Interviewing the King.....

Interesting article by BBC Correspondent John Simpson on one of his most difficult interviews ever with the Saudi King.

Read it here

Song Today: Jalta hai jiya mera bheegi bheegi raton main

Integrity Lost.......

Read this news on CNN-IBN.

This reminds me of one of the posts earlier by Rathi, where he writes:

zameer marta hua kisne dekha, marne ke daam mile to kya nahin bika...

How impotent can we get, this guy forgot about his kid, wife family, to save some lives, some people whom he doesn't even knew, and in the process lost his sight and one ear, only to receive a medal of honor from the Government... oh I forgot and a promise from the Govt to reimburse all the expenses that would be spent on his treatment , but today it is 2 years since he has been running from door to door, only to receive insults and some more false promises, wait a minute did I just wrote "insults" yes this is the word that is used in the news on the website, well I dont really know the source or the authenticity of this, but if anybody from the government has insulted this true Indian, then he needs to be hanged in Public.

I just hope that he gets his share of money from the Government after this news... sometimes the media is actually good!

Song Today: O meri Jaan....
Film: Life in ... a metro

Jab We Met

Saw Jab We Met yesterday, so here goes my review

I went to the movie theater thinking that a movie with Kareena and Shahid... hmmm I shouldn't expect much out of it, but I was wrong, apparently its a pretty nice movie. By the way for those who don't know , its a movie by the director of Socha Na tha... and that was an highly underrated movie.

Now coming back to Jab we met. The movie starts a little painfully with Shahid not opening his mouth for about 5-7 minutes (as he was ditched by a girl) and that starts to become irritating. And then enters Kareena, well at this point of time too I found the movie painful as she just kept chatting like a chatterbox.... but eventually you get tuned to it and starts liking it. The director has picked the star cast pretty carefully, Kareena who overacts in a number of movies doesn't seem to be doing that in this movie, as her role requires that. On the other hand Shahid has acted brilliantly, his facial expressions, his role of a young industrialist.

Watch the film for fun and you will like it, please do not try to go into facts like "this doesn't happen in corporate world" and "This is no way to run a company " as the film is not about that. Again the director like his previous movie has captured the indecisiveness in love of an individual pretty well. The movie is emotional but then too it doesn't get painful, there are some really hilarious moments too in the movie. Apart from this the Punjabi Culture and Sardars are shown well in the movie. Songs are good except the slower ones, at one time they just come back to back, so at that time maybe you can go out and grab a popcorn.

Overall a good movie I would give 4/5

Disclaimer: I liked this movie probably because I didn't expect much from a Shahid and Kareena movie. ;-)

Song Today: Tum Jo mil gaye ho....

Singer: Mohd. Rafi

Experiences with running - 4

One more weekend passed, and I am guilty that I didn't go for the RFL runs on both the days :-( I have been a bad boy lately just wanted to sleep little longer on the weekends... but this is hampering my running schedule so one decision made this weekend is no partying on the weekends and religiously getting up at 5:30 am and going for a run to Cubbon park on Saturdays and on Sundays for the RFL run!

However I ran with Nitin in and around Koramangla on Saturday, we covered around 10 - 11 Kms. Yes you are right this was a justification to overcome the guilt :P

Bangalore Marathon is announced as well, its on 9th December 2007, and the bangalore Ultra is on 16th December, i.e the very next week. So I have to be more sincere towards running.....

Chalo would tell about the success of my decisions made this weekend!

Song Today: Roz Roz aankhon tale
Film: Jeeva
Music: R.D. Burman

Tags....

I have been tagged by Pheonix. Now here comes the tough part, I have to write about five things, that I am fond of and then add adjectives to it as well! The example given in the original post: My super cool super fast car....I wish I had a red-coloured super cool super fast car.

Hmmm this is tough what am I fond of, so the list goes like this:

1. My azure Grey Swift....but my dream car is a Volkswagon Passat... ya I know thats too high a dream ;-) well I would rather lower my choice of the dream car on second thoughts and that would be a Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia :-P so that is more practical now.

2. Good friends... but I have lost many of them or maybe its that I think too hard, people are practical in relatioships but I am not, I guess its high time I need to be.

3. Parents and the most loving younger sister in this whole wide world, well I think I cant ask for more here... that would be too greedy!

4. The running stamina that I have developed in the last one year... but I would really want to do cycling like Lance Armstrong or run Ultra marathons like Paula Radcliffe. Ok the latest materialistic item of desire is the Polar RS 200sd Heart Rate Monitor (that is a gadget used in running for telling the heart rate, the distance and the speed!)

5. I take things really seriously at times, maybe I need to take a chill pill, and this chill pill I need to take more often now!

wooosh so done! well Thanks Pheonix you actually made me sit down and think about a lot of things! Probably a good self analysis is done today! :P

Song Today: Jalta hai Jiya mera bheegi bheegi raton main......

Meaning...

Everybody used to ask me the meaning of my name "Shantanu" and I always used to give the excuse "he was a king" coz I never knew the meaning.

Today Finally I found out! The credit goes to Google Blogsearch and Shantanu Rao.

The meaning is:

Shantanu: "the child of controlled passions"

hehehehehe Now I know the meaning

Song Today: Dil se re...
Film: Dil se..

Trip to "Wonder La"

Now don't laugh at that name , I know you are holding your stomach and laughing on me, that how can I go to a place named "wonder la". you haven't seen the logo of this place, now after this I am sure that you will start rolling on the floor. See this:




I got a call from an old school friend on Saturday night with the invitation to "Wonder La" well I was never keen on going to this part of Bangalore, the reason being I thought that I have long surpassed the age to visit these silly amusement parks (specially which has a silly looking monkey on their logo!). But then I thought that as it is I don't have any plans for Sunday so maybe I can try it. I reached "Wonder La" at around 11:00 am and we got the tickets and moved inside, only to find that atleast the entrance and the changing rooms are jam packed.... no the number of kids was very less as compared to the number of people of my age! I was pretty surprised to see so many people there as it is pretty far from Bangalore (around 30 KM). So here goes my review of the place:

Pretty nice place, the rides are good and some are pretty scary, the water park is the best part, and it is clean as well (which I never thought that it would be). They have watter osmosis plant, and a Laboratory for the water quality checks as well. Yes you are right I am those type of persons who want to bug people to the limit, and so I visited this laboratory and found the quality checks done there to be of awesome. I didn't believe myself when I saw the watch I ended up spending the whole day without getting bored. We returned Bangalore at around 6:00 pm and we were dead tired, and hungry as well... grabbed a pizza at Domino's.

So this was a short account of my visit to "wonder la". I know you are still laughing.... but believe me this is a nice place.

Song Today: Bol na Halke Halke...
Film: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Sheeshe ke Gharon main rehne waale........

This news item on BBC reminded me of an old saying " Sheeshe ke Gharon main rahne waale doosron par pathar nahi fekte" now the same fire is burning inside Pakistan , over 250 people died in separate incidents of clashes, and on the other hand our news channels failed to report all these.....

I guess they are still busy tracking the Shahid- Kareena Slipt and on the other hand campaigning for their new movie! Its high time all you responsible journalists..... stop making money and start reporting honestly

Song Today: Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam...
Film: Kagaz ke Phool

A chaotic Weekend... Thanks to our responsible Netas

Ek aur weekend gaya, kuchh khaas nahi kiya.
Saw Resident evil on Friday, and found it to be pathetic movie, looked like more of a comedy movie...
Saturday morning was exciting went for running with the RFL guys at Cubbon park, did around 10 Km
Shaam ko Pawan and the Joel gang ke saath party kari.....
I was planning to go for a run on Sunday early morning (as early as 5:30 am), but then I don't know why I ditched the plan, maybe wanted to sleep till late on Sunday.
Sunday der tak soya, fir breakfast / Lunch Koshy's par kiya, mera favorite Fried Eggs and toast!

par boss sunday ko Bangalore traffic ki lagi hui thi, There was some silly demonstration by the BJP supporters at Chinnaswamy stadium, and you could see the nuisance monger Netas all around the place. As a result of this the traffic was in a bad shape, lot of roads were blocked in and around MG Road, it took us approximately 30 minutes to come on the right track as the one way we were supposed to take was blocked because of this manace.

This is a big irony in India, we elect these illiterate fools (pronounced Netas) and after winning the elections they eat up our money (tax payers), I don't know how many of these Netas pay their taxes. Spoil the roads (by carrying out these processions) and create all sorts of problems for us (the Sunday traffic EXAMPLE). The junta really need to think and then vote......

Came back home and slept again, itna traffic ke baad aur kuchh jaan hi nahi reh gayi thi!

Song Today: Zindagi jab bhi teri bazm main
Film: Bazar

Calvin !