Entries from February 2006 ↓

It’s time that I donned the role of Kiran More, Chairman of Indian Cricket team. England Tour of India get underway this wednesday, so I thought I’ll select the team.

Here is my team:

• Virender Sehwag
  Rahul Dravid (Cap)
  Sachin Tendulkar
  VVS Laxman
  Suresh Raina
  MS Dhoni (Wk)
  Irfan Pathan
  Anil Kumble
  Harbajan Singh
  RP Singh
  S Sreesanth or Wasim Jafer

12th man Mohammad Kaif

* 3 Pacers in case the pitch is not a dust bowl. Else Wasim jafer can open with Sehwag.
* 2 spinners , India’s USP!
* Suresh Raina is selected to play ahead of Kaif (who IMO has no business to be in the team)
* Other members are automatic selections/inclusions in the team.

England Tour of India - 2005-06 Calendar and Schedule

England or England A? - A depleted English side
England captain Michael Vaughan and pace bowler Simon Jones (who underwent training at MRF Pace foundation in Chennai) are the latest causuality in England side. Vaughan is rulled out of the Wednesday’s first Test against India, failing to recover from a knee injury. Vaughan is to return home for treatment. Jones suffered minor cartilage damage to his left knee in the practice game against BP’s 11. They have lost the services of vice-captain Marcus Trescothick due to “personal reasons”. Michael Vaughan and paceman Simon Jones were forced to return home following injuries.

Andrew Flintoff will lead the depleded side now.

So no Vaughan,Trescothick, Jones and Giles are out of the First test (and maybe the entire tour). Plunkett has a bruised left heel and is a doubtful starter for the test.
Owais Shah is the third England A player, after Alistair Cook and James Anderson, to be called up as cover

It seems that England’s first test is against it’s players form and fitness problems!

Google recently launched a do-it-yourself webpage tool - Google Page Creator allowing noobs with little knowledge of HTML to create a web presence. It offers 100mb of storage without ads. Google Pages provides a template and background styles as well as tools to include links, images, three types of headings and six fonts.

It’s closed for registration due to heavy demand (this always happens with Google, they know their stuff will be in lot of demand still they dont come out with a proper plan) and you need to give your Email Id to be in the waiting list.

Your page will be hosted in Google servers and you will get an URL: http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com

Learn more about Google Page Creator

This Google page creator is a cool thing to happen. This made me like Google even more and hence this post which I am dedicating to Google!!

Google is best in the business, be it search engine, email, advertising, and much more..

Here are links which have an extensive guide to Google services (more than 101 services!):
List of Google services and tools - Wikipedia
An Extensive Guide to Google Services - A Blogger’s guide
The Ultimate Guide to Google Services - TipMonkies

The Winter Olympics is going on at Torino till 26th of this month. I am a great sports lover and this CAS has rendered me without any Pay channels like ESPN, Star Sports, Ten Sports and Zee Sports. DD Sports sucks bigtimes but I have no choice.

Now this on going winter Olympics is really good and entertaining to watch! Daily at 5:30 PM I switch on DD sports and catch the live excitement.

Some of my favourite events are

Figure Skating
Bobsleigh
Ski Jumping

The games will go on till 26th of February. Don’t miss it, it’s Hot!

Official Site

There has been a lot of request for a Bwtorrents (BwT) requests here. I thought I could share my existing account as the invites are difficult to get.

We all know that many of share our account or even “donate” their accounts.

Conditions to be met for requesting:

• I need to look at your profile in any other Private torrent sites.
• I need persons who have uploaded more than 20gb with minimum 1.5 ratio
• You need to have atleast 2-2.5mbps connection, and the upload speed should be atleast 200 KBps.
• You should be willing to maintain ratio of atleast 1.5 after you use my account, ie you should be willing to upload 1.5gb for every gb you download.
• And yeah, plz see to it that you dont get banned for any reasons (like using banned clients like BitComet or spamming or leeching, etc..)

Note that I am not asking for anything in return, I just want the person to upload 1.5 times more than (s)he downloads.

If you are interested and satisfy the conditions and willing to upload more then post here with the details, I will see if I want to share my account with you. I am going to share my account details with only 1 person.The more the person is willing to upload and have a good uncapped internet connection, the better changes of my account sharing with him/her.

Anyway, I can invite you to other Private Torrent trackers like Demonoid, SuperTorrents ,X264, Desi torrents, etc. Post your Email ID in this post, I will get back to you with an invite.

Guys, please don’t post requests for bollywood torrents here, there is already a lot of requests in the other thread and I am not sure if we can invite all the persons.

I am not promising anything here, I may wish not to share my account, if anyone at BwT has problems with it.

* Lame Ass Post warning *

Ok, This is going to be a lame ass post for all those hate Emma Watson. (The Harry Potter girl by the name of Hermione Granger)

I really got fed up with all the comments at the Pottermania! Harry Potter And the Goblet of Fire post. Where ever there is a Harry potter related article, people always talk about “having” Emma, Be it at Digit Forums, Yahoo Conference or at here at my blog!!

I really can’t understand what’s the fuss all about. I posted a Harry Potter GOF Thread at Digit thread, and after a few pages, it became a Emma Mania thread instead of being a Potter Mania thread!! It sucks! Yeah, honestly it does like a stinking egg.

Read that thread: [Pottermania is back!] HP & the Goblet of Fire < -- Lame ass thread and frogshit comments/replies Warning!!

I can't understand why people are so interested in Emma, they say they love her (what? Are you kidding me?) and say that Emma is theirs. I just want to point out that Emma is not a Barbie doll to cuddle with and "have" her. She is mine and always been. It's not good to ask or even dream about others money chick.

I am fed up and decided to stop all the speculation as to how really Emma likes. Here is the excerpt of the Yahoo Chat between your truly and Emma few days back.

Continue reading →

Today I was at Shoppers’ Stop, Chennai to…to… shop what else!

The store is in Harringtons Road, Chetpet. They had their Annual 50% sale. There were many items which was sold with discount. I was with my mom to purchase some stuffs which I need.

I got the following items:

Red Tape Shoe
Indian Terrain Formals - T-Shirt and Trousers
Adidas Shirt

Hope I look suave wearing them!

Saw the movie quite a long time back, but posting here in my new blog in here..

Anyways coming back to the movie.. this is the best Potter movie till date, but still I am not satisfied. They left a hell lot of stuffs, instead showed that yule ball dance with more detail. In the last task, what they showed and what we read dont match. I mean they left off a lot more stuffs.. it looked as if I was watching a Horror movie.

I am sure that people who just see without reading the book will find it boring and might not enjoy the movie and the series of events..

They left out quite a lot of sequences like:

1. Dursleys
2. Molly weasley
3. Percy and his connection with cornelius Fudge and the spat with his family.
4. The 3rd task and 2nd task is lacking in content…, both the tasks is not filmed the way it ought to have been.

Emma is hot!!

Emma Watson who plays Hermione Granger seems to be the crowd favourite and she got more claps and cheers than Daniel!

The best 2 parts involving Emma were :
1. When she walks down the stairs b4 the yule ball dance.
2. At the beginning of the movie, when she was besides Harry near the bed

She is still young, by the time HP and the OOF comes out, be prepared to see another Keira Knightley or Catherine ZJ

Closing comments:

Harry potter and the goblet of fire was my best book of the series, and yes the movie is nowhere as good as the book was. The graphics is awesome. This is rated PG-13 (U/A in India), both kids and adults will love to see the movie.

I still feel that they could have made 2 part movie as they have planned earlier with atleast 4-4.5 hours of runtime. Also I would like to see Peter Jackson (Director-LOTR) in action from the next movie. Nevertheless this was the best HP movie till date.

For me, I don’t care as how bad they make the movie.. I want to see the series of events unfolding in silver screen.

The DVD of the movie is not yet out, but we can download the DVD or DVDrip from torrent sites. Harry Potter torrents are not difficult to find!

8.5/10

IMDb review