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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Morne Morkel Wallpaper!

Created by jimmymycrushie, exclusively for @kelly_hoggons (twitter) on request.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Just about 2 months ago, I read a few Researches on lying, including Men Lie six times a day and twice as much as women, people lie more on the phone than by email and today while searching for those articles to link them for you, I read, people lie more in email than handwritten letters. The latter two didn't surprise me any bit. In fact, I'd have told you so before reading these. Although it's easier to lie in email, people certainly lie more on the phone. I'm sure there are more reasons but one reason is that many lies are told when replying instantly. When people have time to think, they consider that the truth won't hurt. When they have to reply instantly, sometimes they lie to save themselves even if the offence is small.

I've found a sudden interest in catching lies through TV series Lie to Me. I started watching it about a week ago. Some of the reasoning given in the show about catching lies made me wonder if that happens in reality too. Today, I looked it up on Wikipedia and found many things related to it, notably, Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Third Edition on which the show is based. I read some pages on Amazon for free already. The writer, psychologist Paul Ekman, says that psychologists and psychiatrists are no better than other people in detecting lies. And you don't need any training to detect them either. Of course, not all lies can be caught. The thing about lying is that if you lie a lot, the people you lie to, are more likely to doubt you. But if you lie a lot, you practice lying which makes you a better liar. Though I think lying a lot helps the lie catcher more than liars.

Lie to Me is interesting but given how humans feel and think while watching TV, we are far more likely to learn from a book than the TV series, which is fictional anyway. But hey, there are ways to learn from everything. The best thing considering them, analysing everything, not just reading and watching.

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Life Of A Snake: Shahrukh Khan

When I go to a party, I stand in a corner and observe people. That's what I do, I'm always observing.

When you look at a painting, don't think that the sky's colour is too light or dark. Think if the whole painting creates a good effect. Don't work for parts, work for the whole. If you work for parts, you'll only be partially successful.

In this profession, you are not advised to do this, you just can't, but I only work with the people I like.

People always say that acting is about wearing masks. I say, no, it's not about wearing masks, it's about revealing them. When I've nothing to reveal, when I'm completely naked, I'd stop acting.

Shahrukh Khan was quoted as saying in Living with a Superstar

May be I'm a foreigner with fair skin, blue eyes, blonde hair. May be I choose the right films. May be it's the directors I choose. Or may be I'm just a fluke.

Shahrukh Khan on what made him successful

The title must have left you wondering why I'm calling him a snake if you are unfamiliar with Chinese zodiac. Now, don't be put off, this post is more about the life of Shahrukh Khan than Chinese zodiac. About a week ago I watched the first part of Living with a Superstar: Shahrukh Khan on TLC (formerly Discovery travel & living). And the second part a few days ago. I've liked the guy from the day I first saw him till now. No one in Bollywood comes close. In the recent years, I have moved away from Bollywood and closer to Hollywood and British movies. I've not liked most of the Bollywood movies I've seen in the past few years much. But, I've still enjoyed Shahrukh Khan's films and some of Aamir Khan. The liking goes back to his early days. When his first film, Deewana was released, I was only a year old so obviously didn't watch it at that time. But I did watch it and many others. He was great in his third movie, Chamatkar too. At that time, actors stayed away from negative roles, fearing about the image it would create. But Shahrukh Khan's negative roles in Darr and Baazigar are what brought him to the limelight. And everybody loved Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I watched them on the theatre with my family. And many other Shahrukh films before and after that, including Duplicate. Naturally, I loved his pairing with Kajol and even now, no actress comes close to her for me.

But behind this successful side of him, is a lonely person. Yep, snakes are lonely. My first notion of snakes was that they are unhappy and lonely. But it changed when I found out that Shahrukh Khan is a snake. But the second part of Living with a Superstar made me realise that he too, is lonely. He says that he doesn't struggle with acting, which we already know. What we don't know is that he struggles with reality, which he said himself. Acting comes naturally to him but even without trying, he becomes the character. While doing My Name Is Khan, he became Rizwan Khan and I saw that he shed a tear or two, after a shot during the filming of the movie. And said that off-sets, he became sad, started finding sadness in things he normally wouldn't. He says that after the shooting of the movie completes, he washes away the character of the movie while taking a shower. I had thought about this but in a different way. I had thought that actors might behave like one of their characters and get confused about what they are in reality. But Shahrukh Khan has actually spoiled his real life because of acting. Though I'm not suggesting that he must have chosen a different career. He says that it's fun for him, it's like a video game to him. This tells you that there is far more to a person and especially celebrities than you think.

The writer is an aspiring psychologist.

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Friday, October 15, 2010

What you can do to end the all important water crisis

Celebrate the Global Handwashing Day by taking the plunge of washing hands before eating, after eating, using the toilet, before touching your eyes or mouth and many other times.

When I told my bro that by donating $25 I can provide clean water for a lifetime for one person, he said I shouldn't jump with joy because there are lots of problems in the world and if I start donating, there will be no end. He also said that I can't really wipe off a problem with the money I have. Lets see what the world population is... 6.5 billion (February '06) and there are nearly 1 billion people worldwide who currently rely on bacteria-infested water. So if 1 billion out of 6.5 billion donate, this problem will be solved!

In the US alone, 200 bottles per person each year are consumed. 17 million barrels of oil are needed to produce all the plastic water bottles we use in the US each year, 86 percent of them will never be recycled. So do you understand the need to recycle?

In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply. (via unwater.org)

Contribution of the food sector to the production of organic water pollutants:
- High income countries: 40 percent
- Low-income countries: 54 percent
(via unwater.org)

Do you want to measure how much water it took to make your favorite foods? There's an app for that. More Info »

If you want to calculate how much water you use, try the Water Footprint Calculator

Shun bottled water starting today! For more information, visit BlogActionDay2010

I've writtern more about this issue, here:

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Blogger to Wordpress.com?

I really don't understand why anyone would wanna do that. Yeah, Wordpress is probably the best software for blogging but wordpress.com lags behind. You can't edit the html, you can't place ads, in fact, ads might be placed on your site but someone else will take the revenue. From my experience, I can say it drove me crazy - deciding between blogger, worpress and wordpress.com though the pendulum barely shifted to wordpress.com. But it still benefited me in a way. From wordpress.com, I got the design for England Cricket Blog. There are some good templates there, you won't get them for blogger directly from wordpress.com but some sites have their blogger version.

Related Post: Blogger to Wordpress: A Gloomy Affair

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Celebrity Lookalikes

Taylor Lautner and Steven Strait.
When I first saw Lautner, I thought it's Strait lol. Taylor Lautner starred in Twilight while Steven Strait rocked in The Covenant.