Are You A Hardcore Music Lover???

If your answer for the above question is yes, then read on! Music is the food for soul and those who are music lovers know this thing very well.
A few days back I was sitting ideal. I had got bored with the chemistry chapters I had been flipping through. And nothing was seeming so interesting to do at that time. Something struck me and I placed a call to Nikhil. Actually, a day before we had been hunting for a pirated disk of the Hindi movie 'Rock On!' That day we couldn't get that and I was very keen to watch that, say at any cost. Alas! I couldn't get that anywhere. So I asked Nikhil to search for the movie once more and come to my place. When he was there browsing the movie disks at one of the movie rent shops, he got the movie we were searching for. He called me instantly and asked me whether he should get that. I told him that what a dumb question he had been asking.
He turned up with the movie within ten minutes. The disc was a DVD, there were also some movies which were not of our interest. And this was for sure that we couldn't see that movie at his place as he didn't have a DVD player. I have a DVD drive in my laptop. I pushed that disc in the drive tray and started praying for it to run properly. There is a speciality in my DVD drive, whenever you are curious about any DVD, it wouldn't let that run. And the same happened with this disc. Somehow, after many tries we were able to run the disc. I navigated to the movie we were searching for. I played it... And you know what???!!! That was a hall print i.e. it was recorded in some cinema hall with the help of a camera. You can just imagine how terrible the picture and sound quality would be. Well! Our curiosity didn't let us stop watching even that so a ghastly print.
Okay! That was a bitter part of the story. We started the movie with all the curtains down and the volume to its fullest, giving a cenamatic effect. The movie started with a good song. It was really a good start. Many of the people would have found this movie a bit boring due to all the silent acting of Farhan Akhtar, in the first half. But his role was that way. He did all the justice to the character. His three friends and he himself were a band. The name of their band was 'Magik'. It showed a clear picture of a typical Indian scenario. How they got separated and what was the reason for their seperation etc. Well! It was very nice to see them perform at the stage once again in their mid-thirties.
I loved the songs most. All the actors has almost made the characters life like. I would recommend this movie for all, but especially for those who love music most (if you are a fool like me, and haven't watched the movie till now). The songs in this movie have a good touch of western music, and these would for sure get you goosebumps at some instances. Enjoy! And get your feedback, back to me.

Vista Vs Xp

I had bought my computer in 2006, in the month of June. There was Windows Xp preinstalled in the system. Still, the person at the shop asked me whether I would like to have Windows Vista. Vista had launched a few months ago when I had bought my computer. I simply told him that I would not be able to afford that. Hearing this he started laughing out loud. He told me,'Hello mister! Who is asking you to buy it? It is all pirated copy available here.' I was very much shocked to hear this as I had heard and read in many of the reviews that it would not be possible for anybody to copy Windows Vista's DVD. Just after recovering from the shock I asked him about how he did it. But I got a plain answer,'Boy! That's a secret.' After this I simply asked him to suggest what I should keep in my machine as OS. He flatly gave hands for Xp. For the reason part he told that it was a new thing and I should not go for it untill I get some good response from others. And I followed his advise, just like that. Also he had strong points to oppose vista, for example; many of the softwares were not supported by Vista at that time.
Okay! That was the story of yesterday. I had an impression that Vista would rock and I, as a dumb would always regret refusing Vista (pirated isn't a matter). And here comes the twist. I got to talk to one of my friends, luckily he 'had' Vista but now he has downgraded to Xp. The reason was the same, it doesn't allow to run some of the pirated softwares. Yeah! It is also true that his copy of Vista was pirated too. I have also seen haapy people with Vista, those who have got a legal copy of it. But when it comes to the majority I see Vista haters everywhere. Hey! I don't use either Xp or Vista, I am right now on UBUNTU and I am acting neutral in this war. Mind it!
Here is a report by one of the top technology magazines:
'Microsoft is trying hard to get people to fall in love with Vista. Despite Vista being far superior to Xp in terms of security, a third of Vista users downgrade to Xp according to research firm's CTO Craig Barth in collaboration with InfoWorld. They surveyed more than 3000 computers shipped in the last six months and came to this conclusion. Sometimes, the downgrade was done by the customers once they purcahsed their computers, but there were instances were vendors such as Dell downgraded their systems based on request from their customers. Perhaps the most demeaning thing about the whole issue is that a lot of people are not looking at this as a downgrade at all. In their opinion, replacing Vista with Xp is actually an Upgrade! The deep penetration of Xp in the corporate environment is the reason for this. It looks like Microsoft's $300 million advertising campaign to boost Vista sales isn't helping.'
Hey! What's your take on this? Do you agree with this.
Personally I was very much annoyed with both the OSes, so I wouldn't give a personal comment. And that's the reason I am using a linux distro Ubuntu, despite my Windows partition crashed. If I would not have been that so annoyed I would have reinstalled Windows till now.
What do you say?

The Last Day Of Dussehra

||या देवी सर्वभूतेषु शक्तिरूपेण संस्थिता||
||नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः||
जय माता दी!

Dussehra At Muzaffarpur

Today is the ninth day of Navaratri. And it is just by chance that today My Dad has got holiday, unlike all the Sundays and other holidays. This was a chance for me to roam around the city to visit all the Dussehra ceremonies. Well! At 8 in the morning we started for our trip. That was not the best time to visit the places, but we just wanted to avoid the rush hour. And this cost us a lot of degradation in the looks of the idols.

Okay! Let me start from the beginning. We had planned to take a round of the city. Those who are from Muzaffarpur, they will have the ease in understanding my visiting route. We started from our home, that is near Bhagwanpur. First place of stop was Bhagwanpur. The next places were Maripur, Imli Chatti, Sariayaganj, Pankaj Market, Durga Astahn at Andigola, Banaras Bank Chawk, Garib Asthan, Kalyani, Motijheel, DharamShaala Chawk, Kalam Bagh Chawk, Chatta Chawk, Lenin Chawk and Gobarsahi Chawk respectively.

The main attractions were at Pankaj Market and Durga Asthan. This was just by chance that we entered Garib Asthan Mandir. It was a big surprise for me to see bhajan-kirtan going on there. Well! I think this is unusual here where you only get devotional songs on loudspeakers. All the way we could see people busy with all the busy stuff and the loudspeakers blaring as loud as those could.

I have put the photographs of the places I have visited today. The pictures must have been at their best if I would have gone in the evening, but I have stated the reasons earlier. Anyway this is a good glimpse of Durga Pooja at Muzaffarpur. Pictures look attractive but those would be more if I would have been there in the evening. Now, this is the evening time, my Mum has gone with Dad to have her trip.

Click on any of the pictures to get its bigger view. I hope you would enjoy the pictures and would post your comments. Wish you all a Very Happy Dussehra!