Internet/Links/Webscape

Webscape Tidbits – Part 1

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Google Reader: Inspired from Ashwin’s posts on Google Reader, I had started using the RSS reader sometime ago, and I’m lovin’ it more n more day by day. It gives me lot inspiration to read n write and become active in this blogging world. So many blog posts created each day spanning several topics that the innovative idea of the RSS reader to share their favourites is highly appreciated. I don’t have much shared items but found that we can broadcast the marked items in our website as shown in the sidebar of my blog. Or you can share it using the direct link. I invite my readers to share their shared items/bookmarks etc.

Publicize: After reading so many posts on making money from blogging and adsense and publicizing, I am now randomly submitting my blog to most sites like Feed Burner, India Counts, Technorati etc. (By the way, wanna add my blog to Technorati favourites? 😉 )

WordPress plugins: I am planning to add the “Related Posts” plugin and some sidebar modifications. Thinking whether to add the Post rating plugin also. But too lazy to install n edit the themes… More over, I guess all my posts are related already, and coming to track popular or top rated ones, how do I know whether any posts can be popular or top rated, unless you, the readers, provide any feedback! 😀 So please provide me any feedback on plugins to be installed or for that matter any feedback is welcome. 😉 Meanwhile, lot of post topics pending, personal thoughts and meme’s..Hmm.. 🙁

Songs/Lyrics Download: Last weekend when I was at home, I was searching lot sites which provides free download of songs and found some here n here.

WebSites: Came across some Indian sites while surfing for submitting my blog to them. Indian pad, India Counts and Best of Indya are among them.

The blog title inspired from Webscape of Click Online program aired in BBC World.

films/Reviews/Thoughts

Film review – Life in a Metro

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The film by Anurag Basu and UTV indeed represents mixture of emotions, relations, feelings, race for money, diminishing love, dependency along with filmy drama at the end in some stories. The few things I did not like was the tragic end in some stories and the projection of sacrifice by women. The dialogues were good and bare enough to leave an imprint. Nowadays I am really inspired by the words everywhere, be it in song lyrics or that of the film dialogues.
– “Is sheher ne mujhe bahut strong bana diya hai” – We feel we are strong but when the truth is city life is just weakening our soul.
– “Ye koi morning walk nahi hai, this is a race” – So true. People are running so fast in their life, not because they want to run, but as life is demanding that nowadays. Everyone has dreams to build on, and they just are running to attain the goals, without giving importance to the paths.
– The situation of Dharmendra’s character at the end regretting his decisions of life. We think we take the right decision based on the constraints we have and stick to it, but at some point of time, we do regret some of our decisions, but time might have flew away leaving us with no other option than to move on.
– People are craving for love and for someone who can really love them, and end up in some complicated relations woven to form a mess from which its hard to break free.
– “Unless you take out your car to the road, you wont know what capabiliities it has” – Take a chance in your life. So true…
– “Always go with your heart than mind so that you don’t have to regret later” – Aaah!! This is my favourite which really substantiate my view towards life!! 🙂

An overall rating of 8.5/10 for the theme, songs, character portrayal and all, which would increase upto 9 had not been for the melodrama of Monty and Shruti at the end.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention about Deep’s review and I agree it to be irritating when rock band is showing up everywhere…

Lyrics/Personal/Thoughts

Dreaming on…

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I guess I have written lot on moving on life, but I feel this is something which haunts you now n then and pulls you into a black hole. There’s a saying, “Man proposes and God disposes”. This holds so true so many times in our lives. We strive for fulfilling your dreams but ends up failing as always. People say everything happens for good and there is something in store for you. But its like you get a nokia 6270 when you dreamed of N73! You are almost there and then all your hopes go down. I really wonder why did God create these hopes n dreams and determination in us, if He is gonna shower onto us, only that which he has destined for us…

Offtopic, I feel like listening to soft songs like Kitni baatein (Lakshya) and Almost here(Brian McFadden & Delta Goodrem)… hmmm…

Personal/Thoughts

Wishlist

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My wishlist is extending without bounds. I am a total gadget freak, and wish to have that and this but i just drool and do nothing else. All keep saying I can do it, and can buy them n all, but I never ever could make decisions so fast. The very few goodies I have is the amd sempron pc, canon powershot a400 (posted in y!360), and my one year old mobile w810i. As time goes on, you get the upgraditis disease especially if you are part of any technology forums like this. I feel like doing the following as of now:

-Buying the following:
A brand new laptop,
An external hard drive or external casing for my 160 GB PATA or atleast a pen/thumb drive!,
Upgrade my pc monitor from 15″ CRT to anything higher!!!,
A noiseless keyboard,
An SLR camera to boast and show off pictures,
-Blogging and ranting about many things and install many plugins
-Travel around world,
-Study something,
-Bunk office (oh yeah!) and see movies,
-Spam in FE and TE
-Modelling! (am i sure!! :O ) ok.. atleast a ramp walk…
-Create a self portrait
-Cuddle around with mom’s hugs,
-Do house work with dad,
-A long drive in my kinetic,
-Meet so many friends,
-And finally a deeep sleep with a peaceful mind!!!
-And one more…hear and try out some english songs,
-And..er..never mind..

Aaaah.. the list is endless… hmmm..

Quotes/Relationship

25 rules for relationship!

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PS: Another forwarded mail which claims the source as Psychology today site…

Human beings crave intimacy, need to love and be loved. Yet people have much trouble doing so.

It’s clear from the many letters I get that lots of folks have no idea what a healthy relationship even looks like. So I’m using this space as an attempt to remedy the problem.

From many sources and many experts, I have culled some basic rules of relationships. This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it’s a start. Print them out and pin them up on your refrigerator door.
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Quotes/Relationship

Being a twenty-something…

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It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn’t know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don’t recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren’t really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at wat ur studyin or ur job… and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn’t. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can’t meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone! but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you’re doing this because you know that you aren’t a bad person. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself… and while winning the race would be great, right now you are scared just to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that every one reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your twenty-something friends… maybe it will help someone feel like they aren’t alone in their state of confusion…

Its called “Quarter-life Crisis.” nothing is constant……except change. wats life without a few risks?

PS: Got this as a forwarded mail, but found it to be so true……