Thursday, January 29, 2004

The missing movie ..

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The movie I missed was "Enter the Dragon" starring Bruce Lee .. :)

Whew .. That takes a great load off my mind :)

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Abhinav |

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Weekend Workout

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Saw the following movies on an extended weekend .. More abt them later :)

Started on Saturday Night - Saw one movie
Sunday - As far as I can remember, 3 ..
Monday - Thought I wont see any, but saw 2 , i guess :)


1. Point Break
2. North by North West
3. Murder By Death
4. Space Cowboys
5. Jerry McGuire
6. Die Hard

I'm missing a flick or two...need to do something abt my memory :( :(

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Abhinav |

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Pretty Busy these days

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No time for my beloved blog .. :( :(

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Abhinav |

Friday, January 16, 2004

Isn't it nice when things just work?

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This is probably one of the greatest advertisements of all times : The New Honda Accord Cog commercial.

What is more surprising is that the ad is all real - actually shot as such, and not trick photography !

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Abhinav |

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

I am googled ! :) (and yahooed too .. )

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Finally .. Searching for Abhinav Modi on google or yahoo brings up this site .. :) :)

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Abhinav |

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Blogging - Where do we draw the line ?

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Here's a great post on the dilemna faced by people in deciding what to blog and what not ..

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Abhinav |

Publicity ..

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Added a blogchalk to this blog. Hopefully it will be picked up in a few weeks ..

Watched Jhankar Beats for the 2nd (or was it the 3rd ?) time- The movie with Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla, Rahul Bose, Rinkie Khanna .. and a guest appearance by Helen - this was yesterday (or to be more precise, today morning at 12:00 AM )

oops !!..i forgot to mention shayan munshi and riya sen were also there .. :)

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Abhinav |

Saturday, January 10, 2004

Back to my blog ..

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Posting after 3 days ..

actually its just two ..

Missed Thursday due to a conf call and leaving early. My roomies were surprised to see that I left office at the early hour of 9:00 PM .. but the reason was a lotta goodies to eat had come over from home, Kolkata ..

Likewise, Friday has extended into today (Saturday), and Im still at Office at the arguably ungodly hour of 2:17 AM .. will probably leave for home by the 3:00 home drop ..


Listening to a nice collection of songs by Kishore Kumar ..

CHALTE CHALTE - CHALTE CHALTE
CHHOOKAR MERE MAN KO - YAARANA
DIL KYA KARE - JULIE
HAMEN TUMSE PYAR KITNA - KUDRAT
HUM BEWAFA - SHALIMAR
KASME VAADE - KASME VAADE
KISKA RASTA DEKHE - JOSHILA
KYA KABAR KYA PATA SAHEB
PAL PAL DIL KE PAAS - BLACKMAIL
PYAR MANGA HAI TUMI SE - COLLEGE GIRL
SAGAR KINARE - SAAGAR
TERE MERE MILAN KI YEH RAINA - ABHIMAAN

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Abhinav |

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

XML

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Another item added to my list of things to do ...

Need to learn XML and XSLT. Should be interesting ..

Know a bit of it, but to quote a famous poet (You should know who if you are reading my blog carefully ! )
Miles to go before I sleep ...

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Abhinav |

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

A Nice verse

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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.


I have always been inspired by these words from Robert Frost's poem. Liked them so much that they were a standard part of my conclusion pages for college project reports :)
Get the full poem here.

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Abhinav |

Monday, January 05, 2004

Work in earnest ..

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With every one back from vacations, time to start work again ..not that it stopped for me in the 1st place .. :)

Using the word earnest in the title triggered memories of a hilarious play by Oscar Wilde .. The Importance of Being Earnest . This is one of his classic works, and a play which all comedy aficionados must read.

It is surprising that the same author who has written this has also written the serious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Abhinav |

Sunday, January 04, 2004

In Office Again :)

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. . :)

Lots to do ...

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Abhinav |

Saturday, January 03, 2004

In Office

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Back to work on Saturday :)

Last week being very hectic and me not feeling well, a bit of work has piled up. Got to finish it by today.

Started working on Winrunner. Seems a bit of a pain, to start with. When compared with the ease of programming in Perl (the other language being used frequently by me), Winrunner has a steep learning curve and is a bit slow.

In fact, I'm writing this post while one of the test cases is running in background :)

Coming to Office on a Saturday may not be appealing to everyone., but it is a nice experience. In fact, I'm thinking of making one of my new Year Resolutions (of the not-to-be-broken type) to come to office regularly on weekends :)

Still need to come up with a full list of resolutions. Hope to do it by tomorrow.

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Abhinav |

Friday, January 02, 2004

All about Oracle IDC

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Came across a decent article about Oracle IDC here.

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Abhinav |

Thursday, January 01, 2004

Happy New year.. :)

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New Year started with a lot of phone calls. This was followed by spending the day with Syamala .. Had lunch at Mischief, which is Suniel Shetty's restaurant in MPM Mall..Good food, nice ambience, and reasonable.

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Abhinav |