Tag-a-Tag

(WARNING: Loooong tag ahead)

Perx tagged me like ages ago! I finally got down to it just err today.. here goes.. I am supposed to list 10 shows that made TV worth watching. Unfortunately I am not a big TV guy these days.. I am a chronic channel swapper and cling on to programmes for an episode and forget about it totally.. So I have modified the rule to fit in 5 channels that made TV worth watching.

1> Cartoon Network and POGO
Its these channels that I turn to when I am really upset or when in bad mood. Takeshi’s Castle on POGO is one of my favorites

2> Discovery Channel
Nothing interesting to watch? Switch to this one.. There is always something good around

3> ESPN/STAR
They are best sports channel around.. Their cricket coverage is simply fantabulous unlike some others

4> Asianet Jukebox
Only mallus must have heard of this. It is a city centric channel.. One can call up a telephone number and select the next song to be played from an on-screen menu.. (I use this to listen to some songs when I go home)

5> Star World
They go the best sit-coms (and The Simpsons).. I hope they restart crystal maze.. so used to love it!

This second tag came from Ruhi..

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
Tashan
2. What book are you reading?
Book? You mean blog?
3. Favorite board game?
My favorite ‘bored’ game would be hmm monopoly
(the darn thing never finishes.. its always a tie)
4. Favorite magazine?
RAVE music magazine
5. Favorite smells?
I like BOSS and Versace as long as I don’t have to pay for them!
6. Favorite sounds?
Flowing water
7. Worst feeling in the world?
Lonely… I am do lonely (Akon)
8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Shit! Its 11 am already!
9. Favorite fast food place?
Kitchen at home
10. Future child’s name?
Todays “short” names might be long by then.. so something like jo, lo ko would be cool. Hey they are unisex too
11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?
I would do something about my teeth.. they are worse than Indian roads.. full of holes!
12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
Used to till I was like 9-10! (no teasing now)
13. Storms – cool or scary?
The one in Xmen? Kuel!
14. Favorite drink?
Chocolate milk (slurp)
15. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?
Get back to designing.. my portfolio!
16. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
I do.. er they are not poisonous right?
17. If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Dye me? NO WAY!!
18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
Calicut (aka Kozhikode), Kannur, Eranakulam (aka Kochi), Manipal, Bangalore
19. Favorite sports to watch?
Cricket of course!
20. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
Her comments make you really think! (not that others don’t.. she just pushes it!)
21. What’s under your bed?
Dust.. wheres that broom?
22. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
I don’t want to die in the first place!
23. Morning person, or night owl?
Night (YAWN) owl
24. Over easy, or sunny side up?
Ain’t there a middle path?
25. Favorite place to relax?
In front of my PC!
26. Favorite pie?
Apple pie.. duh!
27. Favorite ice cream flavor?
Chocolate.. whats vanilla for?
28. Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
Sorry yar am a journalist not an astrologer (hmm I wish I could predict)

Tagged to Xylene, manuscrypts, Vijay, Yaake

Anyone else who is interested to do the tag please go ahead.. would be interested to know more about you

Trash-an

Pathetic, lousy, hopeless, dreadful, pointless, terrible, mundane, preposterous, poor, awful.. all these words combined or individually describe the movie Tashan.

Yash Raj needs to be banned from making movies and their studios need to be burnt down for making this movie, but lets hold that plan for a while because they are making “Roadside Romeo“. (I am looking forward to this one)

There was nothing good in the movie according to me, except *cough* that song featuring Kareena *cough*. In fact I rate this movie below “Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag”!
Anil Kapoor plays a UP don and was a heavy disappointment for me! Saif Ali Khan WAS one of my favourite actors because of movies like “Omkara”, Dil Chahta Hai and “Being Cyrus,” he looked too cheesy in the movie.. may be its not him its just the script and the characters which are sub-standard. The movie has way too many plots and sub-plots to remember and by the end of the movie you are left wondering – What just happened?

Ooooh how could I have forgotten this. The stunt scenes performed by Akshay Kumar.. they put Rajnikanth to shame. He doesn’t split the bullet, but he manages to rip off an iron-electric pole and strike 20 odd villains into oblivion… baseball style.. er I mean T20 shtyle! There is also this stunt scene in which he is being shot at by 30-40 commandos and policemen. He manages to not get hit and jump around barrels, parapets, building roof and in the end snatches a gun and shoots down all of them.. sheesh not even Max Payne could have done it…

<< This is what the movie is actually worth!

If anyone went for the movie already, I offer my condolences

Here is the “action sequence I was talking abt.. watch out for the second half of the video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFpgUm9IGB8]

Open letter to wordpress

I love wordpress, but why did you have to introduce the changes (and a drastic one at that) out of the blue! Why didn’t you leave us with the option of reverting to the old scheme till the new one is ‘perfect’? This is not an agony post, it is just a thought expressed by many others across the wordpress forum though in different words
I like the main page of dashboard but the changes in widgets page (for example) just made it more confusing and difficult to comprehend. Another major issue has been incomparability with the existing CSS styles

The sheer number of topics the changes have thrown up is an evidence to my point… pls pls pls make it possible for us to revert to the previous version of dashboard while giving one the option to test out the new version.. that way the bugs can be taken care of and the transmission will be a smoother process

COMMENTS CLOSED — PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS AT this topic in wordpress forum

Pen culture

I don’t remember the last time I used a pen except to sign a cheque or to mark my attendance, but what I do remember, is that it used be my best pal a few years ago. I also remember that it used to be strict no-no for me as a kid.
“It is meant only for grown-ups,” my mother used to say while I doodled with my pencil and glared at the ball-point pen near the telephone. I don’t know what attracted me to it was it the sticky blue ink or the magical nib that never broke, I cannot say for sure! I continued to have a fascination towards them until I got my first pen – a sparkling red fountain pen. Now do not assume the fascination I mentioned died off, it just grew into an obsession. Things moved on, the fountain pen was soon shelved and was replaced by a ballpoint and the ballpoint soon stepped aside for rollerball pens.
By now, pens were no longer just quills they were our playmates much like bows to an archer and eagles for boy scouts. The games we managed to create around this simple instrument were not just entertaining they were also highly creative in nature.

pic: news.yahoo.com

Roto-Pen
A game of Roto-pen would make your pen feel giddy. The gameplay was simple. Tie a rubberband around the middle of two or more pens and they were struck hard on either end and this would send them into a dizzying spin. The pen which spins for longer duration wins the ‘battle’.

Pen fight
Pens were like sumo wrestlers in this game and our classroom desk was the wrestling ring. The objective of the game was to hit the opposition pens out of the table by using your pen like a striker on a carrom board. You were not allowed to push your pen but had to strike with the index or middle finger. There was a team game as well as a last-man-standing variant of the game.

Pen Spinning
Pen spinning can be misunderstood to be a sign of restlessness, but it is a sport which demands high skills. It involves spinning a pen between your fingers repeatedly mixing multiple styles similar to juggling. The sport is quite popular in Japan and Hong Kong. The winner in a competition of Pen Spinning is decided depending upon his/her smoothness, speed, difficulty and creativity, while awarding extra points for special moves.

Pen jump (Posted by Ish)

This can be played only with those click pens. You click open the pen, put it on the table and then release it. Obviously it jumps because of the spring and the one who’s pen jumps higher, wins.

A 16 year old was recently declared the pen-spinning king

Do you know any other game that can be played with pens?