Hmmm…

Pretty lame but couldn’t think of any other heading as of now :) Slowly and steadily, am off to preparing for my exams. Am pepped about the release of The Dark Knight

, and to some extent, of Kismat Konnection

. I am very intrigued about watching Heath Ledger’s last performance in acting, before he died of a drug overdose. That really is a pity; a fine, young actor perishing before his time. The last Batman I saw, Batman Begins, was in the iMax dome theater in Malad, Mumbai. The movie completely blew me away, and it was a whole new experience watching it on the biggest dome theater in Asia.

As far as Kismat Konnection goes, the only reason I want to see it is because of Shahid Kapur. Before conclusions of me being gay or something are drawn, the guy can act very well, dance very well and the promos look nice. I think it’s his time; when he gets a fair share of the kind of admiration he deserves. Vidya Balan on the other hand is an aunty. No dressing sense at all; she’s a perfect example of how someone’s public image can dwindle overnight (remember post Parineeta success?)

My Windows is giving me a lot of problems. Windows Vista got corrupt due to some electricity problem, which means the hard drive could not read all sectors probably. The thing I recently discovered, which kind of came as a surprise, was the fact that even if you format your hard drive, or delete stuff from the recycle bin, you can recover it. YES! It’s possible. I think, I have not confirmed, but the underlying principle is, that when we delete something, Windows just deletes the entry table of memory locations that points to the data. It might be a measure of recovery, but the stuff still exists on your drive. Now, I can relate to why it takes so less time to delete things, and so much more time to copy them. The main time spent is in changing pointers and creating new access tables. Once we copy new things to a location from which we deleted stuff, it simply overwrites the old material. And as there is no formal record of anything being present there, there is no need to get a permission from the user or warn him or her. However, recovering files is a tedious process. I started checking for files on my disk partition of 62GB and after 30 minutes, 15% had been completed. Phew!

I am eagerly, no no, desperately, waiting for my new phone to come. After having used the iPhone for like 4-5 months, and then losing it on my birthday due to, err a certain someone, I wanted to get it again. Now, I somewhat have a reputation of never sticking onto one phone for too long. I remember having sold a phone off and bought a new one within 2 weeks. So it came as a major surprise to most of my friends, and as an even bigger surprise to me, when I wanted to buy the same phone again. But I couldn;t help it, the iPhone was AWESOME! I hadn’t expected it at all. But using the phone, I got hooked onto it, even though, it’s camera was just ok, had no video, and no bluetooth. Now that Apple has launched iPhone V2.0 and realized that India is one of the most lucrative market segments for any mobile manufacturer, the iPhone is coming to India. With only 5-10% people declaring incomes (read paying income tax) and with an estimated 35% population having an income suitable to buying an iPhone, every Tom, Dick and Harry would own one. Which means one thing only – I CANNOT BUY THE IPHONE ANYMORE!

I have a thing for exclusivity. When I bought the iPhone, i estimated no one in Chandigarh would have one. I was way off my mark, but still only a few actually owned one. This time, I wanted to buy a phone that would be exclusive, posh, something that makes a statement; a tool to show off. And I found the perfect fit – The Prada Phone. No one in Chandigarh has that phone. I would shave my head off if that statement went wrong :)

The design is awesome, even supposed to be the inspiration for the iPhone (that lead to a nasty battle between Prada and Apple). The functionality is amazing, the looks stunning. The only bad point (s) , lack of wifi and messaging can be a little pain upto the time you get used to it. 9th August, the messenger from the US of A is landing in India, and by 10th August, Chandigarh would have a Prada Phone. Woohahahaha!

Will write more later. Am posting another one of my works below.