Up up and away..... :)

Well here I am again to write another review.. I was feeling all sad that my last 2 posts were about sad things and wanted to write something good and happy... Sunday afternoon lying lazily I decided to watch the animated movie UP and that was the one of the best decisions I made the whole day... :) I had missed this movie earlier in the theatres due to various reasons but then better late than never... :)

To talk about the movie, the way the movie starts is just too beautiful... The movie goes in a symphony and you just start moving with the music... The way a guy and a girl fall in love because of the common interests they have.. How they save up money to go to South america but because of some or the other family reason they use their savings and before they realise they are old in the daily struggle of life... The melody with which the story moves on is just too much to handle... :) Every scene is so moving and it just makes you feel so connected...

Then the whole gas balloon thing carrying the house was nicely pictured, it might sound a little stupid but then one must remember that its an animated movie... The rest of the movie carries on forward with the other characters playing their roles beautifully with some real good humour which made me laugh like a kid... :)

Overall a beautifully made movie which left me totally satisfied and happy with the whole story... Pixar just out do themselves each and every time they release a new movie... Way to go guys... :)

2012 Disaster of a Disaster movie.... :(

Ah here i am writing my first movie review on my blog.. :D
The fact that I am writing my first review excites me but the point that the movie turned out to be crappy totally makes me unhappy... It was one movie i was looking forward for from a very long time... But like everything in 2009 the movie just let me down and turned out to be a total disaster..... :(

I am surprised that Some people actually ended up liking the movie.. I got a headache watching the damn movie... Some of the bad points of the movie...

1) The movie was totally unreal.
2) The scenes were so repetitive the same old scenes were shown some 15 different times.
3) The movie was a 3 hours long and the show was not appealing...
4) The story was stitched well.

Now for the good points..

1) The problem was found by an indian and the ship was built by the chinese now thats spot on...
2) The way Yuri starts the Bentley saying "Engine start" that was damn cool and i was the only guy in the theatre laughing and clapping..
3) The CGI is pretty good..

Overall i feel the movie was a waste of time and a disaster of a disaster movie... :( Another movie that let the vieweres down atleast me.. :(

Bad Hair day... :(

Woke up with a bad mood... Not particularly because of anything but just dint feel right... The day went on smooth, I was just thinking i hope no one gets the brunt of this anger with no reason...

Time 1430: Phone rings, unknown number...

Me:(Looks like another whack job) Hello...
Call Center Guy: Is this Deepak..
Me: YES(Like you dint know when u were dialing me)
Call Center Guy: Sir you are one of the chosen customers, We are offering you a life time free credit card... Would you...(All in the same breath)
Me: (cutting him off) Anna how many cards do u want me to take from the same bank. Sab ratta marke bol raha he kya... You want me to buy u a card and give you or what...????
Call Center Guy: Sorry sir........
Me: Cut the call....

This post was to say Sorry dude whoever u are nothing personal.. Was just having a bad day like you...

Cheers guys, Have a great weekend.. :)

Class work.... ????

The following takes place in school.... The scene is set in 6th grade, where teacher holds up a note book in her hand showing it to the entire class... Whats so special with the notebook, she turns the pages all the notes are precisely written.. But wait this is not it, she turns them backwards and all that comes out is empty pages with nothing written... The entire classes attention turns to a puny little kid standing in front of the class... This would be the single most embarrassing moment in any kids life... The kid sniffs, wait is he crying (not yet the kid is resilient)... All he wanted to do was to vanish off from the scene without a trace but that was impossible... The only option left was to think.. Think of the times he had not written his notes in class and what had gone wrong and the teacher found out about it...The thought goes deeper...

24hrs earlier....
Teacher: Children please submit your classwork notebooks...
Students one by one go and place their books on the teachers table... Our kid is in a royal dilemma of whether submitting it or not giving it... Either ways he would be screwed... The bulb glows over the head of the kid a flash of an idea... He turns to the page from where he had written his notes and places the book in the middle of the pile just in time, before the teacher gives him a cold glare(Was that a bad omen) well time would tell...

Snapping back to reality, the kid just gets the cold glare again from the teacher.. That was like dejavu from the previous day(does that mean more bad luck)... It was just not his day at all... As every second kept ticking by, while another thought glides over his head...

Half an Hour earlier.......
Teacher: Children please collect back your classworks... She distributes it to everyone one by one...
The kid with a heart in his mouth was just waiting for the moment... Did he get caught...????
Teacher: xxxxxx take your book..
Kid: Takes his note book with a heavy heart and finally takes it back sits back at his place... Looks like the storm is abated... He checks his book it is not corrected... He checks frantically again no red marks at all anywhere... Whats happening here, did the teacher forget to do her classwork for gods sake..???
Kid: (standing up) Mam my book is not corrected(why did i do that, did i just dig my own grave)...
Teacher: Aah come my boy i was waiting for you only...
Kid: Damn man why in the world did i do that.. He takes those steps inching towards his crucifixion...
Teacher: Children look at this notebook (Blank pages turn up)... (Looking at the kid) you must be ashamed of yourself for doing such a thing...
After a grueling session of what to do and what not to do,How the kid is a bad example and people should not follow him, he gets let off provided he finishes his class work the next day...

24 hours later........ (of which 20 sleep less hours for the kid)
In the teachers cabin...
Kid: Mam i have completed by classwork...
Teacher: Just put that book over there and leave...
Kid: (is that it, Why in the world did i write the whole night) Promptly puts the notebook away and walks out.....

For the teacher it was just another day at the school.. For the kid, It was one day that he would want to erase from his school life...

Night out at the Forum value mall.....

Wed morning i wake with a thought in my head, a thought that something was missing... There was emptiness then i realised that its been ages since i met a couple of my friends Praveen and Goutham... With this thought early in the morning i was really low and when i logged into my comp Eureka i found Prem(Praveen's bro online) got Praveen's number from him and found out that Praveen was online too... We spoke for a brief moment and decided to meet up on saturday...
Weekend came and i went off to Praveen's place in the evening at about 5... I was very glad to see Praveen we sat around chatting about the old times waiting for Goutham to come... Goutham was taking time so we decided to go hang around this new mall in Bangalore... The first look at the mall from the outside was pretty normal, once we parked the car and entered the mall i got one of the most astounding views.. This place was huge like a couple of the real forum malls combined...
One thing saddening was that the place was filled with factory outlets, for gods sake we might be a developing country but then we are not some third world country to deserve discarded stuff... Discussing all this we were dilly dallying around this mammoth of a mall just window shopping.. :)
Finally Goutham arrived and we decided to have Italian food in a restaurant in the mall... Praveen and Goutham were new to this cuisine so i was trying to explain to them the stuff that we get and different type of the pastas and the guy at the resto came to our rescue suggesting some food for us... :)We had a great dinner and gave him a good tip and left back home...
After another chat session at Praveen's and Goutham's place i decided to leave for the night back home... Reached back home by about 11 to catch the presentation of the match which we had won..

All in all a great day...

Oh wait i am getting that thought again.. Who is it this time...????

Catch you later... :)

Five day weeks it is...

I was just having a discussion with my team mate as to how I have had 5 day weeks since school through college and now work.. I am so used to or institutionalised to this 5 day week culture right from school... But then i was wondering I have never waited for the weekend to come as I wait for it now...
Scene from office from Monday through Friday is like this...
Monday: Monday blues a term that we dint know existed haunts us... Damn I dint feel like coming to office today.. Yaar aaj kaam karne ka mann nahi kar raha he..
Tuesday: Tuesdayyyyyyyy(yaaawning).... Saala yeh time nikalta hi nahi he.. Aaj bhi saala kaam karne ka mann nahi kar raha he..
Wednesday: After Monday and Tuesday even the week says W T F (if you know what i mean).. OK almost there take a deep breathe just a couple of days to go... Same old story no mooood to work :)
Thur day: Arey yaar i woke up in the morning and it felt like it was a Friday today.. Alas it is not Friday still, another day to go still... No prizes for guessing the right answer aaj bhi mann nahi he yaar..
Friday: Swipe in early into office so that i can leave early back home... ;) My standard dialogue Happys the Fridays guys.. aaj tho fun filled Friday he aaj tho kuch kaam nahi hone waala.. ;)
Saturday and Sunday: Pardyyy time.. Dik chik dik chik dik chik....

Times change people change and so do our needs and requirements..

Favorite Ice cream parlours In Bangalore.... :-)

Well i was contemplating about this particular topic for quite sometime now.. I was just waiting for the right time to post this up so that others can use up the details too.. :)

There is this myth about ice creams that it is only for kids and adults are not supposed to eat them, but then this is totally atrocious i say.. We too should have an equal opportunity to have one thing that could be had at anytime of the day, as far as i am concerned.. Without being ridiculed and made fun of.. ;)

So with that being said some of the ice cream getaways that i generally go to are as follows,

1) Edge : This particular ice cream joint was discovered during the college days when money was hard to come by, but we still wanted to have good ice cream.. Now we couldnt afford the corner houses and the baskin robbins's so to our rescue came edge.. With equally good ice cream and a great menu and variety edge easily became our ice cream adda... We used to go down to this place and have 4 scoops of ice creams which was by far our favorite as we got to eat 4 flavours of ice creams, and guess what it cost us just 70 bucks for 4 scoops, now thats wonderful both to the pocket and to the taste buds.. Not to forget the great time all the boys had bantering and teasing Abhi as he went for ice creams that the other guy bought.. Boy as the cliche saying goes "Those were the days".. This place is very close to forum and is in pretty central location and which every guy in bangalore would know, if you still dont know what place i am talking about then u guys need to grow up.. :)
Here is the screen shot of the map to the place.. :) Find the place i am talking about and Edge of course.. :)


2) Bowring institute: This place again is a very famous place that has been around for quite sometime... This place is very well known for the kulfis we get here for a very cheap prize too.. :) This place is right in between bowring institute and the petrol bunk and right opposite Stracey memorial school on St. Marks road.. This place is nearby Koshys and hard rock cafe so u are never away from some activity... There are about 5 to 6 flavours of kulfis that one can get here at throw away prices of 16 to 17 bucks a candy.. If one is not a big kulfi fan then u also get other ice creams too made by these guys.. Also the lassi here is simply awesome.. :) Normally on a given night we would have about 2 to 3 kulfis each whenever we go by this place, sometimes we just come here to have kulfis...
Here is the screen shot of the map to the place... :)


What are u guys waiting for, get out there and slog oodles of ice cream till you are satiated.. Who knows i might meet you there.. ;)