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Better late than never ... Alibaug Trip Photos and more

I made a 2 day trip to Alibaug in mid June ... Blogged about it in early September ... and now finally uploaded the pics of the trip in late October   I even uploaded pictures of my Metro ride and Ibn Batuta Mall visits during Diwali   All albums in my Picasa account ...  http://picasaweb.google.com/hemantkumarjain  

Double Scoop Icecream

Yesterday I was sooo bored that I changed my gtalk status message to "Hemantkumar: is bored !   Cant work , cant write, cant blog, cant think ! Complete Blank ! Bored !" A good friend of mine saw that and sent this friendly piece of advice to me : Don't get Bored, I will give u WORK Watch Out - Wake Up Sid    - If only                  - You have got mail          - Little Manhattan Take a stroll to archies galary & pick up the cards u wud like to receive.......buy 1 or 2 Pamper urself Then go n have a FEAST - eat what u feel like eating most and then buy some Garbara bunch of yellow -pink-orange & white keep it in a vase if u dont have that dont give me an excuse and put it in a water bottle and then take ur laptop Blog on this exercise   and come back to office tomorrow and change this STATUS message   Well … here is how my evening actually turned out … nothing too dramatic like the above suggestions but nevertheless enjoyable

WAKE UP SID - not a movie review ...

I saw "Wake up Sid" yesterday … Nice Movie. Konkana was as usual superb and Ranbir was not bad at all. The character of Sid by Ranbir… well played! Some of the (very small) things about the movie set of some memory sparks in my head J College – The shooting of Sid's college took place in HR College which has KC College as its neighbor, the place where I studied during my 2 years of junior college. Those few shots of the path between HR & KC (the steps over which the friends jump during the song and where Sid walks away after the results) made me nostalgic ... thinking about college days. Some of the best days of my life ..when I met my best friends. Office - The office of Anupam Kher (Sid's Father) was in Boston House in Andheri J That was where my Satyam office was from 2005 to 2008. We were the first occupants of the office structure after it was constructed in 2005. For almost a year, we enjoyed near monopoly of the elevators before the other tenants m

The Mahabharat (Movie that never got made)

A forward ... putting it on my blog for some future amusing reading for myself :)   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Team comprising of a Writer, a Producer, a Director, etc applied to the Government of India with a Script to produce a Movie on Mahabarath. They received reply to their application after 14 months. All of them committed suicide later and the reason is very obvious as you may see from the following letter received by them. Subject: Mahabharata To: The Writer, Film Director & Film Producer, Mumbai Ref: Film story submitted by you, regarding financing of films by Government of India, Your letter dt. ............ ......... . The undersigned is directed to refer the above letter and state that the Government has examined your proposal for financing a film called ''Mahabharat'. The Very High Level Committee constituted for this purpose has been in consultation with t