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  • fritz Says -> catching up with selwyn after a long time
    1:36 pm on November 10, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Well today was a fun outing in the afternoon when the four of us Me, Fonda ,Sarvesh and Selwyn all went out for lunch at Godinho’s it is a small goan restaurant here in panjim famous for its goan food. Since we all met in my office at campal and since sarvesh was the only one with a mode of transport he took up the responsibility of shuttling all of us to our destination thnx dude for the shuttle service :)

    So we sat down and continued with our chat and catching up with what is happening with one another I guess distance really pulls people apart and today I realized it since we had not talked like this for a long long time well if my memory serves me right the last time we were like this was on our trip to nagpur but then we had another monkey with us Satya hahahaha but now even with constant chatting and sometimes phone calls it is no supplement for a personal outing with the gang ;) but all of us are where we are because of the choices we made in our careers so it is all cool but whenever we are down we should make it a point to meet up (hmm am always up for it but the others come with a predefined schedule for their activities in goa and find it bit difficult to squeeze in old friends time in that schedule )

    Well after sarvesh made three trips from office to godinho’s to shuttle all of us there we got down and ordered our lunch (the service was slow it is because the place was full and they were short on waiters so it took some time for the waiter to come to us to take our order but we did take a lot of time to decide what we were having selwyn could not decide about chicken or squids hmm he was saved from his agony with the fact that there were no squids hahahaha and he has made bigger choices then ordering from a restaurant menu wonder how he made those choices ) Well finally we ordered I ordered pork balchao, fonda ordered beef fry with capsicum and sarvesh and selwyn settled for the chicken cafreal some french fries and some drinks two cokes and two 7up’s the food was not good not at all tasty like the normal godinho’s food maybe the cook has changed but then again we all had our lunch and then we headed back to my office for some more chit chat.

    There we talked about new ventures told them about my new comics idea and they could not stop laughing at my story but am sure its a billion dollar franchise and I will see who will laugh at it later hahaha (evil laugh). Talked about our jobs, where our lives are headed etc
    talked about movies, comics, games etc etc then finally we dispersed as selwyn had to get home and rest (that is the main reason he comes to goa to sleep hahaha) well it was quite a nice half day considering the fact that I was a bit upset with some office developments in the morning but the afternoon outing really cheered me up :) hopefully we will have more outings like this in the future with our lives becoming more and more work centric we find such things difficult to plan and execute as all of us are spread all over the place seperated by huge geographical distances and are no longer in a small place called Goa.

     
  • fritz Says -> sad but true and we are in the 21st century
    1:07 pm on November 6, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    With so much attention being given now to india with its soaring stock markets, our cricket team, our bollywood movies etc etc we still have not been able to provide a safe work place for women.

    This is a sad incident and should not repeat but the way our administrative system works it looks like it will be repeated again the main person in charge of NASSCOM says we have to become a society where there are no criminals oh ya wake up man that is in fantasy land as long as there is uneven distribution of wealth and resources and greed there will be no zero criminal society. man if you are so dumb how did you get in such a position is beyond my understanding but people in your position should be able to take actions and not just share your dreams of utopia where everything is perfect and nothing can go wrong.

    Well I think the women working in BPO’s should form some kind of organization or something to protect themselves since their employers and other agencies are not interested in protecting their lives maybe they could

    • apply for firearm licenses
    • arrange for a security company personal to accompany their drivers
    • have an arrangement for the women working on night shifts to stay in a hostel at the building itself (after all this companies do have a huge complexes with lots of vacant space around so they might as well build a small hostel there)

    Hopefully such incidents wont ever happen again and people should learn to respect the other persons desire to live I have a lot of female friends in the BPO I would hate to some day see something like this happen to them and even the people who have some thoughts in their mind about hurting others should think about their near and dear ones but I guess lust and greed sometimes blinds the mind from thinking.

    I hope we have better elected officials to take care of their own people and who take decisions based on reality rather then share their dreams of a wonderland.

     
  • fritz Says -> I had my first heart attack today
    9:51 am on October 30, 2007 | 8 Permalink | Reply
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    Yes that made me go to the doctor immediately and he said now I was ok but his first question was what stress do you have right now and boy did he ask the wrong question it should have been what stress don’t you have now.

    Well I had seen it in movies and heard about it but this is one terrible terrible experience am just glad that I survived it as the doctors say that the first one can kill you and mostly does.

    Well let me recollect and explain what happened you get a terrible terrible pain in your chest then you become immobile and you cant do anything the only thing I remembered was once reading in an article about just breathing and not thinking anything else but just count and breath and that is exactly what I did and for almost 10 mins I Was frozen and I could not even reach and think about reaching for the cell phone to call my brother but after what seems like an eternity of pain I started sweating and the pain subsidized and I could slowly move my hands and legs and I still did not move but just sat on my chair and continued with my counting and breathing till the pain had completely gone and then just got up from my chair and moved around a bit and first thing that struck my mind was to call mom but didn’t want to do that to scare her.

    Am just glad am ok and this is a very important lesson to me to slow down and am surely going to take care of my health from now on and exert myself less at work and take more time off to relax and enjoy the finer things in life. Well I normally listen to doctors or my family and friends but now am going to take their advice seriously. The doctor did confirm that it was a heart attack on the description that I gave of the incident.

     
  • fritz Says -> some good ads on TV now which I like
    2:41 pm on October 14, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Zen Estilo - yep the one in which the couple is eloping from home I think it is humorous and something different for a car I still remember that fleur xavier one for tata indica wow that was a super duper ad a hot chick and good music (they had that lobo song "love you to want me" playing in that ad) that was a ad which got imprinted in the minds of people but I guess it didn’t do much for Tata Indica. But I wonder what happened to fleur xavier she was really hot and sizzling

    Airtel-Google - The Airtel Google ad the Indiana Jones rip off for a story line is a great flick for anyone who understands the Indiana Jones series and the quest for knowledge that is emphasized in all of Indie’s adventures but for some reason I think this concept will be wasted on Indians who would feel that the ad is a bit odd but must say it is a bit lengthy but overall fun and something different. First time I saw the ad I thought it was a Indianna jones movie trailer :)

    ulta perk - yep this ad is also good but here is what I find odd the dog chasing a postman is something that you associate in the US and not in India. For some reason I feel Like this might be a rip off from some foreign ad just like the Airtel-Google

    Neo Sports India-Pakistan series - Yep this is the best ad out there right now first time I thought it was a public service ad for viewers to check their LPG gas stoves at home but the ad is good and well executed and passes a strong message to the viewers

    Hcl Leaptop - Yep the one in the coffee shop one is good and hilarious the

     
  • fritz Says -> nice presentation for startup entrepreneurs
    2:43 am on September 28, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  • fritz Says -> lesson from the movie polar express
    12:40 pm on September 16, 2007 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    It does not matter where the train is going
    what matters is deciding to get on it.

     
  • fritz Says -> Ratatuoille a must watch movie for a disney fan
    9:29 am on August 30, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Ratatuoille is a must watch after a very very long time I saw a movie which had the classic disney stamp all over it for some reason I never get that disney feeling of giving the animated characters a life as humans when it is one of the animated movies with pixar written all over it.

    But Ratatuoille is a must watch and is definitely part of my classic movie collections right there with lion king and little mermaid.

    I did watch a lot of movies recently but no time to write reviews as am a bit busy with work this past few weeks the only reason i am writing this post is as a reminder to me when I do start collecting my favorite movies (that is when I have the time and money to do so).

     
  • fritz Says -> which song best describes me
    2:41 am on August 20, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    I have always wondered which song would best describe me and my life
    and have still not found such a song
    the only one that comes very close is Superman by Five for Fighting
    the lyrics of this song can be found here maybe the people out there who know me might not agree with me on this so tell me which song best describes me according to you.
    the other song which was in the running for this place was 99 problems by linkin park lyrics of this can be found here hahahahaha it is a great song.

    If anyone suggests that the good song for me will be hakuna matata from the great movie The Lion King well you are wrong this could have been the song to sum up who I am a few months back before I was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and got into the driving seat of taking a car uphill on a slippery road , with heavy rain and poor visibility or a road with sharp turns one false move and I might lose control and plunge to my death. Well most people are saying that I have bitten on more then I can chew and digest but my answer to them is I have been hungry for too long so I can digest anything that I take a bite off.

     
  • fritz Says -> Day 3 of vacation my last day in pune for this trip
    3:29 am on June 25, 2007 | 6 Permalink | Reply
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    The day started very late around 11 am in the morning I guess all of us just love to lazy around and sleep in late on Sundays. so we had a brunch at mocha few things I learnt at mocha

    • How much I love Arabic Music
    • I am not a early morning first thing I will eat is whipped cream person (I threw up after I had some cream) but later I did manage to finish the rest of the shake though
    • I like to just sit and lazy around and talk to friends once in a while

    So after the Tobelorone shake and a honey glazed chicken sandwich we headed back to the abhimanyu’s place to collect the movie tickets which abhimanyu’s bro saurabh had collected from a friend who had booked the tickets and saurabh dropped this tickets at home for us to collect and head for the movie. We just lazied around for some time after that we went to inox pune for the movie read all about it here after the movie we headed to another mall there I tried my hand at a playstation game and instantly realized what a miserable life I am living with no true love so now have to get myself a PS3 asap hahahaha.
    After some fun with PS3 and ogling at some of the Sony Bavaria TV sets there We headed out of the mall and then I went and got some KFC for myself for the return trip and dinner.

    After getting the KFC said good bye to the guys caught a rickshaw and came to the place where I was suppose to catch my bus there I bumped into an old college acquaintance anne marie she was there to see off her mom and sis who were in the same bus on my journey back to goa. At this point it was drizzling slightly and I got a bit wet while getting into the bus.

    Well this is how my three day vacation ended with mixed feelings and was glad was heading back to goa and work.

     
  • fritz Says -> Fantastic Four- Rise of the Silver Surfer
    2:29 am on June 25, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Caught the movie at Inox multiplex in pune on a Sunday afternoon on 17th June 2007 the multiplex is good and I had crazy corn well it was same as goa but only 5 Rs less the taste was similar but the best corn I had in pune was at this place called CornWorld on FC Road it is a shop right near the end on the FC Road.

    Well in one line I can sum up my experience at this movie "Good superhero movie with a romantic plot".

    Plus points of the movie(in my opinion)
    +good story
    +some very good jokes
    +good mix of romance and action (not a boring mix like Superman Returns)
    +keeps you engaged during the movie
    +good chemistry between human torch and thing (hahahaha)

    Negative points of the movie(in my opinion)
    -a bit less action for a superhero movie
    -the ending could have been crafted well

    overall I would say a good movie and recommend it to my friends