Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 2:54PM Mom arrived last night, a little delayed. There was a bit of a luggage malfunction, and she wasn't sure whether her luggage was on the same flight as she was. It all worked out in the end, and she's happiliy unpacking as I type.
Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 11:04PM I watched a couple of films this weekend - Lage Raho Munna Bhai and The Protector.
One was pretty decent, and one was pretty bad.
Munna Bhai was very funny, no doubt about it. The setup is fairly close to what the first Munna Bhai film was, except this time, Sanjay Dutt starts off pretending to be a college history professor (seriously though, there are colleges that teach history in a country obsessed with Engineering & Medicine?). The thing that really ... REALLY bugged me was that about one hour into the movie, he switches to this Gandhian-crusader. The whole college setup was completely wasted. Good premise. Poof. Just like that. Pissed me off no end. But all said and done, lots of laughs and merriment all around. I also went with a bunch of Mumbai-ites (I figure I should force myself to stop calling it Bombay ... it's been what, a decade?), who were tripping out to seeing their neighborhoods and favorite hangouts on the big screen.
I wonder what it is about me and Mumabi-ites. So many of my close friends are from the state of Maharashtra. The rest live in Bangalore but are really Tam. Where are the Digas hiding?!
I watched The Protector tonight. It was ... pretty bad. Well ... some of the action sequences were amazing. Some pretty good martial arts there. But the rest of the movie is a string of badly written and incoherent scenes just acting as random filler for the movie. Which is a violation of the prime rule of a good martial arts movie (as quoted from the BloreBoy Book to Successful Martial Arts Movies). I mean, think of good martial arts movies .. take Jackie Chan movies, or Bruce Lee movies. Even the worst of the lot has decent filler scenes that put together a STORY. Is it that difficult for the Thai to do the same? This movie was supposed to be an international vehicle for Tony Jaa (martial artiste extrodinaire), and so the Oz backers probably said, "Eh let him beat some people up, make some story about elephants cos we want to have a holiday in the Thai countryside, where we can put some shrimp on tha baaaaaahbie". Depressing.
Disclaimer: Not all Aussies are thick-headed moronic stereotypes. 99.9% of the population just go about having g'days and listening to Kylie Monogue.
Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 3:16AM Got the invite to download Windows Vista RC-1, as I had signed up as part of the beta test team. It's considered pretty stable currently. I am totally installing it!
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 12:45AM 
After receiving several complaints from my father about the picture with shaven head, I've decided to update the pic ... with the character Akshay on the Thorium Brotherhood server (what can I say, I was too bored to come up with a name).
Akshay is a night-elven hunter, currently level 56 (need to hit 60 before that expansion comes out!). The picture on the right is with one of my pets, a panther called Bagheera. My other pet is a bear named Baaloo.
