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Beyond Bizzare…

January 30th, 2004

Infant dies after rats eat her eye

What did this mother smoke before going to bed? Wouldn’t that infant scream if a rat is gnawing at her eye? How couldn’t she hear those screams, if she was sleeping besides the baby? People, who can’t protect their kids from rodents, shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. And this woman had FOUR.
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Global warming

January 29th, 2004

Taken from The New York Times Op-Ed page written by Paul Epstein.

In the past 50 years, the top two miles of the world’s oceans have warmed significantly, and that warming is melting sea ice. In just four decades, the
thickness of summer North Polar floating ice shrank 44 percent. In addition, warming makes droughts drier and longer, and when the evaporated water returns to earth it does so in heavier downpours.

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Window-hangings

January 29th, 2004

Happy 8th Anniversary to us!!!

January 28th, 2004

Yes. On Sunday, we completed 8 years of marriage. Hard to believe. It is even harder to believe that we know each other since 1987, i.e., almost 17 years. It is a surprise that we haven’t killed each other yet. ;)
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Jogger’s Park and Baghban

January 27th, 2004

Watched these two movies during the last 3 weeks or so. It was good to see that actors were actually in roles suitable for their age and not the usual middle-aged-men-acting-like-teenagers running around trees in a park. Both the films dealt with changes brought by retirement in someone’s life and their family’s lives.

“Jogger’s Park” was very well made. Everyone acted well, especially, Perizaad Zorbian. It was hard to believe that this was her second-ever movie. No complaints except the last 15-20 minutes, when Victor Banerjee (a retired judge) is threatened with exposing his fling with a young model (Perizaad) in the media and the lecture on morality delivered by his daughter. They could have just ended the movie when Victor and Perizaad decide not to see each other anymore and go their own way. That would have been a perfect ending for me. Oh, yeah! Also, they could have done without that stupid song featuring Perizaad.

“Baghban” was basically a time-tried story of ‘children not treating their elderly retired parents well’. BTW, what does Baghban mean? I went to the kitchen for something when they talked about it.

  • The best part of the movie was Hema Malini. She looked better than any of the other younger women in the movie. Actually, she looked better than even herself from older movies. It is amazing how gracefully she has aged. On the other hand, Jaya Bhaduri (not in this movie) looks like a bloated frog.
  • Amitabh Bachchan did a good job as the tortured father. My only suggestion to him would be to get a better wig or just expose the receding hairline. Baldness is nothing to be ashamed of. It would be much better than his stupid wig. His hairstyle is still languishing in the late 70s-early 80s. Maybe, that is when he got this wig made.
  • I don’t know when Indian story/script writters will realise that the difference between good and bad doesn’t have to be as much as the tip of mount everest and deepest point in the pacific ocean. The biological family of AB and HM treats them so badly and their adopted son worships them as God. This is just crazy.
  • How could anyone not have any money to repair broken glasses, but have a big mansion that was kept vacant?
  • Would someone tell Salman Khan that to sound sincere, he doesn’t need to whisper? All through the movie, he sounded as if he was talking on the ‘1-800-phonesex’ line.
  • When I was watching the movie I had many more comments, but it has been a few days since then and can’t remember any more.
  • I would recommend this movie to everyone just to see how good Hema Malini looks. You can actually forward the tape/DVD as soon as she walks out of the picture.

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Keep tabs on your blogs.

January 27th, 2004

My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched

This is great. Now, I can keep track of all my blogs from the page I visit frequently through the day. Don’t need to use the Feedreader anymore. Less load on my PC, that means it may crash less often.

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Hunt begins…

January 26th, 2004

Nothing is safe in the house anymore. We have a crawler on the prowl. Ashwini is enabled with crawling technology as of Friday, January 23rd.

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That’s it???

January 26th, 2004

Halliburton Repays $6.3 Million for Possible Overbilling

I hope this is just an initial downpayment. According to earlier news quoted in one of my posts the overcharge amount was more than $120 million. I hope they don’t get away with a slap on the wrist because of Dick Cheney connection, which seems to be working quite well.

Halliburton was awarded another $1.2billion contract on the day following the $6.3million payment, even while this overcharging case is being investigated.

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Little Green Men

January 22nd, 2004

Yahoo! News – NASA Unable to Communicate with Mars Rover

Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told a news briefing that there was a “very serious anomaly” in communications with the six-wheeled craft…

Maybe, it found something/someone that broke it. Did the last transmission show any little green men? I know its not a laughing matter, but couldn’t resist.

“There is not one single fault that explains this,” Theisinger said, adding that mission scientists had worked throughout the night on scenarios ranging from a major power failure to a software or memory corruption.

I hope it is not running Windows.

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31st Anniversary of ‘Roe v Wade’

January 22nd, 2004

31 years ago, a US Supreme Court decision gave women the right to legal abortion. It is all well and good that women have that right, but why does anyone have to bestow that right upon women? Shouldn’t women automatically have the right to choose whatever happens with their bodies and lives?

It is disgusting to see that most ardent anti-abortion activists are men. How can they force their opinion on women without experiencing pregnancy? Unless of course, if they believe that women were created from their rib and hence, they own women and can force them to do anything they want. The ‘value of human life’ is just a facade to disguise the urge to yield power over every aspect of women’s lives. Sadly, many women are fooled with it and don’t see through it.

There is a lot of talk about reversing the ‘Roe v Wade’ decision. Even if it is reversed, it is simply wrong for government to have any kind of laws to govern reproductive lives of its citizen. Women should have the right to control the functions of their bodies, and not the government.

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