Bombaylives!!

My Company (Activemedia) is looking for J2ME developers & Mobile Application Development companies to work on some cool mobile campaigns in Bombay.

Would appreciate if you guys if you could share/fwd/ lead the info to interested parties/friends/geeks/cape crusaders .

peace & stay

Btw its JAVA not Zava :).

Dark Knight, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

Amazing movie, ultimate experience for a movie goer, This the best in cinema money can buy!!

Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger ==> Take a bow !!

Lately I have been straying away from the teachings & ways of the Siddha Marg. I seek apologies from whomever I might have bugged or hurt unintentionally.

Intent to stay focussed and committed to the cause with a clearer conscience and organised daily schedule.

Iskcon, originally uploaded by Bombayite.

Do check it out if you are around Juhu area on Sunday, and yes they do serve Snacks

Congrats and Hats off on winning the trust vote.

Pls make sure that the nuclear energy is not given to the guys who voted against it

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I want to watch this unique venture of 11 Directors. Coming together are  Sudhir Mishra, Revathi, Jahnu Barua, Rituparno Ghosh, Anurag Kashyap, Shashank Ghosh, Rahul Dholakia, Ayush Raina, Ruchi Narain, Kundan Shah and Manish Jha who seem to have offered kuch hattke.. its Different types..

I wonder if anyone in today’s film world  has the guts or finances to do an experiment like this.

Anything on Bombay, I’m sure 10 million people will watch it for sure in the city dreams & city of Sensex.

Do lemme know if they are screening at any fest or shows in Bombay.

Tomorrow’s vote will determine India’s energy needs for the future and history will never forgive the morons who are opposing it.

This deal is an amazing deal , never before has any country gone out of the way to share nuclear technology and energy know how with any other country considering we still get to keep our nukes and build more if required.

For a country whose 97% population faces acute power shortage and loading shedding of 3-7 hours everyday this is a god send gift.

But what do we do .. as always we have a bunch of morons from Right to Left opposing it citing some insane logic & reasons with the ultimate aim of grabbing the seat at centre.

Iits just amazing to see eternal rivals Third Front and NDA, Secular forces aka Commies Gang and Sampradayak Takats coming together for this free for all mela .

The Logic & reason given for opposing the deal :-

1. BSP - Its against Muslim interests and Dalit interest and since Mulayam singh is supporting it, we have to oppose it.
2. BJP - I just cant bear to see Congress take credit for something we initiated.
3. CPI-CPM Commies - America is against Communists, against India, against Muslims plus we have to report to  China.
4. Telugu Desam :  I like USA’s investments in Andhra , but since I’m out of power I dont want YSR take credit.
5. JD(S) - Deve Gowda -  Congress refused to nationalize mines owned by my rivals in Bellary, I hope Behenji does it when she becomes a fluke PM like me.
6. Shiv Sena : We did it with Enron, we have past experience.
7. RLD - Ajit Singh - Congress gave me my own father’s airport in Lucknow but I want JFK Airport to be renamed after Chaudary Charan Singh, 7th PM of India.
8. TRS - Behenji promised to give us Telengana, with 17 seats I’m sure she will become the PM that Indian public dreamed about.
9. SAD : We like Kaneda, we cant support USA.
10. Others are clueless - we are here to collect money & plum ministerial berths incase we make it by  fluke.
11. Independents - We have an online auction on Ebay, we switch sides anytime.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/99-people-affected-by-mass-hysteria-in-bangladesh/68879-2.html?xml

Is this for real?

Ganesh Naidu western region’s prominent cable operator was shot yesterday.

Naidu and some other cable operators decided to break ties with Hathway, Incable & Siticable and started their own network ( SCOD18 Network). With so much money at stake someone was sure to get hurt and some one big time unhappy.

Already every cable operator have their own political affiliations, primarily Shiv Sena and NCP and now with MNS trying to break in other operators turf things in an already crowded place things look dangerous.

In Borivli cops are everywhere with heavy bandobast including Naidu’s rival’s area in Eksar.

I hope Naidu recovers soon & everybody makes peace for the sake of our beautiful city.

I just took their new CAS Setup Box, the service is good at 999 for the Cisco setup box and one having to pay the regular cable rate for the Digital Quality channels.

Pic courtesy Mumbai Mirror

Ganesh Naidu, president of Cable Operators and Distributors Association, shows one of the set-top boxes they have sourced for their subscribers at the of the recently-formed SCOD-18 network in Marol, Andheri

Capt. Gopinath, B.K Modi , Rajeev Chandrasekhar … well these people are not serial killers but serial make & exit entrepreneurs, they build a company, exit at a right price, then move to another business then repeat process 1 again in record time.

One may debate their ethics or style and class of functioning but the bottomline is that they are an inspiration and deserve the credit for creating serial entrepreneurship .

Capt Gopinath

1. Sold 26% stake in Air Deccan with Kingfisher Airlines for 550 Crore.

2.   Started Deccan Cargo Airlines within 6 months of the stake sale, which he is looking for PE and might go public soon.

BK Modi

Sold Spice Tele to Idea. Stock price zoomed from 25 to 75 in month
One week later ,Plans to sell Spice Mobile to Sony Ericsson. Stock price currently at 25, will it got the spice Tele way, anybody’s guess.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

after selling BPL to Essar for a billion USD , started his own venture  fund and invested & founded  in many companies.

Asianet, Suvarna, Radio Indigo, Print publishing,Hindustan Infrastructure and Project Engineering- HIPE, India Infrastructure and Logistics, Jupiter piter Aviation, Vimana Vidhya, Jupiter Stratech, Tayana Software Solutions,Surya Samudra resorts.

What these guys done is nothing outstanding considering they hit a jackpot in thier venture, but the supersonic speed at which they started thier new ventures and continue to do so is the most commendable part.

One might wonder fuck I got lucky with a few millions lemme juss chill in Mauritius or Bahamas and have some wild parties, but I guess these guys have things other plans.

Other serial entrepreneurs/investors  I admire are Rakesh Mathur, Kanwal Rekhi, Maniratnam lookalike Ram Shriram .

Pls do not watch it even if you get a free ticket with a free pop corn & samosa combo.

0/5 points.

In a first of its kind move by a religious community, the Punjabi Gurdwara Association in Powai, on Thursday, voluntarily demolished a 45-year-old gurdwara.

I’m sure every person in Bombay trying to get to the eastern Suburbs or coming from there spent on an average 45mins- 1 hour which would otherwise have taken only 5 mins.

This is the best thing to have happened on the JVLR , now the next thing is moving the IIT-B walls bit inside to broaden the road.

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1178205

Must read article @ Rashmi Bansal’s blog - Youthcurry.

The most amazing Panda who aspires to be a Kung Fu warrior. The movie is just awesome, makes you laugh and feel happy.

Go and watch it.

4.5 /5

Master Shifu

Benefits of having Happy Meals at Macdonald’s.

Hot babe Meenakshi has been dumped out, while shady females like Bosky continue to play,  I dunno what MTV will become if they manage to get a pair of fools as winners like Ashu the  MTV roadies winner.

I hope someone deserving wins rather than some shady chic.

www.mtvindia.com/splitsvilla

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22424230762

Meenakshi - The real star of the show

Now that she is out of the show, I’m sure she will be flooded with offers from Bollywood

As part of my job at Activemedia, I have to scratch my head and wear my thinking hats to suggest & deliver innovative new mobile campaigns and ideas on SMS, Games, WAP and Voice to clients & agencies. Some days ideas come by the dozen, some days they just refuse to get out of my head.

Now that I don’t smoke much, Coffee is my inspiration and rejuvenater.

I think with over 300 million mobile users and only 50 million Internet users, Its only a matter of time that Advertisers, Brands & Agencies take this medium seriously in India.

Stuff that going gone mobile Advertising, Television, Movies, Sex,  Betting, Stock Trading, M-Commerce etc

I mean how the fuck can you ignore a mobile subscribers the population of United StatesMobile is definitely

Watch this space :- Shall share more Campaign details soon.

Innovative stuff done by Activemedia

The Diabetes Test mobile campaign of ICICI Prudential won an Award in the ‘Best use of New Media’ category at Goafest
http://digital.afaqs.com/perl/digital/case_studies/index.html?id=16

Some things that are either gone, missing or elusive in Bombay.

• Ladies Bars
• Mangroves
• Khari Biscuitwala who bartered for tamba/peetal (Aluminum/Copper)
• Ratali- Lasoon wala (who barted for old footwear)
• Toddywalis from Gorai
• Honest sardar Cabbies & Rickshawalas
• Blackwalas.. (used to be often found outside Gaitey, Galaxy)
• Bhav Copy at Churchgate Local.
• Sparrows
• Shorthand & Typing Institutes
• 1 room Kitchens
• Washers which looked like 1 Rupee coins for PCO’s
• Circulating Library

And many more.. Feel free to add to the list.

Got this awesome email

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2 Zurale (cockroaches) hospital Maddhe Ekmekanchya Shejari Admit Astat…
PAHILE ZURAL:” Kai ‘Baygon’ Ka…?”

DUSRE ZURAL: “Nahi ‘Paragon ..!”

Awesome, Refreshing, Timepass, Paisa Vasool Movie.

Not a single minute of boredom or drag in the movie, Imran & Genelia are the stars for 2008.

Also great work by Naseerudin shah , Ratna Pathak, Rotlu, Jiggy, Bombs & yes the horses.. Never before has one ever seen so many horses in a Bollywood non-epic non Feroz Khan movie.

Points 4.5/5

P.s I watched on a Tuesday, coz its Vodafone Tuesday’s 1 +1 Free offer

p.p.s I wanted to watch Love Story 2050 for the special effects but since every critic and box office verdict has hammered it, i don’t have the guts to invest in the ticket.

Translation: sitting with boyfriend and  calling him brother is not allowed! Thank you!

• MNS has decided to screw up Meru Taxis and now is out of service.
• BMC has decided to shut down Hookah bars, while Pan masala, Gutkas and Cigarette continue to keep people healthy.
• Nadal finally beats Fedrer on Grass.
• India prove once again we are chokers in final.
• Nuclear deal still remains unsigned.
• Amarnath continues to fuel political fire acrosss the country.
• Rakhi Sawant now Showz .
• Markets, Oil  & Interest rates continue to be rogered
• I have 100 people following my jokes on Vakow.
• Harman flops, Imran superhit

I hope the coming week is more happier for India and the World at large.

Well, They  both have got Hat-Tricks with pataoing young hot females who claim to know nothing about their past.

Check out the Story here and here.

So the moral of the story is if you are satanic & a Bikini Killer you can reach to hot babes

Blame it on Love Story 2050 & Jaane tu ya Jaane na, With over 100 crore riding over two Star Kid Launches, every body knows Hancock & Will Smith will beat the hell out the producers & Distributors.

I’m sure Harman Baweja and Imran Khan might have begged and licked the elbows of the guys at Sony to have the release rescheduled.

I hope all the movies are good and everyone has a great weekend watching them.

Forthcoming Movies

1. Kismet Konnection
2. Singh is Kking
3. Kung Fu Panda
4. Ugly aur Pagli
5. Mission Istanbul
6. Chandni Chowk to China

The article

Help!!

Am currently compiling India’s top & promising SMS,  Wap & Mobile Applications.

Would appreciate if you could share your inputs &favorite ones.

Cheers.

Is this the bottom of the fall or is this just the begining like 2000.

When it crashed in 2000 it bottomed out in 2003,  Oil is at 140 $ is 200$ the next target.

Will the Congress Government Fall, Will will have mid-term election, Are we gonna sign the Nuke Deal with USA.

Will the Republicans win the elections in US.

When will the war in Iraq get over.

Has the sub-prime chaos been settled?

Are were gonna see more Bear Stearns happenings.

The mood is down, everything looks gloomy, No one talks about the market anymore…

…. But then there is a saying, “Be greedy when others are fearful and Fearful when others are greedy”… Just wondering if today is the time.

Read here

and here for the Slideshow.