God Exists; Coolie Visa (H1B) Applications Down

Even recessions have silver linings – as in less number of H1B applications (mostly from the Indian coolies for U.S. IT jobs). As of April 9, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had received only 42,000 fresh H1B Visa applications for fiscal 2010 starting on October 1. CIS, which started accepting applications on April 1, said it’d […]

On a Movie Binge; Meryl Streep, Heath Ledger, Vijay

Since binge drinking is verboten to us, we’re gonna engage in another (less harmful) form of excess, a movie binge.  It’s Wednesday. So we trooped over to RedBox for our free fix of Hollywood movies. We picked up Meryl Streep’s Oscar nominated Doubt. Besides Meryl Streep, the movie got four other Oscars nominations (but failed […]

Crush the LTTE; Sri Lankan Army’s Finest Hour

Never in the battle against the deadly scourge of terrorism have so many owed so much to so few (thank you, Churchill). Today, thanks to the brave and valiant soldiers of the Sri Lankan Army, LTTE, one of the most cruel terrorist organization the world has ever seen, is facing annihilation. Although the LTTE’s certain […]

Ayan at U.K. Box Office – Ayyo, Embarrassing

These are hard times for Sori Padam Surya. Close on the heels of a ho hum reception for Surya’s Vaaranam Aayiram comes a poor response to his latest crap show Ayan. Ayan, a most crappy movie, grossed a pathetic £37,771 in its opening weekend at the UK box office. On an average gross basis, Ayan did […]