The King
The whole of saturday went into rebuilding my laptop as I didn't have any anti-virus software installed and it got infected by a Trojan which I couldn't remove. {Note to self - install an anti-virus software this time around}.
In the evening went and saw a movie called '
The King' and it was a pretty harrowing movie. It had awesome acting from everyone involved. It was really well shot but it was a bit too long and missed a fair few dramatic beats. It was an interesting experiment which definitely falters because of the story.
The house is finally in shape - I mean the drawing room is now clean and so can share what the place actually looks like. So here are some pics....
Exterior of house {we live on the ground floor}
Side of the house {you can see the kitchen door and my room's window}
My bedroom
The otherside of my bedroom
The Kitchen
The other side of the kitchen
The bare bones but spacious lounge
The otherside of the lounge
View from the lounge window
The bathroom
The other side of the bathroomAlso finished watching the 3rd season of '
Arrested Development' and it was heaps of fun even though the last couple of episodes were just trying to tie up all the threads of the story since the network had decided not to renew the series. I also got to read the first working draft of 'Five' and it was tantalizing and it will pick up a lot more weight as we go through the brainstorming sessions and workshops. This is definitely going to be an interesting experience in horror.
So yeah an uneventful weekend - in a manner of speaking. Now just gearing up for another week at the school.
Till later,
Amit
Labels: Computers, Five, Movies, TV Series
Woosh!!!!
Woosh is proving to be such a pain in the bum - we ordered the wireless connection and they sent us the modem. On testing it out, we are not getting any signal in our house, so they sent us a booster antenna, so that we can try and get the signal {their logic in not sending that to us earlier was that we didn't need it as we are in the good signal area}. And now the booster antenna has barely made a difference. I am writing from a Woosh connection but it is incredibly slow - feels like a dial up connection and it somehow doesn't want to work with the wireless router that I bought. I had a completely pain free experience of buying a wireless internet router, so that we can have internet on multiple machines in the house without having to run cables. Now just need to get the internet going one way or another - since wireless is proving to be a pain now thinking about going wired (through Telecom..grrrr). So for those wanting to know how Woosh is - my experience with it has been frustrating and annoying - I wish there was more choice here in NZ when it comes to telecommunications and internet.
Most of my unpacking is complete and now I just need to arrange things into their own little compartments. At the moment everything is still a little spread out in the lounge. I found an Indian store which sells samosas that are really close to the taste of samosas in India and they are definitely the best ones I have eaten in Auckland so far.
Since we don't have a TV at the new place, Benji hooked up his computer monitor to my laptop and we watched 'Infernal Affairs 2' and it was a good watch. There are some really weird music choices and some random pacing choices but it was still an enjoyable movie. And it kind of fills up the original story nicely.
But at this point I think I am tired from the day and the frustration of the last couple of days over getting the internet thing working, to write anything more - so I will be off to bed.
Till later,
Amit
Labels: Computers, Movies
French Toast
'French Toast' has been the magic word for the past 2 days now. I haven't had french toast for 3 and half years now - mainly because I have been lazy at breakfasts; never found clean dishes when i felt like having breakfast and I never feel like staying at home for long in the morning - so I ended up skipping breakfast for the past 3 years. My breakfast has been a glass of choclate milk - yes I do start off my day with choclate. So to my surprise i found some clean dishes and cooked some toast and omlette on sunday - and I was thrilled with that, so decided to go one step further and decided to cook myself some french toast - which is one of my favorite breakfast dishes after 'alloo ka parantha' {which i had for a good part of my life}. The outcome - yummmmmm.......having french toast in the morning has been simply fantastic and I am a happy-chappy.
Sunday has been relatively relaxed with me doing cooking and later on in the evening having a game of badminton with Dean, Becks, Craig and Marrisa. It was great. It always feels good working up a sweat. Monday had a major meeting with regards to the movie and it shaped up to be really productive. Now I am just trying to workout when I can start doing the acting workshops from - definitely excited about that. I think I am close to finalizing another couple of smaller parts for the movie, which should give us a well rounded cast.
My laptop has now got a new motherboard. Some bits and bobs had stopped functioning properly and since my laptop is still under warranty Dell guys came across and fixed it by replacing the motherboard.
So yeah that is the update from my side...
Till later,
Amit
Labels: Badminton, Computers, Food
Malaysian
I had the most satisfying lunch in a long long time. It was yummy and finger looking good. Where was it??? It is a malaysian restaurant on K'Road called Sri Pinang {
356 Karangahape Rd, Auckland || phone: 09 358 3886 - incase you want to try it out}. I had gone into the city for a meeting along with Richard and after the meeting Richard said that he knew an excellent eating joint and stopped over. Man - words can't describe the taste plus the place was really reasonably priced. By the time we finished our lunch, the restaurant was packed to the brim. I had a Roti Curry and even ordered an extra roti - it was that yummy. I had a huge grin on my face for the rest of the day. Highly recommended eating joint.
I just formatted my laptop and installing everything fresh. So it should be another day or so before I have all my softwares loaded up. This time I decided that instead of using MS-Office I would use Open Office which is free to use and thought as a goodwill gesture I would put up a link so that you can download it incase you feel like saving yourself some money and use something which is as good as MS-Office (if not better).
Anyway - I am off to installing more softwares onto my laptop.
Good night,
Amit
Labels: Computers, Food
