Cell History

My cell is very important to me. It’s that simple. I don’t care what anyone else has to say about it. In the beginning (around the time when color screens were a rarity), it wasn’t. I only used it for making calls but ever since I got DSL (which…like everything else in my life…I assure you was quite quite late), it changed. Its my PC when I am away from the PC. It is my technological Swiss army knife of sorts. This here is a record of all the phones I’ve used so far.

Unteachable

There are things you do not forget even when you do forget them. No no I’m not being daft. Some things you forget for only a little time and then they come back with a vengeance to you. I am maybe 10 years old. I am sitting with my mom and sisters watching this Anil Kapoor movie. In it, his family falls into deep financial trouble and to do something about it, he tries like hell to get a job but no matter how hard he tries it just doesnt work out for him. He is the youngest son in the family and no one expects him to get a job or even cares enough to know that he’s finding one. He says one day to his mom “Mein manager banun ga” (hindi translated “I will become a manager”). Some two hours of other stuff and ponsy dilly dally songs later right at the end of the movie, he sells his kidney (forgetting his passion for football in the process), gets a lot of money and his family appreciates what he has done. The last shot is of him being under

There ARE no Happy Endings

One impact of paying too much attention to games & movies is that I tend to over think everything. One of overzealous friends would probably say that I’m turning into some sort of vampire or something. This blog is one of the main results of my continuous over thinking.
Some games out there have excellent loading screens. Sooo good that I make screenshots of them & have them in my games folder. So far these have included Max Payne, Hitman, etc. I distinctly remember one of these belonged to a chapter called “There are no happy endings” & I can’t help but think how true that is. When you read a story, more often than not it always ends with “& they lived happily ever after” but that would never ever happen.
In some John Cena movie (which had a redundant plot of course), his character doesn’t wait for

Games Played

A million years ago, playing games helped to keep me alive. Maybe that is why I still love playing them (or maybe I’m just another geeky guy)…this here is a list of games that I’ve played completely in my entire life (as far back as I can remember)

Currently playing:

Bioshock 1 (PC)
Fear 3 (PC)

Total No. of Games Completed (regardless of platform or No. of Times Played) : 70.

Completed Games (in random order) :
KEY:
Playstation 1 : (PS)
Playstation 2 : (PS2)
Computer : (PC)

01. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2)

02. Prince of Persia 3: The Two Thrones (PS2)

03. God of War 1 (PS2)

04. God of War 2 (PS2)

05. Splinter Cell 2: Pandora

Books Read

I’ve always wanted to subscribe to a library but somehow just haven’t been able to. On the E71 & the E72, I used “Mobipocket Reader” and then on the Galaxy S2, I use “iReader” to read most of the books that I really wanted to read. Here are the “worlds” I have immersed myself into so far:

CURRENTLY READING : Laurell K. Hamilton – Vampire Hunter [10] Narcissus in Chains.

Finished :

01. Aesop – Aesop’s Fables.

02. Bram Stoker – Dracula.

03. Eleanor H. Porter – [01] Pollyanna.

04. Eleanor H.

Cars Driven

The car is an amazing piece of technology. It is something that no matter how much our anyone complains about will always continue to be somehow a means around which our lives are based.

Since, I got my license on July 23rd ’09, I thought I will make a record of all the vehicles I’ve driven.

Very few people in this world ACTUALLY know how to judge cars. Just thinking that you know everything the car does NOT mean that you understand it’s character. I thought I could judge a car’s character, I was

The Line that is Grey

As far as I can remember, majority of the movies I’ve seen have a very firm distinction of the morality of people in it. There are the good people & there are bad people. The hero is good & the villain…well he’s called a villain for a reason after all. After life, like most of the things that were taught to me, the truth turned out to be completely different. What the hell do you do when you know you are right about something and the other person is right as well? Who triumphs over who then?
Suppose there is a poor guy who has three kids & he steals money to

Shallow or Normal?

One day I was playing one of the best games in this world called GTA San Andreas. In case you don’t play games, then let me tell you that in that game, whenever you sit in a car in the city, the radio turns on and it has one of the funniest and most interesting ads I’ve ever heard. One of them goes somewhat like this…”I’ve was having trouble with my life, taking care of my kids all the time, working around the house and sick of all the problems in life when I went to

That Elusive Mistress called Maturity

Hmmm..what mysterious funny coincidence. I think I’ve mentioned before on this blog of mine that I use a full screen writing software called WriteMonkey that displays on the text you type. When it starts, a small box comes as a splash screen which has some funny saying on it. When I opened to write it this time,  it said, “You can be young only once but you can

Does Uniqueness Lie Behind Us?

I am an extremely avid watcher of the car program called ‘Top Gear’. In that, they have a section called ‘Top Gear Cool Wall’. Its divided into sections of Seriously Uncool, Uncool, Cool & Sub-zero in that order. Now this does not have anything to do with the car’s handling, performance or anything. What it is about is how cool the car is. For example, every Austin Martin is cool but a Toyota Corolla is just as cool as a goat’s tail. A car is also cool/uncool if a rich celebrity buys it. However, if it is driven by some rich berk who likes to play golf then it as cool as a dumpster. Hopefully, you understand it.
Anyhow, so one day, they are like all the really fast cool cars are