Movies I have watched

I feel that I have been watching a lot of movies lately and I should atleast keep track of what I watch. One good use is that I now can not forget and repeat the listing -

Year 2005
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The Casino
Good fellas
A Few Good Men
ALexander
Hitch
God Father 2
Out of Reach
After Sunset
Rambo 1
Grudge
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Miss Congeniality-2
National Treasure
Good Will Hunting
Mississippi Burning


Year 2006
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Blow
A History of Violence
Pirates of the Carribean 2

Adium rocks

If you are on a Mac OS and are still wondering which chat client is a better alternative for the bothering Yahoo for Mac or the over enthusiastic iChat, then just pick Adium. Dont bother to read the reviews or start evaluation surveys and studies.... Just pick it and go have fun.

Every inch of it is customizable, which means I can decide to turn off the irritating sounds and glaring colors, and text alignments. Adium rocks !

http://www.adiumx.com/

Dr Pepper makes the world taste better

Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in the U.S. It was first made and sold in 1885 in Waco, Texas. Dr. Charles Pepper, the man after whom the drink is named.

Question: "What's in Dr Pepper? Is prune juice in Dr Pepper?"

Answer:
The formula for Dr Pepper is proprietary. It is a blend of many spices and flavor extracts. The color is supplied by caramel especially made for the product.

source: Ask Yahoo !

Remix songs

Remixes are Rebirths to Songs , with the 'Birth' part being forgotten!

War of the Worlds

Had lots of leftover tasks to do, but a steven spilberg movie, with Cruise in the lead is something that definitely no one can resist. And the time I spent watching it, putting aside my paper work for the conference - was indeed worth it, every min.

I should say it was a master's play. He is one helluva director. I have watched all of his movies, but this one just leads way at the front! A family story and sentiments amongst horrendous and breathtaking scenes with those 'awfully cute' creatures...boy! you need to be him to make movies of that kind!

Well, I bet Hindi/Telugu/Tamil movie directors would have done quite better! with all those 'Revenge taking' against the aliens scenes and the 'Saviour of the world' -invincible, mid 50s protagonist. Well thats a totally different league and I can talk at length abt them on a different post - But for now Steven spilberg rocks !

journey to Pittsburgh

i reached US yesterday. It was a very very long and the worst of the
journeys i ever had. Firstly the stay at Dubai was 14hrs and that turned a
night mare. Spending 14hrs aimlessly isnt an easy job. I was roaming over
the airport, then slept for 2hrs, then talked to a fellow passenger, then
ate lunch, then read for 2 hrs, then roamed over again, then talked again,
then ate dinner and finally after slept off...by gods grace i just got up 1
hr before the flight departure and it was really amazing, coz i wud hav
definitely slept longer. Finally got on the plane came to London. There it
was ok, the next flight was in 2hrs so not much of waiting. So i reached
Newyork. Here was another night mare. I had to wait 3 hrs for the flight to
pittsburgh and then 1/2 hr before the arrival, it started raining and
thunder storming, so the flight was delayed by 1hr. It seems the rains
ruptured the complete schedule and so after 1 hr of waiting, they said the
flight was cancelled. So went back to Service centre and took a ticket for
flight at 8 30. Then waited till 8 30 and saw that the flight was again
cancelled. So went back and waited in the long queue of service centre, by
then i had not even a single ounce of energy to argue with them. But good
souls, they gave me an accomodation in Holiday Inn hotel for that night. I
reached the hotel at 11. Took a nice bath, ate and slept by 12. Got up at 6
again and caught a flight to pittsburgh for 9 20. That got delayed and it
finally took off at 10 30. Reached here and settled down at kishore's place.
Looking out for a place to live. Might find one before july hopefully.

BTW the JET Lag has struck me so badly. Since I sleep at 2 or
so in the night when I was in IIIT, I feel very sleepy at about 4:30 or so
in the afternoon here. So still living in Indian timings. Lets see when i
get to normal.

Books after a long time!

We were off on a family trip to Shirdi. Our family only goes on holy trips! Not much of a fun although but its good that we all get to meet once in a while. I must have committed some kind of an ominous act (I do those often, but I think I had some chicken on the way to the holy place) and even the good God was annoyed with me - the result a severe painful pharyngiti caused by streptococci infection. Well, well... to be simple its a 'viral throat infection' and a fever accompanying that.

I decided to fight it myself by ignoring it and moving on. That worked for 2 days, but since I had this seminar at the DLI workshop - thats the proj I work on, I had to finish it before that and went to a Doc. That didnt work either....so after the seminar was done, I decided to spend a few days at my Cousin's place, just to have some good home food, some quality time with the TV and some rest above all. My cousin was dead against me watching the TV as that apparently strains oneself. So fine.....what else do I do....no other option I was looking all over the room just to find some time-killers. Finally I found some books ! yes BOOKS. I was never a fan of reading, as I had many other things to do. Never felt I had time to read them. But guess this was the time. I had some "Readers Digest" montly editions by my side and started out. It was great ! atleast it was a close and cool encounter with the books after a long time.

So my fellow baversites (you dont find it in any Oxfords -dont even try) and friends try reading once in a while ! Its good for health :) . Ive started contemplating on as to why watching television strains you whereas a book doesn't. Will put that in soon...