Today I watched a movie called “The Pursuit of happiness” starring Will Smith. Its a drama which is based on a true story. Usually I hate to watch dramas but this ones really different and didnt let me forward the scenes.

Will Smith’s acting is superb. The movie is immersive with Will Smith’s perfectly pitched performance.

It is a story of Chris Gardner who struggles in his life to get
happYness… That too in a little part.. To get his life back on track.. To make his son happy.. He doesnt loses his confidence when his wife leaves his family..

From ImDB:

In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.

In total, I can say….An old-fashioned Hollywood heartwarmer and a must watch.. Will Smith has delivered his best in the movie.

Hoo haa India.. Aaya India…

What an irony with this Pepsi ad… India is really coming back from ICC World Cup 2007, West Indies. That too so early..What a Shame??!!!ÂÂ

No one can believe that the team which went to FINALS in the previous world cup couldnt make it EVEN to Quarter finals…
Really… Indian team has broken Billions of Indian hearts who WORSHIP CRICKET. India is one of the country where Cricket is the MOST MAD ABOUT sport like FOOTBALL in European countries.

Fans protested in a unique way by mocking the death of Indian cricketers and Indian cricket and some tried to demolish Cricketer’s properties. Such a craze, Indians have…

I think it is the media which hyped India as a mighty team for world cup. India’s performance was below average - poor in the tounament. The way it struggled to play with Bangladesh and failure to chase even an ordinary score of 255 against Srilanka… No way.. this is not a team which is the ASPIRANT OF WORLD CUP.

India is known for good batting players but all the players Sachin, Dhoni, Sourav failed to deliver their peak performance. They were just looking like Fresh young unexperienced players who have just entered World Cup ODI career. Though Rahul Dravid- The Wall tried to an extent to win against Srilanka, he didnt get supporting batsmen on the other side. Even if Dhoni/Sachin has scored a 50 and played for a considerable amount of Overs, India would have definitely won the match. But I think those three players are responsible for defeat. They were the RELIABLE BATSMEN who gave up at very very crucial time like World Cup.

Well… the time which is gone is gone for always.. But this is the most Unhappy, Uncomfortable moment for Indians and Indian team.. This defeat will be remembered for always as we remember Winning of World Cup in 1983.

Well.. it is like re-birth of my blog. I used to blog for almost a year but due to some problems I couldnt maintain and continue my old blog… So this is my fresh new blog on my own domain.

I have imported some of the posts from my old blog posts (especially music reviews) which are not current….So keep visiting for some music reviews, views and to know about me!!!

Enjoy!!!

Today I was watching BBC channel’s Clickonline. They featured a site called Online Newspapers. I visited the site and as they said the site is really good. It lists almost all popular news paper in india and also all over the world. So you dont need to pay a single rupee(Perhaps Dollar, Euro etc whichever currency you take) to read newspapers from all over the world. Check out this link www.onlinenewspapers.com/india.htm to get link of various indian newspaper sites. Some of the sites dont display correctly because they are written in Hindi or any other Indian Language. So make sure that you the required fonts installed. Some of the links of the news papers I prefer to read are:
Deccan Herald
The Hindu
The Hindu (another link)
The Times of India
Prajavani (Kannada Daily).

Are you fed up with Ads like Free Screensavers,Smileys etc on some websites making your connection slow because ads alone take much bandwidth and time to download than the actual Content which you are looking for. Here is a method to block such IMAGES from showing up in Windows.

In windows there is a file called HOSTS which contains a list of Hostnames with its IP address. It is used to bypass the DNS server. This file is loaded into memory when Windows starts. Actually when a Browser (For eg. Internet explorer) requests a Website,then first this hosts file is checked whether the URL requested is present in the list. If it is not there then it connects to DNS Server to find out the IP address. This is highly useful if you visit some sites on a regular Basis. (For. Eg: Yahoo! Mail) Instead of connecting to DNS server everytime to get the IP address if manually the IP address is found out using WHOIS and then entered in the list then few milliseconds can be saved since Windows first checks HOSTS file and it finds that the entry http://mail.yahoo.com (In our example) is present and gets the entry from the file and directly connects to that IP address( In Our eg. :209.73.177.115)

This file is present in different versions of Windows in the following Directories:
Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Win 98/ME = C:\WINDOWS
Search for the file and open it with any text editor like Notepad. You can find content similar to this:

# Notes: the browser does not read this "#" symbol #
# You can create your own notes, after the # symbol #
# This *must* be the first line: 127.0.0.1 localhost #
127.0.0.1 localhost

Here the first uncommented line shows that the IP address of localhost is 127.0.0.1. This is called a LOOPBACK ADDRESS which points to ones own Computer i.e, if type localhost it tries to connect to your own computer. In other words your computer’s IP address is 127.0.0.1 unless it is connected to a network. Since there is server installed on your computer( Normally) IE shows that “Cannot Find Server”.
This Trick can be used to block Advertisement from any site,not only ad site but also you can restrict users from accessing a particular set of sites.For eg: You can prevent your children from visiting Inappropriate sites,Block Images from a site for faster loading of the site and to save bandwidth.This can be done just by entering the site which must be blocked in the HOSTS file with an IP address of 127.0.0.1 Actually the IP address of that site is different which is got by a DNS request, but we give false information to the browser by giving Loopback address through which it tries to connect your own computer and fails in getting the data. This way sites can be prevented by Accessing. For eg:
# Notes: the browser does not read this "#" symbol #
# You can create your own notes, after the # symbol #
# This *must* be the first line: 127.0.0.1 localhost #
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.msn.com

This is for example. Replace www.msn.com with any website you want to block.Similarly enter one by one the websites which you want to block.
So you have now learnt how to block a site from accessing in Windows. For greater security make the HOSTS file READ ONLY so that only you (Admininstrator) can modify it.
Now let us learn some Basics about Ads. Ads in websites are in the form of Banners, Pop Ups which are usually images (Offcourse now-a-days Google’s Adsense displays are Textual which I think is Admittable since text doesnt consumes much bandwidth and is relevant too unlike those screensaver kind of ads where even if you visit Music sites it will show up,even you go to shopping site it will show up irrelvantly) These images (Banners) are hosted in a particular Server which has an addresses like http://ads.advertise.net,adserver.ancestry.com etc. So if you enter the IP address for these sites as 127.0.0.1 in HOSTS file then they are blocked and wont show up.Next question that will arise in your mind is “How would I know the addresses of such ad sites?”.Well, there is a solution, some websites gives a list of such Ad servers and some even with 127.0.0.1 mapped to such Ad servers so that you can easily copy and paste into the HOSTS file. Some even releive you from that Headache too…They provide hosts file itself to download and all you have to do is to replace the downloaded file with original Hosts file. Perform a Google Search to get a list of such sites. One such site is www.mvps.org
By this method Ads can be Prevented by showing up but Pop ups cant be stopped. But even a POP UP comes up then it will be blank and will not display any images by this method.To prevent Pop Ups you have to go for software or use Opera, Firefox browsers which are far better than Internet explorer with lots of features. Or if you want to stick to IE then use Google toolbar or any external software to block Pop Ups.

Namastey London is another “STAND APART FROM GROUP” album by Himesh Reshammiya.. It has similar Romantic shades of musical arrangement as in Ahista Ahista.

Album consiists of whopping 2CDs:shock:!!! One full of originals and another Remixes..
Tracklist of Namaste London:

1. Chakna Chakna -Himesh Reshammiya
2. Viraaniya- Himesh Reshmmiya
3. Main jahaan Rahoon- Rahat Fateh Ali khan and Krishna
4. Yahi Hota Pyaar- Himesh Reshamiya and Sunidhi Chauhan
5. Rafta Rafta-RDB
6. Aanan Faanan - Jayesh and Akriti Kakkar
7. Dilruba- Zubeen Garg and Alisha Chenoi

Chakna chakna is a Punjabi Bhangra song with HEAVY NASAL USAGE by Himesh Baba:D!! Remix version may appeal to Bhangra Lovers…

Viraniya is one of the finest songs by Himesh as a COMPOSER with excellent music arrangements using Violin and tabla giving it a sad feel which the song is intended to do. His voice is just OK as everytime…Nothing special.. I think it would have been better if somebody other than himesh would have sung the song.
Mehfil Mix is a NEW INTRODUCTION by himesh where only Tabla is used. Special about this mix is writer Javed Akhtar

Main Jahaan Rahoon is sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Krishna and rendered perfectly. Again what makes you love this song is Background music arrangements. Tabla is main background instrument played,with Krishna rendering the alaaps.. Another Good song by Himesh.

Yahi Hota Pyaar is another slow paced song like Viraniya by Himesh and Sunidhi…Again tabla is the major instrument in background making it a soft romantic feel which syncs with the Lyrics by Javed Akhtar. It isnt Harsh to ears like most of Himesh’s songs… One thing I dont like about Himesh is he doesnt give equal importance to female singers in Duets.. They only sing 2-3 lines or at a max. a single stanza.

Rafta Rafta is a true punjabi song by UK band RDB. It appeals even too Non-Bhangra lovers which is intended to reflect Akshay Kumar’s life in pure punjabi iShtyle when she meets Katrina Kaif.

Aanan Faanan is just a OK OK song. It has URBAN touch unlike rest of the song. I think it is intended for shooting in LONDON.

Dilruba is a dance song which makes you tap your feet.. A fast paced song by Zubeen and Alisha.