Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix

I got to see a free preview of "Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix" (Courtesy our realtors "Corus Home") . We have now seen atleast 4 box office hit movies ,thanks to them .

Harry and friends are now ( well grown up ) teenagers and they fight the death eaters (including You know who) to get the prophecy back. Malfoy does not have much of a role to play in this movie and so does Snape . Also I was waiting for a quidditch match and the movie did not have one . But it turned out all exciting at the end when the select few of Dumbeldores army try to acquire the prophecy and fight all the obstacles . I really wish Harry had killed Bellatrix , but I think in most probability she will be killed by Neville .

All in all a good movie that can be seen once.

Pratibha Patil (WHO ??? ) to be our president

Is our country in dearth of eligible people to be our next president . I am all for a lady president , but Pratibha patil. She is crores of rupees in debt , helping her brother who is a murderer. Also she was an accomplice to Sanjay gandhi during the emergency when he carried out the forced sterilization programs. She is going to have a gala time with her family in Rashtrapati bhawan

We will have two puppets at the top and Sonia ji rules . I am surprised how this supposedly meek lady has turned out to be a shrewd politician .

15 days backs all the USICS date for the Employment based categories were recent. Hundreds and thousands of people went about getting their forms filled, taking vaccinations ( costing between 500 to 700$)etc. Some people took off from work for a week to just finish this thing .
For consultants it means loss of pay .Some people postponed their vacations too, since applying for 485 requires all applicants to be in the US.

Today was the D-day for applying and what do we hear in the morning ? No more applications are accepted .
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Not sure why they they made the status current for all employment based categories and why they took so long to release the information that no more applications can accepted .

What a waste of time and money.

A Zorse called Eclyse

zorse = zebra(male) + horse (female).

This zorse was born to a zebra called Ullyses and a horse called Eclispe . The zebra patterns look more like a work of art .Strange are the ways of nature.

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Had to go to the office today . But the only consolation is we are going to watch the movie "Sivaji" . The much talked about and much hyped about movie .

I guess the "greater than God " image for some actors can be attributed to the characters they play , which are more closer to depicting the everyday struggles of common people and eventually fighting it out . I guess it gives a sense of hope. Anyway , this movie has to be watched atleast to know how the 95 crores was spent .

Completed the book "The Afgan " by Fredrick Forsyth . One of those books that has you biting your nails till the very end . I was surprised to see some characters in his story belonging to Kerala,India. Not sure why he chose this part of India though . The initial chapters were a drag but as the story progressed it was truly gripping .

The book is about a British war veteran Mike Martin infiltrating into the AQ( you know who ) terrorist group to gain information about their operation named Al-Isra.Only in the last 2 or 3 chapters do the readers as well as the hero Mike Martin know what Al-Isra is all about .

Forsyth seems to be one of those writers who goes into minute details about the technical aspects of the tools used in espionage/spying/military operations .

I am going to read some more of his books now .

Reading Fredrick Forsyth's "The Afgan" . Just finished reading chapter 3 . He seems to have researched a lot on how the intelligence agencies work (brit,usa as well as the other international ones) . The book doesn't at all feel fictious .