Trying out the Windows Live Writer

Got introduced to the Windows Live Writer through one of my friend. She hosts an excellent frugality website Wealth Informatics. Do check that out!!Getting back to Live writer, it is just so cool to use.. and this is my first post with the live writer editor.. Do try the live writ...

New York Touring Tips

Keeping up with my pledge here is the post on our New York trip. Instead of going on saying how great the trip was (yup it was indeed greaaat!!) I am going to say my tips on how to save better and see more on a trip to New York. I may not be the frugality expert to give my tips, but I did have my own ways of sightseeing New York. How to get there?? We took a rental car and drove up to New Jersey. Now the question comes why New Jersey, why not New York. The answer – 1. Staying in New Jersey is way cheaper than staying at New York whatever be the star rating of the hotels you are looking at2. New York is at a very close commutable distance from here and there are multiple options how you could reach New York - all of them equally exciting. (We took the Lakeland Bus service which took us to the port authority bus terminal, the busiest terminal in US - one of the places to see in NY)3. If you ever took a car, parking is either complimentary or real cheap at the hotels in New Jersy whereas, in NY, it could easily be anywhere...

Madharasapattinam

This movie can be said to be a cross of Titanic+Lagaan+Some Kollywood masala :) But this movie is a definite yes to watch because of the art direction and the sets in the movie. It is always a nice feeling to see the old Madras in paintings or in antique photographs collection. I must say that they have brought those images to life in the movie. The heroine in this movie is Amy Jackson who has the Miss Teen America title to her name and sure enough looks pretty (but certainly not comparable to Kate Winslet on any scale). Arya looks cool. I don't know why the director choose the titanic style of narration, but in my guess the film would have looked much better in the typical tamil film flashback style of narration.I would rate the...

Thillalangadi

Watched this movie today. Though there is no logic in what the hero does (atleast initially until they bring in the sentimental part), the movie is worth a one time watch compared to many nonsense that comes out these days in the name of a movie. Jayam Ravi is the hero. So as usual, it a Telugu remake. I dont know if the taste of tamil audience has hit a new low - am wondering bcos these days I see Tamanna as heroine in everyother movie. The first half is fun and second half drags a bit. I watched it alone but was laughing out loud for few scenes. I'd rate the movie at 3stars :)Its a good movie to watch in theater. But for those outside India who have no other option, you can watch thillalangadi online for free by following this...

Nostradamus and 2012

I recently happened to see the History channel documentary on the "Last Book ofNostradamus" and its striking 7 images. This was the latest to the 2012 doomsday documentary by the "H" channel. Anyways, I wanted to share what I thought about the scholor's thought on those images - not intending on demeaning or anything, just my thoughts. They seemed to be interested more on the wheel at the top and the book of life and the tree of life and did not talk much on the lower part of each image which seemed to be showing 2 different Zodiacs. In some cases, they did touch on the zodiacs, but in others, they interpreted them into something totally not related to Zodiac. The 7 images are here:Anyways, I have read and seen so much of this doomsday...

Pledging to write more

It’s been quite a while since I visited my blog myself. I know it sounds really bad :P but now I am pledging to myself to write at least one post in the blog per day. Hopefully I am going to keep my promise to self. I have had some interesting things going around during this time. I had a vacation to India for a fortnight. Yes, there is going to be a post on that. We visited New York - the city that never sleeps for the July 4 long weekend. Will plan a post on that too…But right now to keep up with my resolve, I am going to start writing just about anything that I get :)BTW, I also did a painting in the meanwhile. You can check the painting out by clicking here or by visiting http://indhuspaintings.blogspot.co...