For those of you who don’t know, Entrecard is your blog’s business card. You basically get a widget (the one displayed on my sidebar under “take a look at”). That’s where other bloggers with Entrecards drop their card when they visit your blog and you drop your card on their blogs. Also, you advertise one Entrecard for a day on your widget and you can have others advertise your card on their blogs. All this is accomplished using Entrecard’s own currency, Entrecard credits or ECs.
I have been using Entrecard for almost two months now and here are few of my Entrecard favorite blogs/top droppers:
In case you are wondering what the title means, I wrote this post titled Twenty Two exactly an year ago.
The last few days have been full of confusion. Has it ever happened to you feel that even though everything is going okay, you still feel a little concerned as if something is not right. Also, I keep trying to do new things in life but somehow all of those soon merge into the mundane fabric of my life. Is there even a solution? I’m not sure. I’m not even sure if I make sense at all. But I am still gonna write it. You see, one of my problems that I’ve recognized recently is over thinking. In fact, there are many draft posts that never got published because of it. And as they say, accepting a problem is the first step towards solving it. So lets see how this goes.
Interestingly, in the post that I wrote an year ago, I had mentioned how my broadband provider was being a real pain. What I didn’t tell you was how I called up its customer service center everyday and gave the guy/gal a piece of my mind. They somehow always managed to get on my nerves. They made me discover how much hatred I was capable of. After a point of time, I started to talk to them with sarcasm only. As a result, I said some stuff that I have never said to anybody in my life. Here are few samples. Remember, they drove me crazy and I do not repent saying any of this:
“Not all of your customers are as dumb as you!”
“Does your company only hire retards?”
“Can anybody on the field team read?”
“How many of your company’s employees do I have to kill to get my connection fixed?”
“Do you use a different system of units for measuring time?”
“You suck at your job. Please quit!”
Ah, good times!
By now you must have read dozens of “Best Movies of 2007″ lists. I deliberately delayed publishing mine. In any case, I don’t say that these are the best movies rather the ones I liked the most.
So amongst all the movies I saw last year (and I saw enough!), the following emerged on top:
1. Hot Fuzz
2. Grindhouse
3. Pan’s Labyrinth**
4. Superbad
5. The Simpsons Movie
Closer home, the following Hindi movies did it for me:
1. Johhny Gaddaar
2. The Blue Umbrella
3. Chak De! India
4. Jab We Met
5. Manorama Six Feet Under
**The movie was officially released in December, 2006 but I saw it only in 2007 so I decided to include it.
Mumbai is the city I’ve seen in countless movies and TV shows. The city I knew about so much even before visiting it. The only Indian dream city until the IT revolution happened. Its the city I’ve always wanted to visit which is why when my friends planned a sort of a reunion new year’s celebration in Mumbai, I was all too happy. There were some last minute hurdles like canceling and booking flights right before the trip started but then everything went smoothly and I landed in Mumbai. I accidentally hired an AC taxi instead of a regular one and ended up paying more than double. Well, lessons learnt!
Soon, I, along with my friends, most of who were playing the hosts, set out on a tour of South Mumbai. But not before my first ride on the Mumbai local trains. Apparently, these trains are the fastest way to get around Mumbai. Though my friends claimed that the train was empty by Mumbai’s standards, it was almost full. When we got out of the station, I found myself exactly where lots of Hindi movies begin, CST. From there, we walked through the Fort area of Mumbai all the way to Gateway Of India. We passed through a lot of landmarks, all of which were captured by my camera. Since we all were hungry by that time we reached Gateway, we decided to look for an eatery and decided to head for the famous Leopold’s Cafe. But since it was full, we had to settle for the nearby McDonald’s.
We restarted out tour by taking a taxi to Marine Drive and it looked beautiful at night. Our next stop was Girgaon Chowpatty, which was the beach my friends thought would be less crowded than Juhu beach. I could barely see the beach cos it was really dark and the water there was so dirty and polluted that none of us even wanted to go anywhere near the beach. That didn’t dampen our spirits though. We went to Nariman Point next and clicked lots of pictures.
On day 2, We left for Kashid, a clean and serene beach 150 km from Mumbai because my friends felt that the first beach I say in my life should be good. (Yes, if you remember reading this post, I had never been to a beach before this!) And what a beach it was! Absolutely clean and with almost no people. I was thrilled to be there. I played like a baby for hours in the water to the amusement of my friends. I don’t think they had seen this side fo my before. After we all were tired and dirty and wet, We struggled for more than hour to find a decent place for lunch and had to travel 15km more to Murud in the end. We reached Mumbai at night and hit the bed.
The rest of the trip went on pretty well but these two days were definitely the high point. To see all the pictures from my trip, head over to my flickr set.
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