It was around 9:10 PM and we were driving behind a fully laden lorry. Just as the lorry passed a huge tree on the side of the road, it pulled down one of the biggest branches on top of the road and it fell crashing on our car from a height of almost 8m.

It was a real lucky escape as I had put the brakes and it fell on the front windshield, has it fallen on top of the car, it would have been more serious. Luckily both of us came out unhurt, it was indeed a narrow escape.

I was not a fan of Wagon R from Maruti, but this car indeed saved our life because of its tall body status.

Note: Photos taken today afternoon.

The beach walkway was really crowded with people and the walkway in itself was too narrow and most of the places it was broken down. The beach was really dirty, wish the Corporation did something to clean it up once in a while. The Chinese fishing nets still remain and are actively used for fishing.

The fish stalls, I remember seeing them when I was a child, still exists in the beach area and sells some top quality and fresh fish although need to bargain to get the best deal.

One good thing about Fort Kochi is the number of quality restaurants available, which serves all types of dishes from around the world. We headed to DLips restaurant, which was run by Malayalam Film start Dileep. The building is the old house of famous singer Yesudas and the restaurant housed on the top floor. The speciality of this building is that there is a big Mango tree in the center of this building and hence the name Mange Tree for the restaurant.

The food was pretty decent and so is the ambience, there were only a couple of Indians and rest all were tourists. The service was not the very best and it took us lot of time to get the orders. Make sure you carry enough cash when you go to this restaurant as CCs are not accepted, which was quite strange for a restaurant of this standard.

We returned back home by around 9PM and had a great time visiting or rather revisiting Fort Kochi.

Now the Laptop has got a fresh life with 4GB of RAM and a massive 12 Cell Battery. The 12 Cell battery is in fact 2 six cell batteries back to back and as a result it projects out of the Laptop. Here are few images of the 12 Cell Battery.

Specifications of ASUS EEE PC;

• Intel Atom Processor 1.6 Ghtz
• 1GB RAM
• 160 GB Hard Disk
• 7 Hour Battery
• Windows XP
• 3 USB Ports
• Wi-Fi and Ethernet cable port
• MMC SD Card Reader
• In build speaker
• 10GB EEE Online Storage

Overall I’m very much satisfied with the performance and now I’m planning to install Windows 7 home version once it is released along with Windows XP.

The film starts off with the brief introduction of the characters and from the first 10 min, we can easily predict who the actual villains are. The story is easily predictable and goes in direction where there is a real ghost (Mammoty in double role) which is friendly and being kept in a bottle. At this point the film starts to become boring and to add to this some worst jokes and the voice of Ghost becomes so irritating. Siraj Venjaramoodu is the only character which atleast tries to make the movie a bit interesting with his jokes, but there is no script in place for this comedy to get more attention.

The Ghost was pretty managable in the movie if you consider it as  a timepass movie, but the graphics where the ghost saves the heroine dates back to 80s. In this era where technology take a peep into every aspect of our life, this movies lacks it. There is scene where hero tries some circus on horse and the morphing of his face was done so badly that the face and body movements were totally out of sync.

The script is very very weak and the story is easily predictable and totally unrealistic. In the first places, I couldnt even imagine how Mammoty could take up such a bad film. The director Johny Antony who is famous for comedy films like CID Moosa, fails to deliver with this movie. This is one movie which Keralites would like to easily forget.

On the songs side, there are only 2 songs and both of them are just OK, nothing to write about. Heroine Kavya is totally wasted and if she wasnt there in the movie, it wouldnt have made any difference. Some of the jokes are very bad that I was tempted to leave the theatre.

Rating: 0.5/5 (The 0.5 is to give atleast some point for Siraj Venjaramoodu’s comedy)

I’m also devoting more time to write articles on the Mobile blog as well and the efforts are really paying off, the traffic is steadily increasing. It really feels happy when you see some sucess with new blog. Life Rocks 2.0 has been going through lots of up and down in the past few months after having server issues and then moving to managed server and then again moving back to our old host. Traffic was another issue as we faced a major change in search algorithm of Google which resulted in traffic loss. Now most of the issues are being fixed and Life Rocks is getting back to normal.

On the day job, nothing much to write, the same old coding and bug fixing!

Off recent we have been on a traveling spree visiting some temples in Kerala. First of our trip was to Guruvayur and the last one was to Thiruvanathapuram and we are planning more!

Apart from these, I have been selected as Microsoft MVP for another year (July 2009- June 2010). This is really exciting for me to be a MSFT MVP. It was a great one year of being MVP with lots of recognition and rewards coming in.

The box also includes the software CD, TV cable, 2GB memory card, one year international warranty and USB cable.

This is a great event to meet up techies and other enthusiastic people from Kerala. There are various sessions scheduled like Adobe Platforms, building a blog, .Net Compliers, Introduction to Drupal, SEO and many other topics.

So if you are in Trivandrum in the first week of May, then you can probably join this meet up. I’ll be attending BarCamp Kerala this time.

You can register for the event here and also take a session.