The Gult's Ride

Not so long ago, I went on a shopping spree - for cars. Now how is buying a car considered shopping spree? It is especially when you end up buying two cars in a span of 3 days.

I got a new Acura TSX "Arctic Blue" with all the bells and whistles of a high end luxury car and the must-have navigation system. It was indeed a luxury car and you don’t even have to sit and ride in it to know that. For me, the price tag was enough to give a heart ache. It made into my list of prized possessions. Why I am not driving the Acura is a totally different story. (And oh btw if you haven’t noticed I am not flaunting the Acura)

Although the Acura was nice, I needed a Gult's ride for me. Ergo I make the obvious choice of buying the Gultima (Right, you guessed it the Nissan Altima). The most popular of ‘em all. Rumor has it that Carlos Ghosn is planning to rename the Altima to Gultima just to give a gult allure :P

It’s a known fact and often desis are ridiculed at for owning the entire spectrum of (only and only) Hondas, Nissans and Toyotas(high-end and low-end alike). So much that these brands have been stereotyped to become what’s called a 'desi' car. This is true given the fact that almost all 'desis' I know own at least one of these. But isn’t the choice more likely dependent on the fact that the Japanese vehicles are extremely reliable and harbor an ever lasting engine.

People talk, but a desi lives to brag about his ideas and thoughts on almost everything relevant and irrelavant. So obviously the ideology behind the desi car got around faster and people stuck to these brands only.

As for me, I don't care for any of what I just said - I just need my ride, 'Gultima' , the Gult's Ride.

Krri'shh '

The shh in the name is highlighted for a reason. In the movie, almost everybody sitting around me tried to 'shh' me whenever i made an attempt to understand the movie or smile at the supposed to be funny moments in the movie.

Hindi movie industry, well what can one say. A billion dollar industry churning out about 700 movies every year and almost each and everyone of them is as bad as the rest of them. 'Krishh', the most awaited movie of the year, I donno why people are waiting for it to release, so that they finally realize that Hrithik is not that good an actor or his dad is not a very good movie maker.

So I get my tickets beating the very many online in time and manage the best seats in the hall. The movie starts with a flashback kind of situation wherein we are made to relive the whole experience of Koi Mil Gaya. The movie then takes off with the story of the new superhero in Indian cinema, Krishh.

By the way, what was so superheroic about him afterall. I have seen other movies, wherein the hero (not superhero) fights 50+ people in a single fight sequence, jumps off cliffs faster than Krishh and still manages to romance more than 3 gals at the same time. Some of the other not so super heroes even blocked bullets with hand, cut bullets with a knife and shoot from a galaxy far far away and still manage to hit the target. So this 'Krishh' is not so super afterall, is he? But I did sit through the movie only to realize that I will have to watch the other Hrithik from Koi Mil Gaya with this Hrithik in Krrishh at the end and come out all glazed with my head spinning.

Gosh.. what a waste of useful time and energy. So again, why was i 'shh'ed in the theatre?

My rating: Never mind out of 5

*Expletive Snakes on the *Expletive Plane

I wanted to see a movie this weekend and what is better than a scary snake movie when you are out with your date ;)

Wish it was that way. The movie is one of the worst movies I have seen in the recent past, with every shot perfectioned to crap. The basic plot of the movie itself was so bad that oh, I just ran out of all the good (non-expletive) words for bad.

For one thing, if you need to bring a plane down and you can circulate fermones in the plane air circulation system, why not just circulate some poisonous gas, no complaints and all dead. I did not expect "Eddy Kim" to go down so easily. The snakes bite deaths were ghastly and there were more deaths shown than there were people on that plane.

Finally, when Samuel Jackson says that he is done with the *(insert your favorite expletives here) snakes on the * (here too) plane, i felt like I am done with this * (and here) movie and the *(and here) story and I am out of here.

But I did finish the movie unlike most of my other fortunate friends. At the end of it, I did realize that even though its a snake movie, supposed to be scary and all, it did not even fit the category of a date movie (if you know what i mean *wink*).

My rating -9 (thats right, a negative 9) out of 5. Take that you people with crazy ideas of snakes-on-crack on the plane.

The "Laptop"

I always wondered about the many uses that I can probably put my laptop to. So I started out by making a list of everything that my laptop does.

• Acts as a mobile workstation
• Gives a techie look to the user (me)
• Keeps me out of unwanted conversations (all I have to do is start staring at the screen and pretend to think)
• Is a good strength exercise equipment (weighs almost 9 pounds)
• Cooking
• Keeps people away

Anybody would wonder what the hell do the last two mean. Well, the "DELL" that I got two years back gets so hot after an hour of trying to use it that i can probably make an omlette or pancakes off its back. Now for the best in the list, I can simply get rid of people by making them use this laptop, you can figure out how ;).

Now whoever thought that laptops can bring peace into troubled lives. :D

Hello world

There you go, my first "blog". I am glad to be a part of the blog world. I think after all the years of thought I put into starting my own blog, (also I was beginning to think that people might mistake me to be an ancient homonoid too incompetent to dig blogger) I finally decided to write my own blog. I do not intend to come up with a new post every day, but again life is full of suprises. I might get more bored than I am right now and end up posting 'stuff' every day.

Being a techie that I am or atleast pretending to be one, what is a better way than to start my blog with the two words "Hello World".