NULL.in » Fun http://www.nalinmakar.com Nalin's Labyrinth Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 pedo? maybe not :-) http://www.nalinmakar.com/2010/03/19/pedo-maybe-not/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2010/03/19/pedo-maybe-not/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:01:26 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/?p=671 pedo ? maybe not... :)
Found on door in a friend’s apartment complex in SF

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Whats wrong with me?

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]]> http://www.nalinmakar.com/2009/11/28/what-is-wrong-with-me/feed/ 1 Tropical Cyclone Nisha http://www.nalinmakar.com/2009/04/09/tropical-cyclone-nisha/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2009/04/09/tropical-cyclone-nisha/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:51:42 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/?p=547 Came across this last year while checking on Hyderabad’s weather in December. They actually named a tropical cyclone after my wife’s name !! :)

The cyclone went over the southern regions of India and has now settled in my life :D

tropicalcyclonenisha

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  • The only reason you go to a temple on festivals is because there is free food.
  • You keep comparing prices at electronics store for the phone you bought six months ago.
  • You bought a Toyota or Honda car only because it has better resale value.
  • You ask for a small drink at fast food restaurant because the refill is free.
  • You spent 2 days cleaning your apartment before leaving so you can get full security refund from your landlord.
  • You don’t know any American outside your work.
  • You try to ignore all other unknown desis around you.
  • You talk to Americans as if you represent your whole country.
  • You frequent to yard sales every week.
  • You use grocery bags as garbage bags.
  • Office supplies mysteriously find their way in your house.
  • You don’t want to buy a printer because you can always use the office printer.
  • You decide to marry a girl/guy that your parents fixed you up with.
  • You split the tax from your common grocery bill.
  • You know more than one plans offered by long distance companies.
  • You take plain water instead of Coke for lunch.
  • You take any drink with no ice because you can’t drink ice.
  • You ask before eating any meat “Is this beef?”
  • You know all the facilities available at public library.
  • You find taco bell sauce packets in your kitchen drawer.
  • You take off your shoes before stepping foot in your living room.
  • You like onion rings at Burger King.
  • You are looking for dual voltage appliances and GSM cellphones
  • The number of long distance calls is more than domestic calls.
  • Your first name ends with kumar, bhai or ben
  • You have at least one India made pressure cooker in your kitchen.
  • You know how much a 7 layer burrito costs at Taco Bell.
  • Put oil in your hair.
  • You have a picture of Indian Deity on the dashboard of your car.
  • This thought comes to you “Oh Shit I just saw another desis” when you are window shopping at a local mall.
  • You are compelled to visit every major city in U.S. just so as to say that “Yes, I have been there”.
  • You pay your bills the day they come in mail.
  • You buy rice in the 20lb bags or larger.
  • You have postponed buying answering machine because the phone you are planning to buy six months later has built-in answering machine.
  • You start spelling your name to the operator like A as in Apple, B as in boy, T as in train… well you get the idea.
  • You bring over the counter medicine like Iodex and Vicks from India
  • You know the current differential in gold prices between India and U.S.
  • Use the credit card with maximum cash back
  • You have collected enough frequent flier miles for an international trip.
  • You are saving more than 30% of your salary.

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]]> http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/17/this-door-is-alarmed/feed/ 0 Triumph http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/07/triumph/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/07/triumph/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:25 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/?p=533 Oh Shit !!

Come on… you can make it…

Yesssssssss !

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]]> http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/07/triumph/feed/ 0 The Bourne Trilogy http://www.nalinmakar.com/2007/07/22/the-bourne-trilogy/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2007/07/22/the-bourne-trilogy/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:32:46 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/2007/07/22/the-bourne-trilogy/ “Cain is for Charlie, and Delta is for Cain“

I finally finished reading all the three Robert Ludlum’s novels written around the fictional character Jason Bourne a.k.a David Webb… Having watched the first two movies, I just had to read the novels before I went for Bourne Ultimatum on 3rd August.

But, once I started reading the first novel, I realized that the movies, though based on the same lines, are still completely different from the novels. For example, in Bourne Supremacy, the novel takes Bourne to Hong Kong and his wife is very much alive, but in the movie, his wife is killed in the first 15 minutes itself and he never goes far east.

I really liked reading Bourne Identity, but didn’t like Bourne Ultimatum at all… Considering that the movies are just amazing, it was a little difficult to read these novels in beginning. I got really interested in Identity, only after about the first 150 pages. The way Ludlum tries to get the reader to understand Jason’s mental state is really amazing. Also, Ludlum’s use of a lot of French (in Identity) and Chinese (in Supremacy) makes the novel a lot more realistic (but annoying to read at times).

I didn’t like Bourne Ultimatum because it was too long and winding, with a lot of plots and sub-plots that were loosely related to each other. Jason Bourne is 50+ in this novel and knowing that it’s just a bit to hard to imagine him doing all that is written in the novel. Also, so much information was repeated over and over again. I just ended up skipping a lot of pages in the end…

Anyways, so much for the novels…. the movies have been quite amazing. I am really looking forward to the last movie in the Bourne Trilogy. The first two were just amazing and I want to see what’s Bourne up to now…

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