-: Dreamer's Den! :-

This was the much awaited movie of all times 4 me...dunno why but when I finished the novel last year ( Dan Brown 's The Da Vinci Code ) and sometime later, the news broke out saying a film is being made of this novel..I was just thrilled!! Just anxious to see my thoughts, my imaginations running in a movie... And yeah! it proved true...The movie is shot extremely well...Every cast of the film is superb! I personally like and admire the actor Tom Hanks and my hero proved it yet another time! The photography is very good and at some point of time, when Prof Langdon (Tom ji) starts explaining about the ancient times of Knight Templars and the fight that broke out, that picturization and photography is amazing...They have mixed the modern London (where this guy walks and explains the facts) with the ancient times and boy, it has come out really well... Film-wise, since I had read the book one and half times (before coming 2 Mumbai, I was re-reading this novel!), I felt the movie as a...

Hmmm...almost in continuation with my previous blog... I daily take local ride from Andheri to Lower Parel via the Dadar station [as my friend calls - Deadly Dadar ! - as this is one of the most crowded stations in Mumbai and all d time, u see ppl, ppl and more ppl!! As my friend says, its not our cup of tea to get in/down of this station during peak hours...am yet to experience this...:)] ...the point here is in and out of the station, there are so many people that you just cannot walk freely anytime of the day...u r always in the midst of a thick crowd...The crowd that does not care who is the person in front of them or back of them...only rule here is to RUSH, RUN!! I have had many experiences and to quote one of them, last week when I was walking out of the platform when suddenly 2 guys came running, in opposite direction, at an amazing speed and within notime, b4 my mind cud give me signal 2 move out of their 'track', one of the guys came almost face 2 face with me and wa...

Mumbai is host to lot of varieties of people...people with varieties of lifestyle...Right from our own Bollywood people, who have the ultimate luxuries in life to people who have no place to sleep...Forget about their food...They sleep in footpaths, dividers, below the flyovers and more than all...besides drains!!! Sometimes I work in shifts here [Customer is the KING..So v need to support our customer, in London, 4.5hrs behind us!! :((] and from past 1 week (this week also) am into 2nd shift (1430hrs to 2330hrs)...So, when I go back to home [in a chauffeur driver Ford Icon A/C car!! :))] @ around 0000hrs midnight, I see these variety of people, trying to get sometime out of their daily routine for sleep...in places mentioned above! Atleast I haven't seen this kind of BPL (Below Poverty Lines) ppl in namma bengalooru, but seeing here, I just kept wondering the different faces of life one can have/face in this human life! Just to fill their stomach, ppl have to go thru wat all in t...

Today am doing night out after a looo...oooong time...that too in Mumbai..:) We have to stay as we are supporting US client and today they demanded for this...so, cant put down a client right? Customer delight! :) But am feeling kind-of good...doing whatever u want, full silence (except for some cool music playing from FM stations!)... hmmm...no beauties around though...:))

Hmmm...Mumbai...the city of heavy population....city of the riches...city of the dreams!! And the city of beautiful gals...:) On saturday evening [forget morning times...u cannot step out of house...its 2 hot and humid here...daily I sweat like anything...:(], me and my friend went to a shopping mall in Malad(W) area, called INORBIT. This mall is pretty big, I can say, twice bigger than Forum or Garuda mall of namma bengalooru!! This mall houses all big brands, including Shopper stop, Lifestyle, Crossword bookstore and many more...There is a fud court in the 3rd floor that surely makes a big hole in your pocket! The prices are so expensive and astronomically exhorbitant that I felt namma bengalooru shopping malls oota price itself is gud enough antha!! :) Anyways, after we 'window-shopped' all the 3 floors of the huge mall, we entered shopper's stop to buy SUNGLASSES!!! Yeah, first time in my life I was spending on a sunglass...that too I was pretty impressed with Fast-trac...

Am taking break from Bangalore for around 3-4 months and traveling to 'aamchi' Mumbai city tomorrow!! This is for business reasons and I hope everything goes fine...Hope to have lot of masti there! :)) C u blr...Hello Mumbai!

In my company, there is a practice of giving away awards for the individuals and teams, depending on many criterias...2 weeks back, the awards was announced for the Q4 '06 where my project (and the team) got the award for 'Quality delivery and Execution Excellence'!! Given this, last week our salary reflected the award amount of 50USD to each person!!! :D Yday, we received individual certificates for this achievement!! Cert seems good ya...pretty thick paper used and suitable to enclose in a frame...:))

On sunday, I was feeling damn bored in the house and thought I will check-out some books [as my free time fave is reading, reading and more reading...whatever I can grab, I read it...:)] So, I went to one of my fave shops in Gandhi Bazaar (Sri Book World) and was looking for some interesting titles when this book ' Leadership and Self-Deception ' by Arbinger institute caught my eye... Looked fine with good information (kind of self-help) and hence it went to my bag... Have started reading it...pretty interesting and knowledgeable...:)

Click on the link (above title) to read thru the article... My opinion goes on the same line as this article... Adding more to this, I can tell that by the end 0f the day, it is we, the middle class (real) Bangaloreans who suffer...Even though I am in IT industry I will say this... By god's grace, 2 years back, I bought a independent house in one of the good old locality of Bangalore...this was one of my dream, a dream to fulfill the dream of my parents! Now I pay 50% of my take-home pay towards the home loan!!! The time I purchased the house was the time when the landprices were rising day after day...to give a picture, when I bought, the landprice in my current locality was Rs.1300/- per sq.ft...now, after just 2 years, it is Rs. 3000~3500/- per sq. ft!! Now imagine, could my parents, hailing from a very much middle class family and having 2 children to take care afford to buy a house at this rate?? Am not boasting that I have bought but given the current scenario, there are lot...