My goldfish laid eggs!

This is a true FIRST EXPERIENCE !

My Oranda Pair - Joey and Chandler are evidently not boys !! Chandler is a boy, but after 8 months, Joey turned out to be a girl. Yesterday she laid about 2000 odd eggs all over my aquarium floor.

I'll update this post soon with the status of the eggs. I need to first separate them and start the fry-ing process ! Stay tuned folks ... this should be interesting !!

The Apprentice hooks ya !

I'm pretty badly hooked onto 'The Apprentice'. And i just LOVE the way trump says 'You're fired !'. It's just beautiful !

However, considering that this is a 14 week interview for Trump's intern, there are a few fatal flaws in the concept. The very first week say 2 groups that had Project Managers to lead the team through a task.

Unfortunately the losing PM comes under fire de facto since he has to take decisions and take risks. So the overall strategy in the game would be to lie low and once the group reduces to about 4 or 5, then come into your true element.

However, jokes apart - the series is simply awesome and even though this series rewrote Burnett's tax returns, it's a wonder if something like this would ever make sense in India...

hmm...

Me Slumdog, you Millionaire

So i saw the most hyped movie yesterday - Slumdog Millionaire.

 
There a few key observations that i have been making:

- the movie is not about India or Mumbai - so people who are upset that say India's been shown in bad light should get upset just as much as Russians should for the movie Air Force One (the Russians hijack the US president's plane)

- Because the movie has been made by a gora - we indians are going head over heels about the film. The movie's script and story is in fact very poor. I wouldn't say the recent cross between paycheck and memento a.k.a Ghajini has a good story, but even so.

- the movie is fairly gripping and the screenplay is good.

- i think the movie should have been made in hindi. The english language is still foreign to indians and on many scenes the punch was lost cause indians find it difficult to exude emotion in a foreign language. Anil Kapoor should stay away from English as a spoken language.

- the acting is nothing exceptional. Dev keeps a rather straight face throughout and so does his better half. Perhaps i too was expecting a lot.

in the end the stickiness of the movie is less. that is perhaps because I'm an indian and i see hope and dreams in the filth everyday. But an American would love the film cause he will find it difficult to believe why 10 year olds are being handicapped and made to beg. why dont they sue these people ?

of course the reverse holds true for RDB - something that an American can perhaps enjoy but never relate to.

overall a good experience. i wouldn't rate it out of the ordinary.