http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/ The Lost Highway Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:05:00 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Entertainment Friends Religion & Beliefs http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/162.html Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:13:48 GMT Well...I had to be back! But obstinate as I am, I did keep this blog shut and moved to a new place close-by. Here's the link. http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=162 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/161.html Wed, 18 May 2005 09:11:09 GMT Just to make it formal and official, though I am sure it was apparent anyway, this blog is being shut down now. I am not going to delete any of my posts as I spent too much time writing them, and I can't bear to see all that go waste. I enjoyed blogging a lot and might get back to it again someday (not very soon), but not at the same address. So unlike the past, this goodbye is for good. http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/160.html Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:46:33 GMT My list of movies to be watched has come down to 22 now. I watched Yojimbo and Chinatown in succession this week. I liked Yojimbo better than A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone, which is a remake of the former. In fact, I found Yojimbo better than Rashomon and Seven Samurai too (the other Kurosawa movies that I have watched), in terms of technical finesse at least. The camera angles in Yojimbo, which means Bodyguard in Japanese, are to die for, and the use of music is fantastic. In fact, I have realised over the years how important background music is in enhancing the mood of a scene. All... (more) http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=160 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/159.html Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:22:39 GMT Before I write anything else let me clarify that inter-hostel sharing on our LAN has been disabled these days (since over a month back actually), because of which my access to new movies and TV series has been seriously affected. With that excuse I hope no one would crucify me for saying what I am going to right now. I have been watching episodes of Koffee With Karan for some time now, whenever someone on my hostel LAN is gracious enough to share new episodes. I watched the first episode in a condition of absolute boredom (which isn't altogether rare for me these days) a few weeks back, and... (more) http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=159 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/158.html Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:48:27 GMT I got a final call from IIM Ahmedabad! Immediate feeling after I got the result on phone (as the website was clogged): Is this man joking? I did not expect this call. My interview was really good, probably even better than what I thought, but this conversion makes me the guy with the lowest GPA at IIT Delhi to convert an IIMA call in the last FOUR years! I am happy, OBVIOUSLY. http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=158 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/157.html Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:22:01 GMT I have meant to talk about this for long, but used to forget everytime I did get down to post something. I don't know if this thing happens with you (and in that case might sound very funny), but it does happen to me very frequently, in fact it happened thrice yesterday itself. And it's kinda spooky. When I am out, mostly walking down a road, there are times I mistake a person for someone else when I see him/her from a distance. Say I see a person A from about 100 metres and mistake him for another person B, and then when I get closer I realise it was A and not B. This happens at times even... (more) http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=157 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/156.html Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:27:45 GMT According to this article, suicide is NOT a crime! I wasn't aware of it. Is it really true? I have always held the view that it is really stupid to punish a person who tries to kill himself, partly because you can punish him only if he fails to commit the crime, and partly because it's his choice whether he wants to live or not, but most importantly because it is really inhuman to add to the miseries of a person who was already so much in the pits that dying seemed the only respite, but I didn't know the judiciary subscribed to this view too. http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=156 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/155.html Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:24:17 GMT I Am David is a really nice movie! The movie has been panned universally by critics but has been praised a lot by 'lay' viewers. So it seems I have a long way to go before I become a discerning film-critic. The movie is set in post WWII Europe, and moves from Bulgaria to Italy and then Switzerland finishing up in Denmark. It's about a boy (called David, what else?) escaping from a labor camp in Bulgaria who's been asked to go to Denmark, and the adventures he goes through on his journey. Technically the movie is very strong. The cinematography is, for the want of a better word, awesome. But... (more) http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=155 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/154.html Sun, 03 Apr 2005 12:23:43 GMT I returned a while back from a one-day symposium organised by CHES (CHemical Engineering Society), IIT Delhi. It's probably the first time something like it is being organised by our department, and while initially the students wanted to organise a tech-cum-cultural fest, because of shortage of funds and time we had to make do with a small one-day affair. It'll hopefully grow. After seeing the poster a few days back (I have stopped interacting with almost any other student from my department nowadays, so I couldn't have got to know from any other source), I decided that I'll be attending it... (more) http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/comments?id=154 http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/archive/153.html Sat, 02 Apr 2005 05:36:15 GMT After writing yesterday's post I had gone to my lab and didn't care to find out what was happening with the external negotiations as I was fairly sure things would work out as smoothly as they did the previous day. I intended to go directly to the Students' Activitiy Center, the venue for the external elections, later in the evening, to see our alliance win. As it turned out it wasn't as smooth sailing as I had expected. A lot of interesting things happened, which I only came to know late in the night after the elections, and my juniors involved in the trading had a nerve-wrecking time to... 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