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2006 in cities-n-towns

Places I visited in 2006 Ottawa, Canada Mumbai, India Shirdi, India Navasari, India Gandevi, India Ambaji, India Washington DC Silver springs, MD Germantown, MD Chapel Hill, NC Durham, NC Raleigh, NC Morrisville, NC* Charlotte, NC Boone, NC Wilkesboro, NC Denver, CO *hometown [via AWLN ]

Hype

Don-TCBH released and flopped like any hyped hindi movie. It was a big disappointment for the simple reason that the director did not care to keep the original dialogs nor did he add any new mesmerizing ones (he was the writer for the movie). I just wonder, to change the climax, Farhan (director) made a remake of the original and screwed it. Rather, any smart movie-maker would take it a challenge to use this new climax idea for a prequel movie of Don. That makes more sense to me as the idea would be completely original and people won't make comparisons to the 1st one. Anyways, the whole Don craze has died down. Long back! The IN thing these days is either Wii or PS3. The hype and gossip behind these consoles is mind-blowing. You talk with any one and they seem to know someone is camping out of Bestbuy or Target to get their hands on these consoles, or some smart ass is selling his preorder on ebay. So are these worth the hype? My say - PS3 has cool graphics and Wii has cool new co

Don Days of Summer

October is here and in 2 weeks, we'll get a chance to rekindle our memories of DON - one of the most captivating characters Big B has ever played of. Don ...The Chase Begins Again, is a remake of the 70s classic . Its not a new phenomenom for Bollywood to remake Hollywood movies for desis but remaking old Indian movies (I say Indian, which include Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and other 23 languages) is catching up. Not only that, audience who never had a chance to catch up with stage performances, called Nataks in Gujarati, are loving their remakes too . Don will be Farhan Akhtar's 3rd movie (don't even talk about his disastrous 2nd movie). His first movie Dil Chahta Hai set the trend for India's youngsters like a cool freshman course - Fun 101, which basically introduced us to big screen HDTVs (at Aakash's place), mature relationships (Sid), hanging out in Goa and ofcourse, fancy pants (cmon, most of them were wearing shiny leather tights at the sendoff party). On the

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Roshni

Smart ad on Indian TV, setup in a princely environment; most likely Rajasthan. [via GV ]

World of Sports this Week

Highs Federer wins 3rd consecutive US Open Title (I loved his 5-0 17 minute first set rally against Roddick) Schumacher wins his 90th race at Italian Grand Prix . Sigh! He also announced he'll be retiring after this season (but he is close to his 8th Championship title! A Tifosi!!! ) Lows Clemson (ranked 18th) lost to an unranked Boston College by 1 point in College Football (Jay Dean couldn't get that one kick and the performance by defense was just pathetic!!!) Carolina Panthers lost to Atlanta Falcons in NFL (Damn! Now Dsouza will brag about it all the time) Don't Care Baseball, Womens basketball, Eng-Pak Cricket series