India won its first ever gold in an individual event. Wow ..
I was looking around for Olympics updates when i found
this.
100,000 ? Isn't that too much ?
Lets see the stats already available.
130,000 condoms were given out at Athens in 2004.
According to the wikipedia entry on
Athens Olympics, a total of 10,625 athletes with 5,501 team officials participated in the games.
So around 16,000 in all, lets say there were 8,000 men approx.
130,000/8,000 = on an average, 16.25 condoms per male.
The games happened from August 13 to 29 = 17 days.
I know a lot of rubber would've gone unused, mostly cos' men are very optimistic about their chances and might just end up carrying extra condoms hoping to get lucky, and prolly' a good number was wasted ( at least according to me) for other activities which don't really require the participant(s) to use a condom.
Even with all that, thats still a lot of sex. Wot think ?
Just an observation..
Bonus link- check
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Effective today my classes at college end 15 minutes earlier than before. ie. we are 'let off' at 3.40 instead of 3.55 pm. Now, this 15 mins time gives me enough time to catch a train at 4pm, which means i don't have to wait till the 4.45 train. This means I get home 45 mins- 1 hour sooner than before. Wow.
I feel my evenings have suddenly opened up( eventhough i get just 45 mins extra), i have time for so much else. It does not get dark by the time i get home, and i get back home in the 'afternoon' not 'evening'. We even started planning to go for a movie today ( plan flopped in the end), something unthinkable when we were on the previous schedule.
I think this is the only reason i'm in pretty decent moods now( i can't think of any other reason). 15 minutes change so much.
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is so amazing. So much can happen in a single day. Yesterday i had a very bad day and an awesome day together. What started off as a very neutral day turned into 'very bad' and then later in the evening it finally became this superawesome day. I just can't stop thinking about how things turned around for me in a few hours.
I really need to try and have a smoother emotional curve. Oscillating between 'slightly suicidal' and 'cheerful' isn't so easy on me. Neutral plateaus with gentle swings are better ithinks.
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I've now started reading books to kill time in class.
First, made a mistake by starting off with '
The Three Mistakes of my Life' by Chetan Bhagat. I think this is the worshest book i've read ever.
I borrowed the book from a friend, just to check if CB was worth all the hype he generates around here.
He sucks.
I know this sounds a little 'too much'; I really think i can
write rant better than him. When 'I' start feeling this way, the guy has really screwed up, right ?
Next, i moved on to '
The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy.
Very Impressive and i should say this book 'high level', In all my life I don't ever remember rereading lines over and over to understand the meaning. I even had to look up a few words on the online dictionary after i got back home. The narration style is simply awesome methinks, i sometimes found myself smiling for no reason at all. Everything about this book is awesome.
Pliss read if you can, and you'll not be disappointed. I promise.
Next up for class reading, The Lord of The Rings, my sister has all the three volumes in a single book ( must be atleast 4-5 inches thick), the wonly prob is i'll have to carry it to college everyday. Also its going to be a little difficult to hide a book of this size when class is on. Anyways ..
btw, any book suggestions ? Pliss leave a comment.
I'm thinking i'll read Archer's '
Kane and Abel' after this. Wot think ?
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... very Himesh Reshamiya-like. Loud and screechy. Sucks..
Also, this happens to be post #100 on my blog.
Edit: On repeated hearing i find that, two tracks - 'Chinnama' and 'Elay' are actually good. Listening them on loop from evening, sounds like the only A.R.R tracks in the album. All other songs i'm sure were outsourced to Himesh Reshamiya.
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Reason i went to see JTYJN on Saturday - ARR's music, Genelia D'souza and Aamir Khan Productions ( in that order). What i got was just an ' okay' bollywood teen flick . But then the superawesome music and the cool main characters kinda made up for all the general drabness.
A few general points.
- I find it very difficult to appreciate the humor in the movie ( i understand the lines .. no prob) but i just can't seem to sync with the crowd when it comes to laugh outs ( very few good ones in the movie actually).
Imagine this .. Everyone in the theater bursts out laughing for a scene which you don't find even mildly humorous. And for other scenes where you think there is a real subtle, laugh-worthy humor the crowd totally ignores it, and you have to check your burst out in milli-seconds to stop embarrassing yourself.
- The movie has a slew of guest appearances, Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Sohail and Arbazz Khan. I hated them all, too loud, jarring.. so irritating. I understand that Bollywood is one big brotherhood and all that, but this many needless 'guest appearances' is not necessary methinks.
- The movie gets very slow in the second half, sometimes it looks as if the film is moving in slow motion by mistake, every character on screen takes his/her own sweet time to deliver their lines and they talk at 5 words per min, take a small power nap before they react to lines and damn even they start moving slow. Bugging ..
- The only adjective that comes up when I think 'Genelia' is Sweet.
More later..
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Kamalhassan wanted 10 roles in a movie , there is no possible way he could've squeezed in 10 roles in a normal ( sequential, logical) storyline. So he chose - Chaos theory. Characters could appear randomly and fade out when not required and still the story would move on. I don't see why everyone made a huge fuss about the story, this movie does not require a story period.
The make-up and the CG could've been better, thats the only sore point. The movie works on two levels; for the masses its the high adrenalin chases, nice humor, a kill every few minutes by Fletcher and the like. And for the people who look for story, logic etc. there is the concept that random events happening to different people has an effect on the final story. This is good enough for me..
Don't have too much to say about Kamalhassan's acting, dialog delivery etc. cos' i watched the movie at home. A lame cam print is all i could get, the video was very poor and the audio was half a second out of sync.
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But people who haven't seen the movie yet - you need to ignore all the 'no story' reviews and check it out for yourself.
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