Our Home Buying

We bought a new Home ! – it is a 4 year old townhome in Milpitas, CA and boy! – it does feel good to own a house. The house is 1353 sq feet, 3 stories with 2 car garages and the lot size is 1742 sq feet, which includes the back yard. I don’t [...]

Interesting movies

Normally, my luck with movies is not great, especially when I recommend it to my wife. Many of the times, the movies that I recommend tend to be “too macho”, “too much nonsense”, “too much _any_thing” – it is always difficult to get it right. It is not that I have not been lucky – [...]

Bollywood’s loss

The last couple of weeks have been bad for Bollywood, the Hindi film industry. On the 12th of January, veteran actor Amrish Puri passed away of a blood clot in his brain. Amrish Puri for me was the ONLY villian who really could send a shudder down the heart just by means of his terrific [...]

JibJab

There were a lot of people who became famous during the course of the US November elections last year – some of them became so because they were directly involved in the political fight and some because they stood outside the arena and made fun of the whole election and were satarical of the whole [...]

Video Blogs – vlogs

The popularity of Blogs is growing unabated. I had already mentioned in one of my earlier postings that the word “Blog” had topped Dictionary’s words of the year 2004. Now comes the news that Video Blogs, commonly known as vlogs, seems to carry on from where Blog left off. This is similar to Blogs excepting [...]