Copywood

Bollywood has fast turned into copywood with so many movies nowadays being flicked - or inspired as the new directors' term seems to be - from old movies and those of other languages. Sarkar's the one to really stand out among the previous movie - ofcourse an imitation of the world class Godfather. Just now was randomly browsing some websites, and found that a new movie "Ramji Londonwaley" is being released starring tamil superstar Madhavan. The name of the flick struck me as interesting, and I looked around for their website (which wasnt tough to find at http://www.ramjilondonwaley.com/ :-p) And as expected, yet another flick being flicked. This time from a Tamil movie - Nala Damayanti. The Tamil version has a cook from Palakkad (a village-town on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border - and my home town incidently) who flew to Australia to make some money to pay for his sis' wedding, and the movie is an entertaining comedy about how this poor, vegetarian village-boy starts to adjust to a foreign city life. But I wonder though... surely Bollywood doesn't have to even copy the lead character's name?!?!?!? Madhavan was Ramji even in the Tamil version.

Dining on a bamboo raft with tigers alongside exotic fishes surrounded by native drum rolls!

Sounds like Africa? Well not quite. It's Singapore actually. Atleast, if Mr. Tay Kheng Soon's idea for an Indo-Pacific Cultural Centre in downtown Marina Bay comes a reality. At first read, the entire idea sounds sooo unrealistic that I was surprised Today actually ran it as their 'cover' story. But the glamour-loving awe-struck part of me was simply blown away by the grandeur of the design. A 20-story vertical zoo, dinner on bamboo rafts set sail, an aquarium with creatures from Indian and Pacific oceans, a suspension bridge, and cable cars connecting downtown to Little India and China Town.

Overboard? Hell yeah! But it most certainly will put Singapore in completely different map from tourism point of view. Forget the IRs dudes. Do this, and you'll have people queueing up till Madagascar to catch a flight to Singapore.

PS: If anyone finds a link that contains pictures of Mr. Tay's design for this Indo-Pacific Centre, please post it in the comments section. Judging by his designs for some of his other 'ideas', these designed should be really worth seeing.

All Tied Up!

2 weeks since I went anywhere near blogger. And today finally some free time. So just thought will atleast make sure that the Blogger.com guys dont shut down my blog for lack of use :-p So here's me saying "I'm still alive" to the cyber-world. Hopefully will get kicking again sometime soon. As it is at the moment, work's been making sure that I dun have a life outside of it. Well, just one of those phases I guess... errr.. 'hope' should be more like it! Anyways, outside of work, haven't had much to write home [read as 'blog'] about. Gotta do something soon man! Or atleast catch up with what's been happening across my blog rolls for the last 10 days or so. Thank God I atleast like what I'm doing :-p if not the hours would have killed me by now :-p.

Cyber world - seeya soon. Hopefully....................................

Snippets

As always, when I'm too tied up with work, the only post I can come up with - Interesting news articles I came across:

Get too many speeding tickets & parking fines? Fret no more. Get your insurance company to pay your fines. Bisso company of Sweden is the 1st to take the step.

Planning a trip to Spain? Don't bother to take your swimming 'attire'. Swimmers have been facing stinging attacks from increasing numbers of jelly fish. The cause for the increasing jellyfish population?? As always, global warming increasing the proliferation of the jellyfish, and illegal fishing of turtles which has reduced the number of jellyfish's predators. Nature again showing man that what you sow, so you reap!

Next time you hear a noisy car alarm outisde your house... don't try what this guy did to 'silence' it. Possibly having watched too many "Wild, Wild West" movies, probably the only way he knew to 'silence' anything was to shoot it down :-p It's an even bigger 'No-No' when the car isn't yours :-p

And that's all for now. Have a lush and bindaas weekend everyone, and do find some time to rock up to your fav restaurant for your masala-rich ruby murray. And ofcourse spend time with your cockapoo or labradoodle. And don't potty-mouth those poor chuggers who are just doing their jobs.
- Any of that not make sense to you?? Then get yourself the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary which has now been expanded with a host of new words. What's more, the rising global influence of India is depicted by the new 'words of Indian origin'. And for those with extremely fluent potty-mouthing skills, there are now 350 officially recognised ways to insult a person - some of newer ones of which can be found here. Interestingly, there are apprently only about 35 ways to compliment somebody :-p.