Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) I have cried reading books, but this is the first one I can remember shedding tears just three pages in. The story…
Rating: ** (2 stars out of 5) This is a short history of maths. By short, I mean really short. Which is unfortunate, because there can be no justice…
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of dubbed Chinese Kung-Fu movies. Mongoose style against the Snake style and so on. I don’t believe they used to…
So last winter, as a long-time Tintin fan, I went to watch Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” and I am now seeing the animated TV series which was newly released on Netflix. I have mixed feelings about both the movie and the TV series. First the movie. It is obviously a masterpiece in terms of…
This is a recent French thriller movie. As the film starts, a wounded man runs away from two gun-toting men. They finally catch up with him in a tunnel, but before they can kill him, he is hit by a passing motorcycle and is taken to the hospital. When an attempt at murdering him at…
Another list: “Jab Hum Jawan Honge” from “Betaab” (1983) “Dushman Na Kare Dost Ne Woh” from “Aakhir Kyon?” (1985) “Zindagi Pyar Ka Geet Hai” from “Souten” (1983) “Tu Hai Wohi” from “Yeh Wada Raha” (1982) “Kya Hua Tera Vada” from “Hum Kisi Se Kum Naheen” (1977) “Hamen Tumase Pyar Kitna” from “Kudrat” (1981) “Chura Liya…
New list: Adele: Set Fire to the Rain, Rolling in the Deep, Someone like You. “Home” by Daughtry “F***in’ Perfect” by Pink “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat “Clocks” by Coldplay “Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds “Que Sera Sera” by Doris Day “Don’t Leave Home” by Dido “Big Girls Don’t…
More books I will not read again and therefore will not bother to put up a longer review for each. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber: The author starts off with a good analysis of the reasons behind the failures of various small businesses. He attributes it to the fact that most people who start small businesses are…
When I took my PMP exams, I used the following books in addition to the material supplied by the PMI. I would rate both of them 3 stars out of 5 as far as helping for the PMP exam preparation, but please note my notes about PMP Exam Prep, by Rita Mulcahy: Definitely, seems to be…
Like everyone working in technology, I love Dilbert, the comic strip by Scott Adams. Dilbert takes us into the world of the horrors of stupid, incompetent management and their evil and brainless schemes to exploit workers. Almost everything that Scott Adams writes can be found in real life — the clueless managers, the cliched mission statements, the…
Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) The topic of the book, how local government regulation stifles the construction of new homes in opportunity-rich cities across the United States, is vital and pressing, unfortunately something that has been ignored by most politicians. The rent is too high because supply has not coped up with demand. And…
So I am using a rating system of 1 to 5 stars for book reviews. Therefore (!), there are a few books I have read and rated 1 star (or perhaps even zero stars). I didn’t keep many notes on them and it does not seem worth it to waste time reading them again just…
On Netflix, I have been catching up on a few popular 1990s Hindi movies I missed during that time. One of the big ones was “Darr”, that along with Baazigar, released in the same year, propelled Shah Rukh Khan into the highest ranks of Bollywood, where he still resides to a large measure. These were…