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Author's Note: The following story has real-life elements, but still, mostly fiction. Enjoy, and constructive criticism is always welcome! <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9

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Things I have learnt after two weeks in Bangalore:Trying to find your way around a new city can be trying if you have no map, no clue re: the city layout ("Indiranagar? Gandhinagar? Stop confusing me!") and no grasp of the local language (though knowing Hindi helps.)The autos here are insane. Either they don't want to go where you want to go, or they want to charge you an exorbitant flat fee for

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Now Playing: Agnes Obel - Riverside"Oh, she eats with her left hand?"I'm used to getting that question from Indian aunties and uncles, usually in a disapproving voice, so when someone asked my mother that over dinner, I said, "yes, she does" in a tone of voice that most reasonable people might take as a sign to retreat."You know how you can fix that?""Uncle, I don't want to fix it!"Mum intervened

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Now Playing: Ellie Goulding - Lights  As a rule, curly hair is invariably appreciated more by those who are not burdened with it.  People often ask me, "Is that your real hair?" "Oh no," I feel like replying, "this is just the result of a perm gone horribly wrong. But no need to worry! I'm suing the hairstylist responsible!" Personally, I doubt anyone would put up with hair like mine - a

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My father and I were discussing Star Trek. As you do.  Me: So you have The Original Series, right? Dad: Right... Me: And then you have The Next Generation. Dad: ... Me: The one with Patrick Stewart? Dad: Right. Me: And then you have Deep Space Nine, and then comes Voyager, and THEN you have Enterprise, which is set before TOS, so it's a prequel to all the other shows. Dad: Then where does that

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I don't know if it's some sort of ingrained malayalee thing, but I love elephants, which is why these ads make me tear up like a professional onion chopper:

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It's a show about a nerd who gets top-secret, super-classified government intel stuck in his head... and now he fights crime! Zachary Levi, who plays said nerd Chuck, is adorable and remarkably attractive in a rumpled sort of way.  His handlers, CIA agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) and NSA agent John Casey (Adam Baldwin) are just badass.  The rest of the cast is just awesome, which one

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 Why is Heidi Montag following me on twitter?

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It is quite easy to feel put-upon when you're the lone vegetarian in a house of carnivores. One begins to feel proprietary towards the fruits and veggies. "Keep your hands off my spinach, you already have chicken curry!" I would say, to which my brother, not unreasonably, would usually reply, "Just because you're a vegetarian doesn't mean you're the only person who gets to eat plant matter!" It

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Me: AAAAAAIEEEEEEEEE!!! Dad: What? What? Me: *point and wibble* Dad: Oh, please. It's probably more scared of you than you are of it. Me: I really doubt that. It's probably the runt of the litter and Papa Spider and Mama Spider and all its one hundred siblings are probably waiting around the counter to EAT US. Have you learned nothing from Hollywood? Dad: ...

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This should be fun: Beth and other assorted Bollywood bloggers and fans are organizing a Striker watchalong this Sunday 7th January at 1 pm EST (10 pm local UAE time) on Google Wave. The film is being released worldwide on Youtube at the same time as it hits cinemas in India - for free in most places, though US viewers will have to shell out a not unreasonable $5. For more info on this event, you

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"In this respect, the United States represents the form toward which capitalist democracy is tending; related tendencies include the progressive elimination of unions and other popular organizations that interfere with private power, an electoral system that is increasingly stage-managed as a public relations exercise, avoidance of welfare measures such as national health insurance that also

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(Inspired by Indiequill's post here.) Why do we bite our tongues? Why, when faced with something or someone annoying, do we swallow down our anger and tell ourselves that there's no need to make a fuss, the irritant will soon be gone? I recently had the dubious pleasure of meeting, after a very long time, an old acquaintance. Said old acquaintance - let us call him Q - has always been abrasive

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Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah) and his nephew Babban (Arshad Warsi) are on the run from their boss, Mushtaq Bhai. Khalujaan - real name Iftekhar, but no one calls him that  - is Mushtaq Bhai's wife's rakhi bhai , but given that he and his bhanja stole a bagful of money from him and left him tied to a chair, things aren't exactly cordial between them. With nowhere else to run, they decide to hide

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Now Playing: Editors - Papillon (Tiesto Mix) Anyone who knows me knows I'm shallow like a kiddie pool. I don't just have one fake-imaginary-tv-movie-boyfriend, I have a whole collection. When I'm in the mood for funny banter, there's Nathan Fillion; Abhishek Bachchan has intense and debonair in his pocket; Matthew Bomer is just uncomfortably good-looking, & Shahid Kapoor does that quiet,

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  Habib Koité playing in the midst of the not-so-few, the brave, the energetic -  the people who got up and danced. Heroic Pose, Crappy Photo Towards the beginning of the two-hour set;  the drummer - Souleymane Ann, I think! - also played the Calabash. On the Talking Drum, Mahamadou Kone with Bassist Abdoul Wahab Berthé. The Guitarist - Le Professeur Boubacar Sidibé! - and the

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Now Playing: Dragonette - Liar I like to write. I like - though I do not always enjoy - the process of crafting sentences, choosing the exact words and phrasing to achieve the necessary nuance. While there is nothing so neat and elegant as a clever turn of phrase, it is a truth sadly acknowleged by every jaded reader and aspiring scribbler that these specimens are elusive, rarely to be found in

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Now Playing: Little Boots - Symmetry From the Rush Limbaugh show, Jan 13th:  "Yes, I think in the Haiti earthquake, ladies and gentlemen -- in the words of Rahm Emanuel -- we have another crisis simply too good to waste.  This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate.  They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, "credibility" with the black community -- in the

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Now Playing: Lindisfarne - Meet Me On The Corner "Having curly hair," I mused, "is like being in an abusive relationship." "What?!?" "No, really. You know how abusive spouses can be sweet as pie one day, and then the next day they break your nose because you didn't get their coffee right, or whatever?" "Um, okay?" "And then, even when women leave their abusive husbands, a lot of times they

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Now Playing: Cory Monteith - I'll Stand By You “What makes a masterpiece? One answer is mastery. But that raises questions of its own. What is it? Where does it come from? And is it enough?” I won’t lie: I totally cracked up typing up that quote. And come on, who wouldn’t? Doesn’t it sound like the opening to a particularly awkward high school essay? “Please write 500 words on what makes a

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Now Playing: Friendly Fires - Kiss of Life How vain do you have to be to join a site called BeautifulPeople.com? A site so "exclusive" you can only get in if existing members agree that you're hot enough? How desperate for validation must you be? It's alright though, they love you! You're officially one of the Beautiful People! But then, tragedy strikes. It's the holiday season, there are

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Time for the year-end music meme! Now, I'm not sure if this is an existing meme or if I've just invented it, but the rules are simple. List the five songs you listened to most often in descending order Include four lines from each Here I go: Ladyhawke - Magic   You stayed in my head where I saw you all the time I didn't think you'd care, I didn't think you'd care I found you one day with a

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Now Playing: Auletta - Meine Stadt Here it is, the year-end TV meme of shame, ganked from Indiequill. The rules are simple: Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. Highlight new additions with an Underline. Now, I honestly don't know where I found time to watch all

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Now Playing: Ravel - Une Barque Sur L'OceanLook what Santa left under the tree:A Keurig B30 Mini Coffee Brewer! For all my gourmet-coffee-at-home needs. I can recommend Timothy's Columbian Fair-Trade Dorado, but you can use your own regular coffee blend with a reusable coffee filter. Now, I generally prefer teas or tisanes, but this machine makes a damn fine cup of coffee.Boxing Day Haul: I

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To you and yours, my very best wishes during this festive season.

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Now Playing: Metric - Gold Guns Girls

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In all the talk about how we're all exiting the recession - as if it were a cheesy house of horrors ride at an amusement park - no one seems to remember the underlying cause of the whole mess in the first place: real estate debt and the securitization thereof.Some $3,500bn (€2,355bn, £2,125bn) of commercial property debt is outstanding in the US alone. (emphasis mine.) Of that, about one-quarter

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Now Playing: Placebo - For What It's Worth95% of the time, I'm hella risk-averse. I know the flavours of ice cream I like - mango in summer, chocolate in winter - and I stick with them; when I went skiing, it wasn't so much skiing as much as it was a slow, agonizing sort of inching down a bunny slope/piste verte; recently I went shopping for leggings and thought myself daring for buying them in

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Me and the family - "The Family and I," insists Mrs-B-in-my-head, but I shush her - have just been to hear Handel's Messiah performed at Roy Thompson Hall by the TSO and the Mendelssohn Choir. The only word for it is Epic. Actually, there are many other words - proper, music-critic-type words - but the other one that I will pick is capslock-inducing. "WASN'T THAT AWESOME?" I said on exiting the

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Awesomely, Ellie Goulding made Auntie Beeb's Sound of 2010 list! Have a listen:Like all the boys before, like all the boys, boys, boysYou left a blood stain on the floorYou set your sights on himYou left a hand print on the doorLike all the boys before, like all the boys beforeThis is our luck, baby, running outHer clothes were never offWe still have our lives to run aboutTo steal the map, steal

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Now Playing: Justice - D.A.N.C.E. New Layout! This happens when you're tweaking your blog layout at two in the morning - you accidentally delete the old layout, the backup copy has gone walkabout and you figure, what the hey, time for a change anyway, and why not a new title into the bargain? Electric Abacus is so 2002.A Gammerstang, in case you're wondering, is a very archaic term for a tall,

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Now Playing: Cocteau Twins - Alice I've always loved long-exposure night shots. Fifteen seconds is a bit much, but the end result is just so shiny, I can't help myself!

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- Che... You haven't heard?- What?- Maybe you should sit down.- No, just tell me! Oh God, what is it?- I didn't want to be the one to tell you -- WHAT IS IT?- Nickelback is Billboard's group of the decade.- Nooo...- Here, sit down... Can I get you some tea? Coffee?- Hemlock!!!- It's not that bad...- Not that bad?!- This Is How You Remind Me is only the 4th biggest song of the decade.- Ohhh.- Yeah

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Philip Glass' new work, Violin Concerto No 2, may be called "The American Four Seasons" but try as I might, I really couldn't hear anything like Vivaldi tonight at Roy Thompson Hall, where the work was played for only the third time since it was premiered there on Wednesday, December 9th.Despite the distraction of the title, the piece in question is georgeously complex and darkly soul-stirring.

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Amazon.ca has season 1 of Castle for only $19.99! Granted, that's only ten episodes, but there's all those delicious extras (not to mention delicious Nathan Fillion.) Oh, I wants it...

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Now Playing: La Roux - Quicksand Major Malayalam Fail: For the longest time, I thought 'nammal thammil' - between us - was actually 'nammal thamizh' - we the Tamils - which I understood to be some expression of pan-Dravidian identity, which I further took to be a very, very macro way of saying 'us.'Really.And then I was always so confused why people were using such a large-scale expression for

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Dear Maple Leafs,It is difficult to maintain the delusion of the Leafs attaining Stanley Cup Glory when the only team with a worse win percentage are the Carolina Hurricanes (who've only won 18.52% of their games thus far this season, compared with our 24%.) Now granted, I'm a hockey-illiterate chump who still doesn't know what offside is - but please, Leafs, do something, anything to stop the

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Regarding your decision to send naked pictures of yourself to your boyfriend, and the subsequent decision to justify yourself in the following words:"If you don't send your boyfriend naked pictures, then I feel bad for him." Are you mental? I'm not even getting into your getting back together with Chris Brown after he used you as a punching bag, which, also stupid, but this? "Hello impressionable

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Now Playing: Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An EagleI was watching Demons the other day - the show is nothing special, except as a showcase for Philip Glenister's inexplicable "American accent" and if I were him, I wouldn't draw attention to it - when a character was told to read Bram Stoker's Dracula and asked, "Can I watch the movie instead?"We - Generation Y for Youtube - take it for granted

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Now Playing: Boyzone - WordsStephen Gately, Boyzone member, died this month. He was only the second celeb I ever had a crush on - the first was David Duchovny - and hearing of his death makes me feel old in ways a simple birthday could never do.Rest in Peace, Stephen. I still have my Boyzone tapes, and your autograph, and that embarrassingly large poster tucked away somewhere and when my (

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There is no justice in the world when Tracey Emin makes enough money to qualify for the UK's top tax rate.Tracey Emin - whose most famous work is arguably My Bed, which was pretty much her bed and associated detritus - stained sheets, used condoms, underwear stained with menstrual fluids (yes, really) as well as more workaday items such as slippers - earns more than 150,000 pounds a year. That's

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Now Playing: Bomba Estereo - FuegoI've said it here already, but I want to repeat it so I can grumble, "I called it!" when Palin romps to victory in 2012:Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is less a Norwegian sigh of relief at the Bush Jr years coming to an end and more a giant right-wing conspiracy to ensure a Republican victory in 2012. First, moderate voters are going to think, "Well, what

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Now Playing: Antonio Carlos Jobim - DesafinadoA bit of background - a woman is hanging with her friends on King Street in Toronto, guy comes up to her all SuperSmooth, she gives him her card to get him to go away, and he calls back. Via Jezebel, here's a transcript of the two messages he left her - that she forwarded to local radio station Z103.5 (Today's Hit Music!).Message the first:Hey Olga,

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Now Playing: A Fine Frenzy - Think Of YouI've only seen two Roman Polanski movies. The first was his 1971 version of Macbeth, which we watched in OAC English class, and the second was Chinatown, which was being shown as on TVO's Saturday Night at the Movies. I had a Penguin's Guide to Classic Films, and two of his films were featured - Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby - so I knew he was a director

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Because Leverage is awesome and y'all should be watching it -

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Statutory Warning: Please don't read this if you suffer from high blood pressure. So, recently I came across this website called Ladies Against Feminism. Now, if I had a modicum of sense, I would have Alt + Left Arrowed my way back to my Google home page, but as has been demonstrated previously, I am an idiot, so -The writers who contribute to this website believe, variously, that feminism is

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Now Playing: Vishal Bhardwaj - Pehli Baar MohabbatWhen Zac Efron decides it’s time to shed his pretty-boy image for something more macho, he would do well to find a project like Kaminey, which manages to simultaneously make a hard man out of Shahid Kapoor and establish his acting chops.Charlie is a small-time thug with big-time dreams while Guddu is an earnest social worker who passes out

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Now Playing: Bell X1 – FlameFive things you don’t know about me – at least, I hope you don’t, as otherwise this is going to be rather pointless –I’m not at all a very sociable person. Anton Chekov wrote a story about a man who bets a large sum of money on his being able to stay in completely solitary confinement for fifteen years, with books and food provided. This was part of the English Lit

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Following on from this post -Marry me, Barney Frank.For a Brit's take on how Universal Healthcare is supposedly The Return Of The Nazis, go here.

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 Now Playing: Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses  (Continued from last time - The family has arrived home with the new addition.)  Me: Be careful! SUPPORT THE NECK! IT'S DELICATE!Brother: First of all, it's an iPod, not a baby, and second of all, THERE IS NO NECK YOU DEMENTED CREATURE. Me: Don't listen to your uncle, my sweet baby, there's a dear. (aside) Don't hurt its feelings! It can't help being

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Now Playing: Friendly Fires – Lovesick For all that the United States of America is Canada’s closest trading partner, our cultural brother-from-another-mother and the South to our True North Strong And Free, there are aspects to American Culture that I find unfathomable.First of all, what is up with the one-dollar bills? This may seem a trivial point to many, but one of the things that really

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Now Playing: Ladyhawke - MagicAs the first half of Love Aaj Kal ended and the lights came up in the theatre for the intermission, I felt distinctly underwhelmed. This was an Imtiaz Ali film, and yet it didn't pop – unlike his previous picture, Jab We Met, whose heroine's middle names were probably Snap, Crackle and Pop. It was halfway through the movie – and yet the most noteworthy thing I'd seen

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 Now Playing: Belle and Sebastian – Cassaco Marron I haven't always had identity issues. When I was young, it never occurred to me to question what I was. I was Indian, my parents were malayalee though my mother's family were settled in Bombay, and that was that. Things began to change when I was in grade four. That was a strange year; in IV-C, there were, by some administrative stroke of genius,

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at Jaisalmer Fort, Rajasthan

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Now Playing: Ellie Goulding – Guns & HorsesDecember last, I finally stopped dithering and asked my brother to pick me up an iPod Classic. Longtime readers (of the imaginary blog updated only in my head) will know that I’ve been in search of a new mp3 player ever since my late, extremely un-lamented creative zen slipped into a coma. FINALLY, after a lot of ipod vs zune deathmatches, I decided to

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Now Playing: Florence + The Machine – Hurricane DrunkOh, dear, it has been a while.I feel as though I ought to apologise, but to whom? Not even tumbleweeds blow this way any more.Still, if you’re here, thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for fresh content – I hope.

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They killed Norrington! Those Bastards.(The rest was passable, except for the complete waste of Chow-Yun Fat. Gah.)

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"Inferis found that she received a lot more dinner invites in the summertime - barbeque season, to be precise."(Image generated at HeroMachine 2.0)

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"The crazy matricidal homicidal serial killer who eats brains is not hot. The evil serial killer is, I repeat, not hot. (pause) Except for the part where he totally is. (sigh)"

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"Watch out, Gordon Brown!"

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"I shall call it... Bluegrass."

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"Damn Paparrazzi."

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Hot Fuzz: worth the price of admission just to watch Simon Pegg kick a granny in the face.

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Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

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My pirate name is: Mad Charity Vane Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr! Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org network One has to do something to

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Is Sam Tyler mad, in a coma, or back in time?We don't know yet, but Life on Mars is still made of awesome.

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Two (really hot) brothers fight evil (hotly). And Denny is their Dad.

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Now Playing: Justin Timberlake - What Goes AroundSo spring has sprung, and the birds just won't bloody shut up about it -

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Now Playing: Arkin Allen - Mekseline Was v disheartened to realize that 95% of my phone conversations (& pretty much all of my msn convos) can be summed up thusly -Oh noes, indeed.

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A man has been sentenced to death for the accidental murder of his friend, and the only way to save him is for the wife of his victim to sign a pardon - easier said than done.This intense, beautifully-acted movie was later remade as Dor, a far inferior film.

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Me wants my precious nowww...

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It's Grey's Anatomy - only funnier, made of crack, and British.

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A beautifully directed & absorbing (though rather violent) film about a young girl's quest to prove her identity.

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Now Playing: David Bowie - Life on Mars? This picture was forwarded to me with the heading, "India-Pakistan Unity At Last" before the fatal India-Sri Lanka game last Friday.The first World Cup match I watched was the 1996 India-Pakistan Quarter-Final. India batted first, and despite an early batting collapse (which still pales in comparison to the shambles we were against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

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and still we couldn't make it.(Picture from Getty Images & Cricinfo)

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Now Playing: Zero 7 - You're My FlameI *heart* Heroes. There, I said it. Y'know, the night of 4th March, when it turned out there were no more new episodes till the end of April? That funny wail you heard? Yep, that was me.Although the fates of the various characters are in limbo until April 23rd or thereabouts, they are alive (and kicking, and whining) in cyberspace. That's right, they're

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Now Playing: Gabin - Une histoire d'amoire

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Now Playing: Laidback - Beautiful Day

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Why are more people not watching this show?

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Now Playing: McFly- Please Please Please Being a fan of the Indian cricket team is like being in an abusive relationship. When things go well – as the first India versus South Africa test did – you think, “Wow, maybe from now on it’ll always be like this!” But then things go downhill again – like the 2nd and 3rd test – and still you stick with the team, hoping against hope that things will look

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Now Playing: Keane - Atlantic"What? I can't take a quick dip to escape the Mediterranean heat?"

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Now Playing: Muse - Map of the Problematique Ted Chiang is said to have remarked that what distinguishes science-fiction and fantasy is possibility; science-fiction describes that which may one day be possible, whereas fantasy describes that which we can never have. So which is Children of Men? It is 2027, and the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Women haven’t been able to have children

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Now Playing: Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown OriginBecause Edna St Vincent Millay makes my heart ache, and because the world is tipping over into ruin, here's a poem from Second April. MariposaButterflies are white and blueIn this field we wander through.Suffer me to take your hand.Death comes in a day or two.All the things we ever knewWill be ashes in that hour,Mark the transient butterfly,

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Now Playing: Ratt – Round and RoundSo there I was, minding my own business, when Rishi takes it upon himself to tag me. First the guy told me who died in OotP, then this? This means war, man. *shakes fist*But then I thought, “If I had to learn stuff in 2006, why should my blog readers get off scott-free?” Thus, without further ado, 2006 in Epiphanies, Realizations and Lessons Learnt:1. Having all

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and because I am on such a Supernatural kick right now -

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Now Playing: The Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane'Twas a dark and stormy night afternoon when I heard fingernails tapping on my window. One Lockwoodesque freakout later, I realized that what I had heard was probably not the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw (for reasons geographical as well as sensible); but instead, as in the novel, simply the tapping of a tree branch against the glass

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Now Playing: Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a StarWhy I watch Prison Break - It's a conspiracy show. I cut my TV-teeth on The X-files, and so conspiracy shows always make me feel warm and fuzzy. (Unlike sitcoms, which fill me with feelings of dread and paranoia.)It keeps things moving along at a brisk pace. (Unlike Lost, which has spent the last two seasons giving us four seasons worth of backstory to

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Call me Gloaty McGloatGloat, 'cause guess how Stephen LeDrew did in the 2006 Toronto Mayoral Election this past Monday? The Great Bowtie placed a distant third, with an underwhelming 8,078 votes, or just 1.38% of total votes.*happy sigh*Sometimes, just sometimes, things go the way they ought to.

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Now Playing: Don – Aaj ki Raat When international criminal Don (Shah Rukh Khan) is captured by DCP DeSilva (Boman Irani), the latter decides to use a Don look-a-like, Vijay, to further his investigation into Don’s gang. Throw in a femme fatale or three (Priyanka Chopra, Isha Koppikar & Kareena Kapoor), a revenge-seeking father (Arjun Rampal) and more international criminals and you have a

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Now Playing: Gomez - How We OperateIt’s best to watch The Prestige, Christopher Nolan’s latest, knowing as little of the plot as possible. Suffice it to say that the movie concerns two 19th century magicians, Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) whose friendship is quickly soured and twisted by tragedy. A game of one-upmanship ensues, with both Borden and Angier

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I'm caught in the throes of blogger ennui.Oh, woe.On the positive side, I have found something that'll help you bide the time till a more substantive post arrives. Ladies and Gents - 'Kya Surat Hai' by the Bombay Vikings, a song that I found irresistibly funny when it first came out in 1999 or thereabouts.

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My Dad and I went hiking Sunday afternoon, starting out at Edwards Gardens (at Leslie and Lawrence) and finishing at St Clair Station: here's some of what we saw en route.

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From My BackyardBeware Kids Playing Street HockeyNeighbour's Frontyard"Them colors sure are purdy, huh?"Potentially Diabetic (But Not At All Camera-Shy) Squirrel

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The other day I was talking to a friend on msn, and weirdly enough, we were discussing friendship, and I said: “...that's the whole point of a friend: they stand by your side, they support/defend you...” Then I watched Lage Raho Munnabhai (Keep at it, Munnabhai) and I realized that I was just so wrong. Friendship is about more than just caring and support; true friendship means kidnapping a

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Gay Perry: Look up idiot in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?Harry Lockhart: A picture of me?Gay Perry: No! The definition of idiot. Which you fucking are! Quote from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), courtesy of IMDb Toronto lawyer Stephen Ledrew, who served as president of the federal Liberal Party of Canada from 1998 to 2003, was the last high-profile candidate to announce his

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