Opinions - 2

Have been wanting to blog for some time but haven’t really been able to think of a nice topic to write about. So when there is nothing to write about, one can write about anything. Anyway, I had promised a sequel to one of my earlier posts – Opinions, so here it is.

Ram Gopal Varma

The biggest waste of talent in Bollywood.

His first movie I saw was Shiva. Then came Raat, Rangeela, Kaun?, Satya, Bhoot, Company and Sarkar. Each movie that he made had their moments and definitely were much more than just ‘good’ movies. This was especially true for Kaun?, Satya and Company. Excellent movies by any standards.

And then there was Aag which in one shot managed to incinerate all his past record. A completely distracted effort. While attempting to remake Sholay, he has succeeded in drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa and even ripped the canvas in the process.

Babies

Adorable.

I’m not sure who it was (probably Mark Twain) that said, “Babies are nothing but a noise at one end and a mess at the other”. Wodehouse has often described them as having faces that resembled scrambled eggs. When Bill Cosby saw his first child being pulled out of his wife, he said, “Congratulations Darling! You just gave birth to a lizard.”

But I love them. I think they are extremely beautiful. Pity they eventually grow up into whoever and whatever they do.

Disguised Usernames

Irritating.

I think people who need to use disguised usernames for their online activities are seriously complexed. I can understand someone having a username like jay1966. There was no hope in hell of him getting jaymehta as a username anyway. But calling yourself something like ‘cutie4ever’ or ‘2muchofagoodthing’ is really pushing it. It is obvious that they are hiding something, if they don’t even want people to know who they really are. And that makes me not want to trust them. Nor like them.

Wikipedia

A Blessing.

I absolutely adore this website. Detailed information about anything under the sun, available 24/7 for anyone. If it is not detailed enough for you then update/edit it yourself. Wikipedia is true intellectual democracy in action. There can never be any excuse about not having enough information about anything anymore.

Macs

Over-rated.

Ok, I admit that I’ve never really used one extensively. But whatever little I have, I didn’t find it so amazingly different from my trusted PC, that I would want one right away. I think what Steve Jobs has managed to do is to create a cult following for Macs through some brilliant marketing. Everyone loves to hate the big guy and would like to have a choice where they don’t HAVE to buy his products. Steve has only offered them that.

There might be some people who believe strongly enough in this to buy the product. No problem with that, but don’t constantly keep telling me how the Mac is superior to the PC. I don’t think it is and I can do without your post-purchase rationalisation, thank you.

I do love the Mac vs PC ads though. That’s just it – brilliant marketing of an ok product.