Tuesday, December 25, 2007

New Things!

Started a new photoblog a couple of days ago. This one is solely targeted for my landscapes.
http://daman.shutterchance.com

Another new is that I finally started the P90X extreme workout program yesterday. This is going to go on for 90 days. Hopefully i'll be able to get some extreme results once the 90 days are over. The workout is very gruelling as i found out last evening, but i love challenges, so bring it on!

Christmas is here and it's a fascinating time to be in the US, everything is beautiful and decked up in red and gold and green. We had our first Christmas tree in our new house, Shweta really wanted one for the kids. Shweta has been busy shopping all weekend for everyone in the house and today we unwrap the presents(even though we know what they are now). Simar surely would be very excited as she's got a lot of different toys and games for him, this is his first Christmas celebration.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Things on my mind today..

- when would this bloody winter end...
- how many more times would we have to shovel the damn driveway.. maybe we'll finally end up buying that snowblower..
- lot of work at office..
- need to charge my bikes battery.. the poor thing must be feeling left out since i haven't ridden her in 2 months and would probably have to wait another 3 months before i could.. when would this bloody winter end..
- i need to get out and shoot some landscapes.. my camera is picking up dust..
- why is the damn dish reception blown after a snowstorm, i hope i could catch the Pats- Dolphins game tomorrow... when would this damn winter end..
- would be starting out on a new workout program from monday- P90X, hope i can see some good results once i'm done with it.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Found out that i can type in हिन्दी which is really cool। I must try to type in more words in हिन्दी one of these days.

These past few days have been lot of fun as well as hectic. What with the 2 kids in the house needing all the attention. Shweta and her mom do most of the kid management honestly and im grateful that her mom is here otherwise we would have been driven nuts by 2 kids constantly crying or shouting in the house.

Hopefully by the time mom goes back to India, Iresha would have grown up a bit and Simar would be more understanding about his little sister as well. At least that's our wishful thinking :)

We got a christmas tree today, would be cool to celebrate the first christmas in our new house with the kids :)


Coming to the new stuff I bought, here's a quick review

== I bought a couple of Diana Krall SACD albums and what can i say, I absolutely love the voice of the girl, its the next best female voice i've started loving after Norah Jones. I'm also getting more and more interested into Soft Jazz genre of music as well.

-- Eric Clapton's Slowhand on SACD which is a great album as well, i need more time to explore it in detail.

-- Zeppelin's Mothership which is a new album compilation of all their greatest hits. Some absolutely fabulous numbers on this 2 disc album.

--Boxset of all the 5 Harry Potter movies made till date on Blu Ray today, great packaging and the quality looks promising.

== Bourne Ultimatum that was a great action flick we had seen in theater. Hope to watch is soon in our basement theater.

== Die Hard all 4 movies on Blu ray(boxset), great video quality, cant want to hear it in surround sound.

-- Cars and Ratatouille, again stellar video quality and supposedly great sound quality in uncompressed PCM.