Not that the movie is too good, just that here the Indians stay pretty away from family and there is nothing much to do during holidays. To spoil it further, its raining heavily today.

The movie is excellent. I have not read the book "Five point someone". That must be an eye-opener for quite a few youngsters. If not, please help them. Coz, sincerely speaking I needed some and there was no-one. Those few who were there could not convince me much and "Here I Am" - just a cliched one from Bryan Adams.

So. We Indians deliberate a lot on that word. I mean its so wrong to make such a strong pause there. But we do the mistake and we repeat it a thousand times. It has never been a complete sentence. Still, we use it like it speaks of everything we want to say next. Whats the moral of the story?

Its not that you want to be the next waangdu. You might have already passed that stage. If not, good luck - hope you get to one without that surname. The real one is to believe that life starts at the age when you kick start it. Not when when you are still getting pushed in the blinding crowd. I don't want to elaborate on this now. In 3 words, "Never say Never".

My expectations of the movie were slightly lowered thanks to movie reviews on web and my roomies who did not appreciate the second half. I think the movie was excellent. Though some jokes were too predictable for any engineering college student, nonetheless we can still laugh at our past. I just wished it could have been more hilarious.

So as aal is well, I am going to microwave the paneel butter masala and daal from nearby "Raaz" restuarant (I donno why they keep such names). Enjoy your time.

Just when I was going to hit the publish button, I could not stop smiling that I had completely forgot to mention the virus which created so much trouble for us. I mean if someone can match that template of bhrastbudhhi, it can be khodu (1st prize please). Applause. Applause.

Whats happenning now-a-days?

So the inevitable finally happened today! Florida fell. Superman lost saving the gators for so long. I felt terrible.

Well, 22 games undefeated. I read all posts, followed blogs and read news - it was gators everywhere. And today it all ends in that Georgia Dome. The same stadium where we defeated Alabama last year. This year - Alabama proved that they are the better team. I won't feed to the fact that Urban Meyer or Tim Tebow did anything wrong in this finale. But we just didn't show up. We were lost. I was so unimpressed by the play that I couldn't watch the game for most of the time. Anyways, thats the end of the season. I save a trip to Pasadena, CA. More than $1500 savings - lets say (well it isn't savings actually - I was willing to shell out that much if FL reaches National Championship). I don't have high hopes from next year FL team. Still, I will root for them.

Coming back to title of this post. I am current running 3 OS's. Windows Vista (no 7 for me :(. Fedora 12 - this blog is being typed on Fedora. More or less, I am moving to Fedora and will __NOT__ be working on Vista anymore. The only problem I had with Linux (any flavor) in general was with networking. The wireless card and wireless router are just not willing to mate. It took some effort in making them talk and now we are here. I tried Ubuntu (latest version) but gave up. I found Fedora working and it helps.

Ok, the last OS - I bought my Macbook Pro 13" on Thanksgiving. I am just blown away. Why I am not using it? Its just too remarkable to be touched. Even putting my fingerprints on it makes me tinker. Its perfect. Well, as I plan to do some projects on it, I installed Eclipse on it. I found that eclipse was somewhat different from what I last used on Windows. Don't know its Mac related Customization or Eclipse Interfae has changed in a while. Well, the Macbook Pro 13" is amazing and you should buy one. I got a good deal but what I came to know is Apple is going to launch MBPs with Inter Core i7 and i9 processors in 2010. So, if you want to hold on, you may. I can gift this MBP to someone in India lateron and get a higher end one next year if I click to generate some extra income.

So, I bought a lot of stuff on thanksgiving. Will sending them soon to India. Listening to Fireflies (Owl City) now. Thats all! - over & out.

ps: If I ever get an opportunity to make my "hall of fame" - Tebow & Meyer shall be there. I am inspired, floored and feel proud. I wish: somedayI get a chance to meet Tim Tebow!