The marathon continues

This week was the shortest ever I felt, I still feel the last weekend was just day before yesterday and now am in my 4th weekend. Time just flies when you keep counting weekends and not weekdays.

As usual I've been watching movies till now. I've watched 3 tamil movies and 1 hindi movie.

Madrasapattinam (Tamil) Rating : 3.5/5
This is yet another movie which has some parts inspired by Lagaan like the love between the firang girl and our desi hero and wrestling match between hero and fiance of the girl(british officer). But overall the movie is ok. The music is very good. I loved the song thaana thaana

M.Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi (Tamil) Rating : 3/5
Totally mass oriented movie. A good time pass. The comedy portion is really good. Apart from that its a regular masala drama. It's a remake of the telugu movie "Amma Naana O tamil ammayi". So in telugu the heroine,Asin, plays a Tamil girl and in this one she plays a Malayalam girl.

I Hate Luv Storys (Hindi) Rating : 1/5
Got so bored with this, but I had nothing better to do so was watching it till the end. I liked Sonam in Delhi6 but in this one she dint look that great. The story is pathetic and the comedy really sucked.

Sillunu Oru Kaadhal (Tamil) Rating : 4.5/5
This one is the best movie I've watched this weekend. It's again a love story. But the story is different. Jyotika and Surya acted really well. The music is also another highlight. It's only  after watching the movie, I discovered that it was by our Oscar winner. I loved this song "Munbe Va En Anbe", beautiful tune.

Home alone in Doha

I am back to my solitude..and ya that's when I remember my alter-ego, the unknown (aparichithudu).
Its been 3 days here in the gulf land. I am in Doha, capital city of Qatar.
For a change there were no hassles this time during the whole journey.
It's my first weekend here and I am so bored. It is almost half the boiling point outside so cant dare to get out.
I am all alone in this 2BHK flat as my other roommate has gone to India to get his visa renewed. The unsecured wifi which we shamelessly steal also connects intermittently. And naturally even though you have some pending work at office it doesnt appeal much to work on weekends.


Thanks to the pirates, got to watch 'Tere Bin Laden' and 'Kattha Meetha' online. Both were not that funny as I expected to be. But TBL was better. In Kattha Meetha I felt, the stupidity part of Akshay was dragged to much. Trisha's character was crappy. It was like any another supporting actor and not a lead role. It wasn't that impactful.


Owing to my joblessness I say(but some say narcissism) I kept myself busy with self photography.
Here are my faces with different moods.
Weak-hearted ones should strictly avoid.
Children are supposed to browse under parental guidance.

Scary faces


It is not my homesickness but this time I want to go back to India soon. I've some plans for future , If all goes well InshaAllah I will be back in 2months.

25 random things about me...

I was tagged by many to write 25 random things about me...well to get rid of my writer's block..I will give it a try
In this one I'm going to reveal the darker side of me as well..so read it with a broad mind..and don’t jump into any conclusions.......cos I'm good :)

1)I'm an Aquarian


2)I am an egoist, but I try to be as modest as possible. I don't expect to be treated as special one..and be a cynosure ... but if some one acts smart in front of me taking advantage of my modesty I get really bad.

3)I am a GOD fearing person. Every day I get up, the first thing I do is look at the photo of GOD. I do pray whenever I visit some temple. My prayer is very short. I do it in my mother tongue, " Swamy ma amma nannu nu eppudu santhosha pettali" and thats it there ends the prayer. If I have to wait longer I repeat the same thing.


5)I believe am a strong willed person. I don't like to give up on anything. I will fail but not give up. That is one reason that made me discover the long distance athlete in me. Readers, I was the 2nd best long distance runner of my college.

6)I involve myself in many activities. I play football & hockey, and did play both in my under grad and even now. I'm part of the cultural events organizing teams. I'm part of many interest groups like trading,networking,adventuring etc.

7) I'm very well connected with people over net. I use orkut, linkedin, facebook, twitter, blip,youtube, blogger, digg, interscope and bloglog.

8)I'm very shy when it comes to talking to girls. I was never lucky in having a girl friend


9)In all the testimonials I got... ppl say that I have a good sense of humor, so I believe that..


10)Currently I'm in Bangalore and I miss my bike, speakers....

11)I have this hidden desire of becoming an actor..don't mind even if it's a villain or a supporting actor..:)

12)By the time I turn 40 I would like to set up an empire...a conglomerate of companies..yes obviously not alone..with some of my bestest friends...will drag them in.. :)

13)I lost 6 lakhs in one trade last year...took sometime to recover from the shock...from then I hardly did any trading. A big lesson learnt the harder way.

14)If all went well I would have made 12 lakhs out of it. I had a plan to set up a water bottling plant along with my friend with an initial investment of 50 lakhs.

15)I can speak Telugu, Hindi, English very fluently. Understand Tamil and speak a little. Can speak a little of Arabic and French. Currently learning Kannada and Bengali.I did a course in Japanese

16)I'm always ready to give free fundaes to anyone. I know there are a lot of people out there who have been victimised by my unsolicited tips/suggestions/ideas/advice


17)I once said that I'm secular by heart. Let me tell this. I used to love the Namaz(Salath) read out when I was there in Saudi. And many times I used to recite along with it.

18)I have this weakness, which is getting worse. I can't explain things in crisp. I'm so used to writing the long globe answers that I end up writing too much for even the silliest of the questions.

19)Don't even dare to ask me the story of the movie I watched. I will narrate the whole screenplay for u giving u the actual feel of the movie. I can't help it. I can't even cut it short.

20)I don't like to drink tea, coffee, milk and any fizz.

21)My academic interests are Mathematics, Statistics, Economics(lately discovered) and Finance.

22)My other interests are traveling, social networking, blogging, playing computer games and sketching.

23)In Hollywood I find Kiera Knightley and Scarlett Johansson very beautiful, In Tollywood I like Charmy :D..just recently..



24)Of the books I read some books which I really liked were Iacocca and Wings of Fire

25)Some movies which I can watch again and again without getting bored are Life is beautiful, Shawshank Redemption, Pursuit of Happyness, Sarfarosh…






Huh!.. 25 is too small a number to write about me. I wrote them randomly and there is no logical flow of the points.


Note:- I've no intentions to steal the images, infact I've used the links giving credit to the owners of the images. If any of the creators have any issue please let me know I'll remove the image.

A funny bengali song

This was taken on one of those bumpy taxi rides on the roads of kolkata outskirts. I found the song very funny. It will be a great favor if some one could let me know what this song is.

Slumdog Millionaire

Ok since this is the talk of the town, I don't want to miss out on the network traffic.
This is what I've got to say about this movie.
I'm no expert in analyzing movies, I like almost all movies as long as the print is good(damn the cam prints :D) and it is intellectually stimulating :D

I think Slumdog is a strategic mix of all selling points.

The core concepts of the movie are "rags to riches concept", "happy ending love concept and, "poverty,slums & child labor, winning the votes of human activists"
All of them individually have been USPs for various blockbuster movies. Danny Boyle has strategically fit them and scripted this successful movie which went on to be nominated for Oscars.

Thaa naanaa thana nanna naaa

I saw three really bad movies this night. And the worst part was that all of them were back to back!

12:00 am

1) Chandni Chowk to China..

How can actors like akshay accept to do such highly illogical movies. After having acted for so many years cant they imagine what the audience would undergo while watching this kind of movie. 

The songs are really sad. There is no funny incident in the movie. Just cos Mithunda acted they tried to portray him as bigger hero. This movie should be rated as a B grade movie.

I know that bollywood and logic never go together so then decided to watch an english movie.

2:00 am

2)18 Year Old Virgin..

In simple words, It's about a girl who wanted to get laid by anyone in a party. It's supposed to be a comedy movie but there is no scene in the movie which is worth mentioning as a funny scene. This was another boring movie.

3:00 am

3) Keka (Tolly wood movie)

I wasnt feeling sleepy so wanted to check out this movie. Gave up on bollywood and Hollywood so selected this new Tollywood flick. This one was worse than the first 2. I felt so pathetic after watching this movie that I felt like throwing up

I've decided that atleast for the next one month I'll not watch any movie.

I made a mistake, I should have checked the reviews before watching the movies.

Now I'll continue watching Malgudi days,which I downloaded today afternoon. I think this one is hazaaaaaaaaaaaar times better than all those shitty movies I watched.

"Thaa naanaa thana nanna naaa"

2005 The year in retrospect

To all my readers(are there any????) , I wish you all a Happy New Year, hope all your wishes come true at least this year.

The last post I wrote was 3 months back, the reason being I had nothing to write about. The last few days my life was routine, boring and I was too lazy to write something.
I actually forgot my blogspot user id and password, huh! after some n number of trials finally cracked it.

For a change I felt this year was bit lengthy unlike 2005, as mentioned in this post , cos I was jobless most of the time.

Jan 2006:- I hate this month always, cos of the Cat results, seriously a worst way to start a year. As expected my cat got f*ked. I put 47 perc in Verbal [:O], I had actually attempted all 2 markers (was greedy ;) In DI put 95 perc, Quant 99.** and total was 95.*. I felt bad cos that was the first time I prepared bit seriously but my bad luck was too good. In the same month my Santa Claus, Anurag, came to India. He got a lot of goodies and chocs. I got my camcorder (Samsung SC D353).

Feb 2006:- The shortest month.
Again a reminder about my birthdays, you may gift me any thing from my wish list. I started experimenting my new camcorder, took few videos and I’ve them posted at www.youtube.com. Apart from that I don’t remem doing anything interesting in that month.

Mar 2006:- Our team (about 20 odd people) went to Mount Opera for team outing. It has got a lot of water sports. It’s a nice place to freak out.
Praveen Pinto, my closest friend at office, and I went to Chennai as he had to attend his interview at LIBA for his MBA program. Then I went to my coll, IIT M, just the day after Holi. Stayed in one of my juniors room. The same day whole evening I was treating my juniors, got sloshed, we boozed till 3 in the morning.

Apr 2006:- Fools month. I remem watching 3 movies, highest in a single month in my whole life. “Humko Deewane Kar Gaye”,” Pyare Mohan” and “Ice Age 2”. All of them at PVR, Hyderabad Central.

May 2006:- I can never forget this month. May 11th in particular when sensex crashed badly. Thanks to one great personality, whom I happened to meet during my Chennai trip, on whose suggestion I bought a huge lot of one stock. I actually sold all my stocks and just bought this one. I bought it at an average price of 92 and now its current market price is 63. I sold the whole lot for losses and incurred about 30k lossL. That’s when I learnt never ever go blindly on some one’s suggestion, u need to do some homework before investing.

Jun 2006:- Praveen pinto left as he got admission in LIBA. Right from the first day till the last day we rarely discussed something technical...throughout the breaks we used to discuss about shares, business, mba etc. So missed him a lot.
Jul 2006:- I started going to gym. This time I was bit serious unlike every time, when I used to join gym and leave in a week. My weight then was 75kgs.

Aug 2006:- This was my last month in the project. I was in this project for almost 2 years. This project is more like a 2 yr jail term cos once a person gets into this project he’ll get released only after completing 2 years. I am the only guy who enjoyed the whole 2 yrs. Frankly speaking I never worked more than 3 hrs a day. My work used to start only when stock market gets closed. But those 3 hrs I used to work efficiently so could finish all assignments on time.

Sep 2006:- Unallocated. I was on bench the whole month. My daily schedule was like this. I used to come to office at 2-3pm ,check mails, put follow up mails to our resource allocation team, leave at 4pm to gym and then used to call it a day. This was the time I was bit serious about work outs. I increased the time from 1hr a day to 2 hrs. My work out schedule was like this.
Monday: - Shoulders, triceps and abs + cardio
Tuesday: - Biceps, Chest and abs + cardio
Wednesday: - Thighs, calves and abs + cardio
Thursday: - Shoulders, triceps and abs + cardio
Friday: - Biceps, Chest and abs + cardio.

Oct 2006:- Increased my work out time to 3hrs a day. I had no other work at office other than working out at gym. And anyone of my friends who used to come to meet me, they used to come directly to gym. I was more regular than our gym coach. My weight then went below 70kgs. I was very happy about that. I remem running 5kms in 25 mins which was my best post IIT period. During my final year my best was 18min 30 sec, which I can never achieve.

Nov 2006:- I was on holiday for whole of the month. Thanks to my new project. Btw people my new project is an onsite project and the location is Saudi Arabia. We were told that we were confirmed for this new project and we have to fly to Delhi only on Nov1st evening and till then we had no idea about where we were heading.
Day 1:
Nov2nd early morning 3 of us flew to Delhi. This trip was to get our degree certificate attested by Ministry of HRD, Ministry of External affairs and Saudi Embassy. This attestation is must for applying visa. We reached delhi at morning 6:00 and then started our search for accommodation, as the previous day was holiday at our hyderabad office we could not get acco from our company. We were told almost all hotels were booked and it’s very difficult to get accommodation. Finally we got into a hotel called Janpath close to Connaught place. This hotel is the worst I’ve ever seen. It looked more like a brothel house. We dumped our luggage there and left to get our doc attested at HRD. Finally by end of the day fought with our office people and got into our transit quarters.

Day 2: By now we were a lot familiar with the roads. The connaught place area was so confusing the first day we actually got lost. We went to MEA at tilak marg got our doc attested. There we saw India gate, Rashtrapathi Bhawan and Parliament.
Day 3: It was Saturday and we all planned to go to Agra. We saw Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura. 8 of us took an Innova and left in the early morning and returned back the same evening.

Day 4: Saw Lotus temple and Akshardham.

Day 5:- Got attestation done at Saudi Embassy and the same day evening we left to Mumbai. We were given accommodation at Andheri East.

Nov6-Nov18: - We had training on Siebel for all these days. And during this period we saw a lot of Mumbai. Some of the places we saw Gateway of India,Chowpati, Haji Ali, Maha Lakshmi temple,Bandstand,Lower parel etc.

Nov19 :- Early in the morning around 2 am left to hyderabad as I had to take CAT. Some how managed to take the exam. As usual didn’t feel like I did great. The worst part of this exam was the 5 ans options. Especially in verbal section where I face difficulty even when only 2 options are given, then you can imagine how bad my situation was. I did well in RCs and got most of them correct and all Non-RC I attempted I got wrong.
For the next 1 week I was busy with the visa application.

Dec 2005:- Left to mumbai again for the second phase of training. This time we had training at Thane office so were given accommodation at Thane. Currently am staying in the same place.

Hope this coming year will be better one for me.

From now onwards i'll keep this blog updated.

My Blog's First Birthday.

It’s been almost a month I updated my blog.
Last week I saw this movie.. “Humko deewana kar gaye”…huh a better title would be “Humko paagal kar gaye” Our hero akshay goes to Canada to do some marketing, but in one song he does welding ; I don’t understand what these directors think about the audience.. and last Saturday I saw this movie “Pyare Mohan” ..one more fully faltoo movie…worst thing was I saw both the movies at PVR….:( not worth watching them at theatre….this coming saturday am going to watch “Ice age 2”…yea at PVR

I started my GMAT prep thanks to our HRD…almost 50% reserved seats…even if they increase seats my chances are low so I gave up….so I’ll stick to my global vision…….planning to take it in October….

That’s all for now…actually don’t have anything to say…just to wish my blog for its first birthday.

“Happpy Birthday to Aparichithudu(unknown)”