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2010 proved to be a year full of changes for me. Life changing changes … Marriage in May Change of Company … From Mahindra Satyam to Fujitsu Consulting … in August Change of Role … From a Consultant to a Lead … where I am leading the Business Transformation / Change Mgmt Competency and even got the role of a Manager. Change of location ... Back to Dubai in November after spending almost exactly 11 months in Mumbai… 2010 was a year of reading … lots of reading. I completed 46 books (includes 8 very short stories by Matthew Reilly, counted as 1 book) during the year. I plan to continue my reading spree in 2011 although I might restrict to select authors and more of short stories rather than 300-500 page novels unless something really exciting and unputdownable comes my way :) Saw quite a few movies in the theatre. I saw 28 in total, including the last movie of the year which I saw in Dubai. Guess the score might drop in 2011 ... since every movie outing is quite an expense i...

  1. Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud     I started reading this one in November on the way to Dubai. I did some Airport reading and a little bit of flight reading before I got distracted by the Angelina Jolie's Hollywood flick 'Salt' playing on the in-flight entertainment system. Could not read much but just got started. Continued reading in Dubai but the reading was rather slow since the initial days were busy and travel time was short & busy. Hence I was not able to complete the book in November and it overflowed into December. It was an interesting read no doubt but not something that I couldn't put down. It was not something that I could read in spite of distractions. I was easily distracted and it did not really hold my attention. For almost half the book, the story did not seem to move at all at times. It is like a very slow narration of events unfolding over a span of a few days. The story moved slowly and I had trouble completing the book. This book ...

  Yeah Yeah … only one movie this month In fact, this will be the first movie in Dubai after coming here this year. Saw this one at the Sahara Mall which is actually in Sharjah … actually on the Sharjah side of Dubai-Sharjah border … about 10 minutes walking distance from my hotel which is in Dubai :) I actually wanted to catch Band Baaja Baarat but it was no longer screening at this theatre and going to other theatre to catch it was inconvenient. So ended up wasting my money on TMK. Tees Maar Khan A good one but a disappointment nevertheless I was disappointed because I had pretty high expectations from Farah Khan. Om Shanti Om (OSO) and Main Hoon Na (MHN) were far better creations from Farah Khan. The amount of planning and creative brainstorming which must have gone into creating those movies was pretty much visible. TMK seemed like it was completed in haste with tight deadlines. The humor quotient was low. You just cant leave the humor to Akshay. We have seen his disas...

  Just yesterday I posted about rains in Sharjah and my wish was answered today !! The ground was wet in Sharjah when we came to office in the morning and I felt that I missed the rains again. BUT … it began to rain soon and I actually went out and enjoyed the drizzle !! Oh the wonderful feeling of rains … WOW !! I just love it ..  

It rained in Sharjah today early morning .... I missed it ...   Hope it rains again soon in Sharjah and Dubai and I am there when and where it does ...

  A whole lot of Rajinikanth jokes keep circulating and with every new release, there is another round of re-circulation and some new ones popping up too. Recently received an email forward with fresh ones and I really couldn't stop smiling / giggling / laughing at them. I just couldn't resist posting them her … He truly is The Boss … actually he is THE BIG BOSS !!   1.   Once a big stone obstructed Rajini's way. He kicked high in sky and now it is so called . . . The MOON   2.   Once when shooting on a beach in Tamil Nadu, Rajinikanth kicked a stone.. Now that stone is known as . . . SRI LANKA   3.   Rajinikanth participated in 100 meter race and obviously he came first... But Einstein died after watching that... Because ... . . . LIGHT came second...   4. Once Rajinikanth participated in Moto GP Bike race...... . . Don't even try to guess what happened . . . Rajinikanth won d race on neutral gear!     5.   Rajinikanth doesn...

I started visiting the GYM recently and began with 10 minutes on the Treadmill.   Yesterday I saw a guy there and asked him if he was a gym Instructor ... he said Yes.   I told him about the tyre around my stomach and askled him for specific exercises targetting the tyre.   He showed me 2 of them on day 1.   So now I am gonna try and reduce my tummy   lets see how it goes ..,