flurry of post 2 - Mumbai kare pareshaan

A nice rebuttal to a story rocking desiland. mumbai gets labelled as the rudest city - oh sorry diplomatically correct - mumbai is the least polite city.

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/7117.html

You can search online for how polite is defined in three questions:
[1] does anyone help you if your file falls down?
[2] does anyone hold the door for you?
[3] does the shopkeeper says thank you?

After living here, the quesitons should be:
[1] have you said hi to your neighbor even once and asked if they were doing ok? (what i have a neighbor?!!)
[2] do you even smile/wish the minimum-wage-worker working for your hoa? (ooh we dont know what their criminal profile maybe)

Talk about smiles plastered for occasions with internal revulsion for doing that action. See all the newspaper photos with chamkeelay batteesi.

flurry of post 1

I need feedback if this link is credible.

PepsiCoke

Basic argument is whether they contain alcohol - to cause intoxication !?!?!!?

I can automatically see someone posting that sodas are harmful and how they are cleansing themselves by sticking to lemonade.

Brazil fans Unite

For all the brazil fans
http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml

Mine was Tanwaldo or Shaisco (depending upon a few permutations and combinations)

altoid mango sours

Br. Anas has started a weekly halaqa at everyone's favorite masjid aka masjod Omar :) on Saturday. And good part is that you get the sawaab of on umrah while listening to islamic talk. Open to all the sleepy heads who make excuses. What better time than Fajr time!!!

americans against natural light

Yes and this is not in response to blog police patrolling across the blogs. To balance the facts that had me off-balance, came a pleasant surprise from the graduating batch of 1995 from St Vincent. Correspondence with around 20 old-timers kept me occupied and excited. So excited was I that I even completed Godfather from chapter 7 onwards. (Actually C's reassurance that the movie had only started at that point had more to me watching it). But it was nice to see so many folks around in the states and seems that i can do a amrika-yatra without needing any hotel bookings!! One of them was living in tempe and i came to know about him after he had left.

So people will ask how was gfather - if you have three hours at your disposal you can have elaborate shaadis, slow movements and character developments.

worst of all, i was so excited that i watched nacho libre and man it was painful. i will rate this movie only after anger management as one of the worst "comedies". T2 enjoyed it - why because of the Eagle scene. all hava went phusssssss.

the broken nail

Keeping a blog means that you have to overcome all the distressing facts that effect your life, just so that you dont get a ticket from the blog update police. Some facts are distressing and you cannot go publishing them on public spaces- in short too personal to discuss here.

Two weeks ago my top three teams for FIFA WC 2006 were

1. Brazil,
2. Holland
   
3. USA

Two weeks are a long time and if you see fat ronaldo kicking in the air then you know that Brazil will be kicked out soon. Ronaldo is a great, but if he is not fit, he should be on the bench. And however much i dislike the other two teams, my current analysis is

1. holland
2. Argentina
3. Germany

Also enjoying the fact that my DVR went online JIT and over that coming home for lunch to watch the first half of the lunch games!!

WhyIslam Dawah Workshop

Islamic Circle of North America [ICNA] presents

DAWAH WORKSHOP I
And
Introduction to the renowned
Why Islam Project
at
ICC TEMPE MASJID MEETING ROOM
On 17th of June 2006 starting at
10:00AM to 1:00PM
Please come and join us to find out how you can help !
Lunch will be served. Baby sitting available.
Registration will start at 9:30AM at the lobby of ICC Tempe Masjid, 131 E 6th St Tempe, AZ 85281, for directions and map to ICC, please visit http://www.tempemasjid.com/Directions.htm

cars

If you ever laughed on Asterix and Obelix, then this movie is for you. There is plenty of humor and directed at everything related to cars - for example, about the hummer shivers at the prospect of off-roading!! Excellent imagination and remember to look at the entire screen rather than only who is talking. There are so many things pointed out around the screen. Its good to see that a mexican employee is now a part of american movies!! its fun to listen the mexican shout "peet stop". Plenty of other jokes but surely something that anyone who has driven around the usa will find amusing. Since the same highway concept is rolling into India with traditional dhabas losing their business, I am sure that it will connect to people there as well.

Brad Paisley - Find yourself - at the end of the movie is reflective.

And wait till the very final credit rolls over - you should see "rendered using Intel". Fulto paisa vasool

opinionated

One Iraq story is dominating the headlines today. Comments aside, I was surprised by this news anchor trying to coerce an answer from a father that lost his son. Its as if he held the interview with a prepared mindset that this father will be everything that he wants his show to have. I am astonished that an inteviewer is out there to collect answers that he wants rather than to accept what his interviewee wants to say.

It reminds me awfully of the case in Outfoxxed where O reilly is wants an answer but that son stood up to what he felt correct and did not bow to Oreilly.

finally

If any computer assembly takes more than 1 hour from the time you have everything ready to the time you start using it, then that product needs major overhaul. This is my opinion (obviously this is on my blog). However knowledgeable or dumb i am, sustaining an interest in getting something done is stretched if things dont start working in the first hour.

So how did I reach that conclusion? For the last five evenings I have been trying to bring up my pc cum pvr for the upcoming world cup. Its basically using an ATI motherboard with a Hauppauge PVR. This PVR works seamlessly, fabulously, pleasantly on my Intel motherboard but put it on the ATI and it took me all of 10-12 hours just to figure out stuff on it. By some wire extensions I could finally connect it to the internet and grab some "updates" that made life simpler for me, but i would not be surprised if more people came across such setup problems.

I have nothing against ATI - they have some good technology way beyond Intel. But if I wanted simple seamless integration, I would go for Intel processor on an Intel motherboard anyday. Obvious critics would point out that high end gaming systems are mostly not Intel. But the fact is I am not a PC gamer, and neither a wannabe gamer. So my recommendation is Intel. And to silence my critics, independent reviews are available online under keywords conroe, and broadwater. find for yourself and be amazed. 40% improvement over the competition is noteworthy.

Now Let the World Cup begin - Braazeel la la

anyone know what this is

Took it from my flight to LA

procrastination

So after the big hiatus, it does not count whether my last story should be continued or not. gist of the remaining story is that naheed, my ex-1182-mate, also turns out to be second cousin on dadi's side- and I know of this after two years of staying with him. Subhanallah. yes, yes all the usual suspects will point to the fact that boys dont share information and blah blah blah etc (which is unfortunately not true), the fact is that he mentioned a different dehaat and so we never went beyond that while we were there.

Blame it on procrastination that I could not publish this story earlier - but i am still floating around on an imaginary cloud still trying to fathom the fact that naheed is no more mr enthu but boleto bhai.

Also blame it on procraastination that i could not write about an impromptu decision to go to disneyland and cursing the exit signs of the piece of crap called Cali. But an impromptu decision is an impromptu one and brings with it a piece of excitement - excitement such as leaving your belt and hairbrush behind etc etc. Right now they have plenty of mickey mice and i dont know why that is the happiest place on the planet. i was happy because i got my share of cotton candy.

Just trying from cellphone

Just trying from cellphone