Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad...

Well...Russell Peters did not use this famous line of his in his show on Tuesday in Bangalore but he did use his other famous line 'Be a man!'

Tickets were tough to get but finally we were able to get them and go see this really funny guy. He in his usual style took people of all ethnicities on a ride and didn’t spare anyone. Like when he asked a sardarji in the front row what his name was the man replied in a very guttural voice so pat came the reply “Did you just burp or actually tell me your name!” Then he joked about the Gujarati people how they use ‘cho’ and ‘che’, even their swear words are all like cho#$, chu!!#@ etc. :)
He cracked that we Indians are so cheap that we invented the number ZERO! Its what we like to pay for everything :D I have seen so many mails claiming how India invented zero but this guy put a twist on that and surprisingly it made more sense :) Then he went on about George Bush about how he is the biggest moron. When Bush came to India he gave us nuclear secrets and we Indians being good at striking deals gave him mangoes (!) in return!

These were his clean jokes. He started clean but by the end he was on a roll and as explicitly dirty as you can get. There were several ROTFL moments and we had a ball of a time…

Snipet of the winners at the Oscars:
Best Picture: The Departed (Other nominees: The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima)
Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
Actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Foreign Film: The Lives of Others (Germany)
Animated Film: Happy Feet. I felt Cars was better...
Al Gore's movie about global warming and climate change "An Inconvenient Truth" won the "Best Documentary Feature" award.

Haven't seen a few of the movies so can't argue much or agree/disagree but 'The Departed' definitely deserves the awards. Anyway so the next must watch movies for me are:

• Little Miss Sunshine
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Pan's Labyrinth (nominated in the Screenplay, Cinematography, Foreign Film and Art Direction categories).
• An Inconvenient Truth

And the wars go on with brainwashed pride...
For the love of God and our human rights,
And all these things are swept aside.
By bloody hands time can't deny,
Are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

--- 'Civil Wars' - Guns N' Roses

Grand Unified Cosmos Theory

Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undone

Now frontiers shift like desert sands
As nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history in shades of grey

--- 'A Great Day For Freedom' - Pink Floyd

Save Darfur

Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about
--- 'Us and Them' - Pink Floyd

There is a genocide going on in Darfur, Sudan. An estimated 400,000 people in Darfur have died since the conflict began in 2003. An estimated 2 million people have been displaced from their homes, mostly seeking refuge in camps in Darfur's major towns. Two hundred thousand have fled to neighboring Chad.

First, I cannot understand why such killings happens at all, what goes on in the brains of people where all of them just start taking lives on such a widespread scale. What prompts not 1, not 10, not 100 but like half a country to take to killing the other half.

Second, why does the international community take so much time in reacting. Do something, arrrrgh...God!

Have we human beings just absolutely lost the plot? What are we doing to each other on this planet and what the feck are we doing to this planet....sigh!

Educate yourself:

Darfur Genocide
Save Darfur
Darfur Conflict

Some music that is currently on my playlist...

Audioslave - Revelations
Audioslave was the band that was formed when the lead singer of Rage Against the Machine left and the rest of the members joined up with Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell was the lead singer for the band Soundgarden and was coming off a couple of solo projects. Together they formed a super group called Audioslave.
INXS - Afterglow
Athlete - Wires
U2 & Green Day - The saints are coming
Snow Patrol - Chasing cars
All American Rejects - Move along
Nickleback - Far away
Angels And Airwaves - The adventure
Stone Sour - Through glass
Flipsyde - Trumpets
The Fray - How to save a life