Welcome

Date Watched: 29th December 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Paru
Rating: 4.5/6
My 2- cents worth: Mallika Aroa Khan's stretch marks can be disgustingly seen in her item song..

Taare Zameen Par

Date Watched: 26th December 2007

Venue Watched: Jade

Watched with: Mummy and Paru

Rating: 6/6

My 2- cents worth: Watch the movie

Khoya Khoya Chand

Date: 15th December 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Preeti
My Ratings: 4/6

tum..

tumko deekh kar saas chalti hai
tumko chukar zindagi lagti hai
tumko sunkar khushi hoti hai
tumko pakar jannat milti hai
lekin woh jannat kis kaaam,jab tum saath na ho

Zest

The zest for life, the zest for living..
The zest for love, the zest for loving..
The zest to plan, the zest for executing..
The zest to dream, the zest for fulfilling..
Makes the difference in achieving and being left sitting

The Heartbreak Kid

Date Watched: 10th December 2007

Venue Watched: The Cathy

Watched With: Anju, Preeti and Param

Rating: 5/6

Darwaza Bandh Rakho

Date Watched: 2nd December 2007
Venue Watched: My Room
Watched With: Me, Myself and I
Rating: 4.5/6

Dil Toh Pagal Hai (revisted)

Date Watched: 2nd December 2007
Venue Watched: My room
Watched With: Me, Myself and I
Rating: 5/6

Aaja Nachle

Date Watched: 30th November 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Anju, Lavanya and Param
Rating: 6/6
My 2- cents worth: Madhuri ROCKS!!! she's gorgeous, her smile, her expressions, her beauty, her DANCE.. everything is simply MARVELOUS!!!!

I want..

I want to cry cause I miss you so
I want to smile cause I love you so
I want to die cause I'm without you
I want to laugh cause of the memories with you
I want to live cause I want to live with you
I want to love cause I know I love you
I want happiness cause I know you want them too
I want to dream cause you're there to dream with me
I want to want cause I know you will give it all to me
I am the luckiest cause you make me

stress reliever

Happy Feet

Date Watched: 18th November 2007
Venue Watched: Home
Watched With: Me, myself and I
Rating: 6/6

Its not....

its not lust, its love
its not for me, its for us
its not for a day, its for each and every day to come
its not to hurt, its for happiness of everyone
its not a game, its a dream we want
its not just a dream, its our life we planned

yet today it stands against the bitterness of truth and reality
what will, what will not happen we know not
today it ends or maybe tomorrow
know we do in us its forever and ever more

Om Shanti Om

Date Watched: 16th November 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Mummy, Anju and Anju's cousin
Rating: 5.5/6
My 2-cents: SRK has gotten old and it shows. His repetitive moves, expressions, dialoague delivery are still there. But the different him in the first half is a nice change. Deepika is breathtaking. She's a pleasure to watch each time she is on screen. Costumes are lovely. Deewangi song is a delight. I wish Karishma will come back soon.

Saawariya

Date Watched: 13th November 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Param
Rating: 3/6
2-cents worth: Ranbir is not as cute as many ppl think.. he's got a weird mouth.. oh and forget logic while watching the movie. also be ready to see more than you bargain for when ranbir flashes his naked butt cheeks... basically the movie is weird.. i came out of the movie confused, was it good, was it bad? ask me and i will say neither. it was alright but certainly no where near the expectations it had generated prior to its release

Jab We Met

Date Watched: 6th November 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Param
Rating: 5.5/6

project group mate from hell

my dream reply to an email i got from a project group mate...

andrew i think your interpretations skills need some brushing up to do. you have understood each of my questions in the most incorrect manner possible. but never mind. maybe it was my writing inadequacy.

i had sent out the questions figuring out its better to get doubts cleared than to end up with sub standard reports.

in your year in smu you might have not faced work pressure and hence that explains your reasons for cracking under a tight deadline. wake up and understand that we are not only doing corp reporting.

i feel higly humilliated with your extremely rude reply.

for question 3 i have already gone ahead and done all calculations involving cash. i just wanted to double check.

for question on the cost of equity i was hoping to get the same information from you.

for my question on FCFF i obviously know how to use it and what summation is. thank you for pointing out how dumb i am. my only question was how to calculate it on excell. of you want me to do it manually, just say so. i wasn't aware that excel mastery was a prerequisite for the course.

the next time you send out such a rude email i would advise you clarify matters. another suggestion for you to escape blacklisting for project groups, don't use bold and underlining excessively.

i have attached an excel sheet with the complete relative anaysis done. also it has all the constituent figures for FCFF.

thank you for your kind time and energy towards this project which you seem to be bossing around.

charu

this was the email he sent me

Hi Charu.

Thanks for sounding out to us. We were beginning to wonder where you guys went…

“anyways param and I have worked on our parts and have progressed substantially.”

That’s great news! Then please reply and state what exactly you have done, and which component of the corp project it belongs to.. (E.g. FCFF valuation – Fundamental Valuation, or consolidation – adjustments to financial statements.) Take what u have done and send it along with your reply as attachments, its ok if it is in draft form or halfway done. This is so that we can sitrep and assess where we are now. Do this now please, time is running short. if there are parts assigned to you that you have not started on, please state so.

Answers to your qns:

1. It depends, there is no fixed ans. By right it should be a weighted average of all the companies in the industry, but as that can lead to distortions, sometimes people use normal average instead. In any case, it doesn’t matter, you should be able to find it. Remember that Prof say we can take figures from Thompson banker /Bloomberg/ whatever. Kelvin and Joel, if u know, please assist.
2. Please provide more background information. How did you get your figures? What is the discrepancy? Is the discrepancy significant? Does it matter (for the purposes of corp rep proj)? For which part of the project are you using these figures? Ratios? Which ratios?
3. This question is very worrying.
4. This question is exceedingly worrying. Please don’t take this personally, Charu, it really is nothing personal. But I am very shocked and disturbed at your questions; I don’t think I will be able to sleep tonight. This part has been assigned to you from the very beginning, since the first meeting. You question shows that you totally do not understand, in any capacity, how to do FCFF. That, in itself, is totally fine. What shocks me is that you have waited till less than a week away from submission deadline to sound out. Remember that this component of the proj is a REQUIREMENT. Remember also that you were assigned only this component and parts of relative valuation; already it is a very light workload. If you didn’t know how to do it, shouldn’t you have said so earlier? Ask yourself whether you are being fair to the rest of your groupmates. In my opinion, FCFF (or any of the fundamental valuation models in fact) is probably the easiest part of the entire corp rep project. With the figures from kelvin’s valuation, it should not take anyone more than a couple of hours tops.

The Summation is because u have to sum up each year after u discount them. Summation is used because the denominator increases in power each year (you discount further by one year).

Param - I thought we had agreed that I would take over fundamental Valuation?

Charu – Do not worry about Fundamental Valuation any longer, we will settle it.

MP3- Mera Phela Phela Pyaar

Date Watched: 14th October 2007
Venue Watched: Home
Watched With: Me
Rating: 5/6
my 2-cents' worth: Cute romantic movie, cool to watch with crush or boyfriend :D

Savage Grace

Date Watched: 4th October 2007
Venue Watched: GV Plaza
Watched With: Param
Rating: 4.5/6

Dhol

Date Watched: 29th September 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Mummy
Rating: 3.5/6
My 2-cents worth: Dhaamal is way better than this..

What's a Modern Girl to Do?

I read a very interesting article titled "what's a modern girl to do?"..

the article traces the journey females have gone through the years from the 30s to the present world. changing from the submissive, house wife types to the bra burning feminists they have traveled a full circle to arrive back as home makers and baby care takers..

far from fighting the portrayal of women as sex toys and fantasy items in magazines or other medium, women are generally striving to mirror the featured women. these and a lot more issues are mentioned in the article..

reading it disturbed in some parts.. is this where we finally reach after journeying so far? having things comes to a point where having a career decreased our chance of getting married and kids? or that our IQ is inversely proportional to our chances of dating?

is this why as i look around in my surroundings, i see girls who treasure their independence and strive to succeed and move up in life being single and those willing to submit themselves, their lives and be the maternal girl for their guys attached? this is just an observation and not a generalization. frankly i am a girl who falls into the former category. some friends used to ask how come i was single for so long. upon hearing that i just hadn't found the right person many a times i was told to lower my expectations.. that such a guy was near impossible to find. yet a guy can demand a girl who can cook, take care of the house and kids, manage his life, work, look good at corporate parties and turn it up in the bedroom..

so really are we back to the age of inequality of the genders? and has this move backwards been brought about by us females ourselves?

i don't really have the answers.. i urge you to read the article and try to find the answers yourself...

(below is the link to the article)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=197a1142bf2ba967&ex=1288324800&adxnnl=0&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1190287407-HUNtv9WrZKastZZi6veN0Q

Dhamaal

Date Watched: 8th September 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Mummy
Rating: 5.5/6

Heyy Babyy

Date Watched: 31st August 2007
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Preeti
Rating: 6/6
My 2-cents worth: Hilarious movie with the cutest baby!! Akshay is amazing in every sense. However Vidya Balan looks weird. Her western wardrobe in the movie is so predictable and unflatering on her. Opening song is hot with all the babes of the movie industry. Malika sizzles!!

Ratatouille

Date Watched: 30th August 2007
Venue Watched: GV Plaza
Watched With: Param
Rating: 6/6

The Valet- La Doublure

Date Watched: 17th August 2007
Venue Watched: Onboard Quantas QF 9, from Melbourne to Singapore
Watched With: Alone
Rating: 5/6

SMU BOLLYWOOD AND BHANGRA BASH

After the successful SMU Bollywood and Bhangra Bash '06, Club Masti is proud to bring back SMU Bollywood and Bhangra Bash '07

Featuring Singapore's top DJs, DJ G2, DJ Haresh and DJ Ravs with guest top Malaysian DJ, DJ Simran

Special performance by Asia's Finest Bhangra Troupe, Kohinoor Bhangra

So what are you waiting for? Mark your calenders and get your tickets!

Date: 1st September 2007
Venue: Harry's @ Millenia Walk
9 Raffles Boulevard, #01-75A,
Millenia Walk
Time: 9pm till late
Tickets: $18 for SMU students (with 1 drink inclusive)
$20 for everyone else (with 1 drink inclusive)

The most happening Bhangra Bash awaits you!! Join in the fun & party all night long!!

Bus service provided from SMU to Harry's from 9.30pm to 10.30pm

For ticket enquiries contact,
Charu 91810614
Ravi 90888942
G2 93872837
or drop an email at clubmasti@gmail.com

The Simpsons Movie

Date Watched: 14th August 2007

Venue Watched: Hoyts at Melbourne Central

Watched With: Paru, Prajakta Didi and Manish

Rating: 5.5/6

Priceless- Hors De Prix

Date Watched: 11th August 2007
Venue Watched: Mid air onboard Quantas flight QF10 from Singapore to Melbourne
Watched With: Alone
Rating: 5/6

Chak De India

Date Watched: 12th August 2007
Venue Watched: Melbourne Central
Watched With: Neha, Anju and Paru
Rating: 5/6

The Namesake

Date Watched: 11th August 2007
Venue Watched: Mid air onboard Quantas flight QF10 from Singapore to Melbourne
Watched With: Alone
Rating: 6/6

Cash

Date Watched: 6th August 2007
Venue Watched: Cine World, Ajmer
Watched With: Chotu Didi
Rating: 43.5/6

Popcorn Khao Mast Ho Jao- Movie review

Date Watched: 23rd July 2007
Venue Watched: My flat in Bombay
Rating: -6/6
My 2-cents worth: Horrible movie.. Worthy only of putting me to sleep and laughing my head out at the lameness. Utter confusion throughout with people appearing for no damm reason. Akshay Kapoor and Rashmi Nigam SUCK, they can't act and have just one expression on their face. If you hate someone, present this movie to them. You will have sweet revenge.

Partner- Movie review

Date Watched: 21st July 2007
Venue Watched: Gaitey
Rating: 4/6
My 2-cents worth: A rip off of Hitch, unfortunately in parts resulting in a poor attempt at the slickness and humor of the original movie. Salman looks absolutely dapper. Songs are catchy. The last honeymoon sequence is damm stupid.

I live in Singapore

Whose Line is it Anyway - Sound effects - Pregnancy

Simply Hilarious

Hrithik will cry

Humko Deewana Kar Gaye- Movie review

Date Watched: 12th July 2007
Rating: 0.5/6
High point: Somewhere in the movie,
Kartrina "You, toh, know how....." :O
My 2-cents worth: I think the director had a love for calling out "CUT" after every 5min... The movie seems to be the end result of a jigsaw's puzzle of 5min scenes with no relevance to each other. Katrina's dresses are weird, Bipasha's character seems to have problems deciding what she's supposed to be doing in the movie.. Total time waster, not time pass from any angle..

Awarapan

Date Watched: 5th July 2007
Venue Watched: Galaxy
Rating: 2/6
My 2 cents worth: Why the raving reviews?
Why the excessive preaching?
Why the plastic look on Mrinalini Sharma?
Shiny Ahuja would have been a better choice instead of Emraan Hashmi.
Choreography of Mahiya is atrocious at its best.

Amazing Dancing

Everybody Dance Now

Beautiful Little Angel Singing

Happy Anniversary

A year is a long time; that we all know. However just how long a time is it? 12 months, 54 weeks, 365 days, countless minutes and seconds. Yet many of us disregard “anniversaries” of all sorts.

For some a year is nothing but a mere passing of time, for others it’s a momentous victory having survived the treacherous job, the punishing studies, finding and losing relations or winning a small battle against that lethal illness.. As can be seen, it is an event or events that form the basis against which we value the passing of a year.

An event can make us cherish that year or loath it, embed it in our memory or erase it; all it takes is a single event.

I am not too sure what I am trying to achieve through this entry. I just feel saddened by the lacklustre attitude some people have towards days that mark events in our life or even history. How can they so conveniently disregard an event that contributed in some manners to what we are, how we are and where we are today? Give up that attitude and embrace the marking of another event in life, in your, mine and ours.

Don’t forget to say Happy Anniversary the next time an event completes yet another year. It is only from our past that we can shape our future.

Happy Anniversary

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A Weekend Getaway

'A weekend getaway' - In Singapore this phase conjures images of going to Sentosa or for the more adventurous, Malaysia. However this is where the sheer size of India makes this phase more exciting and in true sense fun. Presented with the opportunity to experience a true weekend getaway, 2 friends and I took off for the weekend. We headed to the cool hill top of Matheran. Matheran is a beautiful hill station in Mahrashtra. It is the only hill station where any motor vehicles are banned. What you get there is clean, fresh, cool and unpolluted air. It was a welcome change from any other city in India; more so compared to Mumbai. The 3 of us took off from my flat in Mumbai, our backpacks slung over our shoulders, armed with water bottles, sunscreen and shades. We made the brave journey on the decently crowded local trains, changing once to reach Neral. There were tried our luck in vain to procure tickets for the recently reopened toy train to Matheran. Unfortunately we missed the last tickets by one uncleji who cut our queue!!! (I hope that uncle is denied the use of his juices by some exotic fruit of Jamaica….)

So we proceeded to Matheran by taxi, winding up the mountain roads by dangerous speeds, clutching onto each other trying to defy Newton’s Laws of Motions at each turn and trying to capture the natural beauty all around us. Upon reaching the top we were greeted with the lovely weather and clean air we so longed for and which tempted us to the place. Savouring a yummy breakfast in record time, we moved on to finding a decent and affordable accommodation for ourselves. There were touts aplenty, and we were sought out by 2 of them. So eager were they to trap us in their “wonderful” deals that 2 of them hung outside the restaurant as we had our breakfast. Deciding that there was no harm in checking out what these gentlemen had to offer, we took off with them to check out what they had to offer. After being offered a ridiculous deal for a room, we followed the other man to what he proclaimed was “my own cottage”.

Surprisingly the place turned out to be a lot better than what I personally expected. The numero uno criterion was met by the clean, dry toilet in the room. After much haggling and emotional blackmail attempts we settled the rent amount of 1.5days. We dumped our backpacks, answered nature’s call(s) and rested our butts for a bit. All freshened up we took off towards the market, all the while snapping photos to no end. The 3 of us each had a camera. It was quite a sight to see each of us clicking away with our cameras at each other, each snapping the other snapping away. After winning a tough battle with our trigger happy fingers we finally managed to reach the market place.










Once there we were swamped with offers of horse riding. Being in the mood for full on adventure, we negotiated the price and mounted our respective horses. As easy as it may sound or look, it is not easy to mount a horse who stands as tall as or taller than you. Hence it is understandable when the thought of mounting and dismounting the creature 3 times made my insides twist. However after a while I got the hang of mounting it, though during dismounting I always screamed for Kanu to hold onto me as I came down. The cool thing was the fact that I was riding the horse on my own, no little local guy leading the horse or hitting it. Just me and my darling Mittu (a parrot’s name for a horse…).

Getting the hang of horse riding we visited 5 points around the hill. At each point our fingers would get trigger happy once more, our mouths ‘oooing’ and ‘aahing’ at the natural beauty and our bodies stiffening at the sight of the sheer drops and almost vertical slops. Finally we trotted back to the market on our horses, feeling proud, sitting straight and laughing at poor 1^st timers looking terrified on their horses, conveniently choosing to forget that we too were in the same situation 2 hours ago. Once off the horses our stomachs politely reminded us and not so politely made people around us know that we needed to have lunch. So off we went in search of food, non-veg of course, down the streets of the market. As soon as we began our food hunt, rain clouds threatened to relieve themselves on us at any point. We quickened our pace and soon had ourselves seated in a restaurant. As luck would have it, the heavens poured their blessings just as we made ourselves comfortable indoors. As we devoured our tasty meal, we enjoyed the scene unfolding in the rain. Horses being led aside, children being pulled out of the rain, vendors frantically trying to cover their wares, couples getting cosy in the resulting cold and my favourite, the corn seller setting up his stall. Even though I was having a delicious meal that more than stuffed me to the max, my mouth was watering as I saw the corn vendor set up his stall. It was no surprise, to me at least, when I headed straight for the corn as we left the restaurant. The heavy rains had reduced to a drizzle and we stood next to the stall enjoying the hot and spicy roasted sweet corn.
















The unexpected rains washed away with them our plans of catching the sunset. Faced with a jackpot of hours to spend in our cottage, we started hunting for a pack of playing cards. On the way we picked up some yummy walnut chocolate fudge for our cottage party. We found our deck of playing cards and also had pan. It was Param’s 1^st proper pan and she was overwhelmed by the size of it. She was effectively quiet for a good 10-15min after I stuffed the pan in her mouth. But Param really took the cake when we started playing 3-2-5. It was her 1^st time playing; Kanu and I totally wacked her. It was hilarious to see the expression on her face as she realised she had lost yet again. The most priceless was when 1hour into the game and after yet another ridiculous loss she exclaimed “fuck la!”… I laughed for a good 10min at the incredulous manner in which she said that.
After playing for hours and Param finally winning a game or two, we were too exhausted to even open our eyes. As we readied for bed I got the shock of my life as a frog jumped into the room. I shrieked and lunged onto the bed, refusing to even hang my legs over the ledge. The frog leapt and croaked around for a bit before disappearing back into the darkness from which it had emerged. That night the 3 of us slept like babies in the peace and quiet one can only experience living in the middle of a jungle. Having a good 11hour of sleep, we woke up the next morning fresh and raving hungry.

We took off towards the base of Matheran having packed and said our good byes to the cottage and the family living there. Once again we were mesmerised by the beauty of the place and we strained to capture if only a fraction of the beauty on our cameras. 20-30min later and much more hungry we reached the base and settled to have our lunch. Lunch consisted of totally sumptuous chicken biryani and vegetable raita. We dug into the food like scavengers and ate our fill in record time. The next thing we knew we were seated in the shared taxi back to Neral, waving our hands to the fast disappearing scenes of Matheran and her natural beauty.

It was a great weekend getaway with the best company of Param and Kanu. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I wish I could have caught the toy train, seen the sunset, done more horse riding and eaten one last roasted corn… Well now I have a “valid” reason to go back to the hills of Matheran.