A big change.. For me..

For now, that is all…

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Oh more than a day.. I went without my cell for a week. And it was quite a good experience. No calls to disturb, no spam, just free..

I want to repeat that sometime soon again.. Perhaps soon

I don't know. Never got around to finishing it. It started getting deep into religion and philosophy and so I sort of tuned it out.

That is one of the very few books that I've started and never finished.

Another is Atlas Shrugged. BOring book. Could not get past 50 pages of the book.

But I guess the worst was Catch 22. Could not get past even half a page. Does that even count as starting?

Elijah wood of LoTR fame is featured in this music video. While the song is nice, the video itself is surreal with Wood and others doing a weird little dance with a straight face

How The Day Sounds from Miky Wolf on Vimeo.

Felipe Massa just lost the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship in the last 5 seconds of the last lap of the last race of 2008. And all due to another driver.

What a heartbreak. Now Lamilton is going to be insufferable. Even more than he is!

Augh.. But Vettel is my new hero. And Kubica too for his last lap stunt.

I was praying so hard for Vettel to not slip and not give up his position. And the entire last lap, my heart was beating as if I’d just run a race. I actually measured it too D:

Some people are going to go watch The Dark Knight at 3 AM in the morning. Not me cos I just finished watching it.
My thoughts on The Dark Knight below (Warning: Definite spoilers)

Two words: It rocks. And hard.
The movies is deeper, darker and longer than Batman Begins. The story is much more complex and the joker is much harder to deal with. In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne had to reconcile with his parent’s deaths and learn to be the man in the mask; in The Dark Knight, he has to choose whether to continue or whether to give up the fight so that Harvey Dent can capture the criminals “legally” and hence not put innocent bystander’s lives in peril.

From the movie, first the good parts:

Heath Ledger has given a mindblowing performance. The movie for me was the Joker’s than Batman’s.

Christian Bale has given a very understated performance. The conflict between Gotham’s need for Batman vs Batman giving in to the Joker’s demand and turning himself in was handled quite well by him.

Gary Oldman is good as in the last movie. Harvey Dent was done well but he was given a different origin (probably to incorporate his angle with Rachel)

The acceptable parts:
Some of the stunts and the gadgets were excessively flashy. More appropriate for a James Bond movie.

The Worst:
Whoever cast Maggie Gyllenhal as Rachel should be fired! Thank goodness we will not have to suffer bad casting for that character any further! Gyllenhal’s preening in the beginning of the movie and later characterization was exceptionally as bad. I was literally relieve when the character Rachel is killed!

Watch it, it is an amazing movie!

(Image via Why So Serious )

The Plan

• Each team consists of two members
• Each person is allowed Rs. 1000 and a back pack.
• Participants are allowed to carry extra money, but are not encouraged to use it unless they are in some deep trouble.
• Remotest village in a state is a must visit.
• Farther the distance of travel from starting point more the fun.

More information at Bigrace wiki

This would be so much fun.. But I don’t think I’m capable of doing this

For some reason, Orkut’s daily fortune (which I usually ignore) caught my eye today. It says

Today’s fortune:
You will always have good luck in your personal affairs

Yeah right!