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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Duwidha ( only for 18 and above )

T20 India and Australia match. I was with some of my friends at their home watching the match. Someone opens up the fridge and asks if anyone needs any drink. And then without waiting for response he took out some bottles and passed it on. I got one orange juice bottle with soda in it. I took a sip. It didn't feel right. I still keep on drinking it. After some time, Ameya offered me his coke. I took and put my bottle in his hand. He said, "Main yesh nahi pita." I - "kya baat kar raha hain? Tune cold drink kabase chhoda?" Ameya - "Cold drink to abhi tak nahi chhoda, or alcohol to bachpanase chhoda hain." I - "Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????????" Then I took a look at the contains of that drink. It was having full 2.5% of alcohol. "oh God, what have I done?" I thought. My 25 ( ok, add around 2 or 3 ) years of without alcohol life was in waste. One of my principle not to drink alcohol was crushed under my own throat. "kisiko chahiye kya yeh?" I shouted. No one raise their hands. "Koi pinewala hain nahi to yeh kisake liye laye tha?". One of them said, "mere liye laya tha. Lekin ab aapne jutha kar diya." "Yeh bewade log jutha vagaira kabase dekhne lage", I thought. But that means that bottle was not going anywhere. Either I have to finish it, or I have to throw it away. But again I can not throw it, as my other principle says, "Do not throw away food." Abe main duwidha me tha. In either way, I have to break one of the principle. I again looked at the bottle. I feel that the bottle is requesting me and telling me to finish it. I can see the pity in her eyes. By the time I took decision, Yuvraj had came for batting. If India gets a six in this over, I will drink it or else I will throw it. The second ball of his inning, Yuvraj pull Brett Lee for six. Seems like he was reading my mind. He had made the decision for me. I have to throw away my alcohol principle. And with that I put the bottle in my mouth. Now I think I took the right decision. Not drinking alcohol, is good for only me, but wasting food is bad for rest of the world. With thousands of people in the world dying with the hunger everyday, it would have been a big sin to throw away that drink. The drink that I have saved, can serve someone to his/her life. I think I have done one big good thing for the world by drinking that bottle and the world ( that means all you readers ) should repay it by giving me something in back.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Rush Hour 3 - Ek aur popat

(This post is not review of Rush Hour 3.)

Well, now that I have moved to Mama's house (Mama means my friend Vishal Mamania and not my uncle), and he has broadband connection with unlimited bandwidth, I have started downloading movies using torrents. For this weekend, I decided to watch Rush Hour 3. So I opened the torrent search site torrentz.com and got the torrent file for Rush Hour 3. I started downloading the movie on Friday evening. The size was about 700 MB. I said great and continue downloading.
After 2 days on Sunday morning the download has finished, and I was excited to watch the movie. I opened the movie in my regular movie player mplayer classic (a really good movie player, which play all kind of movies including rm, rmvb, avi and mov, and lightweight).
The popat starts at this point. A black screen with a message on it says "this movie can only be viewed on player3w player. This can be downloaded freely from the website bla, blah ...com". (I dont remember the name of the web site).
Ok, I said. I went to that web site, and downloaded the free player. The setup was of 1.1 Mb. After downloading I also installed the player, refusing the very pleasant bonus the setup is offering other than the player. (Free e-mail about the launch of other products, and their updates. No, Thanks.).
I started the player, and boom. Antivirus popped up saying a TROJAN virus has found. I removed the internet cable from laptop. The antivirus also says that the virus is cleaned. Hmmm..., it could be safe to play the movie.
Ok, so all such things, and finally I was ready to watch Rush Hour 3. I opened the movie in the player. The movie starts with a white female walking on the road and a man camera in his hand asking her her name, address and her interests. The film was looking something like shooting with handycam. I find all this similar to something. I forwarded a movie a bit. Now that same girl was in a clinic with doctor checking her. The thing is doctor was checking her private parts.
So all that download was for a porn movie. Damn, I should have guessed it when it asked to download a new player. How much these guys have earned when I download that player and the torrent file? Hardly a dollar. But it gave me the frustration which money can not count. I was ashamed of myself when I thought that I wanted to watch the movie with the risk of Trojan virus. Anything could have happened to my system if that virus would have found an entry inside.
But looking at +ve side, I learned new lessons.
1) Torrent for main stream movies is danger. Better download it from Rapidshare, eve n though its painful.
2) If any particular file is asking you to download any particular software, delete that file.
3) If anything is having virus in it, it is certainly not what you are looking for. (unless you are looking for virus)