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Politicians and You

Every time you go and vote, in the back of your mind do you vote for the politician to win your assembly or you look at the bigger picture and see who do you want at the Center?

The above question can surely will have to talk about good or bad or neutral, but I am not going to thread this part of the water as of now.

Recently concluded Maharashtra elections in which Congress/NCP were the clear winners with 144 seats and about to form the Government with Mr. Ashok Chavan of Congress as the CM and Mr. Chagan Bhujbal of NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) as Dy CM. Well everything was going well when NCP decided to split up the CM seat ie 3 years a Congressman with be a CM and next 2 years of the tenure NCP man will be the CM.

So where does this leave us as voters who cast their vote and shouting out to everyone to come out and vote for a better government and so forth and so on. It leaves us with no CM whose Oath Ceremony was supposed to happen this Thursday ie 29th October.

So what I suggest to the Election Commision, who I think should work for betterment of the people not of the politicians:

• Before the elections, the Party must tell the voters who will be the CM/PM if they win the election
  
• Before the elections, the Parties should tell the voters on who they will be in coalition with (so there will be no king makers and queen makers)
• Before the elections, all the post ie Home Ministry, Defence Ministry etc the parties should declare to the voters who will they be. 

This would help the voters on who would be the one taking the reigns of the State/Country and vote accordingly.
This would help people to see that there are no swapping of politicians and independents for the sake of money which we pay as taxes to the government.
This would help people to see a smooth transperent start to the Govt.

Do give me your feedback.

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The Wall Project - Mumbai

King of PopImage by kapil_b via Flickr

On 15th and 16th August BMC decided to make Mumbai more cooler by telling the Mumbaikars to draw what they feel and they did with super enthu and created some wicked wall paitings.

Now they decided to make it even more better by calling out Mumbaikars for painting the remaining walls and this time I would not miss it. So after partying on Saturday night and starting Sunday morning with hangover was not a good start but went through it and reached Mahim station where two of my friends were already waiting for me with the paints (i am no great painter tho). The theme which they had decided on was teach Mumbai. So wall was divided by BMC team from क to ...

So we got च, छ, ज and we made चाबी, छत्री and जहाज . The best part of all the painting and drawing was we got to meet people with cool imagination and some awesome drawing quality. I loved to draw the background paint and added few things here and there in the photo. I am all praise to BMC who helped each and everyone who were painting and had all the colours available.

So some of photos and how it is please feedback on how it looks.

Midnight Buffet - La Brasserie (Le Meridian)

Immense bay windows overlook the shimmering pool. A sumptuous buffet presents familiar and exotic selection of Indian, French, Italian, Oriental, and Mediterranean specialties. The midnight buffet is especially popular for a late night haunt.

This is what they have written on their website to which I agree to the last sentence about Midnight Buffet, being to few in Mumbai and for me this one tops the list.

With 2  soups, 10 starters, 10 main course, ice creame and live kitchen. At times you do get a bottle of beer or glass of wine complimentary. The service is generally good and food does taste really good.

Damages: Rs. 550+ per person

Generally the Buffet closes at 3 pm.....

Rating: 4 stars out of 5

MidNight Buffet - Parabola (Rodas ECotel Hotel)

As many would say not the best nor near the best amongst the buffet and I would seriously agree with them but this is one place where you can get food after 12 pm. So you hungry and insomniac soul who just want to sit and eat their very very late dinner in Powai so this is the place.

Cost around Rs. 350+ per person this place gives you almost everything 2 soups, 6+ starters, 6+ main course and at times an live kitchen. Service is good but not that great. Also note that they do not refill the food which is finished so make sure you do reach there by 12 or else you might miss some of the food as the place is packed (coz there is only one around)

Also check out the menu card of Parabola here

So a 2.5 star rating for Parabola

Social Gaming

Once upon a time gaming was just you playing alone with your Atari or getting few friends at your place and playing 2 player games and battling against each other, laughing and shouting and giving advices on what to do and what not to do. Zoom to 2009 the gaming has changed so much that now everyone from 10 year old kid with internet access and grandparents who know PC enough are addicted to gaming.
Now it is called Social Gaming..but you do not meet your friends over the weekend but play with them the whole week and never think of calling them....send them gifts, ask for coins, help them in clearing their farm....

The thing which started the whole Social Gaming was Mafia Wars on Facebook click here for the link which you have to add your friends into your Mafia and kick other people butt...

 
create properties, buy weapons/armory/bonuses and create your own inventory and vault it...

But first came in Zyngas Texas Holdem Poker which is clocking over more than Million Users playing regularly.

You will now say what has this Poker done?
First of all, you can bet in as much as you want and don’t be afraid of losing your real money and still get a high by winning virtual money.
Second , be on top of the list on who is the boss in your friends list most money
Now they have taken the Poker into another level , adding a social element where you increase your level for every hand you play. Post your best on the facebook homepage….

Then they came out with a masterstroke, doing not any gaming could do before getting a big female net audience into gaming by creating Farmville…Farmville, yes Farmville where you have to create your own farm and make it big by plowing and seeding and harvesting by just clicking the mouse buttons.

Sow Sunflower, Strawberries, Tomatoes etc etc also create your own farm by buying Cows, ducks, sheep’s etc. Also purchase trees like cherry, bananas, avocados. Buy your own cottages, tree houses I mean hell they keep on adding new things every week.

So this is all about Social Gaming and now every company wants to do make sure people keep on coming by giving them new things all the time.