dreaming on the job

2010-02-11T10:09:00.000-08:00

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Great game...lots of shooting, racing and a decent plotline. The special missions and online multiplayer stuff is very cool. If you like FPS games you will not be disappointed with this game. 9/10 on the RASH scale.

2010-01-14T15:13:00.000-08:00

Avatar
Fantastic.
Many people in the blogosphere have suggested that the movie lacks a truly original story and therefore falls flat. Well...I can't think of too many movies with a truly original story...there's the classic good vs evil, then there are the usual love stories. There just aren't too many original movies around anymore. Therefore I will look for general entertainment value in movies and Avatar gave me a new meaning to the word entertainment. I work in computer graphics now and I can appreciate how hard it is to even draw simple shapes...making them look realistic and believable..now that's magic. 9/10 on the RASH scale.

2009-12-17T13:31:00.000-08:00

Boys From Brazil
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/

Set in the 1980s, Boys from Brazil is the story of Josef Mengele and his diabolical plan of cloning Hitler. It's an interesting premise, and although it had some very good actors, I thought the movie was a bit weak. It dragged in parts, the storyline became predictable and the characters a little under-developed. I did enjoy seeing Gregory Peck in a negative role though. Overall I would give it a 7/10 on the RASH Scale.

2009-12-15T14:27:00.000-08:00

KillZone 2 for the PS3
- Fantastic visuals
- Gameplay is ok
- Most levels are too easy...some are way too hard
- Lacks a truly interesting or original story line
- Good game ...certainly not phenomenal ...8.5/10 on the RASH Scale

2009-12-07T10:37:00.000-08:00

Waltz with Bashir

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/

One of the best movies I have seen this year, Waltz with Bashir is a damning indictment of war and the toll it exacts on victims, survivors & bystanders decades after the incidents.

2006-02-22T10:35:00.000-08:00

Blogging in the new year ...

I think I had a great 2005. There so many things I did and people I met that it feels like no other year in my life has been this full. Not that the year was perfect. I had my share of lows, but overall I think it ended very well. As cliched as it might sound, a perfect life would have been quite boring.

Last week I finally read Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist'. I thought it was timely. I'm going through a small Personal Legend, myself and I was getting distracted. The book put me back on track. Like all good books, it doesnt really say anything new. In a very elegant, inspiring and simple manner it shows the beauty of faith, work and love. I am reminded of something interesting I read recently.....
"Give a man Work. If you cannot give him work, then give him Love. If you cannot give him Love...then at least give him Hope".
Sometimes a man needs all three, to live in the present and look for the future. Right now there is Work, Love and most importantly Hope.

2005-10-29T11:56:00.000-07:00

For Blog's Sake ....

Interesting blogs are either funny or they are controversial. Mine are neither. I want to fit in. My friend constantly reminds me .."You’re such a wannabe!". So I try to write something funny. Soon I realize I am not that funny. I want people to laugh at what I write, not at me. In my angst to finish the blog, I decide that controversy is for me. But I'm such a chicken, that anything that I really want to write, I'm scared it will offend someone. I thought of commenting on Harriet Meirs...left or right I would get killed. Then I saw Kingdom of Heaven. So I thought Christians-Jews-Muslims was an interesting topic to talk about. Now I will really be killed. So I just gave up.....

My LODBF (Legion of Dedicated Blog Fans) constantly reminds me that to be a blogger, one must post often. Once again mob mentality kicks in and I am forced to write something. I think Douglas Adams would have made an excellent blogger. I saw that Hitchhiker movie, and I must confess that I have not read the books. But I firmly believe that Mr. Adams is like me. He is a writer, I am a blogger. He writes for the sake of writing, I blog for the sake of blogging. However, we differ on uno point and uno point only. His novel is funny simply because it’s so preposterous. My blogs are not funny.

The art of blogging - so I'm told - is perfected when one lets oneself lose so as to allow thoughts to flow freely. I think I'm getting there. I definitely don’t want to be left out of what the media calls the "revolution". I want to say "I have a blog too". I therefore spend a lot of time trying to figure this blogging thing out...even if it is just for blog's sake.

2005-10-23T18:16:00.000-07:00

A week later...

I was severely reprimanded by my dedicated legion of blog fans that I should not only post, but also read the comments posted. This blogging is turning out to be more work than i signed up for. I have to write BS, then I have to publicise it for people to read and then I have to read their comments.

This week has not gone the way I would have liked it to go. After all the diligence i put in for the app, I found some errors (thanks to the keen eyes of a friend). What can I do though...its out of my hands. So I'll sit back and wait ... and if I get dinged - Bschool-speak for reject - then I have something to blame it on.

Work is a bitch. I havent been able to give it the attention that it rightly deserves. I better clean up my act this week. It is funny to think how i sit in my office pouring over things that have no direct bearing on people's lives - except of course if you count the benevolence my paycheck bestows on Indian Tandoor and Punjabi Tandoor.

Great party at Abha & Mishraji's place yesterday night. The food was awesome and the raitha - a concotion of the maestro himself was out of the world. The usual suspects were in their best entertaining form. I had fun.

Time to hit the essays again.....this time it is for Chicago. I must say that this blogging is helping me get back into the groove of writing again, if not anything else.

my first post

2005-07-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

I'm not an early adopter, at the same time I'm not someone who misses the bus. I've been reading a few blogs lately, and i thought if i could waste valuable employer time reading someone else's woes, might as well use that time to write some BS. So here I am, more than a month after I wrote those intial lines, still thinking about what to write.

What did I do today ? hmm...woke up and finally unpacked this neat little oil canvas from peru. Its a picture of the Quechua people hiking the Andes. Gave it to a friend of mine for framing. The painting cost me $20 in Peru, but the cost of framing it is more than double that !!

I spent the rest of the day catching up on some valuable sleep. I have been busy with my application to the Wharton school. That was a far more hectic process that I ever imagined. For the past 3 weeks, on an average, I slept about 3 hours per day.

In the evening I dropped in at Kaushik's place for dinner. It was his birthday and his wife was throwing a surprise party for him.

Its 1.33 am now...I'm not sleepy and I have to work on my chicago essays.