Under suspicion
Topic: Movies
Lost the track somewhere.....so so movie....waste climax

Astrology
If you are an astrology junkie, following sites are recommended in the order listed.....


www.astro.com
www.astroadvice.com
www.cyberastro.com

The art of investing: a PBS video series
A series of 8-10 video cassettes.

Very informative.

Talks to several money managers. Very good interviewers.

One of them Jane Quinn is an author in her own right.

Recommended !

The Comfort of Strangers (1991)
Topic: Movies
Ok movie. Set in Venice Italy. No thrill factor.





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When two young lovers spend a holiday in Venice to sort out some of the kinks in their relationship, they meet an English-speaking Venetian (not quite by chance, it turns out) who lures the unsuspecting couple to his flat. There, he "regales" them with perverted tales from his childhood and soon draws them into a dark, forbidden world of sexuality and murder. Stars Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson and Helen Mirren.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, More
Director: Paul Schrader

Great resource for investing
www.investopedia.com

Sick leave and acting
Daya Nayak....once poster boy of B'bay crime branch....got into all sorts of controversy.....moved out of crime branch to much low profile job.

Story has it that he has been sick leave for 6 months but actively engaged in helping a Kannada movie based on his life.

I am sure that movie is going to be blast it has the best in every department you can imagine. Tabloid king and ace mafia journalist Ravi Belagere has written the screen play and there other stalwarts involved too.

Appeas like Daya Nayak is really working closely with the directors and making sure that some of the important things are as real as possible.

His involvement in helping other movies also well known. Best among them was 'Ab Tak Chappan'.

Watch out for Dawood in Black Friday
Topic: Movies
There is a lot of hype around 'Black Friday' movie based on 1993 B'bay blasts based on a book by ace crime journalist S Hussain Zaidi.

Appears like it has gotten into some legal mess preventing its release. Should be sorted out as it is SC now.

The actor who play Dawood Ibrahim.....gosh....he looks so much like the don himself.

Search for that article on chalomumbai.com and find out how he went about winning the role by impressing the director with his perfected looks and mannerisms of the don.

No wonder if he gets the call from real Don if he impresses him a lot. A lot of actors and actresses have gotten calls from the DON for variety of reasons. :) Actresses.....you know:)

Eureka-Maxima
Eureka Maxima - very good vacuum cleaner.

Really worth the very reasonable price on amazon.com.

Can really feel the difference between my old weak dirt devil and this one.

Not very compact.

Dumbest business moves of 2004
Latest issue of Business 2.0 compiles a list of dumbest business moves or acts of 2004. Read it if you get a chance....some are really hilarious (like the incident between (Real Software and Apple).

Cheers !

P&G acquires Gillette
Wow.....57 billion dollar acquisition creating world's largest consumer product's company.

Sh*T scared by this are uniliver and Colgate-Pomolive.

Let's see if they can make the acquisition work. Acquisitions are hardest to make work in knowledge industries.

Abu Salem to be deported from Portugal
Topic: Underworld
If this really happens then first time a high profile gangster is finally coming home.

Abu Salem rose very rapidly in D-company specializing in terrorizing Bollywoood. Gulshan Kumar murder, attack on Rakesh Roshan, Rajiv Rai and extortion calls to other high profile people made him the undisputed mob boss for bollywood.

He is supposed to have rescued Monica Bedi from losing contracts she had signed during the beginning of her career which never took off anyway. She got linked with him and got married. Of course, she too is with in Portugal. This is an illustration how desire to get into Bollywood messed up the life a very affluent girl who grew up in Norway. Beware, all you wanting to go to Bollywood.

Abu Salem had another way to terrorize his potential victims. He used to have his friends in B'bay crime branch gun down some of his gang members right near the house of a famous personality. Of course, many of his moles in B'bay crime branch were only too happy to do so. This is how the famous encounter of 4 youths on their way to kill Manisha Koirala were gunned down in an 'encounter'. Of course, then onwards his extortion calls became more authentic.

Google on Abu Salem and read how concerted effort from FBI, CBI and other international agencies resulted in tracking Salem and Monica and catch them in Lisbon after a drammatic movie style chase in downtown Lisbon.

Cheers !

Big Picture Investing
Big Picture Investing- part of modern day scholar series.

Very nice 7 CD course taught by Prof. Peter Navarro.

Very educational. Leant quite a bit despite that I am fairly finance savvy. Good points on technical analysis.

A lot of 'how to' tips.

Strongly recommended if you want to start investing.

But, unless one can spend a lot of time doing research, one is better off sticking with mutual funds.

Despite so much time spent researching, added up trading costs etc. etc, what is the upside potential over a very long period of time (say > 20 years)? Not much more than overall market performance that is 8% year to year adjusted for inflation.

Other two good books are - Random Walk on Wall Street and Stocks for the Long run and Irrational Excuberance.

After having read so much about stock markets, I am convinced that one should invest in stock market but diversify a lot.

What is better than inexpensive natually diversified index funds in variety of categories. You will reap the benefits over the long term at a nominal expense ratio.

Do not forget to have an international mutual funds in your portfolio.

Cheers !

Dressed to Kill
Topic: Movies
Dressed to kill - a transexual maniac on a killing spree.

Very convoluted and loose story line. terrible acting. unrelated skin show. horroble ending.

Such an unusual theme line is totally wasted by the director.

Only the hard hitting cop shines with some nice dialogs.

COLLEGE
COLLEGE stands for......

C-come O-on L-Let's L-love E-each G-girl E-equally!

Creativity means this :)

G - can also be used as Guys

Assassination
One donkey-after that another donkey-after that I-after that the nation.......the way some one remembered the long spelling of ass-ass-i-nation :)

Niagara
Topic: Movies
Niagra- nice simple old movie centered around Niagra falls. Marlyn Moonre stars but not much scope.

Well directed. Passe.

Climax is nice....

Niagra....Viagra connection.... if u figure...share....

Viagra.....
Viagra leke Niagara Jao......

Niagara falls sort of has rel with Viagra rigth???? :)

Or Viagra leke Agra jao.

If you go anywhere vai Agra then you are going to Viagra.......

Cheers

Monkey Business
Topic: Movies
Monkey Business - some old Cary Grant movie....literally monkey business.....

Waste.

My Life - Bill Clinton
Topic: Books....
My Life - Bill Clinton--- listened to the audio book. 4 cassettes. Passable....read by Clinton himself.

Fairly balanced.

Average.

Snowed down in here
Got about 2 ft of snow....