The first one

3 Noodles. Missed the start of the movie. But good overall. Enjoyed it. Keeps balance between making outright fun and handling Muslims and Jews and their faiths sensibly. Ending a bit too convenient. Good performance by the cast - especially by the central characters. Good comedy. Laughed out loud may be 3 times. Recommended. And yes, super sexy Ms. Punjabi without ever trying to be.

This is an old post written after the ecstatic first viewing of "The Dark Knight", one of my all time favorite movies, when the film first released here in Pune. I am reproducing it here again as a submission for the Reel-life Bloggers contest run by wogma and reviewgang . The Knight is Darkest I am incoherent (should probably turn off the TV). The anticipation was there for the last three years. The excitement, had now become palpable. It had become almost too hard to concentrate on work. I don't remember the last time I got this excited. May be it was the hype. May be it was the raves being showered already by the critics. But mostly, it was curiosity, I suppose. Can the Bat seem plausible in the real world past its origins? How do they make it real, this time? But first, my story till the multiplex. Ah.. no, doesn't matter anymore. Suffice to say that it involved waiting, more waiting, tickets, cancellation (Are you Serious), disappointment, more wait

Can't be four years in a row. Go Roger. Let me be in peace. (The only thing left then would be to beat Rafa on just one more Orange final. Oh.. ok. Semi will do.)

I am surprised by how little you need to upgrade in order to get by in a software job. This, of course, applies only to them to whom the difference between MS Word and Vi stop at being primarily made available for two different operation systems. Then of course, you at least need to know that the thing waiting for you to do something when you boot up your PC is a part of Operating System. Then, of course, there are other things to it, the OS I mean. Can't remember most. But I know where the books are. At least the one with basics. Can get there. Hmm.

I have recessed from "lets wait if the value rises further" to "I told you not to put this much in the market" speeches to some people I know. Most notably, my dad. Dabble and fall.

Though the colors in his nest have faded, I doubt that he can ever get rid of them. Or, put simply, I don't think Kevin Pietersen can do the job for England. Not the captaining one, anyway. As batsman, he has been excellent. But he is definitely not captain material. I'd be very surprised if he were. Captaincy is more about man management skills rather actual playing skill. KP has been seen more as his own man. What one requires is a People's person. KP is not one of them. Andrew Strauss, I think, would have been a good bet. England erred before in handing Flintoff the captaincy as against Strauss in the last Ashes. Everyone knows what happened then and after. Only when Vaughan returned did the semblence of normalcy returned to the English camp. KP is more in the mould of Flintoff rather than Vaughan or even Nasser Hussain. He can be one of the blokes but not lead them. Even handing capataincy to Alistair Cook would have been a good move keeping an eye on the future. The b

I am incoherent (should probably turn off the TV). The anticipation was there for the last three years. The excitement, had now become palpable. It had become almost too hard to concentrate on work. I don't remember the last time I got this excited. May be it was the hype. May be it was the raves being showered already by the critics. But mostly, it was curiosity, I suppose. Can the Bat seem plausible in the real world past its origins? How do they make it real, this time? But first, my story till the multiplex. Ah.. no, doesn't matter anymore. Suffice to say that it involved waiting, more waiting, tickets, cancellation (Are you Serious), disappointment, more waiting, tickets, waiting, traffic jam, parking full (Oh.. no!!), parking open, running, settling in the seat, just in time. Back to the earlier question. Do they succeed in fitting the Bat in Big Apple? Yes, very much so. Does the Joker provide a plausible enemy? Yes. Does the Joker rise to become a formidable foe? Yes.