All izz well

2nd Jan 2010. After almost 18 months, living in Redmond, wife and I went out for a Movie in a movie theater. Our 15 month old Aryan behaved well and slept throughout for the 9.30PM show of "3 Idiots".

What can I say, I'm not a big bollywood fan, but of late have been by some good movies. 3 Idiots was simply outstanding, I do not remember when was the last I was so thoroughly entertained by a Hindi movie, maybe it was "Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar".

Probably the first time, I wanted the movie should not end and just carry on. It brought back so many memories of my college days (1997-98-99).

Kudos to the film production team and the actors, you guys deserve a standing ovation.

Welcome back Me,

After over a year of taking a break from blogging, forum posting, virtual networking etc, I welcome myself back.

Before picking brains on some interesting things, this post is about listing things worth listing that happened to me since last time I blogged. In no particular order:

• I gained 12 pounds. (Too much beer and cheese, must cut down on it), I’m now 30 + and time to start taking health a bit more seriously :)

• I changed my day job from making and shipping games, called production, to research and prototyping new game ideas, called Incubation.

• I drove 1014 miles with 2 friends – from Redmond, Washington to Sacramento, California via Portland (OR), Sisters (OR), Reno (NV), and Lake Tahoe. It was a lifetime worth of a drive. Some snaps: http://picasaweb.google.com/purpleblade/RenoRoadTrip?authkey=Gv1sRgCIGwvfPc4-3gYw&feat=directlink

• My son, started to sit, crawl, walk, run, talk and break everything that he can.

• Travelled to India and spent time in Jaipur, Delhi, Bhopal, Dibrugarh and Calcutta, celebrated my son’s first birthday with his grandparents (both mines and Tanu’s side of parents)

• I played 19 Xbox 360 games and out of that completed 9 of them earning only 1890 gamer score. Batman Arkum Ayslum, Trials HD, Shadow Complex, Forza 3 and COD MF 2 were some of the games that stood out.

• Still did not buy a PS3, will wait for God of War 3 to release.

• Repaired a broken toilet, a broken tap, a broken door knob and a broken toy

• Learnt how to clean the house more effectively, this one deserves a full article for itself. More later

• Added 7 new board games to my collection. Stone Age still being my all time favorite.

• Formatted and clean installed my laptop with 6 different Win 7 builds, while it was in development. In process became a fan of the OS. “Bagwan ke ghar der hai, andher nahi”, Finally Microsoft shipped an OS (other than XP, SP2) that I think is worth being called an OS.

• Did not change my mobile phone, still using Blackjack (Samsung), yes not using an I-Phone :)

• Only watched 1 movie in a movie theater.