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  I saw the 9 movies in the second half (as compared to 5 in first half) taking the total score for the entire year to 14 movies in 2011.   So in effect, Along with reading, even movie watching increased in the second half of the year. The first half was like this … Jan to Mar – Zero   April - Dum Maro Dum & Scream 4 (Premiere)   May - Hanna (Premiere) & Cars 2 in 3D (Premiere)   June - Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in 3D   The second half went one like this … July – Bbhuddah Hoga Tera Baap August - Zero   September – Mausam   October - Zero   November - 4   Rockstar Immortals Ra.One TinTin   December - 3   Happy Feet 2 Mission Impossible 4 The Dirty Picture   It's the season of the sequels … 5 of the 14 movies I saw were sequels. I also missed some Some good ones.   2012 is going to be a year of many eagerly awaited sequels of Sherlock Holmes, Madagascar, Batman, Ice Age, Spiderman, The Hobbit from the Lord of...

I plan to read the following authors in 2012 … Robert Ludlum - haven't read any Ludlum in last 2 years. Have to read some this year. Devdutt Pattanaik – have read one. Now want to read more. Myth=Mithya next.   Rick Riordan – Series like Percy Jackson / Olympians / Kane Chronicles etc … have been on reading list since some time. Good time to actually start reading them. I am also planning to read more of Indian Authors . In the past decade (especially the last 5 years) a number of books written by Indian authors have been seen prominently displayed in book stores. I have already begun ordering books by Indian Authors from Flipkart, IndiaPlaza etc. Strangely, somehow I haven't even read Chetan Bhagat till date so I might just pick up some of his works too. Besides the above, I will continue to read the Sherlock Holmes stories and Three Investigator series (will complete the stories by primary authors and then move on to Fan Fiction and stories by other author...

Check out this video ...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGEJAmmJjqk Absolutely Hilarious ...  No doubt this one has to be the Best scene from a 2011 Bollywood flick     The scene is but a part of an equally fabulous movie. Few movies are better than their trailor. Pyaar Ka Punchnama (PKP) is just that. A fabulous movie, which I saw very late and that too by chance. Fantastic casting, fabulous acting, fantabulous direction .... this movie that was perfect in many ways. The actors who were incidentally 'all new' .. played their parts to perfection. I found each one of them just perfect for their roles. I couldn't really find flaws in any of their performances ... loved the movie, the actors and everything about the movie. This is one movie I could watch again and again .... (few bollywood flicks would get that from me). Kudos to the Director LUV RANJAN, the actors and everyone involved in the making of this fantastic movie - I seriously hope it gets some aw...

I have been putting series completion score along with all the Reading record posts last year, which include my completion count of the Feluda, Sherlock Holmes and 3 Investigators series. I have completed the Feluda series so I would be removing it from this score-card AND I forgot that Canon Doyle wrote 56 short stories and FOUR novellas (short novels) in the Sherlock Holmes series (I have been counting 56 only). I have also discovered MORE Three Investigators stories (almost as many as I had, making the total 3I to jump from 35 to 64) … so that score card needs modification. Also, I am adding Famous Five to this block which I plan to read in 2012. The last entry I made was  Series Completion Score (as of 31 st Dec 2011):   Feluda                         35 out of 35 – FINISH* Three Investigators     25 out of 35 Sherlock Holmes ...

Overall a very nice year as far as reading is concerned. A total of 125 stories/novels read. The high score should be seen in context since it has only about 12 full length novels, about 30 novellas (short novels) spanning about 80 pages and the rest of 83 are all short stories (20 to 40 page length – albeit in small print).   I started the year with the intent of reading the entire Feluda, Sherlock Holmes and 3 Investigators series, Well … mission accomplished for Feluda at least while I have quite some ground to cover on Sherlock and 3I. Guess I will complete them by end of 2012.   I have completed about 100 out of the targeted 125 stories of the Feluda, 3I and Sherlock Holmes stories. I also read a collection of 12 short stories titled '12 Red Herrings' by Jeffery Archer. I also read almost a dozen novels to keep some variety and bring in some change in reading genres. New authors tried and tested which include … Catherine Jinks & Devdutt Pattanaik … whi...

<Read this on FB … added my own thoughts to it too. Posted on my blog for future read and for you, who is reading it now> Before you can grow up, you must fall in love three times. Once, you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more. Once you must fall in love with someone you believe is perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as anything less than you deserve. And once, you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be. And when you're through with all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that needed you the most. But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is differen...

For years, I have been using Photoshop … BUT My skill level with PS hasn't changed much. I have stuck to the rudimentary things I knew and somehow never took enough efforts to learn more (this is in spite of the fact that I did find some material – pdf files and videos – for learning the advanced tricks of PS). One of the things I would like to put on my 2012 new year resolution things is learning a bit more of Photoshop. Want to do this so that we can take Arbit to the next level – in terms of its visual appeal etc. Want to do this for fun too … if I knew more of PS, I am sure I will find opportunities to use that skill somewhere; and I am talking of personal usage here. (And No ... I am not hinting at reducing my size/weight/girth/tummy in my photos)