There Asia’s First Cave Resort is located about 25 kms from B’shankari temple, Kanakpura Road (Next to Angana Resort) Bangalore. Here are some of the snaps of the place.
Enterance
Restaurant
A more verbose review can be found here
Today my best friend and my office colleague gave me gave me this book:
Richard Branson’s “Screw it, Let’s do it”. Along with it, he gave me one of the best handwritten note I have ever seen.
The guy in the book
is just like you
a genius,
loving life to the core,
Crazy enough to try the impossible
and
Succeeds every time
and
Never Finished …….All the Best.
When was the last time someone captured the essence of you so accurately and was actually able to put in words?
This war movie tells the Japanese side of the WWII story. A must watch for war/history freaks. And luckily unlike Jodha Akbar, it does not distort history.
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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young teenager (Juno) makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. She plans to bear the child for adoption and the entire movie starts from pregnancy and ends with delivery of the child.
It is a must watch blank and white movie. (if you are in Bangalore, then you can pick the CD from my place)
Its a extremely simple, low budget movie as the entire movie is shot in a small single roam and there were no costumes or expensive sets. The movie revolves around 12 strangers who as members of the Jury need to arrive as a unanimous verdict on the fate of a Teenager accused of murdering his father.
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Another good movie to watch is Presitige
This is a movie about the dark side of obsession. 2 rival magicians (showmen, not real abstract stuff) are desperately trying to unravel the secret behind the other guy’s tricks. In this quest, they use treachery, deception, lies and ultimately bring destruction to themselves and the people around them.
My response after watching this movie. I need to watch it again!
If you have not yet watched this movie, then you probably have saved 3 hours of your precious time. This movie was a sheer waste of time and money and I am so sorry I watched it.
the 6 characters were:
Saif Ali Khan …. Ranvir Singh (bada Bhai)
Akshaye Khanna …. Rajeev Singh (chota bhai, a waster)
Katrina Kaif …. Sophia (Saif’s sexy secretary)
Bipasha Basu …. Sonia (she and Saif love each other, yet she marries Akshaye)
Anil Kapoor …. Robert D’ Costa (police inspector who would bore you by eating fruits and cracking PJs)
Sameera Reddy …. Mini (Anil’s bimbo secretary)
Here is how the story goes (don’t read if you want to watch the movie)
There are 2 step brothers. Younger brother is a waster while the elder brother is a gambler. The elder brother has a beautiful secretary, who also happens to have a crush on him, and also a girl friend whom he intends to marry.
Now the insanity begins:
The younger brother likes the elder brother’s girl, so the elder brother sacrifices his love for him.
Then the younger brother dates his bhabi and makes a proposition. They will together kill him and share the spoils of a 100M$ insurance between the two. The girl agrees, but promptly reveals the entire plan to the Saif (elder brother). However, moments after that she pushes Saif off the roof. He takes the fall and his dead body is shown and verified by the Police Morgue.
At this point the movie looks like a bit complicated movie on human greed.
Then enters Anil Kapoor. He and his bimbo secretary would bore you with their PJs. So much that the guy sitting next to me started snoring. During investigation it was revealed that Saif is married to the hot secretary (kaitrina Kaif) so all the insurance money would go to her. But immediately after that the scene changes and you would find the younger brother (akshay khanna) sleeping with Kaitrina. Then Anil Kapoor steps in and proves that the Kaitrina’s marriage was fake and Akhsay bribes him to get the insurance money. Bipasa Basu (Akshaya’s wife) now discovers that she has been double crossed and by some twist of fate, mistakenly ends up paying a contract killer for her own assassination. Then out of thin air Saif Ali Khan rises from the dead and saves Bipasha Basu, who immediately falls in love with her. then instead of killing his younger brother with the revolver that is in his hand, he challenges him for a car race. …. ….
And the plot thickens revealing many more twists and turns.
It is a very small, simple to use Dictionary which I have been using for more than 4 years.
You will have to download a small binary and the program will go and sit in your system tray.
Whenever while surfing/reading documents you come across a new word, all you have to do is select the word and click on the icon. A simple box will pop out and will give the meaning of the word.
BTW for the environmentally conscious, Morgan Stanley has printed a nice green book which is worth a peep.
Over the lunch, we guys could not help but wonder how complicated Indian Budget is.
After reading the budget, I was wondering what is the tax rate on Umbrella.
Honestly, the only correct answer is:
“It depends on who is asking.”
The tax rates depends on whether it was made by a big industry, cottage industry or a medium industry.
It depends on whether the umbrella was fold-able or not. If foldable, then how many folds does it have.
What fabric it was made from silk, polyester, plastic.
Was the cloth imported or domestic.
If domestic, then was it made in a hand loom, a power loom. By an Indian company or a MNC?
Were the components assembled in Mumbai (or developed regions where it rains) or some arid backward regions of Rajasthan?
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The list goes on.
Why do Indians make everything so complicated?
Does it really help and serve its purpose?
I would have really helped if the Budget was a 2 page document
1st page is the balance sheet, explaining how, where and how much were the taxes collected and spend
2nd sheet: a simple addendum stating the difference from the last time.
My work involves dealing with a lot of text. It could be anything starting from a piece of code, document/agreement, script to even the short essays I write about my blogs. Often these texts evolve over a period of time and every time one opens them, we add/remove some text from that. Some of these changes are for good, but some unknowingly degrade/spoil the text. So to revert back to the previous copy I use Version systems.
1) Word Documents have tracking feature which records who added what and when.
2) Online documents can be typed in a Twiki (enterprise Wiki) which tracks the changes.
3) I put all my code and scripts in CVS (Concurrent Versions System)
However sometimes some text files or scripts escape these processes and I have a hard time tracking and undoing the changes there. In that case I use WinMerge (or VIM-Diff) It compares the text of the 2 files and highlights just the lines which are different. Hence making my job of reviewing the edits much easier.
As far as possible, I like to have a version system. I enable tracking on all Word Documents, I have Twiki
If you have not tried the amazing Ubuntu 7.10 version (also called Gutsy Gibbon) then you have missed an experience.
Installing an operating system could not get any simpler.
All you have to do is
1) go to their website
2) Type in your mailing address and request for CDs of Ubuntu 7.10 ( also called Gutsy Gibbon). Ubuntu will ship the CDs for free (they will not even charge you for postage/handling)
3) Insert the CD into your machine and boot it.
The entire OS (along with all its packages) can be run directly from the CD and requires no installation. If you like the Operating system then you can opt to install it (it takes 5 minutes) else all you have to do is remove the CD and your machine would be back to normal.
The entire interface is fast and simple and does not occupy much space. You can upgrade the kernel, install/remove software without any REBOOT. It comes with pre-installed Open Office (so you do not have to pay for Microsoft Office), Firefox. So essentially you can be up and running in 10 minutes.
Simple isn’t it? Hence no wonder that its logo also says “Linux for Humans”
Cons:
Although it looks and feels like a Linux, regular users of Fedora /Red-Hat might find it real hard to get used to. Primarily because its command line interface is not very strong, the scripts and the usual commands are either not there or are under a different name.
PS: If anybody from Bangalore has any trouble in getting their hands on the CD, they can always drop by and use my CDs.
Ankur Aggarwal
sree
Sandip Chaudhuri
vbr
skabeesh