Voter ID Card Mumbai campaign

Bombay Addict has compiled this info damn neatly The following ad appeared in yesterday's HT. For those who want their names included/amended, you now have only two weeks to ensure you get this done. (also read this) In case you've not received the notification at home for this exercise, here's what you should do: 1. If you know your assembly constituency, then go to your polling station given below (Source: Chief Electoral Officer Website). Click on the image for a larger view. 2. In case you don't know your assembly constituency, then (a) 1. For those in Mumbai City (i.e. from Colaba to Mahim): please visit the Mumbai City Collector's website (click here) 2. For those in Mumbai Suburbs (i.e. from Bandra to Dahisar): please visit the Mumbai Suburban Collector's website (click here) Call these numbers and ask for further details.

Trauma Log - Fuckal Reliance Wimax

This is the trauma I went tru for 3 months thanks to Reliance Wimax - (Apologies for the lenghty logs as the logs are written in anger & frustration)

aug 8th 2007

Gave application form to Sanjay ( 9821291681), Application number 13000010006729, authorization slip number 160112

was told will get in 10 days (18th Aug 207)

later one week more.. as shortage of wimax devices in Borivli area. (25th Aug 2007)

one month later (10th Sep 2007)
sanjay said he will follow up, and put my matter in high priority

(Mid Sep 2 calls from reliance call center, verifying the booking and address, assurance that connection will be done in a week.

Calls to sanjay continue..

Sanjay gives me number of another person(Sachin 93205 82610, 30685108) , who me number of someone who handles between dahisar and bandra

after call continuously for 2 weeks finally someone comes and fixes the antenna and plugs it to my laptop, but cites base station is having some problem (28th Sept0 .. they will return tmrw

2 engineers come the next day (29th Sept), spend the whole day figuring out and goes back.

next day is Sunday, then Monday, then Gandhi jayanti, No one turns up....I ask sachin to send his person, sachin assures me someone will come. no one comes for the next 3 days.

on the 4th day when I say I don't need the connection some one turns up and the internet connection starts working, for about 2 hours ( 5th October), Since then I have been passed from one line to the another from the Reliance call Center to the Technical support in the call to the Mumbai Suburban aren in charge.

Sanjay called me on 8th saying that there was a problem at Reliance end and many subscribers faced the same problem and the problem was expected to be rectified in an hour.

Reliance Call Center refuse to take my complaint as they haven't yet received the subscriber Id details which was given by the Technician who set up the connection in my house. I have been trying to get some help from the call center in vain for 4 days.

01.45 am 15th nov, 207... net is still not working, the technician dint turn up nor did anyone call.

I have received and paid the bill tough, I don't want to be tortured anymore by these fuckers, I will disconnect the internet connection tomorrow.

unable to contact dhcp server 01.54 am

subscriber Id 369626718870, this is the same subscriber id which the reliance call center doesn't have but the same id did log in for 4 hours on 5th oct and 8th October

I have a simple request, please spare me the agony of the internet connection and kindly refund my subscription amount.

18th October, internet is down once again...

19th October , Sachin is not reachable and no longer works in the area.

20th October , I'm trying to raise a complaint...

net down for three days (8,9,10 nov)

bill received 12 nov 2007.

no net on 13/14th nov 2007

the customer service female refuses to transfer line to the tech dept, citing since I have complained I cant speak to the tech support, they are working on it types.

37.30 call with customer service. problem not yet resolved, they said the field engineer will call me.

15th nov.. no engineer turns up...

spoken to 3 senior supervisors, no respite all same words "we are escalating the same"

The call center guy refuses to transfer line to technical dept.

Am fed up, I am canceling the same.

Now that I've cancelled the same, The customer service lady said that I would still be billed for the month, Balls am gonna give the bill.

The reliance guy called me to collect the modem n cable, I told unless I get the 500 bucks refund I wont give the equipment as there is no guarantee Reliance would honor its commitment. The guy laughed & agree that the Wimax connection is fuckall and he would collect it later once I got my deposit back .

The employees are not at fault for having a such a shady sub standard product but can't help it, money does not grow on trees.

I will try my best to make sure that my friends and loved ones do not have endure the torture of getting a Reliance internet connection ever.

Can you believe it?

Can you believe it?, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

Kerala has a (maybe more, who knows?) Ferrari registered as a Taxi. its called "Comblete dizazter"

Fwd via Meera G

Master Juggling by Congress

Running the country with 12 problematic alliance partners
Crude Prices at all time high
India has managed to keep inflation low at below 4 % (even though its a bit flawed as India used WPI for calculation), I think the government has done a decent job in the last 3 years.

Now home loan rates and unemployment rate needs to be tackled before we aim at achieving the much talked about 10% Indian (Hindu for right wingers) rate of growth.

What needs to be seen if the government is serious about 9% & 10% investment in Infrastructure and Eduction, if that achieved many other problems would automatically be solved....

I'm sure our PM with his team of smart guys (montek singh, chidambaram, sam pitroda, jairam ramesh, mani shankar aiyar, murli deora etc ) will have better answers..

Hoping for a better India where Congress and BJP will work in tandem towards the Sensex, its investors and the janta janardhan at large.

:)

Startup News : Kunal acquires Sniff Games

My friend Kunal Sheth has just acquired 100% of Sniff Games a USA based free online gaming company.

The financials and deal-size has not been disclosed :P, He launched GameBajao.com (alpha release) last week and aims to make a popular gaming site for all game freaks.

What is GameBajao?,
GameBajao is the news/reviews aggregation website which will be powered by some of the best gaming websites in the world. It will be one stop shop for any news content from the various resources.

I find the name gamebajao bit funny coz its to its pondy double meanings :))


http://www.gamebajao.com
http://www.sniffgames.com

Congrats and all the best for your venture.

Chennai Superstars - Anything is POSSIBLE

Really cool promo... I'm looking forward for the ICL Dhamaka :))

Breaking News : SC grants Sanju Baba bail

Now Dus Kahaniya is sure shot hit :))

The Lost Bombay

http://satish.vijaykumar.googlepages.com/TheLostMumbai.pps

Nice Collection of Old Bombay Pics & Postcards.

Written behind a superslow Rickshaw.

" हा असाच चालणार !! "

This guy was in his own world, driving really slow at 30 kmph in Aarey, Goregoan. Least bothered about the passenger, I think he must be from Poona.

World's first kebab cake...

World's first kebab cake..., originally uploaded by Bombayite.

yes, its Dubai again... I think it should be a deadly combo ...

here's da story.
www.ahlanlive.com/729-the-spice-is-right

I'm :)

• O Jerusalem!
• The Dhandho Investor: The Low - Risk Value Method to High Returns
• Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
• Lonely Planet India

Finally my books have come from Amazon, looking forward to reading it with a few pegs of Black :))

'Greed is Good'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqOUlBXrzik

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

Gordon Gekko's famous "Greed is Good" speech to the shareholders of a company he is attempting to take over in the Oliver Stone masterpiece Wall Street.

And yes 2007 is the 20th anniversary of the epic movie on the markets.

Conspiracy Theory : Did the 1987 Black Monday Crash have something to do with movie?

Sequel
On Saturday May 5, 2007, the New York Times reported that a sequel film entitled, Money Never Sleeps, is currently in pre-production. Michael Douglas will reprise his role as Gordon Gekko; however, both Charlie Sheen and Oliver Stone will be absent from the sequel.

Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Its claimed to be the future of book reading, something like what the IPod did to the music business.


Product Overview (Cntrl C, Cntrl V from official site)

• Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
• Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
• Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
• Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
• More than 88,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers. New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
• Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
• Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times.
• More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post.
• Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
• Holds over 200 titles.
• Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
• Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
• No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
• Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
• Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.

BOO!!

400 USD seems to be the most fcukall part of the product, I'm sure like the PS3 and iPhone they will reduce it to around 150-200 USD in six months time.

I will buy this if the sensex is good to me or if someone loves me and my amazon wishlist :))


More details on its site.

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-kindle/dp/B000FI73MA

CM's of Karnataka - Big Names & Ball Talks

• Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa
• Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy
• Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda
• Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna

Karnataka is the modern day Aaaya ram Gaya ram zone, the state politicians changes colours even before you can say their full name.

I don't know much about Karnataka politics but by friend Harsha thinks that Gowda is like shani to Karnataka state and its developments, I wish he never comes to the center or anywhere near Delhi.

I think Karnataka will do great under Presidents rule, Metro, Airport, Flyovers... this is Bangalore's golden chance :)

Can the president appoint Vijay Mallya as the CM, I'm sure whole of India will like it :)

Stock Ideas

Stocks on my watch-list.

Manugraph India
CMP 188

Compulink
CMP 22.70

Mangalam Drugs
CMP 19

Sterling Holiday Resorts
CMP 59

Vijaya Bank
CMP 78

Just wondering ?

How come Shiv Sena - VHP dint oppose the Pakistani team's tour to India, Does it have anything to do with Pawar at the helm of affairs?

Why is NDTV not condemning or reporting against the commies in West Bengal, biased reporting or do farmers in Nandigram less important than Muslim victims in Gujarat?

CNN IBN and Rajdeep rooting for Modi, Rajdeep wearing Saffron .. Samjhota, Setting ??

Who will test the drunk cops in Bombay?

Will Vasai - Virar become the next El Dorado for property thanks to MMRDA?

Everytime Sachin misses his ton, India wins.. what's more important ton or victory?

Biggest Rink Football Tournament in Bombay.

Times Super Soccer - 2007 @ Borivli, Bombay

The tournament is spread over four categories, namely ‘Open’, ‘Veterans’, ‘Under-16 boys’ and ‘Women’, with a whopping Rs 10, 00, 000 to be given away as prize money. Of course, it also offers a chance for the youth to interact with some of the stars of Indian football.

A maximum of 112 teams shall be enrolled on first-come-first-served basis. Other attractions such as Spot Penalty Shootout Contest, Tug-of-war Contest, Housie and a host of other contests for contestants and spectators to win prizes galore will also be in the offing.

• Where: St Francis D’Assisi School Grounds, Borivali West

• When: November 15 to 18 (last date for entries November 7)

Visit: http://ms.timesofindia.com/ads/supersoccer/index.html or Vintage Football Club, Shop No 32, Royal Tower, I C Colony, Borivali (West), Mumbai – 400103

details courtest : WSP

Dard e Disco - Om Shanti Om

yes, pls get up and dance :))

STOKMARK - ATF Game

STOKMARK on the BBC Micro

This is a game for between one and eight players, each of whom tries to make as large a profit as possible by buying and selling shares on the stock exchange

http://www.bbcmicro.net/old-8bs/elecgame/businessgames.htm

We used to play this at home in 1990-93 on the BBC Micro which my uncle had bought for us.

This game, released in 1984 has had a great influence on me and my investment style & love for the world of markets, it still continues to thrill and amaze me.

I still have this Micro computer lying in my house, I don't think its alive any more, will try to revive it like Lazarus.

If you are a BBC Micro/ Spectrum fan then you should download the emulator and relive and play the classic games of the 80's

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/history.php3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_Micro_and_Acorn_Electron_games

SLB will now be known as

Sanjay 'Neela' Bhansali after Saawariya :)

Bhansali puts Mumbai to sleep - Video on Rediff iShare

The audience response to Saawariya after watching the movie...the feedback says it all ... No amount of Publicity, Big Banner, Star Kids, Award winning director can save you if the movie is bakwaas.



http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2007/nov/09video2.htm

disclosure : I haven't seen the movie, I'm juss too terrified to handle the black & blue in the whole movie which scared most of the unlucky viewers.

Om Shanti Om - 4/5

230 bucks = 1 ticket!!!
But it was truly worth every paisa.. total paisa vasool movie... total entertainment and filmygiri... SRK, Farah and Deepika have done a great job.
SRK has single handed carried most of the movie but Deepika is also damn gorgeous ... I think Aishwarya n Rani n Preity ka ho gaya Chutti.

The movie has a 70's story about a filmy reincarnation, the likes of Karz and filmy stories Bollywood kinda forgot to make after the 80's , neatly done, neatly shot, great retro designs.

Dard-e- disco is by far Shahrukh best ever dance number.

Another main reason for the paisa vasooli is the star ensemble... never seen before in the history of bollywood cinema, some of the stars in the movie.
* Shahrukh Khan
* Deepika Padukone
* Arjun Rampal
* Kirron Kher
* Shreyas Talpade
* Bindu Kamini
* Javed Sheikh
* Amrita Arora
* Malaika Arora
* Shabana Azmi
* Abhishek Bachchan
* Amitabh Bachchan
* Vidya Balan
* Mithun Chakraborty
* Juhi Chawla
* Priyanka Chopra
* Vishal Dadlani
* Bobby Deol
* Ritesh Deshmukh
* Dharmendra
* Lara Dutta
* Sanjay Dutt
* Subhash Ghai
* Govinda
* Jeetendra
* Karan Johar
* Kajol
* Karisma Kapoor
* Rishi Kapoor
* Tusshar Kapoor
* Arbaaz Khan
* Salman Khan
* Zayed Khan
* Akshay Kumar
* Urmila Matondkar
* Dia Mirza
* Dino Morea
* Rani Mukerji
* Amisha Patel
* Rekha
* Hrithik Roshan
* Shilpa Shetty
* Sunil Shetty
* Aftab Shivdasani

And yes dont run away after the movie ends, the credits are also really cool.
Farah Khan really rocks, Tali Bajao for her.

Also in a few weeks you will see an Om, Cross & Crescent Locket in every Tapori's neck.

Like they say ...Picture abhi baaki hai .....

Diwali Celebrations @ Home.

Diwali Orkut

orkut, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

The Diwali Orkut UI is juss amazing, very sleek and kickass stuff.. This is truly making Orkut Beautiful.

Emergency & Democracy

My views posted on Pakspectator, A Pakistani Blog

 

http://pakspectator.blogspot.com/2007/11/emergency-in-pak-views-from-india.html#links

 

 

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

20 ventures you can start with Rs 5 lakh!

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/oct/26spec1.htm

Nice article by Outlook Money/Rediff.

Jab We Met - 4/5

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora, Dara Singh, Pawan Malhotra, Kiran Juneja, Divya Seth.
Director: Imtiaz Ali

Total timepass, smooth movie... I wasn't inclined to watch it at first thinking it might be some lovey dovery kareena shahid crap.... but I was proved wrong .

Kareena is amazing, this is by far her best performance.. I dunno about national awards but Box Office and Public awards is sure shot.

Also Shahid has done acha Kaam .. solid dancing, no pakaogiri, decent stuff...

Also nice stuff from Pawan (Hari Nukkadwala) & Teddy (Decent Hotel) who is also the set designer of the movie.

Go have a Dekko...

Bazaar Rumour

 IFCI-GE Cap to acquire 26 per cent at Rs 127 per share

Da World Diz Week

• Dhoni and Deepika have something cooking.
  
  
• Bal Thackeray gave his usual Dasera speech but this time targetting Christians
• The Frankenstein of fundamentalism welcomes Benazir in Karachi as usual innocent victims pay the price.
• Bhool Bhulaiya is a decent comedy but is dragged endlessly and has not much background scores.
• The off market discussion has moved from Peanuts to P-notes.
• Dandiya in Bombay was a big flop show thanks to the cops.
• Gold touched 10000 per tola for the first time.
• Home loan rates are down 0.5%
  
• Bobby Jindal is elected governor of Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the Bible Belt a state where once David Duke of KKK ran for the same job.
• Spyker F1 team to become Force India thanks to Vijay Mallya's efforts.
• Amazon, Ebay are trying to replicate the Facebook application mania, this is surely going cog up all the bandwidth in the world.
  
• Reliance is still a best Buy at 2400.
• India is celebrating even after losing 4-2 to the Aussies.
• Jhalak Dikla Ja is hazaar times better than Nach Baliye and Cyrus seems favorite to win it.
  

Demystifying Haji Mastan

Contrary to general belief, Haji Mastan Mirza was never an underworld don or even a goon for that matter. He was a smuggler and a shrewd man who rubbed shoulders with the high and mighty of his era. Be it Karim Lala or Vardabhai, Dilip Kumar or Shashi Kapoor, he had friends from the world of politics. .....Nice article by Baljeet Parmar in DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1128464

The Real Monkeys

Jaran Rohinton Mistry, Burzin Karkaria, Betran Rushi Adva and Rubi Behram Adva.

These 4 morons gave cricket a bad name by abusing and mimicking Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds, Wankhede stadium stands to lose its One Day status if banned by the ICICI.

After Baroda, This was the second time Symonds was abused by the crowd.

After Australia collected an award for team of the year, compere Cyrus Broacha did some great work by referring to the offensive spectators as "idiots" and called on the audience to show their support of the allrounder.

The crowd stood up and applauded Symonds, who looked chuffed to receive such a warm reception following his hostile treatment at Wankhede Stadium.

The whole Indian population was up in arms when Shilpa Shetty was abused and now when the chutyagiri is done by our own people... Muted Silence.

One behalf of these 4 countrymen I would like to say sorry to the Aussie team and Andrew Symonds and let the spirit of cricket prevail.

One behalf of these 4 countrymen I would like to say sorry to the Aussie team and Andrew Symonds and let the spirit of cricket prevail.

Lastly I won't be surprised if Indian cricketers gets similar treatment in Australia if these guys like these are not punished.

Woman of Courage - Madhavi Bhatkar

Article in Today Mumbai Mirror about a brave woman's fight with Rickshawallahs in Bhandup.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&sectid=2&contentid=2007101820071018022615609f33e48f9

I wish we all had courage like Madhavi to take on the system.

Pune never ceases to amuse me :)

U have Unlimited Broadband, So Wot!!

Now that one has unlimited super fast Wimax Internet at home what do you do with it to extract maximum vasooli

Some of the things I do :-

• Downloading Research Reports from Various Brokerages & Finance Sites.
• Downloading Mobile Content & other Jazz (Mobile9.com)
• Playing Games (MiniClip.com & Yahoo Games)
• Downloading Movies & Clips
• Editing Wiki (At least trying )
• Blogging and getting lost in Blogs
• FaceBook Mania & other trivial things.
• Ecommerce ( Amazon, PicSquare, ICICI)

Would love to hear if you guys/gals have any cool ideas to do Internet vasooli, drop a line or scribble below.

Mobile Talks, BS Walks!!
Mosh & Save2phone are 2 sites which has user driven mobile content, I admit our site looks a bit patchy compared to Mosh but watch out, we are on stealth mode and the Look Site will be launched soon.
One can also check out Mobile9 for cool Mobile Content.

Links :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSH
http://bombaylives.blogspot.com/2007/02/save2phonecom-over-3000-applications.html

A Bridge Too Far...

 Got This Via Email : 
The Lord surveyed the Ram Setu and said "Hanuman, how diligently and    strenuously you and your vanar sena had built this bridge several   centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of the climatic and   geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even before they could stick the posters on its pillars."
 
Hanuman with all humility spoke "Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now."
 
Ram spoke "Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more money on construction. "
 
Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case"
 
Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us to submit proof of age and we don't have either a birth certificate or school leaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and horses and so we don't have a driving license either. We flew in the Yaan but that is called an Unidentified Fying Object now, so no pilot licences either. A s far as the proof of address is concerned, the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself under litigation for over half a century. If I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me but Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under the reserved category for learning how to construct a bridge. Also, a God cannot walk in, dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make the devotees suspicious. So it is a dilemma, so to say."
 
 
"I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge."
 
"My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce the Layout plan, The Project details, Approved Plans, Municipal Building Permit, Excavation Permit, the contractor who built it including financial outlay and how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. And who inaugurated it? Nothing is accepted by these people without documentary evidence in India. You may cough but unless a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated."
 
"Lord, I can't understand these historians. Over the years you have given darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The only option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all."
 
The Lord smiled. "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita when I was in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on earth as long as Salman Khan is around." 

 

On a Personal Note

Am against the Setu Samudram project, Not because Nal-Neel built it for Lord Rama because its gonna lead to an ecological problem and render thousands of poor fishermen jobless. 

I rather wish they spent that money on the Metro & Mono Rail for Bombay, whose citizen pay the highest tax and travel in sub human conditions. 

There's Nothing Rajni Can't

There's Nothting Rajni Can't, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

More Via the Email Forward.
1. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Rajnikant has allowed to live.
2. Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Rajnikant.
3. Rajnikant counted to infinity – twice.
4. When Rajnikant does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.
5. Rajnikant is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
6. Rajnikant doesn't wear a watch; HE decides what time it is.
7. Rajnikant gave Mona Lisa that smile.
8. Rajnikant can slam a revolving door.
9. There are no races, only countries of people Rajnikant has beaten to different shades of black and blue.
10. Rajnikant's house has no doors, only walls that he walks through.
11. Rajnikant can divide by zero.
12. Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Rajnikant turnaround kick.
13. When taking the GRE, write "Rajnikant" for every answer. You will score over 1600.
14. Rajnikant has 12 moons. One of those moon s is the Earth.
15. Rajnikant grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.
16. An old English dictionary dating back to 1236. It defined "victim" as "one who has encountered Rajnikant"
17. If you Google search "Rajnikant getting kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn't happen.
18. Rajnikant can drink an entire gallon of milk in thirty-seven seconds.
19. Rajnikant doesn't bowl strikes, he just knocks down one pin and the other nine faint.
20. It takes Rajnikant 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
21. The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Rajnikant kicked one of the corners off.
22. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, because Rajnikant lives in Chennai.
23. Rajnikant once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.
24. James Cameron wanted Rajnikant to play the Terminator. However, upon reflection, he realized that would have turned his movie into a documentary, so he went with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
25. Thousands of years ago Rajnikant came across a bear. It was so terrified that it fled north into the arctic. It was also so terrified that all of its descendants now have white hair .

Gates denied visa to Nigeria

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/13/2121250.shtml

Xight notes a Gizmodo story that is a few days old but hasn't gotten a lot of play. It seems that Nigeria recently denied Bill Gates a visa to travel there on his recent trip to Africa. The initial denial was "on the premise that they required proof he would not reside in Nigeria indefinitely, causing a strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration." The comments to the post are worth reading too.

I won’t be surprised if Billu goes after the Nigerian Scamster’s in a big way J

via Funnyjunta

Timepass Game

Off The Rails Navigate your handcar safely.

Play this free game now!!

Optimism & Markets

SMS circulating in the Market
Height of optimism: People who missed investing in India when Sensex was at 5500 need not worry. Nifty is still at 5500 !!!

Snack Ideas - Sausage

breakfast at Timesquare,

If you dint know, I love sausages as much I like the vada pav.

Fried Sausages and Pav are a deadly combo.. Or if you have time one can do the desi version of onion, tamater, masala n sliced sausages and vinegar... wid Amul Butter marke Pav.

This picture is an amazing breakfast I had at a hotel in KL, Malaysia.

Sausage Pav Stalls?? any VC, Angel ready to fund my Idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage

Bulls, Bears & The Lambs

The markets zoomed from 13500 to 18500 in lil over 2 months and most us just stood, waiting, thinking, analyzing, scratching, digging and wondering WTF happened... Did we miss the Reliance Family Boat

Don't we feel silly about ourselves while the Ambani Bros & Airtel Mittal have managed to pull the biggest and fastest and legal (unless am wrong) wealth generation in the Indian History.

Well I guess its no point cribbing or feeling pity on oneself, there will always be opportunities in the Market.

As say they When the Bulls & Bears are playing the market the Lambs get slaughtered

Also look at the lesser mortals who haven't yet experienced the thrill called Sensex, be proud of yourself for being part of one helluva ride from 2500 to 18000!!

Cutting the gyan short, Since my name is not there in today's TOI, NDTV, ET or Mint top Wealth Gainers, I better rush and board my 8:46 Churchgate local and maybe also buy a few Thursday Super Lotto.

Are U gonna be here??

BarcampMumbai2

WTF is Barcamp?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

Vakow! - Timepass!!

Got this from Link courtesy Fuzzy today morning.

 

I've been posting my SMSes on this cool site called Vakow!. Which is sent free to all my friends no premium sms or shit like that.

Vakow! is a community of ppl who luv SMS Forwards.

http://www.vakow.com/user/bombaylives/invites/you/9d0e430d39b98f740bda0fbd9cbcfa7b/

Check it out  http://vakow.com/

(Founder's are from the initial team at Rakesh Mathur's Webaroo)

 

 

Finally Google SMS Launches in India

With Google SMS mobile messaging service, users can get business listings, movie showtimes and more simply by sending a text message to the shortcode 54664 [5GOOG] from their mobile phones. This service is currently available on the Airtel, Aircel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance networks, and has relevant local data for mobile users in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

 Searching through Google SMS is simple. For example, a user seeking information on pizzerias in Andheri West can text message [pizza andheri west mumbai] to 54664, and a list of pizza restaurants in that area will be delivered to his or her phone within seconds. Google SMS allows for searches by common locality names, and ranks results by proximity to the specified location. The service also saves time by saving a user's location, so they don't have to type their location every time they search.

Check out www.google.co.in/sms

The only bad thing is that Premium SMS rates are applicable on each query and still not on Vodafone :(

The Afternoon Saga - Morarka vs Farzana

Here's Farzana's article on the fight between Kamal Morarka the largest shareholder of Afternoon and Farzana (Late Busybee's Wife) the CEO of the publication.

http://www.cybernoon.com/DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&subsection=news&xfile=September2007_news_standard3971

Morarka on the other hand claims Farzana didn't manage the newspaper well, subscriptions are low, not much advertising ad revenue, not much content, Farzana apparently using Afternoon to promote Uppercrust etc etc.

It sad to see such fights in the open, I hope better sense prevails and Afternoon is back on the stands or will Farzana do a Deja Vu like Busybee did from Mid-Day

My earlier post on The Gr8 Busybee

http://bombaylives.blogspot.com/2007/04/busybee-forever.html

Farzana On Afternoon's Website has this :-

For readers and friends who care and would like to respond, give advise, please write to editorafternoon@gmail.com

Billu Gates in History

http://www.gizmodo.com/photogallery/gatesinhistory/ 

 

Thank you Photoshop :))

Websites to Book Movie Tickets Online in Different Cities of India

 

If you want to catch up on the latest Bollywood release, but don't know whether tickets would be available on that day, then these links below to various online movie ticket booking websites of multiplexes would come in handy. - PVR Cinemas - Inox Movies - Adlabs Cinemas - Fun Republic Cinemas - Fame Cinemas - Wave Cinemas - DT Cinemas for movie tickets in Gurgaon. - Satyam Cineplexes for movie tickets in Delhi. - BookEazy for movie tickets in Pune. - Kyazoonga for movie tickets across various cities in India. - Ask4Ticket.com for movie tickets in Surat. - ITicket.in for movie tickets of smaller theatres in Bangalore. - M2K Cinemas in Delhi - Chankaya Cinema in Delhi. - Prasadz Imax in Hyderabad. - BookMyShow.com for movie tickets across various cities in India.   via http://blog.mobissimo.in/

RupeeMail - Money for reading mails

 

I hate to spam but this was too tempting :)), I think this is like Chequemail.com we had in late 1999-2000.

Basically the funda is You get paid to open & read the contents of RupeeMail. You receive promotional offers & special discounts in RupeeMail.

Interestingly RupeeMails will reach you based on the preference list you opted for.

Create your RupeeMail Account & refer your friends to earn launch referral bonus on every new registration.

Try this... http://www.rupeemail.in

p.s Dont waste time in office doing this :)

 

Watch Out !!!

Check the Violations of this person with License plate 228888………wow, that’s a long list of things not to be doing on Qatar road.

For sure s/he is a big shot……watch out for 228888 next time around.

http://www.moi.gov.qa/TFCViolations/English/eServiceInput.jsp

 

 

Loins of Punjab - Strictly Avoid

What's in common between HT, TOI, Mid-Day, Indian Express, NDTV, IANS, CNN-IBN ??

 

Each of these guys must have surely taken some moolah or Black Labels for giving a good rating for Lions of Punjab, The movie is atrociously pakao with super sadela gujju jokes which each one of us laughed when we were in 3rd Standard.

 

The movie is about a silly Desi Idol which is a million times worse than Zee's SaReGaMa Li'il Kids Champ show, Though in the movie Money power fails to prevail but i surely think money power prevailed in promoting and fooling the junta into the Theatre.

 

Well done Manish Acharya for setting a new benchmark for Shady Movies.

 

I would give 1/5.

 

P.s The movie's main star Jameel ( Bokade Events) is a cool guy, I have worked with him at Prithvi Fest in 1997-98

Da Waarld Diz Week!!

 

• BCCI plans 20:20 in all domestic series after being the only body opposing 20:20 Cricket at ICC all the while until we won it.
• Sri Ram continues to be controversial even after 5000 years.
• Lalbaugcha Raja continues its record collections.
• Johnny Gaddar is a nice movie.
• Getting in & out of Saki Naka is like a Chakravyuh.
• India TV has beaten Doordarshan to the most Fcukall channel award.
• RJ Nitin should be flogged publicly for his comments on Indian Idol Prashant and Gorkhas, Gorkhas are proud brave people who have done India proud its high time people stop taking crap from stupid RJs on our FM channels.  
• Ganpati Visarjan was peaceful no drowning or stampedes reported. 
• Rahul Baba has become Congress Gen. Sec something BJP has to worry about.
• Markets have gone crazy fighting strong at 17,000+
• Our Hockey players need to let their sticks do the talking rather than ask the stupid governments for rewards.
• Kerala is still under Chickangunya epidemic.
• Sabeer Bhatia is trying his luck once again with http://www.apnacircle.com

 

Achtung !! Yahoo Photos Shutting down

Yahoo Photos is closing for Indian users on October 18, 2007. Though Yahoo is allowing its users to migrate photos to Flickr but there's panga of limited storage space for free account and Indian users can use Flickr only for sharing photographs.

Incase you have infinite photos then you can import your pics to Picsquare coz they provide unlimited free storage space .

Also Check out their cool printing features at http://www.picsquare.com/

For more gyan and info, buzz Manish Agrawal, co-founder of PicSquare +91 99019 60007

P.S I'm a Pro Flickr user and I use PicSquare for Printing my snaps, yes this is free Public City :))