Black Friday...

2nd Black Friday for me in the US.... Last year I visited Target & Walmart and saw the enactment of American "SARAVANAA STORES"... This year, it was Circuit City & JC Penney.

First Stop: Circuit City - 0350 hours - waiting to open @ 0500
I should say that the crowd was pretty decent, but the deals were really wicked. Price reductions of over 60% on most products, particularly in Circuit City & this included good branded electronic stuff.... for example, the link listed above shows that the Sandisk 1 gig thumb drive is still in stock though not availble online. I was there inside Circuit City at 0515 and was told by the store rep who distributed hardly 20 drives and mentioned that the product was out of stock. But check the website & it says "IN STOCK" in the outlet I was at. This is what is called HOARDING [as in stashing]. The company is making "jackass" out of people. Well, I had my own doubts.. though using Black Friday to clear inventory, branded articles are not for sale so soon at such a down-to-earth price. Try getting a beefy HP laptop under $500 today... NO CHANCE... but you can get an inferior TOSHIBA at this price or less... Curses....

Next stop: JC Penney - 6 am: humongous check out lines, but still stocked.... Got branded shirts for a great price. Back home by 0750 hours and now at office dozing after lunch....

Not Suave

Saw this new 007 flick on someone else's free pass... but nevertheless the movie was unimpressive...

First: this movie does not depict 007 as a suave, sophisticated, gizmo driven, womanizing f***er but a hero whose action choreography is full of physical action & no guns, etc etc....

Second: For a good reason, 007 is castrated & becomes a eunuch - NO MORE SEX, not even with "M"... They show pain expressed by 007 & the live operation performed.

Third: C'mon, if I wanted to see gambling, there is this channel broadcasting BlackJack & Poker 24*7.. I do not need a movie to show the same thing.

Fourth: He drives a FORD... what happened to the days of luxury cars???

Fifth: Unnecessarily lengthy enough, you can get pissed off...

Sixth: Why the heck doesn't the CIA & MI6 nab the terrorist, instead of gambling with him...


MORAL OF THE STORY: Bullshit... absolute waste of time... Go & sleep...

Nine to Five

This is the movie that I was watching few days back on TV [released in 1980]...

The story line is like this:

1. 3 women who are bread-winners for their respective families are being annoyed by amorous acts of their male superior...
2. few scenes later... These women imagine chasing this guy with sniffer dogs, shooting him down, etc etc etc
3. after few more scenes... This male superior is served coffee that is actually mixed with rat poison instead of sugar accidentally & though this ass does not drink it, after coming to know about such a thing happening to him, he blackmails these ladies to submit to his promiscuous requests. What do the ladies do??
   
4. They abduct him and start handling the office matters on their own, make improvements & hence throughput
   
5. After which the company's owner applauds the women and transfers this amorous asshole to Brazil...

Sounds familiar??? This is what most Tamil junta would have watched by the name MAGALIR MATTUM [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264820/]. For that matter, hyperlink mentioned does state the fact that this movie is a remake of the former. Now, comes the question, how come "Padmashree" Kamalhassan gets to pen stories that were actually flicked from some other movie.. Mrs. Doubtfire is another instance. No idea, if his other stories are his own or inspired [plagiarised rather...]...

Shame on you!!!