SP - Cartman - 1

got reminded of this episode where Cartman says "It's not going to be easy. But nothing worth having ever is"

drinking water on an empty stomach

i've been trying to find some proof that the claims made for this are true and i've been so far unsuccessful.. i saw the same baseless article about drinking water after you wake up (without even brushing your teeth!) about some japanese formulation and its supposed to cure every illness in the world including cancer!! totally stupid how people will include anything on their blog without proof..

Mayoclinic has a nice article about water and its benefits (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283) but it mentions nothing about drinking it on an empty stomach. I wish people would stop to think before they follow any practice..

ridiculouser and ridiculouser

BBT season 4..
but liked the fact that they cast that Blossom (tv show) girl (now a lady) as Sheldon's girl friend.. as a girl she acted well though.. in s4e1 of bbt i thought she was talking like a robot..

oil pulling

doesn't seem to have a lot of scientific evidence supporting its alleged benefits.. only accepted benefit is that it prevents plaque probably because of a saponification process.. but that's what using a toothpaste does too.. its really weird how much faith people have in this process with absolutely no proof

animation...

i like 'star trek - the animated series' much more than 'star trek - the original series'! i mean in the tv show with william shatner it's all about showing how macho he is, how he charms women and all that rot.. women seem to be powerless characters b4 him! absolute nonsense! and the story drags on without too many technical or philosophical turns in the story... they tried to tailor it for the layman i suppose..

traffic...

how can people pull up sooo close to other vehicles till the point where they are not able to see that vehicle's tail lights and still complain that the vehicle going before them gave no warning of stopping??

order of the phoenix...

i have been watching the harry potter movies again and i have to say that i found order of the phoenix movie (the 5th) to be an almost accurate adaptation of the book.. sure it wasn't exactly as it was in the book.. but once u get used to the idea that they cannot enact the entire sequence of events given the limited time and that conveying the essence of the information is the most important thing here - it was superb...

they have stripped the book of extraneous or repetitive details and only specified that which is most essential.. i couldn't ask for a better adaptation - and i'm an avid reader of the books myself..

i really didn't know if its the screenplay or direction, but i'm more inclined to believe its the former..

then when i watched the half-blood prince i was astounded! the screenplay writer was not the same but the director was! what a difference some good direction can make.. i'm really glad that the same guy (David Yates) is directing the deathly hallows movies too! :)

though why Mr. Weasley had to say (in HP6 movie) that the vanishing cabinets "were all the rage" when Voldemort was at his peak power.. i mean why would a magic object that all wizards use be in a dark arts shop like Borgin and Burke? that piece was inaccurate and i don't know how Rowling accepted this..

world of goo...

is brilliant!!!! amazing! awesome physics simulation game...
finished 2 chapters with about 10-12 levels each.. very very innovative..

another one from hp...

chamber of secrets.. always liked this one..

“It only put me in Gryffindor,” said Harry in a defeated voice,
“because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . .”
“Exactly,” said Dumbledore, beaming once more. “Which makes
you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that
show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

i thought...

the marauder's map was supposed to work only when harry was inside the school grounds.. then i realized i was thinking of it like a GPS! :D

harry potter...

i've mentioned before on this blog about how i follow the harry potter books.. and how much i like them.. in each book something stands out (it mostly happens to be something that wise ol' dumbledore says).. and i remember it for what seems like ever..

for example, one friend was talking to me about thrill rides and what it was about them that scared people.. i said that it was probably 'the unknown'.. and then i quoted a line from one of the HP books.. "fear of death and fear of dark are nothing but fears of the unknown".. i might be rephrasing it a little bit - i forgot the actual words.. and i feel that's true.. imagine if you completely knew what was going to happen it wouldn't be that scary anymore.. thrill rides add new twists and turns that keep us guessing, any new experience scares us at first..

another one i came across just now when i was the HP1 book again.. this line always rang true to me each time i read this book (like 7 or 8 times i guess)..

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the
next great adventure." :)

nexus..

'the man from earth' movie could've been inspired by the 'requiem for methuselah' episode of star trek TOS...

life is like linux...

was a hectic day @ work when this hit me.. :D
life = linux coz it doesn't come with a (good) manual, you struggle to comprehend it and at times feel hopeless and just wanna give up, and then sometimes suddenly everything makes sense! LOL!

bigg confusion..

don't know whether to watch the tamil 'ravanan' or the hindi 'raavan'! :D
heard vikram's acting is really good in tamil, but i like abhishek bachchan better.. :D

in google reader....

what does it mean when people like a news feed? does it mean that they like the way the reporter put it or does it mean they like the news?
i ask this because in comic feeds and other places where creativity is involved, people like it because they appreciate the creativity.. confusing..

geeks n nerds

that xkcd cartoon abt geeks and nerds is funny.. i always am particular what they call whom.. i think i'm more of a geek than a nerd.. but well its a matter of opinion..

its really weird though that i like the geeks in most tv shows... bob saget in full house, jim parsons (sheldon cooper) in BBT, monica & chandler in friends..

But dude! He's got Heather!

LOL!
south park has some gross and weird stuff.. but i always try to look beyond all that and see the point they are trying to make with every episode..
the title of this post is from one of the episodes in Aspen.. the kids' parents are stuck in a timeshare presentation while the boys try to ski on the bunny slope.. stan gets pulled in to this weird but typical storyline of most movies.. where he has to ski race against this tough pro skier.. initially stan doesn't care and he's like 'whatever dude'... then he gets involved without really a reason!
stan: but dude.. he's got heather!
kyle: dude! u don't even know heather!
or something like that.. LOL!

i like to see analogies in most things.. and i felt that this was a kind of thing that happens to all of us.. we observe things and events happening in our life and we initially don't really care.. then somehow (stupidly) we get involved in all this worldly stuff and laugh and cry with it! weird and funny.. :)

what goes around comes around?

i don't believe in karma... i sure wish i did..
somebody suffering for the wrong they did to u would sure be sweet.. :D
but u probably shouldn't do the right thing just because you feel you would be punished otherwise..

chicken and egg... part 1

there are many things we see in life where we don't see the causality of something.. take this thing i observed a year back for example..
i noticed that most guys who drive convertibles are bald.. are they bald because they spent most of their youth stressed out earning their convertible? or are they bald because born rich they spent too much time driving the convertible with the top down? and if its the former then isn't that ironic? :D
the point i got from this was to be happy with whatever we have at the moment..

aspirations...

was watching old episodes of the BBT and was thinking of how well I could understand and in some cases relate to Sheldon Cooper... was thinking i could work as a geek therapist! LOL!