I have seen 6 movies in the last one month. I haven't seen so many in such a short time.

Oceans Thirteen, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Evan Almighty, Transformers, Live Free or Die Hard, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

The interesting thing is that I liked all of them, though not everything in those movies.
Yet to go: Ratatouille, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Hope my movie streak continues :-)

Indian slum girl becomes an engineer and makes it for a big IT company....check out the news at http://www.desivideos.net/2007/06/11/indian-slum-girl-makes-good-misc/

A video too is available.
Fathima, the girls name, was married at 15 to a street hawker, who helped her become an engineer despite many odds. She is soon joining a IT company!

This is the value education brings in ones life.
Really hats off to the girl and her husband who helped her become a engineer.

I feel this could be an eye opener for all those who do not want their girl child to study.
All the best to Fathima and her husband.

During my news reading online I encountered this hilarious news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6666729.stm

No end of fun in Laaloo's Indian Railway
Doesn't this show the strength of Bihari's?

Okay, here is a new Blogger website integrated with Google Account. I don't know when it was integrated but I logged in just today after so many days!
The old post I made looooong back is gone!!! All I wanted to say is I'm back with new interface and new enthu.

Lets come to the point. Today I wanna write about my shyness, yes, without any shyness!
I went to a reception today. It was about Susan Polgar, Chess Grandmaster, arriving at the Tech. I wanted to play chess like nobody can, but I fail to start every time without failure. Now, I went to that reception with my pal. We were lurking in front of the door wondering if we are at the right place. I know we are. But it is more formal inside than we expected. So I started to think should we go in or not.(Yaa I am a lil cowardice) Then came out a man seeing us and asked if we belong to the KnightRaiders. That is the name of the chess club at Tech. I dont know what to say! I said "yaa no", what is that supposed to mean? He said anyways you can have some nice food. No, thats not why I am there. Okay, take it easy. I went in and saw people sitting in groups around their tables. So we went and sat to a side. We were wondering what to do next. Should we go to her and talk something (something what?) or should we just leave? I donno. Meanwhile my friend starting saying you are offending me. Arghh...

Now they introduced her to the audience and she said nothing much and went back to her place. I wanted to take her autograph though I am not an admirer! But dammit I am so coy. I was not sure where I should take the autograph, I have no small good looking books. All we have are those class notebooks which we never use!

Then came in the only person I know in there, the guy who manages the chess club. I went to him from behind and said hi. No he din't hear that. I thought do I speak so low? Now I said in a bit higher voice. He did and as I expected he does not remember my name!

Finally I made my mind and went to her and asked her. She did on my notebook, giving me a kind of look. My friend congratulated her on her successes and wished more! Why din't I get that thought or something else and talk to her. You get short of words only when you need it!

Ok thats enough for the "first" day.