Had a go at Photography in New York the last few days. Brilliant Place for taking photographs in the night. One thing I badly missed was a Tripod. Here are some of the shots I managed and oh yeah I too Heart NY.
I know many would get friend request as they would get spam mails but this one was funny. A person, supposedly from hyderabad wants to be my friend (god knows why?) as I'm sure I don't know him, neither does he know me and also says "Be my Fan and I'll be yours". Now someone give me one good reason to do that :P and oh talking about spam mails or should I say misdirected mails, I've got some really funny ones.
The cons of having a common Indian first name and having that common Indian first name as your email address with a popular email service provider.
One girl declaring her love.
One lady who thinks she's sending forwards to her son.
One guy abusing me for not keeping in touch with him.
One guy asking me how my kids are doing ??
One guy telling his life history without bothering to find out the correct email address.
Many Namesakes registering on different websites and conveniently giving my email address.
It was one the greatest nerve-wrecking tennis match I've ever seen. I did not miss one point of this game. Well the title of this post would definitely tell that I am an ardent fan of Rafael Nadal. Though I had predicted that french open and wimbledon could go to federer and nadal respectively this year, only one happened and that too in a very very tough way. I love seeing these two play. These two guys dominate the tennis world. A thoroughly deserving win for Nadal and my sympathies with the Federer fans. But what a match!!!!!!
I so wanted to see the "Worlds greatest dance show" and finally managed to see it at the Nokia theater in Grand Prairie. The show is Micheal Flatley's "Lord of the dance". The sad part is I could manage only the upper level tickets and was quite far away from the stage. I'd seen video's of lord of the dance before and the sequence/choreography has not changed a bit . Well I think thats the way it works, like a hit movie playing again and again. The stage setup was actually a let down when compared to the show at hyde park, London.The show I think was performed by troupe 2 of the 4 troupe's lord of the dance have. I love the songs composed by Ronan Hardiman and my favorite is "Siamsa".The dancers were all colorful for this song and I've recommended this song to friends before cause this definitely is a "feel good" song. Overall it was a nice show, nice music and a nice experience of seeing Irish Tap dancing live.
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Managed to visit some nice places in spring break. My friends adjudged that I was the one who utilized spring break to the fullest :D. Firstly it was the breathtaking Grand Canyon in Arizona with a set of friends and then ended it with Sunshine Florida.
I happened to see the Simon Cowell interview by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear and I started to wonder what humor is all about. They were just trying to outsmart each other by making puns and hurtling wisecracks on each other. My verdict was most of them have a good laugh when others are victims, either victims of a prank, wisecracks/sarcasm or hurt themselves in some awkward way or embarrass themselves. Also most of jokes aired on TV are stereotyped or Slapstick Jokes.Supposedly many see American Idol just to hear Simon Cowell insult contestants and would love to get insulted by him. In an interview he says he’s helping them, now whatever that is :D.
Here are some of the insults that I thought of. Nothing personal, just to provide some comic relief and most of them may have been inspired. Have a good read and please excuse the use of expletives.
Me and a Friend decided on visiting Sea World at San Antonio this thanksgiving week. Though the temperatures in the US are dropping and getting really cold this did not deter me from visiting this place and I love wildlife ( not exactly wild in this case ), so there I was. First up I visited the beluga whale and pacific white sided dolphin show called Viva!! which had some really talented Acrobats and trainers performing and then we visited the hilarious sea lion show. The main attraction at Sea World is Shamu's Believe and its a treat to the eyes to watch these magnificent Orca's perform. I've seen Orca's in the wild when I went whale watching but this is where I could actually see how huge and beautiful these Killer whales are.
Also there was an interesting discussion among me and my friends, where a friend said its better for them here since they are taken care of like babies but I wouldn't totally agree with that. I feel they are better of in the wild but all the whales and dolphins in Sea World are either bred or purchased from other parks and would have seen Humans from their birth so they have become a part of the performers family. As long as they don't get animals from the wild and then train it to perform it should be fine.
This place is a must visit if you're in San Antonio.
I saw Beowulf in 3d recently, it’s a movie which you can easily avoid even though Angelina Jolie is nude in it and the girls get to ogle at the Ray Winstone’s six pack (thanks to the six pack fad that seems to have been ever so popular after 300), even this cannot be much of an incentive as they are animated :D. Its got some slapstick humor, sexual humor and some good quality animation but none of this can save the movie. You’ll start getting bored in the middle and will start feeling the movie is too long. The movie does not grip you at any point of time. To top it all the movie’s ending gives you a hint that there might be a sequel following up and that’s something you can have a good laugh about.
Also a note to all who have been watching "Heroes": Its all getting "Lost" ( Too many characters, Too many stories to tell, Too many twists, Too many deceptions )
Losers, I still cant believe you are reading this sh*t . This is the worst movie that I have ever seen, please don't go see it. Well if you give me a donut I might just reconsider my stand. Must watch the movie .... (drooling for the donut), Must watch the movie .... ( Drooling again )
So effing ( yeah I was forced to use this version of the f word ) hilarious. One of the best satirical comedy movies that I've ever seen. A Must watch ( again for the donut only :P ). The guy below is Nithimpson by the way, he's a newB (new boob ) in springfield.
Last weekend me and a few friends decided on visiting Corpus Christi and South Padre island. Its about 9 hours drive from Dallas. We decided on leaving late in the night as we could catch the sun rise at Corpus Christi. It was a nice sight to see the sun rise at this beach. This was a serene beach but had a lot of sea weeds washed ashore. In fact the entire coastline is facing sea weed problems. We played football and frisbee near the beach and headed towards South padre. The fly over which you would take to reach South padre is an amazing view cause there’s Sea on both sides. We also saw one of the favorite American pastimes, fishing. That night we camped on the beach and I slept, listening to the waves singing me a lullaby. It was a wonderful experience sleeping on the sand, seeing the stars and listening to the waves. The next day it was football on the beach again and then we headed for para-sailing. The ride to para-sailing boat was very rough as the winds very pretty strong. Para-sailing was an Amazing experience. Noises are muted, the sea below your feet, the minute buildings on the shore, the pleasant wind blowing across and a bird eye view of the island. I would suggest para-sailing to anyone at any beach. It was wonderful weekend worth all the while.
I also discovered the live version ( from the album of alchemy ) of Sultans of Swing from Dire Straits which has an amazing lead and I kept listening to it again and again in the car stereo.
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I’m not sure how famed Switchfoot are worldwide but they have a pretty huge fan following in the US. Without having heard them before I searched for some of their songs/videos and I did like some of their songs or you could say I started liking their songs. I just love listening to live music so the decision of going to the concert was made even before I had heard to their songs.
They played their popular numbers “Meant to live” ( which is also a part of the Spiderman 2 soundtrack), “Stars” (which has a very catchy guitar riff), “Dare you to move” and “ We are one tonight” . The lead singer Jon Foreman was so full of energy, he was jumping around and especially for the song called “ Oh! Gravity ” and rightly so. They also performed a “statue” where everyone froze themselves in whichever positions they were in, for one of their songs and it looked real neat ( See Photo #2 ).
It was a good concert to attend which I thoroughly enjoyed and I recommend their songs to all the alternative rock listening ears.
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Can you be happy if you lose a million dollars ? Yes you can!!. I came across this very impressive talk in TED talks. I started watching TED Talks thanks to yodha . Harvard Professor Dan Gilbert talks about Synthetic happiness.
Generally everyones Happy when they get good grades, a raise, a promotion etc etc but what if you don’t get it, can you still be happy ? Yes you can. I’m not saying your laid-back attitude will make you happier, it might just end up making you really unhappy. Its the effort and the positives that were involved that will make you happier and ultimately the results will also begin to tilt in your favor.
He also mentions “More the choices you have more are the chances of you being unhappy” and this I’ve observed in simple cases like ice cream flavor selection. You’ll end up liking the flavor your friend chose or you will be thinking “I should have gone for another flavor”.
If happiness can be synthesized then why not go ahead and do it. It maybe the differentiation in your mind between “Synthetic” happiness and “Real” happiness that makes it a little difficult to synthesize happiness. Its like proclaiming “I’m synthetically happy now” which actually means you are not happy. The process of synthesizing happiness should be finished without you even realizing it and thats when you can be “Happy” and this skill is one everyone would like to expose. Expose because everyone has it in them.
How do you discover music ? Most common modes are friends, television, radio and of late online radio. I came across this online radio station called Pandora. I loved this online radio station not because they play the songs you’ve listened to your entire life but they suggest you music from some unheard bands ( at least for me cause my knowledge on bands is not so vast ) which is very close to your genre of music and trust me you'll love their suggestions. Pandora allows you to create your own music station/stations based on your search, the search could either be for an artist or a song. The GUI of pandora is enticing too and the advertising is done very creatively. Know more about Pandora here. The only disappointing thing is, Pandora is currently for US listening only.
I would not want to draw any comparisons but the other radio station in which i would like to see this feature of “getting your customized radio station” is Radioverve. Radioverve is doing their bit for discovering indian music. Maybe I’m not too much of a thrash/death metal fan and thats the reason why I would like this feature in Radioverve. I do appreciate the bands which play these kind of music, the fans and radioverve for playing them but its just that i personally prefer music which is more of progressive/soft rock and fusion so I'm compelled to switch the radio station when death/thrash metal music is played but most of the time I'm hooked on.
These two radio stations have just made my music more portable
Whenever you are stressed out please do drop in to listen to this song. These guys sing like everyone's listening and dance like ...hmmm i have no words to explain
The problems with i-pod just seem to be compounding for me.
The Video i-pod problem : First it started when i labelled a video as a "TV show" in itunes and then added it to my video i-pod. Though the video's were present in the i-pod, the tv show list which was there initially had disappeared and there was no way i could play these video's. The only other option i had was to play the tv shows under the movies list (by categorising them as movies in i-tunes) or create a new playlist called Tv shows. I checked up the i-pod discussion forums and this was the only resolution i got.
The i-remote problem : Whenever i place the i-pod nano in the i-pod dock the remote works fine but if i place another i-pod (the video one) the remote does not work. Maybe there's a solution for this one but i'm yet to find it out cause i rarely use the dock to listen to music.
The i-pod nano problem : There was a power outage when i had connected the nano to the computer and "Do not disconnect" was being displayed even after unplugging the usb cable. Then i reset the ipod and it was back to normal. Just when i was beginning to think everything's okay, i realised itunes could not recognise the i-pod and the "Do not Disconnect" message is constantly displayed and the backlight is always ON. I searched up in the apple store for some resolutions and they recommended the 5 R's, which i tried but still the problem exists. I've got to make a trip to the apple store in some time i guess.
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