S for Sheeba..

If you lose to your wife, you will win in your life...

Harry Potter - The Boy who Lived!!

For those who know me, they also know that I would go like crazy second week of July every 2 years eagerly talking about Voldemort,Griffyndor and all that....and go at all extents to buy the latest offering from JK Rowling whom I had wish had written these years ago when I was in school. It does feel odd next to tinytots in a queue waiting to get the copy. Usually I buy at Landmark...But last time I shifted to Odyssey to buy the book as it was on the way to work.,...This time I am buying at Oxford bookstore Nungambakkam since they give a whopping 17.5% discount on the book...This is the most important time of my life as I along with the other pottermaniacs have waited so eagerly for Rowling to deliver the finale. ...Everywhere I go, people who have not read the book say to me " Harry Potter dies...he gets killed" as though they have seen Rowling write the book in real. My advice to them - you guys can wait for the movie....But for the pottermaniacs with whom I share a sense of brotherliness I must say - "Rowling wont disappoint us folks..I am sure she has kept the best for the last." ..Apparently she wept over the climax and did say that she couldnt end it any better...cmon give this woman a helping hand...Dont be harsh with her even if she kills harry...She has kept us thrilled and feeling so enthralled and fixated with her lively imagination..I must say she has surpassed Enid Blyton with just 7 books...People who havent read Potter know that its just magic and some gibberish...But the intricacy and the links are lost if you havent read the book....Its like watching cricket without haing played the game...Rowling has bound not only the kids by her spell but adults like me who occasionally do search exodus through fantasies...I agree she couldnt match Tolkien but she did do her best...There were very lively characters and very innovative spells..And most of the kids dont even understand the book fully but they do just buy the book and flaunt their copies..Its a sense of owning their copy which matches the pleasure of driving a harley davidson...And I know on July 22nd I would have finished the book and would be discussing the book with all the pottermaniacs and then the world would know Harry's fate.....

But since Harry was the boy who lived I guess Rowling wont spoil this epithet......:)

Dusting my blog

Phooh phooh...Yes I am dusting the cobwebs off my blog. Time to take up the mouse and start those scribblings again........

Maharaja Mac - a hyperbole

It has aways been a secret desire for me to eat the Maharaja Mac but as fate would have it no Mac outlets are there in Chennai. But the long pending wish was fulfilled in my recent travel to Bangalore where I visited the Mcdonald's outlet at the Forum. I entered with a big smile at Ronald Mcdonald who welcomed with me a grin. I didnt think twice before I ordered the chicken Maharaja Mac with fries and coke. As I sat to eat the Mac, little did I realise that I was eating double layered piece of a hyped up no good burger. The patty was tasteless and didnt taste like chicken. And I was in deeper trouble since I had forced three others to eat the same and one was already pissed off with Mcdonalds. Forcing myself to eat it with feigned pleasure I couldnt even appreciate the funda about Mcdonalds. As I finished first gobbling it up, I listened to my other 3 friends cursing about the same.Seriously the fries were much better. Well Mac is definitely overrated if it has the same taste everywhere else.

Acrsotic Adventure!!

That is what I would rather call my attempt at setting a not easy not so tough acrostic for a crossword competiton for my organisation. Helped by a colleague Arun, I was able to put together grids and clues which caught the attention of onlookers and the attempt was surprisingly received with a lot of applause. Yours truly has never been appreciated or felt so happy before in his life before. For someone who has gone into self imposed exile due to various reasons, this attempt fuelled some life and vigor into me.

How Opal Mehta got F******

An apt title for our indian prodigy Kaavya Vishwanathan who turned heroine one day with her rather ordinary novel and then got shamefully exposed for plagiarism. Sadly even in our schools we are asked only to reproduce our opinions of famous and not asked to write our own stories. A shame to indians and a lesson for young writers amongst us.

Blood Work - psychological thriller!!

Having exhausted Jeffrey Deaver and James Patterson, to feed my never ending appetite for thrillers I have resorted to Michael Connelly. With "Blood Work" he has surpassed both Patterson and Deaver. Most surprisingly such a good book has been made into a movie but i have never heard of it earlier. In case you didnt know Clint Eastwood plays Terry Mccaleb the protagonist. The story begins with Terry Maccaleb a retired FBI agent who is recovering from a heart transplant. He receives a call from Graciela Rivers who wants him to investigate the shooting of her sister at a store. When he refuses she prods with the fact that he now carries the heart of her sister. Terry jumps in and crosses lines with the LAPD and investigates the shooting. He gets to identify two other robbery related killings with a similar pattern. Initially suspecting robbery he finds his guess going haywire as the plot unwinds. He finds that the victims were not due to random killings but the victims were carefully selected for a special reason. When the plot unwinds and truth hits him, it shocks the entire breath out of him as he finds the motive for the murders. This book should have been a hit atleast for the awesome suspense in the last 30 pages. Nevertheless I am happy for reading such a brilliant thriller.Now I should watch the movie and find out where the movie lost out. In case you want to know the ending,call me..:)