• Visitor6167 - Jan 29, 2008 4:23 PM
  You kept changing your name. :p but didn't say anything. Anyways, use a proper name next time. Visitor6167 sounds like an entity.


• hi - Jan 30, 2008 10:57 AM
  Your name, 1st msg, 2nd msg - all are 'Hi'. Give me you name yaar. I won't bite. :D


• Ravi - Jan 30, 2008 12:28 PM
  U said U have some doubts. U can contact me here


• Nishu - Jan 30, 2008 5:22 PM
  I'm doin fine. Just a bit disoriented, I guess.
  I actually thought that you're my Bhabi's friend. Her name's also Nishu.
  U can contact me here or leave your mail id in comment if U use GTalk.


• Ria Shah - Jan 30, 2008 7:07 PM
  Hmmm. Hi profile visitor. Really missed this one. :k
  I also really needed to talk to you. But - real bad luck and timing. Add to that - your 'masha-allah' net connection. Fix that plz. Hope you're online this eve.


• Hadar - Jan 31, 2008 3:36 PM
  So, you're interested in advertising in my blog ..!! Sounds kool. Contact me. Drop your mail id in comment. I'll revert back to you asap.


• Pratiksha - Jan 31, 2008 4:31 PM
  You think I'm ignoring you ...!!! :# Ohh - that's soooo wrong. As you know now, I wasn't at my desk. Bad times. I would never ignore you kiddo. How are you, btw? U can mail me.

Hope I don't miss any more pings. If I do, you can make sure that contact you back. U can leave your mail ids or contact numbers before closing the chat window. Or, you can leave your msg here. Never miss it. Have a nice day.

Best movies that I watched

• Bourne Ultimatum. The best bourne / spy movie that I've ever seen. You won't get bored even for a single second. A detailed review here


• 300. Surely one of the best 'graphic novel' adaption. Excellent look, action sequences and rock in the background. Must watch.


• Die Hard 4. Frankly, I'm not a DieHard franchise and haven't scene any earlier installments either. But this movie made me buy the earlier part DVDs. Mind blowing action. And lots of tech talks too.


• Resident Evil 3. Year of sequels, I guess. The best of RE series, till date. Some awesome zombie action. Much better than 'I am Legend'. Review of the two here and here


• Life in a Metro. Truly an amazing movie. Depicts the life of Metro citizens as it is. FP Review

Another couple of movies that are worth a mention are Chak De India and Shoot 'em Up

Worst movies that I watched

I saw more crappy movies than good movies. So, picking out the worst 5 is harder than Best 5. Anyways, here they are -

• No Smoking. Worst hindi movie I've ever seen. I was feeling like smacking my head on the monitor.


• Gandhi My Father. Donno what critics saw in this movie. I just couldn't bear it. Got a huge headache by the end of it.


• Cheeni Kum. Another acclaimed movie that I just hated. Even Nishabd was better than this. Atleast, Zia Khan was worth a watch. :p


• Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Preity disappointed me big time. Senseless plot and not so 'happening' nach-gana.


• Hostel 2. Hostel series is always over-rated. Just hated this one as well.

Some other big disappointments are - Harry Potter 5, Aaja Nachle, Bhool Bhulaiya etc. I know almost 60% people loved these movies, but they failed to impress me. HP5 was worst of all HP movies. Aaja Nachle wasn't worth Madhuri's comeback vehicle. And, Bhool Bhulaiya was complete hotchpotch for me. Attempting comdey, horror, suspense, musical - al at the same time had its cost.

Best Hindi Songs

• Tum Se Hi [Jab We Met] - Amongst the best lovey-dovey song of all times.


• Bol Naa Halke Halke [Jhoom Barabar Jhoom] - The only saving grace of that movie is this song. Hum along.


• Ke Bin Tere [Aggar] - Mithoon's music rocks the chart, once again. Awesome lyrics. Sang with passion.


• To Phir Aao [Aawarapan] - Great music. Similar to Atif Aslam genre.


• Alvida [Metro] - Put all the passion of a heart-break and sing this song.

Best Applications [Desktop / Web]

• Orkut / GTalk / Blogger. Grouped them all together as otherwise this list will become google dominated. They effected our lives like nothing else ever did.


• Netvibes. Maintaining the feeds of different sites / blogs was never this easy.


• VLC Media Player. The best media player there is. Plays all formats of media.


• Picasa. Both the Desktop application and the web album. Made photo album management so easy.


• Firefox - still rules the web scene, IE7 not-withstanding.

My Best Posts

• Harry Potter 7 : Spoiler - Most viewed post of my blog that brought me more than 1500 visitors on a single day.


• My Best Friend's Wedding - The book series closest to me.


• How safe is your office. It's time to sit up and revive your safety measures.


• Gals love spoilt playboys - The dark secret is out in the open. Learn why you can't get that girl of your dreams.


• Everything back to cricket. The postmortem of India's Cricket craziness post Chack De India and T20 win.

This is what I can think of right now. Lemme know what was best in 2007 according to you. Leave your list as comment. Or mention just any one thing. NJoy. :)

For the record - my current 'must-watch-movie' list includes - 'Beowulf, Hitman and Jab We Met.


Hmmmm. I'm getting a bit creative these days. Used the 'Music DJ' on my w810i handset for the 1st time and created two ring-tones or melody [as they call it]. I'm quite liking them and am, in fact, quite proud and excited that I created 'em. :) But sadly, those midi files are not playing in any PC, atleast not with existing codecs on my PC. But it's working on all mobile handsets. Download them from links below, transfer them to your handset, listen to them and drop me a comment here - how do you like 'em.

Melody 1
Melody 2


And ohhh.... I've been interviewed. By none other than cuty Ria, who's also the co-author of one of my other blogs - vicky @ work. The interview was a bit of a surprise, as well as shock to me. It was like being grilled by girlfriend's dad. ;) Actually, her idea was to publish the interview here with the title 'Rendezvous with Bikram!'. This is what she wrote for it -

Since Bikram has not posted anything fascinating for long, I thought let me do it on his behalf! It's funny, entertaining and if you're keen on knowing any of vicky's secrets, this is the right place to be!

Well, let's not discourage her totally. Lemme give you a short glimpse of my 'interview' -

Ria:	Let's get started with your interview Most important thing for you on earth??
Bikram:	Companionship
Ria:	least important?
Bikram:	sleep - I guess :D
Ria:	U love most?
Bikram:	myself. :p 4 d time being
Ria:	You love to spend your time with??
Bikram:	Not anyone in particular. Anyone who doesn't invade my personal space
Ria:	What do you think of girls??
Bikram:	Better half ....!!! In general, gals are - cute, adorable.
Ria:	Outfit that looks pretty on a woman?
Bikram:	Depends. In general, I like casual T's
Ria:	What u think of me? ;) Plzz kuch accha bolna :D
Bikram:	Next best thing. 1st is myself. :)
Ria:	You fall in love too easily..dont you??
Bikram:	I don't fall in love that quickly. But, I do trust people quickly and let them come near me.
Ria:	What kinda gal do u want in your life?
Bikram:	Someone who's cute, innocent, independent and energetic; but should be a ltl bit dependent on me for ltl love n care.

This is just an edited part of what she asked me. There's been lot more. It was somewhat fun. I've turned the table now and asked her to answer the same questions. But she bailed out for the time being, saying 'gtg'. Well, will catch her soon. Let's see.

I was at a loss initially. Meeting all these new people for the first time was kind of uneasy for me, being sort of introvert n all. But gradually, I was at ease. We started by introducing ourselves to the gathering. Well, that didn't go well. There was lotsa noise and we can't hear what he / she was saying. So, didn't quite get the names of all. When it was my turn, my voice kind of got husky [ 'phate bans jaisa' as they say in Hindi ] in my attempt to make it loud. And when I said I have some 5 blogs, I guess it sounded unbelievable [ 'fek raha hai' ] or funny [ 'blog maniac' ]. Thank god I didn't say that apart from the 5 blogspot blogs, I have some 3 other blogs in LiveSpace, Vox and LiveJournal. That would've sounded like a total freak.

Anyway, people were still trickling in, which was good to see. The more the merrier. Poor Sanjukta. She was again n again asking if we are done with the intro, "Let's discuss the agenda". But, it's difficult to manage 40+ people, specially when they are avid blogger youth. Even waiters were having a tough time taking their orders. Either all were saying what they want at the same time, or weren't responding to him at all. I guess he must've thought that we are doing it deliberately. Poor waiter - he's surely gonna take a sick-leave next time any Bloggers' meet is held there.

Anyways, once the intro was done, Sanju took center stage, named 'Blogspot'. "Decide agenda for the main event - BarCamp", to be held 28 - 29 July. That's what we all are waiting for. Well, lotsa ideas came forth. MicroBlogging, Copyright Issues, blogging tools n platform etc. I suggested 'Security of images in web'. Huh .. finally. That's one topic I was hell bent on sharing with others but wasn't getting any way to do it. Now I have a platform. That's what this meet was all about - sharing n enrichment.

Then there was this discussion about setting up an web NGO [ not National Geographic Online, as quipped by someone ]. The points that Hari put forward really holds water. We, the youth of India, just go on complaining about things but never try to take action on things. This is high time that we voice our opinion and also spread the awareness among people. We can't always depend on Govt. to do things. It's our duty to take care of our society. Let's do it, buddy.

Then there were Himansu and Ashwin. They talked about 'Wings' and 'Nisarga India', their plans to give strength to physically challenged people, taking them on adventure outings etc. That was really heart-warming.

After all were done with their Coffee and drinks, it was time to wrap it up for this weekend. I was like - "What....!! It's over ...!!!". Looked at my watch which was showing 2 PM. Didn't feel like, though. Sridhar became the B'day bakra, received some B'day bumps. One o one, we left for home.


That was a great great weekend after a pretty long time. I'm generally not comfortable with meting new people. But there, everybody seemed familiar. Not just hypothetically. There was this weird feeling that I've been here before, have met all these people; U know like those ESP moments, when U have this strong feeling that U've lived through this exact same circumstance before. But if I would've told this to anyone, like say Preity seating next to me, she would've thought I'm hitting on her. Anyways, my point is, it felt like I'm with my long lost friends. I guess, that's the essence of Blogger Community. Looking forward to BarCamp for two additional reasons. Firstly, I've never been to any IIM or IIT or IISc and second, I'll impart some knowledge on Image security.

In the meantime, here are some people who attended the meet. As I said, I didn't get the name of them all, Guys, do leave your names, whome I've missed here, please.


Image courtesy :

• Arun Ramarathnam
• Jerry
• Jayanth

Check what other Bloggers are saying at this wikipage.

Then it was July 19th. Within midday, last day's record of 697 visits was broken. That was exciting. Every hour the count was increasing. When I left office at 1730 hrs, the count was somewhere near 870. And I knew that it's surely gonna cross the 1K mark today. And of course, when I checked my stats next day, the count was 1,123. Yayy. 1st day when my site got 1k+ visitor on a single day. Click image on the right to check the hourly visitor count of 19th July. And click image on left to see the Subscribers added on that day.




That's a cause of celebration, I guess. 'Coz my site didn't cross the 100 visit barrier before. And now, all of a sudden, it was attracting 1k+ visitors and growing. Today, yesterday's record is already broken, once again. It's already 1,213 by 1700 hrs. Crossing 1.5k will take another day, I guess. Check below the daily visit stat from 17th to 20th july 5 PM.



Thanks to all my visitors for taking so much interest in my site. The major factor here was surely Harry Potter. Visitors came here for HP, saw it and loved it. I guess, after this HP mania is over, my visitor count will plunge a bit. But I hope it won't dip too low. My next aspiration is to see my blog featured in Blogs of Note. Hope that day will also come soon.

Once again - thnx to all my visitors. Have a great time here every time U visit. Leave your comments and views. Lemme know if U want me to write about any specific issue. U can always drop me a mail or can directly chat with me using the chat box. I'm always there. Have a great day.

Update : 23rd July
As expected, My daily site hits has crossed the 1.5k mark, starting 21st July, at the end of which, the visitor count was 1,524. This count increased on Sunday, 22nd July - with a total count of 1,595. So, even after HP7 is released, people r 'luving it'.

• The Beta badge on top left corner so that my visitors know that changes are still being made and shouldn't get worried if they happen to visit the page when it's being changed by me.


• Scroll to Top button at the bottom right corner. It's position is fixed so that U can auto-scroll to top of page, no matter where U r currently on the page.


• Comment Bubbleto let U know this is the link to read or leave a comment


• Dateand ReaderIcons at Item page. Looks good.

These are apart from the bug fixes that I carried out.

The visitor opinion poll that I carried out showcased some mixed results. 1 user branded this site 'Copy Cat' 'coz I have written my name as Sub author for this site's code. Come on yaar, though this template was written by Derek, I did change a lot of stuff here which took me considerable amount of time. So, I guess I deserve a mention of that in blog template. And anyway, Derek's name is still mentioned as the Author.

17% visitors found it 'confusing' which in turn is confusing me. I tried to make this site as easy to navigate as possible, and yet it was confusing for some. So, I'm giving some guidelines here.

• Click the 'Pull String' [top right corner] only after the page has loaded completely. If it is stuck somewhere, reload the page


• Some posts on Home page or archive page are incomplete, i.e, they are just 1st few para of the post. This is indicated by [ Continued in Full Post ] at the end of post writing. To read the remaining part of such posts, click the 'Read Full Post" at the end of post. check the snapshot below -
  


• All links to external pages open in a new tab [or new window in case of IE] upon clicking. And internal links [ links to other pages in G@P ] open in the same window.



• To leave a comment, Click the '# comment' [# being any digit] link with comment bubble on the right on home-page or the 'leave a reply' link at end of post-writing on item page.


• To subscribe to post feed, click the 'RSS Icon' at the bottom of page or 'Pull' the string and click 'subscribe' at the top of the page. U can get site feeds delivered to your mailbox by writing your mail id in the box below 'subscribe' link and hitting Enter on keyboard.


• U won't get spam or flood of mails if U subscribe through mail. It will send U only a mail of my new post when I write one.

Lemme know if U need any other clarification. I'm always here to assist U.

Looking forward to a greater patronage from U. Keep visiting and do subscribe to the feeds if U link this blog. [ it's beautiful and it's FREE, U know ] And oh, I forgot to mention that this site got ranked in top 10 blog design. Read about it here.