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…why the BMC ( Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) waits for the festive months to start digging up roads?Come October and the absent-whole-year-through-BMC workers appear with their shovels, hoes, trucks and whatnots and start hollowing out newly laid and concreted roads, spilling their guts onto the surface. To this eyesore, add traffic jams, lengthy detours, no parking…

Reality Shows: Yes, I know they are as ‘real’ as Pamela Anderson (in)famous assets, but I still cant help being hooked onto almost every ‘Reality Show’ that comes along. Lately, I have been watching ‘Nach Baliye-3’ *I am rooting for Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda and Alex and Sweta* and ‘Jhalak Dikhlaja-2’ *Love Ronit Roy, Mini…

HR (Himesh Reshammiya, pigmented and bumpy-lipped) is a world-class singer, an ‘Indian Rock star’ who is on a concert-tour in Heidelberg, Germany. In between warding off wildly-crazed fans and singing at ‘sold-out’ concerts, the want of tickets of which are causing bloodshed all around, HR comes across his event-manager Riaa ( Hansika Motwani, pudgy and…

I love Tags! And I love being Tagged *experiences a strange sense of Deja-Vu when she says this* And when Wooster tagged me with this ‘have-to-write-and-post-in-8-hours Tag’ how could I resist? Thanks, Wooster!;))) Tag Rules 1) Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves. 2) People who are tagged, write a blog post about…

Rating * Crude boy (Abhishek Bachchan) meets Confused girl (Priety Zinta, looking really haggard) at Waterloo Station in London. Both are there to pick up their respective fiancées who are to arrive on the train from Birmingham. The train delayed by an hour forces Crude Boy and Confused Girl to get talking, and how. Audience…

The rules of this Tag: 1. Name the person (of course with the link) who tagged you. 2. Describe what you are asked to do, in this case publish 5th paragraph of page 123 of the book you are currently reading. (if the page does not have 5th paragraph, take the last paragraph. And if…

Blog-hopping one lazy afternoon, I came across Freespirit’s rather interesting blog. Spotting a Tag *my favorite weakness*, I decided to filch it off her, with her kind permission of course.Here it is.I happily Tag Iris and Anuja and am hoping they’ll oblige :)) 3 things that scare me1) Death2) Fanatics 3) Being underwater 3 people…

…who thinks Shahrukh Khan’s wax replica, recently installed at Madame Tussauds in London, looks like a cheap, plastic version of him? Not that it comes as a surprise, what with a disappointing Amitabh Bachchan and a most unlike her, Aishwariya RaiCompared to all the other perfectly cast, Non-Indian people set in wax the 3 Indians…

..the testosterone – charged, delightfully visual treat of a movie simply titled, ‘300’. Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, “300” set in 480 B.C the story is about the Battle of Thermopylae in which the King of Sparta, ‘King Leonidas’, led his army against the advancing Persians. An hour and a half of slick direction,…

…do watch the film; The Pursuit if Happyness starring Will Smith and his absolutely adorable son Jaden Smith. An inspiring, feel-good, true-life tale of a man’s struggle against heart-wrenchingly difficult circumstances. The pace of the movie is rather sluggish and the story rather predictable, but it sparkles in bits and pieces and worth sitting through…