Van gogh's amazing creation:
http://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/

Perennial Marketwatch curmudgeon Paul Farrell offers the following twelve tips for financial survival this year, courtesy of Forbes columnist Gary Schilling - who, by-the-way is said to have been right on target with his 2008 calls:

1. Sell home-builder stocks and bonds.
2. If you plan to sell your house, second home or investment houses anytime soon, do so yesterday. (Yes, another 20% drop is coming.)
3. Sell some housing-related stocks.
4. Sell some consumer discretionary spending companies.
5. Sell most commercial real estate.
6. Sell some commodities. (But proceed "carefully:" Selling "some" securities, or buying, or actively trading in today's volatile markets demands a level of skill sets, savvy and sophistication most investors lack.)
7. Sell emerging-market equities.
8. Sell emerging-market debt.
9. Sell stocks in general. (Shilling's forecast of a "severe recession suggests that corporate profits, as defined by the Commerce Department, will fall 48% from their peak in the third quarter 2007 to the fourth quarter 2009, and drop 32% from 2008 to 2009. This forecast implies much weaker S&P 500 earnings than projected by Wall Street analysts and strategies" whom he says "tend to be overly optimistic, especially in recessions when analysts don't want to offend managements of the companies they follow with low numbers.")
10. Sell consumer lenders' equities.
11. Buy the dollar.
12. Buy, carefully, high-grade bonds.

Mumbai Bombings

The translated conversation between the terrorists striking Mumbai on 26/11/2008:





The dossier sent to Pakistan by India as evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks

Surya Vs Aamir

I really was awaiting for Aamir's Ghajini for the hype he created in Bollywood. I badly wanted to compare Surya's action with Aamir's but finally was disappointed with Aamir's performance. I would rate Surya's performance much higher over Aamir's. I watched both the movies within 24 hours to rate it without any prejudice.

I loved Surya over Aamir but Aamir's movie had less cruelty over Surya's (Thanks for removing the climax scene in ladies hostel). Lots of errors in Surya's Ghajini movie were corrected too. Most of the movie was copied ditto except for the climax of the movie. Surprisingly, the richness in the Tollywood's Ghajini was more than Bollywood. I somehow felt the cameraman had lots more to do and Asin was mediocre compared to Tolloywood's performance. Also, Surya brought richness to his action by speaking in English which Aamir did not prefer.

I would rate Tollywood's Ghajini much higher over Bollywood's.

Early Hour Dream 2

This is heights...Loneliness surely haunts me now. I dreamt twice in a week on how lonely I am. Here ends the suspense and the the story begins.

I took a train from an unknown origin in India with all my luggage I brought to US. I was traveling to a destination IH (not sure if it exists). I traveled for three long boring days alone in a train. The good thing is that I did not really spend 3 days sleeping to finish the dream. Okay, back to the story now, the reason of travel remains a mystery and when I got down I saw a theatre and a restaurant named as Bombay (old name for Mumbai)and Bombayya respectively. Unsure of what the place was, I called up my dad and he suggested me to take back the same train and reach the place where I actually took the train. Hahahha...I couldn't be more stupid than this...good that dreams are supposed to be illogical and so I am not embarrassed. Now, I got to take the train tickets back and now shud stand in the queue. My baggage was torn, I am all alone and Mumbai is supposed to be a place where people new to that place are deceived. This is when I got worried and got up.. :P