Exam Fever

Tommorow(Nov 20) I take up the CAT(Common Admission Test) for the second time. It is the toughest test in India and its results directly determine addmissions to the 6 Indian Institute of Management(IIM) colleges. Amoung all the tests I have taken in my life(many I must add) this one gave me the most satisfaction. I … Read more

If Books Could Kill…

I am officially books crazy. The Harry Potter Deadline has truly introduced me to the world of books. I was putting so much effort and time on the books that it totally drained me out at the end. During those 12 days my routine was pretty much this: Wake Up -> Read Book(1 hr) -> … Read more

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire – Movie Review

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rating ***
(*: least, *****: highest)

The Dark Lord rises… Harry Potter’s fourth year at Hogwards turns out to be the year of the rebirth of the one who must not be named. The movie’s special effects are unbelieveable and why not its one of the costliest movies ever made (at a staggering 330 million $).

Harry’s fourth year is almost entirely about the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again…

The movie tries its best to match the book and falls short(dont all book based movies). The sad part is how short it ends up falling. Personally I felt the movie was disappointing but to look at it in a point of view of the screenplay writer… a 600 odd page novel(no dragging in the novel so almost every page added to the story perfectly) had to be made into a movie around 150 mins long. The movie by itself is good… a few of my friends who have not read the book but watched the movie loved it.

Emma Watson is gorgeous

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Google Analytics

Google has launched its owl StatCounter clone. Google Analytics is a web stats program that gives you detailed (and good looking) stats about who visits your webpages. It looks great and is not very difficutlt to install (like most stat websites are). Unlike statcounter it provides a huge space for storage of logs (SC gives … Read more

Internet Explorer in Firefox

There is a new Firefox extension to open Internet Explorer tabs on Firefox…. It works only on windows… You can download it here Its basically for developers who want to check out how their pages look on IE…. Talk about Sleeping with the enemy :P