Monday Personal Notes

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• definition of a Fanatic: A person who redoubles his effort after having lost his direction. via
• Here is a video clip of me walking around at work Friday afternoon.
• Do you know anyone who has actually owned an older model (ie early 1990's) Jaguar automobile? Everybody knows that they have terrible service history, but I want to hear from someone first hand.
  
• The internet is becoming much more human for me in 2006 - something that I have been thinking about. I use the web less and less for business and more and more for personal relationships. I have always used the web for personal relationships, but this year the personal relationships seem much richer. I think it started with Skype - I had some great weekend afternoons hanging out with Kevin in Guangzhou, China last summer. Now I crave services like Vimeo, Flickr and Bloglines to keep contact with my distant and new friends. Vimeo has especially opened my eyes to this. Watching someone in front of a camera builds a much bigger bond. I think it has to do with body language.
• I saw this Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on-line somewhere...

  Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

• BOLLYWOOD movie reviews...
  Aur Piyar Ho Gaya was Aishwarya Rai's first Hindi movie. She looks AMAZING in this movie - most attractive Bollywood female lead that I have ever seen. Great opening dance scene and funny relationship between her, her dad and her grandparents. Aishwarya travels to Switzerland to meet her arranged-marriage groom in disguise. Etc etc etc.
  
  Hum Tum was a recent movie - 2004 - about a cartoonist who falls in love with a girl but is too stubborn to admit his love. It was very romantic - I especially liked the song during their layover in Amsterdam. You would be amazed how much a Bollywood couple can accomplish during a six hour layover in Amsterdam - they went to museums, rented bicycles, took a boat ride, etc.
  
  I also rented another Telegu movie called Nee Manasu Naaku Telesu. Within the first few moments I could tell this movie was different - there was three times as much littering as usual! The lead character was on a train ride and he threw out the window two water bottles and an empty bag of chips. Gross. Otherwise cute, I didn't finish it - the songs were choppy and hearing Telegu wasn't helping my meager Hindi practice.