Life is…My thoughts…

So its celebration time as Slumdog has won Oscars like chocolates in a kids’ competition. Oh yes our very own A R Rahman has won 2 Oscars and that is the first time for India. It is great in so many ways. The biggest advantage i see is to Media as they have got the masala for whole of the next month (And keeping that in mind i already have almost decided to avoid TV (which in any case i already don’t watch for more than 10 minutes a day and that too is not working these days) and newspaper in coming 2 weeks, as there would be nothing to read and watch except (O)scars ).

So, once again a movie can get something only if it has got an English label attached to it. Same  is the case with Slumdog. It was made out of India and did wonders. Had the same story made by an Indian, it won’t get a single Oscar leave alone 8. What is sad about this story is that in any case all these Oscars have everything to do with the label and nothing with India. Also does it mean that nothing better than Slumdog has ever been produced in India ? Was it the best out of Gulzar & A R Rahman combo (and oh yes…how we are forgetting Sukhwinder…) ? Oh no. They have done way better than this in the past and have the potential to do way better in future. So it doesn’t make me very happy

Anyways, as everybody is celebrating, congratulations on winning the first Oscar. Jai Ho !!!

It has been close to 2 years since i have been using Dish TV. And almost everything related with it sucks except the only reason because of which i went for it that there was ETC Punjabi available here (which is not there in TataSky). The remote control, customer care, service, website everything is all crap. The biggest frustration is the website. First of all it seems to be coded by some kids doing their school project. Then the options available are placed in such a dumbo and stupid manner. Since the time i bought it, i have never been able to recharge it without getting frustrated. Zee network, enterprise of such a big size, cannot pay for a nice looking and working website. BULLSHIT !

Updated: After 10 days since i did this post, today i tried it again and its still not working.

Few days back i saw a new metal detector in my office building, just before the lift. It reminded me of my curiosity about the metal detectors. You see them at each and every place but never understand what they sound like when there is something right and what, when, something wrong ? Have always listened to their “beep-beep”  but never knowing what did that mean ?

Any ideas ?

Got a link to an amazing photograph of Obama’s inaugural speech. As the website puts it:

Here is a photo taken using a a panaroma image capturing device called gigapan created by the carnegie mellon university and a canon g10 camera.The photographer had to click 220 snaps from that camera to get this complete view of the Obama’s inaugural address. It took a macbook pro around 7hrs to process the complete image. The final size of the image is over 2GB.

Here is the link to the pic:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

An awesome concept !